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Originally Posted by vanlutz
Two movies that were hyped up the wazoo that completely sucked were
The Blair Witch Project: How anyone could have thought this was real is beyond me. First, they were always fresh. These people were in the woods for how many days, and they never got dirty. How do you manage that? But, my favorite bit of reality was when they were running away with camera in tow. If you're being chased by a witch, bear or deliverence mountain folk, you're not going to weight yourself down with a camera.
Take away the fact this was suppose to be real, and you've got nothing.
Hostel: I don't remember how they advertised this movie except it was suppose to be the second coming of horror. The first hour was nothing by lame tits and ass with moronic frat asses. By the time the gore came, I was hoping each would die. The eye hanging out just sad.
Two of the lamest horror movies in recent years.
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The Blair Witch Project: Err...do you know how it was made? The directors got the 3 actors to camp in the woods, and were told they would get scared over the few days. They would find food left for them at certain places, as the days went on the directors gave them less food and made more scary noises during the night so that the actors started to get very hungry and tired.
This meant that a lot of their acting was in fact them being real, getting annoyed at each over because of sleep deprivation and hunger, even their reactions to being frightened was real. When you go to a haunted house amusement the staff that jump out on you scare you even though you know its not real. Or when you played hide and seek in the woods or something with your friends, you know its not real but if they jump out on you it will scare you. Thats much the same way the actors were being scared, they knew it was the directors but they didnt know how or when the directors would be scaring them - they just stayed in character of pretending it was a witch or whatever.
People thought it was real because it was hyped and rumoured by the directors on the internet before its release, making out as though it was a real film. I think when people went to see it in the cinema though, they realised it wasnt real. Considering their movie budget was that of a car, I think they did a good job. To me though, it was more like a very good grade at a film studies class, rather than a box office hit.
The Hostel: Not sure how to discuss your feelings on this one, your reasons arent great or substantial enough to give a good discussion back. You just seem to be TELLING us it was lame, rather than giving coherent reasons why.