Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Perhaps shamefully, I've never seen Escape from Alcatraz – something I realised only when researching for those lists

I did wonder.

I highly recommend it. There's a great performance from Patrick McGoohan as the prison governor.

I think Portmeirion must have really screwed with his psyche.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I did wonder.

I highly recommend it. There's a great performance from Patrick McGoohan as the prison governor.

I think Portmeirion must have really screwed with his psyche.

It might be a bit late, but as it's available on Prime Video I have just added it to my watchlist and will try to watch it tomorrow. If it's as good as you make out, I may have to amend my lists to accommodate it.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I enjoyed looking at the many prison films lists contributed over the last week and it has resulted in me ordering a couple of DVDs and adding another film to my Prime Video list.

This week, for no particular reason, I thought it would be an idea to follow on from what seemed to work with some other topics where the lists differ dramatically from person to person based on the subjective appeal of the different films. If you think of the word "parody" and think of films which send up another film, style of filmmaking, or even an entire genre, I think that could lead to some very varied and interesting lists.

PARODY FILMS

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Topper Harley and Austin Powers... Come on down!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Topper Harley and Austin Powers... Come on down!

I hope this will come out in the lists because I mentioned the subjective nature of humour and there will be those who love Hot Shots and the Austin Powers films, and others who don't find them at all funny. The same might happen with films by Mel Brooks, Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker, Monty Python, Gerald Thomas etc. Some people could easily do a top 10 entirely of Thomas' 'Carry on' films, others may think they have no entertainment value whatsoever.

Perhaps the best thing which could come out of this week would be if the lists lead to a lot of thought and conversation about what is funny, what makes a good parody film, and respect that no two people have the same sense of humour.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Top 10 Parody Films

Three Amigos (1986)
Up Pompeii (1971)*
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Enchanted (2007)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
The Onion Movie (2008)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
Our Man Flint (1966)

I haven't bothered with Simon Pegg's films nor any Python as they are sure to fill everyone else's lists.

[MrBarlow]

A Haunted House 2013
Airplane 1980
Disaster Movie 2008
Epic Movie 2007
High Anxiety 1977
Dracula: Dead and Loving It 1995
Hot Shots 1991
Robin Hood: Men in Tights 1993
Scary Movie 2000
Spaceballs 1987

Some Mentions
The Naked Gun
Johnny English
Team America: World Police
National Lampoon loaded Weapon

[Susan Foreman]

I foresee a problem filled week

Define: Parody film?

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I foresee a problem filled week

Define: Parody film?

Define parody, total p@#s take or are you taking the p@#s

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Define parody, total p@#s take or are you taking the p@#s

No, I'm not taking the p*ss, it was a serious question

For me, the original 'Friday 13th' is so over the top and gratuitous, it has to be a spoof of a horror film. The same goes with with Raimi's 'Evil Dead', Bava's 'Demons' and Jackson's 'Bad Taste'/'Braindead'

Meanwhile, I look upon 'Rocky Horror' is a parody of 1950's science fiction films, 'This Is Spinal Tap' is a parody of Pennebaker's 'Don't Look Back' and 'Moonraker' wouldn't exist without 'Star Wars'