dgm6780 said:
THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS!!!!
It had ZERO plot, ZERO character development, and a shaky pointeless camera the entire movie. The movie lasted 75 minutes, and without the pointless party scene at the begginning it would have been under a hour. Not that I wanted it to be longer - there was absolutely no point to the movie. You cant even tell me what it is about.
Best I could do was - a group of people, I think they were friends, were trying to find another person. The person they were looking for slept with one of the guys one time. And while they are trying to find this person a monster is attacking the city. the end |
Obviously your final analysis of the film - good, bad, indifferent- is valid as a subjective opinion,but you greatly overstate your reasons for it. This should go without saying but...
Plot: Characters risk their lives to save a friend in the midst of a disaster. The requires the characters to take decisive action (choose to persue their friend) and overcome the obstacles in their path (the creatures, army and physical devstation). Is it a complex plot? Of course not. It's a simple horror film narrative. But the plot is there.
Character development? Actually there was some, particularly for the main characters, Rob and Beth. Though their arc is not laid out in a linear fashion, it is there: they fall in bed together, deny their relationship, and through adversity are brought together again. Rob goes from self centered prick to self sacrificing hero. There is also some small development in the maturation of Hud (to some degree) and his relationship with Marlena.
The "pointless" party scene sets up all of the characters, their relationships and motivation. Without that, you would have no context for later actions, and then I could agree that there is no character development. But it is there, serving a very important purpose. Is it laid out simply? No.You have to pay attention. But it can't be faulted for not being there.
As for the handheld camera use, that too has a point - using a familiar hand held camera often gives the illusion of authenticity (ie something that really happened as opposed to being staged) and, if done well, can place the viewer in the center of the experience in a way traditional camera work doesn't. It is always a controversial choice - it clearly does not work for some people (in fact MANY people hated Blair Witch Project for this reason). However, every promotion for this film that I have seen uses the film footage. There was no secret made that this was Godzilla meets Blair Witch, so it's hard to understand why those who hate that style of film would choose to go see this.
As for fear, again that's completely subjective (for the record, Blair Witch did NOT scare many people - that was part of the hype and it ended up backfiring horribly, as many people went in expecting a bunch of "boos" as opposed to 90minutes of tension) but it worked for me (and I have a very high threshold) and most of the crowd I was with.
