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“Scary Movie” Getting Rebooted?
Ok, this one just takes the proverbial cake with stupidity frosting and a creamy center of WTF. I know there are a lot of remakes and reboots… and I’m ok with the idea of them in general… but sometimes things just go too far, and this appears to be one of those instances.
It’s being reported by the folks over at Cinema Blend that the Weinstein Company is planning on rebooting… are you ready for this… Scary Movie. Yes… THAT “Scary Movie”.
I’m one of those guys who has NEVER understood what anyone has ever seen in any of these films. But the fact of the matter is they make money at the box office which means there are people out there willing to go see them. But even with that being the case… how the hell do you “reboot” Scary Movie? And why on earth would anyone want to? These movies suck. But whatever…
The story goes on to say that neither Wayans brothers or Anna Faris would be involved.
So giddy up.
If people pay for it, they’ll keep making them… Scary Movie 4 opened to over 40 million dollars if I recall correctly.
You are absolutely right it opened at $40M. Combined they have made like $800 with a budget of less than $150 so I am not surprised at all.
Isn’t there really little to no continuity between the films anyway? Why reboot?
yeah pretty much. It may have common actors but the stories are all just a mishmash of recently popular movies.
Maybe “reboot” is just a hot word right now… I mean they’ll just call it SCARY MOVIE RELOADED or something like that and have 50% of the same actors and go by their usual formula anyways right?
Is the no Anna Faris supposed to be a bad thing? Not a fan of these movies, but I’m also not a fan of her. So when both are put together it becomes even worse than both on their own.
Yeah, they are rebooting Scary Movie, and it will be called STAN HELSING. That’s right: STAN FUCKING HELSING
Oops
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/stanhelsing/
If it eases the pain (most likely it won’t), “Stan” looks like a piece of shit. What I would like to know is how the filmmakers bankrolled the thing- seeing how the monsters “Stan” fights are parodies of Chucky, Freddy, Jason and Pinhead–all of who keep the names/nicknames of Chucky, Freddy, Jason and Pinhead.
But… I liked Anna Faris! She was the only thing that made those movies almost watchable!
i think paranormal activity would be good to spoof, but in a scary movie sequel, a reboot is unnecessary…
I could see a million stupid jokes that these brain dead writers could make about that. Why make fun of good movies that make more money and get more positively praised than those piles of shit? They have no creativity.
NOOOOO, KILL IT BEFORE IT SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY, FUCK ALL THE SCARY MOVIES, THEY WERE ALL PIECES OF SHIT MOVIES AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THEY’RE GOOD MAKES ME WORRY ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF OUR SPECIES!!!(takes deep breath).I know I’m in the minority, hate me all you want.
You are definitely not in the minority with the movie goers who like movies that aren’t shit
The only way that this could work, I could think of, is if it spoofs hollywood’s rebooting obsession itself. The thing is, you would need to be clever and funny for that to work, and this is Scary Movie we are talking about.
Reboot Movie?
That is EXACTLY what I was going to say!! It is obvious they are spoofing the fact that we have been bomBARDED with rebooted movies!!! If they focus on that it might please the audience that goes to see it…… Not me though!
Hollywood must die.
I i am with u John i Hate these movie i remember when the first one came out everybody i know saw it and love it and when back to see it like 3 times and i hated it its a sham these movies get made and people go and see them and also people like them and laph when they see them
This has got to be one of the seven deadly sins
LMAO would be funniy it it was FROM THE ORIGINAL CREATORS of The Original Scary Movie.
I love how everyone picks on the Scary Movie franchise.
These “brain dead writers” were actually the ones behind Airplane! and the Naked Gun and Kentucky Fried Movie. All quality movies, all quality writers. These Scary Movies are actually quite funny.
Let’s NOT confuse these guys with the people who did the awful “Date Movie” and “Meet the Spartans” and “Disaster Movie”, etc.
and the Scary Movies were also started by the Wayans, who were behind :”I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”.
You are right in saying that we should not confuse David Zucker (who along with his brother and Abrahams) and Pat Proft were behind the best spoof films. such as Airplane, Naked Gun and Hot Shots, or even The Wayans for that matter with those responsible for ire like “Meet The Spartans”. “Epic Movie” and such. HOWEVER…
It’s easy to see the confusion. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer also contributed to the script of the first “Scary Movie”. They have NOT been connected to the series since.
It should be pointed out that the Scary Movie series actually spoofs and is occasionally funny. The Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer films are just overworking throwaway pop culture reference-sometimes even before those references catch on, or worse, when they don’t resulting in jokes that fall flat. They have almost no idea what they are spoofing. They are disjointed and all over the map.
Oh—folks? You want to see a damn good spoof movie? Here’s a classic for this kind of year:
Young Frankenstein.
Young Frankenstein knocks today’s spoof movies out of the park any day.
Reboot? I don’t get it either. I actually liked the first scary movie. Hell, I even liked some of the second one, but it all went downhill from there. If the Wayans are not even involved then I’m definitely skipping this one.
You see, you see, I’m right. Hollywood doesn’t have any more original ideas. Is Hollywood afraid to take a risk on an original idea? Don’t give me that if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it mentality. Hollywood takes risks everyday. Why won’t they take a risk on an original screenplay or pitch? They won’t. They’ll just rehash whatever is on the shelf.
Sorry Rafe, but you are wrong.
On top of that, you contradict yourself:
“Hollywood takes risks everyday. Why won’t they take a risk on an original screenplay or pitch? ”
Who says they don’t?
I agree with Rafael.
If there was ever any doubt before…Hollywood is now officially out of ideas.
No they aren’t. Look at at it this way: if it were so, there would be nothing left to spoof.
Yes we get a lot of remakes, reboots and spoofs.
But we get a ton of fresh stuff and new films that are not remakes, reboots and spoofs. In fact, such a film sits #1 at the box office right this very minute.
The majority of films being produced by Hollywood are based on original screenplays. There’s no lack of originality in Hollywood.
While I’m sure the idea of this new Scary Movie is to spoof up film series that have been rebooted/remade/restarted, I am specifically thinking Halloween or 90% of Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes works here, not just Batman, Star Trek or James Bond…
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Note to John: The Wayans have not been involved with Scary Movie since the second installment; they were, however, behind this past summer’s ‘Dance Flick’.
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In any case, my interest in this isn’t too high.
NO.
Nonononono.
No.
This does not exist. There is no way hollywood can be THAT stupid.
No.
If Hollywood is not that stupid then tell me how the script for Revenge of the fallen was accepted by paramount
Be cause it fucking RULED!
=P
Hey James,
Dude, i agree with you but not on the ‘ruled’ part. The movie was okay, I would give it a 6/10, but it was nothing compared to the first one.
And great ‘Drag me to hell review’.
James-I mean the script for ROTF. Look I liked the movie and would give it a 6/10….but that was a really bad script you have to admit
a cash cow
yes, hollywood is that stupid
Probably will spoof all the current horror remakes, we will finally see Jason vs Freddy vs Micheal vs Leatherface in unfunny spoof form. WOOHOO!
The first Scary Movie was funny because it hadn’t been done before and it poked fun at how dumb the horror movies had become and how easy it became to kill someone. The series obviously went too far and made sequels… stupid move. But a reboot, c’mon.
I actually enjoyed the first movie when it came out just like I enjoyed the Naked Gun films and Airplane. I hated the sequel cause all it was was the exact same jokes from the first film. Then came the bi-yearly onslaught of “Movie” movies.
But rebooting Scary Movie to me actually makes sense. Since it is a movie that parody’s the recent horror films of the time, what should you do when all the horror films now are reboots and remakes?
the first scary movie has to be one of the worst comedies in recent film history.
why reboot garbage?
Is there any point in this? These horrible parody movies don’t mean much without Anna Faris in it. Scary Movie is already 4 movies in, I don’t see why they can’t just make part 5 instead. I’m going to go ahead and declare this as a fail.
No Wayans brothers involvement equals NoWay I will watch this movie…