Amen! I'll add to that the fact that FF has conventions of the genre. One of them is that they tend to be slow-starters with a lot of backstory and character interaction. This is important for the genre because the biggest appeal of FF is the way it creates a sense of being IN the events, of watching events happen to real people as though you were there. That can only be accomplished if you set the stage.
If you don't like slow-burn films where all the action is in the last 20 minutes and where a bunch of characters - often not very likeable because real people are often not very likeable - spend a lot of time talking and going about normal activities, then you won't like found footage.
And, as you ask, if you don't like found footage, why would you torture yourself by watching it? I've come to believe that there are people whose biggest pleasure in life is trashing movies on IMDb, so they go out of their way to watch movies they know they'll hate. How else to explain this mysterious compulsion to watch FF films when you know you're going to hate them and then come to IMDb to tell everybody how much you hated them?
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capelladewdrop
8 years ago
I think you're right some people just want to trash movies on IMDB. If they actually took two seconds to think about the people who make them then they might change their minds.
I watched a low budget horror on Amazon Prime last week which I did enjoy, but instead I made a silly complaint about it in my review. The producer of the movie replied and said "I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the movie." and then I felt really bad that I'd hurt someone who'd gone to the trouble of making a movie.
These 'armchair critics' wouldn't be able to make an Academy Award winner given a $30,000 budget either so they should shut up. People try their best with what they have.
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jjjones-64062
7 years ago
Those that trash are trash. And garbage is garbage. And that's why they are here......think about that.
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