05 August 2008

Who's Patronizing These?

I just saw ad on Youtube for this movie. Didn't we just rush Meet The Spartans through to VHS? There's really a market for 2 spoofs in a summer? I remember going to see Dude, Where's My Car? in the theater, thinking it was terrible and trying to wash it down with a rental of Scary Movie. Who knew that movie would spin off 3 sequels and all these annual dollar-theater-dwellers. I guess there's some kind of market for these things:

7/7/00 - Scary Movie - $157,019,771
10/24/03 - Scary Movie 3 - $110,003,217
4/14/06 - Scary Movie 4 - $90,710,620
7/4/01 - Scary Movie 2 - $71,308,997
2/17/06 - Date Movie - $48,548,426
1/26/07 - Epic Movie - $39,739,367
12/14/01 - Not Another Teen Movie - $38,252,284
1/25/08 - Meet the Spartans - $38,233,676

In researching this post, I discovered another movie coming out in 2008 called Extreme Movie that is going straight to video. I've got to be honest. I never saw any of these other movies because they looked terrible. Absolutely horrible. But much like Family Guy will drive a joke into the ground until it's funny, I'm starting to wonder if I should go watch one of these. The idea that they keep releasing these movies is becoming increasingly funny to me. I think they know the parodies are parodies of themselves now.

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