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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Strong criticsms of the greatest threat to our national character
Well, maybe not. I enjoy reading the threads on aspecialthing.com. They can be a bit testy like message boards can be but that's outweighed by the smart thinking going on. For the thread dedicated to Superhero Movie, pretty much every comedy film gets its own thread, two good points are made.
One by Hollywood insider "Bill Brasky" who says:
Tracy Morgan was on Conan and he showed a clip from this movie. It started out as a scene set at "Professor Xavier's School for the Non-Asian Gifted". When they showed that sign, I laughed; that's a pretty funny, Zucker Brothers-style joke. But then the scene progressed and it became about Professor Xavier cheating on his wife with Invisible Girl (played by Pamela Anderson), and then a catfight breaks out between the two of them...sigh. It's like you can tell there's an internal struggle going on with these movies between the creative people working on them who are clearly capable of writing funny jokes, and some kind of studio pressure to dumb them down to as LCD a level as possible. Who decided that parody movies have to only appeal to 13-year-olds? Back in the days of "The Naked Gun" and "Hot Shots", "silly" didn't have to automatically mean "stupid".
This is the same thing that bothered me with Scary Movies 3 and 4; you would have reasonably funny jokes like "We'll build our own tripods....ours will be better; they'll have four legs", immediately followed by an appearance by Chingy or someone. It just depresses me because these used to be my favorite kinds of movies, and I know they could be a lot better without too much effort.
Below that comment Isos a.k.a. Matt Belknap, co-host of Never Not Funny and AST founder, spells out why these movies make money:
These movies are made because they're successful, and they're only successful because a good percentage of people haven't found YouTube yet. Once they do, they won't need to pay $11 to see a bad parody of Tom Cruise's Scientology video -- there are more than enough of them online.
Whenever I see ads for this film, Epic Movie or any of that easily made crap I just get depressed. I realize these are not noble targets (the headline's a bit of a joke, see) but I hate how references can pass for humor. They might as well be honest and release Hey Remember That One Thing: The Movie.
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