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So last night I was randomly thinking about "Disaster Movie" and how much of a piece of shit that movie was, which lead me to googling the directors responsible for that monstrosity.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer... These two motherfuckers are responsible for arguably some of the worst movies in history (Epic Movie, Date Movie, Vampires Suck etc.)
So upon learning about this, I decided to dig further down the rabbit hole and find out why these guys suck so much and why they keep getting work. Turns out their movies always do pretty well at the box office no matter how poorly they are received by audiences and critics (says a lot about humanity really), and more importantly, it's obviously a non-subtle plan on their part to dumb down the masses as much as possible in order to churn out a profit.
Here's some great quotes on their wiki page -
"Friedberg and Seltzer...are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization's decline.."
"Spoof movies, as practiced by the cultural blight that is Seltzer-Friedberg, aren't just troubling from an aesthetic viewpoint. They're horrifying from a moral standpoint as well. The parody of the Zucker brothers and Mel Brooks is defined by love, knowledge, and appreciation: The Zucker brothers and Mel Brooks love, know, and appreciate the source material they're spoofing enough to get all the details perfect. The comedy of Seltzer-Friedberg, in sharp contrast, is defined by contempt: contempt for the attention span, intelligence, maturity, and frame of reference for the audience, and an even more raging contempt for the source material they're spoofing. Friedberg and Seltzer aren't writers; they're comic terrorists who cavalierly destroy what others create for their own ugly self-interest. Their success is entirely dependent on making comedy a dumber, crasser, less dignified place"
Tldr: These guys suck and people are dumb for paying to watch their movies.
Discuss
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer... These two motherfuckers are responsible for arguably some of the worst movies in history (Epic Movie, Date Movie, Vampires Suck etc.)
So upon learning about this, I decided to dig further down the rabbit hole and find out why these guys suck so much and why they keep getting work. Turns out their movies always do pretty well at the box office no matter how poorly they are received by audiences and critics (says a lot about humanity really), and more importantly, it's obviously a non-subtle plan on their part to dumb down the masses as much as possible in order to churn out a profit.
Here's some great quotes on their wiki page -
"Friedberg and Seltzer...are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization's decline.."
"Spoof movies, as practiced by the cultural blight that is Seltzer-Friedberg, aren't just troubling from an aesthetic viewpoint. They're horrifying from a moral standpoint as well. The parody of the Zucker brothers and Mel Brooks is defined by love, knowledge, and appreciation: The Zucker brothers and Mel Brooks love, know, and appreciate the source material they're spoofing enough to get all the details perfect. The comedy of Seltzer-Friedberg, in sharp contrast, is defined by contempt: contempt for the attention span, intelligence, maturity, and frame of reference for the audience, and an even more raging contempt for the source material they're spoofing. Friedberg and Seltzer aren't writers; they're comic terrorists who cavalierly destroy what others create for their own ugly self-interest. Their success is entirely dependent on making comedy a dumber, crasser, less dignified place"
Tldr: These guys suck and people are dumb for paying to watch their movies.
Discuss