Date Movie: How would you improve it? (Spoilers Abound)

[JerrBear81]

Allyson Hannigan was one of it's few saving graces, IMO.

[kalorama]

Not making it probably would be the first step.

[JerrBear81]

Not making it probably would be the first step.

Heh good point there. The only scenes I laughed at were the Cat scenes and the Kill Bill one.

[Trystenn]

Heh good point there. The only scenes I laughed at were the Cat scenes and the Kill Bill one.
Nah the midget Hitch was pretty funny.



Get the Wayans Brothers on it.

[Donald M.]

Spoilers abound?

Is it really possible to spoil a movie like this?

Anyway, it's from 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie. That's a spoiler right there. Spoils the fact that movie must suck. Not maybe, not probably. It must.

[JerrBear81]

Spoilers abound?

Is it really possible to spoil a movie like this?

Anyway, it's from 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie. That's a spoiler right there. Spoils the fact that movie must suck. Not maybe, not probably. It must.

Good point.

I wish that the creators of Airplane! had done Date Movie...

[StoneGold]

Good point.

I wish that the creators of Airplane! had done Date Movie...
Why? Scary Movie 3 sucked. David Zucker and Pat Proft worked on it.

[brian2322]

Good point.

I wish that the creators of Airplane! had done Date Movie...

they are doin a superhero spoof called Superhero!

[Bright-Raven]

A serious attempt at fixing this mess:

1) Throw out the script. I would make the movie about dating in your late 20s, early 30s, and having regrets about not dating the "one that got away" from high school or college - that crush whom you never had the guts to ask, or they were always with someone else. And that person comes back into your life unexpectedly, available - but are they interested? Are you still interested? What lengths would you go to to have that "second chance"? And will it turn out to be a disaster because you have this years long nostalgic fantasy of them, and they don't have a clue?

That's what "Date Movie" could have been.

2) Get Gary David Goldberg (MUST LOVE DOGS) and John Hughes (BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, MR. MOM, WEIRD SCIENCE, FERRIS BUELLER, etc. ad nauseum) to co-write and co-direct the movie. If there's going to be parody of Hughes' stuff, he should be the one doing it. Just make the characters the right age (late 20s, early 30s).

3) Give Alyson Hannigan a role without the cheese factor. She has incredibly bad taste in comedic roles both in film and television and needs to have someone who can actually direct other than Joss Whedon work with her.

That's a start.

[IamtheRock3]

A serious attempt at fixing this mess:

1) Throw out the script. I would make the movie about dating in your late 20s, early 30s, and having regrets about not dating the "one that got away" from high school or college - that crush whom you never had the guts to ask, or they were always with someone else. And that person comes back into your life unexpectedly, available - but are they interested? Are you still interested? What lengths would you go to to have that "second chance"? And will it turn out to be a disaster because you have this years long nostalgic fantasy of them, and they don't have a clue?

That's what "Date Movie" could have been.

2) Get Gary David Goldberg (MUST LOVE DOGS) and John Hughes (BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, MR. MOM, WEIRD SCIENCE, FERRIS BUELLER, etc. ad nauseum) to co-write and co-direct the movie. If there's going to be parody of Hughes' stuff, he should be the one doing it. Just make the characters the right age (late 20s, early 30s).

3) Give Alyson Hannigan a role without the cheese factor. She has incredibly bad taste in comedic roles both in film and television and needs to have someone who can actually direct other than Joss Whedon work with her.

That's a start.


See would of got an actress from one of the famous date movies. Like Reese Whiterspoon. The key to spoofs in play in straight but a little off

Make it R

Also make fun of the classic Guy/Girl go after all ready take Spouse. But fortunly it ok because the person they after boyfreind/Girlfrien is not the nice person..they are actuly a HUGE HUGE JERK

the boyfriend from wedding crasher was a CLASSIC example of this. Totaly jerk when the girlfriend not around

Would do that but just Exagerate things

If it a guy would have it played by Vince Vaugn or Chapell

if it a girl Jaime priesly or the spanis chick on Desperate Housewives

[StoneGold]

A serious attempt at fixing this mess:

1) Throw out the script. I would make the movie about dating in your late 20s, early 30s, and having regrets about not dating the "one that got away" from high school or college - that crush whom you never had the guts to ask, or they were always with someone else. And that person comes back into your life unexpectedly, available - but are they interested? Are you still interested? What lengths would you go to to have that "second chance"? And will it turn out to be a disaster because you have this years long nostalgic fantasy of them, and they don't have a clue?

That's what "Date Movie" could have been.

2) Get Gary David Goldberg (MUST LOVE DOGS) and John Hughes (BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, MR. MOM, WEIRD SCIENCE, FERRIS BUELLER, etc. ad nauseum) to co-write and co-direct the movie. If there's going to be parody of Hughes' stuff, he should be the one doing it. Just make the characters the right age (late 20s, early 30s).

3) Give Alyson Hannigan a role without the cheese factor. She has incredibly bad taste in comedic roles both in film and television and needs to have someone who can actually direct other than Joss Whedon work with her.

That's a start.
So what you're saying is that Date Movie should have been the kind of movie it was trying to make fun of.

[Donald M.]

they are doin a superhero spoof called Superhero!

Damned original title, that.

[IamtheRock3]

So what you're saying is that Date Movie should have been the kind of movie it was trying to make fun of.

naaa think he saying it still will be a spoof

Just what plots their spoofing would be a differnt. Even a spoof need a plot.

[StoneGold]

naaa think he saying it still will be a spoof

Just what plots their spoofing would be a differnt. Even a spoof need a plot.

1) Throw out the script. I would make the movie about dating in your late 20s, early 30s, and having regrets about not dating the "one that got away" from high school or college - that crush whom you never had the guts to ask, or they were always with someone else.
That sound like a spoof for you? No, it sounds like someone's pitch for a romantic comedy.

[JerrBear81]

Why? Scary Movie 3 sucked. David Zucker and Pat Proft worked on it.

I was thinking in terms of Airplane!, not Scary Movie 3. However, they might not have done much better.

[IamtheRock3]

That sound like a spoof for you? No, it sounds like someone's pitch for a romantic comedy.



2) Get Gary David Goldberg (MUST LOVE DOGS) and John Hughes (BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, MR. MOM, WEIRD SCIENCE, FERRIS BUELLER, etc. ad nauseum) to co-write and co-direct the movie. If there's going to be parody of Hughes' stuff, he should be the one doing it. Just make the characters the right age (late 20s, early 30s).


Look up there

[Bright-Raven]

SG:

Instead of a mishmosh parody of elements from a bunch of lackluster films (themselves all nothing more than unintentional parodies of far superior films) with no intrinsic story value, I am saying make the film a romantic comedy that purposely and intentionally parodies itself within the storyline.

Cool?

[Dreadstar]

Not making it probably would be the first step.

Or burn the proofs, one or the other.

1st movie I've walked out on in over a year.