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Post by Tweek on Sept 22, 2018 16:48:34 GMT -6
Best bits. From here to the end. You could skip the rest and be fine.
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Post by Anarchist86ed on Sept 25, 2018 11:57:53 GMT -6
2 years on, what are your thoughts?
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Post by brandedrick on Oct 9, 2018 0:49:34 GMT -6
I watched it the weekend it came out. I dont remember too much of my experience but these girls giggling behind me and screaming over little things (the awful sound design making jump scares). The one time I felt uneasy was when somebody was taking a leak and hears some sort of laughing(?) and it was weird. The house is when everybody in the theater learned to shut the hell up. The house was the only redeeming part of the film. It still is when I watched it again the other week. I have the blu ray on the way to hear the audio commentary.
I did recently read Wingard asked why they haven't been making any more BW movies and its a little silly in my opinion to ask that. I believe there will always be an ending point. There are some films / TV shows that dont need a continuation. Its like when people were happy for the Harry Potter stage play and everyone ended up hating it. Not the play just the plot being very stupid. 2016 could have been so much better if it weren't for the awful sound design and people screaming in each other's ear to make jump scares. THats my take.
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Post by Heather, taking a piss. on Oct 9, 2018 1:08:36 GMT -6
The cheap jump scares and noisy creature are still a bit much.
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Post by Tweek on Oct 9, 2018 3:01:02 GMT -6
The house was the best part.
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Post by Monrozombi on Oct 9, 2018 14:05:39 GMT -6
i've noticed when old school BWP fans talk about not liking BW16 its almost like they take personal offense to the film and each time they talk about its like the film walked into their home and told them their children were ugly. Its comical and i can't figure out why.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 9, 2018 14:12:57 GMT -6
Perhaps because it pounded the final nail into the series' coffin?
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 9, 2018 15:41:29 GMT -6
Not an old school BWP fan, but I probably dislike it as much as any other detractor does. As I said in another thread, if you removed the family-relation part and simply replaced it with, say, these kids' fascination with a creepy video shot in the woods, BW16 would be a failed reboot of TBWP instead of just a failed 'sequel'. There really wasn't enough there to make it a worthwhile movie. While I liked that it expanded on the mythology when the focus was on that, that alone wasn't enough to give it a fighting chance of being an enjoyable flick. None of the characters felt like they had much depth or personality whatsoever aside from James, and the only thing that (barely) made him relatable was the want/need to find a lost sibling. One of the things I found quite funny about BW16 was that is pretty much obliterated the belief that the witch/evil/presence only stirs every 40 or so years (or was it supposed to be 50? or 60?) to wreck havoc in some way. Come to think of it, was that mythology originally from the film or did it come from one of the many offshoots that sprung up after it took the world by storm?
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 15, 2018 14:21:38 GMT -6
Every fifty to sixty years is from Curse of the Blair Witch. So yes .. they obliterated that.
Book of Shadows did the same, except that it's supposedly in the real world while The Blair Witch Project was supposedly only based upon the supposedly existing mythology surrounding that area.
again .. supposedly.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 15, 2018 17:45:47 GMT -6
Every fifty to sixty years is from Curse of the Blair Witch. So yes .. they obliterated that. Book of Shadows did the same, except that it's supposedly in the real world while The Blair Witch Project was supposedly only based upon the supposedly existing mythology surrounding that area. again .. supposedly. Thanks for the clarification. I remember that that was one of the reasons (again: one of, not the only) why people ripped on BoS after it first came out, because it was 'insulting to the mythology', yet mum's the word when Blair Witch did the exact same thing, and it is set in the same universe. . . . Okay, to be fair, maybe people ripped on BW2016 for the same thing. I didn't pay much attention to reviews and the like, wanting to watch the movie without having anything persuade me one way or the other aside from the quality of the film overall. After the disappointment it turned out to be, I then just didn't care to read reviews/lengthy opinions full stop.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 16, 2018 13:47:21 GMT -6
Well, I just had a thought.
Seeing as how the mythology within the area is real in Book of Shadows, yet The Blair Witch Project wasn't real ... that would mean Book of Shadows didn't actually break the 50 to 60 year rule after all.
Book of Shadows simply replaces The Blair Witch Project in the mythology's timeline.
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Post by Tweek on Oct 20, 2018 7:15:38 GMT -6
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Post by Tweek on Oct 20, 2018 17:18:28 GMT -6
For those who didn't buy the blu ray. Or didn't bother to watch the extras.
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Post by ghostprints on Oct 20, 2018 17:56:39 GMT -6
I have it. Just never watched it. I will now. Thanx.
Two-thirds of the movie should have been inside that house with only the first 1/3 spent getting there.
Perhaps if we'd spent the last 2/3 of the movie with the characters lost in different strange places of that house, each experiencing their own uniquely strange experiences, they would have been remotely interesting.
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Post by stevens25 on Jun 19, 2019 22:31:44 GMT -6
I have to be honest,at least for myself the Blair witch series is 1/3. The 1999 original is a classic. It's the only film I've ever seen,still to this day,that's ever truly scared me. A brilliant and creepy film. Book of shadows was bad,but I do give them credit for trying to do something different with the series. And from what I've read and seen,Blair witch 2 was pretty much ruined by(big shocker!)studio interference. So,it probably was a much better movie before the studio got involved. And 2016's Blair witch? I'm sorry,but for me this was the worst. There were some cool ideas as far as the Blair witch herself was concerned,but the film overall just seems like a shallow,slick and loud remake of the original. The movie was like,80% jump scares and loud noises/screaming. I would've much rather have had a prequel showing the origin of Elly herself. Now I wonder if we'll ever get another movie since the last were pretty much flops.
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Post by geraniumkate on Jun 21, 2019 13:40:07 GMT -6
I have to be honest,at least for myself the Blair witch series is 1/3. The 1999 original is a classic. It's the only film I've ever seen,still to this day,that's ever truly scared me. A brilliant and creepy film. Book of shadows was bad,but I do give them credit for trying to do something different with the series. And from what I've read and seen,Blair witch 2 was pretty much ruined by(big shocker!)studio interference. So,it probably was a much better movie before the studio got involved. And 2016's Blair witch? I'm sorry,but for me this was the worst. There were some cool ideas as far as the Blair witch herself was concerned,but the film overall just seems like a shallow,slick and loud remake of the original. The movie was like,80% jump scares and loud noises/screaming. I would've much rather have had a prequel showing the origin of Elly herself. Now I wonder if we'll ever get another movie since the last were pretty much flops. I do urge you to give Elly Kedward herself a peek. Courtesy of our very own Dan.
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Post by stevens25 on Jun 21, 2019 18:49:26 GMT -6
I have to be honest,at least for myself the Blair witch series is 1/3. The 1999 original is a classic. It's the only film I've ever seen,still to this day,that's ever truly scared me. A brilliant and creepy film. Book of shadows was bad,but I do give them credit for trying to do something different with the series. And from what I've read and seen,Blair witch 2 was pretty much ruined by(big shocker!)studio interference. So,it probably was a much better movie before the studio got involved. And 2016's Blair witch? I'm sorry,but for me this was the worst. There were some cool ideas as far as the Blair witch herself was concerned,but the film overall just seems like a shallow,slick and loud remake of the original. The movie was like,80% jump scares and loud noises/screaming. I would've much rather have had a prequel showing the origin of Elly herself. Now I wonder if we'll ever get another movie since the last were pretty much flops. I do urge you to give Elly Kedward herself a peek. Courtesy of our very own Dan. Very cool! Thanks!
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