A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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MAD #289, September 1989
w: Stan Hart
a: Sam Viviano
Excerpt from MAD's Video Reviews
TRIED HARD
Cracked #259, December 1990
a: John Severin
Bruce Willis' character is named John McClane. He's on vacation in Los Angeles trying to get back home to New York in time for Christmas. The Century City building has been taken hostage and only he can save everyone.
Then there was Spy Hard, made after Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer replaced the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrams as kings of the spoof movie and ran it into the ground. The problem with the former is they would parody specific scenes from popular movies from the past five years, instead of just the genre and conventions in general. Another problem is that by that time almost all spoof movies starred Leslie Nielsen, who had become a comedy actor when what initially made him funny was that he was not one and played everything completely straight.
