wow, a director/writer hated more than Bay/Shamalamadingdong/Boll COMBINED

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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer

Vampire's Suck is getting a whopping 3% on RT

the wiki is hilarious

Criticism

The critical reception of Friedberg and Seltzer's movies has been consistently negative.[1][2] Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans were rated the two worst films of 2008 by The Times newspaper.[3] Additionally, every film they have directed has made it into Rotten Tomatoes' "Worst of the Worst" for the 2000s, only scoring one spot outside of the bottom 25.[4]

Critic Josh Levin of Slate said of their work:

"Friedberg and Seltzer do not practice the same craft as P.T. Anderson, David Cronenberg, Michael Bay, Kevin Costner, the Zucker Brothers, the Wayans Brothers, Uwe Boll, any dad who takes shaky home movies on a camping trip, or a bear who turns on a video camera by accident while trying to eat it. They are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization's decline..."[5]

Josh Rosenblatt of the Austin Chronicle offers similar criticism of Friedberg and Seltzer:

"Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge. They’re a plague on our cinematic landscape, a national shame, a danger to our culture, a typhoon-sized natural disaster disguised as a filmmaking team, a Hollywood monster wreaking havoc on the minds of America’s youth and setting civilization back thousands of years."[6]

Another Austin-based reviewer, Korey Coleman of Spill.com, even added a new low rating (known as "f*ck you") to the site's rating system specifically to rate "Disaster Movie." In this review, Coleman notes,

"Most of it is just referring to whatever movie is popular at the time - and they keep getting worse with every film... I drank, I beat myself silly, I touched substances that I would never imagine doing before or ever again just to prepare for this movie, and it didn't help at all."[7]

The duo received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Screenplay for Epic Movie at the 2007 Razzies[8] and were nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay for both Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie at the 2008 Razzies.[9]

The pair appears on noted British film magazine Empire's fan voted top 50 worst movies of all time more often than any other person. Almost all of their movies appear with a rank, and all are mentioned in the full review text.[10]

 

[amdhunter]

I can't stand those movies but the kiddies in High School seem to love them.

 

[OCGuy]

I can't stand those movies but the kiddies in High School seem to love them.

So you have a DVD setup in your van instead of candy?

 

[Anubis]

I can't stand those movies but the kiddies in High School seem to love them.

So you have a DVD setup in your van instead of candy?

 

[dfuze]

Those are the worst parody movies, don't know how even the teens can enjoy them

 

[deadlyapp]

There are some realllly bad movies, that are just fantastic, like Shoot em up, or mega shark vs giant octopus, but truely terrible movies suck.

 

[Matthiasa]

Eh the others movies listed weren't that bad, I laughed a bit.
Seriously what do you expect with parody, usually they are bad(read nearly every parody thread here, movies, other...) but sometimes they are bad enough to be funny.

 

[LtPage1]

They're not parody. Airplane and Hot Shots are examples of parody movies; simply referencing popular culture and fads doesn't make you a parody movie.