Are Comedy Spoofs trying to hard to box with Gods?

You know as well as I do that over the years lately that comedy spoof movies have not lived up to the hype as such greats of the past. I'm gonna make this real quick I want to talk about some great movies now let's go over the list of some great comedy spoof movies over the past.

We have the 1980s classic Airplane, the quintessential spoof movie you have, 2000s Scary Movie, you have Spaceballs, Hot Shots, Young Frankenstein, there's Robin Hood men in Tights, Austin Powers that's a spoof of the James Bond movies and Blazing Saddles this goes on and on and on and on the Naked Gun even in recent years you have a Hot Fuzz and Walk Hard.

Now those I'm going to put in the category even though as of late you know that they weren't really all that great. Black Dynamite that's also another good one now oh oh oh the Galaxy Quest perfect one is well that was a great spoof movie of Star Wars more Star Trek fandom. Over the years you've seen other attempts, now to me, I feel like as far as a franchise scale movie I think that  ever since the Wayans brothers left that franchise (Scary Movie) that's what started the downward spiral of Spoofs.

Listed as the worst spoof movies so you got off the bat number one as Meet the Spartans,m you have the Disaster Movie, Epic movie, Vampires Suck, Dance Flick with Damon Wayans Jr is in that one. Scary movie 3 deserves it and these are the order, scary movie four, scary movie 5 yes that's right. Date Movie, they decided to get desperate after a while. Haunted House, Superhero movie.

I want you to remember that one because that's gonna go into a point when I'm about to make.

The movies weren't all great back then but the majority are very good than bad. Here is my theory on why a lot of these spoof movies have been terrible as of late. Now listen to or let the movies of the classic movies from the past were aware versus what they are today. When you go back to the best movie list you have movies like Robin Hood men in tights obviously making fun of like Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Things like that I know Robin Hood had to look at the budget.

Robin Hood Men in Tights budget was around 20 million dollar. 20 million dollars to make that more now Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 48 million dollar budget. The Adventures of Robin Hood two million. So Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 48 million dollars and its spoof was 20 meaning half the budget pretty much give or take marketing. now you have a movie like Superhero movie budget, 35 million dollars now what movies were there making fun of? x-men that's what stands out the most. You all probably know where I'm going with this, 35 million dollars for that piece of trash and the X-men movie budget was seventy five million dollar I didn't know that 75 million dollars to make x-men WOW.  Then to make x-men x2 budget went up to 110, x-men 3 I didn't know that these movies were less than 200 million dollars back then I hate that net that tells me a lot right there x-men 3. You got a movie that budget was over a hundred million dollars and look at the special effects that they were able to pull off in the year 2000.  we go back to superhero movie came out in 2008 by 2008 Iron Man was coming out Iron Man 140 million dollars. two hundred million dollars we were already getting into that let's put some real money into this stuff territory. at 140 million dollars. Superhero movie was 35 million dollars and the problem is they're trying to stretch out and make fun of more expensive movies.

Look at the budget, you're not going to spend as much money on a spoof movie you'd be stupid to do so but look what they're aiming at back in the day. That airplane wherever they were spoofing and then Robin Hood whatever they were spoofing the budgets were closer. the scenery, the paying of the actors and getting the special effects or the practical effects out of the way you weren't really going above and beyond you could pull it off and it doesn't have to be 100%. Look at Spaceballs, they were able to do it they in a time where they could use almost the same amount of money to pull off similar special effects to make the movie not of course it's still a spoof movie.

Spoofing a movie with a 200 million dollars plus budget like a James Cameron special effects film. To make that movie look so good was going to be just on point, any spoof of that you're probably going to be using what five to ten million dollars to get the makeup and all that stuff, pay your actors and then what you're only going to be making fun of them or whether in a couple of scenes it's going to look like crap so if you're not depending on good writing or good comedy and everything then you're special effects is suffering. You're not gonna come anywhere near that budget this is my theory and why comedy spoof movies are failing; they're aiming for targets that has already moved too far ahead in effects and budget.

A Blumhouse film keeps a low budget you strike the target or come closer to the target than you were trying to make fun of an Avatar or an Iron Man or an adventures superhero movie like that did. Its like what CM Punk said to the Rock,  "your arms are just too short to box with God".

 why are you attempting this kind of a fight? the target has moved too far ahead, it's too far down the road, it's too high above you why try spoofing movies not in the same playing field anymore at least back in the eighties in the nineties budget-wise they were close.

so let's look up the budget for Spaceballs, twenty two point seven million dollars. let's look up Empire Strikes Back because that was probably on the same time right there and Jedi. no way there can't be, the budget for Empire Strikes Back with 18 million dollars it costs more money to make Spaceballs.

I'm sorry I'm doing that wrong yes I guess that's like a 6 million little difference right there oh my goodness so evening when you combined Empire and Jedi you see where I'm going with this. it's still what one movie was still kind of in striking distance financially.

So that's my opinion on why these spoof movies have suffered. what do you think? am i way off base? Am I totally forgetting about the editing, the lighting, the producers, the directors the actors. Will there ever be a day when these spoof movies will ever come back again? let me know what you guys think hit the comments, put it in the box, hit the like button. thanks for taking the time to listen to me rant about this I want to know what you guys think about this as well.

until next time

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The Call 2: Starring CM Punk - WWE Studios

Would CM Punk Return to WWE Studios Before The WWE Universe?

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a huge WWE fan. I've been apart of the WWE Universe since birth. My mother, believe it or not, is the main reason why. I've watched almost every Monday Night Raw, Pay Per View and Smackdown. When WWE Studios launched I was pleasantly surprised on how it started out. See No Evil to me was a pretty good slasher film. Every other movie that came afterwards was not so great. Mostly the ones starting John Cena. It seems that since they've geared their attention to other WWE Superstars to see if they can capture that Hulk Hogan "No Holds Bar" magic. Pun intended, I use to love that movie, but lets be serious it was horrible. But something interesting has been happening as of late. 

WWE Studios has been trying to become a more respected film studio by putting out some quality stories. The problem so far has been direction but every now and then they'll produce something quite special. My first and to this day my main example was The Call. Getting Halle Berry was a great accomplishment for the studio. I'm not too surprised because Ms. Berry's career has been on a tad of a roller coaster and obviously WWE got her on a dip. 

The interesting thing about The Call is that when I saw it, it didn't stay in the theme of a "typical WWE film". If you were to tell me that The Call was produced by Warner Brothers, New Line, Columbia, etc. I would have believed you. The Call was just a all around, except for the very last scene, a great and suspenseful movie. It was a great ride, it had me on the edge of my seat, Halle Berry reminded me that she is an Oscar caliber actress. I was pleasantly pleased with every ones performances and found myself wanting more. 

Here comes the part where you say, "But wait, [SPOILER ALERT] they killed the villain at the end". Now we're moving into my great idea and I challenge you all to say it not be the right move for the studio that is WWE.

I believe that if there were a sequel to The Call, you wouldn't even need Halle Berry. But if you want to have the same magic you got in the first one lets say for the sake of argument that she came back. First off, you couldn't have her in that chair in the majority of the movie this time. I see it as Halle Berry's character is about to end a shift, she gets a call to dispatch about an emergency. Maybe the girl who was kidnapped in the first one played by Abigail Breslin is killed in the beginning of the movie and it shakes up Halle Berry to the core and she cant continue with her day and needs some time off. 

She takes said vacation and starts getting strange calls from a weird guy who knows all about her and is threatening to kill everyone she loves and then her. You could set up a plot that Morris Chestnuts character gets taken and that its all up the Berry to save him. But my campaign for the role of the villain is CM Punk. Either as a relative of the first villain played by Michael Eklund or a partner in crime out for revenge. CM Punk has a lot of "The Rock" quality charisma on the screen. He could be a huge star in his own right. Give him some quality acting schooling and I bet Punk would be a great fit for action and even some solid comedy films.

Now of course, I'm speaking as a fan, I love CM Punk, I believe he is the best in the world. So I am bias for everything Punk. I don't know if he's ever considered going into acting but if he were to take a role like this I'd be all for it. I've even written a book called Raven: The Hidden where I envisioned one of the main aantagonistas CM Punk. I don't know why I need him to be a villian, he seems like a great and likable guy. I met him briefly in Balad Iraq when the WWE visited the troops over seas. Dont' believe me, see the pick I took of the man who would soon become the best in the world. I worked there for over five years and meeting those guys is always a cool thing. 

So Mr. Punk, if you're reading this and I know that you're not. I don't know if you and Vince are on speaking terms. But one of your conditions of your return to the ring should be to star in The Call 2. Not just to be a villain who gets it in the end. but one of convinced that he's doing the right thing by killing people, bringing dept and conviction to the character. I want to see a CM Punk full of pain, just like when he dropped his first pipe bomb on the WWE. 

That's my thoughts, what are yours?