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How are these films not parodied for their cliches?

posted 11 years ago by roycant07
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So many movies out there get lampooned and parodied and lambasted by the Family Guy, SNL, online sketch stuff, but I have yet to see a well done parody of these faux indie dramedies that are rife with cliches.

My only answer to that is that I think Hollywood does think that these are the "good" movies. I think that the writers in Hollywood think this movies like this are the really deep moving stuff they consider high concept art.

It's laughable. It's just more navel gazing woah is me junk.

[–] Ithilfaen 11 years ago

Nah they're just too boring to be even parodied.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] trapperjohn1210-253-695530 11 years ago

Why lampoon something only 15 people have seen? I'll tell you what, when I sell my scripts I will make JUST FOR YOU a film called MUMBLECORE MOVIE and make fun of all this *beep* just for you and you can have a private screening because no one else will want to watch it.

These movies you're bashing (other than the geek movies you hate) are not released by major studios. So, Hollywood not only doesn't think these films are good, they don't give a *beep* These films aren't gonna make billions overseas so they give absolutely zero *beep*

[–] mcgill_j 11 years ago

Honestly.. sometimes even the BEST of Indie films at their core just have some plain SILLY conceit it really makes it difficult to parody. I mean this film.. some AP reporter decides to become a lifeguard? It just feels almost like some mark of fiction..

Garden State which I LOVE as a film.. but has just some very odd and strange elements in the film. Juno? Ditto.. Little Miss Sunshine? I mean all of them are some of the more recognizable of the Indie flicks and but there's something that's almost a level of parody within them already. So I couldn't really see them parodying something that always feels almost parody within itself.