Steve Lockwood
Stunt Coordinator
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- Dec 3, 1999
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I was thinking of picking this up having never seen it before. Did anyone enjoy the dvd version of this film?
I won't spoil the ending, but I will say that the decision to suddenly switch from first-person (pseudo documentary) full-screen VHS video source to third person (narrative) widescreen 35 mm film was a poor one. If you're going to make a high-concept film like this, stick with the concept all the way to the end.
I agree with that statement completely.
The effects of BWP's hype machine (as outlined above) are still in effect IMO...proof that William P. Barnum's thesis has validity.
That would be P.T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum), not William P. Barnum.
John, you're basically saying that people who liked "The Blair Witch Project" are too stupid to think for themselves. That's kind of an elitist attitude, don't you think?
I saw BWP at a screening months before it was released to theaters, before most people had ever heard of it and before the so-called hype machine kicked in. I loved it.
Believe it or not, you're not the only one who can assess the merits of a movie. While I personally can't stand "The Last Broadcast," I would never be so arrogant as to presume that you're just not smart enough to have formed your positive opinion of the movie on your own.
Off topic, John I was checking out your Web site. Interesting stuff, but the word you wanted is "decorrelation," not "decoloration."
Off topic, John I was checking out your Web site. Interesting stuff, but the word you wanted is "decorrelation," not "decoloration."
Like I said, I need a good copy editor. I've been aware of many typos on that page, which is years out of date and no longer really applies to most home theater nuts. The donator of that web space seems to have dropped off the face of the planet, and I have been unable to contact him. Until I can, the typos will stand. When I sent pages to to him, I gave it a run through a spell checker, but it didn't speak THX, so I assume wrong words were put in the wrong places.
BWP's campaign on the other hand managed to get people in masse to believe it was a real document of real deaths (cynically brilliant BTW), bringing out the voyeur in all of us who are facinated by "real" human death and suffering (as long as it is not us). BWP cashed in on this dark aspect of human nature, essentially perpetuating fraud on the public by insinuating it was actual documentation of a film crew's grissly deaths. This plays upon and cashes in on mankind's deparavity rather than commenting on it in a critical manner as I believe TLB does.
Essentially, BWP made blood money by fixating of what much of the pucblic though were real deaths, whereas TLB commented on what BWP cashed in on even before it was produced. This begs the question, "Was TLB actually ahead of its time?"
You've got to be kidding me. You've taken condescension to a whole new level.
To say that BWP was making "blood money" as if it were some kind of snuff film goes beyond the pale. Your over-reaching might hold water if not for the fact that all three actors were on every talk show and magazine cover imaginable in the weeks leading up to the release of the movie.
They were on Leno, Letterman and Conan O'Brien, the covers of Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone, and countless others. Not to mention that Heather was in every Steak 'n' Shake commercial airing at the time.
Considering all three were supposedly missing and presumed dead, it hardly seems as if Artisan was trying to get people to believe the movie was real. That was simply part of the artifice and mythology that the film put forth. I don't know a single person who went into the theater believing they were watching anything but a work of fiction.
You don't like "Blair Witch," and that's fine. It's definitely a movie that divides audiences, which is a good thing in my opinion. But stop assuming that anyone who liked it is a slack-jawed troglodyte who's too dumb to know the difference between fact and fiction.
By the way, because this thread was started by someone who hasn't seen "The Last Broadcast" yet, you might want to go back and add spoiler tags to your post above, where you blow the entire ending of the movie.