The Complete History of Disaster Movie
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First, last, and all others in between!
And who on Earth said trying to make a Parody/Spoof/Satire Movie is 100% easy?
Its alot harder and trickier than it looks right now.
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941Nobldy said that, not even anyone in this video…
@@DrewtheStew1999 Well they should somewhat say that.
Also, you spelled "Nobody" wrong.
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941The video isn’t about how easy it is to make a spoof movie or anything. Trevor probably just wanted to explain what happened and that’s it.
@@DrewtheStew1999 Fair enough
I want to add that Friedberg & Seltzer didn't write any thing for Scary Movie; they wrote a separate parody for Scream that was brought, only to be shelved. They did not contribute to Scary Movie in anyway.
That explains why Scary Movie was so good in the first place. Friedberg and Seltzer have always been bad directors. Thank you, RandomLad! Thank you so much for making me see the light!! 😊
I always heard they wrote some of the jokes but only a few of the worst of the entire film.
Scary Movie had more contributions from the Wayne Brothers than Theo two.
@@mechajay3358And then as the sequels went on, we'd find out that weren't any better than the Seltzerberg duo.
At least they didn't have as many shitty movies under them from the get-go.
@@Newsystuffsthe Wayans had no power over the direction of the franchise after the second Scary Movie. Guess who did? 🤔🤔🤔
You gotta know what you're talking about before talking 🤷♂️😅😅😅
So this is one of those movies where you’d want to be on set, but never actually watch it? That checks out.
It is hilarious to me the fact that the biggest selling point or “credibility” to these Friedberg/Seltzer Movie Movies was that they were “2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie” when they had nothing to do with Scary Movie and only received credit on the film because they wrote a similar horror movie parody that Miramax was developing before they decided to buy the Wayans’ script.
You can't get credit for nothing, the WGA is very strict.
When the film has so many pop culture references that it keep getting in the way of what little story the movie had to offer.
You can apply that to anything.
That’s true for most (if not all) of Seltzer and Friedberg’s parody films. They feel more like a series of sketches strung together without rhyme or reason.
@roberttreacy8271 which raises the question of why it should even be a movie. You could just go on CZcams and just make a series of competely separate sketches.
At least most longer sketch. Comedy has a theme, build up or running gags.
It's funny how the star of this movie would go on to voice Anakin in the best Star Wars show. Weird.
Probably because he didn’t put this movie on his resume
Is that a clone wars voice actor
“It’s the guy who ruined Star Wars.”
Prequel Star Wars is much worse than Disaster Movie.
@@Herrenmoralist Oh, STFU, Obsessive Prequel Hater. Your hatred of the Prequels is EXACTLY what killed Star Wars to begin with. Not Disney, You.
[seriously, Star Wars fans are so toxic and delusional]
11:41 As a Hispanic myself, I can testify on this. Thing is, we have a taste for juvenile, bootleggy, ghetto flavored content, especially since the general way these movies are structured appeals to the edge Spanish humor has. We even have more of a tendency to laugh at the crap factor and treat it as part of the experience. Stuff like White Chicks and the Friday movies for example are HUGE for us, and considering those movies have an African-American audience as well, I think they overlap here as well. Most of these movies are still guilty pleasures of mine, even as a tough critic....except for The Starving Games. THAT movie is SO terrible even WE hated it.
Yass...starving games almost lobotomized me...
@@mnemonichotpocket I didn't even have to watch the movie to know how terrible it was. It was basically insulting the very integrity of the original it had failed to properly spoof.
@@nevaehhamilton3493
Well said
That would explain why I always had a good time with Hispanic people. A lot of things I love a huge in Latin America especially all my trashy guilty pleasures.
Drawn Together/La Casa de Los Dibujos would be a great example of that. I used to watch a lot of Spanish cartoon to learn the language for my high school class years ago. Do you know the show Alejo y Valentina?
Yup. And my family and I watched Jack and Jill
To quote a CZcamsr I looked into, this movie is basically the grease trap for whatever's popular enough to reference at the time.
The sad thing is a parody of disaster movies sounds interesting, but Seltzer and Friedberg, as always, had to cram in as many pop culture references as they could.
Mars Attacks! was a parody of disaster movies.
And unfunny/dated jokes
Spaceballs was a spoof on Star Wars and the sci fi genre but it was actually funny and worked without watching the stuff Mel Brooks spoofed in his movie the same can't be said about these horrible dated spoof flicks.
@@BaranoffIsaac
Mars Attacks is a parody of old 50’s sci-fi movies, a better example of a disaster movie parody would be Airplane!.
@krism.6598 I feel like the movie 2012 is a self serious parody of disaster movies with how many types of disasters you see in it.
I will always remember that time back in 2009 when I was in an internet caffee downloading _Disaster Movie_ from a pirate site and when it was at 90% a powersurge left the entire block without electricity, almost as if fate itself wanted to spare me from watching this movie 😂
A little trivia. Matt Lanter was also the voice of Anakin in the Clone Wars series.
That’s interesting
Yes, and that was a better career choice compared to this.@@C.M.Tolbert
These movies used to be fun even when they were terrible, but you could really tell by the end the creators weren't even trying anymore. Everyone hated Meet The Spartans, but that was the last one I actually got a few chuckles out of. Unlike most people, I'll usually sit all the way through a bad movie if for no other reason than to complete the experience, but their Hunger Games parody is one of the few movies I hated so much even I turned it off halfway through. At that point it felt like they produced the whole thing out of spite for their critics because they knew there was no future in it anyway.
There’s a reason why their last two films received 0% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes
To be honest I swear I never thought these movies had this much effort put into them
Ah, yes, the dreadful Seltzerberg.
I remember them well.
Proceed with caution, dear Memento.
The Spill review for this movie is a masterpiece
Well the title was right, it was a DISASTER!
It's a disaster a complete disaster the rap star wars number is better than the entire disaster movie is.
The fact most of the actors were basically forced to take part due to contractual obligations with the studio kinda sucks.
Where did you hear that?
Me after this movie killed their careers: Justice is served!!!
there is another reason for the death of the 'Movie Movies', aka 'spoof movies' and 'parody movies'. And that was the rise of the internet (mainly CZcams) since at this point onile content creation became a viable source of income, along side with improved production, hollywood in general didn't stood a chance against the unrestrained creativity (with was early youtube) and massive content produciong of some guys in there basement/room/backyard
I will never get why and how Matt Lanter got in this movie while also doing the critically acclaimed Star Wars The Clone Wars CGI series.
Prequel Star Wars is much worse than this movie though because Disaster Movie at least doesn't take itself seriously and also didn't ruin. the lore of a great trilogy of classic movies.
Hi boomer.
@@Channeleven2345789 I am 27. I just have good taste in movies.
It also helped that both came out the same year. And that The Clone Wars theatrical film was released BEFORE Disaster Movie.
He wasn't a known actor (even nowadays, he's not exactly a mega-star), so he couldn't be picky when choosing jobs.
this is the only movie i ever walked out on in theaters... i was like 13 and my whole friend group thought it was too dumb to finish, they refused to give us our money back and we didnt even have the heart to argue.
I used to think that many these movies were made for younger people, like kids. But seeing this comment made me step back and think "13 year olds don't like this, who was it made for?"
So this “movie” was supposed to be parodying superbad? Funny how that idea got rejected and then two years later a different director does the same thing (The 41-year-old virgin who knocked up sarah marshall and felt superbad about it)
The first time I actually heard about this movie at all was because of Munk Media, a CZcams channel that does some fan made stuff based on Alvin and the Chipmunks.
I'm so glad your channel wasn't demonitized, otherwise we wouldn't be able to see this!
They were responsible for making the horrible sequels to scary movie. The wayans brothers made the first two scary movies, aka the funny ones.
*first
@@railfandepotproductions corrected, thanks.
As a longtime fan of MST3K, I've seen a *lot* of bad movies. But this...I think I'd rather watch Hobgoblins or Eegah on a 24 hr loop than watch Disaster Movie again.
MST3K pretty much stayed away from comedies because there’s only so many ways you can say this is not funny
I enjoyed Date Movie when it first came out.
I was 14.
Then I saw Epic Movie in theaters.
I was ashamed of myself.
I'm not gonna say Date Movie is in any way good, but compared to their later films down the line, it's the "best" one out of their filmography. Not that's really saying a whole lot. But for the most part, it attempts to stick to the genre it's supposedly trying to make fun of. Granted it still inserts random shit in there like Napoleon Dynamite, King Kong, or Kill Bill, that have nothing to do with romantic films, but it's nowhere near as egregious compared to Epic Movie or Disaster Movie. Plus, Sophie Monk was at least nice to look at.
They were not "the creative geniuses behind Scary Movie"; that honor goes to the Wayans.
I can respect Firedberg & Seltzer's decision to make low brow comedy movies, but when you have a flick like this that's over stuffed with cheap, shallow references to what was current on a short amount of time, then its just going blow up in your face.
Lets be frank, Disaster Movie is exactly the kinda of film Kim Kardashian is perfect for.
In a strange way, i miss those 'X Movie' parodies from the early 00s. You could always count on seeing them every year or two in theaters.
Any time people complain about the MCU and superheroes ruining Cinema, I'm like "Where the fuck were you people when these Garbage movies were out every year in the 00's?!"
Only stuffy directors complain about that.
What are you talking about? These movies were hated by everyone. Its pretty obvious in its idiocy so its not a big deal. The MCU on the other hand was much bigger and had a bigger systematic impact on the industry.
My lord, the Movie Movie series smh. I'm so glad that this series and these writers are done done with making films!
I've never watched one of their movies yet I can tell by watching the trailer this is bad. Leave parody to the experts.
Even as a kid who enjoyed Epic Movie and Meet the spartans, this movie was just ugly to look at it. I actually had nightmares of this movie so I threw the DVD out the window
My thought was: I've seen worse.
And on Vampires Suck was: finaly I feel the hype people feel for the original Twilight. It's not good, but it's tingling.
Well, that explains why my Mexican ex-girlfriend liked these movies.
I remember watching Date Movie as a teenager, and Dad, I'm sorry I dragged you to see it.
This video of yours, like you, made me see Seltzerberg in a whole new light.
Too bad movies like this don't get made anymore, basically live action cartoons where everyone on screen and watching has a good time. If Mel Brooks doesn't come back, then others!
He made History of the World Part 2 as a mini series on Hulu last year. I haven’t checked it out, but he’s back!
The CZcams algorithm has been really good this past month and idk if it’s bc I got started paying for premium or they actually fixed it but I’ve been getting a lot of new, smaller, but high quality channels recommended to me.
2:45, Jeez, that seems abit extreme and very harsh when you think about it
As much as I admire their bravery to speak their minds, there are some lines that cannot be crossed in a public setting.
Man,old Internet was a such a wild place...
@@elenahaya1195 Yeah
It's a shame how such a such a wonderful place for friends to get together and have a good time became one of the most massively hated movies in America. At least it did some kind of good for somebody?
Disaster Movie is quite a mess! Despite the cast and crew having a good time, for the most part, the creators were unable to get themselves out of the mud they fell in.
As for the movie itself, one part of the film got me to laugh: the Head-On sequence.
Tbh after Hats Off Entertainment’s video about how the Zucker Brothers basically stole jokes and full on lines from other movies and shows for Airplane and the Naked Gun films without citing the original inspirations for the jokes, I feel everyone owes Seltzerberg an apology for copying full lines and scenes from other films. I’m not defending the movies they made they are god awful and the worst movies for a reason but after the damning evidence from that video and the fact that Seltzerberg were inspired by the works of the Zuckers, Seltzerberg was more out in the open on what they were stealing from, while the Zuckers were more discreet on the stuff they stole.
This movie might've been fun behind the scenes, but that fun did not translate to the film itself.
I do not feel bad to those that worked on it, because it just showed how little they cared, and the failure that came afterwards is a fitting punishment, like watching the movie itself, which I've sadly done.
At least the people making it were having fun. This makes me think what was the last good parody movie.
It should've just been a 30 minute special. Ditto for Epic Movie and Not Another Teen Movie.
Or maybe a sketch comedy show, since these movies feel like a bunch of sketches strung together without rhyme or reason.
Not Another Teen Movie is one of favorites
Sometimes knowing the production and history of a movie can give you greater appreciate for the movie even with movies you don’t like
8:17 its so insane to me that she never read the script and then still complained
I could tell this would be good from the description.
as a kid i thought this movie was called disaster movie because they were self aware, it never crossed my mind that they were parodying movies like 2012 lmaoo
Seeing “Po” from this trailer on Cartoon Network as a kid scarred me and my parents didn’t let me watch Cartoon Network for a year after that lol
I remember having interests in wanting see the movie it's theatrical run, but I didn't watch it until it hit TV. While I find the movie not fun to watch in it's entirety nowadays, I always get a laugh watching certain scenes and jokes online. I have a guilty pleasure for certain lowbrow jokes. The Hancock scene was commonly quoted by my brother and I growing up. 🤣
They are essentially CZcams videos with a Hollywood budget. They have some dumb funny moments, but as a whole…the movie is boring.
I still have a dvd copy of it. It was a guilty pleasure for 13 year old me. I re-watched Epic Movie and Date Movie a few years ago and they did not age well 😬. I still love the Scary Movie series (except for 5). Superhero Movie is underrated. I re-watched it in january and it's still a great time. I haven't seen Meet the Spartans in years lol.
THIS MOVIE is a classic along with epic movie ❤
As someone who lives in Shreveport and is a part of the film community here… we don’t talk about this one.
My favorite part was when a thing I knew about was mentioned, but it was gross and violent. Or am I thinking of one of their other movies when that happened?
Stuff Was Weird Back Then
(Also I’m Gonna Miss Bob)
The only thing I remember about this is that a former friend of mine and me watched this and ended up posting a photo of the rap battle in the "pics that go hard" section of his discord
This will be seen as a masterpiece soon
I saw this film on... I think it was on HBO? It feels like most who are familiar with this film caught it on TV and it's always the Calvin and The Chipmunks scene that gets brought up. Personally I remember laughing at that scene when I saw it with my sibling but I always hear how that part scared people especially kids.
underrated video bro!
It’s kind of insane that Matt Lanter had starring roles in two movies in theaters at the same time. Star Wars The Clone Wars released a week before Disaster.
No he didn't.
@@DavidKen878 he’s the main character in Disaster Movie. They make a joke about him playing Anakin IN the movie.
@@thebaker525 But Star Wars was a cartoon and both movies were hated. Why is that insane?
Ok epic movie is a guilty pleasure for me it’s bad absolutely but idk it just has a special place for me mainly because for obvious reasons i wasn’t allowed to watch it when it first came out and upon finally watching it i was still too young to get some of the jokes like the bj joke from tumnus or what boinked meant etc. but it still got a few laughs out of me and now as an experienced stoner I can watch it knowing it’s bad but still enjoy the occasional good joke like Peter getting shot in the eye or Edmund’s famous “White Castle? I feel like I’ve been there before” 😂
4:45
AKA
'I KNOW WHAT THAT IS'
Comedy.
Well done
Like how they kept churning out these movies without the waynes involvement.
I remember seeing meet the spartains in someone's house my folks and i visited someone don't remember who but i only remember hooters,allspark and baby shrek. Remembering back it's a scar in my memory vault after epic movie more.
Just FYI, the producer behind this movie (and all of Friedberg & Seltzer's other gems) is Peter Safran. You know...the guy who's currently running DC Studios with James Gunn.
Have fun, DC fans.
At least Gunn knows what he’s doing and loves comics. Dude has a lot of credit on him. He made the Guardians Of The Galaxy, Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad household names.
@@fulcrum6760 David Ayer and Zack Snyder made the Suicide Squad household names, actually. Gunn's movie was a massive flop. Peacemaker wasn't a huge ratings hit either. They keep trying to insist that the character is popular and cram him into everything but most people don't really care. He's the Warner Bros. version of Ms. Marvel.
Guardians movies were great though.
@@octogigas Bruh, the only thing householder Zack and David did to Suicide Squad was make them a laughing stock.
@@fulcrum6760Lemme just Wikipedia this a sec.
Suicide Squad: $750 million WW
Suicide Squad 2: $169 million WW
Kill the Justice League: a universally-hated joke of a game that flopped harder than Forspoken
The only time Suicide Squad has ever been popular/household names is 2016. Not making a statement about the objective quality of those movies, but it's a fact. Sorry.
@@octogigas How about reputation wise hm? Gunn made movies that United fans and critics.
Great vid
My friend… YOU have earned yourself a new subscriber.
The only “memorable” part of this movie for me what the end song since it was stuck in my head after I watched it.
I knew a couple that used to be extras for movies. They were extras for this movie for one day. They said it was real bad. They said everyone on set was getting mad with Kim Kardashian, because she couldn't remember any of her lines. Then there was a long break. After that break they realize most of Kim Kardashian's lines were given to other actors.
These guys helped kill the spoof movie genre. If you want to do it right, pick one basic film and mock it. Airplane? Take plot of Zero Hour, add jokes, mix in a bit of Airport series. You got a hit. Top Secret? Bit of Elvis, mostly WW2 spy film. Great film. Hot Shots? Top Gun. Hot Shots Part Duex? Rambo 2 with other war films. You do one subject that is classic and evergreen and do that. Those are great still. These hack take 25 things cram it in a blender and nothing makes sense or is even remotely good.
Hell yeah! I want to hear the history of this masterpiece
I was absolutely obsessed with parody movies as a child (me and my cousins watched Scary Movie 2-3 religiously) and I remember going through a ton of virus-ridden “free movie sites” to try and watch Disaster Movie (since my parents wouldn’t take me to see it). This movie, Date Movie and Epic Movie hold a special place in my heart (Meet The Spartans requires *a lot* more assistance 🍺 🍃 💨) with the the “Dating Matt Damon” song being one of my guilty pleasures
Ps. Also just recently found out about the bit from Jimmy Kimmel that the song was a “parody (cover)” of. Gotta say the movie version is superior
I've recently been in a spoof/parody/movie movie/Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer mood, (American accent) so this is right up my ally, mann!!
the only thing I actually kinda want if it still or exists is the Disaster Movie poster that's in the style of The Simpsons Movie poster. but, while I've seen the one poster mocking The Day After Tomorrow film. but, I've never seen both the one mocking The Simpsons Movie and 4th Indiana Jones movie, EVER. but, I would love it if I had Disaster Movie poster that's in the style of The Simpsons Movie poster at some point if there even is a actual touchable poster lying out there in the wild of that because if that does exist then I would kinda like it if I had it in my Teenage/Adult/Autistic like bedroom someday.
interesting video of this crappy movie I've known about for a long time nonetheless. 👍👍
I don’t care what anyone says, that curve the bullet scene lives rent free in my head to this day 😂
Vampires suck is actually pretty good if you watch the twilight movies afterwards. It's hilarious how little they exaggerated in comparison to the real movies.
Also, the party scene was surprisingly spoofing cloverfield.
I watched this on star movies channel back when I was a kid and I laughed my butt off.
I don't remember disaster movie at all.
But, credit where it's due, and I know you mentioned the scary movies aren't really their thing, but to this day I still catch people in public making jokes about 'using their strong hand' from like scary movie 2 I believe, via the butler who had a shrunken hand or w/e. And that shit is still mad funny.
This Timey’s favourite movie!
And yet this video made me want to watch the scene where everyone sings about who there f:cking so
I watched Disaster Movie when I was 7 years old and for some reason memorized the song at the end. That was the only part of the movie that I liked.
the series always reminded me of Kentucky Fried Movie
"I guess we learned not to do it again." - Burn After Reading
Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are the only people that can make the likes of Uwe Boll look like an Orson Wells of cinema when compared.
14:28 It was at this moment that they knew they f***ed up.
I remember the movie, it’s only film that cause me and my family to leave the theater
i noticed ike berenthol played a lot of roles. I get that he's a good and funny actor so if you got him use him.
I must be the only person who genuinely enjoyed watching this movie back in the day. and even to this day
Disaster Movie is my guilty pleasure. I find it hilarious in its stupidity.
6:06 how are you saying Grosvenor?
they didn't write scary movie they had a script with a similar premise owned by the same studio and their agent or something got them a credit for it. not fully familiar with the details I just know none of their ideas made it into the movie
God bless Ike Barinholtz for trying his damnedest to make this movie at least somewhat watchable
I didn't watch Disaster Movie. I made a point of avoiding these movies after seeing Date Movie. I loved The Naked Gun Trilogy and Airplane duology but thought that even the wonderful Leslie Nielson was running out of steam in Spy Hard and Wrongully Accused, along with parody movies in general. Yet, Leslie Nielson 's weaker comedies were far, far better than Date Movie and anything else Seltzer and Friedberg made.
I still own this film on DVD, the uncut version though.
This is the kind of movie that even my 7 year-old brain couldn't find funny. It didn't help that I only understood half of the references.
You made me kinda sad for them; I mean, their movies sucked, and they had little talent, but still, I could never imagine a little of tragedy in their story
I watched "Date Movie" on a "date" when it was released on DVD. We turned it off even before the first scene was over. Never watched any of the "Movie" parodies after that.
13:24 they did a simpsons parody poster. There's was any refferce to simpsons in the movie
I love how this is such a terrible nothing burger movie that "the complete history" is barely 20 minutes