• @Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
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      Hot Fuzz is one of the better examples in this thread, because it doesn’t run solely on ribbing buddy cop films. If you’ve never seen a buddy cop film in your life, Hot Fuzz is still a perfectly good comedy with some surprisingly touching moments.

      Knowing what it parodies makes it better, of course, but it doesn’t look down at them.

  • @untorquer@lemmy.world
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    Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

    Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

    Happy Gilmore

    • @Bgugi@lemmy.world
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      Idiocracy has transitioned from pessimistic take to optimistic. At least in Idiocracy everybody listened to the smart one and enacted changes that helped.

  • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    Blur - Song 2 was intended as a parody of American rock and is laden with nonsense lyrics. It’s their most known song in America by a wide margin and might even be their most known song globally.

    Woohoo

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    I think a lot of Whitest Kid’s U Know stuff genuinely transcends the topics its mocking by how good it is.

    For example: WKUK - Kennedy Assasination

    That song at 3:41 swims into my head from time to time, when I’m feeling stressed or overworked or uncertain about the future:

    Somewhere out in space there is a place,
    Where I can do what I want to,
    And all at my own pace.

    Somewhere out of time I hope I’ll find,
    A place where I can just unwind,
    And work on my own mind.

    Oh send me a signal, oh give me a prayer,
    I just need to know that there’s some spot out there,
    Where I could be me and you could be you…

    Just a pure sentiment longing for free time, personal agency, co-existence, brotherhood, and harmony – which I think are topics everyone can click with.

    • I Cast Fist
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      Merchandising! Merchandising! Spaceballs the t-shirt! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the FLAMETHROWER!!! The kids love this one.

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    For my wife Spaceballs is the original and Star Wars is the spoof.

    But more seriously, too many people didn’t register that Scream was a parody. That way it managed to surpass older slashers.

  • The Quuuuuill
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    Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don’t know about the existence of the latter

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      I’ve seen a lot of people mistake it for a parody of Airport, which…I think there’s a reference or two in there but Airplane! is a parody of airline disaster thrillers in general and Zero Hour specifically. The sick kid and the stewardess singing with the guitar is actually a reference to Airport 1975.

      Airplane! II, The Sequel is a parody of Airport, with the whole bomb in the suitcase plot.

    • @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      it also spawned the whole genre and although Leslie Nielsen made lots of movies before this, his legacy is this as well as the other parody movies

      • Captain Aggravated
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        It definitely remade Leslie Nielsen’s career. He (along with Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges) were known as very serious drama actors, and the thing is, they play their roles as such. Although they may be absurd, they deliver their lines perfectly seriously.

        Leslie Nielson in particular was so hysterical his career shifted into comedy, starring in Police Squad! and The Naked Gun, and then a string of movies mostly not made by the ZAZ that used him wrong, frankly. Where they have him being silly and making funny faces…he was excellent at delivering an absurd line as if it was perfectly serious.

        • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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          Robert Stack apparently kept trying to play it like a comedy, and it took them a while to convince him to play it completely straight.

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            It really worked that Johnny played by Stephen Stucker was the only character who seemed to know what genre of film he was in. You get one character who gets to be wacky.

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            There’s that perfect moment where he and Peter Graves share a moment. “How long until you can land this plane.” “I don’t know.” “Well can’t you guess?” “Well, not for another two hours.” “…You can’t take a guess for another two hours?” The fun of it is they got serious acting talent to deliver this dumb midwest humor dialog.

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        Yeah they cast a lot of guys like Peter Graves and Robert Stack that normally appeared in the over-serious thriller type movies. So Leslie Nielsen was just one of that group of actors they cast to have guys deliver silly lines in that stern serious tone that they did in actual serious movies.

        But of course Leslie Nielsen was amazing at it, and didn’t need to do those over-serious movies anymore. And don’t call me Shirley!