LUIS AWARDS: Most Unintentionally Surreal Movie

ANNOUNCER: She's a Golden Girl and he's Guerrilla, Ladies and Gentleman please welcome Betty White and Benecio del Toro.

[APPLAUSE]

BENECIO: You know Betty, no one sets out to make a bad movie-

BETTY: Well you wouldn't know it if you went to the movies this year.

[LAUGHTER]

BENECIO: What's the worst thing you saw at the theater in 2008, Betty?

BETTY: Oh, it's the same worst movie I've seen every year- Battlefield Earth. I don't know why I keep watching it...

[LAUGHTER]

BENECIO: Well all the nominees in this category were released this year...

BETTY: And even I won't be watching them again!

[LAUGHTER]

BENECIO: Ladies and Gentleman, the Most Unintentionally Surreal Movie.

[PRE-RECORDED VIDEO OF DAN AND VINCE STARTS]

DAN AND VINCE (speaking in unison): There were a lot of mediocre films this year, and there were a lot of films that weren't as good as we hoped. But there is only two movies that can truly be considered the Most Unintentionally Surreal.

VINCE: That sounds awkward.

DAN: Yeah. We'll re-write it and do it again...

DAN AND VINCE (speaking in unison): So the award this year goes to...

DISASTER MOVIE and MEET THE SPARTANS

These two films replace plot with pastiche and jokes with simple reenactments of scenes from other films. The title of Disaster Movie is completely dadaist- not to mention the fact that it begs its critics to make a joke out of it. A joke which would be funnier than anything in the movie. While Meet the Spartans breaks from the usual Friedberg / Seltzer naming convention, it does show us the brilliant formula they use to make their movies; ONE CRAPPY MOVIE + ANOTHER CRAPPY MOVIE = OUR FILM, WHICH IS REALLY CRAPPY. The more I think about it, the more I think this surrealism may not be so Unintentional after all.


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