You say the monster in a box has been done to death but so has this. I love found footage films as, like you, i think they come across as more gritty and realistic but I have watched a good 10 to 15 FF films over the last 12 months and the build up is always almost exactly the same. group of teens with cameras, they can be dumb teens or a supposed professional documentary crew, or scientists, yet they all act around like 8 year olds, cracking sex jokes and using toilet humour, playing silly pranks on each other, making fun of everyone who dares to look different to them and flirting with one another, until the 2 leads eventually end up having sex and becoming an item.
This goes on for 80% of the run time. Have you ever watched the making of documentary programs for the BBC or National Geographic? The groups are professional, they speak to each other with respect, there's very little to no toilet humour used, no flirting as most of them are too work orientated or happily married, there's no acting the fool or behaving like 3 year olds etc etc.
All of these films lose any believability once you are introduced to the cast and you see how generic and stupid they are. It would be refreshing to see film makers do FF movies with a group of well behaved, sensible and more importantly, BELIEVABLE characters you can invest in, instead of sex crazed teens who act like high school drop outs and don't take anything seriously. Not every woman out there is an air headed slut, not every guy out there is a self obsessed football jock or a juvenile wannabe comedian. And not all documentary crews and scientists are in thier early 20's and look like glamour models and extras from Baywatch.
It would be far more interesting if they cut out the childish larking around, fart and sex jokes and godawful unrealistic romance threads and focussed on the films story arc or investigations into the mystery or purpose of the films content. the sex, jokes and flirting garbage is just an excuse to justify and fill a 20 minute idea into a 90 minute film.
It's now getting to the point where I'm turning off FF movies 20 minutes in because I already know exactly what's going to happen as I've seen it played over and over 50 times before. And I'm not asking that movies start out with action, gore and violence from the off but having to sit through all of the above for an hour and 20 minutes before anything even remotely interesting happens for a lousy 10 minute payoff at the end is ridiculous.
They need to start treating the audience like adults. Paying money to see what looks like a good horror film only to find out it's a complete copy of 50 other films out there is something that really does piss me off, I mean, it's not like the film makers are going to give you a refund is it? :-)
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sleeping_gorilla
8 years ago
I enjoyed this, but I agree going the found footage route wasn't the best choice. You kind of groan whenever you see something filmed as found footage.
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phantasmda
8 years ago
That's how I'm getting at the moment buddy, i used to love FF films but now when i see one I'm like "oh no, not again" lol
"Hasta la vista, baby."
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