Jake At The Movies- Parody Movies.

It was announced earlier this summer that Hollywood would once again be granting mankind another piece of cinematic brilliance; a movie that will eventually lift humanity up into a new plane of existance and understanding, but giving us revolutionary insight into our own being. This movie, of course, is Disaster Movie.

Disaster Movie is the latest installment in a series of annual pop-culture montages that are effectivly cinematic versions of VH1’s Best Week Ever. Movies that forget pointless movie cliches like original plots, characters, or jokes that are actually funny. In a way, they’re the Melt-Banana of movies, only instead of breaking the established norms of a form of art for the purpose of creating a unique piece of creative art, it just doesn’t have a plot because the writers are lazy idiots.

I first saw the trailer for Disaster Movie in a thread on the website www.nohomers.net. In the trailer, I saw Iron Man have a plush cow fall on his head, Hannah Montana being killed by something, Hancock hitting his head on something, and Juno beating up a guy dressed up as Sarah Jessica Parker’s character from Sex In The City. This leads me to a few questions, the most important being the relevence of disaster movies here, because it appears that there wasn’t a single disaster movie reference in the whole trailer. But the other question, and the one I shall be discussing today, is why the fuck do people keep making these movies?

Now, I have to admit that I haven’t watched a parody movie all the way through since Scary Movie 3. I did watch about 20 minutes of Epic Movie in CinaMax a month or two ago, but stopped watching once I lost the will to live and had to be talked out of jumping off of a bridge by several police officers. But, from the clips I have seen, I can’t imagine why anyone over the age of 12 would want to see these movies, and why any parents would actually let their kids watch this crap.

These movies do amazing at the box office, but I’ve yet to meet a single person who thinks they’re actually funny. Which leads me to seriously wonder who’s going to see these movies. Could it be people going and not admitting to it? This is the only reasonable answer, as I wouldn’t want to admit to it either.

From what I’ve seen, the formula of these movies are pretty simple: taking one movie, then throwing in lame sex puns, random celebrity appearances, and then references to other movies, and throwing it all in a blender filled with bad actors, drinking it, pooping it out, and then packaging it with a not-so-clever title. And I think I could do that if I tried. In fact, I think the 12 year old kid I was puke then walk away at the mall a few days ago probably could write the same movie too.

Now listening to- The Tallest Man on Earth- Shallow Grave.