Does anyone honestly think that Meet the Spartans, the next spoof movie from the folks that brought us Epic Movie and Date Movie is actually going to be worth sitting through?
Well I suppose that the same people who actually thought that AVP-R was great might think so. 
Seriously, just watch the trailer below, chuckle a bit at some of the marginally funny bits and call it a day. There’s no need to waste $10 and an hour and a half of your life sitting through this thing because everything even remotely funny in this movie is right here:
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I don’t know exactly when it opens, nor do I care (and neither should you).
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Coundnt agree more Vic, the trailer for this film has it all.
grrrrr!
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The film itself disgusts me as to call itself a motion picture.
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This piece of sh#ite trailer was run before the aVp film. Yea its funny to make fun of spears and 300 but to pay money for and indorse this creativity, in the words of the TX “no”.
Oh…my….god….
somebody actually *greenlit* that movie?
When will it stop? Like Gordon said’”somebody actually *greenlit* that movie?”
Sickens me to say that it will do ok, JUST because the teens and Springer-neers will and would watch any spoof.
What sickens me the most is that when I saw this in theaters, the audience was laughing hysterically. Maybe I missed something?
That same audience probably loved AVP-R.
Actually I did get at least a smile or two watching it, but I know that as a full length movie it’ll get old really fast.
And how do these things get greenlit? I don’t know but stuff like this is why I started this site.
Vic
There was a film that came out a few months ago it was a sports parody type film. ” A forgetable title”.
But every single gag was somebody getting crushed, kicked, slammed into etc. The film was mindless violence.
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This film strikes me the same way. Sure who woudnt want spears to fall off the planent to some degree, but to make a film/films about this kind of mindless violence/slapstick is damaging to our culture and youth.
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These spoof films all started more or less with “Airplane” a great comedy/parody of Airplane the dramatic films in the 70s.
Airplane had great writing and creativity that’s what these new films lack.
They make these films soo cheap that they can afford to keep making them. Somebody out there is buying just enough tickets/dvds to keep this thing going.
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Can’t we all just set our Phasers to Kill,,, these “films”.??
I hope the support for these films fades away soon.
Yup. Vic was absolutely right. I’m surprised Jack Black isn’t in it.
Hey KEL, J, Black’s coming out with a new movie called “be kind rewind”
*something like that.
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Sounds exciting..?
Ya know……I watched the trailers for that one the other day and I’m actually kind of looking forward to it.
When Date Movie was released on DVD, I was working at a place that sold them. The price changer screwed up and we couldn’t put them out on display right away, since their UPC wasn’t in our system yet. I figured, “no big deal – who the hell is going to buy this?”
Unfortunately, I was wrong.
Yeah Liz our general population is a sad group…
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I’m sure your explaination of a UPC code had them totally confused and angry.
I wish this country would wake up…
So, this is what the Writer’s Strike does for film?
Hey Jim, believe it or not they had writers write this screenplay…more than one.
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(I don’t mean to hijack the thread)
There’s some interesting info on the strike. David Lettermans writers have been allowed to go back to work. There’s a good artical on LaWeeklys site,its linked thru Drudgereport.
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Let’s hope these tactics bring an end to this strike.
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Thanks
Steve
“These spoof films all started more or less with “Airplane” a great comedy/parody of Airplane the dramatic films in the 70s.”
Yeah, things like this make me wish ZAZ were still making movies. We need more spoofs with that kind of quality.
It pisses me off that this movie is called “Meet The Spartans”
I used to know that if a movie came out and consisted of two words, and the second word was movie (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Scary Movie, etc), that it was just going to contain scenes from better movies, recreated with accurate set decoration, but with pop culture references and sex jokes thrown in.
Changing the title formula around screws me all up. I’m going to wind up accidentally walking into a movie only to find out that it’s one of these idiotic “spoof” flicks. I’m going to get tricked into seeing one of these things, and it’s going to really piss me off.
Haha, Rod.
I’m looking at the movie shot. (Keep in mind I’m the guy who noticed goobers on the Iron Man toys) What is the bearded guy doing with his left hand? Can you get a wedgie while wearing leather? And, wouldn’t it suck to have to wear a cape? How annoying.
Rod, you crack me up.
And personally, I wish capes would come back into style… it would be cool to be able to wear a cape and not get laughed at.
Vic
Vic,
Think of all the times a cape would get in the way.
(I decline to elaborate, which is a first.)
Yeah… from “The Incredibles”:
No capes, dahling… NO CAPES!
Vic
Is that on your movie quote rotation?
It is now.
Vic
>>Hey Jim, believe it or not they had writers write this screenplay…more than one. <
Steve, I was commenting on the piss-poor quality of the trailer…I know this is too soon for the writers to have been on strike, but the effect is the same.
(For some reason, notification of your post was sent to my Yahoo spam folder. I get scores of notices from here and they all go to the normal Inbox. Hmm.)
Vic, Capes are totally in style on Hollywood bvld. Little ones and big ones. Also the Neo trench coat is timeless as well on Sunset bvld.
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Jim C..
Writers/editors I think we both agree this trailer/”film” is gonna to be aimed at AvP crowd…
Or what I like to call, our dense population…
Gone are the days of the ingenious movies like Airplane, that combined all sorts of irony, slapstick humor and thinking mans humor to make one really funny movie. Seems like a lot of movies now are very one track minded. It has to be simple to be funny….i disagree completely
Conan O’Brien’s show has some of that. I don’t like his term for it, but I suppose it’s descriptive enough: Arbitrary humor.
Alex in some ways I blame Mtv and then later Vh1 etc. They
have been altering minds of young adults for about a full decade now.
Simple is funny to this generation because there attention span and GASF(give a shat factor) is about 5
seconds long.
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I was never soo pissed off when Mtv went from playing videos to then slowly adding comercials (something they originally said would NEVER happen) and then stared doing there incredibly retarded (imo) shows, that later influenced the direction in TV itself…(Reality tv ect). Gone are they day when you could actually see up and coming musical groups. Now its all messed up.
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Also gone are the days of watching a film like “Airplane” and laughing at every gag and joke along with the entire audience. (I’ll never forget the day I saw Airplane in the theatre). The pain of laughing so hard was like ringing in your ears after a rock concert.
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(Sidenote):
Connan O Brian is great I can’t wait til he takes over the 11:30 spot. I’ve had enough of Leno.
i could’nt agree more, i don’t think its worth wasting time and money to see this after i saw “Epic movie”. I just wish they stop making pointless movies.
I remember wanting to see Epic Movie in the theatres. After spoofs of teen movies, horror movies, and all sorts of stuff I couldn’t relate to–finally a genre I understood. But a week or two after it opened, I couldn’t find it anywhere. It was GONE. And none of my friends had seen it.
Later, when I rented the DVD, I knew why no one saw it and why it had left the silver screen so quickly. Gaa-aaak.
I remember when that “film” I know what you did last summer came out. I thought it was a comedy.. I would never see a film like that so somebody had to tell me it was a horror film.
(The line is blurry)
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Seems like since the movie “Hot Shots” its all been a slow moving bad movie experience when it comes to these parody films.
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Somebody told me “Navy Seals” was a serious action film, after I saw that I was like, yeah right!!
Lol.
Along the same lines I think YouTube is going to kill good action/sci-fi movies because now I’m hearing stuff like “I don’t care about plot or characters, I just want to see people get killed.”
It’s becoming all about short movie clip mentality now.
Vic
Yeah Vic there’s a war going on for the consciousness of the youth right now.
(IMO) Unfortunity Ipods and Iphones are changing the way people interact with entertainment technology and function in our society. Especally with the youth in big cities.
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YouTube should be more controlled and also pay for “their content”. When the artist dosnt get compensation for his work your going to see less creativity and more debris passing as creativity. (Some of that being very disturbing)…
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I’m almost postive that when this writers strike is over you’re going to see YouTube make alliances with the Studios or get shut down (over-night) by the Studios lawyers….
They won’t touch YT now because that lends more weight to the writers pov.on this strike.
All this bs over pennies , ahh I digress,,,
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This topic reminded me of that scene in “Back to the Future 2″, the one where Marty Mcfly Jr. comes home and turns on the tv’s and then says “where’s the atrosity channel?…….»
Youtube, is a nice little preview of things for me thats quick and easy, not good quality, but I’m not there for a feature film. I search on Youtube, for either one of two things, independent short films, or a peak to remember what the Batman theme is or something, or perhaps the end part of credits if I didn’t catch it in theaters. But, to actually watch whole episodes of a tv show or sections of a movie is absurd. Also its the wide scope of youtube, that there is nothing you can’t find that somebody hasn’t put on youtube. A bigger problem is the damn videos of people singing to songs on youtube. OMGOMGOMG, I want to strangle all those people.
Sorry, but I just realized what we are talking about, and its good evidence that if Vic (and staff) doesn’t put news up for a few days we’ll find something to “rant” about on our own.
Well this shat is important.
Happy new year. Everyone. !!!!
Steve
Hah, I guess I am of the “Dense” population. I wont see this when it hits the big screen, but that wont stop me from renting it for some “Dense” laughing fun.
Please, give it a rest. This movies are ment for mindless entertainment; nothing more, nothing less. You all act like this movie is going to impact the hearts and minds of America.
Act dense sometimes. It’s fun.
LOL! He’s probably funnier than the movie will be!
Yea my 2nd to last post was kinda preachy.
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I’m acting dense this weekend I’m playing Call of Duty4. The Xbox is my way of not seeing bad films.
Maybe so, but wild whorses couldn’t drag me to this movie.
“mindless entertainment”
Am I the only one who find this to be an oxymoron. If it’s mindless, if my mind isn’t engaged, I am not being entertained. If I’m not being entertained, I can’t call it entertainment. At that point, I just call it a bad movie. That, to me at least, has the benefit of not being self contradictory, yet describes the same product as “mindless entertainment.”
That is a true and literal use of the word “entertainment.” When I entertain guests, I don’t just let them in and go about my business. I engage, converse, serve, respond to. I agree, entertainment by definition has intrinsic value.
You guys inspired me to rent “Airplane.” I’m sure there are many gags in that movie that a 20 year old would not “get.” Besides being a parody of a disaster movie, the jokes had a contemporary context. Why exaggerate cultural or racial differences? Who is this actress whose character “speaks Jive”?
That’s great Jim! The film I’m sure is somewhat dated but there’s still some good jokes there.
Like when the shat hits the fan!
Ahh …
The jive reference came at a time before Rap and all the gansta crud that’s prevelant today.
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“So do you like gladiator films Jim?”. Kinda funny since this post is about a bad Gladiator film.
(Movie trivia).
Airplane marks the first time ever in film history that shat literally hit a moving fan…
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Also Jim, Airplane 2 has a special apperiance at the end,, by some shat.
(no moving fan)…
I think the (oj killer) is also in these films.
Don’t call me shirly…
“Airplane” is the perfect example of this sort of movie actually being FUNNY. I’ve always said there’s a fine line between “stupid-funny” and just plain “stupid.”
And Jim, the woman in “Airplane” played the ultra white-middle-class June Cleaver in the 50’s TV show “Leave it to Beaver.” That’s what made it funny.
Vic
Steve, that’s ok that Airplane is kinda dated, cuz I am too. There’s a certain amount of humor that will go over the head (so to speak) of younger viewers. “I speak Jive” is a funny line, but even funnier is, Barbara Billingsly delivers it.
Call me crazy,but after seeing MORE previews for this on TV,I’m actually pondering watching it on demand or renting it someday. Forgive me!! :-0
And I thought we were making such progress with you, Kel. With you accepting Heath Ledger as the Joker and all.
Just kidding, bud.
Vic
Thanks Vic I coundnt remeber who that was (June Cleaver!). Leave it to Beavers mom…
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I would sure love to see the outtakes on that scene.
Man Jim I just realised I’m 40 years old.
It was like yesterday I was sitting in a movie theatre watching “Airplane” everyone was laughing, it was communal…
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Now that theatres a Barnes & Noble store and I just realised that the humor in Airplane isn’t relevant anymore….
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Man this 2008 things hittin hard today….
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Reminds me of Ferris Bulers day quote I read here a few days ago…
All we really have here on Earth is our time…
This timeline will never be here again and it will never be the same after tomarrow…
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Ok I’m getting too preachy sorry everyone. Happy New year!
LOL,Vic! Aaaah…..I’ve decided against it after all,God help me if I change my mind again!
Yeah,Heath’s gonna be a GREAT Joker. I just wish I’d have realized that sooner. I mean,I had my doubts (you know it!) but after seeing the footage,I’ve every reason to believe that Heath will be fantastic.:-D
Do you like gladiator movies KEL?
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Forgive you, KEL we all expect some kind of review!! I don’t think Vic and Heath are going.?
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