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Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet
- JKCalhoun 1y agoLove to see a sequel to Hardware Wars.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoYou revived memories I didn't know I had.
- iwontberude 1y agoGiven the reference to Space Balls in the Tesla Plaid trim, I wonder if there will be any acknowledgment as an easter egg.
- CursedSilicon 1y agoWhy would Mel Brooks want to acknowledge that Nazi? He already did The Producers back in 1967
- CoastalCoder 1y agoI'd pay to hear "Springtime, for Elon, ..." Although to be perfectly candid, I'm unsure that he meant that gesture as a Nazi salute. I dislike him for a bunch of other reasons about which I'm more certain.
- psunavy03 1y agoI'm 90 percent sure he meant it ironically, or at least in an attempt to be a stupid edgelord. But it was still an unacceptable enough asshole thing to do that he deserves every bit of blowback he's gotten. Like trying to call a black person the N-word "ironically," no, you don't get a pass. You're just a different flavor of "bad person."
- ryandrake 1y agoEverything the guy comes out with strikes me as "14 year old doing and saying edgy things to try to look cool to the upperclassmen."
- jhpankow 1y agoThe flamethrower was the first thing that gave me pause.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoMy moment was the Teslaquila.
- iwontberude 1y agoTres Comas
- iwontberude 1y agoalso his wielding of the chainsaw with that wimpy yelp
- cosmicgadget 1y agoIf it were me I'd probably follow it up with "I meant it ironically" rather than complain about the left trying to cancel me.
- oharapj 1y agoConsidering his support of far right German parties around the same time, it seems far more likely he was doing it to curry favour like he’s tried to do with Trump
- psunavy03 1y agoSee "stupid edgelord."
- cosmicgadget 1y agoHe's also retweeted Holocaust deniers. Could be a coincidence but that's would be enough for Elon to tweet "Someone should look into this".
- hydrogen7800 1y agoYeah, any single incident could be waived as just being an edgelord. But there are many.
- CursedSilicon 1y agoGiven his immediate actions the next day were to make a bunch of puns about how he "did Nazi the backlash coming" on twitter? It's much harder to give him the benefit of the doubt
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- stronglikedan 1y agoHe wouldn't, and you know exactly why he would still acknowledge Elon.
- Robotbeat 1y agoAnd Ludicrous Mode. And The Boring Company (Not A) Flamethrower.
- ngneer 1y ago"And change the combination on my luggage!"
- gjsman-1000 1y agoSurprised they aren’t using the tagline announced in the first movie: “Spaceballs 2: The search for more money.”
- sylens 1y agoThis really needs to be the title
- toomuchtodo 1y agohttps://bsky.app/profile/officialmelbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lrgcy27tyk2e https://bsky.app/profile/officialmelbrooks.bsky.social/post/...
- irrational 1y agoThe 8th and 9th Star Wars movies were such a mess. What if space balls 2 parodied these movies, but ended up with a more coherent plot?
- ysavir 1y agoReminds me of the episode of 30 Rock where, in an effort to get back at Weird Al for satirizing her song, Jenna makes a song that's too silly to parody. So Weird Al makes an authentic version out of the silly song in a de-parody.
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- ahartmetz 1y agoThe new Star Wars mess makes it trivial to do a better job than the originals. It's been done before - recent (to me, because I watched Too Gun 1 to prepare for 2) example: Hot Shots has some clever humor, Top Gun is really a pretty dumb movie. (Top Gun 2 is like a juvenile action flick for adult sensibilities - if that sounds good, you can watch it. It's a quality effort in many aspects.)
- wkat4242 1y agoWhat I thought was funny about Top Gun 2 that the site they attack is pretty much based on the uranium enrichment site at Natanz in Iran. But in real life this was not attacked by hotshot pilots but by a computer virus. Pretty telling how it lives in the past. But yeah it's a movie of course and top gun 1 wasn't intelligent either as you say.
- username223 1y agoJust... sigh "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money" was a joke, until it wasn't. I'm happy to see Mel Brooks being his mercenary self only a step from the grave, but he could probably do better than retreads of old IP. Maybe make fun of the Marvel movies instead?
- IncreasePosts 1y agoTo lampoon the culture, you need to partake in it first. I doubt any 98 year old is doing that to any relevant degree, even if they are still as sharp as a tack. He might have feelings about Ken Jennings as jeopardy host but that might be about it.
- beardedmoose 1y agoIf you’d have read the articles you’d know that Mel is not writing or directing. This is the same director that did Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoWhy are you telling me this and not OP?
- candiddevmike 1y agoFar too many movies are lampooning culture these days by adding TikTok or YouTube references (either as memes or directly as a short/"TikTok view"). It's horrible IMO and I think it's going to age very poorly.
- ysavir 1y agoI'm not keeping my hopes up, but I'll reserve judgement until I see it. If it's just "Spaceballs 2: More Spaceballs", then I'll join you in the sentiment. But if it proves to be "Spaceballs 2: Schooling Deadpool in how to Parody the Modern Franchise Blockbuster", then I'll gladly champion it.
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- nosrepa 1y agoNow if they could get Tim Russ back.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoThey should definitely do a Disney and rehash the original plot to Spaceballs. Megamaid is now Gigamaid and somehow President Skroob returned.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoIt would be hilarious if they show Dark Helmet building droids in his infancy.
- smarks 1y ago“Somehow, Dark Helmet has returned.”
- fourseventy 1y agoIf it's not called "Space Balls 2: The search for more money" I riot
- TehCorwiz 1y agoDisagree. They already did that joke. It should be Spaceballs 3: The search for Spaceballs 2
- philistine 1y agoWell, Al Lowe already did that one too.
- thesuitonym 1y agoThey already didn't call History of the World Part Two "Jews in Space," so it would be on-theme.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoWill you accept The Schwartz Awakens with a bit where Mr. VCR shows us the alternate timeline of The Search For More Money?
- quantified 1y agoSpaceballs included a send-up of the craven merchandising of Star Wars etc, so the fact they are doing this is on point.
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- candiddevmike 1y agoHe's 72 years young! He should revisit a bunch of his classics like Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
- zirgs 1y agoHoney, I shrunk the Grandkids.
- sschueller 1y agoMel Brooks is 98, I hope he lives long enough to enjoy this movie.
- pupppet 1y agoHe looked and sounded pretty good for 98!
- RickJWagner 1y agoBut will he do his own stunts?
- aflukasz 1y agoTruly a new breakthrough in home video marketing.
- dakial1 1y agoThe announcement video is pretty funny in the classic Mel Brooks style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w This news really made my day, both for being spaceballs and the return of Rick Moranis