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FilmPG-132008
Meet the Spartans
Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of thirteen Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture! From TMDB
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Meet the Spartans is a 2008 comedy fantasy film, directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, starring Travis Van Winkle, Sean Maguire and Carmen Electra.
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60 of 121 · most liked firstSort of a shame that spoof movies went away for awhile because of all the NOT ANOTHER _____ MOVIE MEET THE SPARTANS BLAH BLAH BLAH nonsense because the Mel Brooks/Airplane/Naked Gun genre is such a great hallowed comedy movie tradition that deserves to be honored and done with some class
neutral · AI labelView post →To all current X (formerly Twitter employees) Hi everyone, sorry I know you were all expecting Christmas bonuses this year but Elon saw the 2008 film “Meet the Spartans” and laughed so hard at Carmen Electra’s character name ‘Julia Caesboobs’ that he spent 27 billion dollars buying the rights to it
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the weird things around the NAKED GUN discourse is misremembering the "Movie" Movies (EPIC MOVIE, DATE MOVIE, MEET THE SPARTANS) as the only spoofs of the 2000s and not beloved films like WALK HARD, ANCHORMAN, ZOOLANDER, TALLADEGA NIGHTS, and DODGEBALL which were also killing it but died.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kbin: What is your favourite (or least favourite) horror film?. We all either love horror films, or hate horror films. What's that film that kept you up at night? The one that you re-watch all the time? The one that made you groan at 'the big reveal'? Favourite: Evil Dead (2013). It was just insane, wonderfully gory and made you wanna squirm. Least favourite: Sharkenstein (2016). Watching this film, I gained a new appreciation for Meet The Spartans.
neutral · AI labelView post →Buying my high school friend a movie ticket to see Meet the Spartans
neutral · AI labelView post →If you think I'm just making this shit up 'cause I'm 'too woke' or whatever, please remember the amount of jokes people made at the expense of Snyder's 300, not a very 'accurate' movie to be sure, and even still. It was even a major fucking joke in the parody movie 'Meet the Spartans'!
neutral · AI labelView post →"Parody and spoof movies have fallen out of favor in recent years, but they were popular in the 1980s and had a resurgence in the 2000s. This was the era of box office hits like Scary Movie and Meet the Spartans." #offbeat #odd #movies collider.com/worst-parody...
neutral · AI labelView post →Seltzerberg's entire filmography. If you've seen *Date Movie,* you've seen *Epic Movie*, *Meet the Spartans,* *Disaster Movie,* etc, because they're all the same thing with a different set of clothes on, as it were.
neutral · AI labelView post →was going to pick the most cringe movie of that year but The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Tropic Thunder, Superhero Movie, Pineapple Express, Meet the Spartans, Far Cry (Uwe Boll directing of course) and Twilight all came out the same year it turns out
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney+ has released a list of essential movies to watch before Avengers: DOOMSDAY Scary Movie 1-6 Date Movie Epic Movie Meet the Spartans Disaster Movie Vampires Suck The Starving Games Superfast!
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet the Spartans may not be the funniest movie but goddamn if it didn’t awaken something in me! I remember this man VIVIDLY making my pants tingle
positive · AI labelView post →Interesting reading the list of films that Scary Movie 6 intends to spoof. Film might be great, but my feeling remains if you're referencing other films over writing jokes, you're on the path to Epic Movie/Date Movie/Meet The Spartans etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Meet the Spartans Had to google if you could give a movie zero stars on Letterboxd.
negative · AI labelView post →The moviegoing experience is too expensive. $20+ tickets and a bag of popcorn priced like a steak dinner? Movies used to be a date night activity, it's too damn expensive for that now. What teenager can even afford to take a girl to the movies? And the films are crap. I watched Hollywood die, bloat and start to outgas. They don't make comedies anymore. There's maybe the Meet The Spartans guys who frat bro no homo joke their way through "parodies". Everything else is churned out…
neutral · AI labelView post →Film you've watched more than six times with a gif Meet The Spartans is a janky guilty pleasure, its something you watch when you've had a really bad day
neutral · AI labelView post →Stupid idea, watching all of those shitty "_____ movie" parodies Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, that one Twilight one
neutral · AI labelView post →This is from the 2009 parody movie 'Meet the Spartans' which is a must watch!!! (Parody of 300)
positive · AI labelView post →Kevin Sorbo, star of Meet the Spartans, has strong opinions about historical accuracy in movie depictions of Ancient Greece.
neutral · AI labelView post →Describing It Chapter 2 as one of the "worst films ever" is wild when you live in a world with 5 God's Not Dead movies, Meet The Spartans, Movie 43, and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 🤷♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw that shit in theatres. As well as Baby Geniuses 2 and Meet the Spartans.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dumb and Dumberer was pretty bad too. > 10. 'Scary Movie V' (2013) Even in the world of horror parody, I'd say Vampires Suck (2010) was worse, as was A Haunted House 2 (2014). Not that SCM5 is any good - it and SCM4 are the worst of the bunch. I see SCM6 is in development. Why? It's just lucky Disaster Movie was from 2008 as that is the nadir of the "X Movie" films, worse even than 2007's Epic Movie (which managed to be worse than Meet the Spartans from 2008).
neutral · AI labelView post →yesss, lost media seen only in glimpses through bits in a Genre Movie. Meet the Spartans featuring an actor who is clearly supposed to be David Duchovny in a sewer drain who whispers your mother's name and looks right at you. nobody remembers what it's a reference to
neutral · AI labelView post →24 - Meet the Spartans (2008) Quite possibly the worst film I've ever seen in my life and I may never forgive @pipthebadger.bsky.social for having me see it.
negative · AI labelView post →I would have said “these movies will usually hit on like 1 thing where you have to laugh” but after watching Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, Vampires Suck, Superfast and Date movie I know that is untrue
neutral · AI labelView post →From what I can find this would be Spy Hard Scary Movie and sequels Date Movie Epic Movie Meet the Spartans Disaster Movie Vampires Suck The Starving Games Best Night Ever Superfast
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve only heard that it’s Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans levels of lazy and bad
neutral · AI labelView post →The star of Meet the Spartans has strong opinions about historical accuracy in movie depictions of Ancient Greece.
neutral · AI labelView post →#deadpoolandwolverine is literally a parody of a movie rather than an actual movie. Like 300 - movie and Meet The Spartans - the parody.
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet The Spartans, a film I'm cursed to have seen in the cinema, was 83 minutes *with* credits, bloopers, a post-movie musical number and the inclusion of a large chunk of the Leave Britney Alone video (not a parody of it, just the video itself playing on a screen)
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched that one in theatres! I also watched Baby Geniuses 2, Meet the Spartans, and the Ridiculous 6 in theatres because I guess I attract garbage.
negative · AI labelView post →The most damning part of this isn’t even shit like catturd or libs of tiktok, it’s how big of a circle Kevin Sorbo has TWENTY FIVE YEARS after Hercules and Xena went off the air. This man’s last non-direct-to-dvd Christian movie was MEET THE SPARTANS. WHO IS LISTENING TO HIM TALK?
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet the Spartans. I was a teenager, and it's the first time I ever considered walking out of a movie due to quality. By the time I figured I would, the movie ended.
negative · AI labelView post →There's this parody movie of 300, called Meet The Spartans. Its parody is, unironically, an accurate analogy to this shit
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome to BlueSky, where the man behind Rex Kwon Do and Hoss Delgado accurately fact checks the vice president of the United States on Spartan culture. Fun fact, he also featured in the Friedberg and Seltzberg movie Meet the Spartans as the parody of the Dominic West character from 300.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've never seen DATE MOVIE, EPIC MOVIE, VAMPIRES SUCK, MEET THE SPARTANS, or any of those spoof movies that are considered among the worst films that cinema has ever produced. Last night, out of sheer curiosity, I watched half an hour of THE STARVING GAMES. It's.....yes, it's pretty frickin' bad.
negative · AI labelView post →We need to talk about the cultural disparity surrounding the Worst Films Of All Time™, where Hollywood will nominate something like Meet the Spartans but the weakest Bollywood film has a guy flipping trucks with tree trunks, firing rockets & shooting while using a circling motorbike as a shield
neutral · AI labelView post →i have long held that the era of comedy movies that was inundated with slop like Meet the Spartans or any of the other Friedberg and Setzer movies, is one of the darkest times for funny movies in the history of film
negative · AI labelView post →I think hes mistaking his movoe with Meet the Spartans "High fives with the ladies, ioen mouth kisses with the dudes" ^now THAT is a line worthy of the gayest movie imo Not what zack did
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet the Spartans and Epic Movie are really funny, I insist
positive · AI labelView post →I watched Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans an embarrassing number of times when I was 12
neutral · AI labelView post →The Arrow Video 4K UHD was just announced, so give it a few months... Honestly, I've seen people reappraising EPIC MOVIE and MEET THE SPARTANS. That's how bad things have gotten.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell, let's ignore the right wing dog whistles... this film just looks BAD. There was only a single joke that was funny in the trailer ("Why only half-gay?") and it has a "Meet the Spartans" feel of "we just throw everything at the screen and pray it sticks"
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★ review of Meet the Spartans (2008) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/b1CcfZ
negative · AI labelView post →My ½★ review of Meet the Spartans on Letterboxd boxd.it/aBfBcB
negative · AI labelView post →C'mon, you can do better than this. Meet the Spartans Movie 43 Z & 00 Trash Humpers Serbian Film Battlefield Earth Showdown at Area 51... If you're gonna bottom out, SCRAPE that bottom.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's something so funny to me about going to a movie like The 40 Year Old Virgin or Meet the Spartans and seeing a bunch of my friends having it marked as watched but not rated or reviewed. It has the same vibe as the pallor of silence that falls on the crowd at a public hanging
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Meet the Spartans (2008) which unironically might be the most progressive Hollywood film made in the Bush era
positive · AI labelView post →I regrettably watched a double-feature of Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans once in college. The latter actually made me chuckle twice, which surprised me as much as anyone else. But that was a MISERABLE afternoon
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't watch Epic Movie but I have unfortunate memories of watching 'Meet the Spartans' on a sleepover while at school. An even more vafflingly bad movie if, like me, you hadn't actually seen '300' first.
negative · AI labelView post →#nw Meet the Spartans (2008) 🎬 #NowWatching 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 boxd.it/213S 🟠🟢🔵
neutral · AI labelView post →I swear to god I thought "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" was a genre parody film. Sorta like Scary Movie and Meet the Spartans.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Meet the Spartans (2008) and now you're glad that you no longer live in the cultural zeitgeist that produced that film.
negative · AI labelView post →Meet the Spartans. Hands down. Nothing more insufferable than watching a “comedy” movie that doesn’t make me laugh in the slightest.
negative · AI labelView post →hard to pick. Love Guru, Son of the Mask, Epic Movie/Disaster Movie/Meet the Spartans, In the Name of the King, Daredevil, The Happening
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet The Spartans. But since that's so incompetent that it barely counts as a professional movie, I'm going to say The Change-Up, which is kind of Freaky Friday For Men. One guy learns to not respect women, the other guy learns that babies shit in your face and almost fall into blenders a lot
negative · AI labelView post →Make a Friedberg and Seltzer parody movie? Couldn't be worse than Meet The Spartans. Or all of their other movies. You'd have to overuse the ferret eating balls joke a lot, but you'd make a lot more money than the 5 dollars you used to produce it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not to mention, of course, that what we end up with could just be another Disaster Movie or Meet the Spartans, where the ratio of references per minute matters more than actually making good jokes. AKA the blueprint for a lot of content creators in the 2000s/2010s.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, the first one made me laugh out loud in the theater (Especially the beehive scene), although a LOT hasn't aged well. The second movie had one or two moments but after that, they were shit...ESPECIALLY the Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans era.
negative · AI labelView post →spinoffs like "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans") but bringing back stuff in the vein of Airplane or Mel Brooks would do numbers
neutral · AI labelView post →Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer probably had one of the worst all time runs of movies from 2006 to 2010: Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie, and Vampires Suck. Truly deplorable movies and pretty much killed the spoof movie genre after that.
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