I was surprised that I couldn't find a thread for these films, but I stand to be redirected. I saw Swimming Pool this afternoon; a trailer before it advertises the coming Sofia Coppola flick Lost in Translation. I want to find info on Anna Faris (and Scarlett Johanssen) and see she's in not only Scary Movie 3 (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0306047), but Scary Movie 4 (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0362120) (!). Scary Movie was passable. Scary Movie 2 was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. They have nowhere to go but up, but I think this franchise is already dead, myself. We'll see come October.
i thought 1 & 2 were okay. quite funny.
I liked the first one. The second one was bad -- except for the opening sequence, which almost killed me it was so funny.
The new trailer doesn't make me laugh, but Anna Faris is worth watching in anything. She's gold, she is.
Yea, I like the first two ok...pretty funny stuff, I gotta admit. Ray is gold, definitely the funniest character hands down. Bobby and Greg were great too in the first one...it sucks they didn't miraculously come back in the sequel. They're funnier than that "Malcolm In The Middle" kid. The best part of the second one would have to be Chris Elliot as the fucked up caretaker, lol..."fanny's comin' through, you have to watch fanny"...fucking hilarious.
I know I'll get around to seeing the 3rd one sometime (and yes, probably 4 too dammit!) as much as I may regret it, lol.
Just remember it's a fresh new creative team healming it. No more Wayans.
I've got faith in it.
I love the 'Scary Movie's. Looking forward to '3'. I can see it being huge this october, even without dope head Shorty and gay Ray.
Oh fuck, Ray's not going to be in this one? Damn. I had no idea the Wayan's weren't involved AT ALL...that's kinda weird. Oh well, I know I'll probably still see it. Not that I need any more guilty pleasures.
i thought the first one was really funny.....i dont think i laughed once during the second one.....maybe a little during the part where the stoner guy is getting smoked....ill see 3 outta curiosity probably
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Cast: Anna Faris (Cindy Campbell), Charlie Sheen, Anthony Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Peter Boyle, George Carlin, Fat Joe, William Forsythe, Macy Gray, Eddie Griffin, Regina Hall (Brenda Meeks), Darrell Hammond, Ja Rule, Jenny McCarthy, Camryn Manheim, Leslie Nielsen, Jeremy Piven, Denise Richards, Simon Rex, Timothy Stack
Director: David Zucker (The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, BASEketball; codirector of Airplane! and Top Secret!; also has My Boss's Daughter coming; next up is Scary Movie 4).
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (cowriters of Scary Movie, Spy Hard; they've also got The Year Without Santa Claus and Raunchy Movie in development); rewrite by Brian Lynch (1999's 'Big Helium Dog'), Craig Mazin (cowriter of Senseless, Rocketman), Pat Proft (cowriter of The Naked Gun series and Police Academy); production polish by Jonathan Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (feature debuts).
Premise: The poster informs us that two of the movies that are spoofed are Signs and The Ring. Rapper Fat Joe's character is heavily involved with a sequence that spoofs 8 Mile. The casting news of George Carlin as a character who spoofs "The Architect" from The Matrix: Reloaded reveals that the two movies that are most heavily spoofed are actually that film and The Ring. Two other movies that get roasted this time around are The Hulk and The Others.
Sequel Note: Plans are already underway for 'Scary Movie 4', which will start in Vancouver in June, filming shortly after this one wraps. The target release date will be in the 1st quarter of 2004, just a few months after this third movie's October release. The cast will be a mixture of returning cast from this movie and some new additions, as the focus of the spoofing shifts from "fantasy epics" to the superhero genre.
Wow, I really like some of the cast, and really hate the rest
The only truly hilarious guy imo is Darrell Hammond. Best Cheney ever. Clinton too.
Anna Faris is alright but not good enough to carry the movie. Charlie Sheen is usually unintentionally funny...so that should be interesting. George Carlin is a genius with standup but not so much acting I don't think...he's really great with what he writes himself though. I don't really know Leslie Neilsen...the little I've seen him in I haven't liked, I'm not a big Zucker Bros fan. I recognize Camryn Manheim's name...can't put a face to the name though...hmmm.
Happiness Spoilers.
Camryn Manheim played Elenor on The Practice, and the woman who cut up her super after he tried to rape her in Happiness.
Carlin was decent in Dogma, but he can be kind of grating sometimes. Sheen was great in Hot Shots. It's been a while since that, of course. He was decent in Spin City, though he's no Michael J. Fox. Leslie Neilsen is a classic comedic actor. Check out The Naked Gun series, PRONTO!
Quote from: ebeamanI recognize Camryn Manheim's name...can't put a face to the name though...hmmm.
She was on the TV show "The Practice." Maybe you should pick up her book, tubby.
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Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: ebeamanI recognize Camryn Manheim's name...can't put a face to the name though...hmmm.
She was on the TV show "The Practice." Maybe you should pick up her book, tubby.
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Aha, yes. I'm not quite that fat yet thankfully. I'll keep it in mind though.
Quicktime Trailer here. (http://images.hollywood.com/images/quicktime/scarymovie3_mir_t_low.mov)
Heh...but the slapstick is done really poorly
This movie doesn't look like it'll be missing too much by the absence of the wayans... it'll still be mediocre entertainment with an abundance of sex, drugs, and bathroom humor.
Nick
Actually, I think the "boom mike" joke is pretty funny. Not just because of the boom mike banging into her, but because after she falls down that other guy walking by with the coffee trips over her. That's a nice double-layered joke, more typical of the Zucker bros. than the shitty Wayanses.
Sequels not too 'Scary'
Source: Variety
Despite some missteps this summer, the industry is not giving up on sequels just yet.
Bolstered by the box office success of "Spy Kids 3-D," which has taken $71.3 million and looks primed to pass the receipts of "Spy Kids 2," Dimension Films has high hopes for the latest in its horror movie spoof series, "Scary Movie 3."
"We're looking at the sequel business and think it's a great business," Dimension co-chair Bob Weinstein told Daily Variety. "What you have to do is bring something new to the table."
He added, "I'm predicting that we'll surpass 'Scary Movie 2,' " which in summer 2001 took in $71.3 million.
Several factors are fueling Weinstein's optimism: a large co-promotional push with Coors Brewing, a PG-13 rating that will broaden the franchise's audience and a more mainstream sensibility from helmer David Zucker, veteran of "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series.
Going for the kids
The previous two "Scary Movies" were rated R. Of the decision to go for a PG-13 for this one, Weinstein said, "We are going after the 12-49 demographic. We're going to get the 'Austin Powers' crowd."
Weinstein added Dimension's tracking data is strong, with 65% awareness of "Scary Movie 3."
"Scary Movie 3" will mark the first major effort between the studio and Coors after they inked a marketing pact last year.
"Scary" will open on Oct. 24 to take advantage of Coors' annual Halloween marketing push, including TV spots during NFL games, in-store promotions and a radio campaign. Also opening that weekend are Warner's Halle Berry thriller "Gothika," Sony's animated "Lil' Pimp" and Paramount's refugee drama "Beyond Borders," starring Angelina Jolie.
Miramax's "Duplex," the Danny DeVito-directed comedy starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, had been previously skedded to open on that date. But with the "Scary" move, "Duplex" now will unspool on Oct. 3, "Scary's" former date.
$10 mil in beer money
Coors will spend $10 million on "Scary" promos, Weinstein said. Dimension has budgeted $30 million of its own, and Weinstein said the company is close to bringing on another marketing partner, bringing the total marketing budget to $50 million.
The TV spots will be a variation on Coors' successful "Love Song" campaign, with new lyrics that play up the "Coors Twins" appearance in "Scary Movie 3." Coors is also the official beer sponsor of the NFL, guaranteeing heavy play of the spot during football games once the season gets under way.
"Scary Movie 3" will follow the format of the previous editions, parodying genre flicks such as "The Ring," "The Others" and "Signs," as well as pics such as "The Matrix Reloaded" and "8 Mile."
The first two "Scary Movie" pics, which grossed a combined $278 million, were directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans; they starred and were scripted by his brothers Shawn and Marlon. Late last year, Revolution signed a two-pic deal with the sibling team, one of which is planned as a sci-fi spoof flick.
Widening auds
In Dimension's first Wayans-less "Scary Movie," Zucker has cast actors in an attempt to broaden pic's appeal beyond the Wayans' core urban audience. Actors such as Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Jenny McCarthy and Pamela Anderson will appear alongside hip-hop favorites Queen Latifah, Ja Rule, Method Man and Redman.
Dimension already is developing "Scary Movie 4." Despite previous reports that the next episode would go into production directly after "Scary Movie 3" wrapped in Vancouver this summer, Weinstein said a script for the fourth installment is being finalized and he hopes to start production early next year.
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uh oh, does that quote scare anyone else? "Look Quentin, the public wants Pulp 2 okay? we're gonna do it with or without you!"
'Scary Movie 3': the reasons why it being rated PG-13 sucks:
*Now annoying little kids can go see it and piss off everyone else in theatres...
*All the trademark 'extreme' humour of the first two will have to be much tamer...
I thought I would have more reasons than that but I'm still annoyed, I mean c'mon, a PG rated 'Scary Movie'? That's like non-alcoholic beer.....
Opens Friday. Three sneak peek clips here. (http://www.themoviebox.net/trailers/scarymovie3/clips/)
The ads for this movie make it look really bad. It seems like a string of parodies of specific movies. What made the ZAZ and previous Pat Proft films funny was that they weren't always doing that, but when they did, it wasn't the stupid shit like the Ring parody in the SM3 ads. Dollar theater material for me, if I see it at all.
Quote from: VarietyThe first two "Scary Movie" pics, which grossed a combined $278 million, were directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans; they starred and were scripted by his brothers Shawn and Marlon. Late last year, Revolution signed a two-pic deal with the sibling team, one of which is planned as a sci-fi spoof flick.
How many more spoofs do we need?
Spoilers possible.
I saw this last night with my brothers. I'm probably not the best person to ask whether you should see it or not, as, well, I hate shit like this. Don't get me wrong: I laughed a lot. But it was a kind of painful laugh as in ... "Why am I here?" and "This is what passes for entertainment?" and "I could be seeing Mystic River, School of Rock, or even better, Kill Bill, again!"
The jokes come fast and furious, and for that, I can say the film is better than Scary Movie 2. However, that's not a hard thing to accomplish as Scary Movie 2 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This film parodies The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Signs, and 8 Mile. Some criticisms are that it doesn't really get the gist of the film, only parodying material from trailers and such, but that's not really true. You can feel the Zucker touch on this film with the style of jokes, and the presence of Leslie Nielsen as president. That's one great thing about the movie, as with Nielsen and Sheen in the same film, you definitely get this amalgamation of Naked Gun and Hot Shots, though I guarantee you no one in the theatre would catch this.
Friday night, jam packed with high school students, and the only people older than me, I think, walked out about halfway through. Also, there are very few "intelligent" jokes with the dialogue, and they brought a smile to my face, and a chuckle to myself, but to no surprise of mine, no one laughed. They were probably still recuperating from the previous physical gag (and there were a LOT of those).
The problem with this movie is it's just so damn stupid. I guess that equates to entertainment and likability with most audiences, but I could feel my brain cells dying. Anna Faris did a great job playing, yet again, the requisite dumb blonde heroine, yet there's one scene with Son of the Beach's star (forget his name) that's just too juvenile. And a gripe about that scene, and many others: this film should've striven for an R rating. I mean, there was a hell of a lot of cleavage shown (cleavage that you know some would've wished they'd just shown the damn nipple already), and the first scene (cold opening -- yeah, that term fits because the rest of the film was an overblown sitcom) had Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy frolicking. And when Farris' character takes a bit of offense at something, she flashes the news room (I don't really remember why). Two problems with this: 1) they aren't her tits, and 2) they're in a bra. Ditto wih Anderson's cleavage (pre-implant-removal). The film was of course, in part, made to tittilate the average high school male.
So yes. I remember in another thread some were talking about how horror movies aren't made like they used to be, with all the gratuitous nudity, sex, and violence. Obviously, the Scary Movie series no longer falls into that genre, but it would be nice if there were such a thing to serve as legitimate escapism. The violence part is why some people probably like Kill Bill so much. That's why the R rating should've been sought after.
I, of course, realize that a movie like this is all about the money, and that's why it's so depressing to go see a film like this. I enjoy, more than I like to admit, films that are well made are are all about the art of filmmaking and maybe even telling a good story. Before this film started, everyone was talking, cracking up. When the previews came on, silly comments, of course, were made. When the little segment asking people not to talk during the film came on, they just laughed. Talking during the film wasn't nearly as bad as in, say, my bad experience with Chicago, but I guess that's because a lot of the material didn't depend on you actually hearing what was being said. Though, as I said, there were a lot of jokes in the dialogue. Anyway, film's better than I expected, but still barely worth your time. *½ (4/10)
Yea, I figured I'd have the same feelings as Onamonapeia had if I saw this. I wouldn't be able to sit still in a theatre that I know is still playing School Of Rock and Kill Bill. I mean, I wouldn't have a good time. I'll rent it.
I couldn't even watch the whole thing, it was so awful. Regina Hall was the only thing remotely funny -- even the usually wonderful Anna Faris looked like she was sick of the whole thing. The Wayans brothers are sadly missed -- the second movie may have sucked, but at least I laughed really hard during the opening sequence and a few other times later in the film. Here, nada.
Playboy.com reports
Although Zucker's at the helm and the gore has been way toned down,
Wayans's brand of crude, razor-edged social commentary survives, with a little help from co-writer Kevin Smith. Father Muldoon (Darrell Hammond) shows up to baby-sit with a bottle of wine and some candles for his little charge. Brenda (Regina Hall) laments, "I get a bad feeling...like when you see an Asian person behind the wheel of a car."
Kevins Real Ivolvment
My involvement with SCARY MOVIE 3. Here's the story: After the Wayans brothers took what was supposed to be SCARY MOVIE 3 elsewhere, Bob Weinstein called and asked if I'd look at the Dimension draft of the latest SCARY MOVIE when they were done with it, and maybe add a joke here or there. I asked him who was writing it, and he said he hadn't assigned it yet. So I suggested a guy I knew was perfect for the gig: Poop Shoot's own Brian Lynch. Bob met with Brian, and brought him on as one of the writers, along with David Zucker and Pat Profft. For this, I was offered an Exec Producer credit. Somehow, the trades translated this as me Co-Writing. If maybe doing a polish on a script that will be far funnier than anything I can think up is considered Co-Writing, then I guess I'm a Co-Writer. However, with these three funny guys involved, chances are, I'll have nothing to add but the sound of my laughter (with, mind you; not at).
So...from what I gather from ths thread, the trailer, other reviews, this movies sucks.
'Scary Movie 3' Conjures Up Nearly $50M
The "Scary Movie" franchise has risen from the grave, with part three of the horror-spoof series opening as the top weekend flick with $49.7 million, the best October debut ever.
"Scary Movie 3" bumped the previous weekend's No. 1 movie, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," to second place with $14.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Premiering in third place with $14 million was the feel-good drama "Radio," starring Cuba Gooding Jr. in the real-life story of a mentally disabled man befriended by a high school football coach (Ed Harris).
Jesus, $49.7 million?!?!!? :shock: .... So many great movies that never hit that figure. And the previews for this movie look soooooooo tired.
EDIT: Snips out the AP story that I posted two minutes after Mac.
I'm still stunned, by the way.
hahahah it made 50 and KB made 20 that sucks..
I saw it though, it had a few really good laughs but then it would go like 10 minutes without anything funny. When it was funny it was really funny and when it wasnt it really wasnt.
Quote from: Find Your MagaliJesus, $49.7 million?!?!!? :shock: .... So many great movies that never hit that figure. And the previews for this movie look soooooooo tired.
EDIT: Snips out the AP story that I posted two minutes after Mac.
I'm still stunned, by the way.
People are idiots. It is no surprise to me that it is number one. I expect the next Scary Movie to have Anna Faris in a yellow jumpsuit fighting thousands of Agent Smith clones.
this is the ultimate 'market researched' movie. they're like "hey, how do we maximize profits?" well, first of all we need to make it PG13 so we can get all those younger kids. second we need to get Queen Latifah, Ja Rule and Eddie Griffin so all the black people will go. third we need to get a bunch of hot chicks like Denise Richards, Pamela Anderson, and Jenny McCarthy so all the young dudes will want to go. and then we need to string together a bunch of parodies to anything that appeals to young people, and it doesnt matter if it makes sense. like, atleast the first two actually parodied SCARY MOVIES for the most part. can anyone tell me that they actually understood why there was an 8 mile parody in the preview? its not like they tried to give you any idea how it ties into the 'story'. its like, how many things can we recreate. this movie makes me sick.
If nothing else, it means that 10 other equally insipid "parody" films will get green-lighted on Monday morning, in hopes of hitting the $50 million opening-weekend jackpot.
Maybe I should be concentrating on a Matrix/Texas Chainsaw Masscare/Radio parody as my first screenplay. :(
I haven't seen the movie but I did enjoy the trailer.
People really are idiots. I was in Mystic River and these was this women in front of me who acted like she was shocked every time an "f" word was said on screen. She gasped every single time, even though there were tons of them. Not only did it annoy and irritate me, but when I walked out of the theater, she said she would never go to an R rated movie again and that the movie was boring and not very good anyways. :shock: At that very moment, I felt like pulling a gun on her. I have those same kinds of experiences over and over again with the audience and I'm sick of it.
in situations like this, you shout "fuck, that was a great FUCKING movie! fuck!" and laugh as she faints
or...can you believe all that fuckin' language?
Quote from: Cecilin situations like this, you shout "fuck, that was a great FUCKING movie! fuck!" and laugh as she faints
:lol:
In my theatre, every time a new spoof would start, you could hear many people in the audience go "Ohh this is Matrix" or "Isnt this Signs?"
That sucked ass. I hate seeing PG 13 movies in thatres will all the little kids.
:lol: Yeah, I should've done that!
Quote from: SydneyI felt like pulling a gun on her.
whoa, whoa
easy there sideburns
only resort to this if they bring a crying baby
man, I want to murder the whole family when that happens
no winking smilie needed
Dimension Films' Scary Movie 3 topped the box office for a second straight week, earning an estimated $21.1 million in its second weekend. The $45 million-budgeted comedy has brought in $78.6 million so far.
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David Zucker knows funny. Along with brother Jerry, he created the Airplane! and Naked Gun comedy franchises and totally reinvented satire for the screen. Instead of relying on the madcap antics that comics such as Mel Brooks had demonstrated before them, the Zucker brothers cast dramatic actors in outrageous situations, sending up the genre with a straight face. And so the modern spoof movie was born. You can almost hear the skeptics echoing the directors' own Airplane!: "Surely you can't be serious!" Oh, but they were serious -- that was the entire key to their new strategy (and don't call him "Shirley").
So where did David Zucker, who takes over for Damon Wayans in Scary Movie 3, find the inspiration for his approach to comedy? He borrowed a little bit from a lot of places, mixing lessons he'd learned from the most successful screen comics with his appreciation for more serious fare. When we asked him to fess up to his top five influences, he listed two Godfather movies, two Marx brothers movies, two Woody Allen movies and a funny-for-all-the-wrong-reasons "joke selection." We let him get away with it, because, frankly, seven is a much funnier number than five could ever be.
The Godfather: Parts I & II
(1972 & 1974; dir: Francis Ford Coppola, starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino)
There's not a week that goes by that I can't link some situation in my life to something in The Godfather I and II. Whether it's Sonny on the causeway, or don't go against the family, or the horse's head in the bed, it's a movie that really jumps the screen into people's lives. The scenes are so vivid and so evocative of the ways real families interact. For example, the way Marlon Brando goes over and over again what's going to happen with Michael. Knowing he's going to die soon, he says, "The one who comes to set up the meeting, that's the traitor." I've used that one before. Everything. There are so many great lines, every shot, the acting; it's brilliant how [Coppola] did everything about it. They stand far and above all other movies. Seeing it for the first time today, I don't know if you can appreciate [how innovative it was]. It's a lot like Airplane!, which is not to say that Airplane! is one of the greatest movies of all time, but it had never been done before. After 20 years of movie spoof, the experience now has to be lessened. You're not quite hit with the impact that it had when it came out, when people had never seen the thing with serious actors like Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack being funny.
Bananas
(1971, dir: Woody Allen, starring: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser)
Bananas was a big, big influence on me. When I saw it, I think my reaction was, "Gee, I could do this, too." At the time, we were doing a live sketch comedy show on Pico Boulevard in L.A. called "Kentucky Fried Theater" hoping we could get into the movies. We named one of our shows "My Nose," just so our weekly listing in the L.A. Times would read, "'My Nose' runs continuously." That's how we made our living. I was thrilled to be making 200 bucks a week. Those were the days! Woody Allen used to make a movie a year, and I just couldn't wait until the next one came out because they were all great. Before Bananas, he had done What's Up, Tiger Lily? and Take the Money and Run, and this was his first really polished movie. It's about a guy who's in love with a girl. Hoping to impress her, he runs down to San Marcos and gets involved in one of those revolutions. At the end, he makes love to Louise Lasser while Howard Kossel does the play-by-play. That kind of humor was directly inspirational for my career. Stuff that wild had never been done before, smart satire and slapstick all in one.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
(1989, dir: Woody Allen, starring: Martin Landau, Jerry Orbach)
It's a movie about moral choices. Martin Landau is having an affair with Anjelica Huston, but she's threatening to disrupt his home life, so he goes to his brother for help. They decide to kill her and successfully commit the murder. I think Woody Allen was obsessed with how people can get away with great evil. That is a big moral question the movie is dealing with: Do you really get away with it, or does it motivate you to believe in an afterlife? If you don't believe in an afterlife, do you really think that Mother Theresa and Hitler end up at the same place? It's a profoundly challenging message, and I think Woody Allen does that in a lot of his movies. Whether they're successful or not, he tries to tackle some pretty hefty issues, and there aren't many movies that really do that anymore. This would be my choice for his best movie. It's open to many ways of interpretation. At the end, Sam Waterston is really the happiest character, and he's blind. I think Woody Allen puts things in juxtaposition and lets the viewers make their own choices, which also relates to the way Woody Allen does comedies. He gives the audience credit for some intelligence. He doesn't always point to the gag. What I've tried to do is let the audience find the gag without always being so obvious about it.
A Night at the Opera & Duck Soup
(1994, dir: Lee Tamahori, starring: Rena Owen, Temeura Morrison)
The Marx brothers' trademark was zany satire. They didn't do spoof as we know it now, but they were doing parody satire of movies and popular culture, and I love satire. By contrast, you have the Three Stooges. There wasn't anything really smart about the Three Stooges, although they were funny as far as they went with their slapstick head-bonking. But the Marx Brothers were a whole level above that. There wasn't an equal combination of smart and funny and satirical until Woody Allen. In their films, I like the polar opposites of A Night at the Opera and Duck Soup. They're essentially two sides of the same coin: A Night at the Opera was a great movie that held together because it had story, structure and characters, and Duck Soup, while it's probably their funniest movie, was more of a string of gags. We did the same thing with Airplane! and Top Secret. Airplane! really held together with a story and characters and was a really good movie, while Top Secret possibly had the funniest gags in it, but wasn't necessarily our best movie.
Midway
(1956, dir: John Ford, starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter)
Another of my all-time favorite movies would have to be Midway. It's a World War II movie about the Battle of Midway. (I can't really imagine myself making a World War II movie. I was always a big fan of the book Catch-22, but I thought the movie was lousy, so I always wanted to remake it using all of Fox's footage of the planes and ships. Top Secret was sort of our stab at combining German World War II spy movies with Elvis movies, but I don't think people got it at the time.) Midway was mostly panned by the critics. One critic said it was called that because that was the point where the audience left. Maybe it's not such a great movie, but every time it's on TV, I just have to watch the whole thing. You can skip by all the personal touchy-feely stuff with Charlton Heston and his son and his son's girlfriend -- the obligatory drama -- but the battle stuff is really interesting because it's so complicated. It involves all these different aircraft carriers, both American and Japanese, plus all the different fighter squadrons. I end up trying to figure out which planes launched off which carriers and which of the Japanese admirals made which decisions. So every time I see it, I get another chance to make sense of it. Last time, it was 1 a.m. and my wife came downstairs and caught me watching Midway. She just did an eye-roll and walked back up the stairs.
Superheroes Beware
Spoof kings David Zucker, Craig Mazin and Robert Weiss to tackle the superhero genre.
Comedy spoof king David Zucker, along with colleagues Craig Mazin and Robert Weiss, have expanded on their scary movie parodies, taking on new subjects in a film called Superhero!.
The same team that brought you Scary Movie 3 will riff on everyone from Spider-Man to Batman, with the Fantastic Four and X-Men thrown in for good measure. Zucker will take on directing duties, Mazin will write the script and Weiss will produce, with all three coming up with jokes.
The three were waiting for the release of a few more horror pix, such as The Ring 2, for fodder for Scary Movie 4 and came up with the superhero idea. This one will be tricky, since rights to the most popular superheroes are closely guarded. Superhero! will probably go into production next spring, even before Scary Movie 4.
'Scary' Deal: Actress Faris Back for 4th Fright
Anna Faris is coming back for "Scary Movie 4."
The actress signed a deal in the low- to mid-seven figures, a career high, to star in the fourth installment of the popular Dimension Films spoof series. Faris and her character, Cindy Campbell, have appeared in all three of the "Scary" movies.
David Zucker, who directed the third installment, is returning to the helmer's chair. Craig Mazin and Pat Proft, who wrote the third installment, are writing the script.
The "Scary Movie" franchise has been a massive moneymaker for Dimension, Miramax Films' genre label. Domestically, the first movie grossed $157 million, the second $71.3 million, and the third, released in 2003, hit $110 million.
According to sources, Dimension head Bob Weinstein is expected to take an active role in the production, even though he and his brother, Harvey Weinstein, are in the midst of discussions with the Walt Disney Co. on the terms of Miramax's separation from the studio.
Trailer (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/trailers/1808489310/1809259303/?http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/mf/frame?theme=minfo&lid=wmv-300-p.1402170-161278,wmv-700-p.1402171-161278,qtv-56-p.1402164-161278,qtv-100-p.1402165-161278,qtv-300-p.1402166-161278,qtv-700-p.1402167-161278,wmv-56-p.1402168-161278,wmv-100-p.1402169-161278,qtv-28-p.1402164-161278,wmv-28-p.1402168-161278&id=1808489310&f=1808489310&mspid=1809259303&type=t)
I didn't watch the trailer, but I bet all these "horror" films exist just to support making more Scary Movie sequels.
Quote from: Ravi on February 13, 2006, 10:58:06 AM
I bet all these "horror" films exist just to support making more Scary Movie sequels.
I think so. and it'll make millions of dollars I'm sure. but judging from the (unfunny) trailer, most of those things have already been made fun of. particularly the Tom Cruise couch thing....it's getting a little old. and that IPOD scene was just lame.
I have to admit I laughed a lot at the first Scary Movie. but now their idea of humor is slapstick. that's not just the Scary Movies, but a lot of comedies in general.
yet another commercial movie I'll be skipping :yabbse-sad:
The point is that the iPod, the Tom Cruise, and some other scenes that I saw there (something about Napoleon Dynamite and something else) are not even from SCARY MOVIES... so what the fuck? Thats just making fun of any type of movie even if its not scary... for that it was better to do Not Another Teen Movie 2.
Besides that, the best Tom-Oprah parody they made is this:
http://mirror.randomfoo.net/memes/2005/06/Tom_Cruise_Kills_Oprah.mov
Scary Movie 3 had a lot of stuff not from horror movies as well, but I loved that movie. It had nothing to do with the first two in premise or style, but that certain Zucker zaniness was, at times, in full hilarious swing.
That said, I have no interest in part 4. It looks terrible.
Man, I can't believe one of the Zs in ZAZ would be involved in this franchise. But then again even Mel Brooks has made some mediocre spoofs.
I liked the first Scary Movie. I haven't seen it in several years though, and I have a feeling it doesn't hold up too well. But it probably holds up better than all these movies that just parody whatever flavors-of-the-month were popular when the scripts were being written.
The first one was fun... I havent seen it in years also, but I remember seeing it several times when it first came out and I got the DVD after... 2nd one wasnt as good, and the 3rd one was crap. This one will suck too.
I wound up seeing this tonight because a friend of mine whom I haven't seen in a while wanted to see it. Complete crap as expected. I laughed maybe 5 times through the whole movie and almost no one else was laughing at what I found funny. The sold-out audience was eating it up, even the recycled jokes like the obligatory Michael Jackson gag (which I was praying they wouldn't do) or the fake Japanese ("Toyota Kawasaki Toshiba" and the like), which was a variation on the fake Native American that they did in Hot Shots 15 years ago. Terrible.
Seeing as I've never seen Saw or The Village or The Grudge or a couple of other movies they spoofed, I really didn't care what they were making fun of. But this made me realize why these 2 sucked, compared to the Naked Gun movies or Airplane or Top Secret. There's no love here for the movies they spoof. If the writers/director actually cared about the movies they're making fun of, they might care enough to make more than just a string of the most famous scenes from every hit horror movie in the last 18 months.
uh, I don't think I'll watch it, but I want to. first of all, I'm eternally in love with anna faris. secondly, I actually thought the trailer was funny. not as funny as the zuckers thought it would be, but still pretty funny. leslie nelson playing bush is just a very very good thought.
Quote from: hacksparrow on April 15, 2006, 12:54:39 AM
I wound up seeing this tonight because a friend of mine whom I haven't seen in a while wanted to see it. Complete crap as expected. I laughed maybe 5 times through the whole movie and almost no one else was laughing at what I found funny.
That pretty much sums it up for me too. I was pressured into it by two other friends since they mentioned how the 3rd was good. There were only a few enjoyable moments in the movie for me.
Quote from: musse on April 15, 2006, 12:15:25 PM
I was pressured into it by two other friends since they mentioned how the 3rd was good.
Get new friends.
Quote from: hacksparrow on April 15, 2006, 12:54:39 AM
fake Japanese ("Toyota Kawasaki Toshiba" and the like), which was a variation on the fake Native American that they did in Hot Shots 15 years ago.
Hot Shots! Part Deux also had great fake Arabic. "Kareem Abdul Jabbar! Al Jarreau!"
Weinsteins on top as 'Scary' opens with $41 million
Bob and Harvey Weinstein returned to the boxoffice lead as "Scary Movie 4" debuted with about $41 million, the first No. 1 opening for the new company founded by the former Miramax bosses. It was the best Easter weekend debut ever, beating the $30.1 million opening of "Panic Room" in 2002, according to studio estimates Sunday. With the success of "Scary Movie 4," Bob Weinstein said he hopes to have a fifth film in the horror-spoof franchise in theaters over Easter weekend next year.
"I say the Weinsteins should be getting 'Scary Movie' 5 through 10 ready right away," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Weinstein said director David Zucker and writer Jim Abrahams, collaborators on "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" movies, would reteam for the next sequel.
"Scary Movie 4" was released under the Weinstein Co.'s Dimension label, which the brothers brought with them after their departure from Disney-owned Miramax last year. Disney continues to share half the proceeds from the "Scary Movie" flicks and any future installments in pre-existing Dimension franchises, such as the "Scream" or "Spy Kids" series.
The Weinsteins will have sole control over any new franchises Dimension undertakes.
"We've got four or five new franchises in development, so it's not just like I'm going to go ad infinitum on the old stuff," Bob Weinstein said. "We've got other ideas that I'm really excited about starting."
This is pretty much the worst movie ever made...
I dont know why in hell I saw this... I wanted to see Benchwarmers but I got there late and that was the only one to see... not only its not funny, but they are not making fun of scary movies anymore. Brokeback Mountain, Tom Cruise, Million Dollar Baby? Its fucking ridiculous...
Quote from: kal on April 17, 2006, 07:50:03 AM
This is pretty much the worst movie ever made...
You clearly haven't seen Part 3.