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Johnny Drama toplines a spoof flick! NATIONAL LAMPOON'S 301: THE LEGEND OF AWESOMEST MAXIMUS WALLACE LEONIDAS!!

Man ... I hope this shit is good by ye olde shiza	Oct 3rd, 2007 04:45:13 AM
National Lampoon has fallen from a great height. Come on, folks! Make this one good and not another Epic Movie piece of shit.
FREEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM by gudge	Oct 3rd, 2007 04:45:34 AM
My new girlfriend thinks Leonidis is Huge Jackman. She wont believe me it isnt, even when using IMDB to prove it.
Oh Dear ! by Papa Lazaru	Oct 3rd, 2007 04:50:27 AM
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 ) . For his sake I really hope they don't take that route.
Are you saying 300 wasn't a parody !? by barnaby jones	Oct 3rd, 2007 04:53:35 AM
hehehe, i thought it was ok really.
Unnecessary by Dingbatty	Oct 3rd, 2007 05:08:31 AM
The RiffTrax commentary skewered it well.
"TONIGHT, WE DINE IN PARODY!" by Mike_D	Oct 3rd, 2007 05:26:26 AM
haha, cant wait.
Who are the ad wizards... by wampa 1	Oct 3rd, 2007 05:56:49 AM
...that came up with this one?
Rifftrax by Alientoast	Oct 3rd, 2007 06:15:33 AM
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!!!!"
Oh...wow.....great....yippie by Raindog789	Oct 3rd, 2007 06:31:35 AM
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?
These parody films must stop. by fireclown	Oct 3rd, 2007 07:25:53 AM
They are very stupid.
Yo, Quint...Excited? Remember Loaded Weapon 1? by captain_kirk	Oct 3rd, 2007 07:41:39 AM
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.
I remember a time... by The Duke Of Madness	Oct 3rd, 2007 08:35:24 AM
When his brother Matt was the cool one. Fuck you S.E. Hinton, fuck you to hell.
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? by KonkBob	Oct 3rd, 2007 08:36:43 AM
ever seen a grown man naked?
A parody of "300"? by Stalin vs Predator	Oct 3rd, 2007 08:56:37 AM
So it's a parody of a parody? Does it work like a double negative and will it be a serious film, then?
Didn't they make this movie already? by Wed Vid Guy	Oct 3rd, 2007 09:06:24 AM
Wasn't it called "Epic Movie"? Didn't that movie suck? Can't get excited about National Lampoon these days at all.
I've already seen this by Lost Jarv	Oct 3rd, 2007 09:15:39 AM
It was called Carry on Cleopatra. And was great for it's time.
VICTORY!!!!!!!!! by messi	Oct 3rd, 2007 09:15:59 AM
YEAH
"Top Secret was pretty good." by DocPazuzu	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:01:19 AM
Top Secret was fucking comedy GOLD.
Does it really spoof all those pics? I couldn't tell by aceattorney	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:20:58 AM
from the title. Thanks cap obvious.
I thought Broken Lizard was doing this. by Billy Goat	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:36:12 AM
At least, they were talkinng about making a movie set in ancient Rome.
TIFF! My vote to Jack Black for the main character by J-Dizzle	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:37:16 AM

Parody films are THE WORST by Jor-El23	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:50:04 AM
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.
Rob Schneider in Der Da Der Di Der by DigitalDong	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:52:16 AM
Rated Duh
well... by DeadPanWalking	Oct 3rd, 2007 11:50:26 AM
...can't fault the casting so far.
Someone should make a by Lando Griffin	Oct 3rd, 2007 12:51:25 PM
National Lampoons parody film of the joke that National Lampoons has become
This smells like by skimn	Oct 3rd, 2007 01:03:35 PM
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.
This sounds interesting? by JonQuixote	Oct 3rd, 2007 01:07:40 PM
I know somebody who's got opening night tickets for THE COMEBACKS.
Kevin Dillon by skimn	Oct 3rd, 2007 01:23:22 PM
should re-remake The Blob! Starring Artie Lange and produced by the Weinsteins, of course.
Sweet irony by Mooly	Oct 3rd, 2007 01:28:42 PM
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.
"National Lampoon presents" by slone13	Oct 3rd, 2007 01:49:02 PM
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.
So the Scary Movie guys... by Childe Roland	Oct 3rd, 2007 04:06:53 PM
...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.
Remember when spoofs... by Lujho	Oct 3rd, 2007 04:56:19 PM
...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)?
Wasn't 300 itself the Braveheart's parody? by The Artist FKA Vesuvio	Oct 3rd, 2007 05:40:52 PM
Shuuuuut uuuup.
We haven't seen a good parody film in years. by TattooedBillionaire	Oct 3rd, 2007 06:27:38 PM
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.
Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead by TheNorthlander	Oct 3rd, 2007 07:17:53 PM
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.
Flight of the Living Dead! by couP	Oct 3rd, 2007 08:25:26 PM

The Northlander by TattooedBillionaire	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:05:23 PM
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.
Is it really possible to spoof a movie at OTT as 300? by Osmosis Jones	Oct 3rd, 2007 10:06:16 PM
TONIGHT! WE! DINE! IN! HELL!
Interesting? by Nozoli Apples	Oct 4th, 2007 02:03:50 AM
Is he kidding, this sounds lame as fuck.
If Rick Moranis in his prime played Leonidas by TheNorthlander	Oct 4th, 2007 06:06:49 AM
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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