The Bigger The Budget, The Dumber the Film
I caught I Know What You Did Last Summer on V8 this evening. This film was spoofed very successfully by Back Woods a couple of years ago.
It’s interesting to compare the two films - while IKWYDLS is ‘hip’, the filmmakers show complete contempt for the intelligence of the audience by coming up with a plot that would be an insult to the average Scooby Doo episode. Back Woods on the other hand deliberately sets out to insult the intelligence of the audience, but the filmmakers do assume that the audience knows what they are referring to - as such, it’s a much more intelligent film.
Given the choice, I’ll stick with the cheap films.
Monday 30 Jun 2003 | Paul | The Pit
