How Come "Movie" Movies Suck?

I'll just chime in to say Galaxy Quest and Shaun of the Dead are bloody brilliant. I haven't seen Hot Fuzz yet. I must rent it soon.

SirOtter said:

Not to mention the characters' names. Zero Hour! was on TCM recently, and wasn't all that bad a watch for having had about $47 spent on it.

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I laughed at Zero Hour because I could see where Airplane! got all their jokes from. All this time I thought Airplane! was simply a brilliantly written movie. I didn't realize it had been taken almost verbatim from Zero Hour.

Yeah. Which one is the source and which one is the parody?

I just wanted to mention Not Another Teen Movie was written by other folks and not the folks of the "movie" movies and hence the different quality.

maxmordon said:

I just wanted to mention Not Another Teen Movie was written by other folks and not the folks of the "movie" movies and hence the different quality.

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That one was still pretty bad, though.

Sing her a song that has her name it.
Janie's got a gun.

Okay not the exact dialogue but I loved that scene. And that movie was better than the other "Movie" movies.

Jessianodel said:

They haven't even put effort in to come up with a real name.
What makes you think they'll have a real plot?

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Well put.

I have never seen any of the Airport movies, yet I think Airplane is one of the funniest movies ever. Today's parodies are fillled with lots of 'references' and very few jokes.

My four-word film review for Meet the Spartans:
"300 parody, 0 laughs."