The only good spoof director
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matthewcs25 — 14 years ago(May 15, 2011 10:02 AM)
Mel Brooks is the only director who can make a good spoof. Sure, his movies are ridiculous to the point of being funny, but they are not full of raunchy toilet humor and inane actions like Date Movie, Epic Movie, or others like that are. His movies actually still have a good plot to them. He is the only director who should make spoofs.
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wargames83 — 14 years ago(May 24, 2011 09:18 PM)
"Mel Brooks is the only director who can make a good spoof." I guess you have never seen
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
or
Airplane!
.
"they are not full of raunchy toilet humor and inane actions" I guess you have never seen
Blazing Saddles
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BertramWilberforceWooster — 14 years ago(June 28, 2011 12:15 AM)
Naked Gun was the last truly good spoof that, imo.
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TheUltimateMovieFreak — 13 years ago(June 28, 2012 04:00 AM)
Mel Brooks is not the only one. He is one of three filmmakers/filmmaker teams who characterize the spoof genre:
- Mel Brooks
- Monty Python
- ZAZ (apart from their works since 2002)
They brought us great funny movies like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "Airplane!", "Spaceballs", "Blazing Saddles", "Hot Shots!", "Life of Brian" and so on!
The "Movie"-films should nev1908er be compared to good spoof movies! The last one who was slightly watchable was "Scary Movie".
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maakus — 13 years ago(November 26, 2012 03:01 AM)
Shame on you for even mentioning two totally awful spoof movies as examples ;).
I love Mel Br2000ooks's movies, but i must say that Zucker Abrahams Zucker were the masters of spoof. "Airplane", "Police Squad", "Top Secret", "The Naked Gun", "Hot Shots"
The Wayans brothers did some decent spoofs with a couple of the first "Scary Movie." But then there's been some REALLY awful spoofs like "Epic Movie", "Date Movie", "Scary Video", and so on. Unfortunately it seems like the spoof genre is pretty dead nowadays. Atleast when it comes to good ones. -
ElMaruecan82 — 13 years ago(December 31, 2012 08:42 AM)
Brooks lost his touch with
High Anxiety
,
Spaceballs
was fun but
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
was an embarrassment.
And your assessment couldn't be wronger, have you seen
Airplane!
,
The Naked Gun!
, and the funniest of all:
Top Secret!
probably the film with biggest laugh-out-loud moments per minute.
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JakeZen2 — 10 years ago(June 11, 2015 08:14 AM)
After reading the responses, I am questioning what it means to be a spoof movie. I have never thought of Monty Python movies as spoof movies. I think of spoof movies where the movie is taking a specific genre of movie and exaggerating the c1908liche's. But, if we are casting that wide of a net on the definition of spoof then you have missed the all time classic next to Blazing Saddles and Airplane SPINAL TAP!! By the way, spoof is a funny word if you type/say it enough times.