That said, I'll give you the fact that the website tie-in was clever. But dammit, there was nothing going on in that film.

Point 1: It looked cheap. I thought the point of a low budget movie or this contest for that matter, is to be cheap, but not LOOK cheap.

Point 2: Plot? Hello...that film could have been 30 minutes it could have been 3 hours. Since it's just home movies it could have conceivably gone on forever. There is no clever dialogue, no character ark, and no plot.

Point 3: Scary? HELL NO!!! If I was in a cabin alone at night with just this movie playing I wouldn't be scared. Who the hell thought this thing was real anyway? Did you know that some morons went out on a search party to look for the lost kids?

Point 4: Could it have won Project Greenlight on screenplay alone? I think you know the answer to that one. The Blair Witch Project does give me hope though, if THAT can make money, we're all in good shape.

Obviously, people held this to a lower standard because they knew that it was done by a couple of guys who raised the money themselves.

Sorta like Chris Rock said, "if you're playing one on one with a retarded guy, you can't call him for double dribble... sometimes you gotta let a few things slide."

If people had seen this, thinking it was a major studio release, I doubt anybody, anywhere, would have found a positive thing to say about it.

I thought it was just flat-out bad. It fell into the category of, "good for a movie made by kids with no money.. bad by any other standard."

Which leads me to another topic: I really, really respect the guys who made the movie. Granted, I thought the movie was terrible, but these guys took the initiative, went out and did something, and in the end (I presume) made both money and a career for themselves.

But should we laud people for taking the initiative to make trash?

The dialogue and the horror had a lot in common. They were obvious and spontaneous. Reality is boring; that's why the stage has always been built a few feet above the audience. Listening to these acting hacks take a break from their 'Silk Stalkings' auditions to wax repetitive about their situation was about as interesting as a wiretap on a public phone. Listening to the thing felt at best like I was passing time.
The horror, climaxless. Its only goal, mood. If I want to feel creepy, I can listen to a Spooky Sounds CD. I think I may go camping tomorrow and film my own sequel. Requisite: a flashlight, some rocks, sticks, twine, and a frat boy with a bad buzz and worse sense of humor.

i just wanted to tell the blair witch where the three of them were so she could get to them faster and the movie would be over.

i will say, the concept was good. the story was definitley scary. it would have made a much better book than a movie.

(PS - Who was holding the camera in some of those scenes?)

"They said Blair Witch was made for $40,000... you know what that means...

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Originally posted by ubio:
At the risk of being flamed to death, I gotta say I HATED THE FREAKING BLAIR WITCH PROJECT!!!!

That said, I'll give you the fact that the website tie-in was clever. But dammit, there was nothing going on in that film.

Point 1: It looked cheap. I thought the point of a low budget movie or this contest for that matter, is to be cheap, but not LOOK cheap.

Point 2: Plot? Hello...that film could have been 30 minutes it could have been 3 hours. Since it's just home movies it could have conceivably gone on forever. There is no clever dialogue, no character ark, and no plot.

Point 3: Scary? HELL NO!!! If I was in a cabin alone at night with just this movie playing I wouldn't be scared. Who the hell thought this thing was real anyway? Did you know that some morons went out on a search party to look for the lost kids?

Point 4: Could it have won Project Greenlight on screenplay alone? I think you know the answer to that one. The Blair Witch Project does give me hope though, if THAT can make money, we're all in good shape.

PS: Did I mention the shaky camera?

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I was physicaly ill attempting to watch The Blair Witch Project which had worse camera work than a drunken 4 year old would produce.

I kept praying that it would turn into a typical slasher film and Heather would get her head separated from her "soul". After 50 plus minutes of her whining about being lost and some idiot confessing to throwing away the map, we're supposed to be afraid? I'd be more afraid of home videos made by the Scooby gang than that motley crew of three hopeless half-wits - and that's including the time they ran into the Adams' family...

Myself? It scared the crap outta me due to some nightmares I have. It evoked that terrified feeling you get when you wake in the middle of the night thinking you heard a noise... Maybe somebody is in the other room! Your eyes are bleary and it dark and you desparately need to SEE! Your breathing is shallow and you try to hear over the blood rushing in your ears...

Don't have to be in the woods to get THAT feeling!

On the technical side, the jarring camera motions were a bit much and they coulda cut down the length in the middle by not having quite so many "nights in the woods" segments. Other than that I thought it was a good telling of a good ol' fashioned campfire ghost story!

And the ignorant shall...rule the earth?

That said: I think the intent behind the really poor camera work and dialogue in BW was to make us realize that it was supposed to be being shot by amateurs...but you don't have to get your point across by beating the audience over the head with the messege.

AND...NOTICE THE CAPS TO STRESS THE POINT...
in real life sudent film makers out to shoot a doc who go out of their way to make their
student film look as professional as possible.

This phony POV can't work under these circumstances. What would have been believable would be for someone to have found amateur cam tapes left by some city tourists or some inexperienced hikers with a cam.

Despite the first one's mixed reviews, I can honestly say I will see the next one. It may be out of curiousity, it may be out of temporary insanity, but come it's opening day, my ass will be in one of the theatre seats.

I'll say it again (I've had many arguments about this topic), the only thing that killed this movie was the HYPE.

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My cousin has already written a screenplay for Blair Witch 2, where kids are stalked in the woods and if they're caught, they have to watch the Blair Witch movie.

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Just the notion that BW was released does not give me hope it scares the hell out me, beacsue if the people making the desions can't see crap when it's dumped on their desk then the real filmmakers like me are deep shit.

BW only made money because everyone including myself were fooled into thinking it was something different when it was only a master minded marketing campain.

Just the notion that BW was released does not give me hope it scares the hell out me, beacsue if the people making the desions can't see crap when it's dumped on their desk then the real filmmakers like me are in deep shit.

BW only made money because everyone including myself were fooled into thinking it was something different when it was only a master minded marketing campain.