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Ragnar

#1 January 08, 2008, 08:55:03 pm

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It made me giggle.

If by "giggle" you mean "want to shoot my nuts off."

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The first time I saw this movie, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Nothing, I repeat nothing, made me even crack a smile. A few people in the theatre laughed and I turned to see what they were laughing at. I just couldn't believe that anyone would make something like this. And the Britney Spears part painfully bad. Talk about territory covered to death.

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Yeah.. it made me laugh a little, until I realized this was a real movie.. then I just felt really sad.

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This movie reminds me of a passable at best skit at an amusement park stage show. In fact this idea has been done 1000x better by people behind their computers at home on Youtube. It's sad really that directors, writers, producers, and the like ACTUALLY take the ideas put on these social networking sites and turn them into feature length motion pictures.

To answer the question in the topic: No I didn't even smile. In fact I literally threw up in my mouth a little. Especially when the trailer switched to present day New York and Donald Trump cut Spider Man's web. I would rather kick myself in the forehead repeatedly than watch this movie.

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yeah, the funniest thing about this movie is how relevant it's going to be by about..oh, let's say June. Jokes that involve 15 minutes of fame "celebrities", catchphrases and current tabloid fads just show extreme laziness in making a movie and will make it really dated. That's why "Walk Hard" is a great movie. It slightly references certain movies like "Walk The Line" and "Ray" but it makes it main focus of comedy on the characters and story instead of on how many pop culture references you can make in 90 minutes. There's nothing wrong with silly humor every now and then but basing a whole entire movie around jokes that are barely funny to begin with and that will be irrelevent a year from now is just dumb. And it's not like they're landmark pop culture events either. 10 years from now is anybody really going to remember or care about Sanjaya or Britney Spears shaving her head? It's just pointless tabloid garbage splattered on the big screen for a cheap laugh.

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Its the people who think these movies are funny that ruin our country.

See the movie "Idiocracy", this isn't to far from the movie, "Ass" in which its an ass for 120 minutes, and it wins for best actor, screenplay, and director.

God I wanna spoon my eye balls out.

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It made me seeth with rage. I swear to you I didn't giggle, titter, smirk, smile, grin or remain-poker-faced-but-be-amused-on-the-inside once.

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all this trailer did was make me cringe. i'm embarrassed for the makers of these films.

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I snorted a bit when "Britney" went, "Googoogaga", and breathed hard on the babies' head. The rest made me want to kill the nearest living thing.

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I'm a teenager and I didn't find even the spears part especially funny. I guess I just kinda am a Scrooge and just loath these "hip" twists on everything. It's like a formula now. For example Alvin and the Chipmunks is old but with the new movie its the same thing except with some hip-hop.

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The trailer was funny but why would you pay to see a full-length version? Supposedly the trailer has all the jokes anyway. Save your money for something worthwhile.

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This trailer made me a little sad for the future of modern cinema.

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If you seriously, SERIOUSLY found this funny... you have the sense of humor of a 3 year old.

I can't believe this exists.

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not even a giggle sorry. But I'll admit, the second i saw it i knew it was gunna be like an Epic movie thing, and was too disgusted at the use of money/time, and too insulted to even realize those bits were supposed to be funny. it was just shocking at seeing them keep trying these movies even though they continously fail.

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/

Last Edit: January 08, 2008, 08:58:59 pm by Ragnar

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Strangeluv

#2 January 08, 2008, 08:58:53 pm

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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.

Me and Tom Under the Boardwalk ... there is so much fun to have under the boardwalk

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Ragnar

#3 January 08, 2008, 09:02:27 pm

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Quote from: Strangeluv on January 08, 2008, 08:58:53 pm

They're just dumb ~~comedy~~

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Ragnar

#4 January 08, 2008, 09:12:35 pm

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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

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#5 January 08, 2008, 10:19:46 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on January 08, 2008, 09:12:35 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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#6 January 08, 2008, 10:22:12 pm

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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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#7 January 08, 2008, 10:27:04 pm

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What ever happened to smart parody?

sorrow is the key that gets our tears out of eye jail.

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#8 January 08, 2008, 10:31:21 pm

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Quote from: Wil on January 08, 2008, 10:27:04 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...

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#9 January 09, 2008, 12:36:13 am

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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.

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#10 January 09, 2008, 01:25:35 am

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meet the spartans is why god doesn't talk to us any more

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#11 January 09, 2008, 01:37:33 am

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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

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Ragnar

#12 January 09, 2008, 03:54:02 am

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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

Last Edit: January 09, 2008, 04:00:09 am by Ragnar

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#13 January 09, 2008, 04:09:24 am

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I blame MTV

By MTV I mean MadTV...

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#14 January 09, 2008, 04:14:50 am

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Quote from: 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

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.

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#15 January 09, 2008, 04:48:08 am

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What the fuck.

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Ragnar

#16 January 09, 2008, 04:48:31 am

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Quote from: Strangeluv on January 09, 2008, 04:09:24 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

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#17 January 09, 2008, 05:29:21 am

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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...

Last Edit: January 09, 2008, 05:32:25 am by angry black man

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#18 January 09, 2008, 08:21:50 am

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Quote from: angry black man 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...

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"

Last Edit: January 09, 2008, 08:29:05 am by bazookatooth

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#19 January 09, 2008, 01:33:54 pm

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#20 January 09, 2008, 01:51:20 pm

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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.

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