Airplane and Naked Gun hit the spot for me.
Duck Soup is, along with Itâs a Gift (with Fields), probably the greatest comedy in history, but I never considered them as real spoofs (Duck Soup maybe comes closer in that aspect). As for Fields, his movie The Old-fashioned Way is probably his best shot at spoofness. In it he plays âThe Great McGonnigleâ, an enormous swankpot of an actor. A great actor who plays a worthless actor, thatâs fantastic.
Maybe the Pink Panther movies could count as spoofs (of detective movies). Great things in them, for sure.
Yeah, I wouldnât qualify Duck Soup as a spoof, nor Pink Panther. They have parodic elements, but they donât pick a certain genre or character and go through most of the rules of such genre/character and break them. The characters and story have a dimension of their own beyond parody or spoof.
Iâd say the best spoof is Naked Gun by far. I understand Airplaneâs pioneering the genre and all, but the Naked Gun movies are so full of jokes, and theyâre all (or at least almost all) so good you can rewatch them over and over again and still laugh. That doesnât happen to me with Airplane which has plenty of jokes that fall flat.
Only the first Naked Gun, only the first. And the 6 TV episodes of of the forerunner Police Squad.
Here is an hilarious interrogation scene:
also Hot Shots 1, 2 are good spoofs, although when i rewatch all these mentioned spoofs i have an impression,that some of humour is little outdated
but all in all great films in comparison to nowadays parodies like Meet the Spartans
My favourite spoof is the segment A Fistful of Yen of Kentucky Fried Movie. 
[url]Bruce Lee - A Fistful of Yen Trailer - YouTube
Completely agree with this
Alien Thunder - Donald Sutherland and Kevin McCarthy are a couple of Mounties, an Indian they are supposed to arrest for killing a cow the Indian shoots and kills McCarthy then Sutherland goes on a mission to apprehend him but and the same time he is out to get him too. Ok for a watch I suppose but I couldnât really recommend it. There are much better films of itâs type out there.
Directed by the man behind the classic Maple Syrup Porno Deux femmes en or! ;D
Weird!
And it has to be the only Canadian western I know of ; notable in a way, I guess.
[quote=âI love you M.E. Kay, post:6229, topic:1923â]Directed by the man behind the classic Maple Syrup Porno Deux femmes en or! ;D
Weird!
And it has to be the only Canadian western I know of ; notable in a way, I guess.[/quote]
Iâll check that porno thing tomorrow (itâs past 1 PM here)
As far as Canadian westerns are concerned, I recommend THE GREY FOX (1981)
[quote=âscherpschutter, post:6230, topic:1923â]Iâll check that porno thing tomorrow (itâs past 1 PM here)
As far as Canadian westerns are concerned, I recommend THE GREY FOX (1981)
Looks good, Iâll have to add that to my must-watch list. As for Deux femmes en or, it has a few things going on for it, but itâs no ValĂ©rie (the first French Canadian soft-core) which isnât exactly a great film, but definitively better. And it has a killer soundtrack : - YouTube
Found this boring to the extreme.
Back with the spoof discussion, I personally like all three of the Naked Gun movies. The third oneâs weaker but I think the first two are just as good. And the good thing about the naked gun is that it mostly spoofs a whole genre rather than a specific movie so it doesnât get as dated as many others. It doesnât rely too much on spoofing certain famous scenes except a couple of times. And the cast is brilliant. I never saw the series though, I should do it sometime.
Police Squad (the series) was the best of the lot in my opinion. But then it was the first. The movies were developed from the series.
[size=12pt]The Man from Nowhere [/size] (Ajeossi â 2010, Jeong-Beom Lee)
Not the movie from the brothers, but a Korean action movie from last year, that was immensely successful on the home market. It made a star out of young actor Bin Won. He plays a taciturn young man who never smiles and works in a pawnshop. His only contact with the outside world is a little girl whoâs mother is a drug addict. When the mother steals a load of drugs from a dealer, he accidently gets in possession of the drugs. Mother and daughter are kidnapped and he can only get them back by doing a job for the local kingpin. He does, but the kingpin doesnât keep his word.
And then we discover that this young man is a secret agent, trained in the art of killing with every possible weapons, including his bare hands âŠ
There are some similarities to Jee-Woon Kimâs A Bittersweet Life (and Taxi Driver): the protagonist is a cornered loner who unleashes all his devils to clean up the city. A thinking manâs action movie. Veers from melodrama to violent action and back, and probably counts a couple of plot twists (and improbabilities) too many, but otherwise great cinema, with a fascinating build-up: the first killings are off-stage, the next seen on security cameras, then a few bones are broken, and only near the end you get the full bloody glory. I think many people here will love this movie.
7,5 (out of 10)
Hereâs the trailer:
The problem with spoofs is that the films that they are making fun of are normally dated themselves, so they âinheritâ if you will, these dated elements which mean they donât stand up so well in the decades since their release. There are exceptions of course, and some spoofs like Young Frankenstein (my favourite) are just simply great.
Duck Soup and Itâs a Gift are masterpieces of comedy but I do not think they were conceived as spoofs or intended as such.
Yeah thatâs why I like âThis is Spinal Tapâ, its a spoof of an all concept or life style
[quote=âscherpschutter, post:6230, topic:1923â]Iâll check that porno thing tomorrow (itâs past 1 PM here)
As far as Canadian westerns are concerned, I recommend THE GREY FOX (1981)
I recommend this subtle western also.
[quote=âscherpschutter, post:6235, topic:1923â][size=12pt]The Man from Nowhere [/size] (Ajeossi â 2010, Jeong-Beom Lee)[/quote]Great stuff, I watched it last week (or was it the week before?)
My Gun is Quick. Fun B Noir loaded with bad acting, great lines and a few strange characters. Definitely reminiscent of Kiss Me Deadly although not nearly as good. I think it would have been way better if Ralph Meeker played Mike Hammer. 3/5