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Bernion  Title: Resident Cheesehead
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Registered: 2004-7-25 21:41:11
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
this trailer actually has me laughing  layer_embedded
I won't actually see it of course seeing as all the best parts are probably in that trailer, but its still a good trailer imo
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Yossarian_42  Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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Date Posted:
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
Nothing about that was funny.
It was probably written by the same tasteless morons who wrote Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and all of that other worthless ToS: profanity.
There aren't two less talented people on the planet.
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Bernion Title: Resident Cheesehead
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Registered: 2004-7-25 21:41:11
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Date Posted:
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
Yossarian_42 posted:
Nothing about that was funny.
It was probably written by the same tasteless morons who wrote Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and all of that other worthless ToS: profanity.
There aren't two less talented people on the planet.
oh Yoss be nice to Ted and Spilt, they work hard!
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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Date Posted:
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
If it was really Ted and Spilt they would have made a console war movie with twelve sequels.
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rmbaldwin Posts: 84
Registered: 2003-9-16 21:43:57
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Date Posted:
7/20/10 5:57pm
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
Their names are Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. They are inarguably the worst thing to happen to movies, ever. They supposedly make movies in the spirit of Airplane, Top Secret, the Naked Gun, etc but there is a difference. Those movies are parodies, and are funny.
Friedberg and Seltzer make movies that pretend to be parodies, but don't actually parody anything. They just make 90 minutes of unrelated pop-culture references and people getting hit in the face and call it comedy.
Then they take their 2% Rotten Tomatoes score all the way to the bank, thanks to their idiot audience comprised of Ke$ha, The Hills and Keeping Up With the Kardashians fans. 
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Steelwind_Oo Title: Lurking Oo
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Date Posted:
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rmbaldwin posted:
They just make 90 minutes of unrelated pop-culture references and people getting hit in the face and call it comedy.
Pretty much this. I tried to sit through a couple of them and even though I got most of the references there was no funny involved. Heck when you straight rip a scene/character from pop culture and band aid it into the story you aren't making funny. Make the audience work for it. Use quotes or similar scenes or even, gasp, poke fun at popular culture.
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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Date Posted:
7/20/10 5:57pm
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Wow, even the trailer is painful to watch.
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
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Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
7/20/10 5:57pm
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
Damnit. I'm agreeing with Yoss, wtf is up with that?
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Ynisfre Posts: 249
Registered: 2009-5-28 17:37:45
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Date Posted:
7/20/10 5:57pm
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ok I usually hate those 'dumb' parody movies but... |
rmbaldwin posted:
Their names are Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. They are inarguably the worst thing to happen to movies, ever. They supposedly make movies in the spirit of Airplane, Top Secret, the Naked Gun, etc but there is a difference. Those movies are parodies, and are funny.
Friedberg and Seltzer make movies that pretend to be parodies, but don't actually parody anything. They just make 90 minutes of unrelated pop-culture references and people getting hit in the face and call it comedy.
Couldn't agree more. The entire basis of their success is making stupid people feel like they're clever. It's the "Oh, I know that!" school of comedy, where an audience's recognition of something is tantamount to a joke. It's no different than showing pictures of colors, or shapes to preschoolers. "That's blue!" "That's circle!" "I get it!!"
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Shenron_  Posts: 543
Registered: 2002-12-8 21:34:16
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Date Posted:
7/20/10 5:57pm
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if u thought that was funny there is something wrong with your cognitive functions.
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