Scary Movie Series/Spoofs in general?

[jabbercash]

Alright so I thought of this thread after seeing Scary Movie for the first time in a while. While watching it I just wondered, where did it all go wrong? Being completely honest, I tried to find something wrong with it, I really did. But really, I found the first one to be brilliant. I love how spot on it is with spoofing 90s horror films, and I love the exaggerated and cliche characters and ridiculous plot twists. I didn't find it any less funny than I did the first time I saw it. Sure a few jokes fall flat and it does push the limit a little bit with the gross-out humor, but in general the movie really was funny. It reminded me a lot of "Don't Be a Menace To South Central" (which I also liked) but honestly thought was better. Scary Movie 2 I didn't feel the same way about, it wasn't bad but it was watchable. Scary Movie 3 was pretty awful, and Scary Movie 4 was horrendous. The series really went downhill after the Wayans Brothers quit. Then there's the spin-offs, god help me. Epic Movie is incredibly bad and Disaster Movie is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Meet The Spartans I've never seen and neither have I seen Date Movie. Now this thread really isn't about some of the classic spoof films (Airplane, Spaceballs) but just the films that are related to the Scary Movie spoof films. What are your opinions on them?

[nashcameronn]

Tucker & Dale vs Evil is somewhat of a spoof film. It's pretty good.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

I like the Scary Movies. But any of those Movie Movies from Friedberg and Seizter are pure garbage. Superhero movie was so and so.

But the better ones are the older ones.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by jabbercash

Alright so I thought of this thread after seeing Scary Movie for the first time in a while. While watching it I just wondered, where did it all go wrong? Being completely honest, I tried to find something wrong with it, I really did. But really, I found the first one to be brilliant. I love how spot on it is with spoofing 90s horror films, and I love the exaggerated and cliche characters and ridiculous plot twists. I didn't find it any less funny than I did the first time I saw it. Sure a few jokes fall flat and it does push the limit a little bit with the gross-out humor, but in general the movie really was funny. It reminded me a lot of "Don't Be a Menace To South Central" (which I also liked) but honestly thought was better. Scary Movie 2 I didn't feel the same way about, it wasn't bad but it was watchable. Scary Movie 3 was pretty awful, and Scary Movie 4 was horrendous. The series really went downhill after the Wayans Brothers quit. Then there's the spin-offs, god help me. Epic Movie is incredibly bad and Disaster Movie is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Meet The Spartans I've never seen and neither have I seen Date Movie. Now this thread really isn't about some of the classic spoof films (Airplane, Spaceballs) but just the films that are related to the Scary Movie spoof films. What are your opinions on them?

First thing to know is that Seltzer & Friedberg (aka Hitler & Antichrist ) are NOT responsible for either the Wayan Bros. Scary 1& 2 or the David Zucker Scary 3 & 4 after the Weinsteins kicked out the Wayans, or even the co-directed (with Undercover Brother's Malcolm Lee) Scary 5, which had been around in Weinstein-bankruptcy limbo forever.
Still, that does explain why white David Zucker has that strange compulsion to put "rap" and "booty" jokes into the non-Wayans parodies, as the franchise still believes it's catering to the urban-comedy audience. Basically, most of the parodies DO, nowadays.

Originally the non-Scary "Movies" started with "Not Another Teen Movie", which was written by Adam Jay Epstein, who...sort of dropped off the face of the earth since, and directed by Joel Gallen, who directed the MTV Movie Awards parodies. It's arguably the funniest, but that's not saying much.

Seltzer & Friedberg's mix of movie "parodies" was pretty much established in Disaster Movie, where--between hilariously misogynistic celebrity jokes about Amy Winehouse and Sarah Jessica Parker--they basically parodied movies they only knew from trailers, by parodying trailer scenes....That way, when the movie came out in August, the jokes would be current, you see! Yes, nothing adds to the hilarity like not having the faintest clue about what you're parodying.
"Disaster" pretty well shut down that chemical factory, so they've turned their focus on "Annoyingly overexposed trend movies", with timely on-topic jokes about 300, Twilight, and Hunger Games. But, they still sound like teen troll-posts, even when they're NOT making misogynist ugly-celebrity jokes.

[StatenMan18]

I loved the first three scary movies, the third being my favorite. Superhero movie was also pretty funny the first time I saw it.

[Samus Aran]

The era of Hot Shots, The Naked Gun and Airplane are gone. The "spoofs" coming out these days don't actually spoof anything anymore, they're just "reference movies." They make references to pop culture and other movies and that's supposed to be the joke. Seltzer and Friedberg represent a new low in filmmaking.

[iank]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

The era of Hot Shots, The Naked Gun and Airplane are gone. The "spoofs" coming out these days don't actually spoof anything anymore, they're just "reference movies." They make references to pop culture and other movies and that's supposed to be the joke. Seltzer and Friedberg represent a new low in filmmaking.

Yup.

[Monterey Jack]

Spoof movies all need to die.

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by remake

Let's not forget the low budget straight to video Twilight/Paranormal Activity/Hunger Games "spoofs"

Oh, yes. The number of DTV found footage films is obscene. I wouldn't be surprised if half the films made in a given year were of this genre, as anyone with a camera can make one. My favorite title is "30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

And then you have the fusion of shitty DTV horror and movies ostensibly for "urban" audiences that are effectively minstrel shows, which results in things like the A Haunted House franchise.