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The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I'm curious if Lemmy has other such examples.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Cabin in the Woods" kind of fits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The more I watch of 'Succession' the more I think it is close to perfect in terms of family/executive drama. It started almost as cringe inducingly funny as say 'The Office' but it has just become amazingly accurate and dramatic. Recommended.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

After many seasons, it turned out that Joss Whedon was secretly the Big Bad.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

'The 3 Musketeers' with Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed. Completely aware of how ridiculous all this nonsense is, and loving it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The anime Knosuba.

Meant to be a parody of the whole "stuck in a fantasy world" genre, while being a great example of it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not a movie, book, or TV show, but Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" was supposed to be satirizing progressive rock, and turned into one of the best prog songs/albums ever made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not a funny watch but I'd consider Neo Genesis Evangelion a great deconstruction of the Gundam genre.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Konosuba. It's a parody of the Isekai Anime genre. And holy shit is it funny 🤌🏼.

Isekai refers to the trope in many popular anime where the main character or MC (majorly a male, also majorly either socially awkward, inept or both) either dies in the real world and somehow gets reincarnated/transported, or plays a VR game or reads a book that sucks them into that world.

These shows tend to have many recurring cliches; a harem of attractive women that all want the attention of the MC, MC being essentially OP at whatever fantasy world skill structure exists, shitloads of fan service (mostly overly sexual portrayal of the women in those worlds, but also random and long action sequences), overly complicated rules that they will somehow obey and many many more. I'll be here all year listing each trope.

But Konosuba mocks the concept of the Isekai genre, and actively makes sure to do something that wouldn't occur in a typical show.

What ended up happening was that in their quest to make the perfect parody, they ended up striking gold, and created one of the best Isekai shows. All because they wanted to make fun of that exact genre.

It's not even like they "became the very thing they swore to destroy", since the show doesn't at all take itself too seriously...

There's 2 seasons, a movie and a spin-off prequel that follows one of the main characters and leads upto the first episode of the main story. All of which is amazing and insanely hilarious.

100% recommended.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Genre satire is different than political satire in that most people who make it often do so out of love for the genre not hated. In fact these works of media aren't nearly as funny if you aren't familiar with the tropes and story beats within a genre, so the audience also ends up being fans. The people who watch slasher parodies are the same people who enjoy slashers.

I like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, a farcical noir film that is like a quilt made from the footage of a bunch of other films with original fabric connecting the pieces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Heathers. it was made to parody adolecent movies and its considered the mother of all adolecent movies (like, the mother of netflix-like movies.)

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