It’s bound to happen. In fact, I think it happens every January. I vaguely recall a Chris Rock flick using the same tactics. What happens is a movie is ready to be unleashed into the world. That flick looks tragically unfunny and is advertised to death on *all* the channels. A person with a DVR can’t even escape them. They are the zit before the photo shoot. Inescapable, embarrassing, and unpoppable by normal conventions.
They even hurt a little.
So to the makers of the aggresively unfunny* tailers of EPIC MOVIE: Please stop.
I don’t want to see a “brilliant” satirization of a metric ton of significantly more popular films. Satire is well and good, but after a while, it looks like you can’t make up anything on your own. I’m looking at you SCARY MOVIE 2, 3, & 4.
I don’t care if 2 out of 5 writers of a successfully funny movie got together to make a film on their own. Call me when 5 out of 5 of those writers are working together. Then we’d have something with potential.
As much as I want to see Paris Hilton crushed under human dead weight, I don’t want to see it happen in effigy. I want it to be real. It can be a piano. It can be a ton of bricks. It can even be an anvil handed to her just after you walk her off a cliff and suggest that she look down to get her bearings so that she falls to her doom like the cartoon character she relly is. Just as long as it’s the real Hilton you’re smothering. That would be entertainment.
Something funny(doesn’t have to be original) and that doesn’t make me regret pissing away 8 dollars would be nice.
You can’t advertise The Funny into a thing or garuantee funny just by having a “proven” celebrity as the star.(I shift my gaze to you KICKING & SCREAMING** and STEALTH.)
You just can’t.
(All this comes after a barrage of EPIC MOVIE ads around 6 in the AM today.)
*Thanks to Dirt for “agressively unfunny.”
**Thanks to Matthew for Will Ferrell’s failure.
