EtherWhack@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoThe Scary Movie franchise is getting a Wayans brothers reboot - The Vergewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down19cross-posted to: movies@lemm.ee
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkThe Scary Movie franchise is getting a Wayans brothers reboot - The Vergewww.theverge.comEtherWhack@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: movies@lemm.ee
minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-25 days agoAirplane! 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.
minus-squareEvilBit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoFun 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.
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.
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.