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I have a theory about all of the "Scary Movie" movies (and even the movies that they have influenced: "Date Movie," "Epic Movie," "Meet the Spartans," etc.):
They're made by black people (the Wayans Brothers) for black people, and not only that, but they make the assumption that the audience is ridiculously stupid. Talk about negative black stereotypes (from black people shouting insipid things at a movie screen in Scary movie to black people "pimping their rides" in the form of remaking Alyson Hannigan in Date movie) perpetuated and expressed in those movies.
I take offense at those movies (their assumption that the audience is a bunch of slack-jawed morons) and I'm not even black.
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In terms of intellectual African American cinema, I think that Spike Lee is absolutely brilliant (Do The Right Thing being one of my all-time favorite films and what I see as a poignant study of racial relations). Wonder what a Spike Lee horror movie would be like.
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