SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2006 Share your thoughts on any of these films before the inevitable off-topic arguments begin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2006 Corey hit the nail on the head with the parody analysis. Parodies always work better when parodying an entire genre rather than a specific scene from a film. The Naked Gun has few scenes in it that are directly riffing on other films (maybe Drebin's "I shoot the bastard" speech that echoes Dirty Harry). Other parodies work when flat out riffing on films that no one has seen. Airplane for instance is literally almost line for line a remake of Zero Hour, with jokes added in. Lines like "We need someone who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner" are actually SERIOUS lines from Zero Hour, but here played for laughs. Another Zucker movie that is like this is Top Secret. Sure, the wild Casablanca meets Elvis plot is truly out there, but there is also a riff on The Conspirators that lasts for a good 10 mins. (Hillary meeting the blind man, going to the nightclub, etc). In other words, it's okay to flat out rip off a movie like The Conspirators because aside from 1940s movie buffs hardly anyone has seen it. I think this started around the time of Hot Shots. It shifted the parody style from parodying a general genre to parodying highly well known films. Thing is, there are still some highly original and fun jokes in the Hot Shots movies: --Charlie Sheen coming across his dad Martin on the river, which manages to spoof Rambo, Apocalypse Now, and Wall Street all at once. --Saddam and the President dueling a la Star Wars, with Saddam turning into the T-1000 by the end. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2006 It wouldn't be so damn tempting if they weren't so convinced they were the cool ones and everyone else in the world is a dork. High school kids at least have a sense of humility about their dorkiness. No Hell, I think most of the people I knew had to hit 20 before they finally escaped the middle/high school mentalities you described in the first sentence Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2006 That might be the worst top ten in recent cinema history. I can't think of a single film on it I'd be remotely interested in, aside from possibly Curious George. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted February 24, 2006 It wouldn't be so damn tempting if they weren't so convinced they were the cool ones and everyone else in the world is a dork. High school kids at least have a sense of humility about their dorkiness. No Hell, I think most of the people I knew had to hit 20 before they finally escaped the middle/high school mentalities you described in the first sentence Depends on the kids, I guess. Speaking as someone who works with this age group every day, I (and every other high school teacher I've ever spoken to about it) can see a HUGE difference between 9th and 10th graders, because the majority of 10th graders "get it", and the majority of 9th graders don't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted February 24, 2006 Fuck, I saw that IN 9th and 10th grade. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
