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Whatever1 wrote:They're not really a waste of time to make. Even though these movies never get good reviews and never do a ton in the box office,they are a very safe investment and almost always turn a profit,because they are so ridiculously cheap to make. Uwe Boll's movies are god awful,for example,but every single one of them has made money on the bottom line,so that's why he keeps getting bankrolled. It's the same with parody movies. You don't need big name actors. The screenplay practically writes itself. You don't need to drop massive bank on cgi/special effects. What you do have is enough of a built in audience of people who enjoyed the original material and will pay to see it get parodied and/or people who have the original material enough to pay to see it get parodied.[/qyite]
Yeah, basically if you can be confident of getting a cheap to medium cheap film into cinemas, then you know you'll come out miles ahead.
The best parody movies are probably the old Mel Brooks flicks,though. The most recent one that I can really remember being good was Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood.
I like Airplane and Blazing Saddles most.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2010/08/17 14:49:46
Subject: Re:Vampires Suck(not what you thnk about)
