What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?
The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I’m curious if Lemmy has other such examples.
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Last I remember hearing allegations from the Justice League team… Nothing further.
He’s made some of my favourite movies, including both Avengers 1 and 2, and Cabin in the Woods… So it was disheartening to hear such stuff about him.
I read that Allison Hannigan stood by Whedon, kinda ignoring Charisma’s suffering under him. Which is why I don’t like her anymore.
But there was a lot of shit wrong there…James Marsters was so infatuated with underage Michelle Trachtenberg, that he even wrote a very questionable song about her.
Finding all this out kinda ruins my teenage memories of the show.
That’s a bummer.
I love her in so many things.
I haven’t seen Charisma so idk any of the rest but I’m sad that he created some of my favourite work and destroyed his reputation and my respect for him all at once.
There is a curse in the Star Trek movies where every other movie in the franchise is terrible. The first one is bad, the second is good, the third is bad, and so on. This almost fits perfectly, but it inverts from the 10th movie onwards. The 9th is bad, the 10th is bad, the 11th is decent, the 12th is bad…
However, if you add Galaxy Quest into the line up, then it’s the good Star Trek movie between the 9th and 10th, and the pattern holds.
Nah. I respect what MacFarlane is trying to do, but Orville is nowhere as good as TNG or SNW. It echoes TNG in a lot of ways but never rises above it. The writing is more heavy-handed and MacFarlane doesn’t have the gravitas or the acting chops to rise to these ambitions.
It was good while the only current Trek we had was Picard and the godawful Discovery, but I think the SNW creators got the Trek mainline back on the tracks.
Scream was incredible meta. It references plenty of slasher films and even has one character talking about the rules of slasher films.
While it’s not exactly a parody, it does poke fun at its own genre a lot.
While it’s not exactly a parody
It is. It is exactly a parody.
The unbearable weight of massive talent, with Nic Cage.
Night & Day, with Tom Cruise.
While it’s not a direct parody I think The Nice Guys used and subverts a lot of 70s buddy cop tropes.
And after rewatching that trailer I found it refreshing to see it didn’t spoil the story and didn’t have any BWAAAAAAAAAH
Genre satire is different than political satire in that most people who make it often do so out of love for the genre not hated. In fact these works of media aren’t nearly as funny if you aren’t familiar with the tropes and story beats within a genre, so the audience also ends up being fans. The people who watch slasher parodies are the same people who enjoy slashers.
I like Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, a farcical noir film that is like a quilt made from the footage of a bunch of other films with original fabric connecting the pieces.
Austin Powers was such a good spoof of the genre that it killed the genre it was spoofing (for a little while). It was also a great movie in its own right!
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