In the not-so-grand tradition of Date Movie and Meet the Spartans -- we now have Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce from the unfortunately prolific writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. You can read my Variety review here. But that's not my last word on the subject.
As I have posted elsewhere: This is something you might file under "Stuff I Wouldn’t Dare Make Up." I went to a midnight screening late Thursday/early Friday for Disaster Movie – and I actually was the only person in the theater. At least, that was the case for about 30 or so minutes into the movie. At the 30-minute mark, I noticed a young guy wandering in. (Can’t tell you his age for certain – it was, well, dark.) I thought this was kinda-sorta weird – remember, we’re talking close to 12:40 am at this point – but I figured, what the hell, maybe he just ducked in after seeing another movie in another auditorium of the megaplex.
He sat down a few rows ahead of me. But after about five or so minutes, he stood up and… and… well, I am not 100 percent sure about this, but I think he took a leak. Really. Right there in the freakin’ auditorium. On the floor. And then, he left.
Now, as I said, I’m not absolutely certain that’s what the guy did – I sure as hell didn’t walk over to where he had been sitting to check for a puddle of piss – but that’s what it looked like to me sitting behind him.
And I have to say, all I could think was: Wow! What a review!
remains the untarnished gold standard for free-form movie parodies. In sharp contrast, Vampires Suck -- the latest from the folks who gave us, whether we wanted them or not, Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie -- is unremittingly leaden. You can read my Variety review here.
Well, I've already had the first of the feasts I enjoy every year at The Foxes Den here in Toronto while covering the world's greatest film festival. Tomorrow, I start seeing movies. Tonight, while disembarking from the subway, I couldn't help noticing a genuinely clever ad -- apparently, not one circulated widely, if at all, in the United States -- for the irredeemably wretched Disaster Movie. If only the film itself had been this amusing...
In the not-so-grand tradition of Date Movie and Meet the Spartans -- we now have Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce from the unfortunately prolific writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. You can read my Variety review here. But that's not my last word on the subject.
