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Topic Started: Apr 23 2015, 09:05 PM (517 Views)
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Smeagollum
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Sep 26 2015, 12:38 AM
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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 Spoiler: click to toggle they'd been straight up about the twist and used that as a method to build tension or something. I mean, imagine knowing the kids are in the house with their crazy not-grandparents and waiting to see what happens?
Spoiler: click to toggle Haven't the best FF movies been the ones where you don't know everything upfront and the plot is slowly unraveled (Chronicle, Afflicted, Cloverfield)? The ones that just bank on you being scared for the characters while you wait endlessly until the last minute for something to finally happen are Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch.
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Sep 26 2015, 12:44 AM
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Forget about the bloody gods and lsiten to what I'm telling you
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- Hester Ulrich
- Sep 26 2015, 12:38 AM
- Chad Radwell
- Sep 26 2015, 12:18 AM
My main issue was the pacing, I think it would've been better if Spoiler: click to toggle they'd been straight up about the twist and used that as a method to build tension or something. I mean, imagine knowing the kids are in the house with their crazy not-grandparents and waiting to see what happens?
Spoiler: click to toggle Haven't the best FF movies been the ones where you don't know everything upfront and the plot is slowly unraveled (Chronicle, Afflicted, Cloverfield)? The ones that just bank on you being scared for the characters while you wait endlessly until the last minute for something to finally happen are Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch.
Spoiler: click to toggle True, but some of that is execution. Part of why I say that is because you'd have more freedom to do some crazy stuff with the grandparents earlier without giving things away, not to just have them chill for 89 minutes.
Plus, this was slower paced than the three you just mentioned. It wasn't PA levels, but. As said, totally needed more creepy scenes
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Smeagollum
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Sep 26 2015, 01:12 AM
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- Chad Radwell
- Sep 26 2015, 12:44 AM
- Hester Ulrich
- Sep 26 2015, 12:38 AM
- Chad Radwell
- Sep 26 2015, 12:18 AM
My main issue was the pacing, I think it would've been better if Spoiler: click to toggle they'd been straight up about the twist and used that as a method to build tension or something. I mean, imagine knowing the kids are in the house with their crazy not-grandparents and waiting to see what happens?
Spoiler: click to toggle Haven't the best FF movies been the ones where you don't know everything upfront and the plot is slowly unraveled (Chronicle, Afflicted, Cloverfield)? The ones that just bank on you being scared for the characters while you wait endlessly until the last minute for something to finally happen are Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch.
Spoiler: click to toggle True, but some of that is execution. Part of why I say that is because you'd have more freedom to do some crazy stuff with the grandparents earlier without giving things away, not to just have them chill for 89 minutes.
Plus, this was slower paced than the three you just mentioned. It wasn't PA levels, but. As said, totally needed more creepy scenes
Spoiler: click to toggle But then why wouldn't the kids contact their mom about GTFO sooner? Keeping their craziness in the realm of "oh, they're just old and have dementia" kept the plot going.
I think it helped that I had no idea what this was about going in (part of my chronic spoiler-avoiding). I'm sure the trailers made it clear the grandparents were kooks, so you were just sitting there waiting for the crazy stuff where I was getting story build-up.
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Sep 26 2015, 01:15 AM
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- Hester Ulrich
- Sep 26 2015, 01:12 AM
- Chad Radwell
- Sep 26 2015, 12:44 AM
- Hester Ulrich
- Sep 26 2015, 12:38 AM
- Chad Radwell
- Sep 26 2015, 12:18 AM
My main issue was the pacing, I think it would've been better if Spoiler: click to toggle they'd been straight up about the twist and used that as a method to build tension or something. I mean, imagine knowing the kids are in the house with their crazy not-grandparents and waiting to see what happens?
Spoiler: click to toggle Haven't the best FF movies been the ones where you don't know everything upfront and the plot is slowly unraveled (Chronicle, Afflicted, Cloverfield)? The ones that just bank on you being scared for the characters while you wait endlessly until the last minute for something to finally happen are Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch.
Spoiler: click to toggle True, but some of that is execution. Part of why I say that is because you'd have more freedom to do some crazy stuff with the grandparents earlier without giving things away, not to just have them chill for 89 minutes.
Plus, this was slower paced than the three you just mentioned. It wasn't PA levels, but. As said, totally needed more creepy scenes
Spoiler: click to toggle But then why wouldn't the kids contact their mom about GTFO sooner? Keeping their craziness in the realm of "oh, they're just old and have dementia" kept the plot going.
I think it helped that I had no idea what this was about going in (part of my chronic spoiler-avoiding). I'm sure the trailers made it clear the grandparents were kooks, so you were just sitting there waiting for the crazy stuff where I was getting story build-up. The trailers did, so that might have been a MAJOR part of it.
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Sep 28 2015, 12:19 AM
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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, 12:31 AM
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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. 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, 01:06 AM
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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.
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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Jun 18 2016, 03:10 PM
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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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Damon: im bad Andie i do things i kill people
Andie: why do you kill people
Damon: because i like it- Damon Salvatore talking to Andie Star from season 2 of the Vampire Diaries
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