If Uwe Boll Made Comedies: The 'Disaster Movie' Trailer
Filed under: Comedy, Lionsgate Films
First there was Date Movie, and it was ... not good. And then came Epic Movie, and it was ... even worse. Most recently we received Meet the Spartans, and it was ... you get the point: By now we're well aware that sophomoric spoof-merchants Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are not even remotely interested in making a good film. Their goal is simply to throw as many current* pop culture references onto the screen so that bored 14-year-olds with more allowance money than common sense will line up to chuckle (feebly) at the duo's desperate antics. (* And if the jokes are this bad when they're "current," what the hell will these flicks look like in ten years?)
But you know what? It's almost creepy how well these things do: For a production budget of about $20 million apiece, Date, Epic, and Spartans made about $84 million each. (That's worldwide box-office, and thanks to Mojo for the numerals.) So Fox essentially gave these guys $60 million and three shots, and they virtually quadrupled their budget each time out. (So why does the IMDb rate these films at 2.6, 2.3, and 2.4, respectively? I have no idea. How many times must a person get smacked on the skull before they start avoiding the hammer?)
Anwyay, Friedberg and Seltzer have moved their parody tent over to Lionsgate, and that's who'll be unleashing the aptly-titled Disaster Movie on August 29. (And people call Saw torture. Ha!) Click right here to enjoy the trailer, and by "enjoy" I actually mean "sit there and subject yourself to amazingly half-assed jokes about clumsy superheroes, pregnant teenagers, and tons of other horrific stuff that I can't believe passes for comedy." And yet I bet it will make about $84 million worldwide and we'll all be sitting here next year, bemoaning the impending arrival of Friedberg & Seltzer's Action Movie.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-24-2008 @ 8:59PM
Peter Hall said...
Well, Scott, I hope on August 29th - because I'm sure this will be held from critics - when I read a Weinberg review of Disaster Movie on Cinematical, I can sleep well knowing that you bought a ticket to something else and snuck in to review this like a professional 14 year old.
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6-24-2008 @ 11:35PM
carg0 said...
y'know, Uwe Boll gets a lot of crap for his (admittedly bad) movies but at least he tries which is more than i can say for these two parasitic losers who are well aware -- beyond a shadow of doubt -- of what talentless hacks they are.
but like you said, these movies are targeted at stupid kids who have more allowance and text-messaging skills than brain-cell's. it's like they've found a way to take the "reality-tv" formula and apply it to the theater.
as long as there are summer blockbusters being made every year by at least one studio, you'll find these losers raiding the dumpsters for new material to leach off of.
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6-25-2008 @ 12:07AM
joits said...
i agree that these movies are crap and if i did watch them i would definitely vote on imdb. but therein lies the problem with this article's point about the movies making good money while scoring low on imdb... the people who are watching these movies and probably liking them probably do not vote on imdb or even go online to read sites like these.
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6-25-2008 @ 8:27AM
bongo123 said...
at the end of the day what harm are they actually doing? the world is full of dumb ass teenagers who enjoy shit like this and fair play to those guys who are basically making a mint making shit films for dumb ass teenagers, beats the hell outa my 9-5
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6-25-2008 @ 1:59PM
madgamer said...
I agree. For them, why make it better when they can probably crap this stuff out in no time with little thought and make a fortune. Someone is watching it, so I doubt they even care if it is good or appeals to a wider intellectual audience.
6-25-2008 @ 9:23AM
techstar25 said...
"...and this is my baby's foot."
I'm so ashamed that I laughed at that.
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6-25-2008 @ 9:24AM
techstar25 said...
I'll go ahead and be the first to say it...
George Carlin is rolling over in his grave.
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6-25-2008 @ 10:57AM
Richard von Busack said...
But how can it be bad? It's got G-thang in it! G-THANG!
Seriously, that trailer makes me cry. It's like these guys have a few bright ideas and then they just spill them out without building on them. Maybe the public will give up on them this time, and they can bring their talents to some deserving website.
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