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Summary: Don't compare it to the Blair Witch
Review: Honestly like many others, I was caught off guard by an ending that made a complete turn around of the movie. Unfortunatly, due to the makers of the Blair Witch Projects ability to rip off a film completed a year before their production even started the Last Broadcast will forever be compared to a poor movie and live in the shadow of it. The movies shouldn't be compared and if you watch the Last Broadcast with the idea that its similar to Blair Witch, you're likely to miss out. The point of the movie is not to scare you, although it likely will at points, it's making a statement about modern media, and the way it twists the reality of life into entertainment. Keep that in mind and the mockumentary will keep you on the edge of your seat and the ending will bring a greater sense of closure.
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Summary: Good stuff.
Review: With me being a huge Blair Witch Project fan I felt I had to check out this film, as it has been hyped as the film that influenced the BWP. However, this is more than just a early version of the aforementioned classic, as there are many differences between the two. Both the films are based around hand held camcorder footage, but where as in the BWP the whole story was told like this, the Last Broadcast is presented like a mock documentary, with the footage used alongside interviews and facts about the case. Another major difference is that the BWP has a supernatural element and talks about the myths of the witch, where as The Last Broadcast is more interested in the characters and their motives. The thing that impressed me the most about this film was how authentic it looks and how you could easily believe it is a real murder case. In fact my only problem with the film is that the ending was a bit too melodramatic and sees the film slip slightly out of character. Like the BWP this is one of those films you will either love or hate, but you should definitely see and it's far more sinister and chilling than any Hollywood big budget shocker
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Summary: short and simple this is horrible
Review: this review cannot be long as i was able ot escape this horrible piece after 30 minutes.In a few words all i can say is that this film could possibly have been made by a grade 5 class of morons with a video-camera. Actaully they may have made it better since atleast one child may know how to use it. heres a tip to the directors..its called LIGHTING..learn how to use it properly. Also a few acting classes would help. This movie was compared to the Blair Witch Project which was innovative in its ability to make believe that what you are seeing is the truth. The Last Broascast assumes that the audiece are idiots believing that the documentation which is thrown up on the screen is truthful. If i write THIS IS SCARY on a brown paper bag in pink crayon are you scared?..no.. so why should i believe this film is scary- its not. Although i only watched 30 minuyes of this horrible piece of trash, i could already tell that i would rather watch an episode of S-Club 7 and think it was more intelliegnt.
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Summary: wow was this ever bad
Review: i saw the Blair Witch in theatre and fell asleep. i was told this movie was 10 tens better than Blair, so I had high hopes for it. but bloody hell, this was worse. after an extremely boring first half hour, we resorted to fast forwarding in hopes of finding a good spot in the movie. sadly it never came. and the ending...well it just left me confused...
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Summary: WORST...MOVIE...EVER
Review: The fact that this 'film' came before Blair Witch and was made for $900 should have no bearing on your decision to watch, or worse, purchase it. It is quite simply the worst waste of time and film I've seen since taking a college film course. It aspires to some unclear pretension of social commentary, like a community college student's wet dream, but ultimately, like the same wet dream, ends up a sticky mess of grade school writing and sub-amateur camera work. Somebody take the cameras and pens away from these jokers. Watch the Last Broadcast at your peril.
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Summary: Good ideas, mediocre execution
Review: What a peculiar film. There are a lot of good ideas here, both in the story and the execution, but the final product seems awkward. For one thing, there are long periods where you can almost see the filmmakers struggling mightily to stretch the story to approximately "feature length" - just shy of 90 minutes. I'm sure they sought to build suspense with their slow pacing, but they ended up retreading the same ground too many times. This is a horror movie which presents itself as a documentary. Alas, even if it were true, it would be a rather badly organized documentary. I hate to be hypercritical, (because I've dabbled with some video editing myself) but I think that the film would be greatly improved if it were trimmed to a 20-30 minute "60 minutes" style news segment. With faster pacing and a more well-organized narrative, I believe this story could be quite chilling and compelling. The film makes extensive use of "candid interviews" of characters involved with the deaths at the heart of the story. This becomes tiresome by the end; the narration smoothly introduces the characters and explains their involvement -- and then the characters haltingly introduce themselves and explain their involvement a second time. Toward the end, when suspense is supposed to be building, these nonchalant segments disrupt the mood. Furthermore, with few exceptions, most of the participants seem entirely too jolly, considering they are supposed to be discussing the murders of several people they knew well. The ending is jarring, not only because it is horriffic and unexpected, but because it breaks the documentary format and ventures briefly into the more traditional '3rd person omniscient' perspective. This effectively removes any doubts as to whether the film is a "real" documentary (I can't really explain more without giving it all away). I can't fault the filmmakers for effort or enthusiasm, but this film plays like a very rough "first cut".
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Summary: for a cheap art film, it's not bad. But it ain't great
Review: I head so much about this movie around the same time Blair Witch was coming out. I live in New Jersey right outside Philadelphia and was pretty curious about a movie involving the New Jersey Devil. The first 80 minutes of this movie were pretty good. It was gritty and raw enough to be very convincing. However, the suprise ending comes out of nowhere and really has no place in the matter. Not only does it not make sense but it forces you to discount everything you saw up to that point. Had the last few minutes been cut off, maybe re-edited or something, they might have a cult classic on their hands, instead this movie just comes up short. The DVD is decent though... with some cool extras, the commentary wasn't that great though... those guys seem pretty stuck up... which just ...me off..
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Summary: overrated no-budget amateurism
Review: Don't be fooled by the comparisons to Blair Witch -although I wasn't too pleased by that movie either, "Last Broadcast" is much worse. The only interesting stuff on the DVD are the behind the scenes documentaries in which the film makers talk about the distribution and production of this no-budget failure. As for the film itself: it's dull (with a very annoying voice-over explaining every useless detail at least three times), and horribly filmed. If you're familair with Adobe's PhotoShop software, you will recognize the overdose of cheap graphic effects that should give the film some modern hi-tech look, but doesn't add anything to the (lack of) storyline. Made as an amateur movie, the filmmakers should have keep it that way. Let's hope not too many people will feel inspired by the Blair Witch Project and copycat the idea.
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Summary: A buildup to a letdown.
Review: "Blair Witch"-style mocumentary actually succeeds for the first 3 quarters in being creepy and engrossing, then blows it with a truly stupid "twist" ending that destroys the audiences suspension of disbelief.
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Summary: Where have I seen This Film before....
Review: Like many film goers I found out about this film when the hype for the Blair Witch was at full steam. It took me forever to find a copy to watch it but all i can say is that this was one of the few films that truly spooked me out. I can honestly say the film is not what you would call a Hollywood film and is very much an amatuer film but what a film it is. Shot for less money then what their Sony Digital Video camera may have cost, The Last Broadcast tells the horrific events surrounding the tragic murders of a group of men who went in to the woods looking for the infamous Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens. Put together as a documentary the film plays along like an old episode of In Search Of as the host seeks answers to a group of brutal murders and the truth behind what really happened. Much more terrifying the Blair Witch, The Last Broadcast would be compared to its contemporary and ironically has generated much more interest to it.
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