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Summary: The future of independent film?
Review: I've divided the people who hate this movie into three classes:1. People who saw this movie after the hype had started and were expecting the SCARIEST FILM OF ALL TIME! 2. People who think that a film has to have graphic decapitations and disembowelments to be "scary" 3. People who pride themselves on disdaining anything that proves to be too popular. The Blair Witch Project is one of the most effective and original films to come out of the independent movement in a long time. Its fake-documentary format allows the filmmakers to play with the conventions of the horror genre. It eschews standard shock moments for slowly building an atmosphere of apprehension. The three actors do a mostly marvellous job of showing their characters coming apart at the seams. Also, as a former film student, I found their characters immediately recognizable. Heather's self-important stand-ups at the cemetary and Coffin Rock are dead-on perfect. I've never understood the complaints about the jerky handheld camera work. These were supposedly student filmmakers hiking in the woods. What were they supposed to do, bring a steady-cam rig? I loved the ending because it had the guts not to spoonfeed the answers to the audience. We're told in the "Curse of the Blair Witch" fake-documentary that the footage found was "inconclusive" so naturally the movie can't be clear about the fate of the students. Are there flaws? Sure, but none are fatal. I think they knock about a half-star off the rating, which "The Curse of the Blair Witch" adds right back on the score. In many ways, the fake documentary that is included with the DVD is more effective than the movie. This, more than anything, convinced many people that the Blair Witch Project was true. If I hadn't known ahead of time that it was fake, I might have bought it too. "Curse" would not look out of place being shown on the Discovery Channel. The old geezer "historian" is perfectly drawn and convincing as the "colorful local" who buys into the mythology hook, line and sinker. Also effective is the 70s-era interview with a "real" witch. It was this touch of including "archival" footage from another era that really gives "Curse" its sense of reality. Had all the interviews been contemporary, the fakery might have been more apparent. I had some problems with the 40's era "newsreels". The interview with "Rustin Parr" was quite effective but the lead-in looked a little too staged. Then again, newsreels sometimes had that staged feel to them, so this is not a huge problem. It may have been deliberate. The DVD version also included a audio commentary track from the directors/writers. This is very entertaining, as they do things like pointing that Josh really was late and then mocking their actors/camera operators for their shot choices. (I've been on student film shoots and bad shot choices only contribute to the realism). So my advice is: ignore the naysayers and ignore the hype. Just the see the movie and decide for yourself.
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Summary: The blair witch project
Review: Is 1 star your lowest rating? shame! This is the biggest lot of hiped up trash I've ever had the misfortune to sit through. I don't normally spend good money to watch the likes of this, my 8 year old can manage the same quality on our camera. This is my preferred genre and it could make me take another look at Daniel Steel (if thats how you spell it).
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Summary: Better than Sominex
Review: The shaky film making, the meandering scenes in the woods, the "improvisational acting" (swearing profusely is NOT acting) made this a real dog of a movie. And IT'S NOT SCARY! Halfway through the movie I dozed off. People who saw this mess at the theatre told me that they did the same thing. Don't believe the hype about this garbage. Thank goodness it was a free rental (I wasted a gift certificate though).
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Summary: Oh My God, Im So Scared
Review: Look at the trees swaying, Im so scared. Look at the corrosion caused by the river, Im so scared. See those guys fishing, Im so scared. Get a life. Rent The Exorcist, Evil Dead II, or Dawn of the Dead if you want a really good horror movie
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Summary: Too bad there is no 0 star
Review: A disaster, a two years old kid will not shake the camera as much! A sad example of the marketing influence on people (me included alas). Those teens are so dumb, I'm sorry for all those american teenagers who identified themself with the movie. But critical sense is obviously not something education try to provide. I'm waiting with impatience for BWP 4, the story of the story of the story of the story...
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Summary: Obvious, unsatisfying, boring, predictable. I'm sorry. :(
Review: First, let me say I didn't experience any of the hype. I know you can't believe it, but I missed it. I was dragged to this movie with a friend who was ribbing me the whole way, "You've never HEARD of this movie? You've never HEARD OF IT???" He filled me in as we went, but when the movie started I only knew it was supposed to be "really scary" and that people had left the theatre rather than endure the horror. I was braced. But it was a joke. A parody. It had to be. I sort of laughed and nudged my friend, but just like everyone else in the audience, he was taking it dead seriously. So I kept quiet. I found the premise and the "handy-cam" photography tedious and felt a little sick to know how many budding students of cinema art had their work trashed when these guys succeeded. The whole phenomenon is ludicrous. Maybe if I had been injected by the hype, I would have had some context in which to appreciate this film.
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Summary: this plays on your imagination...........
Review: well, a lot of people have either hated this movie or thought it was so scary they stay awake for days on end. i first watched it when i was first out in theatres. i was working at a video store and 3 weeks after it came out at the movies, we got a screener tape in the mail. we thought it was so cool we had a movie on tape that just came out!! i finally got a chance to watch it and i thought it was very scary and the reason why it was scary was it played on your imagination, you couldn't see the "witch" but based on the characters, you could hear, and hear them saying that they saw it. what made me so mad was at the end of the screener, the movie cut out before showing the ending--about 3 minutes before the ending. after that it made me NOT want to go the the movies to see it-why pay 5 bucks for 3 minutes. but after a while i finally watched it on video. it was good, but each time i watch it, it gets less scary. the DVD has the curse of the blair witch movie on there also, plus lots of extras, so i think it's worth the money, but only if you can get scared without seeing a monster
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Summary: Can You Say Headache?
Review: The Blair Witch Project was a very well thought out movie. I liked it but at times it really gave me a headache. The camera's moving around all the time really got me mad. I think that the plot and the story were very good and clever. Who in the world wuld have thought of ever making something like this? You should watch it, it is one of those really cool interesting films.
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Summary: The 1397th review
Review: Unless you've been off-planet for the past couple of years, there's nothing new I can tell you about the infamous "Blair Witch Project." Is it a good movie? From a cinematography standpoint, absolutely not--the camera was either jittering hard enough to induce nausea or shooting into blackness. Script and acting? I think it's a lot truer than some of my reviewers would have you think--I have no doubt that three spoiled college students would be freaked out by piles of stones and stick figures after being lost three days in the woods, not to mention using the f-word pretty frequently. Scary? The final scene freaked me out for days. Maybe it wasn't worth all the hype, but for what it was it was pretty effective--and undoubtedly better than its big-budget sequel will be.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: This movie sucks; plain and simple. Granted, the producers do a decent job of building suspension throughout the movie, but You call that an ending? Hell, I've coughed up scarier things than that. I simply don't understand how any one can give this movie more than one star - and even that's being generous. I am not kidding; When I saw this movie, followed by it's abrupt, enormously disappointing conclusion, there was a collective groan among the entire audience - and that's no exaggeration. "That's it?" "That's the ending??" "You have got to be kidding me!" Please, don't waste your money on this excuse of a horror film, whether it's in the cinema, on VHS, or on DVD. Spend your time watching a classic like "The Exorcist," or something more current AND creative such as "Stir of Echos."
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