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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:10:17 JST Rusty Crab
   The Blair Witch Project (1999)
   
   It doesn't deserve all the hate it gets. The reason people hate the ending is the same trait that made the rest of the movie well done. They showed GREAT RESTRAINT in writing and filming this and that's an aspect I've seen almost every other found footage movie fail at. It's honestly remarkable that the first one that popularized the 'found footage' thing, did it correctly and then everybody else fucked it up afterwards.
   
   And there's also a lot of creepy stuff that the camera just hand-waves right over and doesn't focus on at all. That is how it SHOULD be. Not "FREEZE FRAME REWIND PAN ZOOM IN TO MAKE SURE THE AUDIENCE SAW THE CREEPY THING OoOoOoOoOoOo BET YOU'RE SCARED AREN'T YOU".
   
   My biggest complaint is that the acting is very inconsistent. It ranges from truly genuine sounding panic to mega-ham. I'm betting the actors had their hearts in it but didn't have a whole lot of proper training for how to fake emotions that weren't pants shitting fear (they did a good job with that specifically).
   
   The dialogue doesn't particularly stand out but it's competent and believable most of the time. Some good lines here and there.
   "Was it the Wicked Witch of the West or the Wicked Witch of the East?"
   "The Wicked Witch of the West was the bad one"
   "... lets go east then"
   
   Yes. The ending was underwhelming. They could have shown the monster a LITTLE BIT.
   ... but who knows, maybe they would have fucked it up like this:
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:10:16 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Blair witch wasn't the first one though. The Last Broadcast was. Blairwitch was just a rip off that style.
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:13:59 JST Frondeur

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     @Humpleupagus @RustyCrab Blair witch also had a mass media push like I had never seen...like it was coming at you from unexpected places to hype it...with supporting documentaries etc...
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:15:21 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     It was kinda strange how hard it was pushed, but the Last Broadcast also took place primarily in the woods. Blair w
     Witch wasn't novel.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:15:46 JST Rusty Crab

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     @Frondeur @Humpleupagus I imagine that was very obnoxious at the time, but I was young enough that I missed all that. Somehow I went my whole life without significant spoilers either (except the end scene that everybody and their mother did a parody of)
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     JohnChimpo (johnchimpo@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:15:53 JST JohnChimpo

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     That’s why sold me and I remember local disc jockeys doing a great job selling it too.
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:15:59 JST Frondeur

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     @Humpleupagus @RustyCrab I had never heard of it before you just poasted it...will have to look into it...
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:16:53 JST Frondeur

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     @RustyCrab @Humpleupagus I was at just the right age for hyping things to work on me...
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:18:11 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I'm telling you not to watch The Last Broadcast. 🤨
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:18:12 JST Rusty Crab

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     @Frondeur @Humpleupagus same. Part of the reason I do these reviews is somebody always comes in and tells me what to watch next.
     
     You can't tell me what to do :hamgun:
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:19:37 JST Rusty Crab

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     @Humpleupagus I almost said "first one that did it", then deleted that and changed it to "the first that popularized it". I think that's pretty indisputable. I've never heard of The Last Broadcast.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:25:31 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Find. Eat me. 🤨
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     ㅤ (eidolon@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:25:32 JST ㅤ

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     @RustyCrab @Humpleupagus isn't Cannibal Holocaust the first found footage horror?
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 12:26:08 JST Rusty Crab

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     @eidolon @Humpleupagus maybe, but it doesn't seem to be a very popular movie. I've also seen people say it's not really horror so much as a shock/snuff film.
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