“Shut yo’ mouth!”

Ah, this actually reminds me of the Tim Burton film version of Mars Attacks! from 1996. A decent movie, but ultimately the same issue described here. Namely, it’s spoofing something that was never very serious and already pretty funny to begin with. I appreciate movies like this for their humorous qualities, but I always wondered if said humour was intentional or not. I think they were actually supposed to be taken seriously back in the day, but they’re just so ridiculous that I can’t see them as anything other than pure popcorn.

My favourite blaxploitation parody of all time is from the adult cartoon Venture Bros:

Jefferson: Yes, I only hunt Blackulas.
Fish Creature: Oh, so you only hunt African-American vampires.
Jefferson: No, sometimes I hunt British vampires. They don’t have African-Americans in England.
Fish Creature: Oh yeah. Yeah, good point.
Jefferson: So I hunt Blackulas.
Fish Creature: I was just trying to be…
Jefferson: Man I specialize in hunting black vampires, I don’t what the PC name for that is.

It’s gotten to the point where when I hear that there’s a remake of something, I avoid it like the plague. What the hell is the point? A lot of the charm of something like Total Recall was in its cheesiness. I can just imagine a gritty, realistic take on it that would be made today. Booooooring!

Then you have something like Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakes which is so totally different from the original. Now that’s kind of good; at least you’re injecting some originality into it. But on the other hand, now you’re not remaking anything. You’re just making a whole different movie and riding on the coattails of name recognition.

So in conclusion, fuck the remakes. Scott Pilgrim had issues, but it was a hell of a lot more interesting than another remake.

You’re right, it does seem odd that I don’t have my own blog. I started one once, but I only managed to put two entries in it. I thought it would be random rants about game stuff, but I find that I don’t get worked up enough for a massive post like that with the kind of regularity required to keep it going. I thought about doing kind of a “rant of the week” thing and started compiling ideas about stuff to rant about. Not even game-specific; films too. Mostly games though. Plus, I don’t know that it’s anything other people haven’t already said anyway. I think I’m more of the mindset of “who would want to read my stuff besides me?” Okay, maybe Shayla would.