Nov 11 2008'Not Another Not Another Movie': A Nightmarish Parody of Parody Movies
Inside Hollywood's womb, something is growing so grotesquely inbred that I have no way of describing its deformed wretchedness. Luckily, the Hollywood Reporter has already laid it out (via The Hater, via Halcyon):
Chevy Chase, Burt Reynolds, Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen and "Stuttering" John Melendez are spoofing the nonstop flood of spoof films in the upcoming indie comedy "Not Another Not Another Movie."Chase plays a studio head who quits his floundering company, leaving his ex-con sibling (Madsen) in charge. Soon their equally inept gangster friend (Jones) takes over and assigns a production assistant (David Leo Schultz) to direct a spoof of spoof movies. Reynolds plays an actor playing the director of the chaotic film within the film.
Writer-director David Murphy's "Movie" features cameos from actors playing themselves spoofing their memorable roles, including Richard Tyson (the villian in "Kindergarten Cop") and Wolfgang Bodison (the young African-American Marine on trial in "A Few Good Men").
Look, I can understand wanting to make fun of spoof movies and the people who make them. I do it all the time. I just did it yesterday. But I did not make a movie about people making a spoof movie spoofing a spoof movie that spoofs other movies. That's too many layers for society to handle. The fact that you'll (seemingly) be acknowledging that your movie within a movie is terrible does not make it nor the greater movie any less hellish. If one dog barking makes another dog bark, which then makes yet another dog bark, it doesn't matter if the third dog is actually a guy pretending to be a dog, mocking the second dog. In the end, we're still left with more endless, agonizing noise.
Reader Comments
1. deadmuffin - November 11, 2008 4:06 PM
why cant they just stop making parodies and start thinking outside the box?
2. wendy - November 11, 2008 4:17 PM
well observed iwatchstuff guy, well observed.
3. Elmo - November 11, 2008 4:53 PM
who thinks of these movies? is it a Tyler Perry- like person?
4. linceleopardo - November 11, 2008 6:02 PM
Maybe there's a little dog inside the second who's actually a talking chihuahua and it came up with the great idea and I'm pretty sure that the third dog is actually a cat pretending to bark...instant classic.
5. Chuck - November 11, 2008 6:18 PM
This is actually a brilliant idea for a movie. I love how the studio is taken over by an ex-convict.
6. Harry Coe - November 11, 2008 6:25 PM
Please kill me.
7. Snoodle - November 11, 2008 6:28 PM
That's...just...oh god o.o
8. sully - November 11, 2008 7:53 PM
I think the description for the movie made my brain implode... almost. If it wasn't for Caddyshack, I would have little to no respect for Chevy Chase. And if it wasn't for Free Willy, the same would be true for Michael Madsen. John Melendez is always cool in my book, as long as he keeps masturbating and ripping off Steven Wright characters. WOO JOHN MELENDEZ!
9. Peanut - November 11, 2008 7:57 PM
A movie about making a movie spoofing movies that spoof other movies?
I think Kurosawa was planning the same thing before he died.
10. jim - November 11, 2008 8:06 PM
YOu guys don't understand, this movie comes from people who fuckin hate and despise those shitty Friedberg
And Seltzer movies.
After all this is Chevy chase we're talking about, he's a genius.
11. Richthegringo - November 12, 2008 3:53 AM
A spoof of a spoof eh?
Well thats kinda like a double negative so therefore a positive!
Errrrm...I'm confused!
12. Brian - November 12, 2008 9:34 AM
Will this movie explain how Chevy Chase went from funny to bitter and angry?
13. Uncle Eccoli - November 12, 2008 10:02 AM
These are the death throes of cinema itself.
14. Slipstream - November 12, 2008 1:28 PM
I have a weird thing for Burt Reynolds, I mean I even just got him as the voice on my GPS too. I got it from www.navtones.com that does celebrity voices for GPS. I love it! I also got Mr. T and Kim Cattrall but for some reason I keep going back to Burt!
I think the movie will be good!
15. Amy - November 13, 2008 12:57 AM
You see the word "spoof" too many times in one paragraph, it begins to look pretty strange... spoof spoof spoof