indy500fan Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 A few people have said that spoof movies are all bad, and I just want to point out that Scary Movie and those aren't the only spoof movies out there. Most of Mel Brooks' movies were spoof movies and they were great (Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, Spaceballs ect...). Then there were the Airplane! and Naked Gun movies, I only saw the two Airplane!s but they were both hilarious. More recently were the Austin Powers movies making fun of Jame Bond, and this year was Get Smart making fun of Bond. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox story was a funny take on a few musician based movies. Those were just American Hollywood movies. There are plenty more independent/international spoof movies that were great. Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz could both be considered spoof movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 Don't get me wrong, I love the Parody genre (escpially Mel Brook's work) . But these "____ Movie"s of 'stupid random comedy' are giving the spoofs a horrible, horrible name. Its not even that...its that so many are being made in such a short period of time. We had Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and now this Disaster Movie in what? 2-3 years time? Plus all the other "_____ Movie"s I didn't even mention. Spoofs are great, if done well. Not making Paris Hilton fall off a plane it's critial joke. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warri0r45 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 New rule: any movie which has the word "movie" in its title is by definition a piece of crap. I don't waste my time on them to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agunimon979 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Only movie I saw was Epic Movie, it was ok but most of it was crap. Like in the beginning, some old guy in a thong is fighting an assassin... then he starts breakdancing? How is that freaking funny (just disgusting)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 New rule: any movie which has the word "movie" in its title is by definition a piece of crap. I don't waste my time on them to be honest. American Movie, and if you want something more recent: The Onion Movie. There are a good deal of movies that have "movie" in their alternate title also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_sunny Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 The Scary movie series was incredibly funny and well-done. I was totally expecting the 4th one to be worse, maybe because they had run out of jokes, but it was even better than the 3rd one. It was a great series to remember. But after that everything was sh*t except for Date Movie which was decent. They could do nothing but spit crap like George Lucas with Star Wars episode 2 and 3. It just seemed like a totally different director and everything. They need to stop with this Disaster movie... the preview was terrible. By popular demand, this signature is back- however I currently do not have a blog up at the moment and if I did I wouldn't update it. Sorry, the sig links to nowhere :( . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Pirates Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2212167961/ *cough* BR BR BR? HUEHUEHEUEHUE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralus Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2212167961/ *cough* How is this comparable? It actually looks thoroughly entertaining - An excellent cast, and I'm not hugely familiar with the Coen Brothers, but I've never seen a movie by them I didn't like. La lune ne garde aucune rancune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedofsound Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I'm gonna agree with the majority in saying that these movies just arn't that funny. It's not that I hate all parody movies, in fact I enjoy a lot of them (particularly Blazing Saddles). But like Nadril said, many of the recent ones are just random and not funny. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "(bleep) you" right under your nose. Try it sometime. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "(bleep) you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren211 Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 As a bunch of others before me have said, Scary Movie was the only decent spoof movie. I too am getting tired of these half baked ideas that simply throw together plots from different movies and adding puns and people getting hurt. Its like the producers ran out of ideas and use this thing as a last resport. I'm really hoping this Disaster movie will be (bad pun alert) a disasterous movie. Maybe a box office flop will teach these producers a lesson. [hide=]tip it would pay me $500.00 to keep my clothes ON :( :lol:But then again, you fail to realize that 101% of the people in this universe hate you. Yes, humankind's hatred against you goes beyond mathematical possibilities.That tears it. I'm starting an animal rebellion using my mind powers. Those PETA bastards will never see it coming until the porcupines are half way up their asses.[/hide]Apparently a lot of people say it. I own. http://linkagg.com/ Not my site, but a simple, budding site that links often unheard-of websites that are amazing for usefulness and fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
En_fuego Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2212167961/ *cough* Wrong. I'm going to assume you posted the incorrect link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Viola Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 According to Wikipedia all the movies are spin offs from the Scary Movies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterxman Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Usual process of taking all movies from past 6 months, changing one thing in each scene's line, profit. Easy $45m. Pixel sigs by me.Pixel Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzle229 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 With this one, there are currently 9 movies in the franchise. Scary Movie Scary Movie 2 Scary Movie 3 Scary Movie 4 * Epic Movie Date Movie Meet the Spartans Superhero Movie Disaster Movie A * next to the ones that weren't epic failures -.- Get back here so I can rub your butt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizz Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Not another [developmentally delayed]ed movie -_- Wongton is better than me in anyway~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faux Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 This is the funniest one I've seen. So worth the download :lol: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212235/ :: Guess the Movie Contest Champion: pfilc23 :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbydog95 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Oh God. Another one? I swear I might go just to light the screen on fire. These movies are such epic pieces of crap. theres ANOTHER ONE! omg...these movies are a load of crap... PSN: Skaterguy1224 Tactical Nukes - 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agunimon979 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Oh God. Another one? I swear I might go just to light the screen on fire. These movies are such epic pieces of crap. theres ANOTHER ONE! omg...these movies are a load of crap... What the hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harakiri Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 My friends are stupid enough to see these movies because they have potty jokes and sex jokes in their comercials. I don't know if they like them, but these movies probably appeal to the REALLY immature male. I am immature, yet I find the movies to be stupid. I like Metalocalyse because of its brutal violence, yet I think these "movies" brand of violence is about as stupid as a kindergartener who has been hit in the head with a brick. So really, I think I should get a job as the ticket person at the local movie theater when this "movie" comes out, and use a tranquilizing dart on everyone who is trying to see it, and then take them to the theater showing the Mummy 3. Then they will say: "Wow, this is [cabbage]." and walk off, never to see any "movies" again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 My friends are stupid enough to see these movies because they have potty jokes and sex jokes in their comercials. I don't know if they like them, but these movies probably appeal to the REALLY immature male. I am immature, yet I find the movies to be stupid. I like Metalocalyse because of its brutal violence, yet I think these "movies" brand of violence is about as stupid as a kindergartener who has been hit in the head with a brick. So really, I think I should get a job as the ticket person at the local movie theater when this "movie" comes out, and use a tranquilizing dart on everyone who is trying to see it, and then take them to the theater showing the Mummy 3. Then they will say: "Wow, this is [cabbage]." and walk off, never to see any "movies" again. Heh dude, Metalacolypse is so much more than just a really brutal show :P. The " [blank] movies" can't hold a candle to its humor. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpez Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 the only good movies from the scary movie writers were scary movie 1 and 2. after that...no thanks. since you mentioned it, spaceballs is an epic movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leoo Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 They are really beginning to drag on now and its getting on my nerves. I loved all the Scary Movies (maybe not 4) and Date Movie. Superhero Movie was a lot of :-#, I only liked the scene where Brenda (from SM) was fighting, Meet the Spartans, completed :-# and Disaster Mo..oh I ain't going to watch this 1 and do myself some good. What next? The funniest movie you'll over see Movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harakiri Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 IGN has given it a lovely review: IGN can't give less than zero stars for a movie, but Disaster Movie deserves it. The latest "effort" from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys responsible for Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, is yet another bottom-feeding cash-grab that exploits current events, ridicules pop culture icons and compromises the integrity of the zeitgeist itself in order to create, oh, one-quarter to one-half of a funny joke within the shortest possible time frame that qualifies as a theatrical release. And while Friedberg and Seltzer will be spared (for a few paragraphs at least) from shouldering the blame for this movie's crass, stupid and insulting existence, suffice it to say that I honestly believe that people who actively want to see garbage like Disaster Movie are directly responsible for the deterioration of American society as we know it. Matt Lanter, who provides the poor impersonation of Hayden Christensen that serves as the voice of Anakin Skywalker in The Clone Wars, plays Will, a white guy who can't commit to his uber-hottie girlfriend Amy (Vanessa Minnillo) because he suffers from nightmares that the world will end. His worst fears are soon realized when his Super Sweet 16 birthday party is interrupted by meteors crashing down from the sky, but when he and Amy are stranded on opposite sides of town he charges into the city to rescue her. Soon, he and his friend Calvin (Gary "G-Thang" Johnson) cross paths with Calvin's comely girlfriend Lisa (Kim Kardashian), a pregnant, pop culture-charged teenager named Juney (Crista Flanagan), and an Enchanted Princess (Nicole Parker) as they race to save Amy from impending disaster. I actually stopped documenting the movie's deluge of references after about 30 minutes, but here's a shortlist of some of the stuff that the Friedberg and Seltzer send up: 10,000 B.C., American Gladiators, Amy Winehouse, Facebook, Flava Flav, My Super Sweet 16, Dr. Phil, No Country For Old Men, Superbad/ McLovin, Angelina Jolie in Wanted, WWE Divas, Juno, High School Musical, Kanye West, the Jonas Brothers, the "Souljah Boy" dance, Justin Timberlake, Hannah Montana, Hancock, Sex and the City, Jumper, Step Up 2: The Streets, Twister (notice - the first actual disaster movie of the bunch), Hellboy, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Cloverfield. Except for a five-minute belch from Amy Winehouse and an attack by metal-singing Alvin and co., I didn't laugh at any of this - and quite frankly, I'm fairly certain I was laughing at the film, not with it. All of which actually brings up an important question: what exactly are we supposed to be laughing at? How badly done are the various impersonations and references? The desperation with which jokes are used to combine the backlot locations into a mock-up of an actual movie? Or even the simple recognition of some prominent person or event in recent history that the filmmakers deemed a noteworthy pop culture icon? Having a person dress up like Hannah Montana and then act like them is not funny, even if they are under a massive meteor, or projecting gaseous emissions for an extended period of time. Perhaps the people I should pose these questions to are the filmmakers, as much as it pains me to credit them as "makers" of anything or mention them and any iteration of the word "film" in the same sentence. There is undeniable value in crafting smartly-executed (even if not actually smart) entertainment for a wide mainstream audience, but Disaster Movie is the kind of comedy where laughs go to die. I suppose I should credit them for at least not targeting the two most ubiquitous media [bleep] in mainstream pop culture - Britney Spears and Paris Hilton - but how is it possible that self-proclaimed purveyors of genre parodies like Friedberg and Selzter are so uninformed about actual disaster movies that they couldn't put together a movie that actually makes fun of them? Hm, let's see - The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, Airport (ok, already done), Twister, Independence Day, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Dante's Peak, Volcano, The Day After Tomorrow, and the Poseidon remake are the first dozen I can think of that they could have used, and without counting Cloverfield, which I think this film uses for its core story (but that could be a fortunate coincidence). It's quite frankly stultifying that Friedberg are Seltzer are ever let anywhere near a studio boardroom after having defecated out their previous movies, much less this one, but I suppose it's a small comfort that even Fox, who distributed the last three of their opuses, passed on this so that Lionsgate could get in on the mediocrity. (Although, seriously, this you put your marketing muscle behind, but you dump Midnight Meat Train and Repo?) There's a part of me that wonders if Friedberg and Seltzer - much less the studio executives who reap the real profits - ever read reviews, or actually think that what they are doing is funny or remotely artistic. The very fact that these movies succeed is a reflection of the fact that audiences definitely do not read them or care about the longevity of the entertainment they support, even if their patronage is instrumental in lowering the bar for everyone and reducing the intellectual level of "mainstream" entertainment with each successive blockbuster. In which case, one more negative review probably isn't going to make much of a difference to the people who want to see it, or to the folks responsible for cranking these 90-minute punches in the face. But make no mistake: Disaster Movie is godawful. Not because it's not deep or profound or lasting, or because it caters to the lowest common denominator. No, it's because this is what passes for entertainment, and what the moviemaking industry spends its money on in lieu of smarter, more meaningful, or hell, just funny ideas. Although, to be fair, if its existence leads to IGN creating a rating scale that allows us to give a movie a perfect, negative five-star review, then it just might be worth it. 0 out of 5 stars... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterxman Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 The film grossed an underachieving $2.2 million on its opening day, ranking #5 at the box office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_movie \ \ \ \ \ Pixel sigs by me.Pixel Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riku3220 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 The film grossed an underachieving $2.2 million on its opening day, ranking #5 at the box office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_movie \ \ \ \ \ that's $2.2 million more than it costed to make the "movie" :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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