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Johnny Drama toplines a spoof flick! NATIONAL LAMPOON'S 301: THE LEGEND OF AWESOMEST MAXIMUS WALLACE LEONIDAS!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. It's not VIKING QUEST the movie, but it's a step towards seeing that dream realized. Kevin Dillon is going to topline NATIONAL LAMPOON'S 301: THE LEGEND OF AWESOMEST MAXIMUS WALLACE LEONIDAS, a spoof of epic battle movies, it seems.
Dillon plays a Spartan warrior who bumbles himself up in ranks somehow. They promise spoofs of BRAVEHEART, TROY, 300 and GLADIATOR.
This is the first National Lampoon movie that sounds at all interesting in years. Count me in! VICTORY!!!
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National Lampoon has fallen from a great height. Come on, folks! Make this one good and not another Epic Movie piece of shit.
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My new girlfriend thinks Leonidis is Huge Jackman. She wont believe me it isnt, even when using IMDB to prove it.
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Love Dillion as Drama. He is pure gold every time and he deserves a shot in a lead. However this sounds suspiciously like one of those EPIC / SCARY / DATE / SHIT / GOD AWFUL : MOVIES ( all in RED BOLD of course ) .
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hehehe, i thought it was ok really.
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The RiffTrax commentary skewered it well.
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haha, cant wait.
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...that came up with this one?
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Ya, the MST3K crew had a nice rifftrax for 300. For some reason I loved it when one of them went "And then Leonidas looks down at his bowl of cereal, and toast, and juice, and milk and goes "THIS IS SPARTOFACOMPLETEBREAKFAST!!!!"
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I was just thinking that we haven't seen enough crappy parody movies...good thing someone gave this the greenlight....whew....I know I'll sleep better.
But why Kevin Dillon?
Leslie Nielsen too busy on a Grindhouse/No Country for Old Men/The Game Plan spoof? -
They are very stupid.
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Everyone was excited about that crapola too. Despite a few good scenes owing to a zucker-abrahams-zucker knockoff mentality, it SUCKED.
So has everything else National Lampoony in the last 15 years. -
When his brother Matt was the cool one.
Fuck you S.E. Hinton, fuck you to hell.
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ever seen a grown man naked?
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So it's a parody of a parody? Does it work like a double negative and will it be a serious film, then?
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Wasn't it called "Epic Movie"? Didn't that movie suck? Can't get excited about National Lampoon these days at all.
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It was called Carry on Cleopatra. And was great for it's time.
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YEAH
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Top Secret was fucking comedy GOLD.
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from the title. Thanks cap obvious.
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At least, they were talkinng about making a movie set in ancient Rome.
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Sure, I love Airplane but the parody film started it's slow decline with part 2 and officially died with Loaded Weapon 1. Then Scary Movie was successful and like a zombie, the parody film rose from the dead and began eating our brains.
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Rated Duh
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...can't fault the casting so far.
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National Lampoons parody film of the joke that National Lampoons has become
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direct to DVD. I mean c'mon, Johnny Drama, we love ya, but Kevin Dillon headlining a spoof comedy? Should roadblock his career like Loaded Weapon did for Estevez. And Top Secret? Funnier than Airplane in my opinion. The backwards scene with Peter Cushing, the underwater fight scene? GOLDEN. The whole problem is that Airplane, Top Secret, and Naked Gun spoofed the conventions of the genres they were parodying. They had the occasional movie spoof reference, but they were more clever than the wholesale clunky spoofs of Date Movie, Epic Movie and sadly the Scary Movie franchise that Zucker and Abrahams took over.
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I know somebody who's got opening night tickets for THE COMEBACKS.
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should re-remake The Blob! Starring Artie Lange and produced by the Weinsteins, of course.
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How can the brutal joke of a brand (National Lampoons) spoof anybody. At this point the only they they are capable of is making themselves look like a bigger and bigger joke than the one's they actually have in their movies.
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National Lampoon hasn't "produced" a movie in decades. It is quite commonly known in the industry that they license the "National Lampoon" name so that studios can put that over the title. It's actually kind of the opposite of producing really.
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...were busy or slow on the draw? I always thought Lampoon had more...I dunno...originality than to do a straight-up spoof film. Leave that to the Weird Al's of the movie biz and give us more funny, precedent setting shit.
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...were actually original stories in and of themselves, with at least a somewhat coherent plot and setting that were actually clever twists on an existing genre, rather than being just a cobbled together collection of skits and DIRECT references to other movies (often of vastly different genres)?
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Shuuuuut uuuup.
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I don't think National Lampoon, in its current state, will be the company to give us another great one. I might give it a shot, though.
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THOSE are great spoofs. They're spoofs not only on particular films but most of all they're spoofs on genres. If anyone should make something like this, it would be those guys.
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You are correct. I take back what I said. What I should have said was that Hollywood hasn't given us a good one in a long time.
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TONIGHT! WE! DINE! IN! HELL!
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Is he kidding, this sounds lame as fuck.
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If Mel Brooks was youngified (I think they can do that nowadays with X3 technology) and put behind the camera. THEN. Maybe.
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