The Starving Games

[Brian in Mesa]

The Starving Games

Release Date: November 14, 2013 (limited)
Studio: Ketchup Entertainment
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual content, comic violence, language and partial nudity)
Website: N/A

Starring: Maiara Walsh, Brant Daugherty

Plot Summary: Set in the most depressing corner of a post-apocalyptic future, our hero Kantmiss Evershot (Maiara Walsh) volunteers to take her manipulative younger sister's place in the 75th annual "Starving Games." In doing so, she must leave behind her smoldering just-a-friend Dale (Brant Daugherty) and team up with the geeky baker's son Peter Malarkey (Cody Allen Christian) in a fight for her life. But wait, there's more! She could also win an old ham, a coupon for a footlong sub at a six-inch price, and a partially-eaten pickle!

In "The Starving Games," Friedberg and Seltzer’s sixth cinematic spoof of popular box-office hits, the prolific parody duo has its sights trained on the adventure blockbuster "The Hunger Games"! It’s all the laughs and half the calories as they sling dozens of ****-eyed, barbed arrows at sci-fi, action and fantasy films from "The Avengers" and "Oz The Great and Powerful" to pop culture characters and celebrities like Harry Potter and Taylor Swift.

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[AzStevenCal]

I like a good parody. I wonder if Friedberg and Seltzer could recommend one? They certainly can't make one. I'll pass on this movie.

Steve

 

[BigRedRage]

"from the creators of three other terrible parodies"

Pass.

 

[asudevil83]

Scary Movie was ok back when i was young. The rest of these parody movies are just garbage.

 

[Cheesebeef]

the amount of money these guys make to make painfully unfunny movies is slightly annoying to me.

i mean...I get it. if i could make that kind of dough, I probably would too, but they could put SOME effort into it. they're probably pretty funny guys. you don't get to that level without having solid comedic chops, but these movies define the term "phoning it in".

 

[crisper57]

Good article on why these types of movies get made:

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/burning-spoof-films-still-184016244.html

The reason for the constant onslaught: These flicks do make money. "A Haunted House," released at the top of this year, has so far grossed more than $40 million. That doesn’t sound like a lot, until you realize that the thing was made for about $2.5 million.

And therein likes the evil genius behind the success of these flicks: Make them super cheap, in every sense — pay the typically little-known actors scale or slightly more; have the director do double duty as the script writer or vice versa — and you can't help but make money.

Why? Because there will always be a certain very loyal (or at least very stoned) demographic ready to watch.