So let me rant a little bit here...
For a movie that was supposed to feel "real", it was an absolute failure. First thing I noticed was that I recognized one of the actors immediately. The girl who played Marlena, Lizzy Caplan, who plays Kat in the sitcom "The Class" (debuted last year). Note to filmmakers: When you're making a film in which you want to display nobody's, might not want to cast anyone who has been in a major network show in the last...uh, year. Yeah. Casting director: bad. She was also in "Freaks & Geeks" but I know a lot of people didn't see that and that was at least almost 10 years ago.
The first ten minutes of the movie seemed promising. I really liked the set up, that's why I was stoked to see it. I recently had been to a good-bye bash to my closest friend who now lives in Oregon and that was what I thought of when I saw the trailer to this. Wow, what if we were caught in that? I don't know, it just ran through my head. Well, ten minutes into the film you start noticing a trend in the cast: they all look like actors.
The party itself looked like an Oscar after party, although I think that would be as close as any of the people involved with this film would get to one...everyone was too good-looking. Nobody looked like someone you would see just walking down the street. The strangest thing was, the one actress I did recognize looked the MOST normal. The other thing: nobody sounded like they were from New York. I mean, no one. Not even the random people. I realize that NYC is loaded with people from all over the country. But everyone in this film sounded like they were from California.
The only thing that felt "real" about it was the jiggling hand-held camera effect which...felt exactly like that...just an effect. Everything else about the film is as unbelievable, staged, and contrived as you would see in any "movie".
Okay, fine. So it was a movie. Yeah, we all know that. We know it's a movie. Then why did they try to sell it as something that "could have happened"?
Periods of the "tape" are interrupted (conveniently) by old footage of the main character, Rob, and his devastatingly beautiful (whodathunk!) girlfrend...and the most annoying comes at the very end. How did that happen...? In the beginning, it's lamented that the tape they're using to film this good-bye party is the same tape that was used by Rob to film his exploits with his girlfriend. But yeah...bits and pieces pop up here and there in the film. Even if that does happen in actual digital cameras--the very beginning of the film makes it seem like you're watching footage that has been captured by the government. So why would THEY have kept it? Especially the last bit?
I hated this movie for everything that I've just went on about. It was an absolute joke. There are so many "movie moments" that it completely took me out of it emotionally, and what it wound up being was an hour and a half of dizzying camerawork...
When they're attacked by the weird "little" creatures--first of all, they should have all been killed immediately. There is no way they would have survived that...second, it really looked just like...OH MY GOD WE'RE BEING ATTACKED BY CGI MONSTERS! AAHHH!!
Every cliche you could think of is in this movie. The girl in distress, the hero who by impossible odds finds her (not without the loss of someone important to him though of course!!!). So, okay if the argument is that it was meant to be like that...then why was it advertised as something "we've never seen before in a monster movie"?
It felt like this movie was pitched around a network executive conference room where it went like this: "GUYS! Let's take the RAWNESS of 'The Blair Witch Project' and the AWESOMENESS of 'Independence Day' and SYNERGIZE THE TWO TOGETHER!!!"
At least in "The Blair Witch Project", the sell out came AFTER being made. Whatever intentions this film had...went as about awry as the good-bye party that was the only promising part of the whole film.
Shame on you, JJ Abrams. You're really disappointing me lately...
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