Reminds 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.
The 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.)
What 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.
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.
I'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."
Considering 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
How is currying favor and badly attempting to dogwhile (turned out to be a full blown whistle that people somehow still didn't hear) being an edgelord? Being an edgelord is saying something 'wrong' to try to be badass. Elon is funding and supporting far right parties to try to enrich himself. These things are not the same lol
Given 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
"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?
From 4 onwards all totally sucked, but it was in part because the first three set the bar too high, and the Last Crusade in particular was such a great closure.
I'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.
To 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.
Far 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.
Comic books don't have the greatest writing, I'd argue that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is huge enough to be its own parody, specially with sagas where comedy is over the top, like Guardians of The Galaxy or Thor.
