With genres like action, comedy, drama, musicals in mainstream movies, could we include spoofs as a genre? Spoofs are movies that either poke fun or exaggerate a certain aspect of another. For example last year, Vampires Suck spoofed the Twilight Saga. Along with Vampires Suck, there has been 38 spoofs created. Plots range from poking fun at the many superhero movies to appear to even one about the various horror movies. Usually spoofs are basically comedies but include another aspect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody_film#2000s -list of movies
check out an example of a spoof- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xo2aUmj1_o
The Scary Movie series are pretty funny. This is great for the present day, because the first premiered in 2000. The fifth should be made soon. (The announcement it would be made came in 2009.) Disaster Movie, on the other hand sucked. Comedy Central plays a lot of spoof movies. I think this comedic style, spoof, can be classified as its own genre. Like satire, it would be headed under comedy.
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of alot of Spoof movies. Scary Movie is my favorite of them all. I think the only people who can enjoy spoof films are the people who watched the films being spoofed. Leslie Nielson was a great example pf a spoof actor. I think since nothing original has come out, spoofs will keep being made.
ReplyDeleteFor the most part I dont think spoofs should be a category because most of the films arent that good except for the scary movie series and thats about it. It would be unacceptable to have many movies coming out every year which made fun of other movies. after a certain point it wouldnt be funny and it would get boring.
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