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Spectacular Spoofs
Posted by cinemaobsessed • 8/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: cinema obsessed, comedy, Film, hollywood, movies, spoof
There's nothing like a good spoof. So many to choose from!
Cinema Obsessed wants to know...
...what is your favourite spoof?
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So many good ones, but I'd have to say the best ones I can think of right now are Spaceballs and the Austin Powers movies.
BTW, thanks for restarting this thread, we appreciate it! -
Spaceballs is excellent! I also like "Lesbian vampire killers". Sounds like a porn movie, but it isn't. It's hilarious!
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Ooooh Spaceballs is high on our list too. We're also big fans of Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
No one does a spoof like Mel Brooks!-
Dracula: Dead and Loving It is also very good.
And the Hot Shots movies by Jim Abrahams! -
Blazing Saddles is my favorite Mel Brooks spoof movie.
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Do the Christopher Guest movies count? If they do "Waiting for Guffman" is probably at the top of my list.-
Holy crap, Waiting For Guffman is one of our favie cult classics. We even talked about it on the site!
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"Guffman" I think may be the perfect spoof movie. So dry, you can really see some small town in the midwest with a community theater and a Dairy Queen, getting all excited for a famous theater producer/critic to come to their town to see them perform.
And the crazy thing is, as ludicrous as the play is, they actually ARE GOOD!
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Dr. Strangelove.-
Ooh... good call!
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superhero movie
meet the spartans
scary movie the series
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Casino Royale is excellent up to the point where it went off the rails and they fired the principal character...it could have been such an amazing film!
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Shaun of the Dead-
Shaun is great! -
that was brilliant.
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I was always fond of Mel Brooks' High Anxiety. If you know the Hitchcock films, it's really brilliant.
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Along those lines, Young Frankenstein is an amazing classic.
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@stillthinking
Young Frankenstein is such a great spoof. It has every single cliche of b & w horror films. It is one of my all-time favorites.
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I must say though that all of the spoof movies lately have been a bit dry and all too much of the same.
Although I did digg the Alvin and the Chipmunks skit in Disaster Movie-
We literally shat during that scene... genius! Best part of the entire movie!
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Literally? Surely you cannot mean that.
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This Is Spinal Tap -
Yeah, Tap is a masterpiece. "No, we're not going to f*cking do Stonehenge!" -
Another favorite is a lesser known movie called Head Office, with Judge Reinhold, Danny Devito, Rick Moranis, and many other great character actors. The movie debuted in the mid 80s and was one of the first satires on multinational corporations.
There's two great satirical films on smoking and the tobacco industry. One, called Cold Turkey, with Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart, debuted in the mid-60s and more recently the movie called Thank You For Smoking.
A satirical film is a brilliant way to address social commentary through a comedic approach. -
Singing in the Rain is a great spoof about Hollywood and a great musical to boot.
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"I can't stand it" - Lena LaMonte
(love that movie.)
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And how could we not mention the greatest spoof on '70s disaster movies and '70s culture.... AIRPLANE
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