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Why can't they make good parody movies like this anymore?




Instead of garbage like "Epic Movie", "Date Movie", "Meet The Spartans" and "Disaster Movie".

"Oh wow, good Nyborg"

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This was a great parody movie all right and I enjoyed watching it for the first time in I do not know how many years to be honest with you. The last time I saw this movie on cable TV was back when Comedy Central would show films like this during the day, afternoon and possibly late on Friday and Saturday nights for fun I believe in the 90's.

I watched this for the first time in many years on THIS TV last night at 1:00 in the morning. When I saw that it was on I was like, "Hell yeah I am going to watch this!" I had a great time and enjoyed it too.

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Why? Because the people who make those bad parodies rely heavily on gross out humor, Raunch (and I don't mean like what you would find in movies like "Porky's" or "Revenge of the Nerds." ) and gross sex jokes.

Whatever formula Weird Al Uses, it has worked all these years.

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It's five years later, society still agrees. Those movies are all still complete trash.

They never should of been made.

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It's easy for them to draft a parody movie today. At low cost, they choose a few popular movies, borrow and slightly adjust scenes and/or dialogue.

Movies like Weird Al's UHF, Mel Brooks works, or the Zucker Brothers titles actually contain clever, detailed dialogue and original stories/scenes on top of any spoofs they are covering. Using Spaceballs as an example, one of my favorite scenes is the "Then/Now" back & forth between Rick Moranis and George Wyner. Highly comedic, articulate writing, and excellent delivery by the two actors.

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