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Topic Started: Apr 23 2015, 09:05 PM (517 Views)
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Chad Radwell
Sep 26 2015, 12:18 AM
My main issue was the pacing, I think it would've been better if
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Hester Ulrich
Sep 26 2015, 12:38 AM
Chad Radwell
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Chad Radwell
Sep 26 2015, 12:44 AM
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Sep 26 2015, 01:12 AM
Chad Radwell
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The trailers did, so that might have been a MAJOR part of it.
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Me, I personally think that, if they went and revealed the twist to the audience early on and only had the kids learn about it much later, this movie couldn't have worked as a conventional found footage film. The whole point of found footage is that you're restricted to the perspective of the person holding the camera, only knowing what they know. (A lot of video games work very similarly.) Honestly, it's a style that goes surprisingly well with Shyamalan's (in)famous twist endings, which is perhaps why, even knowing the twist in advance, I enjoyed the buildup to it.

There was, however, one found footage film that I saw (this year, in fact) that could've revealed the twist to the audience but not the characters, while still keeping everything from their perspective -- but unfortunately, it was one of the worst examples of the genre I've seen. I'm talking, of course, about The Gallows. In that movie, there were two cameras, and occasionally, the people holding each camera got separated, allowing us to see two very different perspectives on the same event. Of course, that movie completely squandered the potential of that idea, using it just for a few cheap scares rather than do anything even slightly interesting with it. Still, it's an idea that could've worked amazingly in a better-written film.
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Sep 28 2015, 12:19 AM
Me, I personally think that, if they went and revealed the twist to the audience early on and only had the kids learn about it much later, this movie couldn't have worked as a conventional found footage film. The whole point of found footage is that you're restricted to the perspective of the person holding the camera, only knowing what they know. (A lot of video games work very similarly.) Honestly, it's a style that goes surprisingly well with Shyamalan's (in)famous twist endings, which is perhaps why, even knowing the twist in advance, I enjoyed the buildup to it.
Yeah, there's that, too. Although I've heard some people say this shouldn't have even been found footage. Of course they say that about one of handful of FF movies where the FF aspect isn't an overbearing annoyance. I think this is the first one I've seen where there isn't the obligatory conversation about why they wont turn the camera off.
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Sep 28 2015, 12:19 AM
Me, I personally think that, if they went and revealed the twist to the audience early on and only had the kids learn about it much later, this movie couldn't have worked as a conventional found footage film. The whole point of found footage is that you're restricted to the perspective of the person holding the camera, only knowing what they know. (A lot of video games work very similarly.) Honestly, it's a style that goes surprisingly well with Shyamalan's (in)famous twist endings, which is perhaps why, even knowing the twist in advance, I enjoyed the buildup to it.
Yeah, there's that, too. Although I've heard some people say this shouldn't have even been found footage. Of course they say that about one of handful of FF movies where the FF aspect isn't an overbearing annoyance. I think this is the first one I've seen where there isn't the obligatory conversation about why they wont turn the camera off.
To be fair, I'd argue those movies shouldn't exist period
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m night movies usually are so badly written but I will eventually watch this off hbo. if I can sit thru Ulli Lommel films m night is less a challenge


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