blair witch project: scary?

[poopaskoopa]

Kinda scared me. But more than that, the movie had me sick from motion sickness. I couldn't drive after the movie for 20 mins, and that annoyed the date quite a bit. I remember that more than anything.

 

[LookingGlass]

Not bad, because it was different, no one had done something like that before.

One thing that was annoying as hell, the dialogue. *What the f**k is that! What the f** is that. Almost every other sentence was that. :roll:

 

[weirdichi]

Scary that people can sit through that crap and still not barf.

 

[EvilYoda]

Wow, a lot of haters...luckily the rest of America didn't think so. I remember the buzz when the movie first came out and the packed theater that I saw it in...what an experience. I didn't try to be mr. tough guy and not let anything scare me...I let my defenses down and loved it.

And film-wise, what a great job...minimal script and budget and look at the bank they made. The behind the scenes story are great for aspiring movie-makers...AMC just recently did a special on it for their "Movies That Shook The World" series.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Wow, a lot of haters...luckily the rest of America didn't think so. I remember the buzz when the movie first came out and the packed theater that I saw it in...what an experience. I didn't try to be mr. tough guy and not let anything scare me...I let my defenses down and loved it.

And film-wise, what a great job...minimal script and budget and look at the bank they made. The behind the scenes story are great for aspiring movie-makers...AMC just recently did a special on it for their "Movies That Shook The World" series.

I heard about how "scary" it was, and went to the theater expecting to be scared out of my mind. Instead I sat there the entire time thinking, "This has got to get scary any time now. Everyone said it was scary, so I'm sure it's going to get scary. OK, I'm sure it's coming now, it's going to get scary." Then it was over, nothing scary happened, and I had a headache. It sucked.

The only reason this movie did was well as it did was because of the huge marketing campaign.

 

[EvilYoda]

Right..."huge" marketing campaign. They started the website because they hardly had a budget...after Artisan bought the rights, they pumped a lot of money into the ad budget, sure...but if you think back to the movie's release, advertising was largely done by word of mouth and media coverage, not billboards and tv spots.

There is no possible way that movie would have been successful if the viewers didn't like it.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Right..."huge" marketing campaign. They started the website because they hardly had a budget...after Artisan bought the rights, they pumped a lot of money into the ad budget, sure...but if you think back to the movie's release, advertising was largely done by word of mouth and media coverage, not billboards and tv spots.

There is no possible way that movie would have been successful if the viewers didn't like it.

It was a rather large campaign, not advertising blitz like we're used to with today's major feature films, but a large bit of viral and "buzz" marketing. I remember the website, then they released a "documentary," a comic book, a fake investigation book, etc. It started with them pushing it as if it was a real tape, and it building from there.

The "buzz" advertising (website out months before the film, usenet posts, etc) they used for the film was brilliant, and worked great, but the movie itself was horrible. I'm sorry, that movie sucked, and there is nothing you could say that would make me change my mind. If it was some student film that I just watched at some dude's house, I would have been sort of impressed. Being that I paid a feature film price, and listened to months of hype before I saw it, it sucked. I went into that movie expecting it to be good, and it wasn't. When it first came out, it lived on that "Could it be real?" hype. Once the cat was out of the bag, it was just a boring moving involving three nimrods lost in the woods saying "f this" and "f that."

And yes, it is possible for a movie to be successful if a lot of people don't like it. I had two friends see it, and they liked it and told me I just had to go see it. So the next day I went and saw it with another friend. We both hated it. I'm sure that tale was repeated many times throughout the world.

 

[mundane]

I really enjoyed it. Having spent much of my youth in the woods, many of the scenes struck a chord with me, especially those being in the wilderness at night. It can be a very tranquil place, but with a little imagination and some paranoia, it can be frightening.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Not in any way shape or form scary.

It was one of the worst halfassed films I've ever seen, if not the worst, and I've seen a LOT of crappy b-movies over the years.

 

[Shadowknight]

Scary the first time I saw it. One of my favorite movies, something like that could happen in real life. I had a psych teacher who knew an FBI agent who said stuff like that happens a lot more than you think. My teacher tried to get him drunk so he would tell more about the cases he worked on, but he was smart enough to stay sober and keep his lips zipped. When I saw it, I literally knew nothing about it. They were playing it at the school theater for a buck, had nothing else to do. Good movie. It helped that I didn't expect anything; I think some people hated it because they were expecting "the scariest movie evar". Besides, 90% of horror flicks are more along the lines of slasher flicks, as opposed to "scary" movies.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Right..."huge" marketing campaign. They started the website because they hardly had a budget...after Artisan bought the rights, they pumped a lot of money into the ad budget, sure...but if you think back to the movie's release, advertising was largely done by word of mouth and media coverage, not billboards and tv spots.

There is no possible way that movie would have been successful if the viewers didn't like it.

It was a rather large campaign, not advertising blitz like we're used to with today's major feature films, but a large bit of viral and "buzz" marketing. I remember the website, then they released a "documentary," a comic book, a fake investigation book, etc. It started with them pushing it as if it was a real tape, and it building from there.

The "buzz" advertising (website out months before the film, usenet posts, etc) they used for the film was brilliant, and worked great, but the movie itself was horrible. I'm sorry, that movie sucked, and there is nothing you could say that would make me change my mind. If it was some student film that I just watched at some dude's house, I would have been sort of impressed. Being that I paid a feature film price, and listened to months of hype before I saw it, it sucked. I went into that movie expecting it to be good, and it wasn't. When it first came out, it lived on that "Could it be real?" hype. Once the cat was out of the bag, it was just a boring moving involving three nimrods lost in the woods saying "f this" and "f that."

And yes, it is possible for a movie to be successful if a lot of people don't like it. I had two friends see it, and they liked it and told me I just had to go see it. So the next day I went and saw it with another friend. We both hated it. I'm sure that tale was repeated many times throughout the world.

I wasn't trying to convince you that it was a good movie...I don't even think it was that good, and I'm not the kind of person to try to have you change your mind. And I didn't say that it couldn't be successful if a lot of people didn't like it. 😉

It was a student film, essentially...I knew what to expect and that was not a masterfully filmed, written and scored piece, but rather an ingenius idea that wasn't like any other movie before it.

anyway, blah...I don't even care about the movie that much 😛