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Found footage is getting out of hand.

posted 11 years ago by budarc
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The last couple of movies about Bigfoot were bad enough, now we're supposed to believe Frankenstein's monster is still alive after 200 years living in the wilderness of Canada?

I watched this movie because the title seemed to indicate that they were going to try to recreate the experiment itself on film, not go out on a wild goose chase for the monster. It's just ridiculous. Plus all the off-screen kills and sound effects were just way too over the top. I normally like found footage movies, but even I have my limits.

[–] Ghost_Of_Me 11 years ago

Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes haha come on that ones the best! But no I know what you mean by the title. If I didnt see the trailer first I would have thought the same exact thing. Except I actually liked this one and the Bigfoot one as well. Fresh new takes on monster legends.

[–] budarc 11 years ago

Besides The Lost Coast Tapes, there's also Bigfoot County (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2108605/), The Woodsman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330396/) and the upcoming Exists (by the director of Blair Witch) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1988621/). Also, Bobcat Goldthwait is coming out with one called Willow Creek (which seems more along the lines of Werner Herzog in Incident at Loch Ness, which was about the Loch Ness Monster). Like I said, it's getting out of control!

[–] davidjp-2 11 years ago

I enjoy this movie more than many similar films. The camera was not too shaky, the plot was simple (not pretentious), acting was not over the top.

[–] LordManhammer 11 years ago

It wasn't a wild goose chase, since they found the monster.

I'm somewhat confused about your critique being targeted specifically at the found-film subgenre, because you're criticizing the plot rather than the technique. There are all sorts of B-horror movies with even sillier plots.

I do think, though, that many movies have great stories and would have been better off with traditional filming rather than found-footage.

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[–] davannacarter 11 years ago

Agreed. I am tired of this stupid found footage horror movie stuff. You hardly see this with any other genre. Only in the horror genre is using a camera bought for less than $300 from Walmart good enough to make full length film.

[–] spongejeg 10 years ago

I Know What You mean!!!! Next We'll See "Brown Out.... Found Footage Of A Port-O-Potty" !!!!!!!

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[–] Mithrandir-Olorin33 10 years ago

It frankly annoys me that the Found Footage format keeps getting hated on. It's Prose equivalent has generally been the standard format of classic works of literature, including Frankenstein.

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[–] davannacarter 10 years ago

I think in many cases the hate comes from the fact that the movie doesn't need to be found footage. I'm watching Frankenstein's Theory again right now. A lot of the editing is obviously not in the spirit of found footage. In fact, it's professional. For instance, I'm at the part where they're in the yurt talking in a semi-circle. The camera man will be standing behind a crew member, but then there is an immediate cut to the guide or the professor without the camera man moving. How can that happen if there's supposed to be one camera? The camera man didn't have enough time to change positions while the person was talking so obviously it was another camera.

So the found footage aspect is wasted if they're going to use a second camera like that. This movie would have worked better as a regular movie than a found footage one.