martes, 20 de mayo de 2014

Parody Movies and Animation films past and present

so what happened to good parody movies like hot shots, airplane , the naked gun series among others the main reason im asking this question at the moment because the recent string of these type of movies have been going from bad to worst resorting to the lowest common denominator of humor.

in this case physical humor , references to blockbusters or movies that have been popular at the time with no coherent thread uniting them. so if you see something related to a popular movie on a recent parody its just self-referential humor or referencing something just for the sake of it.
 
case in point the scary movies series i would say the first one was OK at times, but after that they started becoming more distasteful and the last one that was released this year was the worst one yet.

though this movie wasn't a parody it has the reputation of being in the list of worst movies of all times, i mean movie 43 which is a series of shorts that resort to bodily functions jokes among other type of low brow humor that makes me sad and disgusted for the film.

how did we go from
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i think its time for these types of films to extinguish or go away, they are not needed and now more than ever is great to highlight the good comedy films though scarce that have appeared and will be released in years to come.

after that rather short statement i wanted to talk a little about animation and how it has being going away from traditional hand drawn to computer or cgi animation.

in the past ten years fewer and fewer hand drawn animated films have been released in theaters maybe there are still some that are done for the home market DVD and bluray but im guessing as the years pass they will be more scarce.

the last hand drawn animated film released by a major studio was winnie the pooh in 2011 after that
they stopped doing them and focused on computer generated animation.