Who actually liked The Blair Witch Project?

[Krossroads]

I am very curious to know who liked this terrible movie & why?

It was not only boring (I fast forward threw some parts where they were arguing which was basically the whole movie) & not in the least bit entertained. The only thing I liked was at the end where you see the guy standing in the corner, but not showing any kills or even the Blair Witch itself was stupid.

And yes I know this came out in 1999 but I just finally saw it for the first time since I heard it was so bad. I just had to see for myself.

[ClarkParker]

I liked it.

[Grind_]

i liked it too ther was some fing about it that i just liked

mybe it was the fact that u never saw the blair witch so to had ur imginnation which i think its a good factor

[MetalMan713]

I really enjoyed it.
What made it great is that the filmmakers took time to build up on just what the BW looked like.
Yes, she was never seen.
Yes, the camera work was much too shaky.
Yes, the "cast" was whiny and shallow - However . . .
When I saw this one in a packed theater - no one breathed during the last 15 minutes of the flick.
Again, the ambiguity of what was just shown on the screen stayed with me for several days.
Yes - I know the BW is fake - but the mental reflection of "could this have really happened?" really drove it over - the SciFi Channel MockDoc on BW (which I had seen the night before) helped a lot.

[Krossroads]

Ok, thanx. I know people liked it but I just didnt see what was good about it.

The shaky camera, the acting & other things didnt bother me. What bothered me was the entertainment value. I layed on my bed watching this & the entire time I thought I was going to fall asleep but I stayed awake waiting for something to happen. There was way too much of them fighting. Its like, I understand they're mad at each other now move on. It was built up great but the end result was weak.

And lastly, some things were just over the top ridiculous.

Example:

How did they get lost so badly? If you just go in any direction & keep going, after a while your gonna be out. But they were too busy fighting like idiots. & the one guy thought it was funny that he got rid of the map.

I can believe a girl wanting to get everything on camera but at 1 point while fighting, one of the guys is holding the camera. Why would he be filming them fighting since he didnt want it on? Or even be filming a fight at all for that matter.

Ok, Im done. I guess that was more of a rant but whatever.

[MetalMan713]

Sidenote: What was (really) good about it was that Haxan made the film for under $100,000.00 then sold it to Artisan for 2 mil (Artisan liked it but didn't think that they wouldn't make that much money off of it - then movie suprised them all by grossing $100 mil plus). From a business end BW was a win-win - money and creative-wise.
Mostly BW was like watching a middle part of the movie - the beginning was brief and the end was sketchy.
Another Sidenote: knowing that the terror the actors was feeling was real. The filmmakers sent them on a prescribed path and hired a ex-special forces guy (who specialized in mind messing exercises) who would harrass them at night.

The actors had two basic rules in the movie:
1. follow the path and react to the situation at hand
2. film everything - no matter what happened.

Another Sidenote: the filmmakers had to produce all 3 actors in court to prove to the judge that they were indeed alive.

Bottom line - all of the above (and more), including it's Marketing of it, is what I think is good about the flick and how a piddling - flimsy scripted video/film became a part of pop culture.
:o)

[Krossroads]

thats true & great I guess but almost all of that really has anything to do with the actual movie & if it was good or not.

[Dark_Stream]

Loved it. I thought the cheap look brought an element of reality to it. I've passed through the town in the movie - its about a 20 second drive.

[Reno]

The first film, all it was is a couple of kids lost in a park that's it...but it was a good watch, the second I own which is way better then the first film.

[Snatchtastic]

The first film all it was is a couple of kids lost in a park that's it...but it was a good watch
the second I own which is way better then the first film.

And this children is why we say "NO" to drugs.

[ClarkParker]

I heard the second movie was terrible.

[Snatchtastic]

Sometimes people like to be spoon fed the fear with a visual of *for this case* the Blair Witch yet what this film offers is the psychological fear of not knowing what is out in the woods.

The feel of being helplessly lost and running out of food and knowing that there is something IN the woods that's stalking you is enough to make me shit myself.

[Krossroads]

I heard the second movie was terrible.

Im not even going to bother. But I do know that its completely different. Since its not shot as a documentary look like this one was.

[solidhutch50]

Yea I liked the first one. except for the snot shot. The second one is gay snatch is rite you gotta be high to enjoy the sequel. I got a better idea. watch teletubbies while high. You'll think that damn sun actually has a face. lol..... oh wait......

[CinematicBeauty]

I don't see how anyone could get scared watching this movie...

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/2634Di0CY/62728.jpg
...it just made me horny!!
Maybe I'm thinking of a different movie. :wink:

[Krossroads]

lol. I pissed that I cant find this website I saw once. It was a parody of The Ring & was a gay porno version. As in the ring of your butt hole, yes I know it was hilarious yet disgusting. I didnt watch it, I swear. :lol: