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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 21:56:23 GMT
"The Blair Witch Project" seems, strangely, to be quite a polarising film. People either love it or despite it. Personally, I find it to be groundbreaking and the pioneer of a new genre which has since gone immensely downhill. The fact that the film was nearly entirely improvised, along with the ignorance of the actors to a lot of the upcoming 'scares' (so as to elicit from them genuine fearful reactions) has always added to my enjoyment and love for it.
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Feb 23, 2017 21:58:30 GMT
Loved it ... 7/10
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 21:59:20 GMT
When i first watched it in the late 90s or early 2000s - i don't remember when - i very much enjoyed the movie until the very end ; it was very anti-climactic 6.669/10
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Post by Daisy on Feb 23, 2017 22:03:49 GMT
It was new and found footage wasn't a thing back then so I loved it back in the day. I haven't watched it in a long time but still remember it fairly well so that says something. I would give it a 7/10 for how much I loved it back then. (probably won't watch it again either, some movies should remain in memory for fear they get tarnished haha)
I think if someone watched it now after all this time they likely wouldn't find it all that thrilling as that found footage premise has been done to death now.
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Post by northernlad on Feb 23, 2017 22:18:12 GMT
It's one of the great horror films if you ask me. I love it. I watch it once or twice a year. It's marketing at the time of release is complete genius. The film making itself is genius as well. Love this movie.
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Post by yearspew on Feb 23, 2017 22:22:02 GMT
I think it's a genuinely frightening movie. I was a big fan of it back in the early 2000s. I haven't seen it in many, many years, but I still respect the hell out of it.
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Post by johanwow on Feb 23, 2017 22:34:12 GMT
I find it an annoying movie to watch. I am no fan of the FF style unless were are talking about Cannibal Holocaust which wasn't full found footage but it predated BWP by almost 2 decades.
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Post by MooseNugget on Feb 23, 2017 23:35:58 GMT
I thought it was great. And they made it so that it seems like maybe nothing supernatural happened at all.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 1:58:08 GMT
The summer of 1999 was a great time for horror films--we had The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project and Stir of Echoes. Of the three, the biggest disappointment was The Blair Witch Project.
Like a lot of you, I'd seen "Curse of the Blair Witch" on Sci-Fi, which whet my appetite and actually turned out to be better than the actual movie. Then, I saw the film, and the theater was packed. This was gonna be a good one, I could feel it!
It started promisingly enough. But once the trio was lost in the woods and just traipsing around in a circle, I began to squirm. The lead actress had to be one of the MOST ANNOYING actresses I've ever seen, and her voice made me want to bolt for the door.
Nothing much happens, outside of them finding some weirdly put together tree branches, and someone comes and shakes their tent. Oh, and there are sounds in the woods. Woooo, scawey!
Later, they found the fabled house of the child molester who killed kids and made the other victims stand in a corner. So what happens? The chick with the uber annoying voice never once drops the fucking camera. She's got it glued to her eye as she stumbles through the forest, across the forest floor (without ever once stumbling due to a log or a gopher hole." Shrieking at the top of her lungs, she enters the house and runs up and down an unfamiliar stairway, illuminated only by the light of her camera.
And she never once puts the camera down. Huh? Do real people act that way, especially when they're freaking out?
I won't spoil the ending, but it has something to do with dying and kids standing in the corner, looking at a wall.
That's when the lights came on, and people around me went, "huh? What just happened?" I heard someone yell out, "this sucks!" Another yelled, "what a rip-off!"
I've never seen the film since. I will regret that two hours on my deathbed. I might've been able to volunteer at a soup kitchen or patted a kitty cat or swept out my house. Nooo. Instead, I wasted it on The Blair Witch Project.
This was hyped to the moon and back and was the first film to benefit from Internet saturation. I honestly believe there were studio plants who went on message boards to tout this film as the "most frightening since The Exorcist!" Guess what, it isn't
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 2:06:55 GMT
Outstanding film...9/10
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 24, 2017 2:21:49 GMT
Utter crap. Annoying. Not at all scary.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 24, 2017 9:30:39 GMT
I hated it.
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Post by johanwow on Feb 24, 2017 11:14:47 GMT
The summer of 1999 was a great time for horror films--we had The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project and Stir of Echoes. Of the three, the biggest disappointment was The Blair Witch Project. Like a lot of you, I'd seen "Curse of the Blair Witch" on Sci-Fi, which whet my appetite and actually turned out to be better than the actual movie. Then, I saw the film, and the theater was packed. This was gonna be a good one, I could feel it! It started promisingly enough. But once the trio was lost in the woods and just traipsing around in a circle, I began to squirm. The lead actress had to be one of the MOST ANNOYING actresses I've ever seen, and her voice made me want to bolt for the door. Nothing much happens, outside of them finding some weirdly put together tree branches, and someone comes and shakes their tent. Oh, and there are sounds in the woods. Woooo, scawey! Later, they found the fabled house of the child molester who killed kids and made the other victims stand in a corner. So what happens? The chick with the uber annoying voice never once drops the fucking camera. She's got it glued to her eye as she stumbles through the forest, across the forest floor (without ever once stumbling due to a log or a gopher hole." Shrieking at the top of her lungs, she enters the house and runs up and down an unfamiliar stairway, illuminated only by the light of her camera. And she never once puts the camera down. Huh? Do real people act that way, especially when they're freaking out? I won't spoil the ending, but it has something to do with dying and kids standing in the corner, looking at a wall. That's when the lights came on, and people around me went, "huh? What just happened?" I heard someone yell out, "this sucks!" Another yelled, "what a rip-off!" I've never seen the film since. I will regret that two hours on my deathbed. I might've been able to volunteer at a soup kitchen or patted a kitty cat or swept out my house. Nooo. Instead, I wasted it on The Blair Witch Project. This was hyped to the moon and back and was the first film to benefit from Internet saturation. I honestly believe there were studio plants who went on message boards to tout this film as the "most frightening since The Exorcist!" Guess what, it isn't I'm happy that the whole hype went over my head. I only saw it on DVD years after it came out and don't understand what the big deal was about it. It might have been the first found footage movie that made the genre (or better said style because it isn't actually a genre) popular but that doesn't automatically make it a good movie. People who love it and can watch it over and over been saying yeah you have to let your imagination work. It's not for people who need everything to be spelled out. I honestly don't see what there is to imagine as there is not much interesting story or events. Since most what happens is improvised (or that's what they claim) anyone with a camera would be able to film it and say oh look how real it is and how realistic the people's reactions are. I'm just mentioning some of the arguments the die hard fans used. The movie isn't realistic at all, there is no witch or forrest that makes you go around in circles or perform stupid things like throwing away a map, going totally ballistic about natural night sounds from the woods. Unless there is such magical forrest or witch the point of realism is rather void. Also how did the ones finding the footage survive? Is the witch/forrest selective in its victims or did it use mailing service? Anyway I think there isn't many other other movies where the audience either love it or hate it, there is few in between.
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Post by johanwow on Feb 24, 2017 11:17:49 GMT
Utter crap. Annoying. Not at all scary. Haha I was waiting for that reaction.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 24, 2017 13:00:05 GMT
Utter crap. Annoying. Not at all scary. Haha I was waiting for that reaction. Glad to oblige!
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 14:50:08 GMT
The summer of 1999 was a great time for horror films--we had The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project and Stir of Echoes. Of the three, the biggest disappointment was The Blair Witch Project. Like a lot of you, I'd seen "Curse of the Blair Witch" on Sci-Fi, which whet my appetite and actually turned out to be better than the actual movie. Then, I saw the film, and the theater was packed. This was gonna be a good one, I could feel it! It started promisingly enough. But once the trio was lost in the woods and just traipsing around in a circle, I began to squirm. The lead actress had to be one of the MOST ANNOYING actresses I've ever seen, and her voice made me want to bolt for the door. Nothing much happens, outside of them finding some weirdly put together tree branches, and someone comes and shakes their tent. Oh, and there are sounds in the woods. Woooo, scawey! Later, they found the fabled house of the child molester who killed kids and made the other victims stand in a corner. So what happens? The chick with the uber annoying voice never once drops the fucking camera. She's got it glued to her eye as she stumbles through the forest, across the forest floor (without ever once stumbling due to a log or a gopher hole." Shrieking at the top of her lungs, she enters the house and runs up and down an unfamiliar stairway, illuminated only by the light of her camera. And she never once puts the camera down. Huh? Do real people act that way, especially when they're freaking out? I won't spoil the ending, but it has something to do with dying and kids standing in the corner, looking at a wall. That's when the lights came on, and people around me went, "huh? What just happened?" I heard someone yell out, "this sucks!" Another yelled, "what a rip-off!" I've never seen the film since. I will regret that two hours on my deathbed. I might've been able to volunteer at a soup kitchen or patted a kitty cat or swept out my house. Nooo. Instead, I wasted it on The Blair Witch Project. This was hyped to the moon and back and was the first film to benefit from Internet saturation. I honestly believe there were studio plants who went on message boards to tout this film as the "most frightening since The Exorcist!" Guess what, it isn't I'm happy that the whole hype went over my head. I only saw it on DVD years after it came out and don't understand what the big deal was about it. It might have been the first found footage movie that made the genre (or better said style because it isn't actually a genre) popular but that doesn't automatically make it a good movie. People who love it and can watch it over and over been saying yeah you have to let your imagination work. It's not for people who need everything to be spelled out. I honestly don't see what there is to imagine as there is not much interesting story or events. Since most what happens is improvised (or that's what they claim) anyone with a camera would be able to film it and say oh look how real it is and how realistic the people's reactions are. I'm just mentioning some of the arguments the die hard fans used. The movie isn't realistic at all, there is no witch or forrest that makes you go around in circles or perform stupid things like throwing away a map, going totally ballistic about natural night sounds from the woods. Unless there is such magical forrest or witch the point of realism is rather void. Also how did the ones finding the footage survive? Is the witch/forrest selective in its victims or did it use mailing service? Anyway I think there isn't many other other movies where the audience either love it or hate it, there is few in between. I'm firmly convinced that the initial hype is what made this movie a sensation at the box office. For me, I was attracted by the "weirdness" of being lost in the woods and the idea that a witch could be living there. And I mean a supernatural witch, kinda like a wood sprite or a wendigo. Something along those lines. The Curse of the Blair Witch on Sci-Fi (before they became SyFy) certainly led me to believe that's what it would be about, so I was psyched. Then I watched the movie. It looked like an amateur video production, featuring three idiots. The "tossing away of the map" made absolutely NO sense, and the chick freaks out on him--complete with snorts, tears, shrieks, hitting, you name it--but she never once drops the fucking camera. Never once. When you're pissed off in a situation like that, the first thing you'd do is drop the camera and start freaking out. Right then and there, I knew this was all a big hoax. On the Internet, every message board would be full of postings from people who thought Blair Witch was the most "frightening" film they'd ever seen. There were CONSTANT comparisons to The Exorcist, and of course, there's really no comparison at all. The Exorcist actually tells a story, and it makes sense. The Blair Witch Project does NOT make sense. And that ending! Just what was it supposed to mean--that the child molester had returned? What the hell happened to the Blair Witch?! Don't get me wrong, I was suckered in like everyone else. But I never bought the DVD and refuse to watch it again. Is it any coincidence that those three hikers pretty much faded into obscurity?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 15:23:57 GMT
This could have been a better movie, but my main gripe is that the characters are annoying beyond belief and their dialogue is very uninspired.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 24, 2017 15:50:47 GMT
Its my favorite horror movie.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 18:22:34 GMT
Its my favorite horror movie. It's mine as well! That and "the Others."
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Feb 24, 2017 18:47:26 GMT
Its my favorite horror movie. It's mine as well! That and "the Others." Love The Others.
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