What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?
What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?
The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I'm curious if Lemmy has other such examples.
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The Orville. Homage more than parody I'd say.
Better Star Trek than a lot of actual Star Trek
After watching Season 2 of The Orville I'm of the opinion that Seth MacFarlane should be put in charge of the next mainline Star Trek series. The man truly gets Roddenberry's vision.
Damn, really?? I never watched it because I can't stand McFarlane but I have loved trek my whole life. I figured it would be a family guy version of Star trek.
Seriously give it a chance. Awesome trek
It kinda starts out that way. People theorized that that's what Seth needed to do to sell it. But by the end of Season 1 it becomes the Star Trek you've been wanting. Season 2 continues it and the last season absolutely kills!
Y'all getting me psyched now. I'm working out of town all next week so I'll be in a hotel with nothing to do so I'm going to check it out for sure.
I'm excited for you, definitely the best show I had seen in a long time.
The humour in the first season can be a bit forced, and it can feel like they're stopping the show for the scheduled joke, but it's worth sticking with 👍
Season 1 leans into the comedy angle, Season 2 onwards is basically TNG. Seriously, its better than Discovery and Picard.
I didn't like discovery or Picard, felt way off from Trek to me, but strange new worlds is amazing imo. I'll check it out though, admittedly I never even gave it a chance.
Watch Picard Season 3, it's probably the best Trek I've seen since Deep Space Nine's final two seasons.
No, it's like a love note to TOS. All of the Treks that followed were a bit more serious in tone, which is fine and dandy, but The Orville captures the spirit of the original series very well. Strange New Worlds is somewhat similar to the original series in tone, but doesn't have that 60s campy feel.
Nah. I respect what MacFarlane is trying to do, but Orville is nowhere as good as TNG or SNW. It echoes TNG in a lot of ways but never rises above it. The writing is more heavy-handed and MacFarlane doesn't have the gravitas or the acting chops to rise to these ambitions.
It was good while the only current Trek we had was Picard and the godawful Discovery, but I think the SNW creators got the Trek mainline back on the tracks.
On that vein: Galaxy Quest