Parallel Universe Film Guide
A satirical just-this-close-to-our-own-universe guide to the movies that reveals them for what they almost were. Read a few and you’ll get the gist. Here’s a couple I liked:
December 7, 1943 (2001)
Created and Written by Spencer Green
Rating: **1/2
Summary
Romantic triangle set against backdrop of attack on Pearl Harbor; many inaccuracies, starting with title, fact that Bob Kerrey did not shoot Hawaiian civilians in “no fire zone,” Lend-Lease Act was not brokered by Donald Trump.
Didja Know?
- People like movies with explosions.
- The Lend-Lease Act was not brokered by Cal Worthington either.
Famous Quotes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Today, I’m opening a can of whoop-ass on Japan.
Sound familiar? How about this trashy double-feature:
My, How Filmmakers Love Their 70s Crap (2007)
Created and Written by Spencer Green
Rating: *****
Summary
Impallario and Naranjo team up for this double-feature tribute to cheesy action-drive-in movies, featuring a zombie attack, a crazed man who engages women in to-the-death car chases, and a psychiatrist who analyzes why certain directors will apparently wallow in pseudo-hip juvenile shit for the rest of their careers.
It’s fun to pin these to their real-universe counterparts. And it’s all lovingly cross-referenced in the IMDB.com style, too. Here’s the parallel of one of my personal favorite directors. Thanx to Kottke for bringing this one out of the closet.
Didja know?
I don’t have to look in a dictionary to know how to spell “parallel.”