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Year: 2000
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Plot: After parodying the blaxploitation films of the 1970s in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes aim at slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s in this raunchy satire, which was produced under the clumsy but inarguably appropriate title Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. As you might expect, a group of teenagers -- not-terribly-bright Buffy (Shannon Elizabeth), her best friend Brenda (Regina Hall), stoner Shorty (Marlon Wayans), fey football player Ray (Shawn Wayans), loudmouthed Greg (Lochlyn Munro), sexually overexcited Bobby (Jon Abrahams), and his prim girlfriend Cindy (Anna Faris) -- are on the run from a maniacal killer who is looking for revenge after the kids accidentally kill a man following an auto accident. They also find themselves having to contend with intrusive reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) and eccentric high school principal Squiggly (David L. Lander). Incidentally, the title Scary Movie is something of an inside joke: it was the working title for Scream, the movie that kick-started the mid-'90s slasher film revival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:08:03 GMTScary Movie2000Keenen Ivory WayansAfter parodying the blaxploitation films of the 1970s in <a href=/films/16564/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>I'm Gonna Git You Sucka</a>, <a href="/players/P___116125/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Keenen Ivory Wayans</a> takes aim at slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s in this raunchy satire, which was produced under the clumsy but inarguably appropriate title <I>Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween</I>. As you might expect, a group of teenagers -- not-terribly-bright Buffy (<a href="/players/P___240643/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Shannon Elizabeth</a>), her best friend Brenda (<a href="/players/P___277710/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Regina Hall</a>), stoner Shorty (<a href="/players/P____75078/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Marlon Wayans</a>), fey football player Ray (<a href="/players/P___200971/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Shawn Wayans</a>), loudmouthed Greg (<a href="/players/P___239100/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Lochlyn Munro</a>), sexually overexcited Bobby (Jon Abrahams), and his prim girlfriend Cindy (<a href="/players/P___277709/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anna Faris</a>) -- are on the run from a maniacal killer who is looking for revenge after the kids accidentally kill a man following an auto accident. They also find themselves having to contend with intrusive reporter Gail Hailstorm (<a href="/players/P___270523/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Cheri Oteri</a>) and eccentric high school principal Squiggly (David L. Lander). Incidentally, the title Scary Movie is something of an inside joke: it was the working title for <a href=/films/93878/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Scream</a>, the movie that kick-started the mid-'90s slasher film revival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide27Tag Target (>10)29413http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u41127pdk2v.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Scary_Movie/135325/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/23/31570.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: When I first saw the trailer for Wanted, I figured it was just another Matrix ripoff. And I’m sure there are many other people who thought the same thing. Of course, some Matrix ripoffs aren’t bad — I absolutely love Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium, for example — but most are. Even worse, though, are the parodies of the Matrix’s “bullet time” sequences. Do we really need to see another movie character bend over backwards to avoid a bullet (or milk)? Or another movie character suspended in motion while the camera tracks around him or her? It’s no wonder that until yesterday, I had pretty much dismissed Wanted, because of that Matrix-like bullet time sequence in which Morgan Freeman shoots around a slab of meat to hit an unseen target. Yet as of yesterday, the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes rating was 100% (Anthony Lane’s New Yorker review, posted today, is the first “rotten” one, taking it down to 92%). Now I’m more intrigued. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that that bullet time sequence is there, reminding me of the worst that The Matrix has inspired in the past decade. To remind you, too, I’ve compiled a bunch of clips that should provide you with similar doubt. The Gap “Khaki Swing” Ads - Soon after The Matrix came out and blew our minds with the effect, Gap had to ruin its cool factor real quick by showing just how easily it could be redone and exploited. These commercials also began ruining Louis Prima and the neo-swing movement in general, so it’s especially evil in my mind. Ultraviolet - OK, not so much a parody, but it’s so blatantly a Matrix ripoff that it should be considered such. The buildup of this sequence is so excessively stylized that after watching it I never wanted to see another bullet time sequence ever again. Wing Commander - I never saw this movie, so I don’t know what’s happening in the bullet time sequence with the milk frozen in air (seen in the trailer, above), but any movie featuring a bullet time sequence involving milk is a sure sign of a bad movie (see Kung Pow! Way of the Fist, below) Michael Jordan - Is this an ad? Or is it just another excuse just to use this effect? The Simpsons “New Kids on the Blecch” - This episode featured a very minor Matrix parody with guest stars NSYNC displaying a dance move called “The Matrix”. It would have been just another simple imitation if not for the one guy falling out of place, which is a little funny. (I apologize for making you watch most of this behind-the-scenes feature to get to the sequence) Scary Movie - This one isn’t too bad, either. At first it merely seems like it’s just an imitation, but then the killer throws his back out. Good one. Unfortunately, the Wayans take it a little further and mess up the scene with that lame jig gag. Karate Dog - I’ve already recently shared this awful (or awfully funny?) clip of Jon Voight fighting a talking dog skilled in Kung Fu, and I think it speaks for itself anyway, so just watch. It’s OK if you stop after the first “baby carriage time” gag and don’t get to the other Matrix reference. Nobody ever needs to be subjected to “super lick.” Kung Pow! Enter the Fist - I’m so glad that this clip is presented in widescreen. All the better an homage to a movie that helped popularize the letterbox format of the DVD. Actually that’s about where the respect ends. There are just some things you don’t need to see done with the bullet time effect, and milk blasted out of udders is one of those things. Welcome to Dongmakgol - Is this really bullet time, or just a lot of slow motion and blue screen made to make us think we’re watching bullet time? It’s so ridiculously overdone, I can’t tell. And I don’t care. In a way it looks more like a ripoff of Kung Pow! than The Matrix anyway. Shrek - This one doesn’t even have any additional joke. It’s just an imitative reference and one of the many reasons I find the Shrek movies to be creatively vapid works. Plus, it’s not even as cool as the Matrix’s bullet time sequences because it’s a completely computer-rendered film. This scene could have existed even before The Matrix’s advances with the effect, which technically can be credited to much earlier animated works, including the original Speed Racer TV series. In fact, it now seems as if the Wachowskis were always just trying to make a live-action version of that last shot from the Speed Racer opening. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:00:41 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com6/23/2008 6:00:41 PM When I first saw the trailer for Wanted, I figured it was just another Matrix ripoff. And I’m sure there are many other people who thought the same thing. Of course, some Matrix ripoffs aren’t bad — I absolutely love Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium, for example — but most are. Even worse, though, are the parodies of the Matrix’s “bullet time” sequences. Do we really need to see another movie character bend over backwards to avoid a bullet (or milk)? Or another movie character suspended in motion while the camera tracks around him or her? It’s no wonder that until yesterday, I had pretty much dismissed Wanted, because of that Matrix-like bullet time sequence in which Morgan Freeman shoots around a slab of meat to hit an unseen target. Yet as of yesterday, the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes rating was 100% (Anthony Lane’s New Yorker review, posted today, is the first “rotten” one, taking it down to 92%). Now I’m more intrigued. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that that bullet time sequence is there, reminding me of the worst that The Matrix has inspired in the past decade. To remind you, too, I’ve compiled a bunch of clips that should provide you with similar doubt. The Gap “Khaki Swing” Ads - Soon after The Matrix came out and blew our minds with the effect, Gap had to ruin its cool factor real quick by showing just how easily it could be redone and exploited. These commercials also began ruining Louis Prima and the neo-swing movement in general, so it’s especially evil in my mind. Ultraviolet - OK, not so much a parody, but it’s so blatantly a Matrix ripoff that it should be considered such. The buildup of this sequence is so excessively stylized that after watching it I never wanted to see another bullet time sequence ever again. Wing Commander - I never saw this movie, so I don’t know what’s happening in the bullet time sequence with the milk frozen in air (seen in the trailer, above), but any movie featuring a bullet time sequence involving milk is a sure sign of a bad movie (see Kung Pow! Way of the Fist, below) Michael Jordan - Is this an ad? Or is it just another excuse just to use this effect? The Simpsons “New Kids on the Blecch” - This episode featured a very minor Matrix parody with guest stars NSYNC displaying a dance move called “The Matrix”. It would have been just another simple imitation if not for the one guy falling out of place, which is a little funny. (I apologize for making you watch most of this behind-the-scenes feature to get to the sequence) Scary Movie - This one isn’t too bad, either. At first it merely seems like it’s just an imitation, but then the killer throws his back out. Good one. Unfortunately, the Wayans take it a little further and mess up the scene with that lame jig gag. Karate Dog - I’ve already recently shared this awful (or awfully funny?) clip of Jon Voight fighting a talking dog skilled in Kung Fu, and I think it speaks for itself anyway, so just watch. It’s OK if you stop after the first “baby carriage time” gag and don’t get to the other Matrix reference. Nobody ever needs to be subjected to “super lick.” Kung Pow! Enter the Fist - I’m so glad that this clip is presented in widescreen. All the better an homage to a movie that helped popularize the letterbox format of the DVD. Actually that’s about where the respect ends. There are just some things you don’t need to see done with the bullet time effect, and milk blasted out of udders is one of those things. Welcome to Dongmakgol - Is this really bullet time, or just a lot of slow motion and blue screen made to make us think we’re watching bullet time? It’s so ridiculously overdone, I can’t tell. And I don’t care. In a way it looks more like a ripoff of Kung Pow! than The Matrix anyway. Shrek - This one doesn’t even have any additional joke. It’s just an imitative reference and one of the many reasons I find the Shrek movies to be creatively vapid works. Plus, it’s not even as cool as the Matrix’s bullet time sequences because it’s a completely computer-rendered film. This scene could have existed even before The Matrix’s advances with the effect, which technically can be credited to much earlier animated works, including the original Speed Racer TV series. In fact, it now seems as if the Wachowskis were always just trying to make a live-action version of that last shot from the Speed Racer opening. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/31/26776.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Remember the Cold War, when we were led to believe that Americans and Russians are so different from each other? Turns out that all that time we could have just made peace in a movie theater, watching spoofs like The Naked Gun and Airplane! together. Well, I guess the Russians could have only grown to love these kinds of comedies in the last 16 years, since the fall of the Soviet Union. But in any event, this trailer for the new film Hitler Kaput! shows that senses of humor are currently equal on both hemispheres. Even if our own latest parody, Superhero Movie, performed rather poorly at the box office over the weekend. Presently, there are no plans for Hitler Kaput! to be distributed in the U.S. (it opens in Russia on April 10), but were it not for the language barrier, it would easily be popular here. Seeming like a cross between the classic Zucker Bros. spy movie parody Top Secret! and any post-Scary Movie spoof film, it looks just dumb enough to appeal to the masses. Perhaps it could sell as a cult-ready DVD release if the dialogue is dubbed instead of subtitled. Actually, considering the fact that we can tell what is going on in the trailer, despite it being in Russian, we probably don’t need dubbing or subtitles. Visual gags like the silly dancing Hitler, the photo of Sean Connery, the swastika eye patch and plenty of slapstick bits make the movie exportable just the way it is. [via Fark.com] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:00:55 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/31/2008 12:00:55 PM Remember the Cold War, when we were led to believe that Americans and Russians are so different from each other? Turns out that all that time we could have just made peace in a movie theater, watching spoofs like The Naked Gun and Airplane! together. Well, I guess the Russians could have only grown to love these kinds of comedies in the last 16 years, since the fall of the Soviet Union. But in any event, this trailer for the new film Hitler Kaput! shows that senses of humor are currently equal on both hemispheres. Even if our own latest parody, Superhero Movie, performed rather poorly at the box office over the weekend. Presently, there are no plans for Hitler Kaput! to be distributed in the U.S. (it opens in Russia on April 10), but were it not for the language barrier, it would easily be popular here. Seeming like a cross between the classic Zucker Bros. spy movie parody Top Secret! and any post-Scary Movie spoof film, it looks just dumb enough to appeal to the masses. Perhaps it could sell as a cult-ready DVD release if the dialogue is dubbed instead of subtitled. Actually, considering the fact that we can tell what is going on in the trailer, despite it being in Russian, we probably don’t need dubbing or subtitles. Visual gags like the silly dancing Hitler, the photo of Sean Connery, the swastika eye patch and plenty of slapstick bits make the movie exportable just the way it is. [via Fark.com] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2008/3/28/26724.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Body: Scary Movie 4It's funny that very rarely to I ever even consider watching the sequel to a horror movie that I consider to be less than really great. In fact I usually don't seek out too many horror movies because I find most of the mediocre. It's funny then that I keep watching this series of fairly mediocre comedy movies that poke fun at those same very mediocre horror series.Actually I can't remember why I ever saw the first Scary Movie. I can't even remember if I saw it at a theater or on DVD. I know I have seen Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood and thought that was amusing (although I was wasted and had no idea what it was at the time) which was made by the same people.I think I found the original Scary Movie to be somewhat amusing, but knew the sequel looked horrible in the previews. Somehow my friend Tom convinced me to go see it with him. I think he even paid for my ticket because no one else would go with him. Scary Movie 2 is certainly the worst of them all. It's certainly the most disgusting which is a big feat.So I would have never thought I'd be excited to see Scary Movie 3, until I saw that it was being directed by David Zucker and co-written by Pat Proft. Now I did enjoy much of their past work. I convinced a huge crowd to come out and see it with me. And I remember laughing quite hard at the theater. But then when I rented it again later I realized it wasn't necessarily even that much better than the first one.So now here I am with Scary Movie 4. It just seemed obligatory. Even though I usually haven't seen half of the movies being spoofed in these things. There's no real surprise with Scary Movie 4. Mostly sick gross out humor. You know what to expect by now. But every once in a while there's some bit a brilliance playing with movie conventions. One funny gag has to is when two people try to hide in the bushes and then pull two other people into the bushes to steal their costumes. It's such a common convention. But what ends up happening is that the people with the costumes just come back out with their costumes still on, and the people who tried to pull them in just got beat up. Maybe this isn't that original now that I think about it.Another good gag is when she brushes away the cobwebs on a framed photo to see that it is a photo of more cobwebs. I love that kind of thing!But the most inspired portion of this movie has to be the Million Dollar Baby spoof. I'm not sure if it's just because I dislike that movie so much or what, but the scene is just brillaint. The part that they are spoofing is just so retarded in the original movie. How the fuck could someone believe someone was able to stick some chair in the ring like that and at just the right angle. So ludicrous. The spoofed it here perfectly!Rating: 6/10
]]>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:05:28 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog3/28/2008 5:05:28 PMScary Movie 4It&#39;s funny that very rarely to I ever even consider watching the sequel to a horror movie that I consider to be less than really great. In fact I usually don&#39;t seek out too many horror movies because I find most of the mediocre. It&#39;s funny then that I keep watching this series of fairly mediocre comedy movies that poke fun at those same very mediocre horror series.Actually I can&#39;t remember why I ever saw the first Scary Movie. I can&#39;t even remember if I saw it at a theater or on DVD. I know I have seen Don&#39;t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood and thought that was amusing (although I was wasted and had no idea what it was at the time) which was made by the same people.I think I found the original Scary Movie to be somewhat amusing, but knew the sequel looked horrible in the previews. Somehow my friend Tom convinced me to go see it with him. I think he even paid for my ticket because no one else would go with him. Scary Movie 2 is certainly the worst of them all. It&#39;s certainly the most disgusting which is a big feat.So I would have never thought I&#39;d be excited to see Scary Movie 3, until I saw that it was being directed by David Zucker and co-written by Pat Proft. Now I did enjoy much of their past work. I convinced a huge crowd to come out and see it with me. And I remember laughing quite hard at the theater. But then when I rented it again later I realized it wasn&#39;t necessarily even that much better than the first one.So now here I am with Scary Movie 4. It just seemed obligatory. Even though I usually haven&#39;t seen half of the movies being spoofed in these things. There&#39;s no real surprise with Scary Movie 4. Mostly sick gross out humor. You know what to expect by now. But every once in a while there&#39;s some bit a brilliance playing with movie conventions. One funny gag has to is when two people try to hide in the bushes and then pull two other people into the bushes to steal their costumes. It&#39;s such a common convention. But what ends up happening is that the people with the costumes just come back out with their costumes still on, and the people who tried to pull them in just got beat up. Maybe this isn&#39;t that original now that I think about it.Another good gag is when she brushes away the cobwebs on a framed photo to see that it is a photo of more cobwebs. I love that kind of thing!But the most inspired portion of this movie has to be the Million Dollar Baby spoof. I&#39;m not sure if it&#39;s just because I dislike that movie so much or what, but the scene is just brillaint. The part that they are spoofing is just so retarded in the original movie. How the fuck could someone believe someone was able to stick some chair in the ring like that and at just the right angle. So ludicrous. The spoofed it here perfectly!Rating: 6/10 http://www.spout.com/blogs/gradysghost/archive/2007/5/19/9024.aspx Post By: GradysGhost
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Body: Have you ever seen Murder By Death? I have. I watched it last night. It's a "dinner-and-a-murder" caper written by Neil Simon. Really, it's almost a spoof of capers, but that's a hard call to make because capers are spoofs of murder mysteries. Or homages. One of the two.Where's the distinction? Where does one cross the line between spoof and homage. Lemme go to the dictionary.My Dictionary tells me that homage (which can be pronounced "hom-ij" or "ohm-azh") is "respect or reverence paid or rendered" and that a spoof is "a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody." So the difference is respect?I beg to differ. A spoof can be respectful. Look at The Naked Gun: From the FIles of Police Squad. The Zuckers and Jim Abraham (ZAZ as they have been known to be called) are clearly poking fun at cop movie and TV shows (since Naked Gun started out as Police Squad, a thirty-minute television program that only lasted six episodes). But I think they do it respectfully. As in the source material, the Naked Gun series' Frank Drebin always gets the bad guy at the last second, usually at gunpoint, and always gets the girl (who is always Jane). Even though the films tend to disparage police since the main character is a bumbling idiot, they never seem to forget where they came from.Often with spoofs - and this has become painfully obvious lately with disasters like Date Movie and Epic Movie - entire scenes from original material will be played out by different actors. One scene in Scary Movie (title trend duly noted, guys) even mentions that it's all just a scene from another movie. How respecful is that? If I recall, they even mention that movie's title - Scream, of course. If respect had been eliminated from Scary Movie, I would probably have been the first to flare up in anger considering Scream is one of my all-time favorites, and probably one of the most brilliant horror films ever (I'll be talking about metafiction soon, methinks).In regards to homage, I'll provide the example Shaun of the Dead. Two unsuspecting losers find themselves hungover in a town full of stupid, slow zombies. The film pays respects to just about any zombie flick that came before it, most notably Night of the Living Dead. The title, after all, is a play on one of Night's sequels and was probably a play on the popularity of Stuart Gordon's zombie flick released about the same time, Dawn of the Dead. The difference between Shaun of the Dead and The Naked Gun (besides the fundamental fact that we're comparing cop movies to zombie features; I would compare it to Hot Fuzz, but I have yet to see it and it's just not fair to compare movies you haven't seen)? Shaun of the Dead was executed more stylistically similar to the films it credits. The Naked Gun series, indeed most of ZAZ's combined and individual efforts, have a style of their own.Also, when you laugh at Naked Gun or Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie, you're usually laughing at the idea that they really are making fun of something. When you laugh at Shaun of the Dead, you're not. The jokes are original.Maybe that's the root of it all - a spoof and an homage are really the same thing with only one difference. A spoof needs to be funny (or attempt to be). An homage does not.Humor doesn't hurt, as Quentin Tarantino has shown us. I laugh when I watch Kill Bill. Because it's a direct throwback to other movies that people adore and despise as much as any other, yet it feels so comfortable and natural to watch it. You don't feel bad about laughing the way you do when you laugh at movies like Spider-man 3 in the middle of a theater full of people who seem to be actually enjoying it seriously (cue caterpillar-esque lip-quiver).Tarantino is a writer/director, though who makes me question his originality. Does he actually write original screenplays and direct original movies when so much of each film he makes is grounded in movies made before his birth? Does that make him derivative? All he seems to do is make homages to other directors, but I like them all the same, even if I didn't like the movies they're referencing. That must have something to do with the true nature of homage, then. There's got to be something original in it. I guess I would say that Tarantino is original by way of being derivative. There's enough there to say, "This is just like that one movie!" but enough there to say, "This is definitely a Tarantino film."Wow. I got pretty far astray from where I started here.Murder By Death - spoof or tribute? Hard to say.Not to spoil the movie if you've never seen it, but at the very end, after all five detectives (who are all based strongly on other famous fiction detectives - Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, et al) make their wagers on the killer, and the butler is revealed to be Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), Twain actually stands up to reveal his motive was to get back at all the terrible endings to mystery novels and movies ("where the killer is a character who hasn't even been introduced until five pages from the end"), a screenwriting move that makes Twain's character completely break free of the realm of the movie. Never before had it been mentioned that the detectives were actually based on other fictional characters. You just assumed it. Because it's a spoof. Or an homage. Or something. It is this pivotal moment in the film that makes me unable to determine whether Murder By Death is simply farce or tribute. The fact that Lionel Twain is played by Truman Capote - a real-life novelist who even wrote a book called In Cold Blood which was a real-life murder mystery - convolutes my brain with thoughts of metafiction (will get to discuss this later when my thoughts subside a bit).Because of the lack of distinction here, I can't give this movie anything but a mediocre rating. But it really did make me think. Something that most comedies can't make me do.I'm all confused. Anybody have thoughts on this?
]]>Sat, 19 May 2007 12:06:00 GMTGradysGhostGradysGhost Blog5/19/2007 8:06:00 AMHave you ever seen Murder By Death? I have. I watched it last night. It&#39;s a "dinner-and-a-murder" caper written by Neil Simon. Really, it&#39;s almost a spoof of capers, but that&#39;s a hard call to make because capers are spoofs of murder mysteries. Or homages. One of the two.Where&#39;s the distinction? Where does one cross the line between spoof and homage. Lemme go to the dictionary.My Dictionary tells me that homage (which can be pronounced "hom-ij" or "ohm-azh") is "respect or reverence paid or rendered" and that a spoof is "a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody." So the difference is respect?I beg to differ. A spoof can be respectful. Look at The Naked Gun: From the FIles of Police Squad. The Zuckers and Jim Abraham (ZAZ as they have been known to be called) are clearly poking fun at cop movie and TV shows (since Naked Gun started out as Police Squad, a thirty-minute television program that only lasted six episodes). But I think they do it respectfully. As in the source material, the Naked Gun series&#39; Frank Drebin always gets the bad guy at the last second, usually at gunpoint, and always gets the girl (who is always Jane). Even though the films tend to disparage police since the main character is a bumbling idiot, they never seem to forget where they came from.Often with spoofs - and this has become painfully obvious lately with disasters like Date Movie and Epic Movie - entire scenes from original material will be played out by different actors. One scene in Scary Movie (title trend duly noted, guys) even mentions that it&#39;s all just a scene from another movie. How respecful is that? If I recall, they even mention that movie&#39;s title - Scream, of course. If respect had been eliminated from Scary Movie, I would probably have been the first to flare up in anger considering Scream is one of my all-time favorites, and probably one of the most brilliant horror films ever (I&#39;ll be talking about metafiction soon, methinks).In regards to homage, I&#39;ll provide the example Shaun of the Dead. Two unsuspecting losers find themselves hungover in a town full of stupid, slow zombies. The film pays respects to just about any zombie flick that came before it, most notably Night of the Living Dead. The title, after all, is a play on one of Night&#39;s sequels and was probably a play on the popularity of Stuart Gordon&#39;s zombie flick released about the same time, Dawn of the Dead. The difference between Shaun of the Dead and The Naked Gun (besides the fundamental fact that we&#39;re comparing cop movies to zombie features; I would compare it to Hot Fuzz, but I have yet to see it and it&#39;s just not fair to compare movies you haven&#39;t seen)? Shaun of the Dead was executed more stylistically similar to the films it credits. The Naked Gun series, indeed most of ZAZ&#39;s combined and individual efforts, have a style of their own.Also, when you laugh at Naked Gun or Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie, you&#39;re usually laughing at the idea that they really are making fun of something. When you laugh at Shaun of the Dead, you&#39;re not. The jokes are original.Maybe that&#39;s the root of it all - a spoof and an homage are really the same thing with only one difference. A spoof needs to be funny (or attempt to be). An homage does not.Humor doesn&#39;t hurt, as Quentin Tarantino has shown us. I laugh when I watch Kill Bill. Because it&#39;s a direct throwback to other movies that people adore and despise as much as any other, yet it feels so comfortable and natural to watch it. You don&#39;t feel bad about laughing the way you do when you laugh at movies like Spider-man 3 in the middle of a theater full of people who seem to be actually enjoying it seriously (cue caterpillar-esque lip-quiver).Tarantino is a writer/director, though who makes me question his originality. Does he actually write original screenplays and direct original movies when so much of each film he makes is grounded in movies made before his birth? Does that make him derivative? All he seems to do is make homages to other directors, but I like them all the same, even if I didn&#39;t like the movies they&#39;re referencing. That must have something to do with the true nature of homage, then. There&#39;s got to be something original in it. I guess I would say that Tarantino is original by way of being derivative. There&#39;s enough there to say, "This is just like that one movie!" but enough there to say, "This is definitely a Tarantino film."Wow. I got pretty far astray from where I started here.Murder By Death - spoof or tribute? Hard to say.Not to spoil the movie if you&#39;ve never seen it, but at the very end, after all five detectives (who are all based strongly on other famous fiction detectives - Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, et al) make their wagers on the killer, and the butler is revealed to be Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), Twain actually stands up to reveal his motive was to get back at all the terrible endings to mystery novels and movies ("where the killer is a character who hasn&#39;t even been introduced until five pages from the end"), a screenwriting move that makes Twain&#39;s character completely break free of the realm of the movie. Never before had it been mentioned that the detectives were actually based on other fictional characters. You just assumed it. Because it&#39;s a spoof. Or an homage. Or something. It is this pivotal moment in the film that makes me unable to determine whether Murder By Death is simply farce or tribute. The fact that Lionel Twain is played by Truman Capote - a real-life novelist who even wrote a book called In Cold Blood which was a real-life murder mystery - convolutes my brain with thoughts of metafiction (will get to discuss this later when my thoughts subside a bit).Because of the lack of distinction here, I can&#39;t give this movie anything but a mediocre rating. But it really did make me think. Something that most comedies can&#39;t make me do.I&#39;m all confused. Anybody have thoughts on this? http://www.spout.com/groups/Best_movie_quotes/Re_Guess_The_Movie_Quote/17/2952/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: davisfreeberg
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Body: I was going to guess Scary Movie, but that is from the wrong decade and doesn't have Angelina Jolie in it, so I'll guess Tomb Raider instead, but I'm pretty sure that's not it either.
]]>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:29:32 GMTdavisfreebergBest movie quotes9/14/2006 1:29:32 PMI was going to guess Scary Movie, but that is from the wrong decade and doesn't have Angelina Jolie in it, so I'll guess Tomb Raider instead, but I'm pretty sure that's not it either. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/comedy/MemberTagFilms.aspxcomedy
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