- Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are an American film director and screenwriter team. They were two of the writers of the original "
Scary Movie " and have co-written and co-directed films such as "Date Movie ", "Epic Movie ", "Meet the Spartans ", and "Disaster Movie ", all of which have been widely panned by film critics.Criticism
Friedberg and Seltzer's movies consistently turn in a reliable box office performance, but their critical reception has been consistently negative. [http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/movies/26spar.html?scp=13&sq=Jason%20Friedberg&st=cse] [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/movies/27epic.html?scp=12&sq=Jason%20Friedberg&st=cse] "Disaster Movie" is currently ranked #1 on the IMDb's Bottom 100 list of worst movies, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213644/] and the pair was nominated for a
Razzie for "Worst Screenplay" for "Epic Movie". [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294997/awards]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 , theWayans Brothers ,Uwe Boll , any dad who takes shakyhome movies on a camping trip, or abear 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..." [http://www.slate.com/id/2198611/]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." [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid%3A664798]
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