It’s taken months of searching, but we’ve finally found people worse than Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the writer/directors of abominations like “Date Movie,” “Epic Movie” and “Meet the Spartans.” 100,000 of them in fact.
ABC News reports that the pair’s most recent film, the “Twilight” parody “Vampires Suck” leaked onto bit-torrenting sites a month ago and has been downloaded 100,000 times. The film hits theaters today (our review will be along in a bit — spoiler alert: it’s terrible) but 20th Century Fox, who suffered a similar leak last year when as many as a million people viewed an early, leaked workprint of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” may fear that the film’s box office haul will suffer as a result.
Some might be overjoyed at this news — anything that makes a Friedberg/Seltzer movie gross a little less has got to be good news, right? But really, there’s nothing to celebrate; movie piracy, especially ahead of the film’s release, is fundamentally a bad thing, even when it involves worthless filmmakers and their even more worthless audience, who can’t even be bothered to lift their bloated bodies to a movie theater and put down ten dollars from their paycheck as spam emailers or child pornographers to see the fucking thing as it was intended.
To have an early print of one film leaked is careless, to have two starts to look like stupidity, and Fox have to take some of the blame here for letting it get out. But really, just because something’s out there, it doesn’t mean you have to watch it. Particularly in the case of “Vampires Suck.”