Oh man, if you think Scary Movie and Not Another Teen Movie are bad (and they are but there are some funny gags in each) dont ever watch any of the Seltzer-Berg movies. They are complete garbage from front to back with 0 total laughs.
My favorite movie when I was a young teen was Kentucky Fried Movie. Boy oh boy talk about something that couldnāt (and shouldnāt!) be made now.
Haha I donāt blame anyone for not liking Scary Movie. I donāt usually like any of the movies lampooning other movies, especially Not Another and then the subsequent Scary Movie sequels. I think Scary Movie hit the right spot for me because it ended up making fun of Scream, though I read that this was actually a late addition in last minute rewrites.
Loved the Scary Movie franchise as a youth. Itās been a while since Iāve revisited but Iād be surprised if i didnāt still enjoy them.
All of them are good.
Catholic Schoolgirls In Trouble!
Letās make a proper list of movie podcasts that turn bad movies into fun reviews!
- Blank Check
- How Did This Get Made?
- Yeah, Itās that Bad (defunct but old eps are hilarious)
- Red Letter Media (not a fan of their later show Half in the Bag)
- Nando v Movies
- We Hate Movies
- ???
How is The Flop House not #1 here?
Iām Gonna Git You Sucka is 2nd only to Airplane! in the spoof category imo.
Hollywood Shuffle is also really good. I enjoyed The Great White Hype as well. I feel like thereās another black spoof movie Iām forgetting.
I mean Blank Check covers more good movies than bad ones. But they just do directorsā entire filmographies, which inevitably runs them into bad movies in basically every directorās career. But it is fun to hear them mercilessly roast something bad, thatās true. Still, they obviously tend to gravitate toward covering directors they actually like, so the balance tips toward the positive.
Iām really kind of amazed at their willingness to go in on things as honestly as they do, both being working actors who would presumably like to keep their options open to keep getting parts.
The list is in no particular orderā¦
Me too. I know someone who does sound design for a bunch of big movies. I suggested she do a few reaction videos lambasting sound design that doesnāt work. She said lol no, she enjoys having a career and didnāt want to make enemies.
Kentucky Fried Movie crawled so Amazon Women on the Moon could walk so Airplane! could fly.
Lol, Hot Shots came out when I was 13 and I thought it was the funniest thing imaginable. No way I could/would watch that now, it would just ruin happy childhood memories.
On one of the episodes where Nia DaCosta guests, I think for Cast Away, she actually asked something like, āDo you guys worry sometimes what being honest like this might do to your careers?ā And one was just like, āOh yeah, I constantly think that this is just destroying my acting career.ā But the podcast has gotten big enough that I assume itās providing a living by itself.
Iām still blown away that David Krumholtz turned up on a recent episode and quickly went in on Chris OāDonnell with, āI havenāt met Chris OāDonnell, Iām sure heās a nice guy. But heās not an actor. Heās never been an actor.ā Shit, man. OāDonnell is still working as a TV actor. Youāve gotta save that kind of smoke for someone you at least personally dislike.
Aw but I like Chris in a couple of old movies. I could watch him in The Three Musketeers over and over. And how about his bit part in Fried Green Tomatoes?? Iāll die on the hill that says Batman Forever is much better than Batman Returns.
I have to confess that the rest of his filmography looks pretty bad
I have no strong feelings about Chris OāDonnell. But hearing Krumholtz be so unfiltered was refreshing. The Scent of a Woman episode of Blank Check is recommended listening for anyone, and heās a big reason why.
Will also shout out the Almost Famous episode of that podcast, especially if a person has even passing familiarity with Marc Maron.
Respectfullyā¦no.