HobbitFoot to Ask [email protected]English • 16 hours agoWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?message-square106fedilinkarrow-up1103
arrow-up1103message-squareWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?HobbitFoot to Ask [email protected]English • 16 hours agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squareThe QuuuuuilllinkfedilinkEnglish43•14 hours agoAirplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don’t know about the existence of the latter
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•5 hours agoIt’s such a close parody that they actually secured the rights to remake it. Much of the dialogue is exactly the same.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•5 hours agoShit, I’m going to have to watch the original.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•14 hours agoit also spawned the whole genre and although Leslie Nielsen made lots of movies before this, his legacy is this as well as the other parody movies
Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don’t know about the existence of the latter
TIL Airplane! is a parody.
It’s such a close parody that they actually secured the rights to remake it. Much of the dialogue is exactly the same.
Shit, I’m going to have to watch the original.
it also spawned the whole genre and although Leslie Nielsen made lots of movies before this, his legacy is this as well as the other parody movies