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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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just curious
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
Location: Da D.C
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Why does everyone use a poll in their introductory post?
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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Username, where the hell ya been?
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Beach Bum
Joined: Dec 08 2010
Location: At the pants party.
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I say Spaceballs. That movie is fucking classic, plus I know every line, and John Candy is the shit.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
Joined: Apr 29 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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I love the Robot Chicken Parodies.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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No Hardware Wars or Thumb Wars?
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I'm risking major pariah status here, but I was not entertained by Space Balls, not one bit. I only ever watched it once though.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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| No Hardware Wars or Thumb Wars? |
i completely forgot about thumb wars.
never heard of hardware wars
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Beach Bum
Joined: Dec 08 2010
Location: At the pants party.
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Hardware Wars was actually pretty good too, but John Candy still wins.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
Joined: May 17 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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None, they all suck. Star Wars just doesn't seem to lend itself to parody. Family Guy was the worst, but Family Guy is the worst of a lot of things. At least they're consistent.
Spaceballs is the best of the options, and is a great movie in itself, but that's because Brooks wisely didn't just parody every single stupid scene from Star Wars with random crap thrown in the mix. He actually wrote a PLOT, shockingly enough, and the film was its own story.
I'll put it this way: you can watch Spaceballs without having ever seen Star Wars and it's still funny. Can you say that about the others?
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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The Star Wars Christmas Special.
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"Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Dr. Strangelove
Joined: Dec 30 2010
Location: Salt Lake City
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| I'll put it this way: you can watch Spaceballs without having ever seen Star Wars and it's still funny. Can you say that about the others? |
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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Episode I is the best parody.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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I do like Space Balls, and would choose it over Family Guy's version...but I HAVE to go with Robot Chicken, for their take on Boba Fett alone. "Yeah...at least I didn't go out like a punk...*sob*"
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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| Jack Slater wrote: |
None, they all suck. Star Wars just doesn't seem to lend itself to parody. Family Guy was the worst, but Family Guy is the worst of a lot of things. At least they're consistent.
Spaceballs is the best of the options, and is a great movie in itself, but that's because Brooks wisely didn't just parody every single stupid scene from Star Wars with random crap thrown in the mix. He actually wrote a PLOT, shockingly enough, and the film was its own story.
I'll put it this way: you can watch Spaceballs without having ever seen Star Wars and it's still funny. Can you say that about the others? |
I agree with this...but I have to say, it would've been nice if Brooks did even more as far as establishing Star Trek, Alien, Planet of the Apes and so forth. Yeah, we get minor instances, but spoofing the space genre in general could've made it even better in my opinion.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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bumping this to get more people to vote. it cant end on a tie.
or should i just make a new thread w/the two tied options?
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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You can't run anything right, UN. I say hand over the competition to HardcoreGamer4Ever.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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| I do like Space Balls, and would choose it over Family Guy's version...but I HAVE to go with Robot Chicken, for their take on Boba Fett alone. "Yeah...at least I didn't go out like a punk...*sob*" |
Here's the tie-breaker then. Hawk's post goes for me too; I choose Robot Chicken. The Emperor taking a call from Vader and making fun of him made it for me.
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docinsano
Title: Boner King
Joined: Jan 08 2008
Location: Mpls Mini Soda
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I love Mel Brooks so I gotta go Spaceballs all the way
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Adrock4
Title: Mostly Lurks, Now
Joined: Sep 13 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Yeah, Spaceballs pretty much has the whole "Star Wars parody" thing down pat.
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slapolakinkaido
Title: Illegitimate Son of God
Joined: Jul 14 2009
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That video is fuckin awesome.
Anyway, I'd have to say Spaceballs all the way. The Family Guy one had it's moments. Never saw the Robot Chicken one though.
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