<![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Can we stop using Pam Anderson's picture to illustrate everything to do with these crappy movie-makers? I am seriously sick of it. Variety, people. It's the spice of life.

napthia9

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Great. It'll be like watching ninety minutes of sci-fi trailers overdubbed by the same people who do the voices and sound effects for America's Funniest Animals.

MrLister

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> I guarantee you they are going to use the Robot leaking coolant joke or some variant of it.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @B: You can't copyright a title. Maybe you can trademark it.

And your opus shouldn't be confused with "Movie Movie", which was actually an entertaining little flick in the 70's.

[www.imdb.com]

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Wait wait - people actually SEE those movies?

phoenix

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> He should spoof Star Wars. They could get a little guy with a big black helmet pretending to be Darth Vader, and a fat guy dressed up as a half-man, half-dog instead of Chewbacca.

You'd have to give it some kind of crazy name, though. I don't know. Star Balls? Space Wars? Something.

braak

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Soylent Green. Now that would be a great comedy concept!

allnamesused

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @bonniegrrl: I agree.

Meredith Woerner

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Doc Gratis, no fart jokes? If it wasn't for poor taste I'd have none at all! I love South Park humor, especially when it involves sex, farts and sf. Butt seriously folks, these movies can only make fun of popular culture, and if sf wasn't popular they wouldn't bother. May the (sound of loud fart) be with you!

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Totally. There hasn't been a decent cop movie since Naked Gun 4, a decent spy movie since Spy Hard, a decent horror movie since Scary Movie...

Scifi fans suck. They are killing the genre.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> are we very far away from "Porn Movie"?

perun99

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Actually it's a Fantastic Four costume from Superhero Movie.

And it will either follow Star Wars, Star Trek or The Matrix as there are no other multi-film science fiction movies out there. But it won't damage sci-fi anymore than Superhero Movie damaged Iron Man.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Slatz_Grobnik: True enough. And weren't sci-fi fans supposed to have more of a sense of humor than other genres' fans?

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Just seeing that photo makes me wish she was in the new "Barbarella" instead of Rose McGowan. *sigh*

bonniegrrl

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> "Sci-Fi Movie" will destroy our genre? I though we were doing that ourselves well enough as is.

Slatz_Grobnik

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Plague: True, but I will almost certainly just download it.

shan6

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> How about a twofer?

Spoof 'Event Horizon' as both sci-fi and horror !

BuckFoston

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Zantor:
I'm sure people do. Otherwise they'd stop making them.
You can say a lot of things about tacky kitch and poor taste, but apparently it's at least profitable.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Does anyone actually pay money to see these films? I have never seen one, or even thought about it, even on DVD or cable.

Zantor

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> I am proud to say that I have never watched any of these movies.

ComicDork

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> To paraphrase Patton Oswalt, "At Midnight, I Will Kill Craig Mazin with a Shovel."

Star Wars and Star Trek have already been spoofed (by Spaceballs [which also hit Alien and Planet of the Apes] and Galaxy Quest, respectively), so...BSG? Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Kaiju?

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> To stop these movies 1-2-3,
Here's a fresh new way that's trouble-free,
It's got Paul Anka's guarantee...
(Guarantee void in Tennessee.)
Just don't look! Just don't look!
Just don't look! Just don't look!
Just don't look! Just don't look!

(Repeat until dead.)

rakdaddy

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Didn't they do this already with 2001: A Space Travesty. Which was terrible.

jrwvampire

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Space Balls.

darcymcgee

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @HockeyMountain: I notice you carefully say Scary Movie 1 leaving wiggle room later to say that you probably saw 2, which was one of the funniest movies I've ever begrudgingly seen. It made me go back and watch 1, and 3 on cable and they were fuuuuggin awful.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> The SciFi genre is completely open (even welcoming) of satire. But the "fill in something popular" MOVIE series of films are so bad, so rancid and so shitty that even teenage douche nozzles who think Che Guavara is the guy who founded American Outfitters find them low brow and demeaning to their intelligence. ON the positive side, someone somewhere will get hit in the nuts...IN SPACE!!!

knots

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Plague: Didn't see Scary movie 1. Didn't see "Epic Movie" won't watch this.

HockeyMountain

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Oh, listen to you people.
You all know you will watch it eventually so you can complain about what a piece of shit it is.

Admit it.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Nothing will ever top the greatest SF spoof ever, Battlefield Earth.

Wait a minute, you're telling me they were serious?

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Mathmos: I know what you mean, I see a couple of planets there I'd like to investigate.

That is supposed to be an X-Men costume though from Superhero Movie.

To Ruin a genre, don't people need to see it?

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> I'm still waiting for Space Balls 2 - The Search for More Merchandising.
I don't know why. It'll probably be a prequel that retcons the original all to hell. There's simply no respect for the genre these days..

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @DocGratis: I'm in the process of copywriting the name. My script will be done soon. I'm gonna be rich.

B

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Ugh...This is going to be terrible.

Oddly, my favorite sci-fi spoof in recent years was on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, when they satirized the "Last Starfighter." The mooninites distributed a crappy video game to find the "Moon Master"-- which was actually part of a pyramid scheme.

That will be hard to top.

Hes-Dead-Jim

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @B: Now that is a funny concept....

ok it is a funny comment..
(and scary if they really do it)

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> @Jeff-Minor: True...

However, satire this is not...

And this genre (or any other) is not really perfect for low brow fart/sex jokes..

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> I can't wait for Movie Movie to come out. It's going to be 74 minutes of recycling the "jokes" from Scary movie 1-x, Epic Movie, etc.

B

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> This genre is perfect for satire.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> I took my son to see Superhero movie and the only other person there was another teenage boy. This was on the first Saturday afternoon it was out. Needless to say the movie was not in the theater the next week.
The only thing I can say about Superhero Movie is that it was better than Epic Movie.


reddingofish

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Seeing as their target audience isn't really SF fans, they have to go with something that crossed over to the mainstream. Pretty much the last time that happened was Star Wars, though you can always spoof Star Trek because let's face it, Trekkies are easy to make fun of.

The Blow Leprechaun

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> The pic suggests they're trespassing on Galaxy Quest territory.

Mathmos

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> It would be likely that they'd spoof the latest big scifi hit, but I'm failing to remember what that would be at this point. Honestly, I think the easiest target would be Firefly/Serenity. Small cast of oddball characters and an excuse to go world-to-world and parody-to-parody while still maintaining some sort of coherent plot along the way.

Gospel X

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> Craig Mazin explained his frustration with being forced to cram so many different movie spoofs and motifs into the two Scary Movie films he worked on.

Yes because Sci-Fi has so much less variety than Horror.

HockeyMountain

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> "Naked Gun 4X4... In Space"

SundaySunday

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> I have to say ... those look a lot bigger than I remember them being back when we used to date.

Outlandish

]]> <![CDATA["Scary Movie" Crew Will Destroy Our Genre]]> These films are such a far cry from Airplane!

Really, I'm waiting for Mazin to get hit by a bus.

El_Guapo

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