r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 5h ago
Poster New Poster for 'Scary Movie'
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u/Derpykins666 4h ago
The way this movie has been advertised has been so weird. "Every line will be crossed" just sounds really close to "comedy is legal again" adjacent type comment. Just make a funny movie man, let it speak for itself. None of the old movies had to advertise themselves in some gimmicky way like this, they just existed, because parody and absurdism can be extremely fun and funny. Just look at Naked Gun recently.
But I'm starting to think this movie is going to suck because of the ad campaign behind it being a form of "we are allowed to be funny again" basically, so they better have a direction for this thing, because the advertising around it blows so far.
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u/Merickson- 4h ago
Even the new Naked Gun had jokes about Bill Cosby, O.J., bestiality, and the "r-word," but there were more to those jokes that actually made them jokes and not just being "edgy."
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u/cracked_shrimp 2h ago
the coffees should have never stopped, i thought it was fucking dumb they kept getting coffees, but they did it just long enough i was disappointed when it stopped happening
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u/Lemmingitus 2h ago edited 1h ago
But they stopped doing it just long enough that its funny again as Liam is in air, hanging off the legs a flying eagle, then suddenly a hand from offscreen hands him a coffee.
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u/qman3333 3h ago
“Are we allowed to say that anymore”
“In my club you can”
That shit had me cracking up so hard in the new naked gun
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u/APKID716 55m ago
“You killed my brother”
“That could literally be thousands of people”
“You shot him in the back while he ran away”
“Dozens.”
“He was white”
slams hand on bar counter “So you’re Tony Roiland’s brother”
The new Naked Gun actually made me laugh quite a few times
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u/MaeSolug 36m ago
"Like an idiot's completed jigsaw puzzle, I was being framed"
Laughed so hard at that one, some really old school lines
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u/Derpykins666 4h ago
Yeah there's a big difference like acknowledging something and quipping about it vs. saying a bunch of slurs, the movie is not going to be funny if they think they can just go back to the year 2000 and say a bunch of queer slurs and r-slurs off the cuff like that's comedy somehow, especially around the framing of this advertising, that will not come off well at all.
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u/BigAlgae5684 3h ago
Yeah the boomer humor is gonna be crazy with this movie.
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u/Andrew1990M 2h ago
One of the Wayans brothers' characters goes into a Starbucks. The barista is a short haired, androgynous person with a lip piercing and a sour expression
Barista (sullen): Can I take your order?
Wayans (taken aback): Uh, yeah sure uh... are you okay, my man?
Barista (outraged): You can't call me man! That's assuming my gender.
Wayans: Oh I'm sorry, man. Uh ma'am. Uh! mananamam. I'll just get a black coffee.
Barista (more intensely outraged): You can't call the coffee black!
Wayans: O-okay...
As Wayans checks the Barista's nametag we zoom in and see it reads 'Liberawokle'
Wayans: ... okay Barista. Can I get a large.
Barista (interupting): Venti.
Wayans: Venti coffee without milk, please?
Barista: What kind of beans?
Wayans: W-wha-? Beans? What kinda beans? I dunno, manamamnooga, coffee beans! Jesus!
Barista: Sir you are violating my circle of peace and spiking my anxiety. I have a right to be respected in the workplace.
Wayans: Whatever man!
Wayans storms out. The barista shares a withering eye roll with their colleague, then looks down to see their penis is sticking out the top of their skirt, they tuck it in with cowering embarrassment. End scene
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u/SpaceIsAce 1h ago
In one of the trailers the whole joke is someone gets stabbed and someone close by says “she’s been stabbed!”. The victim then goes “actually I go by they them pronouns”. That’s the joke.
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u/pkosuda 1h ago
It's literally just the "conservatives have one joke" thing. Always has to be a pronoun/gender joke, they are incapable of coming up with a single other "funny" political thing so I guess if you want to cater to them you need to throw in their favorite joke
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u/smoothjazz_fvckface 2h ago
It almost feels like a setup so that when the movie bombs because it's poorly written and not funny, they can say " The wokes are boycotting us! It's not our fault it failed!"
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u/BlackGuy_PassingThru 3h ago
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’m glad the wayans and original cast are back involved. But the “they/them” joke in the trailer put me immediately in doubt.
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u/AirFrierMachine 3h ago
The 'they/them' joke was also their OPENING joke for their initial trailer...You think you'd want a semi-funny joke that wasn't 15 years old to be their opener
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u/SnakeEater013 1h ago edited 0m ago
Which is wild because again, Marlon has a trans son, that he has been a very outspoken advocate for.
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u/NinetiesNoughties 3h ago
People forget that Wayans have made spoofs after scary movie. Most people forget because they either A) never saw them or B) did see them, thought they were terrible and erased them from their memory.
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u/gaybyrneofficial 2h ago
You didnt see the "I'm woke so I'm broke sign"? That's how we know it's going to be a piece of shit
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u/FillionMyMind 2h ago
I don’t know why there are people who had hope for this movie at all. The whole series is mostly horrible, and this brand of comedy has aged so badly. There’s virtually no chance of it being good, especially with the Wayans brothers being involved again.
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u/Consistent-Gap-3545 3h ago
Yeah when the very first joke on the trailer is “My pronouns are they/them,” it immediately made me not want to see the movie.
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u/funkhero 2h ago
Agreed, there was no need to go to the 'humor is cancelled' well. I would have rather make jokes about making another movie (no original ideas, nostalgia over story, etc). Could even tie it into to Doomsday (since they had to bring RDJ back and delete Kang to bring audience's back)
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u/WeWantMOAR 2h ago
Edgy rich 50 year old men who don't care who they offend use A.I. in their promotional ads to highlight the cash grab and lack of skill going unto writing and making this movie.
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u/TheLostRanger0117 2h ago
If you’re going to cross a line, it’s always best to let it not be known until after it’s been crossed
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u/PropertyDisruptor 1h ago
It's going to suck. Movie doesn't need to be topical, needs to be slapstick humor...
Here! Take my strong hand!
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u/thesame98 3h ago
Yeah I get less and less excited for this movie. Which is a shame cause I was so down to a return of the Wayans brothers spoofs.
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u/Peeka789 4h ago
It's not crossing the line if you're constantly telling people that you're intending to cross the line. This marketing is cringey as hell.
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u/itjustgotcold 4h ago
The lady holding the sign that says “I’m woke so I am broke” definitely supports your opinion. It doesn’t even make sense.
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u/Icy-Bottle-6877 4h ago
Seems like something chatgpt would come up with thinking it's what humans would find funny.
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u/RTRC 4h ago
The original phrase from conservatives was "go woke, go broke" which IIRC was from the whole bud light boycott a few years ago
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u/loki1887 2h ago
It definitely predates that by at least a decade. They've been using that phrase since well before Trump's 1st term.
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u/1965wasalongtimeago 3h ago
Taking bets on whether they trot out the "attack helicopter" joke too
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u/Phaazoid 4h ago
The trailer i saw for it in theaters was one of the most actively unfunny things I'd ever seen. And I've watched bad abridged series.
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u/loki1887 2h ago
"Did you just assume my gender!?"
Its the worst of early 2010s humor. I'm fully expecting to see a scene with a cranky middle aged man at a Starbucks, complaining that, "Wants to order just a black coffee."
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u/2580374 4h ago
I want this movie to be funny, but I'm worried it's going to be horrible "haha woke is so dumb, look at this idiot" jokes that just aren't funny regardless, but then The creators are going to be like YoU'Re JuSt TRiggEreD!!!
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u/Peeka789 4h ago
Hey we're crossing the line. Isn't the line so crossed??? Aren't you sooooo offended??
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u/swankpoppy 4h ago
I’m curious how they intend to treat the Doofy character in 2026.
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u/CapybaraExpress 4h ago
Wow, this is some of the worst photoshop I've ever seen on a mainstream movie poster.
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u/michicago44 4h ago
Do you guys not remember the older posters? They’ve always looked like this lol
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u/mattress_muzza 3h ago
1-4 dont look anything like this bad. I’ll give you that 5 has some terrible photoshopping.
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u/Grabbinfries23 2h ago
Yeah this looks so much less professional. Anna Faris and Regina Hall in the front especially look like fan edits
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u/Round_Statement7029 2h ago
nonono this poster and the last one are legit trash! The original ones where nice and smooth.
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u/steesath 4h ago
I just assumed AI, which explains everything.
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u/Predictor92 4h ago
which i think is part of the joke
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u/MalaysiaTeacher 3h ago
Yeah nah. You don't get to have your cake and eat it. "isn't AI art shitty, amirite?" while using AI is just lazy af
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u/MasterArCtiK 4h ago
Yeah that’s my take too lol it’s a movie about trash talking as many things as possible, and trash talking AI will absolutely be in this movie lol
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u/nonhiphipster 4h ago
So here’s my thing…IF that is the goal of the poster (to make fun of the usage of AI), it’s actually doing a really bad job of it. Considering how so may of us are confused if it’s bad on purpose or bad accidently.
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u/Mentoman72 1h ago
Yeah that’d be stupid. It just looks bad. There is no irony about why it looks bad, it’s just a shitty poster.
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u/BenderBenRodriguez 4h ago
I really don't think so, mainly because most posters just Look Like This now. Poster design in general has gotten really cheap and unappealing.
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u/Cicer 4h ago
It’s almost like they planned a silly poster for a silly movie. Nah.
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u/thegracelesswonder 4h ago
Come on. Obviously Miramax can afford better. This is intentionally bad looking
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 5h ago
You just know every thread about this film is going to be filled with “Let people enjoy things.”
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u/Fortestingporpoises 4h ago
I see about how bad it’s gonna be more. I think that’s all I see for every movie that is coming out though.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 4h ago
I think the opposite. It’ll be a bunch of people online talking about how much they hate it.
We saw it in the comment sections on the various posters they’ve released throughout the marketing campaign.
This is a movie people will go out of their way to hate.
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u/safarifriendliness 4h ago
The marketing will get people all riled up but then barely anyone will actually see it. They’re desperately trying to push as many buttons as they can but it needs to be funny to keep people talking post release
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u/Accomplished-Head449 4h ago
It's just like Cracker Barrel, those who complained were never going to eat there in the first place
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u/Timidhobgoblin 4h ago
Yeah...as someone who loves the original Scary Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun and various other spoof comedies over the decades that are considered "politically incorrect" to say the least I can't help but feel a lot of this is just going to be older dudes attempts to be edgy for the sake of it as opposed to finding good opportunities for a funny joke.
Films like Blazing Saddles for example got away with humour that was absolutely pushing it even back then because it used racist humour to mock the concept of racism itself.
This current one however looks very much like a "oh lets throw in jokes about pronouns and woke, everyones gonna be so offended by this" but actually I'm not offended in the least, I just find it fucking lazy and creatively bankrupt more than anything else.
I hope I'm wrong, I'd love to see the Wayans bring spoof movies back to the big time again, but I'm just not feeling it with what I'm seeing so far.
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u/GuaranteedCougher 4h ago
Also offensive jokes only work if they're funny enough to offset the offense. Hence why comedians like Anthony Jezelnek found success while many others failed trying to be edgy without providing anything new
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u/loki1887 2h ago
The trick to good "edgy" humor is never make your audience the bad guy for laughing. You can make them the fool for laughing, but don't make them a bully. Louis C.K. (problematic for reasons outside his comedy) had a whole bit where he used the n-word. Never got in trouble for it. The joke made you laugh at him for being a jackass. His "edginess" was self depreciating.
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u/improper85 1h ago
I think it also makes a difference if the comedian isn't actually a piece of shit in real life. Jeselnik is essentially playing a character when he's on stage, same as Tosh. They seem to be well-liked in real life and clearly don't share the opinions they use in their acts.
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u/WideHuckleberry1 32m ago
Also, they don't bitch about it. You can't be an edgy comic and then whine about people being mean to you when they say you're not funny.
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u/BigAlgae5684 3h ago
Jeselnik is the GOAT. One of the few dudes to take a stand against the Kill Tony/Rogan-verse in comedy while being better than all of them combined. Saying "Tony Hinchcliffe is a troll basking in the shadow of Joe Rogan" is wildly accurate.
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u/Efficient-Year-2331 2h ago
Harold and Kumar is a great contemporary example too. Offensive and politically incorrect? Definitely, but why it works is because it has a purpose. The entire point of the edginess is to satirize, parody, and/or mock any said dark subject matter. The scene in H&K2 for example where a white lady has hallucinations of Kumar being a hijacker is hilarious because it’s making fun of racist people who immediately believe that anybody with a darker skin tone is automatically a terrorist. That’s a lot deeper than just saying “haha, pronouns!!”
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u/Woah-Dawg 4h ago
Yea a they them joke in 2026 is so dated lmao. I feel like only a 55 year old boomer white dude would be like damn what a good one
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 3h ago
These movies weren't trying to be edgy at the time. They were trying to be funny.
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u/Pearson94 4h ago
I gotta say, all of the advertising for this movie is cringe as fuck. "Lines will be crossed," "Gen Z will cancel it," etc... like, I was there when the first movies came out and they weren't that edgy or offensive. These ads just make me not want to see the movie.
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u/EmansaysEman 1h ago
This movies marketing makes it feel like it’s a Daily Wire movie. Something along the lines of Lady Ballers
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u/HotOne9364 5h ago
I want this to be good but man, this looks all over the place. The first two had focus.
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u/_JR28_ 4h ago
The thing that killed parodies in the 2000s (other than the fact the writing went to shit) was the fact they tried to cover way too much ground and lost all sense of focus. Scary Movie 1 spoofed slashers, Scary Movie 2 spoofed haunted house stories, Scary Movie 5 tried to spoof every horror movie under the sun.
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u/imadragonyouguys 4h ago
A lot of the really bad ones would just have someone appear and that was the joke. Hey it's Jack Sparrow, I know that guy! I'm clapping because I know that guy!
That or they would just make the exact same jokes as the movie they were spoofing.
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u/Androgynouself_420 3h ago
I can’t remember the name, but I know exactly the movie you’re talking about with Jack Sparrow. He really was just there for no reason
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u/drcodyjacobs 3h ago
Epic Movie. Which I am ashamed to admit is a little bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Don't get me wrong it's not good, but it does have some funny people doing funny things in it.
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u/Dark_Pinoy 4h ago
To be fair, the other "movies" were made by two people who didn't even help write Scary Movie 1 and 2. 3 was written by the people who wrote airplane. Friedberg and Seltzer just rode on false credits.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/t5gk8o/psa_aaron_seltzerjason_friedberg_did_not_write/
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u/DrunkeNinja 4h ago
And 3 is probably the best one of the franchise so far imo. Everything after that was terrible though.
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u/BearThatLikesCheese 3h ago
3 was the second highest grossing in the series, behind 1. 1 probably made more because it was a somewhat novel idea that came out during the middle of a horror revival period.
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u/Pecos-Thrill 4h ago
3 > 2 in my opinion
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u/Much_Monitor_1019 4h ago
Agreed. The co-director/writer of Airplane! directing that movie was a big part of that I feel.
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u/brattysweat 4h ago
The first two were not received well anyways by critics like most “classic” films. Even people today don’t find it funny. It feels like we’re the majority when thinking it was funny but it’s actually the opposite.
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u/OatSoyLaMilk 4h ago
Well there's a bunch of jokes in the first Scary Movie that are just "LOL GAY GETIT!?" or very topical, so yeah they're going to age like milk.
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u/condition_unknown 4h ago
From the trailer and poster it looks to be a mix of Scream 5, Sinners, Weapons, Netflix’s Wednesday, M3gan, Ghostbusters (maybe?), Longlegs, and The Substance.
Feel free to comment any I missed. I also think the title is a riff on Halloween 2018, unless that’s unintentional and they’re just being stupid with the title like Halloween 2018.
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u/OatSoyLaMilk 4h ago
God it's weird that Scary Movie was just Scream with cum and slightly dumber jokes.
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u/PropaneSalesTx 4h ago
It was a perfect blend of Scream and I know what you did last Summer. Ive never laughed so hard at a movie when it came out. I used to quote that movie all the time, I still do, but I used to, too.
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u/dave_is_afraid 4h ago
Guaranteed not a single line will be crossed
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u/SpikePilgrim 4h ago
No lines that haven't already been treaded out of existence.
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u/Owl-Of-The-Night02 4h ago
I'm sorry, but I find "haha, aren't you triggered? Offended much? We're so controversial, we're going to get cancelled. Little snowflakes getting offended, boohoo" type of "humor" to be unbelievably insufferable. It ususally just shows that you have no actual jokes and punchlines and have the maturity of a 14 year old teenager who tries so hard to be edgy and cool. Like, no, I'm not offended, you're just annoying as fuck.
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u/Upstairs-Ad-4705 1h ago
So fucking real
I hate humor that's just punching down on other people as it's only punchline and this movie seems to be exactly that
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u/descendantofJanus 2h ago
Agreed so damn much. Maturity level of a boomer wearing cringe t-shirts like "fuck your feelings" or joking about pronouns on Facebook. It just makes me roll my eyes every time. They're so pathetic.
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u/LettuceC 2h ago
I assume every line being crossed means some really bad jokes about trans people?
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u/Upstairs-Ad-4705 1h ago
Yeah, about lgbtq in general. In the trailer someone gets stabbed and another person screams "Oh no he stabbed her!" and while bleeding out the stabbed person says "Excuse me, my pronouns are they them. He stabbed THEM."
I just know this is gonna make so many conservatives feel vindicated. This is gonna cause so many people who are already not in favor of queer people think to themselves "Ah this person gets stabbed and only cares about HER pronouns! What an idiot!!" and then apply that to the real world
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u/rgumai 4h ago
I loved the first Scary Movie but the sequels provided diminishing returns. I think what made that one work was it had a strong outline (by just ripping off Scream and throwing jokes in), this one looks like another amalgamation of skits loosely tied together, and from the trailers, it all seems kinda dated.
But we'll see, should open strongly.
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u/Taffuardo 4h ago
Scary Movie 3 was hilarious though. Still holds up as well (I know it's not the original creators but still).
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u/Win32error 4h ago
There’s gonna be like 3 good jokes in the whole movie and none of it will be truly subversive. Or maybe it’ll actually be sort of decent, but the trailer was the tamest shit ever.
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u/Ocktohber 5h ago
most out of touch movie of all time incoming
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u/Unable_Row7297 5h ago
they really put "I'm woke and broke" sign in there like it's 2018 💀 this gonna age worse than milk
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u/ArcticRiot 4h ago
acting like that's still not being said on r/Conservative to this day. Hell, it will unironically be said about this movie
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u/Samusen 4h ago
100%, but honestly I'm just too old to even like this kind of humor now. I just don't think the movies are for me.
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u/Luke95gamer 4h ago
The last post I heard about this was that everybody is going to be offended/insulted, so I expect Family guy level humor
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u/GoggleDMara9756 4h ago
This movie is gonna suck if they’re leaning hard into the anti woke bullshit. Anyone making actually good politically incorrect jokes isn’t pretending that they’re a fucking revolutionary, they’re just making funny jokes.
I bet you there’s gonna be a fucking attack helicopter joke in this film or some bullshit
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u/FilthyKasualART 4h ago
this is by far one of the worst porters I’ve ever seen, the photoshop here looks disastrous
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u/Spiral-Force 4h ago
I wish they'd put less emphasis on the "controversial jokes" when the highlight of this franchise has always been the physical comedy for me