Well, that synergy will only get you so far. I understand the big parodies like Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, but some porn producers pursued parodies that were just awful and pretty damn unsexy. So we figured we would list a few of these wildly unnecessary parodies.

(I had to watch so much porn for this piece.)

7. Taxi Driver – Taxi Driver

Hmm. Travis Bickle, the protypical anti-hero, goes around banging chicks. Okay. I guess that’s a thing that could be made. Of course, I’m guessing the female lead won’t be Jodie Foster‘s character, the 14 year-old whore, but nothing would surprise me any more.

Nope. There’s her character. Right on the cover. Great.

6. The Cosby Show – Not The Cosby Show XXX

First of all – this intro is perhaps the funniest thing I have seen in six months. Please enjoy it. It’s safe for work, provided you don’t work at a Klan headquarters or something.

Beyond that, I have a number of issues with this production. But the only one worth addressing in this space is who wanders around a porn store and says to the clerk, “I love watching people have sex, but I don’t like it when one of them isn’t Bill Cosby“?

Has the well run dry? Couldn’t someone just do another Star Wars porn parody? Must we reach into the annals (hehe) of unsexy sitcoms and have people busting nuts to America’s first family? Is nothing sacred?

5. American Beauty – American Booty

OK. I get that “beauty” sounds like “booty.” But if that’s your only tenuous connection between your film and anything mildly erotic, you might want to change course. The non-porn version was a scathing social commentary on the hollowness of suburban life (which is so cliché that THAT should be parodied) as played out through the lives of a half-dozen miserable people.

You hard yet?

Yeah, me neither.

Now, in exciting news for anyone who appreciated seeing Larry David irritating Martin Scorsese on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Von Trier is making another version of The Five Obstructions, this time with Scorsese instead of Leth. No additional details, such as which of Scorsese’s movies is getting the obstructionist treatment, have been given – although it’s apparently widely rumored that it will be Taxi Driver. The two directors both have movies coming out this year – Von Trier’s Melancholia and Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret. Hey, remember that rumor from a few years ago that Lars Von Trier was going to do a remake or a sequel to Taxi Driver with Scorsese’s blessing? I’m really glad this is happening instead. (ScreenDaily)