The Blair Witch Project
"The Blair Witch Project", written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, with Heather Donahue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard. MPAA Rating R for language. Run time 82 minutes. It just seems longer.
Every few years, a moovie comes along that is so fresh, imaginative and compelling that the world has no choice but to sit up and take notice. "The Blair Witch Project" IS NOT such a masterpiece. Ha, ha, ha , ho, ho, hee hee. "The Blair Witch Project" simply has to be some sort of ongoing wager between moovie executives; an attempt to show off Liza Doolittle at the cotillion, just to see if the American moovie going public is gullible enough to bite.
Answer: Yes, Professor Higgins, you win - we bit. The buzz surrounding this moovie was so outlandish and obvious in its purpose of selling us a bill of goods, that I'm surprised that no one has gotten around to suing the producers for false and misleading advertising. If you'd like to present some sort of class action, count me in.
The basic premise of "The Blair Witch Project" puts three student filmmakers out in the boonies with a Hi-8 video camera, a 16mm cine camera loaded with black and white, a DAT deck for sound, and six tons of alkaline batteries - their purpose being to document a long-standing myth concerning the disappearance and death of numbers of children near the rural Maryland town of Burkitsville. In the process of filming this masterpiece, the three students are terrified by an unseen menace that stalks them at night, but who at least leaves them little craft projects as presents once and awhile. The three are never heard from again, and only the discovered footage of their collective nightmare remains.
Actually, the making of "The Blair Witch Project" was an imaginative use of the medium - the actors shot all the footage, and received only a brief sketch of the mythology surrounding the plot before production began. As filming progressed, the actors were part of the plot, with no advance notice of the events that were to effect their characters - most, if not all the dialogue was improvisation. This is a problem.
If I had more time to kill, I'd go back and see "The Blair Witch Project" with clicker in hand, to count how many times any form of the word "F***" is used. It has to be uttered at every turn, and I would guess my clicker would tote up a couple hundred F-words. My father was fond of saying that "Profanity is the effort of the feeble mind to express itself forcefully." If you're going to let your actors write the script on the fly, make sure they have some skill in improv, and that they can speak English. F*****' A, dad!
The rest is just pure boredom. Night after night of screaming, cussing ranting film students, lost in the woods with a seemingly endless supply of batteries, but without enough good sense to hang a GPS off one of their belts.
I'm sorry I wasted my time watching this crap. These people deserved to die.
Cows? Go stand in the corner.
Every few years, a moovie comes along that is so fresh, imaginative and compelling that the world has no choice but to sit up and take notice. "The Blair Witch Project" IS NOT such a masterpiece. Ha, ha, ha , ho, ho, hee hee. "The Blair Witch Project" simply has to be some sort of ongoing wager between moovie executives; an attempt to show off Liza Doolittle at the cotillion, just to see if the American moovie going public is gullible enough to bite.
Answer: Yes, Professor Higgins, you win - we bit. The buzz surrounding this moovie was so outlandish and obvious in its purpose of selling us a bill of goods, that I'm surprised that no one has gotten around to suing the producers for false and misleading advertising. If you'd like to present some sort of class action, count me in.
The basic premise of "The Blair Witch Project" puts three student filmmakers out in the boonies with a Hi-8 video camera, a 16mm cine camera loaded with black and white, a DAT deck for sound, and six tons of alkaline batteries - their purpose being to document a long-standing myth concerning the disappearance and death of numbers of children near the rural Maryland town of Burkitsville. In the process of filming this masterpiece, the three students are terrified by an unseen menace that stalks them at night, but who at least leaves them little craft projects as presents once and awhile. The three are never heard from again, and only the discovered footage of their collective nightmare remains.
Actually, the making of "The Blair Witch Project" was an imaginative use of the medium - the actors shot all the footage, and received only a brief sketch of the mythology surrounding the plot before production began. As filming progressed, the actors were part of the plot, with no advance notice of the events that were to effect their characters - most, if not all the dialogue was improvisation. This is a problem.
If I had more time to kill, I'd go back and see "The Blair Witch Project" with clicker in hand, to count how many times any form of the word "F***" is used. It has to be uttered at every turn, and I would guess my clicker would tote up a couple hundred F-words. My father was fond of saying that "Profanity is the effort of the feeble mind to express itself forcefully." If you're going to let your actors write the script on the fly, make sure they have some skill in improv, and that they can speak English. F*****' A, dad!
The rest is just pure boredom. Night after night of screaming, cussing ranting film students, lost in the woods with a seemingly endless supply of batteries, but without enough good sense to hang a GPS off one of their belts.
I'm sorry I wasted my time watching this crap. These people deserved to die.
Cows? Go stand in the corner.
