This story seems VERRRRRYYYY familiar to me. Some documentary filmmakers go to some faraway place to film mysterious events and disappear without a trace, only to have their footage found and played years later....
WHere have I heard that before - oh right "The Blair Witch Project". This has a little twist though - the witch is Bin Laden and its not a forest, its Afghanistan.
While the premise is old, the film actually looks like it might be good. Here's to hoping!
I just saw it and you're SO right. it was alot like the blair witch project. it had some good content i guess, but the camera was so shaky that i got sick. that's the first time i ever got sick from a movie. i had to close my eyes for fear that i would puke. it was a good movie, but i just couldn't watch it! sounds weird, but watch it and you'll see.
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your pants are on fire.
the movie isn't being shown till september 10th.
I know the movie is being tested in various cities before it will open into wider distribution. Plus, it premeired at the Sundance Film festival this year. You don't need to be involved in the movie industry to buy tickets to Sundance.
shareBlair Witch? I think not, this is a horrible political exploitation of peoples current fears, much like Cannibal Holocaust did for the whole mondo thing. I haven'e seen this but I'd only consider seeing it if:
A) Like Cannibal Holocaust the film decides to gross out the audience with extremely intense and graphically realistic gore(live animal mutilation's a plus)
B) Like the Blair Witch project, the film includes witches chasing people....in Afghanistan....with flamethrowers.
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C) It is actually comprised of real footage of Americans being wasted down to smoldering shoes for being ignorant enough to enter the middle east and attempt to film exploitive violent acts our sadistic troops are currently waging.
I saw a commercial for this film last night during prime time television, so that pretty much eliminates A and C, so I'm hoping to god there are strapped up witches tearing ass around Afghanistan napalming things. Lets cross our collective fingers.
wow, all this hate towards your country...ever consider either
a.) Moving to a more "peace loving" country
or
b.) Doing something about these perceived sadistic acts of our troops?
Thankfully your opinion is in the vast minority.
i just saw the film at its dc pre-premiere and.... it was the biggest waste of time i think ive seen. regardless of your political stance, it should be obvious hybrid films (amalgams of docs and features) are tricky business. adding a political sentiment to the mockumentary creates further problems. after the film, the filmmakers sat on a panel with christopher bergen, who aptly commented "it's an interesting piece of fiction."
shareReally? That's too bad, it looked interesting. Oh, well, thanks for warning
sharethey show american troops doing callous acts on this film?
Somebody's got to lead this revolution and I guess it's gonna be me.
funny you shoud mention Cannibal Holocaust, because I just happen to see that movie and thought that blair witch had taken the idea from that movie. but no one knows about that film so they all say that anything simmler is a copy of blair witch... when in reality blair witch is copying Cannibal Holocaust. (which by the way is aweful, but cool in its own ways and a great concept)
shareIf you're gonna do a CRAP movie and hide low end production values under the premise of "reality" you have to use at least SOME brains. Blair Witch Bin Laden is 100% accurate. I want my 2 hrs back. The lack of intelligence of the hero is only supercede by the idiocy of his persuants.
Bush supporters will love this one. Movie aficionados will not.
I want to see this story, the hunt for Bin-Laden, but you cant torture me with this movie again. Send the movie to Bin-laden and maybe it will achieve in reality what it pretends to do on screen.
there's not any american troops in this movie. They supposedly go where no soldiers are.
shareMovie was crap, really can't believe they had the nuts to go there and do it though. Word is it was shot in India from another thread...don't know. Sure didn't look like Hindu's though. Nice to see people posting that they were hoping to see US Soldiers getting lit-up though and that Bushies will just sit infront of the tv and beat the bishop because of its over all message. Either of you two idiots ever watch any Afghan special's on PBS pre9/11 to understand a simple thing like watching a movie you take for granted would get you put to death let alone post on the internet about it...Coldewey & thesociety are a bunch of jagg-offs.
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