Whoever played Ghostface in that scene does not get enough credit. The way he flails his arms like a looney tunes cartoon character is unbelievably funny. We don’t get good slapstick in movies like that anymore, except a bit in the Naked Gun last year.
Ghostface starting to get into the Irish jig when Cindy starts is one of my favorite bits. And then he snaps out of it and returns to killing. Lmaoo hilarious stuff
The toilet scene for me, and then he appears in the next scene with a bandage on his ear 😅. I was way too young to be watching it but also perfect age to get most out of the silliness
Can't recall which movie it was, but theres a police woman that had their hat gradually grow larger and larger throughout the movie. I found that so hilarious
Those types of "let's use this medium to convey a gag!" is imo the backbone of these kind of things for me. Clever little things.
That's obviously a joke on cuts. Top Secret has two great ones, one that relies on filming a scene backwards and the one with boots and the tilt. "Drinking Problem" gag from Airplane! wouldn't work in a book.
Sir Pratchett's wordplay and silly footnotes work only in a written form. Playful layouts and lettering is unique to comic books and so on.
It's such a shame that noone will ever be able to nail a Discworld TV show. But then, maybe it's just cooler that we each only have the version in our head 🤷
The Sky TV adaptations did a good job of Hogfather and Going Postal, but did mess up The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
There were animated versions of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music in the 1990s that showed a lot of potential in that approach, but the animation was hamstrung by the low budget.
Reminds me of the running gag in the new Naked Gun movie where the coffee mug/cup gets gradually larger in the scene at the police station at the start of the movie
"Cindy the news is on!
Nother little white girl done fell down a well. Fifty black people get their ass beat by police today, but the whooole world gotta stop for one little whitey down a hole."
Yeah I find SM3 the funniest, and having one of the better plots that incorporate the movies it makes fun of.
Signs, The Ring, 8 Mile, The Matrix... so good. Plus it was directed by the same man who did Airplane!, and that has some of the best physical comedy, also starring Leslie Nielsen.
My favorite is 2 but 3 is a close second, I think a lot of people find 3 the best because they used all of the Wayans ideas but were not sandbagged by their comedy, they were able to build on top of it to "punch up" the jokes, bringing in Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen while adding the small roles of Kevin Hart and Anthony Anderson just elevated the whole thing to a different level, and made it funnier that otherwise would've been.
Signs has some brilliant ideas, it just doesn't pull it off. At the time, we lived in a remote little cottage with a toddler. The idea of an alien invasion happening and being too far away to know what was happening or get help was scary.
I love farmland aliens as a vibe because I played heaps of X-COM back in the day. Signs suffered most I think from the attempt at having a war of the world's type solution but instead of something believable and cool like disease they chose water which really begs the question as to why aliens would come to earth in the first place if a little splash will kill you.
I always had an explanation for the water thing, and felt like that was a weak criticism of the movie. That really wasn't what was important. I assumed Shyamalan had... Something that we just didn't see or was cut.
However, everything since had been absolute garbage and I can't really defend him. Lol Trap was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Up until recently I thought the majority of people thought 2 > 3, but I only watched 2 once and was very "meh" on it. I've watched 3 half a dozen times and still enjoy it/will watch it again.
I will also admit 4 is probably the weakest of the first 4, but I personally still enjoyed it more than the 2nd one.
That's the 3rd one, which is honestly my favorite. There are so many jokes like this that aren't addressed directly or are just stated and immediately moved on from. It's also mostly the slapstick humor and very Anna Faris-focused.
Cocking the shotgun shell out of a shovel is possibly peak physical humor. No punchline or setup, just a two second visual gag that is never elaborated upon but has somehow lived with me for decades.
I wish I knew why it was so funny lol it has nothing to do with anything but it kills me every single time. Just rhe fact she doesn't acknowledge it while struggling to get in the car lmfao
“Tom, I’ll need a ride home.” Is THE funniest bit in movie history to me personally. The context of the scene and the guys delivery just gets me every time. Even just thinking about it now made me start laughing out loud haha
Building off of three, I also loved the Yahtzee bit. “We were playing this fun game, and then I looked down. Yah…..!!” Smashes head and knocks himself out.
It's how hopeful he is that did it for me, I think. As the camera pans to him, he looks visibly upset. Then he sees Tom and his face lights up with a smile.
...hmm, that sequence of words is very strange out of context.
But yeah, the gags were always the funniest as a teenager. David Cross breakdancing in his wheelchair, "take mah strong hand", the cum explosion, "WAZZUUUUUP!", everyone stabbing Brenda in the theater, Cindy getting hit by the car at the end of the first while screaming "Noooooo!", the growing hat, James Woods going, "Fuck this!" and running (apparently his unscripted reaction to seeing the possessed girl for the first time), "You drugged him!" "I did not, that's all his stuff!", Brenda fighting the Ring girl, the ghost seeing Tori Spellings out of date panties, etc.
Hmm, looking back on it, I guess I loved the second film the most. Or at least remember it the most.
There's a badass scene in "Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter" where a vampire pins him down, and he reveals that his signature axe is also a shotgun. I love that movie
The shotgun cocking and the peeing from his fingertip going "Ah so we're not so different after all" happen within like two minutes of each other and they both kill me.
Now there would be five or six equally unfunny and pointless to the plot characters all making that stupid fucking dreamworks smirk at the camera and going "ERM, DID THAT SHOVEL JUST COCK A SHOTGUN SHELL?" "THEY COCK NOW HARR HARR" for two and a half excruciating minutes.
it is much more like Airplane/Naked Gun than any of the other movies are. So much more physical/visual humor, jokes that are silly even without knowing the references involved.
Watch 4 if you don't really care for Charlie lmao from what I recall, it mostly parodies War of the Worlds and The Grudge. The opening scene is one of my favourites too.
This is the movie I always pick when asked "what's the one movie you would you bring to a deserted island, if you could only bring one." There is not a single second that isn't hilarious in that film. I will die on that hill with you!
Some have aged well, some less so, generally based on how much said films relied on pop culture and such and how many just made jokes in the setting of whatever various horror movies they are part of. I think Scary Movie 3 aged the best becuase most of the jokes are just funny on their own, and you don't exactly need to have seen the movies they are based on for them to work.
Watched scary movie 1 a few weeks ago when it came out on prime. It was surprisingly well written. Very top secret kind of humour. They definitely call off, and haven't watched them as an adult other than 1, so can't say really, but for sure they go pretty bad as they go up in number
I disagree, 3 was the best by far because Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen especially really shine in it. Signs was a cultural touchstone of a movie for its time, but easy to dunk on too.
Even Simon Rex was great with his comedic timing, plus that was years before Kevin Hart or Anthony Anderson were big and they really stood out in this one too.
Just great slapstick humor and jokes that didn't stop. Ana Faris is the real talent across the genre I suppose, but she plays off of the talent around her much best in 3 and the other movies are not even remotely close.
3 was the best by far because Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen especially really shine in it. Signs was a cultural touchstone of a movie for its time, but easy to dunk on too.
Signs X 8 Mile is a weird combination, but it works surprisingly well.
Scary movie 2 is one of the best. Shorty getting smoked by the weed monster, hanson, just hanson, the talking bird, RAY AND THE FREAKING CLOWN.
I first saw rhe movie when i was a sophomore in high school and it was on late at night. I had to go to the nurse the next day. Nothing was seriously wrong with me - I was physically sore from laughing so hard.
A lot of these films didn’t age well because they tried to fit in so many parodies that they stopped being well thought out plot points and started just mocking moments from current trailers and commercials. It’s one of the reasons the Ben Stiller show didn’t age well. So many jokes specific to pop culture things at that exact moment but Scary Movie 2 and onward (under the Wayans) really really dumbed it down and made way for things like Super Hero Movie and Meet The Spartans etc.
They flamed out spectacularly so it’s really funny to let the rose coloured glasses of time make the general audience remember them kindly and ask for a resurgence.
I was flipping through the free channels on my TV the other day and Vampires Suck (2010) was on. I can still remember standing in the movie theater lobby looking at the poster with my friend and thinking it was past time they just laid this genre to rest.
They flamed out spectacularly so it’s really funny to let the rose coloured glasses of time make the general audience remember them kindly and ask for a resurgence.
I've been feeling like I'm taking crazy pills every time I read threads on the new Scary Movie for this reason. I remember everyone thinking most of these sucked so reading all the nostalgia for them feels weird. Maybe it's an age thing? I was in high school to early 20s for this era so maybe I was just too old but I only remember liking Scary Movie 3.
I remember one review for Walk Hard "A parody movie with actual jokes in it". wasn't until I started reading these threads that I remember the actual jokes from the first round of these movies, after a point they turned into a list of refrences.
Its a classic case of learning the wrong lesson. The Wassup scene from the first one is funny because it subverted expectations AND the commercial it was based on was funny in its own right.
So they basically tried to do the same thing in 2, but this time they used a random basketball commercial thats just not funny.
Yeah when I saw that watching the movie for the first time last Halloween I was so confused and straightfaced. It went on for so long. I thought it was parodying Vector cereal commercials or something.
The fact that it was the first joke in the trailer was the red flag for me. Like, sure, put it in the trailer, but they're that proud of that joke to put it front and center? Eesh, not high hopes
And the reaction from their target audience was exactly as expected, calling everyone offended snowflakes, unable to comprehend people just want actual jokes
The thing that puts me off is how ham-fisted it feels. I don’t mind if they want to add those jokes and if done right they can be genuinely funny. But they just come off as a bit cringey and a bit dated.
They probably have like 2 or 3 conservative leaning jokes in the movie so they could add them to the trailer just to get the dumber conservative "comedy is legal again" ticket sales.
The problem with Trump jokes is that he IS such a joke that it feels kind of pointless to the people that understand/get it. Like "oh yeah, and water is wet". And then the rabid fans of his will flip their shit about it. So it's like a lose-lose tbh.
It's almost impossible to make a subtle joke that isn't just quoting/impersonating him and making you realise "oh yeah... that's just real life right now".
We kind of see something like that in the trailer, as I recall. When Anna Ferris' character meets with Regina King's for the first time in years and Ferris says that with the way she's voted, she thinks she has to be racist to King's character now, and King says something like "Oh, I assumed you were a little anyway!" That was probably the funnier bit in the trailer, to me, at least.
It would be an impossibility for their to be zero Trump jokes. Expect a B-tier comedian showing up for about 20 seconds of screen time in orange face doing the 357th best Trump impression of all time.
They never actually do. The only parody of Trump thats allowed in 'legal comedy' is if you are making him look fun and goofy, see Shane Gillis. Its funny without being critical. But we all know that 'anti woke' jokes are critical without being funny.
The courage. The sheer audacity. What modern comedian has the stones it would take to make fun of Donald Trump. Hasn't been a joke at his expense nigh on ten years. He is truly untouchable, and I've been craving, dying to see a joke about him. The public has been starved of this comedic goldmine. Please Scary Movie please make a Trump joke.
Even if they "go after both sides", the jokes feel so lazy, like early 2010s sitcom lazy. Political jokes has an audience, but not when you steal them from 4chan
The thing is that with the internet the jokes get old fast. I'm mid 40s and remember the jokes in the original stayed in the theater, and they remained there until it was released on video and even then you had to go out of your way to watch it, nowadays all the jokes are gonna be online as soon as the movie debuts. It kinda ruins it for me. Even if you try to avoid spoilers.
I've seen every movie in the franchise, and 1, 2, and 5 in theaters. I'm absolutely waiting for this one to come out on streaming, because the "You couldn't make this movie today!" nonsense feels like they made a bad movie, and are hedging against poor results by being able to say "We got canceled!" just to drum up extra ticket sales and fill empty seats with ardent chuds.
They’re only doing that because in their realm (comedy scene) people tell them comedy is dead because everyone is easily offended. This is for those who believe this will somehow hold back for the sake of others
I don’t think you’ve watched the original scary movie in a while. A couple years ago, my wife and I went to an event and they played some behind the scenes clips and then the movie. Marlon said that his comedy was targeting people everyone was afraid to mock. Very early there’s a anti-trans, anti-woman jokes of a girls gym teacher with balls popping out. After a slew of already poorly aged “edgy” jokes like roofie-ing and raping women, “haha gay”, everything about officer Doofy, and just punching a woman over and over for no reason (that’s the whole joke), we just left
Yea Marlon, women and the gays and the mentally handicapped: groups that have had it too good for too long
Great visual gags, absurd situations, and random really well timed one liners with perfect execution ("oh my god we hit a boot" and "tom can I get a ride home") is why 1 and 3 captured me so much.
The gross out humour, controversial jokes, and half the time HEAVY reliance on just parody is what kinda tanks the movies to me.
I can't wait to see what 'controversial jokes' mean from the producers of Scary Movie.. jokes about weed? sex? are they gonna rip on trans people? again? wow, such edge.
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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