I went to see Epic Movie today. My nieces wanted to see it and I thought it sounded like a good movie.
I was wrong.
It’s a bad movie.
A really really really really really bad movie.
It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Over at rottentomatoes.com…
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It has a grand rating of 3%!
I agree. Even having not seen it, I can tell you to not go see it.
I feel a little better. The bad movie I saw, *Smokin’ Aces * got a whole 27%.
I saw Epic Movie and Smokin’ Aces back-to-back.
EM is apparantly written for black teenagers and the white teenagers who think black teenagers are cool. It’s less a parody of big-budget movies than a parody of the trailers of big-budget movies, using a handul of overplayed images. There are a few random chuckles here and there, but anyone expecting a modern Airplane! or even a new Scary Movie will be greatly disappointed.
Aces is Shakespearean by comparison, but although it had a massive amount of potential as a violent ensemble comedy, efforts to make it a dialogue-driven gun-crazy successor to Pulp Fiction fall flat.
I don’t see the black teenagers angle - there didn’t seem to be any race based humor. Of course, there didn’t seem to any humor of any kind.
Question for the original poster; why did you go see “Epic Movie”? It got poor reviews across the board. Do you not pay attention to people whose job it is to write about film? If not, did not every instinct you have tell you this was going to be a bad movie?
I don’t know the ages of your nieces, but you might want to consider using your influence to guide them towards better entertainment decisions in the future. If your nieces actually enjoyed the movie, this goes double. Though it may already be too late.
:rolleyes:
In the future Little Nemo please consult your Rotten Tomatoes Bible or better yet ask randwill what you should see. What about the children?
So…no explanation for this baffling invective against black teens and their fans? Your paragraph had nothing to do with your topic sentence.
The black children?
The mainstream, thin, articulate, clean black children.
hehehe
The Onion’s A.V. Club gave it an F. That’s the first F I’ve seen out of them in a long time.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen commercials for a movie that make it look less funny. That includes the ads for ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’.
In defense of the OP, if you have small kids in your charge, and you let them pick the movie, you will see tons of shit. It is a lot easier to stare at the theatre ceiling for 90 minutes than to try and talk a child out of seeing Alone in the Dark, Ecks Vs. Sever, Bloodrayne, Etc.
I am also curious as to what about Epic Movie is Afro-centric?
But no matter how big a pile of a dung Epic Movie is, its going to make money for whoever put it out (but at what price), 
just like Date Movie did.
So even the part with the Borat cameo wasn’t funny? 'Tis truly a dark day…
Hell yeah. I can proudly claim to have paid to sit through a screening of every Power Rangers and Pokemon movie.
And survived.
Fear me.
Yes, but have you seen Thomas and the Magic Railroad?
(That’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and (referring to a recent thread) the only one of the IMDB bottom 100 I’ve seen.)
Thomas is worse than Baby Geniuses? I haven’t seen either.
Now that’s funny.
I’m sorry, did we see the same movie? The one I saw had scenes based on jokes about “junk in the trunk” and malt liquor and a lot of other stuff my short-term memory has mercifully elected not to shift to long-term storage. Given an opportunity to make fun of clichés in big-budget films, Epic Movie fell back on clichés (or if you prefer, stereotypes) about black culture.
I retract nothing. If you want to call it invective, be my guest.