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Post by janntosh on Jan 18, 2023 23:25:55 GMT
the found footage monster movie that kickstarted Matt Reeves' career. Known for an elaborate advertising campaign that started with a teaser attached to Transformers the previous year that didn't even reveal the film's title and led to a long viral marketing campaign and huge discussion on internet forums about what this movie was going to be about and whether or not it was a secret Godzilla movie. The final result probably underwhelmed many people at the time but watching it now away from all the hype it is an enjoyable enough found footage film  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 0:04:11 GMT
I remember one theory that it would be a Power Rangers movie. A lot of people were also mishearing the trailer line "it's alive, it's huge" as "it's a lion, it's huge".
The internet discourse was easily more entertaining than the movie, but it's fine.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 19, 2023 0:09:53 GMT
Yeah, it's fine.
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Post by Lux on Jan 19, 2023 0:34:32 GMT
The found footage genre works only with giant monster movies like Cloverfield but when applied to following a witch in a forest it doesn't. Ultimately a non found footage version would've still been better though. Cloverfield was okay but the ending was a turd. Monster kept growing but somehow could only swallow up the one annoying man holding the camera in a group he was in.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jan 19, 2023 11:21:20 GMT
Movies require the audience to suspend their disbelief. Otherwise, we would not be following Dorothy into Oz or cheering Superman flying the skies in red and blue tights.
Found footage fails with me. I simply cannot accept people videotaping events while they are running for their lives. Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project are bombs (and I gave both the benefit of a second look).
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Post by Lux on Jan 19, 2023 11:42:21 GMT
Movies require the audience to suspend their disbelief. Otherwise, we would not be following Dorothy into Oz or cheering Superman flying the skies in red and blue tights. Found footage fails with me. I simply cannot accept people videotaping events while they are running for their lives. Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project are bombs (and I gave both the benefit of a second look). Agreed no sane person would film a giant monster chasing them. |
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Post by Winter_King on Jan 19, 2023 12:15:13 GMT
I think it's my favorite found footage film.
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Post by James on Jan 19, 2023 12:28:19 GMT
I liked it fine but by the end I kept thinking to myself "Wait, that was it?" but you can't rely on found-footage films having a proper ending. I think I would have been more entertained had I been in on the craze on internet forums about this movie when it came out.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 20, 2023 5:16:23 GMT
The teaser was its highlight.
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