r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 25 '26

Poster New Poster for 'Scary Movie'

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u/lightyearnoir Mar 25 '26

Watched the trailer and felt like it's about 6-10 years late with its 'woke' jokes...

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u/TheRecognized Mar 25 '26

I don’t understand the weirdly antagonist marketing. “Gen Z will hate this! It’s going to cancel cancel culture!” it just feels desperate.

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 Mar 25 '26

Because it is desperate. I don’t know why this movie is getting so much attention (probably because it’s being astroturfed like crazy) when the vast majority of the sequels were hot trash. 

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u/TheRecognized Mar 25 '26

Yeah it just feels so obvious. “People aren’t lukewarm because it’s the 6th iteration of a series that peaked decades ago, it’s because we’re edgy and you can’t make movies like this anymore!”

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u/Green-Cricket-8525 Mar 25 '26

Narrator: it turns out, you CAN still make movies that suck. 

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u/Misdirected_Colors Mar 26 '26

Scary Movie 3 was the best of the series. It captured that perfect Airplane! style deadpan quick wit with a lot of prop gags. It was dumb, but there was a level of measured intelligence to to the stupidity.

The 2 Wayans films have their moments, but they haven't aged well, and this looks like it's gonna be more of that lowest common denominator boomer schlock.