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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are a Canadian-American film director and screenwriter team known for making parody films. They were two of the writers of one of the three drafts combined to make the original Scary Movie and have written and directed films such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie.
Criticism
Friedberg and Seltzer's movies consistently turn in a reliable box office performance, but their critical reception 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, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker, 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] Seltzer and Friedberg will produce Vampires Suck[11] which centers satirical Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and The Gates,[12] it is set for an release on 18 August 2010.[13]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Credits | Rotten Tomatoes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Spy Hard | Screenwriter | 7%[14] |
| 2000 | Scary Movie | Screenwriter | 53%[15] |
| 2006 | Date Movie | Director (Seltzer), Producer (Friedberg), Screenwriter | 6%[16] |
| 2007 | Epic Movie | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | 2%[17] |
| 2008 | Meet the Spartans | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | 2%[18] |
| 2008 | Disaster Movie | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | 2%[19] |
| 2010 | Vampires Suck | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | NA |
| TBA | Drama Movie | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | NA |
Recurring cast members
Friedberg and Seltzer often cast certain actors more than once in their own films. Crista Flanagan, Carmen Electra, Nick Steele, Ike Barinholtz and Tony Cox are amongst their most frequent of collaborators.
References
- ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette. The New York Times http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/movies/26spar.html?scp=13&sq=Jason%20Friedberg&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Scott, A. O. (2007-01-27). "Bravely Setting Out to Mock Others". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ The 100 Worst Movies of 2008 The Times Accessed 12-12-08
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/8/
- ^ http://www.slate.com/id/2198611/
- ^ http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid%3A664798
- ^ [1] Spill.com
- ^ John Wilson (2008-01-21). "Razzies – 2007 Nominees for Worst Screenplay". Razzie Awards. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
- ^ John Wilson (2009-01-21). "RAZZIES.COM 2008 Nominations". Razzie Awards. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
- ^ "The 50 Worst Movies Ever". Empire Magazine. 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
{{cite web}}: Text "Helen O'Hara, Alastair Plumb, Phil De Semlyen" ignored (help) - ^ Fox Vampire Spoof Gets Title and Star!
- ^ Fox Announces Untitled Spoof Film for This Summer
- ^ 20th Century Fox Prepping Vampire Spoof for Summer Release
- ^ "Spy Hard on RT". Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ "Scary Movie on RT". Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ "Date Movie on RT". Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ "Epic Movie on RT". Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ "Meet the Spartans on RT". Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ "Disaster Movie on RT". Retrieved 2010-07-10.
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