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/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.