I appreciate what Blair Witch was trying to do, but it failed.

[dblv25]

I agree mostly to what Contec is saying. But I take the movie for what it is/was at the time. I dont think it has aged well. I have watched The Shining and Exorcist again in recent years...unfortunately they didnt hold up well either.

I agree, but I think what makes a movie good is its ability to take you back to the first time you saw it and the way you felt then. Does it scare you now? Probably not, most horror movies won't by the second, third, or fourth time through. But if you can sit back, laugh, and go, "oh man, the first time I saw this...," then it did its job.

 

[Larry Young]

I think horror movies are their own thing. I love Bruce Willis, I love Olivia Williams, I even love M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

But I won't waste my time watching The Sixth Sense again.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Fast forward to the movie, where the internet really was used effectively for the first time. It was set up so that you didn't know if this was real or a movie. Then, while watching the movie, I saw the same behavior patterns in these students that our survival group had. The realism of that made me believe that this might be real.

:lol I know EXACTLY what you mean by that. I and some friends were playing a game and part of it involved an actual part of following a list of directions to get from their house on the side of a mountain to a spot that wasn't more than 100 yards away. It was late at night and the moonlight was shrouded by a lot of clouds. We found our way to the spot where we were to retrieve something, and then started heading back to the house. Well, a married couple started disagreeing which direction to take to get back to the house. We were just reversing directions, but the wife of the couple is direction impaired. She wanted to go in the wrong direction. She isn't fond of being out in the woods, everyone was a bit concerned about getting on the right path back to the house, and everyone else thought that couple was about to have a divorce in the middle of the woods. There was SO much screaming that we had to talk them both down. That reminded me of the 'lost map' scenes in the movie and made it seem so much more real to me.

 

[Ford W Maverick]

dblv25, I don't rip into people for having a wiewpoint that's different from mine. In fact, you raise some interesting points.

The way they filmed the movie is part of what I found innovative and it did lend a sense of reality to the movie, but I still don't think they spent enough time letting you get to know and like that characters so that you cared about how they interacted or even knew that they were acting differently. It kind of looks like they were jerks from the start and later just became scared jerks.