I loved PINK CHAMPAGNE (1979) with so much Hollywood stuff parodied in its 73 minutes.
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| john lyons Senior Member  Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 |  Posted - Mar 22 2011 : 5:29PMWith the continued onslaught of mostly average and downright shitty XXX parodies and adaptations of well known "mainstream" material, I think it would be nice to put together a thread about quality parodies and adaptations before every hack jumped on the bandwagon. So please list your favorite pre-2005 parodies and adaptations. Include the original source material and maybe even some thoughts about why you like it. Here are a few of my favorites: TAKE OFF - Directed by Armand Weston. A really wonderful satire of pop culture and movies like Casablanca and Bebel Without a Cause, all framed by The Picture of Dorian Gray. THE PASSIONS OF CAROL - Directed by Shaun Costello. Based on A Christmas Carol. SADIE - Directed by Bob Chinn. An adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Sadie Thompson, set in Vietnam era Borneo. STAR VIRGIN - Directed by Howard Ziehm. Parodies lots of pop culture TV shows and movies. [Link] |
| T0MBOne Senior Member 1200 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Mar 22 2011 : 6:45PM I loved PINK CHAMPAGNE (1979) with so much Hollywood stuff parodied in its 73 minutes. [Link] |
Flash  Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - Mar 23 2011 : 7:50PM [Link] |
| Aplus Senior Member 1431 Posts 5/05 | Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 2:51AM Little Miss Innocence- Directed by David McCabe. Good 3 person cast that played off each other well. Cautionary tale that says to be careful what you wish for. Sex Trek- Directed by Scotty Fox. Ok not a great film, but was the first of many Star Trek parodies over the years. Very low budget, but Jeanna Fine is always welcome in my book. Sunset Strip- Directed by Cash Markman. Another fun parody that didn't take itself too seriously. Jewel De'Nyle, Keri Windsor, Stevie, and Tommi Rose most certainly did it for me in it. [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 1:17PM [Link] |
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| Savoy All-Star Member Sucker for Sinners 1844 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 1:56PM +1 to Sunset Strip. Not only is if fun picking out the parallels/spins between the original and the porn version, but Keri Windsor and Randy Spears end the movie with an incredibly hot sex scene (albeit with marred continuity) Morgan's flicks are jam-packed with media references, take-off, spins - whatever ya wanna label it. I don't think necessarily parodies, but johnlyons seemed to be perhaps getting a bit liberal with the definition. Where do movies like Double Feature, Bride of Double Feature, Hercules and Camp Cuddly Pines Massacre fall? [Link] |
| Aplus Senior Member 1431 Posts 5/05 | Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 2:39PM [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 3:00PM [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 25 2011 : 2:49AM [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Mar 25 2011 : 3:01AM As for adaptations, V: The Hot One was an adaptation of Belle de Jour. [Link] |
| ObiBong Senior Member 1162 Posts 12/02 | Posted - Mar 25 2011 : 6:57AM Back in the pre-gonzo early '90s, I feel like tons of movies were parodies because it was probably easier than thinking of something original. But those crappy Coast to Coast or Legend movies sometimes were just parody titles and didn't try very hard on the script level. They just wanted to cash in by having a movie called Buffy the Vampire Layer (off the movie, not the TV show), or Hindfeld or Juranal Park. I actually remember thinking during the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan business that it would be a porn movie within a couple of months. Sure enough, Tonya and Nancy, The Real Story eventually came out. It was predictably disappointing. Not much figure skating, for one thing. I also remember being kind of excited (ha!) for Smeers. Believe it or not, that's some kind of pun on Cheers. Tiffany Million was Diane, and I think Devon Shire might have been Carla. Kylie Ireland got me back into porn after a hiatus of a few years with one of my favorite parody titles ever: Face Jam. It was a dramatization of her real-life one-nighter with Michael Jordan. (Why that was of interest to me can't really be explained briefly. It isn't what you think.) I still have a Face Jam poster signed by Kylie. Someday I hope to have the opportunity to ask MJ to sign it too. [Link] |
| Painless Member 436 Posts 5/05 | Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 8:00AM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 12:56PM The "parody plague" is a plague because, like gonzo, it has studios stuck in a rut. Virtually no one is creating original material. Parodies are the new gonzo. Everyone wants to make one, and very few do it well. I'm certainly not a fan of of about 99.5% of the cheap porn produced in the 90s through early 2000s, but that era also offered some pretty stellar features, some even on par with the masterpieces of the 70s/early 80s. Who's doing that today? Hell, even the early 2000s saw the prominence of excellent directors like Nic Andrews. There's certainly no one like him working today, and that's not to say that there aren't talented people out there, but that they're not creating original material. For instance, I just watched the trailer for THE ROCKI WHORE PICTURE SHOW and I felt like I was seeing a low-budget SOV remake, not even a parody. That's what I'm really sick of. If parodies are the order of the day, directors ought to at least bring some originality and thoughtfulness to what they make, not just copy someone else' work and add sex scenes. [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 7:40PM [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 10:32PM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 10:53PM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 11 2011 : 3:12AM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 11 2011 : 3:14AM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 1:23AM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 1:35AM |
| ObiBong Senior Member 1162 Posts 12/02 | Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 4:22AM [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 8:34AM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 3:22PM HOWEVER, to continue to be a contrarian, neither the linked review nor the trailer makes this movie seem like anything other than a remake that happens to have hardcore sex scenes. And that I don't need to see. The essence of a great remake is not to simply and faithfully recreate a pre-existing work (and perhaps change some minor details along the way), a great remake should be a standalone work, which doesn't rely entirely on the popularity or acclaim of the original to gain an audience. A great remake (like Carpenter's THE THING) is more than a remake. It's a re-envisioning or a re-interpretation. That's where these 'parodies' fail. For one, they're not actually parodies but X rated remakes, and secondly, they don't even succeed as interesting remakes. [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 12:49AM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 12:54AM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 5:40PM Not even Tarantino is that smug. [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 6:12PM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 6:32PM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 6:34PM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 6:42PM [Link] |
| john lyons Senior Member Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome 1188 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 6:46PM [Link] |
| Myload Senior Member A rose is what you are to me 2069 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Apr 15 2011 : 12:39AM [Link] |
| Cody McLarge Senior Member 2668 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 15 2011 : 3:52AM [Link] |
| zambi Senior Member 1451 Posts 3/10 | Posted - Apr 16 2011 : 2:47AM Thanks for creating this thread to point out that there have been some great porn parodies done and that its not a new thing. They have been doing porn parodies since the 70s. The problem today is that every company is cranking them out and doing a shitty job. Some of the older stuff was not really "parodies" meant to be funny. Some were just porn version knockoffs of popular movies. Here are some old classic porn parodies that were good: "8 to 4" porn parody of the 80s hit movie 9 to 5 "Sex World" a porn version of the scifi classic "Westworld". Multiple ripoffs of the TV show MASH -- "Smash'd" and "Nurses of the 407" "Vista Valley P.T.A." parody of 1970s "Harper Valley PTA" "Puss N Boots" porn version of Private Benjamin "Mystic Pieces" Buttman ripped off the title from Mystic Pizza but not really related to the original movie. "Lady Scarface" has Carmen Luvana parodying 80's cult classic "Scarface" [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Apr 16 2011 : 3:01AM [Link] |
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| j_daddy Member 84 Posts 7/09 | Posted - Apr 28 2011 : 2:35PM [Link] |
| prfb Member 165 Posts 6/05 | Posted - May 4 2011 : 12:26PM Furthermore, it is a feature that goes out of its way to fearlessly tweak self-righteous "Moral Majority" bluenoses. And in that sense is a political feature - something that seemingly got steamrollered out of "the industry" by the Reagan era. It's arguably as good a film, really, as the "official" Harper Valley PTA movie. (The one with Barbara Eden.) What a pity that the only DVD version of the landmark feature "Vista Valley PTA" is such a wretched, technically incompetent effort. [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - May 6 2011 : 5:58AM [Link] |
| prfb Member 165 Posts 6/05 | Posted - May 6 2011 : 3:03PM Perhaps they changed manufacturing, at some point? [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - May 7 2011 : 3:36AM [Link] |
| prfb Member 165 Posts 6/05 | Posted - May 7 2011 : 2:42PM Consider my complaint about DVD quality as just a plea for someone to go back and put out completely restored versions of such wonderful films as "Vista Valley PTA" someday. [Link] |
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