• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I would also add Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as great newer parodies. The first, starring John C. Reilly is a spoof of Walk the Line and music biopics in general, the second a spoof of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and popstar documentaries in general, starring Andy Samberg. Both movies were box office bombs unfortunately, despite being really funny and also having actually great songs.

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      13 days ago

      Interesting suggestions. They’re not what I typically consider in this particular style of parody movies because they’re a lot less slapstick and absurd but instead are very targeted mockeries of a single concept or style. Worth watching for sure, but I know they wouldn’t scratch the same itch for me.

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        13 days ago

        Airplane! is also a parody of one particular movie that is mostly forgotten now, Zero Hour, and spoofs a then popular subgenre of airplane catastrophe movies.

        Walk Hard in particular is very much in the ZAZ vein.

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          Fun fact: Zero Hour is so unintentionally funny they lifted a lot of it verbatim and Airplane! is technically a remake. They had to buy the rights.