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kraftdeluxe
Apprentice Guru
Posted 20 October 2004 10:48 PM
Sorry Mark f and any other people who didn't like The Blair Witch project, but you guys are f*ckin crazy!
How could anyone not appreciate the greatness of this film. It's so original and so low budget. And yet it was so so so very very REALISTIC!
And I can honestly say that it was the scariest movie I have ever seen! Yes, EVER!!
And your talkin to a guy who has seen Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Ring, The Birds, The Sixth Sense, 28 days later, and many more.
So I'll say it once again. If you didnt like this film, your f*cking crazy! But I'd like to hear reasons why you didnt like it and Id also like to hear from people who agree with me.
Somethings wrong with this thread, it's lost most of the original posts. Anyway, I agree with kraftdeluxe. As this movie is being used as a comparison to
Cloverfield (2008) for its hand-held video and documentary style approch to film-making, I wanted to make some observations from the perspective of
The Blair Witch Project.
Blair Witch only focused on three individuals and and eventually a singular isolation over a long period of time. There wasn't so much action and hand-shaking. Yet the whole movie started with a mystery and had a single, main theme from the very beginning to end. The you were there experience was very personal.
Cloverfield was chaotic from the start and was prefaced at the beginning as property of the federal government. Unlike
Blair Witch,
Cloverfield spent a great deal of time on ordinary party life of the young crowd that in many instances was not interesting and overly cute (at times forceably demonstrating how natural and authentic the visual aspects of the movie was by the director going out of his way to have the video presentation presented in all the ways that amateurs shoot movies). The nature of this movie didn't seem to be conducive to the erratic cutting without editing. The cutting without editing approach in this movie left out come crucial elements of continuity, broke the seemlessness of the story and distractingly jerked the audience around needlessly from a movie standpoint. This type of movie was more interested told from an edited standpoint as so many various strands of information were occurring. One good example of tension and horror break was the leaping from one building to another losing in the process that actual experience of helpless as the two buildings were clinging to each other for support.
