Seriously. Are we not done with these parodies yet?

[Trekker4747]

Again, I really don't see what the big deal is.

Imagine if someone went into to the Louvre and hung a picture of their 5 year old's crayon-drawing of his home and family.

That's not to say other movies in the theater are stuffy, high, art but compared to the Vauge Genre Movie movies they are.

It's an insult the "art form" of theater. It's an insult to the "art form" of good pardoy. They just take a handful of movie scenes that kind-of fit with their theme (though I don't see how Sex in the City, Zohan. The Hulk, Iron Man or Hancock all fit in with the "Disaster Movie" theme. And I *also* think it's really dumb to parody movies that're still going to be in the theater when the parody is released not to mention they're mostly going to be parodying trailer clips.) some dated popular culture references, mash them together, maybe add one or two truly "original" creative concepts to tie the whole thing together (about as well as the "special" bag boy at the grocery store ties his own shoe), grind it all into dog food, have an ugly-assed pit-bull wolf it don, shit it out and call the result a "movie."

It's an insult to what movie making is all about. It's on the level of when the "Rocky" statue was taken down because it wasn't art it was a movie prop.

Parodies are fine. Real, good, genuine, and smart parodies. Get Smart is a good pardoy of the spy genre. Airplane was a good parody of a specific movie, Walk Hard was a good parody of the musician biopic.

The Movie movies are pieces of shit. And I dare say erode comedy as a whole with their massive black-hole of suckitude and the trailers alone are an insult to my intelligence. And it's a further insult to humanity as a whole on how many mouth-breathing, brain-dead, methed-out, stoners fall for this shit, pay $10 to see it, and crack-up laughing. (I really hate to think that anyone would laugh in these things.)

Sorry, 00, these movies are absolute crap and have no business being on the screen and the people who write them have no business being screenwriters when people with a lot more comedic talent and wit are struggling to get their scripts read. It's got to be frustrating to YOU as a screenwriter to have a funny script in your hand (and you're a comedic talent in orders of magnitude funnier than these guys) and can't get people to give you the time of day with it but to see a random assortment of nonsense like this get made.

Doesn't that itch your taint just a little?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Thanks to this thread, I've imagined doubleoh's itchy taint, and I hate you both for it.

 

[Kryton]

Imagine MINE...I'm treating one end with Preparation H these days!

 

[Trekker4747]

Thanks to this thread, I've imagined doubleoh's itchy taint, and I hate you both for it.

 

[Aragorn]

Uh... Michael Bay works because he delivers on exactly what people expect him to and the box office results are the bottom line.

Uwe Boll works because he gets the money himself. No Hollywood studio would give him $50 million to make a movie that grosses $2 million.

 

[doubleohfive]

Again, I really don't see what the big deal is.

Imagine if someone went into to the Louvre and hung a picture of their 5 year old's crayon-drawing of his home and family.

That's not to say other movies in the theater are stuffy, high, art but compared to the Vauge Genre Movie movies they are.

It's an insult the "art form" of theater. It's an insult to the "art form" of good pardoy. They just take a handful of movie scenes that kind-of fit with their theme (though I don't see how Sex in the City, Zohan. The Hulk, Iron Man or Hancock all fit in with the "Disaster Movie" theme. And I *also* think it's really dumb to parody movies that're still going to be in the theater when the parody is released not to mention they're mostly going to be parodying trailer clips.) some dated popular culture references, mash them together, maybe add one or two truly "original" creative concepts to tie the whole thing together (about as well as the "special" bag boy at the grocery store ties his own shoe), grind it all into dog food, have an ugly-assed pit-bull wolf it don, shit it out and call the result a "movie."

It's an insult to what movie making is all about. It's on the level of when the "Rocky" statue was taken down because it wasn't art it was a movie prop.

Parodies are fine. Real, good, genuine, and smart parodies. Get Smart is a good pardoy of the spy genre. Airplane was a good parody of a specific movie, Walk Hard was a good parody of the musician biopic.

The Movie movies are pieces of shit. And I dare say erode comedy as a whole with their massive black-hole of suckitude and the trailers alone are an insult to my intelligence. And it's a further insult to humanity as a whole on how many mouth-breathing, brain-dead, methed-out, stoners fall for this shit, pay $10 to see it, and crack-up laughing. (I really hate to think that anyone would laugh in these things.)

Sorry, 00, these movies are absolute crap and have no business being on the screen and the people who write them have no business being screenwriters when people with a lot more comedic talent and wit are struggling to get their scripts read. It's got to be frustrating to YOU as a screenwriter to have a funny script in your hand (and you're a comedic talent in orders of magnitude funnier than these guys) and can't get people to give you the time of day with it but to see a random assortment of nonsense like this get made.

Doesn't that itch your taint just a little?

I had a nice long eloquent response to this but the board fuckups yesterday caused me to lose it. The two main points though were simple.

1) Thank you for the compliment. It means a lot to me.

2) Hollywood has always been and always will be a business first. These movies make money. That's why they keep getting made. Talk about it all you want, but that's one fact that isn't going to change, least of all over this non-issue.

 

[doubleohfive]

Also, can someone scratch my taint now? It itches.
Oh Spiffy...

 

[Trekker4747]

1) Thank you for the compliment. It means a lot to me.

You and I have had our sparring sessions from time to time but at the end of the day I consider you a friend. An online friend, sure, but a friend none the less. You've posted plenty of witty and funny stuff here on the boards in the distant past that've had me spitting stuff into my keyboard.

I still hope to someday sit down and have a beer with you in person. I'm sure we'd have each other laughing all night long.