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The ONLY reason this is made....


I watched Meet The Spartans ON DEMAND in the free movies section. I had time to kill, and decided to watch this abomination.

There's only one reason this movie got made: Fried Brainberg and Alka Seltzer watched 300 one day, loved it, and made a joke about all those celebrities at the time being thrown into the pit. They made this movie to recreate that joke they made with each other. The problem is, that eventually (if it didn't happen already) people won't know who these people are. It's only funny at the time (it was never funny to begin with but it depends on the taste of the average moviegoer). Already the American Idol joke will be over people's heads because they all aren't together anymore. Pop culture jokes rarely ever work!

That's all they got. The rest of the movie is filler, or mainly a "me too" kinda filming because they are so obviously fans of the movie 300. Here's a list of some of the things that are NOT funny (NOTE: this is only a short list as it will take forever to list them all):

* Going on the internet in a period piece is not funny, nor someone going on the cell phone.

* Men trotting around singing "I will survive" is not funny.

* Men kissing and holding hands because that's how Spartans are is not funny.

* Having some ugly dude making out with Ugly Betty is not funny.

* Paris Hilton with a hump and going on her cell phone is not funny.

* Dance offs like these are not funny.

* Those disses they had against each other was predictable and not funny.

ALERT! ALERT! SOMETHING FUNNY!

* Okay, I'll give the movie one joke: "I have crabs" though still as adolescent as the rest of the movie, it was still a slight chuckle.

END FUNNY

* Steam coming out of the Gerald Butler wannabe's ears is not funny.

* The Queen turning into Venom (and the narrator telling you what movie its from) is stupid and not funny.

* That dude from The Drew Carey Show turning into Sandman is pointless and not funny.

* That whole bluescreen thing with the soldiers is not funny.

* The Ghost Rider cameo? Not funny. And Rocky? No. I was expecting something funny to happen with the Botox injection (that's a stretch, I know) but nothing.

* The Grand Theft Auto parody? Sorry, guys. Not funny. If they wanted to make that funny, have the aiming and firing with the guns be awkward since the series was known for that at the time. I might have laughed then.

* That whole Transformer bit, that's when the film just went all over the place at once at that point. It was here where the writers had no idea where to take this scene except try to cash in on the Transformers craze.

* I always believed that, if anything else, the ending will determine the audience reaction to the movie. This ending was so beyond stupid that I can't seem to put it in words. I thought Skyline's ending was lame, and it is, but Meet The Spartans may have the stupidest ending of all time. I can only imagine the audience who paid for this was thinking on their way out of seeing this. I would be devastated of the money I spent on that ticket. What if someone didn't pay matinee price for this travesty of filmmaking? I'm sure the people who paid for this was looking for a few laughs and maybe some enjoyment and I'm sure those people found none of that here. There should be support groups for people like that. This film is that bad. The ending is unspeakably bad. I know they were just dragging out the minutes with the ending, but it also seems that the filmmakers knew the ending was bad, and was trying to find ways to make the audience forget all that. It doesn't work.



The whole time watching this atrocity I kept reminding myself how much film costs and how much was wasted to shoot this piece of dung. Making films is not easy and it takes a lot of time and effort (even for a film like this) to make a film (with all the pre-production planning, setting up cameras during filming, stuff like that. I'm a filmmaker myself and I get mad because someone funded for this. It's horrible! Why? I guess the investors were 300 fans themselves.

Lastly, I want to commend the general audience (at least some of them). Though there are still a few unsuspecting souls who still paid to see this dreck (that's how Vampires Suck got made) at least there are people out there that knows stupid and lame when they see it. It shows that the movie going audience doesn't laugh at anything these pitiful excuse of filmmakers throw at us and acknowledges the fact that Alka Seltzer and Fried Brainberg are, indeed, hacks. Thank you all for having intelligence.



"He's not nuts, he's crazy!"

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agreed... and i still don't understand how people actually like this... i mean... my girfriend's sister said it's her favourite parody... i don't get it, it just boggles the mind how this is likeable, i mean. yes, sure, there were a lot of scenes that could've turned up a lot better, a lot better, but i'm not going to start about it
for instance, it would've been a lot more funny, to me, that the animal at the begginning wasn't a giant penguin, but a barney the dinosaur, and the rest of the lines and behaivior was the same, just imagine it...
the ghost rider bit, was way out of line, and, what the heck is kevin sorbo doing in this... i mean, the only reason i endured to the end is because someone showed me the bit where he says "i'm gonna go hercules on you", and that's about it...the lead that played leonidas was very good as a look and sound alike... but it was poorly written and put together. me and a couple of friends could come up with a better script in a one nighter of brain storming ideas. and yes, i get it, it wasn't as tabu as it is now to be gay in those times, but still, visual violation

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What the OP lists are things that HE, PERSONALLY did not think funny, so purely subjective.

People (I'm pleased to say) are different. Different tastes and different senses of humor - let's remember that the French consider Jerry Lewis a Comic Genius.

It seems that there are enough intellectual snobs that think NOBODY should enjoy this film, overlooking the fact that so many did.









Come on lads, bags of swank!

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what is the first word in my post?
"agreed", meaning i agree to what he said
and i didn't say that nobody should like this movie, i just fail to see how anyone could...even though a lot did, hence the reason it still was in the dvd stack at video rental stores, and the fact that people actually recommended it to me.

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And you spent how long on this critique?

Why did you bother?

Very sad...

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I was writing it as I was watching the movie. It didn't take five months. It took the duration of the movie to write it.

Also I always make it a point to watch a movie all the way to the end before I completely judge it as a bad movie. There are some movies I could never watch all the way through... like Santa with Muscles.

"He's not nuts, he's crazy!"

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