You know..in a way I think it was a good idea. And there certainly were tense moments. Just glimpsing the monster etc. was a good trick that worked to build tension and suspense in the movie. The fact that you followed a small group who didn't really know what was happening, rather than a hero scientist or marine etc. was also another neat idea very reminiscent of The Sign (single family surviving an alien invasion cut off from everyone else).
But the camera....YUCK! I can see they were going for the Blair Witch Effect, but they really needed to tone it down. It reminded me of those shows like Cops etc. where the camera is always pointing away from what you want to see, only this was worse due to the horrid jerky motion that I can totally see making people ill in a dark cinema. That was such a bad call, but I guess there was no way to fix it late in the game. I don't feel the movie was a complete loss though, I would give it a 5.5 to 6 out of 10. (10 being best). They tried something different. The movie has made about 41 million so far. It cost about 25 million to make plus marketing costs, which were mostly viral which costs a bit less. The Sequel is already in the works. On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM, wrote: > So... how many goats? > > And don't you agree that using a steadycam rig that had just been > loosened-up a bit more than usual would have worked better than the > stick-it-on-the-end-of-a-cowboy's-lasso technique they used? I mean, you'd > "get the point," but it wouldn't make you turn away from the screen every > now and then just so you don't vomit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252932 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
