also since when is the Scary Movie series anything but dumb parodies and pop culture references to begin with?

I mean the original was a parody of Scream, which was ALREADY A PARODY.

Because they cost like to make and every year is a new batch of 12 year-olds with terrible taste because they are children.

Who makes these, anyway? Are the _____ Movies all done by the same people?

The Weinstein Company formed after the Weinsteins split from Miramax. While they had a substantial amount of money from their Miramax years to fund the company, they did not make much money with their releases for a while. They would get critical acclaim sometimes ("The Artist") but not much money. Around the beginning of 2012, since they did have some loyal directors and producers that followed them to the new company, they decided to resurrect a bunch of long dormant franchises they had at Miramax to hopefully make some commercial money. That's why you had "Why are they bothering?" things like "Scream 4", "Spy Kids 4", possibly another "Sin City" if they ever work it out, and this. And this one, believe it or not, was being made for 5 years.
They finally struck some gold with "Django Unchained", so maybe these will stop.

I feel like it's probably worth noting that even these movies have become fractured. Marlon Wayans was involved in the first couple of "Scary Movie" films, had some sort of falling out or some shit I don't know and then made "A Haunted House". And while making sure I had my facts straight on IMDB, I discovered that he's in the process of making a second one. So now we have two simultaneous horror movie spoof franchises.

Hah. Intelligent Americans hate themselves. Most Americans love themselves.

It was a funny movie, and most definitely stupid. Five stars for your visceral reaction and need to distinguish yourself as someone above being entertained by even one scene in it.

"an entire generation of smug privileged white dudes think that eugenics was a good idea"

Yeah, that's what Idiocracy did, it made "an entire generation of smug privileged white dudes think that eugenics was a good idea".

Any questions, anybody? WHO WANTS DESSERT already has his Hyperbolizer 9000 fired up.

And you'll THANK Idiocracy when our eugenics program is complete, and mankind is saved from the awful fate depicted in the film!

I admit, sometimes it's hard, sterilizing rednecks and throwing poor minorities into ovens. Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth it. But then I think about "Ow My Balls", and the mountains of trash these people are going to leave everywhere, and I realize that what I'm doing is right.

i can taste the anger all the way over here.

WHO WANTS DESSERT must've been one of the studio execs who made it direct to DVD.

I want royalties for that level of cynical hyperbole.

I rest my case.

"I rest my case."

And? Are you assuming everyone who responded to you is a smug white male? Your stereotyping of PoE-News posters is hurtful and Othering! Physician, heal thyself.

I'm now hoping that this becomes the longest, most violent debate in site history; perfect start to a war over nothing.

Dumb movie (recycles joke and) is ripped off by dumber movie
----->>
race, class, gender, nation, eugenics
----->>
ARMA-fucking-GEDDON
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DESSERT IS SERVED

That was supposed to be a reply to WHO WANTS DESSERT.