And I'm not trying to be different or hate on something just to do it. I really don't like these films, The jokes are the most obvious jokes anybody can write, a 14 year old could'a wrote this series. Probally would'a done a better job. And the movies wouldn't piss me off so much if they weren't as big as a success as they are. I mean, really? These are the movies that go on to make hundreds of millions of dollars and spawn franchises?
shareI can't wait for AP4 to come out so I can go spend 12 bucks a ticket for it. Does that piss you off dickhead?
I am the eater of worlds!!!
The first one is bearable; it has some charm and decent jokes but I agree on you with the sequels. They are simply cash grab films. Nothing more, nothing less.
shareThe first two have a certain polish and confident feel, and even some of the cornier gags work*. They invoke a sense of nostalgia and wanting of the myth the late-1960s offered.
The third one definitely has the "We've got nothing, thanks for your money and we've got it now" vibe.
Or are we merely jealous because they made money off of something a young teenager could scribble out than we do in our jobs, regardless of how well we do ours? Apparently, to insult success is a bad thing, but I had no idea writing disgusting raunchy 'comedy' was a qualifier. Who knew... So why aren't we out there outdoing the Austin franchise? Oh, wait, we've got good taste, morals, class, ethics... the list goes on and on... :D
* Well, toward the middle of "The Spy Who Shagged Me" the bar for gross comedy is lowered with a very distasteful "coffee" joke. If the intent was to get the audience to laugh, that wasn't the reaction and one could figure it out the moment Austin poured it into the glass. Nor was the delivery of the "This tastes like ____" done properly. The inflection isn't right... Michael York's responding "Yes it is ____" was better but, from him I'd have expected the technically correct term...
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The first one is still somewhat entertaining, but two and three just kind of take things alittle too far. I'm glad they're over and done with. We don't need any further sequels, reboots or remakes of the Austin Powers series.
'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'
".., a 14 year old could'a wrote this series."
Someone criticizing someone else's writing should at least be able to write that criticism correctly.
Am I wrong?
If I may take a bold guess, "could have written" is probably what you are trying to write. There's no such thing as "could'a". It's "could have" or "could've". Well, at least you didn't write "could of", like so many intelligence-depraved cretins do these days.
You ARE guilty of a trendy mistake, though - people use 'wrote' instead of 'written'. There's no such thing as "could have wrote" in the english language. This mistake is very common (for some reason), but that doesn't make it right.