05 August 2008

Who's Patronizing These?

I just saw ad on Youtube for this movie. Didn't we just rush Meet The Spartans through to VHS? There's really a market for 2 spoofs in a summer? I remember going to see Dude, Where's My Car? in the theater, thinking it was terrible and trying to wash it down with a rental of Scary Movie. Who knew that movie would spin off 3 sequels and all these annual dollar-theater-dwellers. I guess there's some kind of market for these things:

7/7/00 - Scary Movie - $157,019,771
10/24/03 - Scary Movie 3 - $110,003,217
4/14/06 - Scary Movie 4 - $90,710,620
7/4/01 - Scary Movie 2 - $71,308,997
2/17/06 - Date Movie - $48,548,426
1/26/07 - Epic Movie - $39,739,367
12/14/01 - Not Another Teen Movie - $38,252,284
1/25/08 - Meet the Spartans - $38,233,676

In researching this post, I discovered another movie coming out in 2008 called Extreme Movie that is going straight to video. I've got to be honest. I never saw any of these other movies because they looked terrible. Absolutely horrible. But much like Family Guy will drive a joke into the ground until it's funny, I'm starting to wonder if I should go watch one of these. The idea that they keep releasing these movies is becoming increasingly funny to me. I think they know the parodies are parodies of themselves now.

04 August 2008

Getting into the Homerun Race


Carrot Top is the headlining act at the Luxor hotel in Vegas these days. To be honest, I thought he had died or something. I got a call 7 years ago asking if I wanted to book him for a comedy show but turned it down. Doesn't he just cut carrots in half with a machete? What's so great about that? I could stick my mom up there and she could do it blindfolded. Anyway, it appears that when Carrot realized he wasn't funny anymore, he got involved with Human Growth Hormone and Billy Blanks. When I saw this picture of the guy I laughed, so I guess we can call this one a success. The only thing left yet to do is get this guy registered in some UFC fights. I bet he'd make a killing do something like that.