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Our fearless – and quite possibly senseless – movie janitor is watching every movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Join us now for another installment of Unwatchable.

As regular readers of this column are all too aware, I am occasionally perplexed by the movies deemed worthy of inclusion on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Actually, I’m often perplexed by the movies themselves; what I mean to say is that sometimes I’m not sure how a given movie acquired enough detractors to propel it to such derogatory depths. For instance, I can’t quite figure where all the You Got Served hateration is coming from. This isn’t because I think it’s a good movie – rather, I think it’s a movie of such generic mediocrity, I’m baffled that it’s been singled out from the ranks of Victory Through Dance cinema.

Here’s the deal (or the “dilly-o” in the very current and credible hippety-hop parlance of this 2004 release):

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Colin Strause, 31, and Greg Strause, 32, are brothers, which means there are two of them. They are the co-directors of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. They went into the project determined to restore honor to both franchises by pumping up the violence and gore and making it up to fans for the inexplicably PG13-rated (and just generally inexplicable) first Alien vs. Predator. It's their first time out as directors, but they are life-long special effects geeks who, since forming their own boutique company Hydraulx, have worked on such pictures as 300, The Day After Tomorrow, Terminator 3, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and the Fantastic Four films. They've been working professionally since their very early twenties, having basically jumped in right after high school, using what was supposed to be their college tuition as start-up money. All of which is to say that I would have regarded them as the coolest guys in the world when I was eleven, and there's no point in pretending that I don't find them impressive even now.

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