• Björn Tantau
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    856 days ago

    For my wife Spaceballs is the original and Star Wars is the spoof.

    But more seriously, too many people didn’t register that Scream was a parody. That way it managed to surpass older slashers.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      676 days ago

      I wouldn’t call Scream a parody. Scary Movie was the parody. Scream was just self aware that it was a scary movie in a universe where scary movies exist.

      • @Crewman@sopuli.xyz
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        186 days ago

        I watched the original Scream years after seeing Scary Movie, and realized Scary Movie is just Scream on cocaine. A lot of the jokes are the same or just slightly different.

        What’s the line between being self aware and a parody?

    • methodicalaspect
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      175 days ago

      I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I cannot take any Star Wars movie seriously now.

      • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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        35 days ago

        Imagine that.
        A movie set in the future with advanced space craft yet has guys dueling with pink glowsticks.
        I didn’t need Spaceballs to come to that conclusion when I was about 9.

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ
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      56 days ago

      My gf used to believe that Scary Movie was the original. She didn’t had idea that there was an actual movie called Scream.

    • @Kng@feddit.rocks
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      35 days ago

      Can confirm scream was one of the first horror movies I watched and I just figured the rest were like that.