The Trump Campain?
I saw a Spinal Tap as a sneak preview sponsored by KY102 the local rock station. So I was in the theater filled with people who didn’t know that it was a parody, they just thought it was a documentary about a hard rock band that they thought they knew. This made it ten times funnier. I had to actually leave the theater and go into the lobby to resume breathing after the bit about the fate of the various drummers.
Some things can’t be parodied though. SCTV said the attempted to do a parody of Laverne & Shirley, and no matter how ridiculously they played it, it just look like an episode of Laverne & Shirley.
I know. It’s real. And it is embarrassing. The entire Ark exhibit down in KY looks like a joke, too…but it is sincere.
See, here is the thing. I saw Scream in the theater and we all thought that while a few scares were here and there, it was basically a send-up mostly comedy. I guess we were a little bit scared, but we were mainly laughing and appreciating the commentary on all horror movie tropes.
For something even Spinal Tap would have found laughably pretenous, take Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains the Same” movie. The low point is this laughable fantasy sequence four minutes into “No Quarter”, but it also features multiple shots of Robert Plant’s crotch at odd angles for no reason. As one TV host put it, “apparently the movie was directed by Robert Plant’s proctologist”.
And I although I love this song, if somebody did a spoof of the 60s San Francisco scene they could drop this Jefferson Airplane song in and everyone would say what a great parody it is.
The bananas thing reminded my of “Baby Got Book”. The first time I saw it I wasn’t sure if it was meant to be comedy or if it was a serious attempt at Christian rap. Apparently it was the latter.
Satire, yes. Parody, no. (Also - not based on the book in any meaningful way.)
The first time I saw Big Trouble in Little China I thought it was a terrible film trying to be serious. The second time, I got the joke.
I love the album, but can’t stand the film. I’m not sure if the filmmakers needed less drugs, or more, but what they made IS a Led Zeppelin parody.
A wonderfully awful movie. I’ve showed it at my Bad Film Festival.
The thing is, it’s not as if this is a movie that seemed a Good Idea at the time, but hasn’t aged well. It really has been a Stupid Action Movie right from the start. Enjoyable, though.
Certainly the stuntmen loved it. Not only did it give them a lot of jobs, but the scooters they rode were well-made “practical” props, unlike a lot of cobbled-together junk they sometimes have to ride.