Enough with The STOOPID Spoofs, Already!!

The weekend isn't over yet.  It is estimated that Meet the Spartans made $6,660,000 on Friday.  Weekend estimates are coming tomorrow.

That said, moviegoers in the U.S.A. have a history of not championing the best movies at the box office.  Don't believe me?  Just look at the top 4 from last year.  Are those really the four best movies of 2007?  No!  We just wanted to see them.

Sarcasm alert!  Sarcasm alert! . . .

Originally posted by moat What are you talking about? The American public are great at how they choose to spend their money on films. Those movies must just be too deep for you to understand. Like MEET THE SPARTANS.

I read on Box Office Mojo that Meet the Spartans & Rambo came in at 1 & 2, arguably making both movies "the lesser of two evils" over the weekend...  

 

Who are these stoopid spoof fans?  They seem to exist, as they make these movies successful, but nowhere can I find any evidence of their existence.  And what does Carmen Electra as Spider(wo)man being fired by Trump (who loses his wig) have to do with the 300 based content?  CNN indicates that teens and young adults liked the movie, but I can't see those people enjoying this crap.  It's as if the Aaron and Jason fans are just an urban legend, like the Loch Ness Monster.

At the same time, who are these Paris Hilton fans?  And Rambo fans?

Well, I think Fantasy Movie may be the next "spoof" from Aaron and Jason.

My 11 year-old son desperately wanted to see SPARTANS, so we went on a Saturday matinee. My response?  While it was overfull with the usual groan-inducing visual and verbal puns, and the whole Pairs-Hilton-as-the-Hunchback thing did not work at all, it wasn't nearly as laugh free or lame as either DATE MOVIE or EPIC MOVIE.

We decided, as long as we were at a multiplex, to make it a double feature, so we also saw CLOVERFIELD. I must say, I was Berry Impressed. It's been ages since I found any "monster movie" as involving, exciting and original as this. And, of course, the movie-going public (after giving it a record-breaking launch) are deserting CLOVERFIELD in droves -- Its second weekend numbers were down over 65% from the first. If this lack of interest in good film-making is a reflection of American movie-goers' tastes, that goes a LONG way toward explaining why Hollywood makes three or four RAMBOs or EPIC MOVIEs for every one CLOVERFIELD that sneaks by their genericize-everything radar... 

 

I was blown away by "Cloverfield". It was millions times better than "The Blair Witch Project". Unlike "Blair Witch", there was an immediate threat. "Blair Witch" was, essentially, three morons (one of them a Razzie winner) walking around while some old b/witch moved things. Also, "Cloverfield" didn't try to pass itself off as true. Everyone knew that "Blair Witch" was fake going in.

Well, I get the upper hand because here's the trailer!!!!:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/01/31/the-superhero-movie-trai ler/

Don't know about anyone else...but I laughed at that more than Meet the Spartans...

I HATED "A Time To Kill", but I'll give you "Tigerland". The main problem I have with Schumacher is what he did with Batman. I was the biggest Batman fan as a child. He was my hero. Then I saw this. It was like discovering Santa wasn't real.