Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
These 2 need to step away from a keyboard....
The critical reception of Friedberg and Seltzer's movies has consistently been almost entirely negative.
[22][23] Disaster Movie and
Meet the Spartans were rated the two worst films of 2008 by
The Times newspaper.
[24] 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.
[25] The duo received a
Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Screenplay for
Epic Movie at the
2007 Razzies[26] and were nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay for both
Meet the Spartans and
Disaster Movie at the
2008 Razzies,
[27] as well as nominated for 'Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel at the
2011 Razzies for
Vampires Suck. 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.
[28]
Critic
Josh Levin of
Slate commented that "Friedberg and Seltzer.. are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization's decline..."
[29] Josh Rosenblatt of the
Austin Chronicle said that "Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge. Theyre 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 Americas youth and setting civilization back thousands of years."
[30] Korey Coleman of
Spill.com has claimed that he is "bothered" by the duo's films, as he believes they are dumbing down the film industry and popular culture in general.
[21]
It had such a cheesy screenplay. And Baldwin didn't help it. I was surprised to see Koepp was attached to it.
