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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
A bad horror version of 84 Charlie MoPic
I saw this when it came out. In 1999-2000 the hype was immense. The advertising edgy in that many allowed themselves to believe it was truly lost footage of real events.
The film was for me loud noises and bad VHS handling. Loud shrill noises of nothing. I suppose this was ahead of its time not so much for the found footage... that had been done and better.
This was ahead of the curve in the reaction genre whete voyeurs watch others react to things. Ahead of its time in the crying into the camera. Ahead in the screaming and sudden obnoxious outbursts of sound whether for comedy or scare.
This was a social media prototype of the worse kind
Enjoy it or not. That is your choice.
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate (2019)
Reveals a weakness in present funny
Awkward
The highlight is the clips of the past. So basically watch YouTube and give this a miss.
Lots of unfunny moments of the more recent comedy folk.
Deadliest Prey (2013)
It's like poetry...it rhymes
The original film was near perfection. Music, direction, script and casting. That brilliant star visited us all too briefly and many have tried to emulate it and while we were blessed with the Samurai Cops and Miami Connection's, we will never truly have another Deadly Prey.
The winner of multiple Dibrini awards and two coveted Danton crowns, the original was splendid and gaudy in its excellence. It had a genuine schlock which the industry of Nostalgia so desperately attempts to emulate. Duplication and imitation is a hard thing, outside of a specific era and place.
Deadliest Prey attempts to recapture past glories and like many sequels it seeks the safe path of rhyming, as the great Lucas would say. This it does well, covering the tried paths of the past while adding contemporary twists. No doubt a fun movie to have worked on, it still manages to entertain.
While it is nothing like the original, it never could be, it is also nothing like Fantastic Four (2015) or other big budget arrogantly made studio monsters. This is a humble production made for both fun and entertainment, what movies in past generations truly aspired for, especially during the straight to video days.
Enjoy it for what it is. Not because you compare it to better polished, though target missing super films.
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