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I don't like this movie at all, minus the Creepy House scene, but I do love the way it was filmed. Basically, for the four people who don't know this story, the reason the actors so realistically protrayed three filmmakers who got lost and were hungry and tired and were tormented by crazy poo poo in the middle of the night is because the directors basically took them out in the woods and got them lost and starved them and shook the tent and played creepy noises in the middle of the night and literally kidnapped Josh out of the tent in the middle of the night. When they wake up and he's gone? They do not know what happened to him. That's not acting. I like to call it the Kubrick school of filmmaking and it's DOPE.
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penismightier posted:...why? It was a joke that made more sense when I typed it at 1:30 in the morning after working all day in the middle of a six-day week.
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Oct 28, 2014 06:44
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penismightier posted:Paranormal Activity beat it, which cost a little less (15k). There's a long tradition for horror movies holding that title, it used to be Halloween. When heather throws away the bundle with teeth and shirt scraps or whatever and goes back for it that's because she didn't actually know what it was and was just freaked out. They had to tell her to go back for it
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Oct 28, 2014 20:58
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Is Curse available on youtube or anything? I'd love to watch it, but I don't really want to buy the DVD (since I have the movie on VHS, the only proper way to watch footage of people stumblind lost through the woods before they die).
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Oct 31, 2014 16:43
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zVxTeflon posted:but thats 1/50th of a piece of poo poo robot toy he could buy instead Alternately I own the movie and I don't want to spend five dollars for a special feature on a DVD I plan on watching exactly never. Also this is a bad post!
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Oct 31, 2014 21:32
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precision posted:The woods distorting space isn't even necessarily presumed, because nobody could possibly be so lost they couldn't find their way back to a road in three days time in the Black Hills Forest. Look at it on Google Maps, at any point in there you're only a mile or two from a road. That means if they walked in one direction for even two hours they would have hit a road, let alone the 18 hours or whatever they mention at one point. A movie about ghosts not conforming exactly to reality? Get out. Who cares if the ghost kept them lost and the Magic Woods distorted time and space? Who cares? I think it's loving scarier if they were just hopelessly lost idiots and then also they got hosed with by a ghost, adn it's two separate and unrelated things. Why do we need to explain poo poo away as "it was the ghost keeping them lost and also they went BACK IN TIME"? Jesus Christ.
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Nov 3, 2014 07:32
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Avril Lavigne posted:I think Mike and Josh kept themselves lost on purpose, including Mike getting rid of the map. Once Heather was mentally and physically worn down enough, Josh disappeared to the Parr house and drew Mike & Heather there with his cries, eliminating any need to convince Heather to go inside such a creepy place following all these other disturbing events. Then Mike willingly stood in the corner while Josh sacrificed Heather, Rustin Parr style, as they'd planned all along. This is loving stupid. Mister J posted:Hey SMG you should check out "The Burkittsville 7" if you haven't already: http://vimeo.com/59334058 This is dope.
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Nov 4, 2014 08:03
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Nipplebox posted:Josh as murderer, with varying degrees of cooperation from the others, is a common theory. It's still really stupid. I'm not disputing that people are idiots who want to ~solve the movie~ like it's a puzzle, I'm saying it's loving stupid.
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Nov 4, 2014 20:16
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a kitten posted:It's really stupid to think that people will watch a movie like this and not want to talk and wonder about what happened Also not what I'm disputing. I'm saying all these fan theories that are trying to explain what happened are asinine because they miss the point: The movie's scary because, for as real as everything appears to be, there's something very Wrong going on, something inexplicable that is loving with these kids, and that's what makes it scary. That's why trying to explain it is stupid, it misses the point. It's some CinemaSins level film discussion and I hate it and everyone who defends it. BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Nov 4, 2014 20:23
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Nipplebox posted:You have normal reactions to things people do. You make garbage posts defending stupid bullshit without managing to have the nuts to actually do so, resorting to pass agg bullshit instead, because it's safer to go "nuh uh it's fine" than to talk about why you treat movies like puzzles to be solved. Blow me, junior.
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Nov 4, 2014 21:49
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Hbomberguy posted:It's a very fine line, really. Found Footage Films challenge you to try to solve them, or at least leave you mystified and feeling like you're missing something. That's their entire appeal. There's a certain amount of fun in seeing people trying to make sense of them, and some of them really do have explanations that you can discover if you pay attention, and it's kind of rewarding to figure it out. This on the other hand is a good response and I agree with all the stuff in it.
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Nov 4, 2014 21:51
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Nipplebox posted:Treating the film as moving shapes of light with no meaning beyond the visceral misses the point. Like any good ghost story, it isn't explicitly supernatural, and its ambiguity spurs the imaginations of the audience. It's not about solving a puzzle but comparing the horrors we see in the dark woods. I see a supernatural time warp; others see an elaborate snuff film. Also not a thing I'm arguing. You should work on your literacy skills. Also if your idea of deeper meaning is arguing over whether or not they went back in time or if Josh did it then I question your idea of deeper meaning. BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Nov 5, 2014 00:12
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Nipplebox posted:You're bad at this. Says the guy who only makes a point half of the time. Come on bro, defend labeling fan theorize that only attempt to recast the events of the plot as deeper meaning. Do it. I wanna see it.
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Nov 5, 2014 02:34
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computer parts posted:There's an episode of Supernatural which parodies the "ghost hunter" shows and features a creature that's literally born out of people's imaginations. X-Files did it as an episode of COPS that was filmed with an actual COPS film crew.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:25
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penismightier posted:So SMG, as a found footage fan, (and everyone else for that matter) do you think any of the later ones are as good Blair Witch? I mean I don't particularly think Blair Witch is that great as a movie to watch as opposed to being a neat thing to discuss for how ground breaking it was, but I've always thought Paranormal Activity is neck and neck with it, but only the original. I like the idea of the camera being the downfall, and suburban nightmares in the form of a demon is way more interesting toe than Ghost Woods even if the Ghost House scene is my favorite short horror film ever.
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Nov 5, 2014 05:10
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:You already know what my answer would be, if i had to pick one. Bonestorm?
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Nov 5, 2014 18:17
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Nipplebox posted:Not interested in defending "thinking about a movie," but I'd love to discuss time-warping ghosts. Fuckyou man. You know exactly what I meant, don't add being an obtuse rear end in a top hat to being a passive aggressive one, particularly if you're trying to claim some sort of high ground over me.
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