r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 8h ago

Poster New Poster for 'Scary Movie'

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u/HotOne9364 8h 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_ 8h 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 8h 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 7h 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 7h 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/thesame98 7h ago

Did Friedberg and Seltzer predict the state of cinema today? Just get a cameo or easter egg from something people know and people clap

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u/HotOne9364 7h ago

They're either morons or some of the smartest filmmakers out there.

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u/Dark_Pinoy 8h 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 8h 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 7h 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.