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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 9:45:20 GMT -5
I detest the following 2 movies:
Driller Killer
The Blair Witch Project
Driller Killer is the only movie in history that didn’t have a plot, a film so bad that it’s now in the public domain. And it’s only 41 years old. I know vintage movies end up as public domain, but do movies that are 41 years old really end up in the public domain?
As for The Blair Witch Project, I wanted to sue it for false advertising. Where were the scares? 100% hype, no substance.
There, I said it.
(Top Gun is another movie I dislike, but it does at least have some redeeming features for me, few though they are. The above two are unforgivable)
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 20, 2020 10:03:57 GMT -5
Yeah, Blair Witch was a huge waste of my time. I can't understand how it ever became such a huge hit.
Cei-U!
I summon the overhyped snoozefest!
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Post by brutalis on Sept 20, 2020 10:24:46 GMT -5
Thankful that I avoided Blair Witch and the Saw movies. Bleach! Gimme Jason and Freddy for night terrors please.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 20, 2020 11:47:36 GMT -5
When they were promoting Blair Witch, we were trying to figure out if this was supposed to be some BS documentary or an actual horror film. At a morning staff meeting, someone asked if anyone had heard anything about the film, naming it and a loony co-worker, who had already been a source of bizarre behavior, blurted out, "Men have been killing witches for centuries and still are!" We all sat there stunned and the originakl questioner replied, " I was just asking about the movie."
We finally got rid of that person after they delivered an hand written subpoena to another co-worker, claiming she was a witness to the police spying on her. The store manager confronted her about her harrassment of this person and pushed her into resigning.
Still had no desire to see the film, though I did like the Scooby Doo parody, for cartoon network...
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 20, 2020 19:15:07 GMT -5
As for The Blair Witch Project, I wanted to sue it for false advertising. Where were the scares? 100% hype, no substance. I probably enjoyed the first three Paranormal Activity movies far more than Blair Witch. Dark Horse did a parody of it which I kind of liked
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 20, 2020 19:34:21 GMT -5
I was so sick of the stupid video shots of people standing around going, "I'm so scared!" which carried over into tv ghost hunting crap and the like. Seriously, it was like a Scooby Doo plot, minus the comedy and the musical number during a chase scene. I don't care for slasher films; but, at least they have a semblance of a plot. I'll stick with the Universal and Hammer variety, myself, and the odd psychological horror (I was prone to nightmares, as a kid, so I've never been a horror fan, to any degree).
The original Wicker Man was scary, because your mind created it own horror, leading up to the climax, as everything is just odd and creepy, but never outright horrific. The difference is, it did these scenes with a real story and acting, not just video shots of people standing around, with real characters being developed.
It did launch a 1000 parodies, though.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 20, 2020 19:55:25 GMT -5
I don't care for slasher films; but, at least they have a semblance of a plot. I'll stick with the Universal and Hammer variety, myself, and the odd psychological horror (I was prone to nightmares, as a kid, so I've never been a horror fan, to any degree). I'm pretty much the same way. My dad let me watch reruns of the HBO Tales From The Crypt as a kid and that made me horrified of the dark for most of my life. I did like Goosebumps a lot in my younger years. I also really like Videodrome, The Lost Boys, Return Of The Living Dead, the Hugh Jackman Van Helsing movie, the first two Hellraiser movies (mostly for the lore), and the Tales From The Crypt film from '72.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 8:12:59 GMT -5
I thought Blair Witch was really good, but the sequel was pretty bad and I have no interest in the flood of found-footage that followed.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 21, 2020 8:41:46 GMT -5
I detest the following 2 movies: Driller Killer
The Blair Witch ProjectDriller Killer is the only movie in history that didn’t have a plot, a film so bad that it’s now in the public domain. And it’s only 41 years old. I know vintage movies end up as public domain, but do movies that are 41 years old really end up in the public domain? As for The Blair Witch Project, I wanted to sue it for false advertising. Where were the scares? 100% hype, no substance. There, I said it. ( Top Gun is another movie I dislike, but it does at least have some redeeming features for me, few though they are. The above two are unforgivable) Never heard of Driller Killer and have not watched The Blair Witch Project but I will agree on Top Gun. For me the only redeeming quality is the soundtrack. And I fully admit to my dislike of it hinging on having a lot of slightly older female cousins (and my sister) who played it into oblivion. And I am not a Tom Cruise fan, even aside his religious craziness. He did well in the first Mission Impossible, I will give him that. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 9:19:53 GMT -5
For me, Top Gun has some redeeming features, e.g. James Tolkan as “Stinger” and one or two aerial scenes, but I consider it to be an “extended music video” that is style over substance. I really don’t get the hype.
But I will watch the sequel, just to see how Cruise’s character has progressed. Hard to believe he’d still be in the Navy 34 years later.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 21, 2020 10:00:54 GMT -5
Yeah, Blair Witch was a huge waste of my time. I can't understand how it ever became such a huge hit. Cei-U! I summon the overhyped snoozefest! From my personal experience, here's why it was successful: The film was advertised as relating real events, with found footage and everything. That was relatively rare at the time, and although I went in expecting the film to be a fake "real" thing, I still wondered whether it was at least based on actual events. For all I knew, kids had truly disappeared in mysterious circumstances around a place where a real "witch" had once lived, and the filmmakers had crafted a fiction around it all. The fact that the film does not have special effects nor even gore, nor a cavalcade of jump scares, made it more believable. It also had no known actor, again suggesting it might be real (although it could of course be a very small-budget film made by amateurs or unknown artists). That's why Blair Witch succeeds in my eyes while Slender Man is a fiasco. Promotion of the film was done in a brilliantly subdued way. To wit: wondering if the film might be based on real events, I went to see if the town of Burkitsville existed and had any mention of the legend on its website, and sure enough, the fledgling world wide web seemed to confirm it all on a website that I thought was the town's official one (it may have been in on the joke) or, in hindsight, might have been an elaborate but very normal-looking fake one. In any case, it looked as if irrespective of the footage being authentic, there was some actual basis to this story. The ambiguity was a cool thing! The film is a slow burn, but the way forest nocturnal noises were used was excellent, building tension up to the climax. That nose-dripping scene with the flashlight is just brilliant. Just as storytelling exercise, I thought the whole film was excellent. Being scared in a cold tent at night by "just noises" is something that happens for real, and can be terrifying when one lets one's imagination go wild! Also, Burkitsville was less than an hour away from my home! Brrrr! I wondered how it was possible for teens to get lost in those woods for hours without hitting one highway or another, but while that might have made the movie suspect, it also suggested that they were not "naturally" lost. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 21, 2020 10:03:58 GMT -5
As for The Blair Witch Project, I wanted to sue it for false advertising. Where were the scares? 100% hype, no substance. I probably enjoyed the first three Paranormal Activity movies (...)
One of my students enthusiastically suggested the first one, but I'm still waiting for it to get to Netflix! ;-) I only saw a few scenes on Youtube, but I liked what I saw: the shot of a wardrobe door opening in the middle of the night, caught on an automatic camera, was positively spooky! |
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 21, 2020 10:17:06 GMT -5
I probably enjoyed the first three Paranormal Activity movies (...)
One of my students enthusiastically suggested the first one, but I'm still waiting for it to get to Netflix! ;-) I only saw a few scenes on Youtube, but I liked what I saw: the shot of a wardrobe door opening in the middle of the night, caught on an automatic camera, was positively spooky! The first three are a self contained story. I probably liked 3 the most |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 10:17:51 GMT -5
There’s also the Paranormal Entity movies (by The Asylum).  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 10:21:54 GMT -5
Yeah, Blair Witch was a huge waste of my time. I can't understand how it ever became such a huge hit. Cei-U! I summon the overhyped snoozefest! From my personal experience, here's why it was successful: The film was advertised as relating real events, with found footage and everything. That was relatively rare at the time, and although I went in expecting the film to be a fake "real" thing, I still wondered whether it was at least based on actual events. For all I knew, kids had truly disappeared in mysterious circumstances around a place where a real "witch" had once lived, and the filmmakers had crafter a fiction around it all. The fact that the film does not have special effects nor even gore, nor a cavalcade of jump scares, made it more believable. It also had no known actor, again suggesting it might be real (although it could of course be a very small-budget film made by amateurs or unknown artists). That's why Blair Witch succeeds in my eyes while Slender Man is a fiasco. Promotion of the film was done in a brilliantly subdued way. To wit: wondering if the film might be based on real events, I went to see if the town of Burkitsville existed and had any mention of the legend on its website, and sure enough, the fledgling world wide web seemed to confirm it all on a website that I thought was the town's official one (it may have been in on the joke) or, in hindsight, might have been an elaborate but very normal-looking fake one. In any case, it looked as if irrespective of the footage being authentic, there was some actual basis to this story. The ambiguity was a cool thing! The film is a slow burn, but the way forest nocturnal noises were used was excellent, building tension up to the climax. That nose-dripping scene with the flashlight is just brilliant. Just as storytelling exercise, I thought the whole film was excellent. Being scared in a cold tent at night by "just noises" is something that happens for real, and can be terrifying when one lets one's imagination go wild! Also, Burkitsville was less than an hour away from my home! Brrrr! I wondered how it was possible for teens to get lost in those woods for hours without hitting one highway or another, but while that might have made the movie suspect, it also suggested that they were not "naturally" lost. A very good explanation as to why you like the film. Always good to hear the other side.  I don’t mind “found footage” movies, I think there are others which are far superior. And why didn’t the Blair Witch crew invest in a tripod for goodness’ sake?! I like “less is more” in horror. The Amityville Horror is a good example of that. As is 1973’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. But nothing in The Blair Witch Project scared me. I actually think 1998’s The Last Broadcast is the better film. |
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