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The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

I'm hoping they explain how the world is still overrun with infected 28 years later. Since it isn't a zombie virus, anyone infected should die from thirst/starvation pretty quickly, that was the whole point of the second film.

I can't imagine they're going to ignore this and morph the rage virus into a more generic zombie virus.
 
Starkers said:
I'm hoping they explain how the world is still overrun with infected 28 years later.
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Was the whole world overrun? Yes, I remember someone in 28 Days Later commenting that "this thing is everywhere," but given the large US military presence in 28 Weeks Later, wouldn't that suggest the US at least was spared?

Granted, it's been years since I watched the movies, so if there's something I'm forgetting, feel free to point it out.
 
The outbreak was contained to the UK in 28 Days Later. In 28 Weeks later brits who'd been abroad were taken back to form a new colony, for want of a better word. At the end of 28 Weeks later the virus had spread to the continent.

I still don't think it matters if the world is overrun, the majority of infected will die very quickly, that was the whole point of 28 Weeks later, everyone could come back because the infected had all starved to death.
 
It will likely be a story about COVID. The world is living in a a kind of COVID lockdown world because the virus now comes back ever now and then before burning itself out but it has also changed society in how they live their daily lives. One of them are shots of medicine everyone has to take. Yet some people are sick of this way of life and want to return to the old ways because they miss the freedom of those days. Old people who remembered those days and now young people who have never lived it but desire it. This conflict ends up creating a massive amount of infected being created and causing chaos.
 
David Fincher is making Squid Game. Rumor is that it was a movie, now it's a TV series. And set within the already existing Squid Game world.
 
I hope this doesn't mean the resurrection of Friedberg and Seltzer. But Netflix will probably give them $250 million to make Streaming Movie. With a cameo from Rob Schneider as Ted Lasso with an I Don't Believe sign. That will be the entire joke.
 
I found most of those early 2000's parody movies to be terrible. Except for "Not Another Teen Movie" though the part of Randy Quaid as someone kind of unhinged seems kind of silly today.
 
Scary Movie was a big hit but parodies had pretty much died by that point after Hot Shots and Naked Gun. Friedberg and Seltzer don't even make parody movies -- they made reference movies -- which killed the parody genre. Their entire success is also based off of being added to the writing credits for Scary Movie by the WGA because they were working on a similar movie whose spec script had been sold but the studio made Scary Movie instead.
 
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Scary Movie was a big hit but parodies had pretty much died by that point after Hot Shots and Naked Gun. Friedberg and Seltzer don't even make parody movies -- they made reference movies -- which killed the parody genre. Their entire success is also based off of being added to the writing credits for Scary Movie by the WGA because they were working on a similar movie whose spec script had been sold but the studio made Scary Movie instead.
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The Naked Gun and Airplane succeeded due to a combination of genuinely funny jokes and well-cast actors but also by parodying genres, though Airplane also threw in digs at the likes of Saturday Night Fever or From Here to Eternity.

You then had the likes of Loaded Weapon, which parodied an individual series of movies, which didn’t take itself particularly seriously anyway, at least not by part 2. Then Scary Movie also tried to send up a series of films which themselves were well aware of the humour and cliches of horror as a genre to begin with. So you really had to worry what the point was. I don’t think I’ve seen a full film in the series, much less those Epic Movie bottom-scrapers, but from what I did see, they seemed much less witty than the movies they were supposed to be parodying.
 
Most of the jokes were gross sex jokes or references to the better movies they were trying to parody. Now I am okay actually with gross sex jokes if a movie is good. I loved movies like 'Knocked Up" and "Superbad" and so many more but the key those movies working, as is usually the key really to any movie using edgy blue humor is they need heart. Something human and vulnerable to make you relate to the characters and want to like them with just a little dash of bad boy or bad girl fantasy that appeals to our Lizard Part of the brain that kind of wants to be naughty and kind of a bad boy or bad girl ourselves.
 
I never saw Scary Movie 2 but one of the actors was sharing a clip on a talk show and it was just the actors remaking a popular commercial that was popular in the moment but long since forgotten by now. That was the whole scene. Not making fun of it, not adding to it, not making a comment on something, just redoing it.
 
Pretty much my only memory of a Scary Movie part was one of the first three films which I saw in a theater. I was with a female relative. A young guy and a young woman are getting hot and heavy, start having sex, it's his first time, he's so horny and excited he shoot cum like a fireman's hose and blasts her onto the ceiling, sticking her up there. The relative, quite surprised.
 
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