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Remember PCU?
Posted on 8/25/18 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 8/25/18 at 2:36 pm
Could it ever happen again?
Would there ever be a studio (small, I would assume) daring enough to make:
SJW: The Movie
(and I don't mean TLJ
) a real parody.
There's just so much material out there (far more than there was for PCU where this stuff was just isolated on college campuses.) It would make a shiteload of money.
I mean they could even borrow casting scenes from Hollywood Shuffle?
Casting Director: "We're looking for an Asian so you'd be perfect."
Actor: "And what would the character be?"
Casting Director: "An Asian."
I can't remember another left-ideology parody film besides PCU.
Or has that ship forever sailed in Hollywood?
Would there ever be a studio (small, I would assume) daring enough to make:
SJW: The Movie
(and I don't mean TLJ
) a real parody. There's just so much material out there (far more than there was for PCU where this stuff was just isolated on college campuses.) It would make a shiteload of money.
I mean they could even borrow casting scenes from Hollywood Shuffle?
Casting Director: "We're looking for an Asian so you'd be perfect."
Actor: "And what would the character be?"
Casting Director: "An Asian."
I can't remember another left-ideology parody film besides PCU.
Or has that ship forever sailed in Hollywood?
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Posted on 8/25/18 at 2:51 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Love that movie.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 3:18 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Did you know the director of PCU was Ellis from Die Hard?
This post was edited on 8/25/18 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 8/25/18 at 3:28 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
I can't remember another left-ideology parody film besides PCU.
Serial - made in 1980 and with Martin Mull in the lead.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 3:37 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
A classic. One of my favorite comedies of all time. Piven was incredible in this. Back in the 90's this was considered a comedy. Now it is considered a documentary.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 3:41 pm to Hetfield
quote:
Piven was incredible in this.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 3:45 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Sanskrit?
You're majoring in a 10,000 year old dead language?
You're majoring in a 10,000 year old dead language?
Posted on 8/25/18 at 3:52 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 8/25/18 at 4:05 pm to 12
"I didn't exhale!"
Posted on 8/25/18 at 4:21 pm to Hetfield
quote:
A classic. One of my favorite comedies of all time. Piven was incredible in this. Back in the 90's this was considered a comedy. Now it is considered a documentary.
I'm listening to the Die Hard Bill Simmons podcast a few weeks ago (yes, I know what I'm getting with him and his douche-stooges but it was fricking Die Hard) and it's revealed that Ellis went on to direct PCU (one of my favorite 90s guilty pleasures, even before I knew what "PC" even was, I just like the cast and antics as a kid).
So when the Simmons crew mentions PCU, there's about four dudes on the podcast and they all just fall silent, like someone just showed them photos of the Holocaust...and they just calmly all said... "Umm, yeah, that movie hasn't aged well at all..."
Like it was some blasphemous product they were so ashamed to admit even exists.
I fricking started yelling at the radio as I drove, "Are you fricking serious?? WHO are they pussy douchebags!?!," I said.
I couldn't imagine a more blatantly wrong take on a film in years. PCU was made in 94 as some witty little small film with an innocent little satirical twist on the "college" movie.
Then you watch the film in 2018, however, it's almost 1984-esque. It takes on a whole different layer of what was once considered lunacy that is now, as the poster said, virtually a documentary.
I also could not remotely understand how what are supposed to be educated film watchers treating it as some kind of outcast product not even fit for acknowledgment. It was terrifying and shocking and astounding all at the same time.
I became so incensed that I promptly turned off the podcast and listened to something else.
I'm still shocked anyone could say PCU is anything other than a sharp indictment on the modern University campus social out of touch reality that exists today... And it was all made as kind of an innocent little joke of a movie.
Even if you don't care for the film, you still can't ignore the fact at how spot on it was in retrospect.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 4:29 pm to TIGERSTORM
quote:
Ellis from Die Hard?
He was also the main douchebag frat boy in Breaking Away
How perfect is that? It could be the same character 10 years later 1979
1988
This post was edited on 8/25/18 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 8/25/18 at 4:49 pm to Jack Ruby
quote:
Then you watch the film in 2018, however, it's almost 1984-esque. It takes on a whole different layer of what was once considered lunacy that is now, as the poster said, virtually a documentary.
It was still somewhat true back then. Sure they went over-the-top (now it's not) but early 90's college campuses introduced the infamous speech codes that are now just considered normal speech - you don't need campus speech codes - it's ingrained or at least monitored by the student body.
But at one time, there was a real debate whether speech codes or monitoring speech on campuses was ethical, constitutional (for public Universities) or right?
And there were always some small protests on campus about nothing.
PCU said, this shite is crazy. Which is why I don't think it would remotely get made today as you point out by the guests on the Simmons podcast.
It's not considered crazy today.
I take back the premise somewhat. I don't think an SJW movie would be funny...you can't go much more over-the-top and every parody needs to go over-the-top...people would be embarrased to laugh.
I was in a movie once years ago (I forget which one) but I remember that the majority of the movie-goers were laughing at certain things and there was this small contingent that just kept turning around at us with sneers on their face...like we were doing something wrong and the movie didn't intend for it to be funny.
This post was edited on 8/25/18 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 8/25/18 at 9:53 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
If they were to make it today, it would have to be like Not Another Teen Movie, just a spoof that's not supposed to be taken seriously. Too serious and the people that the movie is making fun of would flip out and call the producers Nazis.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 10:00 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
I was in a movie once years ago (I forget which one) but I remember that the majority of the movie-goers were laughing at certain things and there was this small contingent that just kept turning around at us with sneers on their face...like we were doing something wrong and the movie didn't intend for it to be funny.
If it was The Force Awakens, I was one of the ones laughing with you.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 10:34 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
We're not gonna protest!
We're not gonna protest!
We're not gonna protest!
Posted on 8/25/18 at 10:36 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They dont need to do a reboot, just put it back in the theatres. It was way ahead of its time. It would probably do a lot better this time around.
Posted on 8/25/18 at 10:51 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
I can't remember another left-ideology parody film besides PCU
Posted on 8/25/18 at 10:56 pm to FearlessFreep
Idiocracy is not a parody of the left Chief
Posted on 8/26/18 at 12:17 am to H-Town Tiger
quote:
Breaking Away
I don't know if a more enjoyable movie has ever been made. That film gets nowhere near the discussion it deserves as time has gone by. I know it was Oscar nominated in 79, but it comes on maybe once a year or so on TCM now and that's about it.
Between the setting and the actors and the script, music and just overall vibe of the movie, it gives you such a positive, relaxing, feeling while you soak it all in. It's unlike almost any other movie I've ever seen in that sense.
I can't prise it enough
Posted on 8/26/18 at 3:03 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:Maybe not, if you don't get the joke.
Idiocracy is not a parody of the left Chief
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