The BWP really disappointed me. I certainly didn't do a big favor to myself by going to watch it while being victim of a massive headache I remember to this day.
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The BWP really disappointed me. I certainly didn't do a big favor to myself by going to watch it while being victim of a massive headache I remember to this day.
The film itself isn't that bad, iMO, but certainly the trend it started has at this point been played out. This whole shaky cam, found footage craze needs to be put down, and fortunately it already somewhat has been.
But yeah, I can see how watching the film already suffering from a headache can make the experience extra lousy.
Hah, just as I am writing this post, the film ended and I missed the one scene I was waiting for. Serves me right, I guess, for trying to multitask.
If you want to see "crazy footage" in a new way and a very smart, entertaining movie I highly recommend Searching (2018). Even the soundtrack is very good.
I've actually read about that film a little bit, and the premise does sound interesting enough. Will try to check it out soon, so thanks for the recommendation and reminder!
Let me know what you think about it. It was the best movie-related surprise of 2018 for my wife and me.
Looks like it's on iTunes, so I guess that solves the question of what I'll watch tonight. Will report back!
What an awful movie. I remember the hype surrounding this and it is just a terrible movie.
I was always gonna take your word on that one... I still remember the hype too.
Might have a look at Searching though. A whole other thing.
Yeah, I remember seeing it back then too. It was probably the worst movie I've ever seen. I count Plan 9 From Outer Space as better than The Blair Witch Project.
I sat and watched Blair Witch when it came onto Pay Per View months later, but I also don't remember anything particularly interesting about the movie. I haven't seen it in 20 years, I guess, but based on what I remember it was an introspective look at the future of vloggers who show people their boring, monotonous and sometimes scripted lives.
Edit: Sorry, an earlier version of this post said HBO when I meant Pay Per View.
Edit: Sorry, an earlier version of this post said HBO when I meant Pay Per View.
And we are in total agreement on that one!
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Aneesh Chaganty: Searching (2018)
This was actually quite good. John Cho did a great job in the lead role, even though I still see him as the stoner Harold from the Harold and Kumar films. And I didn't even like the films, but anyway. The plot of Searching is pretty deeply rooted in the present day, and the social commentary is on point when it comes to the use of technology and social media and how people make use of them, for better or worse. Soundtrack was great as well.
I had some problems with the ending (and how we got there), but as a whole the film kept me on the edge of my seat so it's easy to give a few passes here and there. All in all an entertaining experience, so thanks to @yaxomoxay for the recommendation!
My pleasure. As a low budget film it’s incredibly well made. Hopefully you noticed
The mistake the cop made during the FaceTime call.
The alien invasion.
The alien invasion.
Yep, caught both of those. The first one took me minute or two to realize, which was actually a good thing all things considered.
Nice! I didn’t catch the first one when I watched it the first time. Got the second one. Also,
That the ending is described in one of the various posts seen in the movie.
I think that the director mentioned over 300 Easter eggs. My kids love this movie, obviously due to the social media theme.
That I didn't catch, but yes, I'm probably going to rewatch it tomorrow (or tonight if I can't sleep) because there's so much stuff to go through, and I love looking for Easter eggs and such in films. That's one of the good things about the film, there's things for both kids and adults to look for and think about.
I think I heard one F-bomb, so I guess that's what's allowed to still get a PG-13 rating?
Was this the one directed by John Carpenter with Sam Neill who was tracking down the novelist..? It's been a long while, but I remember liking it enough at the time.
What I remember of the Blair Witch Project, was that at the time, it was unique, filmed in documentary style, felt real, was tense, but using non-motion stabilized cameras it was likely to give the viewer motion sickness.
One other movie that I liked but was ruined not by using the documentary approach, but using jerky cameras was Cloverfield. It has a good atmosphere for such a story, downtown NYC invaded by a very large and destructive creature.An example of a good use of the documentary style film, without the jerky camera, motion sickness aspect was the opening sequence of the D Day invasion in Saving Private Ryan.
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For some reason the quote included in you post is inaccessible to me trying to look at the original post referencing a Lovecraft story, At The Mountains of Madness.
Anyway, I went through a phase in my young adult life reading Lovecraft, but from what I remember, his writings offered great potential for horror, but they were just too abstract, obfuse in their descriptions. It’s been 3 decades or so, I might try rereading that story.
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That would be "In the Mouth of Madness". Great Lovecraftian movie
That's it indeed! Got my Madnesses mixed up.
The part about (at least some of) Lovecraft's stories being abstract is exactly it, there's really no way to depict the things he writes about on screen. Or at least it's extremely difficult to do so while maintaining the feel of the original stories. Granted I'm no Lovecraft expert, but the stories of his I've read have left me with that feeling.
Looks like I need to do some reading in the near future, as well.
There is a Lovecraft story titled At The Mountains Of Madness though, and what you originally quoted included that title.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness.
There is a Lovecraft story titled At The Mountains Of Madness though, and what you originally quoted included that title.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness.
Yep, perhaps I didn't make myself clear; I thought the person I originally quoted (the post has for some reason disappeared) meant the film I referenced, because I wasn't aware that there's another film based on Lovecraft's work with a similar title. On top of that I misremembered the name of the film (In the Mouth of Madness VS. At the Mountains of Madness) myself. A whole lotta mixing up, nothing more
Exactly! You should check what the HP Lovecraft Historical Society did with The Call of Cthulhu. They made the movie - low budget - as if it were a 1920's mute movie. It's basically how it would've looked if it were made when Lovecraft was alive. Surprisingly, the movie is quite good and entertaining. I found very pleasing that instead of doing crazy stuff to show non-euclidean geometry they simply put "The adventurers found themselves in a place where Euclidean geometry wasn't true anymore" on the screen, letting my imagination run wild. I think that the movie is on youtube.
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There is a Lovecraft story titled At The Mountains Of Madness though, and what you originally quoted included that title.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness.
it's indeed a great story. It's basically Aliens (and Prometheus) from the 1910's...
The Lion King (2019). This movie is realistic to a way that is impossible to describe. It should win the Oscars for best CGI and scenography because it's breathtaking. However, it's also its main problem. It looks like a beautiful documentary that has been dubbed by youtubers using the audio from the original cartoon. In other words, this movie has no soul. Even the most dramatic scene is not that dramatic due to the total lack of expression of the characters.