I have not seen this movie, but it just looks like a cheaper version of the Lethal Weapon. So is it?
shareIt's a spoof movie, Emilo's character is basically mel gibson's from lethal weapon.
shareAnd it spoofs it well.
Like when they call him gunhappy and he takes up his gun shaking it and puts it on his head yelling at the guy. Haven't laughed so much my intire life.
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It is supposed to be a spoof of Lethal Weapon, although that's not really a good idea since LW is sort of a spoof itself.
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why does everyone keep referring to movies like Lethal Weapon and Basic Instinct as spoofs? sure movies like that seem ridiculous these days, but in the 80s/very early 90s movies like that were intended to be dead serious. just like most horror movies from that time period were not at all intended to be funny, but are hilarious now. that's just how it was back then.
shareJames Bond is/was not serious basically!
Look at those gadgets and stuff,they weren't meant to be taken serious, so are the women and many cliches. At least at some point in the series. Now why would any Bond spoof make sense, since it's a spoof itself?
Ever heard of Austin Powers?
Wow.
Rather, if you want a proper spoof of the James Bond films - check out Casino Royale from 1967, starring Peter Sellers as "James Bond" and David Niven as Sir James Bond.
And how about Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967), starred James Coburn as Derek Flint?
Or how about the Spy Hard (1996) film? With Leslie Nielsen.
Johnny English also comes to mind.
But yes, Austin Powers is what most younger people will think of today when they think 'spoof' and James Bond.
Oh, and how about Roger Moore's own spoof on James Bond in the 1981 film 'Cannonball Run' ? He also did a spoof of himself(as James Bond) in the Muppets Show.
shareSo Austin Powers isn't a 'proper spoof' of Bond in your mind?
I mentioned it because quite frankly, I didn't find Casino Royale (1967) amusing.
Spy Hard works but it doesn't reference the 'Bondian' elements anywhere near as much as Austin Powers.
Almost every scene & character in Austin Powers is a form of Bond parody.
Mike Myers made it for his father, who was an avid Bond fan.
You certainly make valid remarks. But I still would consider Austin Powers to be a weak straight of spoof of the Bond series, but a reasonably strong spoof of the Harry Palmer films, with certain defining characteristics and elements of the Bond films. The Austin Powers films do somewhat, albeit unofficially, acknowledge this to a extent by involving Sir Michael Caine in one of the films as Austin Powers father. In my opinion, of course.
shareLW is not a spoof and I get tired of people saying it is. It's a legitimate action movie with some humor mixed in. It's not parodying or mocking anything.
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Loaded Weapon IS a "legitimate" movie. No one would dispute that these movies weren't "legitimate" - most had famous A- and B-list actors, sizable budgets, 1st run releases, etc.
But they are ALL comedic parodies/satires of SOMETHING - Hot Shots, Airplane, The Naked Gun, Top Secret, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Scary Movie, Superhero Movie, and every other similar movie. They are parodying something - a direct movie parody (Spaceballs=Star Wars, Hot Shots 1=Top Gun, Hot Shots: Part Duex=Rambo, Scary Movie=Scream), a genre parody (Action, Thriller, etc), or whatever.
Even the Leslie Nielsen parody comedy Wrongfully Accused states during the opening credits in big, bold letters: "THE FOLLOWING DRAMATIZATION IS TRUE, BASED ON REAL EVENTS, FROM OTHER ACTUAL MOVIES."
If you feel these movies aren't parodies because their plots differ from the source inspiration (Spaceballs plot is different than Star Wars), then of course they would be different. 1. Lawsuits would ensue if they had identical plots, and 2. it would be classified as a remake not a parody.
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Loaded Weapon is to Lethal Weapon like Hot Shots is to Top Gun.
shareThe first Lethal Weapon IS very serious. Look at the stuff it deals with. 'Nam, Mercinaries running drugs, pornographic films and of course suicide. Can you honestly say that there is another scene as powerful and dark as Riggs' attempted suicide scene in Lethal Weapon?
shareLETHAL WEAPON has humor, but its no spoof.
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shareI haven't seen Lethal Weapon, but this situation seems kind of like Scream, which was a send-up of the horror genre, while Scary Movie is the more off-the-wall spoof.
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