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Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 08, 2008, 08:55:03 pm

So yeah let's completely destroy this movie in the form of a forum topic

Edit: Here's a trailer if you are too drunk/lazy to search on the internet or something

http://www.meetthespartans.com/
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Strangeluv on January 08, 2008, 08:58:53 pm
Yeah, these movies are pretty horrible. I didn't even see Epic Movie but Date Movie was very bad. It's from the same people who made those, right?

They're just dumb comedy, not even good dumb comedy.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 08, 2008, 09:02:27 pm
They're just dumb comedy
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 08, 2008, 09:12:35 pm
I dunno let's try joking about the movie in this format

Meet The Spartans is why bad things happen to good people

Everytime someone laughs at Meet The Spartans God kills a kitten

Meet The Spartans makes the Baby Jesus cry
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Liman on January 08, 2008, 10:19:46 pm

Everytime someone laughs at Meet The Spartans God kills a kitten


Damn, I just killed a kitten...
I admit, I laughed when he kicked Britney down, but that's just because I really dislike her.
 I've seen parts of Epic Movie and... bleh, the only funny scene in that film was "Li-man"... nice to be acknowledged.
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Post by: Feldschlacht IV on January 08, 2008, 10:22:12 pm
It looks like an incredibly juvenile movie that's capitalizing on the success of a critically acclaimed popular movie using sophomoric humor. No thanks. Perhaps it will be fun to watch with a ladyfriend or something.
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Post by: Wil on January 08, 2008, 10:27:04 pm
What ever happened to smart parody?
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Post by: kentona on January 08, 2008, 10:31:21 pm
What ever happened to smart parody?
I miss witty parodies.  Does Austin Powers count?  Or Naked Gun?  Maybe we just need more canadian comedians...
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Standard Toaster on January 09, 2008, 12:36:13 am
wow that was probably one of the worst things i've ever seen. i had to watch it twice just to make sure i wasn't like MISSING SOMETHING.

was that Gerard Butler though? i have a hard time believing he would do that but if it's not then they got a pretty convincing lookalike.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Pasty on January 09, 2008, 01:25:35 am
meet the spartans is why god doesn't talk to us any more
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Beasley on January 09, 2008, 01:37:33 am
ugh these stopped being funny so long ago. epic movie was an all time low though and i really doubt these are gonna help the franchise at all. scary movie three at least made me laugh but epic movie i almost turned off like half way through were i not with a group
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 09, 2008, 03:54:02 am
Yeah I hate to say it but Scary Movie 3 made me lol a few times, like when the sherriff lady's hat got progressively bigger for no reason

But yeah I was saying to Doppleganger today, there like aren't even jokes in this movie, they're not even making OBSERVATIONS or COMMENTS or SATIRE about anything, they're just like showing well-known imagery in hopes of it being some kind of LAUGH STIMULUS - like the entire movie is constructed out of MEMES or something which actually makes it pretty fascinating

like another example of cringe-worthy parodies would be MadTV which at least feels like they met together and went WHAT IF WE COMBINED THESE TWO THINGS and you know, made jokes by comparing/contrasting the two, even if their choices feel REALLY random sometimes. Meet The Spartans is like COMBINE TWO THINGS. Like, comedy is some sort of math equation where you can just combine two elements and it becomes something original / worth watching
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Strangeluv on January 09, 2008, 04:09:24 am
I blame MTV



By MTV I mean MadTV...
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Sarhan on January 09, 2008, 04:14:50 am
Yeah I hate to say it but Scary Movie 3 made me lol a few times, like when the sherriff lady's hat got progressively bigger for no reason

IMO, Scary Movie 3 was the last decent-good movie they've made. Epic Movie sucked hard balls and this movie looks like it'll suck more. It's not even worth going to see for the "lol this movie sucks" laughs.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: big ass skelly on January 09, 2008, 04:48:08 am
What the fuck.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 09, 2008, 04:48:31 am
I blame MTV



By MTV I mean MadTV...

At least no one expects you to pay for Mad TV

unless you buy the DVDs lol
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Marcus on January 09, 2008, 05:29:21 am
the movies stopped being funny because the wayan bros. stopped writing and directing.

EDIT: according to imdb, this is the official movie tagline

"If you hated Epic Movie, well we made a part two bitches! "

yeah...
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: headphonics on January 09, 2008, 08:21:50 am
the movies stopped being funny because the wayan bros. stopped writing and directing.

EDIT: according to imdb, this is the official movie tagline

"If you hated Epic Movie, well we made a part two bitches! "

yeah...
they weren't funny before that either.  scary movie and its sequels were still basically just as dumb as the others.  i don't even understand who SEES this shit at this point.  like i do not think i have seen a scene in any single one of these movies that has been clever or well thought out or anything even close.  it is always, always just HEY HERE IS A SCENE FROM THAT ONE MOVIE YOU PROBABLY SAW, BUT DIFFERENT (AND STUPID) AND PERHAPS A REFERENCE TO YET ANOTHER MOVIE YOU SAW.  heh i get it it's like 300 except theyre dancing like you got served so good

it's great because it's so heavily based around stupid short-term popculture bullshit like random lame movies, half of which are already out of date (hey guys wanna guess how many times ANYONE ANYWHERE has thought about you got served in the last six months?), that in like ten years, not only will this shit STILL be completely unfunny and without merit, but it probably won't even be especially comprehensible.  i kind of want to SHOW MY KID THIS in twenty years or something and have him be like "what the fuck is any of this shit"
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Blitzen on January 09, 2008, 01:33:54 pm
sweet lord YES I WANT TO REGISTER FOR UPDATES
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Vellfire on January 09, 2008, 01:51:20 pm
My favorite part is that by the time these come out on DVD, no one cares about those movies they talked about anymore, and our attention spans are so short that no matter how fast they release the DVD, we've still already forgotten.

What terrible shit movies.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on January 09, 2008, 04:28:44 pm
poor Kevin Sorbo :(
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on January 09, 2008, 04:50:43 pm
You are responsible for this. Yes, you.... the internets.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 09, 2008, 07:16:02 pm
My favorite part is that by the time these come out on DVD, no one cares about those movies they talked about anymore, and our attention spans are so short that no matter how fast they release the DVD, we've still already forgotten.

What terrible shit movies.

Reminds me of when they brought Family Guy back and they mentioned like every promising show on FOX that got canceled prematurely

Sadly I remembered a large number of them but for some of them I was like wtf was that show???

I also found all these older movies that were actually pretty good because I remembered the TV commercials long enough to recognize them in the video store/ at a tag sale (like ARLINGTON ROAD for example)
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: kentona on January 09, 2008, 07:48:32 pm
Still, it looks better than epic movie.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: tuxedo marx on January 09, 2008, 08:20:29 pm
Meet the Spartans: does not beat a hard kick in the face
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Marcus on January 09, 2008, 09:47:01 pm
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they weren't funny before that either.  scary movie and its sequels were still basically just as dumb as the others.

The original Scary Movie had it's merit because it was one of the very few genuinely movie parody comedies since the Mel Brooks days.  The humor was retarded, yes, but this is how parody humor works.  You take something that's well established and you flip it on it's head for LULZ.  If they made the comedy subtle, then it would have been a satire and very VERY few satires in film form are ever popular.

Just look at some of film's greatest parodies like Space Balls.  If you've never watched Star Wars, you wouldn't know what the hell they were talking about.  Take Baron Munchausen or Quest for the Holy Grail: if you don't who King Arthur is or understand German folklore you would have never got the movies.  The slap stick humor is for people who don't understand the films source.  The actual parody part is where people can say "oh yeah, i saw that and it was dumb THIS MAKES IT FUNNY!"

But Epic Movie and Date Movie had no tact... it was just random scenes.  Scary Movie actually had some flow to it but Epic Movie was like "Okay, here's a scene involving superman now the characters are on a pirate ship OH WAIT IT'S NARNIA NOW!" 

One of my favorite parody movies was Not Another Teen Movie because it didn't try to be LOL FUNNY but actually successfully pulled off the incredibly stale melodrama that teen movies are notorious for and ran away with this concept.  No one bothered to care that the Breakfast Club and 16 Candles were more than ten years old when it came out because those movies were popular enough that EVERYONE has seen them.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Beasley on January 09, 2008, 11:40:35 pm
Marcus basically summed up my thoughts. Scary movie at least had a semi-comprehensible plot up through 3. Around four you see it slipping in to what we now have which is the Epic Movies and Date Movies and what not.

and i liked Not Another Teen Movie too. there's just a tangible difference between these and MEET THE SPARTANS. it's much less interchangeable (even thought it obviously still is) and the jokes work with the plot, not so much the plot working for the jokes.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Blitzen on January 10, 2008, 07:38:48 pm
  Mel Brooks made such good parodies. I loved Young Frankenstein, and Dracula Dead and Loving It is probably my favorite movie parody ever. What made them good was that the normal conventions of the movies were just shown to be as ridiculous as they were. Instead of doing that, the idiots writing these films have a very loose idea of what good comedy is and instead show a Britney Spears character shaving her head and moaning at her baby and then she falls down a hole.
  But yeah, Mel Brooks everyone. Homework is watch a Mel Brooks film.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: kentona on January 10, 2008, 08:28:59 pm
That's because they parody a genre and it's overused conventions, and not gossip-of-the-moment pop culture references. A good parody will highlight the absurdity of some concept.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Parker on January 11, 2008, 01:36:10 am
Wow. That trailer is awful. Haha. Is this possibly a bigger joke of a movie than Big Momma's House 2?

MTS!!!!

"The funniest thing about Big Momma's House 2 is what I believe to be a grammar error in its press notes."

"A partial list of things that are more amusing than Big Momma's House 2: Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch, the original Big Momma's House, every sitcom currently on TV, open-heart surgery."


Also, I thought this was particularly inspired:
"If Meet the Spartans were a person; it would be a less witty, lazy, incoherent version of Dane Cook."
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Hempknight on January 11, 2008, 02:17:16 am
From the people that brought you scary movie, date movie, and epic movie.



comes...



...BAD MOVIE



(ancient joke i know)
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Roman on January 11, 2008, 09:49:34 am
honestly i think "bad movie" would be a great idea

edit: or maybe it would be called "parody movie" but you get the idea

edit edit: it would be about the people behind these awful parodies and how fucking stupid they are, and while they're making these movies they go bankrupt, get AIDS, and everybody they love dies.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: headphonics on January 11, 2008, 10:13:35 am
man i was talking to steel about how bad movie would be good.  like, a parody of all these awful awful parodies written in the same lazy, generic, unfunny way.  maybe it would just be renditions of scenes that were in all the movies but with a competent group of writers standing around shaking their heads looking disgusted in every scene but at the same time i feel like it'd be enough to simply have a series of scenes of what must go into the writing of such movies, as that would probably be even worse.  either way it would be THE ULTIMATE and upon its completion the universe would probably just implode upon itself
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 11, 2008, 10:17:27 pm
Make it

now
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Vellfire on January 11, 2008, 10:20:18 pm
I can't come up with an example of how Bad Movie could be good.  The way I keep picturing the scenes going, they'd be almost exactly the same as what they're making fun of.  To point out how generic things are, most of the time you just make them MORE generic, so...it just sounds like generic would come back out of that.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Shadowtext on January 11, 2008, 11:55:31 pm
Maybe just take out all of the parts that make it look like it's even supposed to be funny. When people get hit, have them suffer serious injury and go to the hospital and whatnot, and actually show their families grieving. When people get covered in bodily fluid, have them contract venereal diseases. Have "comedic misunderstandings" quickly rectified by the speaker. Fill it with anti-humor, as opposed to failed humor.

To steal a joke from (I think) John Hodgeman that exemplifies what I mean:
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Speaker 1: Who's on first.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm asking you.
Speaker 1 (Understanding): Ah, I see, you are mishearing me: Who is actually the last name of the player on first base.

Meanwhile keep all of the stylistic conventions, like the sound effects and camera angles and whatnot, to make it seem especially sad and pathetic. Maybe get the actors to play it all really low-key, like a bunch of Ben Steins.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on January 12, 2008, 01:43:37 am
man i was talking to steel about how bad movie would be good. 

no you weren't.

we didn't have this convo?
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 12, 2008, 02:09:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYffXv7jMYQ

this guy for research
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Post by: Marcus on January 12, 2008, 04:00:13 am
Murphy's law can also apply to movies.  Bad Movie would probably end up taking every golden globe.
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Post by: EvilDemonCreature on January 12, 2008, 06:18:29 am
Maybe just take out all of the parts that make it look like it's even supposed to be funny. When people get hit, have them suffer serious injury and go to the hospital and whatnot, and actually show their families grieving. When people get covered in bodily fluid, have them contract venereal diseases. Have "comedic misunderstandings" quickly rectified by the speaker. Fill it with anti-humor, as opposed to failed humor.

To steal a joke from (I think) John Hodgeman that exemplifies what I mean:


Meanwhile keep all of the stylistic conventions, like the sound effects and camera angles and whatnot, to make it seem especially sad and pathetic. Maybe get the actors to play it all really low-key, like a bunch of Ben Steins.

If you need help with this, I am quite good at finding and creating anti-humor. (even if I say so myself)
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Post by: RM2KFiend on January 12, 2008, 06:31:12 am
No matter how bad these movies (I absolutely hate them), they always seem to rake in ridiculous amounts of money. Its kinda a no brainer that these people will keep making them as long as they keep raking in the money.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 13, 2008, 07:45:03 pm
It's like pop music

Edit: Of course me and my brother have discussed this, it's not that pop music causes any physical pleasure whatsoever by listening, it's just that they're CATCHY AS FUCK and they've engineered something into the music that lodges itself into your brain like one of those Matrix bugs that was in his belly button
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Parker on January 13, 2008, 11:49:16 pm
It's like pop music

Edit: Of course me and my brother have discussed this, it's not that pop music causes any physical pleasure whatsoever by listening, it's just that they're CATCHY AS FUCK and they've engineered something into the music that lodges itself into your brain like one of those Matrix bugs that was in his belly button
Yeah, I was about to say that this is a terrible analogy. :P
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 14, 2008, 07:50:44 pm
Yeah, I was about to say that this is a terrible analogy. :P

haha
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Post by: xanque on January 15, 2008, 06:07:17 am
My favorite part is that by the time these come out on DVD, no one cares about those movies they talked about anymore, and our attention spans are so short that no matter how fast they release the DVD, we've still already forgotten.

What terrible shit movies.
No, that's not what happens.  These movies get a fucking UNRATED version that seems to promise nudity (I guess), so everyone goes out and buys it hoping for a cheap thrill.

I punched the back of my brother's head after seeing the trailer, and then started punching his bed.  I was furious.  These movies don't make fun of the movies they're "parodying" but instead just reference the trailers of said movies.  It's despicable.  I can't believe how completely identical they are.
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Post by: watermelon's on January 15, 2008, 07:26:52 am
No, that's not what happens.  These movies get a fucking UNRATED version that seems to promise nudity (I guess), so everyone goes out and buys it hoping for a cheap thrill.

Very true. And what's worse is that the unrated material is just non-senseless, random garbage.

*shakes head in disgust*

Poor, poor K'Sorbo. He must have really needed the money.
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Post by: local_dunce on January 15, 2008, 09:40:29 am
Yeah he must have really needed the money after all the green he's still raking in from Hercules the Legendary adventures. (No wait he did do that Walking Tall 2 Film. My bad.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: HL on January 15, 2008, 09:52:26 am
Yeah he must have really needed the money after all the green he's still raking in from Hercules the Legendary adventures. (No wait he did do that Walking Tall 2 Film. My bad.

he has actually done quite a bit recently

he definately doesn't need the money
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Roman on January 15, 2008, 10:54:31 am
aren't the unrated versions mostly the same except for like an extra scene where someone says fuck a few times or there's an added poop joke or something?  like, i remember when i was younger watching the unrated version of some movie hoping there would be titties everywhere and hardcore fucking and shit but it still seemed pretty tame.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: ase on January 18, 2008, 12:07:16 am
ugh. I just saw the trailer for this on TV and almost spit my tea out. I was almost going to make an angry topic about it but fortunately there is a fairly-civil one here already.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Orig on January 18, 2008, 12:17:41 am
I ended a friendship because the guy likes these movies. Okay, there were other things but just go with it.

All I can say is, can you blame me?  :shrug:
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Post by: General Robert E. Lee on January 19, 2008, 04:48:46 am
I saw a commercial with some footage I haven't seen today.  In it, a robot aired a YouTube video of Britney Spears on his chest.  They didn't even bother coming up with some pseudo-clever reference.  It physically upset me.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: alucard on January 19, 2008, 07:27:45 am
It was a transformer parody with a youtube video of the "leave britney alone" guy,
so yeah it was an internet reference but still stupid as fuck and pretty painful to watch.
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Post by: Cho on January 19, 2008, 08:08:24 am
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If they made the comedy subtle, then it would have been a satire and very VERY few satires in film form are ever popular.

The thing is Scary Movie was a parody of Scream, which was a (rather popular) satire of the teen slasher flick. The levels of meta are astounding.

For the record: I liked Scary Movie 1, thought Scary Movie 2 was pretty boring (but to be fair, I was never a fan of the Haunted House genre), and laughed one time during Scary Movie 3: "...and now the killer video that kills you seven days after you watched it, we're the only station that has it and we are showing it all night." This is funny because it is something a station would actually do. For reasons unknown, I saw Scary Movie 4 in theaters, and the only time anyone in the theater laughed was when one of the characters said "Ima put that on MySpace."

"Meet the Spartans" is a movie that could work. Well, the idea of it parodying 300 and by extension, Frank Miller (Like, they could have a little counter in each corner that keeps track of how many female characters are raped and/or become prostitutes) could work, but instead, we get stale pop culture references that aren't even jokes or insightful.
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Oh. My. God. This is pretty much 4chan: The Movie, isn't it?
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Roman on January 20, 2008, 08:50:25 am
why is it called MEET THE SPARTANS anyway?

like, didn't meet the parents come out eight years ago?
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: helter skelter on January 20, 2008, 12:34:22 pm
poor Kevin Sorbo :(
That was the first thing that I thought when I saw it :(
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Vellfire on January 20, 2008, 01:52:32 pm
I was thinking about it, and the Brady Bunch movie, which wasn't that many years ago, did a really good job (I think).  It was on TV yesterday and I was thinking about these movies while watching it to see why I love it so much but hate these so much.  The difference is they took something that's ALREADY part of pop culture (and not a throwaway piece of it, one that's already proven to have stuck around) and replicated it entirely, but not OH BRADY REFERENCE HERE'S ANOTHER BRADY REFERENCE BRADDYYYYY REFERENNCCCEEEE!!!!  Still, they DID throw in tons of references, but they put them in in such a natural way that you don't feel disgusted by it.  Even really minor things, like the way Mike talks into the phone the EXACT SAME WAY every time he gets a phone call, were done well--have Carol whisper into his ears and him being saying "OH....I SEE....YOU WILL?  ALLLLRIGHT....".  The cameos are even thrown in nicely, I didn't even see one of them until I had watched it a few times because it's not "HERE IS A CAMEO" right in your face.  You really just feel like you're watching a long episode of the Brady Bunch, except everyone around them is in the 90's.  It's not one-liner after one-liner, unlike these movies which are HOW MANY QUOTES FROM TRAILERS CAN WE PUT IN A MOVIE with no plot. 

The fact that that movie wasn't made that long ago (although it could have been like 10 years ago god what year is it now even) makes me think that we could do a better job, and that parody isn't something of years olde.
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Post by: kentona on January 20, 2008, 04:07:14 pm
Oh. My. God. This is pretty much 4chan: The Movie, isn't it?
this wins for best tagline.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ralph on January 20, 2008, 07:31:13 pm
why is it called MEET THE SPARTANS anyway?

like, didn't meet the parents come out eight years ago?
Because it's a funnier title than Epic Movie 2, Spartan Movie, or something like that.
And there's a sequel to Meet The Parents (Meet The Fockers) from a little less years ago.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Xeno|Soft on January 27, 2008, 01:52:27 am
omg...please watch this guys video review of the movie, I lost count at how many times he said "fuck"

http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/01/meet-the-spartans-review
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: headphonics on January 27, 2008, 04:46:45 pm
ps i didn't think anyone would ever find this funny until like eight people at work were standing around being like YEA MEET THE SPARTANS LOOKS RAW and i seriously did a doubletake.
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Post by: Ryan on January 28, 2008, 06:55:03 pm
this movie was #1 at the box office this last week :(
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Post by: kentona on January 29, 2008, 07:43:24 pm
this movie was #1 at the box office this last week :(
yeah, with 18 million.

1. "Meet the Spartans," Fox, $18,505,530, 2,605 locations, $7,104 average, $18,505,530, one week.

2. "Rambo," Lionsgate, $18,203,876, 2,751 locations, $6,617 average, $18,203,876, one week.

3. "27 Dresses," Fox, $13,360,535, 3,074 locations, $4,346 average, $45,107,889, two weeks.

4. "Cloverfield," Paramount, $12,712,134, 3,411 locations, $3,727 average, $64,306,110, two weeks.

5. "Untraceable," Sony, $11,354,069, 2,368 locations, $4,795 average, $11,354,069, one week.

6. "The Bucket List," Warner Bros., $10,532,406, 2,915 locations, $3,613 average, $58,006,449, six weeks.

7. "Juno," Fox Searchlight, $10,151,100, 2,426 locations, $4,184 average, $100,013,577, eight weeks.

8. "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," Disney, $4,916,131, 2,154 locations, $2,282 average, $205,672,738, six weeks.

9. "There Will be Blood," Paramount Vantage, $4,869,383, 885 locations, $5,502 average, $14,746,644, five weeks.

10. "Mad Money," Overture Films, $4,578,394, 2,467 locations, $1,856 average, $15,252,568, two weeks.

11. "How She Move," Paramount Vantage, $3,957,471, 1,531 locations, $2,585 average, $3,957,471, one week.

12. "Atonement," Focus, $3,918,160, 1,400 locations, $2,799 average, $37,860,799, eight weeks.

13. "First Sunday," Sony Screen Gems, $3,305,950, 1,503 locations, $2,200 average, $34,473,158, three weeks.

14. "No Country For Old Men," Miramax, $2,423,409, 1,107 locations, $2,189 average, $51,956,842, 12 weeks.

15. "Michael Clayton," Warner Bros., $2,225,260, 1,102 locations, $2,019 average, $41,653,439, 17 weeks.

16. "I Am Legend," Warner Bros., $2,211,296, 1,405 locations, $1,574 average, $251,666,936, seven weeks.

17. "Alvin and the Chipmunks," Fox, $1,443,326, 2,430 locations, $594 average, $204,121,451, seven weeks.

18. "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie," Universal, $1,295,385, 1,016 locations, $1,275 average, $10,342,400, three weeks.

19. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," DreamWorks-Paramount, $1,217,632, 936 locations, $1,301 average, $50,599,922, six weeks.

20. "U2 3D," National Geographic Cinema Ventures, $964,315, 61 locations, $15,808 average, $1,181,065, one week.



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If you look to see what movies are raking in the cash, you'll understand why studios put out the movies they do.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Ragnar on January 31, 2008, 07:50:52 pm
Yeah I could seriously see the mere enjoyment of Meet The Spartans making it disturbingly clear whether you'll agree with someone on anything else/ want to be their friend ever

Like we should form social cliques around this PEOPLE WHO ENJOYED MEET THE SPARTANS vs. PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T ENJOY MEET THE SPARTANS. We should actually praise the creators of this movie for figuring out that there /is/ a criteria you should divide people by, it's just not race or income or religion or gender or anything, it's whether or not you actually find this movie entertaining
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Post by: Impeal on January 31, 2008, 09:15:05 pm
So many people I know are actually really excited about this movie. I don't understand why. Nobody got excited over Epic Movie or The Comebacks or whatever. But for some reason this one seems to be getting pretty popular.

The only thing about it that looks worthwhile is M.E.T.H.O.D man.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: pburn on January 31, 2008, 10:09:25 pm
So many people I know are actually really excited about this movie. I don't understand why. Nobody got excited over Epic Movie or The Comebacks or whatever. But for some reason this one seems to be getting pretty popular.
Well, I do seem to remember 300 being a very popular movie. Since MEET THE SPARTANS is mainly based off 300, that means the many people who make 300 overrated would want to see this. They are pretty much cashing in on the 300 craze.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Aten on January 31, 2008, 11:39:39 pm
holy shit! I just saw the poster at the cinema's, I didnt know it was out already, gonna catch it this saturday!
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: big ass skelly on February 01, 2008, 03:06:47 am
aten you're so predictable.

edit: changed retarded to predictable.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Aten on February 01, 2008, 03:24:51 am
What, its good for a few laughs :D
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on February 01, 2008, 04:32:36 am
no, me kicking a dude in the dick is good for a laugh. if I ran around town kicking people in the dick and then just shooting them and then the swat team has to take me down, testicular blood still staining my hands, it's a fucking debacle and an insult and my name would be mud forever.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: PTizzle on February 11, 2008, 03:07:02 pm
I miss witty parodies.  Does Austin Powers count?  Or Naked Gun?  Maybe we just need more canadian comedians...


Yeah, they count, and they were both witty while being silly. Moviemakers seem to think that you can only have it one way or the other, and it's terrible.

I liked Scary Movie 1 and 3 for a while when they came out (although 3 was mainly for Leslie Nielsen, I admit) but all the other movies to come out of this "OTT PARODY WHOO" genre shouldn't have been made. I wouldn't miss Scary Movie 1/3 much either if it meant avoiding shit like this.

There are so many good movies out, and for them to put out comedy which literally makes me feel embarassed (the 'You Got Served' thing made me cringe really hard) and top the box office (even if it's only for a week or two) is bullshit.

poor Kevin Sorbo :(

And yeah, this :(​. I thought he might've been actually getting a career after Hercules - he was pretty good for the short period he was on The OC.


EDIT: Haha, Xeno, that video review is fantastic.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: darkjak951 on February 20, 2008, 10:02:21 pm
IMO, Scary Movie 3 was the last decent-good movie they've made. Epic Movie sucked hard balls and this movie looks like it'll suck more. It's not even worth going to see for the "lol this movie sucks" laughs.
MTS(meet the spartans) was ok..... a cut above epic movie. It had alot of laughs, not as much as Scary Movie 3 but still alot.
It would have been waaay better if it was not for 1 thing.....IT WAS TOO F*CKING SHORT!!! it would have been alot better if more was added and if it had me laughing the whole way through, like tenasious D
Most parts were just wrong, like whenever someone flashed their dirty asses, that was not funny i just wanted to puke :blarg:
anyways it was a decent movie and it will give you a couple of laughs, but don't expect it to be better than scary movie 3 or anything like that.....
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: Roman on February 21, 2008, 06:21:46 am
dont act like you know me darkjak
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: headphonics on February 21, 2008, 08:55:54 am
MTS(meet the spartans) was ok..... a cut above epic movie. It had alot of laughs, not as much as Scary Movie 3 but still alot.
It would have been waaay better if it was not for 1 thing.....IT WAS TOO F*CKING SHORT!!! it would have been alot better if more was added and if it had me laughing the whole way through, like tenasious D
Most parts were just wrong, like whenever someone flashed their dirty asses, that was not funny i just wanted to puke :blarg:
anyways it was a decent movie and it will give you a couple of laughs, but don't expect it to be better than scary movie 3 or anything like that.....
maybe you should make a review topic on it, skip
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: local_dunce on February 21, 2008, 10:28:56 am
MTS(meet the spartans) was ok..... a cut above epic movie. It had alot of laughs, not as much as Scary Movie 3 but still alot.
It would have been waaay better if it was not for 1 thing.....IT WAS TOO F*CKING SHORT!!! it would have been alot better if more was added and if it had me laughing the whole way through, like tenasious D
Most parts were just wrong, like whenever someone flashed their dirty asses, that was not funny i just wanted to puke :blarg:
anyways it was a decent movie and it will give you a couple of laughs, but don't expect it to be better than scary movie 3 or anything like that.....

Tenacious D was a terrible terrible movie and it annoyed me that Tim Robbins was in it. :blkarg: and yeah don't worry I don't expect it to be better than scary movie 3, but it wouldn't be hard.
Title: Meet the Spartans
Post by: local_dunce on February 22, 2008, 01:20:58 am
You know what, I am locking this topic because this movie is dumb as hell.