The Starving Games (2013): When low-hanging fruit hits the ground and rots

So I watched *The Starving Games* again this Tuesday night, mostly out of curiosity… and maybe a bit of masochism. You know that feeling when you reach for filmjölk that’s just started to go sour, but you drink it anyway? Yeah. That was this.

Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer – the same duo behind *Date Movie* and *Epic Movie*, which should’ve been a warning light right there. These guys love pop culture references like Swedes love kräftskiva – loud, messy, and makes you a bit sick if you’re not careful.

Maiara Walsh plays “Kantmiss Evershot” (yes, subtlety left the building early), a full-on parody of Katniss Everdeen from *Hunger Games*. You also get Dean West and Cody Christian in the mix, though honestly I barely remember what they did – I was too busy being confused by jokes involving *Angry Birds* and *Gangnam Style*. That’s right. This movie timestamped itself harder than my first Nokia with Snake on it.

Now, I’ve got this really vivid memory from 2014 – I was in Östersund, visiting my cousin who’d just built this massive basement home theater, and he’d queued *The Starving Games* for us as a “warm-up movie” before we dove into something real – *Drive*, I think. We ended up laughing more *at* the movie than with it, pausing to groan or run for more chips just to avoid the second-hand embarrassment.

But you know, part of me… kind of admires the shamelessness of it? Like someone telling a bad joke long past the point of being funny, and just *committing* to it. That takes guts. Or maybe just a total lack of shame.

Should you watch it? Eeh… maybe if you’re really tired, or you just miss 2012 memes for some unfathomable reason. Otherwise, kanske gör något annat. Ta en promenad eller nåt.

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