The harsh truth
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LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 03:08 AM)
You have to have an imagination to understand, appreciate and love ambiguity in a movie. This movie requires way too much imagination, because it doesn't offer us nearly enough.
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Slaterson14 — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 06:04 AM)
Except it did give us all we need to know the whole story is fleshed out in little snippets of dialogue throughout the movie and then the images at the end reflect exactly what was said regarding the Rustin Parr story. I love this movie so much its one of my favorite movies of all time but you really have to be in the mood to be engrossed into the movie and not let your attention waver or else it just doesn't have the impact. Theres several times Ive sat down for a rewatch and ended up stopping it for another time because I just felt to lazy to give the movie the attention it deserves but it was just on IFC a few hours ago at 5am and I sat down and watched it all alone in the dark like I always do and once again I really really enjoyed it and mentioned to actually give me goose bumps in two scenes even after seeing it so many times.
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Picnic10 — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 05:51 AM)
But why should any viewer have to do what it is usually the filmmakers job to do? I start watching the film thinking 'Right- this is a fiction, shot to look 'natural'. So since it's a fiction it'd better be interesting rather than expect me to be anywhere near as scared as the fictional characters are at symbols and sounds'.
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dwfubar-564-667323 — 9 years ago(September 13, 2016 02:45 AM)
No you would have to be a totally out of touch with reality young teen who wasn't even aware of what movie they were about to see. I love movies and try to see everything, but the found footage hook , was designe
d to draw in tweens,, their parents or whoever bought them their tickets, and possibly believers in the occult. The rest of us just went to see a hold of film shot from a different perspective, as in a found footage. The found part, is suppose to explain why the film stock/ video is so degraded. It is so degraded, that it is barely watchable , and it came with warnings about motion sickness , which isn't didn't get.. I watched the movie a second time, to make sure I hadn't been overly harsh the first time I saw it, and maybe wasn't harsh enough. -
oprlvr33 — 9 years ago(September 13, 2016 02:49 AM)
I could get seriously sarcastic here, but I will keep civil.
The harsh truth is that terming 'imagination' over this wreck is almost half oxymoron. I got what these students were attempting to accomplish. But agreeing with the critics way too much clumsy shooting and action, and flimsy, wasted, pointless 'dialogue'. I've seen home videos that easily put this wreck to shame.
Ghosthunters
and
Paranormal
at least were legit reality focus docu-styles that made sense. Unscripted of course, but both the real thing, even if they weren't actual movies. I barely got through half of this mess, in between the periodic fast-fwds because it was so pathetically bad.
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Lord-Nihilus — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 04:25 PM)
In other words, you have to imagine the scary things, because they couldn't be bothered to actually put the scary things in the scary movie. Look, it was good for its time when you could believe it actually happened, but it's just not scary without the hype
"I think he said, Blessed are the Cheesemakers"
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third-gunman — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 04:54 PM)
Thats not the case at all.Infact they did shoot more scary things, but it worked better without them.
Think about it, what is scary to you might not be scary to me, so by implying the horror then everyone interprets their own fear and it becomes universal. Some of the best horrors and thrillers utilise this concept.
Unfortunately if you don't have much of an imagination, then you won't get much from this kind of movie.and its those people, like yourself, who get frustrated and call the movie and its makers rubbish, when thats clearly not the case.
The hype, background, legend, sub-documentaries, are all part of the experience of this film, and its bigger than just a 90-minute movie. The makers were also the first to do anything like this. Creatively speaking it was genius. ITs easy to rubbish it now, 17 years later after a hundred copycats have come around, and the genre has moved on so much.but these guys created it. They deserve credit for that alone. -
jpowell180 — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 11:39 PM)
Using one's imagination to suspend disbelief certainly enhances the film; back in '99 the creators spurred that on by the fake website - I knew it wasn't real, but I was able to "psyche" myself up into, at least on some level, feeling it was real.
This effect made TBWP truly thrilling for me; I arrived home to see my brother and his wife visiting; I proclaimed that they just HAD to see TBWP right away, so we went to see it that afternoon (2nd time that day for me).
At the theater, sitting behind us was some redneck who started making fun of the movie before it had even started; I pitied him, for he never got his money's worth out of the film, whereas I enjoyed it immensely!
Fast forward to 2016; my sister-in-law grants me permission to show my BWP DVD to my 14 y/o niece; my 10 y/o nephew showed up in the room and started to semi-watch it with us.
My niece thought it was interesting; I tried to get her psyched by telling her that Heather was my long-lost girlfriend, and that I was originally going to go into the woods with her, but she chose Mike instead; my niece was not scared one bit, and while she played along when I told her I dated Heather, she knew I was making it all up.
When she was six, I was telling her some bedtime stories, but was tired and ran out of ideas, so I started telling her the story of TBWP; the effect was more that I had anticipated, as she had become terrified (perhaps I'm too good of a storyteller?); needless to say, I was in the doghouse with my sister-in-law for that one. -
jbaker1-2 — 1 year ago(August 15, 2024 12:32 PM)
The harsh truth is this movie is an over-hyped, overrated, boring piece of crap with annoying characters and not much of a storyline. Word is the actors improvised most of it, and it definitely shows.
And spare me the usual quips about car chases and explosions.
There are 8.2 billion people in the world. 8.19 billion of them have never heard of and don't give a fuck about Charlie Kirk. Get over it. -
AnthonySocksss — 1 year ago(August 15, 2024 02:55 PM)
Not enuff car chases and explosions
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