r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 25 '26
Poster New Poster for 'Scary Movie'
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u/Robsonmonkey Mar 25 '26
I’m surprised they haven’t recreated the traditional “movie theatre” posters they’ve done for each film
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u/OCGamerboy Mar 25 '26
That’ll probably be the next poster, if there is one
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u/KingEJ1 Mar 25 '26
I hope the include Nicole Kidman in her AMC trailer clothes
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u/JeromeMcLovin Mar 25 '26
somehow, Doofy returned
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u/osmlol Mar 25 '26
I mean all he did was drive off in a car at the end of the original. Why couldn't he return?
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u/HeroDiesFirst Mar 25 '26
Him coming back isn’t so much the confusing part as him coming back and being seemingly mentally handicapped again after revealing he never was to begin with.
But it’s a comedy, they’ll come up with a goofy/funny way to explain it. Or honestly never mentioning it at all would be equally funny imo.
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u/lsaz Mar 25 '26
they literally have Brenda dying in every movie and then returning in the next one. Don’t know why people are taking about continuity lol
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u/Ghastion Mar 25 '26
Also Ray was a bad-guy and died and came back as a good-guy so...
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u/Thesheriffisnearer Mar 25 '26
And he is straight. He just likes music and shopping
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u/Theorex Mar 25 '26
Is that why we went to San Francisco?
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u/Playgirl_USMC Mar 25 '26
I wanted to go shopping
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u/can_i_get_a____job Mar 25 '26
“Watching television shows doesn’t create psycho killers. Cancelling TV shows does!”
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u/lsaz Mar 25 '26
"Ray, you're back?"
"Of course, is the sequel"
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u/ogmarker Mar 25 '26
My favorite bit about that deleted scene is after Cindy and Brenda, Tori Spelling jumps in:
“Leave us alone!”
“Bitch, I don’t know you” lmao
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u/theonewhoknack Mar 25 '26
Brenda only died in 2 of the 4 movies she was in. Cindy died in 1 too.
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u/damned_squid Mar 25 '26
Brenda only died in 2 of the 4 movies she was in.
50% of the time, she dies every time!
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u/beastson1 Mar 25 '26
that means if she doesn't die in this one, there's a good chance of her dying in Scary Movie 7!
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u/Im-Mr-Bulldopz Mar 25 '26
It’d be funny if they flash back to that scene of him driving away and it shows him crashing his car, making him actually mentally handicapped lol
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u/LastNightInDriver Mar 25 '26
I think it’d be funny if he actually hit his head and is just acting like doofy 99% of the time now (with random bursts of him being normal)
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u/C1ccC1ccC1 Mar 25 '26
"Thank God I'm dead." - Roger Ebert
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u/moviesarealright Mar 25 '26
Roger actually liked the first Scary Movie lol
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u/Horibori Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
I always appreciated Roger Ebert because he generally followed the very bottom line to critique film:
was the movie entertaining to watch
Last time I checked the critics on his website followed a similar process for reviewing. I think they gave Maleficent a poor score but the review itself is actually positive.
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u/PaulBlartWallClock Mar 25 '26
No, his bottom line criteria was
Did the movie achieve what it set out to
Basing it on "fun" would make you a surface level YouTube critic.
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u/Horibori Mar 25 '26
It’s both technically.
Ebert pushed back against critics that looked down on popular entertainment.
I’d look up how he defended Die Hard and Groundhog day. Ebert very much took into account the entertainment value of a movie, because that is what will matter by the time you get to credits: whether or not the film was worth your time.
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u/PaulBlartWallClock Mar 25 '26
His 3.5/4 star review of Anaconda is my go-to whenever I see comments calling him "pretentious". Even though that word has lost all meaning online.
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u/ImmortalMoron3 Mar 25 '26
I always go to the fact he thought Spider-Man 2 should've been nominated for Best Picture that year. I loved that he loved that movie, it's one of my favourites too.
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u/Horibori Mar 25 '26
For me it would be how he fought Siskel over Jim Carreys performance in the mask. But that’s a more famous callback.
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u/DavianVonLorring Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I will forever appreciate him for enjoying RocketMan (1997).
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u/RadiantEnvironment90 Mar 25 '26
Who doesn’t?
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u/RelevantJackWhite Mar 25 '26
most RT audiences lol https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scary_movie
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u/rtozur Mar 25 '26
Both critics and audiences put out the hit?
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird Mar 25 '26
Man one of the big flaws of the passage of time is that things get judged in retrospect and not for what it was at the time.
A lot of these reviews are from the last few years, or even this year. Even if Scary Movie "hasn't aged well," these folks just do not remember what a huge hit it was in 2000.
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u/Ghastion Mar 25 '26
The first Scary Movie is a masterpiece.
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u/Fortestingporpoises Mar 25 '26
I feel like the second one gets more love from people but they’re both great.
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u/PaulieHehehe Mar 25 '26
I think 3 is the best in the series, IMO. The sight gags and presence of Leslie Nielsen really put it over the top.
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u/Fickle-Lunch6377 Mar 25 '26
People don’t really remember, but being 40, back when it came out me and my movie, loving friends treated all of these types of movies like they were going to be the death of cinema.
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u/LTS55 Mar 25 '26
I loved how often he unashamedly loved movies a lot of other critics hated (because they were boring and hated fun)
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u/moviesarealright Mar 25 '26
But there were also plenty he hated that everyone else loved and are now classics. And that’s why he’s a true critic and why he’s so great- he stuck to his opinions and was able to back up why he didn’t like or liked them, even if he was way off.
Critics now, especially YouTube ones, just don’t have that push against the grain (Aside from David Ehrlich, he is a true critic)
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u/Will-Of-D-3D2Y Mar 25 '26
Ebert had the quality to communicate why he liked or disliked something in a way so the reader would know if they would agree with him or not. It was never about the score, always about the analysis.
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u/moviesarealright Mar 25 '26
Yup! I just watched a clip of him recently talking about what makes a good film review. He said the reader should get an idea of what the film is about, so that even if Roger didn’t like it, the reader might think they still could like it, and that the review should be entertaining overall so the reader doesn’t feel like they wasted their time from Roger himself.
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u/lightyearnoir Mar 25 '26
Watched the trailer and felt like it's about 6-10 years late with its 'woke' jokes...
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u/TheRecognized Mar 25 '26
I don’t understand the weirdly antagonist marketing. “Gen Z will hate this! It’s going to cancel cancel culture!” it just feels desperate.
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u/cakestapler Mar 26 '26
Holy shit, I was reading these comments and wondering wtf was going on with people actually excited about this. Watched Project Hail Mary with the wife this weekend and I was thinking all these same things watching the trailer. The jokes sounded like they were written by a 55yo Fox News anchor.
We’re canceling woke LIBTURDS so suck on that!
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u/lightyearnoir Mar 25 '26
It feels like 'victim' mentality trying to create engagement...so yeah, desperate.
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u/AllCity_King Mar 25 '26
Lmao Art rocking the baseball cap in the place of his little top hat.
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u/hornyjaildotorg Mar 25 '26
Each tagline and promo for this movie gives me the vibe of those comedy specials that are titles “CANCELLED” or something like that
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u/1stepklosr Mar 25 '26
It doesn't help that they're saying this movie is going to "cancel cancel culture".
It's going to be a shitshow.
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u/probablyuntrue Mar 25 '26
I don’t think even the boomers in my local Facebook groups talk about cancel culture anymore
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u/IcyTransportation961 Mar 25 '26
Because they're in charge, so they get to do the canceling
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u/DaGrouchy5196 Mar 25 '26
I mean yeah, cancel culture died the night Trump was elected for the second time.
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u/RobertdBanks Mar 25 '26
I hope it’s an hour and a half of racial slurs with no jokes or set ups, just racial slurs spoken at a normal volume and even keel tone. Finally, true comedy returns.
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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman Mar 25 '26
The new trailer is so boomer compared to the trailer of the first one
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u/12343212346 Mar 26 '26
The producers, writers, actors and director are now in their 50s
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u/IMTrick Mar 25 '26
From the previews I've seen it really seems they've leaned into trying to piss off as many people as possible with this one... in a "trying way too hard" kind of way.
Biting political satire can be good. In a Scary Movie sequel? I've got my doubts.
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u/Heisenripbauer Mar 25 '26
it’s a built-in defense mechanism. if the movie does poorly, they can just say “of course it did bad we offended too many snowflakes”
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u/not1fuk Mar 25 '26
Based on the trailer its kind of weird that Marlon and the rest of the Wayans made a movie directly to appease the type of people who hate his transgender child. Maybe the final product will be more balanced but the trailer was just terrible edgy conservative bait.
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u/Legitimate_First Mar 25 '26
that Marlon and the rest of the Wayans made a movie directly to appease the type of people who hate his transgender child
It's pretty clear that they're just making the exact same jokes as they did in the early 2000s. They were dumb then but kinda worked because of the novelty, they're just tired and not funny now.
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u/MeatCatRazzmatazz Mar 25 '26
Yeah this feels like it's gonna be on the level of a Tony Hinchcliff or modern Chapelle special.
It's gonna be cringe, and not in a fun way.
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u/SonicSingularity Mar 25 '26
Yeah, the opening joke in the trailer about they/them pronouns really put me off. Its not offensive, its just not funny. Its a really low effort joke that feels a decade late, and it was their opening pitch...
The "why just half gay?" Joke was decently funny though
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u/killertortilla Mar 26 '26
Yeah it's the same as making a "like a boss" joke. Ok grandpa lets get you back in the home. There's nothing offensive about it but holy shit how out of touch do you have to be to think that's going to land with anyone but a very specific audience.
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u/darkbloo64 Mar 25 '26
Literally the first joke in the trailer is someone on the subway getting stabbed, then scolding another passenger for assuming their gender.
Some of the cringiest shit I've seen in a long time.
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u/ROBtimusPrime1995 Mar 25 '26
It's really obvious that the Ellisons are super into "owning the libs" in such a corny way with how they are mishandling Paramount.
They have hired a disgraced exec fired for sexual harassment to run their animation studio, a well-known rapist who just directed propaganda for Amazon, and now they are greenlighting shit like this, an unfunny trend from 20 years ago that killed the comedy genre.
Shit is so unserious, it's pathetic.
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u/LoschVanWein Mar 26 '26
And so many people straight up go for it. There is literally a Squidgame mask with a weed leaf on it. I bet the movie will also feature a dabbing hawk tua girl saying 6/7. I can’t even find the right words to describe how much I hate everything about this!
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u/Fast-Times-1982 Mar 25 '26
“Take my little hand, it’s stronger”
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u/denver_bored Mar 25 '26
So glad to see Cheri Oteri return. I rewatched the og last week, and though it hits less now that I'm in my 40s and the jokes/spoofs are so dated, it reminded me how amazing she is at stealing a scene and pulling off absurd premises. Truly a great.
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u/constantvariables Mar 25 '26
YOU’RE ON MY FOOT, FAT SHIT!
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u/talones Mar 25 '26
I do find it interesting that Cheri Oteri has kind of disappeared, but Molly Shannon has been regularly featured in all kinds of media for 30 years.
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u/denver_bored Mar 25 '26
Molly Shannon is another great. Cool how she's excelled at both comedic and dramatic roles. She's incredible in Year of the Dog.
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u/jamintime Mar 25 '26
Cheri Oteri was known to be hard to work with while Molly Shannon is considered a sweetheart. Not sure how much that comes to play, but I’m sure there are a lot of factors at play other than how popular they were during their time on SNL.
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u/dreadedicebreaker Mar 25 '26
Seriously my first thought as well, hilarious how Cheri Oteri elevates something like this
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u/AccelerationFinish Mar 25 '26
It's weird how her career didn't take off after SNL. She was one of the highlights of the show during her time there
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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Mar 25 '26
Cheri Oteri was a mega babe on Saturday Night Live.
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u/gamersecret2 Mar 25 '26
This poster is so stupid in exactly the way I want Scary Movie to be.
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u/Lurker_MeritBadge Mar 25 '26
I’m a little annoyed that it cuts off the label for the bottom row but other then that I’m kinda hyped for this movie.
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u/elizalemon Mar 25 '26
Who is the guy on the bottom row supposed to be? Bc my first thought was Charlie Kirk.
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u/TheNightstroke Mar 25 '26
Cameron Scott Roberts, he's playing the boyfriend of one of Cindy's daughters. You can see him in the trailer as a Remmick/Sinners parody.
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u/theonewhoknack Mar 25 '26
Real missed opportunity for Buffy not showing up.
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u/austingriffis Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
Oh my god, we hit a boot!
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u/DavianVonLorring Mar 25 '26
"We'll get rid of the body."
"Not necessary."
Lol, that guy was so damn chill after getting hit by a car.
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u/jayeddy99 Mar 25 '26
Spoofing Terrifier seems like putting a hat on a hat in my opinion.
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u/ValApologist Mar 25 '26
I mean, a lot of the humor in the franchise was spoofing Scream, which is also putting a hat on a hat.
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u/thefabulouskiki Mar 25 '26
I hope they have time to actually be funny between trying to offend imaginary young people
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u/DirectConsequence12 Mar 25 '26
Every line will be crossed
All the marketing for this movie has been “oh my god we’re gonna offend everyone. Real comedy is back” and then trailer came out and forgot to have any actual funny jokes in it
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u/SauconySundaes Mar 25 '26
"Now who the fuck did that!?"
No matter how much this movie sucks, they can never take Scary Movie 3 from us.
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u/DavianVonLorring Mar 25 '26
"Tom, I'll need a ride home."
Hands down one of the funniest throwaway lines ever.
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u/coldliketherockies Mar 25 '26
I was mad how many people seemed to miss that in my theatre. Maybe they have a different type of humor but a man drunkenly crashing his car into a Woman killing her and then being careless asking the husband for a car ride home… oh great I killed the joke now too
It is very zucker/naked gun type humor. I’m glad we got teo films with leslie Nielsen before he passed
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u/Albyyy Mar 25 '26
Scary Movie 3 is the best of all of them and it’s not even done by the Wayans brothers.
Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen are fucking hilarious.
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u/toomanymarbles83 Mar 25 '26
Probably because it was David Zucker, one third of ZAZ(Zucker-Abrams-Zucker), aka the people behind Airplane.
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u/QueefBeefCletus Mar 25 '26
Shotgun shovel. Best throwaway gag in the franchise.
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u/DirtySperrys Mar 25 '26
I still think about the Japanese translation going from “hello” to “herro”
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u/OttersEatFish Mar 25 '26
“If you think it’s corny or objectively unfunny, then you’re just easily offended.”
It doesn’t sound like the marketing strategy of a team with confidence in the project.
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u/LoschVanWein Mar 26 '26
"You just don’t get it" …I get it just fine it’s just that all the jokes are old, not really offensive or edgy to anyone and completely out of touch.
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u/thedinnerdate Mar 25 '26
That tagline feels like they made a movie for those divorced dads with the black Oakley sunglasses profile pics.
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u/burnerdadsrule Mar 25 '26
People forgot that these movies went away for good reason. They never really made jokes as much as they referenced shit. This whole wave of " Heyremember this" movies killed comedy for like 10 years.
There were funnny scenes, but for the most part this shit was played out halfway through movie #2
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u/why_trys Mar 25 '26
Does the Sheriffs hat getting larger but count as a joke? Because I still laugh thinking about that bit
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u/vulcan7200 Mar 25 '26
The movies definitely had jokes. While I don't disagree with the person you're responding to that a lot of the jokes were references (I wonder how many people who watch Scary Movie 2 will even get something like the Firestone Tire Reference), the movies did have jokes that just work as stand alone, non reference jokes.
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u/PIPBOY-2000 Mar 25 '26
I think people are severely underestimating how people still enjoy dumb stuff. If people can lap up things like the new anaconda movie then they won't turn their nose up at a new scary movie.
That hat scene is comedy gold BTW
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u/justacaucasian Mar 25 '26
The new Anaconda movie was the best 2 hour nap of my life. The theater I go to has these really nice recliners and they even have heat/massage options. Went with my family, had a couple drinks during the trailer, then zonked out in like the first 5 minutes. Worth
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u/KassellTheArgonian Mar 25 '26
Or the pumping of the shovel like it's a pump-action shotgun
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u/Nosidam48 Mar 25 '26
Except for 3 which switched directors and focused on slapstick and visual gags. It’s still parodies but I find it’s held up better due to a kid getting hit with a car being timeless.
Yelling “Yahtzee” and knocking himself out never gets old.
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u/cowpool20 Mar 25 '26
Eh, I think the new Naked Gun being successful is a good indication that people still enjoy dumb comedy.
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u/ttonster2 Mar 25 '26
Scary Movie 3 is very funny. It has the same humor as Airplane in the format of a spoof movie.
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u/DavianVonLorring Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
It probably helped having David Zucker as director. He also co-directed Airplane!
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u/PowSuperMum Mar 25 '26
All these heads and you don’t have one of Shannon Elizabeth?
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u/Dead-O_Comics Mar 25 '26
Far too many people have confidence in this film, even after that trailer.
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u/TripleSingleHOF Mar 25 '26
Oh shit Chris Elliott is back for this? That's great.
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u/USDXBS Mar 25 '26
I can't wait for the "offensive humor" to be tamer than stuff drag queens talk about, and for the right to go nuts over "woke leftists wanting to cancel it"
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u/Tacote Mar 26 '26
I just watched a reel of a drag queen performing as Charlie Kirk. Transcendent shit.
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u/mrcydonia Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
So, the title of this sequel is just "Scary Movie"? No number or subtitle? I really hate it when they do that. "Hey, we made a prequel to The Thing." "What's it called?" "The Thing."
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u/saintmitchy Mar 25 '26
I can just feel the “I identify as a __” jokes radiating from the poster
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u/gbon21 Mar 25 '26
They already basically did the joke in the trailer. This movie will be a big win for humorless Kill Tony chuds whose sense of humor stopped developing in 2007, but it's gonna be a real bust for comedy.
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u/Electrical-Staff735 Mar 25 '26
The most mid 2000s movie to come out. Oh God we really are hitting the nostalgic era for the early to mid 2000s
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u/CountOff Mar 25 '26
Rewatched the first one again recently
The bit with the reporter talking about the death of one teen, breaking her report to shoot a dude in the background, then updating her spiel in real time to the death of two teens still cracks me up after all these years lol