Truegho
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Post by Truegho on May 28, 2017 13:21:44 GMT
Anybody else here hate found footage movies?
The damned things seem to be being churned out hand over fist. Blame that Blair Witch Project.
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Truegho
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Post by Truegho on May 29, 2017 18:18:47 GMT
No matter how many found footage I see - and I have seen a fair few - I don't think my opinion will coloured in any way. I still don't like them.
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Post by bluetomb on May 29, 2017 23:14:50 GMT
The format is all too often used as a crutch for weak writing and poor direction. There are persistent problems of unappealing characters, incoherent action and jarring lapses in realism. But there are occasional fine examples. My favourite would be the Japanese film Noroi, one of the rare horror films to have troubled my sleep.
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Post by ropardoe on May 30, 2017 8:56:34 GMT
The format is all too often used as a crutch for weak writing and poor direction. There are persistent problems of unappealing characters, incoherent action and jarring lapses in realism. But there are occasional fine examples. My favourite would be the Japanese film Noroi, one of the rare horror films to have troubled my sleep. I agree with you. As a format it's been overdone, there's no question, but it can be good. I realise I'm courting controversy here (again) but my favourite-ever monster film is a found-footage one: Cloverfield. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on May 30, 2017 10:08:11 GMT
I'd also recommend The Borderlands.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 30, 2017 10:15:10 GMT
The Borderlands, Lake Mungo and Cloverfield are all great. I'd add Chronicle, Troll Hunter, Grave Encounters (the first one, not the sequel) and Dyatlov Pass Incident (despite some massive plot holes).
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on May 30, 2017 10:36:25 GMT
The Borderlands, Lake Mungo and Cloverfield are all great. I'd add Chronicle, Troll Hunter, Grave Encounters (the first one, not the sequel) and Dyatlov Pass Incident (despite some massive plot holes). I haven't seen Chronicle or Dyatlov Pass Incident but I'd certainly agree with the others you list. I'd also add Banshee Chapter as something that does some interesting things with the genre. |
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Post by bluetomb on May 30, 2017 12:48:12 GMT
I've mixed feelings about Cloverfield, I find it has a few tense scenes but I wasn't keen on the characters and didn't think the plotting gelled with the format or that the allegorical aspects suggested by some critics came off. Liked Troll Hunter a lot though, and Grave Encounters despite it getting a little overwrought. In the case of Grave Encounters, the essential set up is just perfectly nightmarish. Have yet to see the others mentioned.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 30, 2017 15:01:05 GMT
Completely with you on Grave Encounters - definitely overwrought, they ended up throwing just about everything into the mix, and it really shouldn't have worked, but somehow it did. Unfortunately the sequel was pretty awful.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 30, 2017 15:08:08 GMT
I'd also add Banshee Chapter as something that does some interesting things with the genre. I thought Banshee Chapter was OK, but I couldn't get past some of the plot holes - how easy it was to find the "top secret" facility and, even worse, how easy it was to get into it! The actor who seemed to be doing a Hunter S Thompson impersonation also jarred a bit with me. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 3, 2017 21:50:35 GMT
Thanks for the tips - watched Noroi and Banshee Chapters last night and enjoyed both. Wasn't the Hunter S. Thompson guy the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs? He was also in the US version of The Killing.
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Post by bluetomb on Jun 4, 2017 13:22:55 GMT
Yup. Ted Levine. Also in the TV series Monk, and the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.
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Post by kooshmeister on Jul 11, 2017 16:42:39 GMT
Anybody else here hate found footage movies? Can't stand half of 'em. |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 11, 2017 18:15:49 GMT
Anybody else here hate found footage movies? Can't stand half of 'em. Also not a fan. |
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Post by valdemar on Oct 24, 2017 3:32:50 GMT
Most modern ones are simply bad ideas, executed badly, as the film-makers responsible seem to think 'ShakyCam™' looks more real. It doesn't. It just looks like you can't afford basics like a tripod, or that you have a camera operator who suffers from the DT's. I could not watch Cloverfield, as the shaky picture actually made me feel physically sick. All of this glut of sub filmschool level pipdribble comes from that unfrightening steaming pile of shit that ends with the shot of some bloke having a piss in a basement, The Blair Witch Project. No, I did not care for it, sir.
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