In my opinion the reason the first Scary Movie and the 2nd one(sort of) was so good was that it was its own movie. Even though it was a spoof movie it still had its own story, and they used references from other movies. The more recent spoof movies every scene is a spoof from a different movie and there is no consistancy. I hope in Scary Movie 5 they go back to the old style, but I doubt it. Anybody else agree?
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deffinatly, i was thinking the same thing. also the wayans brothers should come back as well.
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Absolutely my thoughts, too. Look at the old great spoofs like Naked Gun, Airplane, Spaceballs, etc etc. They all spoofed and made pop culture references, but the references were a vehicle for comedy and not a substitution for it, and these films all had plots of their own instead of just paraphrasing random scenes from other films.
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I beg to differ. It has been a long time since I saw this movie, but I specifically remember it has something to do withJigsaw being Toshio's father, and how he controls the tripods, and something of the sorts
It was a very coherent plot (to say the least) and wasn't just a series of parodies.
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Funny thing is, I actually agree with you. The Scary Movies have always been a touch more than just scenes stringed together, unlike most other current parodies. BUT Scary Movie 4, which I saw again a few weeks ago, actually has a pretty decent plot.
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Yeah, which is my point exactly! It even had something which resembled a twist at the end! These new parodies, however--excluding Superhero Movie which I thought was just fine, perhaps because of the director--are little more than individual sketches.
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Yeah, I definitely thought Superhero Movie was semi-decent, if not brilliant. It actually made me laugh a few times! Do you remember those days!? LOL!
I agree about the individual sketches, but want to add: sketches with no laughs.
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Haha yeah I definitely remember those days when comedy was actually funny. Personally I never saw any reason why they had to go off the horror track and parody romance, superhero, disaster, *insert genre here* movies! Pointless much? And with the recent Dance Flick, how can the parody genre be taken seriously (although I acknowledge that Dance Flick doesn't belong to the same "collection", so to speak).
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