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10 years later . . . The Blair Witch Project.

post #1 of 19
7/22/09 at 1:02pm
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Original trailers:



Original site:

http://www.blairwitch.com/

Old Haxan blog:

http://www.haxan.com/2009/07/16/happ...-elly-kedward/

Still holds up.

lefty
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post #2 of 19
7/22/09 at 3:00pm
I saw a SciFi channel 'documentary' before it came out (and I was unaware of the hype, somehow) that was spookier than the movie itself. Which isn't saying much.

I actually prefer the second BWP to the original. It's not bad as hacky early-00s slasher flicks go (thankfully pre-torture porn era).
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post #3 of 19
7/22/09 at 3:22pm
Hope they learned about steadicams in the past decade.
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post #4 of 19
7/22/09 at 6:05pm
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I saw a SciFi channel 'documentary' before it came out (and I was unaware of the hype, somehow) that was spookier than the movie itself. Which isn't saying much.

I actually prefer the second BWP to the original. It's not bad as hacky early-00s slasher flicks go (thankfully pre-torture porn era).

The final scene in the house was one of the few times I've seen/heard an entire audience go dead silent. Not a heartbeat. After it was over people loved or hated it, but for those 10 minutes they were frozen.

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Hope they learned about steadicams in the past decade.

Yea, that's what they needed to visually nail the story of found documentary footage. Steadicams. Maybe they should have ended it with a crane shot by Johnny LaRue.

lefty
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post #5 of 19
7/22/09 at 6:31pm
I was going to say - the last few minutes in the house were fantastic, the only part I'll make a case for.
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post #6 of 19
7/22/09 at 7:03pm
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I was going to say - the last few minutes in the house were fantastic, the only part I'll make a case for.

I'm easily creeped out by things like vast expanses of empty forest, so I was thoroughly spooked most of the time. And the final scenes were ridiculous, in an oh my god I'm going to freak out kind of way.

I thought the second one was horribly bad. And not funny-bad, just crappy generic 'scary' filmmaking.
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post #7 of 19
7/22/09 at 7:17pm
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I was going to say - the last few minutes in the house were fantastic, the only part I'll make a case for.

I would make the case that you needed the slow moving first 90 minutes to make those final 10 so riveting.

lefty
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post #8 of 19
7/22/09 at 8:25pm
I thought that had to be most excessively hyped movie I have ever seen.

The three young [talentless] "film students" were so obnoxious, cowardly and incompetent that they forfeited my sympathy early in the movie. A very few minutes into the movie, I whispered to my wife, "Go, witch!"

The notion of them trekking through the trackless wilderness of Maryland (Maryland, f'r Chrissake!) was risible enough in itself.
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post #9 of 19
7/22/09 at 10:20pm
... and don't forget the sequel
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post #10 of 19
7/22/09 at 10:27pm
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Originally Posted by lefty View Post
Maybe they should have ended it with a crane shot by Johnny LaRue.

lefty

You are my new favourite person on SF...I'm off to watch "Polynesiantown" and "Lunchtime Street Beef" back to back right now
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post #11 of 19
7/22/09 at 11:04pm
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Originally Posted by M. Bardamu View Post
You are my new favourite person on SF...I'm off to watch "Polynesiantown" and "Lunchtime Street Beef" back to back right now

A Johnny LaRue appreciation thread seems to be called for.



lefty
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post #12 of 19
7/22/09 at 11:48pm
Over-rated.
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post #13 of 19
7/23/09 at 12:35am
I was so hyped to see that movie when it came out. Then I sat there bored out of my mind while they ran around doing nothing.
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post #14 of 19
7/23/09 at 2:14am
Was truly the Emperor's New Clothes movie of that summer. God forbid you said anything negative about it back then. I gave it a chance, but ended up hating it...boring, terribly acted, terrible camera work (oh, yeah, I know it was supposed to be "gritty & real") and did I mention boring. Completely forgettable, in fact I did forget all about it until this thread. Kudos to the filmmakers for conning people into seeing their movie, made a shitload at the box office.
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post #15 of 19
7/23/09 at 2:50am
As a manager of a movie theater when it came out, I saw it early and was thoroughly unimpressed. I also had to clean up (or have someone else clean up) vomit at least once a day from someone who tossed cookies because of the camera shake. My personal favorite though was opening night, last show (got out around midnight). I made about half a dozen little stick figurines and piles of rocks at the exits to the theaters, so that you saw them just as the one way doors in the back of the theater (into the parking lot) shut behind you, locking you out. I got a couple of the other crew members together and we sat up on the roof with water balloons and hucked them at anyone who freaked out, turned around and tried to get back into the theater.
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