It didn’t fail.
But the first movie is far, far better than the other two. I remembered them all being on par, but I was wrong. 2 barely has a plot; it’s mostly just a collection of unrelated gag scenes, all of which are worse than the original’s gags.
The first one spoofed the James Bond formula that had grown too repetitive, then it self-nuked to become irrelevant and sort of dust their tracks that they were rebooting the Bond franchise.
Three funny but mostly mediocre movies isn't too shabby. If it came back now it'd just suck, like that Netflix movie Myers tried to make about the illuminati,
3rd not really failed but was a mediocre result as compared to the first 2, what really failed and hard was his next movie, The Cat in the Hat, putting him in the blacklist for years because of the box office flop. The Love Guru was next and again an utter failure so another decade inside the blacklist for acting (voice acting didn't count)
There is nothing more to spoof, franchises like 007 has totally changed their style and the only series that come close (Kingsman) is essentially a hard-boiled satire of 007. The era has passed.
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The first one spoofed the James Bond formula that had grown too repetitive, then it self-nuked to become irrelevant and sort of dust their tracks that they were rebooting the Bond franchise.
This is nuCinemaphile where you can't just make an OP about a topic anymore. You have to start a thread with a bait post so stupid or incorrect that it makes anons angry enough to reply.
There is nothing more to spoof, franchises like 007 has totally changed their style and the only series that come close (Kingsman) is essentially a hard-boiled satire of 007. The era has passed.
You could probably still spoof it, but you'd need a completely different angle to hit at the overcorrection that made the movies take themselves too seriously despite their inherent silliness.
Unapologetic turbodark edgekino where the main character spy has to go through prolonged torture scene, get spat on by every woman, and then unleash his inner operator and spend half the movie turning every bad guy alt-right youtuber and nefarious status-quo violator into proggressively more gorey paste?
Capeshit where the whole squad solves the mystery unironically while Austin threatens to screw it up the whole time and feels guilty for rated G racism.
There's nothing going on right now. Capeshit has been dead for about half a decade now and just running on autopilot, getting increasingly irrelevant.
Bond and MI, likewise, still exist but nobody cares anymore because they all just rehash the same 'bond, but gritty and the clear cut cold war morality doesn't exist. Le technology is making spies obsolete' thing they did for 30 years.
All they have to do is remake Bond as period pieces, and they'd be great. Remove the camp and meme shit. Ditch political correctness for historical accuracy (why this can't be done, I have no idea), and they'd be great with modern sound and videography. Craig's Bond started off well aside from suggested political correctness (Felix is black and at a high class gambling table in financial paradise), but ended just like capeshit where the whole team has a role. I didn't even bother to watch the last one that came out. It's probably beyond shit.
They've been trying to make Bond something he's not since Skyrim or whatever the fuck it's called.
Hell, even reboot the franchise and tell M's story as a prequel. Have him roll straight into 007 Bond reboot. Also hire me.
>M is secretly gay which makes him a good undercover agent because gayness is death penalized at this time. >WW1 kino >Has to go undercover to save trans soldiers off the frontlines because they're suicidal from enemy propaganda talking to them as if they're men.
I don't give a fuck. Just make it.
It didn’t fail.
But the first movie is far, far better than the other two. I remembered them all being on par, but I was wrong. 2 barely has a plot; it’s mostly just a collection of unrelated gag scenes, all of which are worse than the original’s gags.
It didnt it just ran its course and the third movie highlighted that, so they just ended it there. Telling the same jokes a 4th time would have been horrific so he ended it at a good time.
Austin Powers was a total bomb that no one even heard of (I hadn't) and it picked up in rentals and became hugely popular. Then the 2nd one came out and I remember being there and the theater was fucking PACKED. Thats how they even got Tom Cruise etc. The hype at the time for a 2nd one was crazy. It was just a perfectly timed dumb comedy that everyone loved and thought was funny af at the time. The catchphrases wear out though. It's kinda like "poochie" effect from the Simpsons.
Recently watched them and there's a few laughs but for the most part holy shit they aged like milk.
If you watch all three back to back then of course they seem like shit because so many gags are recycled or used as self-referential humor, especially in Goldmember.
>Why did the Austin Powers series fail?
just because something ends doesn't mean it failed you fucking mongoloid retard autistic troglodyte autistic imbecile
Does anyone quote any movies really? Movie quotes were cool a decade ago but I haven't heard movie lines as a cultural reference for a while. I blame James Franco getting cancelled during the Disaster Artist's awards season because the Room was so quotable.
>They knew to cut their losses.
Why do NPCs keep saying this?
Brosnan's Bond was done the same year. It was a psyop to reboot Bond and shill celebrities.
Didn't get a trivia night point because I said "yes" when the question was, "Does Mini Me ever speak in Austin Powers?"
But here's the thing:
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He mouths "You and I" real low -- lower than what the original song does. Plus No. 2 turns and is taken aback by it which means his character reacted to Mini Me speaking.
Comedy movies are not well suited for sequels. comedy movies in general are really tough to write.
It's much harder to think of an hour and a half filled with jokes then it is to think of a dramatic or action-packed story that same length.
Most movies draw the well pretty damn near dry on their first outing.
That is why comedy movies often don't get sequels, or if they do, they often aren't well regarded.
Austin Powers 2 and 3 weren't nearly as successful as the first, so everyone involved figured they should probably move on
Mike knew when to quit. I mean recycling the same jokes three times is already borderline
This, it didn't fail it just ran its course
No, it became a self-parody by dropping the Bond parody.
This, goldmember was shit.
Goldmember is funnier than Spy Who Shagged Me.
They're both extremely gay. People that like them only heard of Austin Powers after the second one was released and never watched Bond movies.
goldmember was the funniest one though
kill yourselves with your extremely shit taste
1 > 3 > 2
this, Shagged is definitely the weakest one
mike meyers is canadian and therefore insufferable
Born to English parents though. It's probably why the movies are very, very funny.
The first one spoofed the James Bond formula that had grown too repetitive, then it self-nuked to become irrelevant and sort of dust their tracks that they were rebooting the Bond franchise.
It sucked
refused to go into R territory with over the top violence, nudity, and sexual content. Even James Bond himself went dirtier than Austin
It wasnt funny
>there are people browsing this board that were born after Goldmember came out and think they get to have an opinion on the series
It needed a longer rest after the second one. But with the numbers 2 did that was never gonna happen.
>only 2 sequels
>no reboot 20 years later
>no Netflix adaptation
>must be a failure
It was only meant to reboot the Bond franchise.
Wore out its welcome.
It didn't fail it did really well. They just knew when to quit.
More franchises should just fucking end instead of being run into the ground.
2 and 3 were objectively stupid but 3 takes the cake for being ultimately shittier.
I always thought there would be a fourth movie where Austin and Dr Evil had to team up against Scott as the new Dr Evil or something
but god damnit, it never happened. Years go by and the movie never came
He's a pedophile.
It’s coming eventually, mike didn’t make any movies because he wanted to raise his kids.
Good goyim.
Nevermind the fact that the films coincided with the death of the Bond formula and stopped as the gap began for the Craig movies.
Good luck getting the actor who played dr evil wanting to come back for another movie. I’m sure he’s moved on now or retired
If they can get Mike Meyers back on I'm sure he will too.
Im more concerned about fat bastard, guy was already unhealthy, i doubt he would be well enough to act in the current year.
Last I saw he was pretty trim, considering.
wait, am i retarded or didn’t mike play him too ??
yes to both of your questions
"Thats a man baby"
Austin Powers would be to based for todays world
same old story of sequels not being as good as the first but the third one was complete garbage. beyonce alone ruined that film.
Three funny but mostly mediocre movies isn't too shabby. If it came back now it'd just suck, like that Netflix movie Myers tried to make about the illuminati,
3rd not really failed but was a mediocre result as compared to the first 2, what really failed and hard was his next movie, The Cat in the Hat, putting him in the blacklist for years because of the box office flop. The Love Guru was next and again an utter failure so another decade inside the blacklist for acting (voice acting didn't count)
George bush doesnt care about black people.
the worst part about this meme question are the people to take the premise seriously
WHY DID THE CAMPAIGN FAIL?
sir, the campaign was won successfully, it did not fail, it merely ended in it's due course.
If you want to have a conversation about austin powers then start with something interesting.
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This is nuCinemaphile where you can't just make an OP about a topic anymore. You have to start a thread with a bait post so stupid or incorrect that it makes anons angry enough to reply.
There is nothing more to spoof, franchises like 007 has totally changed their style and the only series that come close (Kingsman) is essentially a hard-boiled satire of 007. The era has passed.
You could probably still spoof it, but you'd need a completely different angle to hit at the overcorrection that made the movies take themselves too seriously despite their inherent silliness.
Unapologetic turbodark edgekino where the main character spy has to go through prolonged torture scene, get spat on by every woman, and then unleash his inner operator and spend half the movie turning every bad guy alt-right youtuber and nefarious status-quo violator into proggressively more gorey paste?
It was a massive success hence two sequels. Mike Myers knew when to quit.
Because they only made one movie but decided to make it three times.
VERY GROOVY BABY YEAH
pitch me a modern austin powers film which reflects the contemporary landscape of spy fiction and modern geo-politics
Capeshit where the whole squad solves the mystery unironically while Austin threatens to screw it up the whole time and feels guilty for rated G racism.
There's nothing going on right now. Capeshit has been dead for about half a decade now and just running on autopilot, getting increasingly irrelevant.
Bond and MI, likewise, still exist but nobody cares anymore because they all just rehash the same 'bond, but gritty and the clear cut cold war morality doesn't exist. Le technology is making spies obsolete' thing they did for 30 years.
All they have to do is remake Bond as period pieces, and they'd be great. Remove the camp and meme shit. Ditch political correctness for historical accuracy (why this can't be done, I have no idea), and they'd be great with modern sound and videography. Craig's Bond started off well aside from suggested political correctness (Felix is black and at a high class gambling table in financial paradise), but ended just like capeshit where the whole team has a role. I didn't even bother to watch the last one that came out. It's probably beyond shit.
They've been trying to make Bond something he's not since Skyrim or whatever the fuck it's called.
Hell, even reboot the franchise and tell M's story as a prequel. Have him roll straight into 007 Bond reboot. Also hire me.
>M is secretly gay which makes him a good undercover agent because gayness is death penalized at this time.
>WW1 kino
>Has to go undercover to save trans soldiers off the frontlines because they're suicidal from enemy propaganda talking to them as if they're men.
I don't give a fuck. Just make it.
Dana Carvey is funnier yet Mike is more industrious. I love them both.
It didn’t fail.
But the first movie is far, far better than the other two. I remembered them all being on par, but I was wrong. 2 barely has a plot; it’s mostly just a collection of unrelated gag scenes, all of which are worse than the original’s gags.
It failed?
Zoomers just don’t know when things need to end that’s why they talk too much.
Not everything needs a million sequels
It didnt it just ran its course and the third movie highlighted that, so they just ended it there. Telling the same jokes a 4th time would have been horrific so he ended it at a good time.
People are too sensitive these days, especially zoomer scum.
not every series needs 20+ sequels and to burn out like MCU. it did what it needed to do and left us with fond memories instead of loathing and apathy
One of the most kino opening scenes in cinema history
Yeah, baby.
Austin Powers was a total bomb that no one even heard of (I hadn't) and it picked up in rentals and became hugely popular. Then the 2nd one came out and I remember being there and the theater was fucking PACKED. Thats how they even got Tom Cruise etc. The hype at the time for a 2nd one was crazy. It was just a perfectly timed dumb comedy that everyone loved and thought was funny af at the time. The catchphrases wear out though. It's kinda like "poochie" effect from the Simpsons.
Recently watched them and there's a few laughs but for the most part holy shit they aged like milk.
>Austin Powers was a total bomb that no one even heard of (I hadn't)
it made its budget back several times over, and that's before home video.
If you watch all three back to back then of course they seem like shit because so many gags are recycled or used as self-referential humor, especially in Goldmember.
You mean the part where they mocked you about Gwenyth Paltrow being a tranny but you thought it was a joke?
>Bond parody
Holy fucking plebs of course you don't know it's mainly a parody of Harry Palmer jfc
it failed even though all 3 of them are comedy classics that still get referenced 20 years later
If you reference the joke that was in all 3 of them, then you can't place the merit on the sequels.
i reference gold membre all the time
And you should kill yourself.
hey fuck you
yeah, baby
>Why did the Austin Powers series fail?
just because something ends doesn't mean it failed you fucking mongoloid retard autistic troglodyte autistic imbecile
Fatshaming and transphobia.
Beyonce might be the worst actress I've ever seen and she thoroughly ruined the entire third movie herself.
i still can't believe it's her, as much as zoomlinnials worship her she's really just a 3rd rate retard who doesn't get out much
>fail
Total zoomer death.
The Austin Powers series was shagadelic, baby
It didn't fail but it has no lasting cultural impact.
Like most Mike Meyers films tbh, he isn't very loved, most people can't identify him.
>Shrek and Austin Powers have no lasting cultural impact
Get out of my swamp!
Hey Mike, i'm a big fan! (not really)
I got a warning last time I replied to you.
rope yourself
When was that?
Just fucking kill yourself please
He's right, unfortunately.
People don't quote Austin Powers much nowadays.
You needed to be there.
Does anyone quote any movies really? Movie quotes were cool a decade ago but I haven't heard movie lines as a cultural reference for a while. I blame James Franco getting cancelled during the Disaster Artist's awards season because the Room was so quotable.
Blizzard gamers still quote movies from 30+ years ago like it's all still fresh.
>No cultural impact
It literally allowed for Bond to be rebooted into Craig's Bond.
Kys
OH YIKERINO THIS DID NOT AGE WELL I'M SHAKING AND SEETHING RIGHT NOW
Only the third movie failed.
The first two were successes.
And they knew when to cut their losses rather than to desperately keep trying to run a series to the ground, which is based.
>They knew to cut their losses.
Why do NPCs keep saying this?
Brosnan's Bond was done the same year. It was a psyop to reboot Bond and shill celebrities.
Didn't get a trivia night point because I said "yes" when the question was, "Does Mini Me ever speak in Austin Powers?"
But here's the thing:
?t=78
He mouths "You and I" real low -- lower than what the original song does. Plus No. 2 turns and is taken aback by it which means his character reacted to Mini Me speaking.
Comedy movies are not well suited for sequels. comedy movies in general are really tough to write.
It's much harder to think of an hour and a half filled with jokes then it is to think of a dramatic or action-packed story that same length.
Most movies draw the well pretty damn near dry on their first outing.
That is why comedy movies often don't get sequels, or if they do, they often aren't well regarded.
Austin Powers 2 and 3 weren't nearly as successful as the first, so everyone involved figured they should probably move on
>3 sucessful films out of a SNL-tier James Bond parody
>fail
Sequels werent funny/good
Watched 1 recently and laughed my ass off, decided to watch sequels, what a waste of time.