Rufflesack wrote:I don't have any grounds to dislike the film, but I'll admit to be largely prejudiced against it. I've never seen it, and I don't plan to. Every time I hear "The Blair Witch Project" I think "oh, that pretentious tosh". Why? I dunno, it's just always rubbed me as slightly arrogant.
do you know what the words "pretentious" or "arrogant" mean? because, either, you don't, or you just have a tremendously perverted impression of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. i assure you, of all the things that the film may or may not be, it is most certainly
not pretentious or arrogant.
Pickpocket wrote:I hate it because the characters are all douchebag faggots that needed to die, the story is laughably bad, and it ISN'T scary. Sorry, seeing a pile of rocks, some sticks hanging in the air and loud breathing isn't scary! And then all the parts that could be scary aren't because it either gets too dark or the camera shakes so much that you can't see a fucking thing.
Either you've been poisoned by a generation of MTV-styled dick directing, or you just naturally have no imagination whatsoever. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT did an amazing thing at the end of the millennium, it denied, for once, the societal and cultural stereotype of the meat-headed, completely deviant horror fan (a stereotype, of course, that had been enforced and perpetuated by a decade of absolutely juvenile and unimaginative hollywood horror). For once, the audience wasn't completely disregarded as players themselves. And, again, the doctrine that "what you do not see is far more terrifying than what you could ever see," was taken and adopted for the brilliance that it is.
Outside of the hype, the film could not survive - not because the film could not subside on its own, i think, but because the film demands a certain deal of patience and imagination that, honestly, most audiences just don't have today.
Pickpocket wrote:What a fag.
what a moron.
ANYWAYS:i'm terribly pleased to meet someone who appears to share the same appreciation for this (underrated) masterpiece of horror. i always feel like i'm the only one. it gets a bit frustrating and really really annoying; every time i have to answer that damn question ("what's your favorite movie?"), most of everyone just assumes i'm some jackass that doesn't take cinema seriously. it truly is a terrifying, hilarious, haunting, and insightful little film, and i'm glad i'm not completely alone in that summation.
from what i have found, most people have very superficial reasons for disliking THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. usually i hear, "i could film that shit in my own backyard," or "it's not even shot like a real movie." both "reasons" are rather transparent. what i think has happened, essentially, is that, because of the hype, the film has gained quite a reputation. Because of this reputation, i think people usually have a prejudice against the film (think NAPOLEON DYNAMITE) before even seeing it.
anyways, just a few days ago a friend sent me a message. she had seen the movie (after i had told her over and over again that it was amazing), and she was asking me if there was anything that she missed, because she was "disappointed." i told her this, short & sweet:
"
it is true that you may be missing something. although, your disappointment is not a complete surprise; most people aren't huge fans of the blair witch project.
altogether, just focus on the desperation and weakness of it all; you see these people enter the woods and completely and utterly disintegrate into hysteria, madness, hunger, fear, and helplessness. it's a fantastic microcosm of the human condition, played and presented in a tremendously realistic manner. further, you have to ponder the brilliance of the doctrine that, "what you don't see is far more terrifying than what you do." it's a film that demands a resurrection of the imagination in an era of highly explicit and thoughtless horror.
we'll talk, dawg."
whatev.
p.s. you'll avoid THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT but you won't avoid those thumb parodies? really?!
p.p.s. don't sound like such a drunken homophobic bro and people might take you more seriously.
p.p.p.s. love love xoxoxo what what
