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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 09/10/2008 : 19:23:51
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Disaster Movie
The title says it all -- more later now.
If you are cursed with arrested development and stuck somewhere between giggling at rectal references, dancing deleriously at a cine-in-joke, and surrendering whatever 7-year-old mind you still have left as you crash from one predictable scene and character to another - with, godhelpus, songs yet! -- well this is the flick for you.
Those fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of several years of French and Saunders take-offs on current films with wit and using incongruity to great comic advantage, will know just how awful this extended metaphor for unh-uh this film truly is.
I really wanted to like this, I so so wanted it to be better than Epic Movie, but it was so so worse. In fact it was so-so. So don't go-go. Unless you have no-no brain. Or taste.
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Joe Blevins 
"Don't I look handsome?"
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Posted - 09/10/2008 : 23:59:21
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I actually have yet to see any of the Friedberg/Seltzer comedies, so I can't comment on them. But reviews like these have successfully kept me away. I am a bit curious about Date Movie, since the DVD has an "anti-commentary" by critics trashing it.
What stuns me is that it remains, as of this writing, unreviewed at FWFR. |
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 09/11/2008 : 00:59:07
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Disaster Movie
The title says it all -- more later now.
If you are cursed with arrested development and stuck somewhere between giggling at rectal references, dancing deleriously at a cine-in-joke, and surrendering whatever 7-year-old mind you still have left as you crash from one predictable scene and character to another - with, godhelpus, songs yet! -- well this is the flick for you.
Those fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of several years of French and Saunders take-offs on current films with wit and using incongruity to great comic advantage, will know just how awful this extended metaphor for unh-uh this film truly is.
I really wanted to like this, I so so wanted it to be better than Epic Movie, but it was so so worse. In fact it was so-so. So don't go-go. Unless you have no-no brain. Or taste.
BaftaBabe, why did you go see this? I assume it wasn't by choice. Does it have to do with your film criticism? It hardly seems like the kind of movie your readers would be interested in. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 09/11/2008 : 01:30:46
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Originally posted by GHcool
BaftaBabe, why did you go see this? I assume it wasn't by choice. Does it have to do with your film criticism? It hardly seems like the kind of movie your readers would be interested in.
The clue is in my avatar name -- I'm one of the BAFTA voters so we have to see as many releases as possible. It's more difficult now I don't live in London, but my local cinema lets me in for free for whatever I want to see. I always go to a film hoping I'll find something good, and don't forget I have to vote on all kinds of categories from Best Direction to Best Hair and Make-up.
As to my readers - since most of my pieces are tie-ins to discuss wider cultural issues, any film is a potential starting point. I'm currently working on a column tied-into the release of The Women, using it for a discussion of the way women have been portrayed on screen over the decades. I did a similar piece for The Independent, a national newspaper, about 15 years ago, so it's interesting to see the ongoing development.
Hope this helps 
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MisterBadIdea 
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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Posted - 09/11/2008 : 15:22:04
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| Disaster Movie (or as I call it, Disaster "Movie") should be an excellent source for your upcoming feature article on the increasing trend of human braindeath. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 09/11/2008 : 17:29:38
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
Disaster Movie (or as I call it, Disaster "Movie") should be an excellent source for your upcoming feature article on the increasing trend of human braindeath.
Well, the snag with that is my column is fortnightly and whatever film I tie into has to have been released that week. But thanks for the idea.
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 09/22/2008 : 03:48:09
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Disaster? Definitely. Movie? Hhmmm...
So very, very poor. Even worse than Meet the Spartans. Really. As soon as it was obviously finishing, the few other people in the screen left, presumably in relief.
Any good points? I suppose the underwear model was all right, if you ignored his face... |
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