Talk:Date Movie

$20 million budget?
This movie seriously cost that much? It was just a bunch of random clips that could have been made by a high school film student. Did it seriously cost that


 * Hollywood accounting makes it impossible to say for sure but both of the usual sources say $20 million.
 * That is only the production budget, marketing and other costs would add even more on to the final cost of the film. -- Horkana (talk) 03:18, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Kill Bill spoof scene
I'm assuming that's "Andy" and "Julia", in which case maybe the caption should say so? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 09:37, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

rated
umm excuse me, i want to watch date movie but i dont know what its rated:rated r,rated PG,rated Pg13,rated PG 14????????which one?please answer someone


 * the article rates it as PG-13. but in my opinion it isn't worth paying to see as it does seem to be quite a poor film with very predictable jokes and tries to earn notoriety by having disgusting scenes like waxing a hairy fat woman (i actually had to chuck my dinner away when i saw that, that's never happened before). perhaps you could watch it for curiosity's sake if it's on TV and there's nothing better to watch, that's about the only excuse for subjecting yourself to it. From the sounds of it, Epic Movie is just as poor, if not worse.--KX36 20:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Music
What was the music be played in the part that was making fun of Kill Bill?

I think your talking about the "alarm" which would be the first part of Ironside by Quincy Jones

Twin Peaks
I know it's not as if it was made up for the show but isn’t the whole cherry stalk carousel thing a reference to the character Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) tying a knot in a cherry stalk on the TV show Twin Peaks? If so, it should be added to the list of TV shows parodied.

Movies being spoofed
How does one know which movies are exactly being spoofed (For example, where were the parodies to A Lot Like Love and Shallow Hal?)? Having a similarity with another movie does not constitute a parody. Irk(talk) 04:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't seen A Lot Like Love, but as for Shallow Hal I only noticed one main part (excluding the fat issue!). There is a scene in Shallow Hal in which the main character shows her compassion for homeless people by giving them her food. There is a scene in Date Movie where Julia starts beating up a homeless person. Bubble bunny
 * The scene in which Grant discovers Julia's underwear is also a spoof IMO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.175.213.4 (talk) 06:50, 24 August 2010 (UTC)


 * A list of these films would be very helpful. I think King Kong is one of the films spoofed, isn't it? Scorpionman 12:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * and LOTR —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.108.85.209 (talk) 17:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Xmen 2
I don't remember and Xmen 2 spoof. What part was that? Bubble bunny

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Date Movie 2 Link
Why does it link straight to the original's page? (74.215.117.153 16:48, 5 September 2007 (UTC))

Shallow Hal spoof
I recently posted the scene in which Grant discovers Julia's huge underwear, which I consider as a clear spoof of a very similar scene in Shallow Hal. In fact, Julia's obesity reminds a lot of Rosemary in that film. Why was it deleted?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.175.213.4 (talk) 06:44, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

"respectable bow"?
What on earth does "garnered a respectable bow" mean? Is it a standard American phrase? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.96.79.118 (talk) 08:53, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * "Garnered" = earned, "respectable" = considerable, "bow" = debut. So "garnered a respectible bow" = a really over written way of claiming the movie made a lot of money when it opened. I don't see a source in the story for this claim, so I yanked it. - SummerPhD (talk) 13:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Parodies
The parodies section has been tagged as unreferenced. Some of these refernces are supported by the plot or are in character names and do not actually need references but it would be better if most of them did have some kind of supporting reference. If the people who like this film can watch it agian with the DVD commentary and provide references/citations to when the film makers say they are spoofing something else that would be good enough too. The other way to improve this would be to have much more critical response in this article and then reuse those references to properly WP:VERIFY the section.

Below I include my previous explanation from WT:MOSFILM (Wikipedia Project Film: Talk) where I explained as an example how an editor could improve this section:
 * That section is ugly as sin - listomania gone mad - but those films are barely written at all and consist almost entirely of referencing other films and passing it off as parody. It would be doing readers and editors a disservice if we were excessively strict interpretation of the rules be used as an excuse to delete all that good faith effort instead of trying to salvage something from that mess. I guess a case like that I'd push that ugly abomination to the talk page and insist that people go through the many reviews on out there and come up with proper references for at least the main films being referenced which in the case of Date Movie would seem to be My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Meet The Fockers - even properly referencing those two is something the article fails to do.
 * Some of those references are so obviously supported by plot, such as cases where the character name makes the intended reference blindingly obvious and insisting on citations in cases like that would be unnecessary.
 * It's not that difficult as I said above to cram much the same information into the critical response section. (Seems like Ebert wasn't forced to review it, so moving on to the next critic whose name I remember...) Owen Gleiberman actually managed to say nice things about it in his review:
 * That article can be improved if anyone actually cares enough to do it, didn't take me all that long to write this comment. Deleting is an easy, improving is hard but that misses the point of Wikipedia, which at its best usually does gradually improve. -- Horkana (talk) 13:59, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

There is plenty of potential to both expand the critical reponse section of this article and verify the Parodies setion at the same time. The wiki source of this comment even includes a properly formatted cite web from critic Owen Glieberman, for any editor interested in improving the Critical response section of this article with a critic who has almost postive things to say about the film. -- Horkana (talk) 03:12, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Asking for sources on the parodies (in my case, anyway) is not about doubting the obvious ones (though some are less certain). Really, it's about removing trivia. Compare this to other comedy films. Older comedies get a plot overview with a general idea of the style of comedy and possibly some of the larger/longer jokes in the film. More recent comedy films end up with extensive plot sections that cover the general plot and include virtually every joke that some random editor felt like saying they found funny. These need periodic cleaning out so that the plot doesn't overrun the rest of the article. Then we have recent parody films. Films like this target numerous films, often with one-shot jokes. To say we should include all of those parody references is to say that those other recent comedy films should have equally detailed plot sections. That is not what Wikipedia is supposed to be. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

List has been trimmed back again but I'm fairly sure many of those listed could be added back if anyone actually cares enough to find proper sources. -- 109.77.211.63 (talk) 20:30, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

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