> Well.... I dunno, is it just me or is making fun of a movie that's not intended to be cohesive kind of pointless?

As this thread as shown, this is VERY difficult. It's one of the reasons way practically no James Bond spoofs have ever worked (Austin Powers is a possible exception, but that's arguable) -- because Bond is a parody underneath the surface. It's just less obvious about it.

scArA's attempt was a good one, I think, and while not a finished product, looks remarkably like the first and second drafts Dave and I write of the "official" BAMs that you guys never see. Generally those drafts only go through very minor word tweaking, but it makes a huge difference on the impact as a whole.

Anyway, back to parodying parodies, it's very difficult, and about the only reasonably reliable way to do it is to parody the *way* it parodies rather than the parody itself. And that usually requires the author to assume reader knowledge of the mechanics of the parody, which may or may not be the case.