Don't believe the hype!
Film hype. It's a pain in the arse, really. I try not to get sucked in by it (and I STILL haven't been to see the Dark Knight, despite really wanting to); I like to make my own mind up about these things. However, a few years ago I allowed myself to be reeled in and spat out by the movie-marketing machine thanks to:

- An internet marketing ploy;
- Extremely good 'word of mouth' reviews;
- Generally good reviews in the press (they surely can't be wrong, can they)?;
- And the killer consensus that this was surely 'the scariest film ever made'.

And so it was that, armed with a bucket of popcorn and a change of underwear, I went off to my local multiplex, ready to be entertained, thrilled, scared witless, and quite possibly do a Pooflake and spectacularly shit myself...

I emerged a bit later feeling nauseous, but not in an 'oh my god that was pant-shittingly scary' way. No, the hand held camera work had done that all on its own. I also felt a bit conned by the whole experience. Scary? I've been more scared taking the bins out... (then again, it was a 15 certificate - in retrospect I should have realised).

So I endured about 80 minutes of three unknown 'actors' pretending to make a documentary in some woods in America; being generally unpleasant to each other as the 'film' wore on; and waiting to be scared like I'd never been scared before. Only to leave with a crushing sense of (a) disappointment and (b) that I may have to do a little sick into my popcorn bucket.

Blair Witch Project, I'm looking at you. You utter waste of celluloid.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:15, 9 replies)

"Nothing's happening....


Nothing's happening...


Nothing's happening.


It's finished.


A lot of people look pretty pissed."

_{See The Dark Knight. It owns!}
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:23, closed)

My overriding memory of that pile of tripe,
other than the camera shaking induced nausea, is of a close up of some marshmallows in a supermarket and the person behind the camera doing a Homer Simpson impression.

Scary.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:31, closed)

I was so stoned
when I saw this

it gave me motion sickness, had to watch the film with head on one side and one eye shut

the only scary thing about it was that it was so fucking shit
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:37, closed)

I made a point
of not watching it.

Every time I read something about it I'm more convinced that I'll never watch it.
( Moey, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:51, closed)

Followed by the sequel....
CLOVERFIELD!


when will they learn......
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:58, closed)

^^
Yep, you could tell it came from the no-there's-no-actual-conclusion-or-followable-plot stable as Lost, couldn't you?
(JohabMorelli is spenging merrily away, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 13:04, closed)

I love the post apocalyptic genre
Mad max, Z for Zacharia, 28 Days Later - Brilliant

I am Legend - YOU FUCKING SUCK.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 13:30, closed)

I too
like post-apocalyptic fiction
I didn't go to see I Am Legend because I felt it would be a let down, am glad I didn't go now.
I also didn't see BWP as all my mates said it was shit, which seems to be the consensus.
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 13:42, closed)

I am Legend
would have been passable if they'd kept the original ending.

It's on Youtube somewhere - it at least shows the movie was trying to get the point of the book across rather than merely being the vapid popcorn fodder it turned out to be in the final edit...
(dxg, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 14:37, closed)