boe_dye sez... actually secret agent j sez.... it's blair witch goes to N.Y

Rating: 5/10 (22 January 2008)

So here's the deal; had i walked into this film not know that it was going to be documentary style, running around with lots of weird and wacky camera angles, sporadic monsters, and lots of hight pitched screaming, i probably would have been somewhat upset.
However, i did walk into knowing all of this to boot, so there it is.
I think the best way to describe this, and the most fairest observation about this, is that people who love it, are going to love the exact same things that the people who hated it, hated.
Personally, i will never spend money to see another pseudo-documentary style film like this, because i don't care for the open ended story telling. i thought that it was far too annoying to enjoyable. although what was done, was done extremely well, what was done was done in a style that i just don't like.
The scenes were very well played, and the footage was pretty good for what it was. my biggest complaint however was the character "hud" who acted more like a 15 year old with a camera. too many stupid comments, too much idiotic chatter, and not enough substance. sure, he was supposed to be the stereotypical doofus who was given the camera because it amused his simple character, but i think that it was over played after the whole "he and she slept together" bit.
The monsters were done well, and i liked how the kept the cloverfield monster a mystery so to speak towards the end, but at the same time, i felt that they could have used just a smidgen more intelligence when it came to evading the monster as they escaped in the choppa.
And yes, they do most certainly have to "get to a choppa"...
The ending was a bit of a disappointment for me, as i felt it was unnecessary, and really made the film pointless. They go to all this trouble avoiding the blasted thing, only to make a very predictable escape that parallels the monster path of destruction.
Why they thought that a monster that could toss the statue of liberty's head half way across manhattan would not be able to jump a couple of hundred feet in the air from a standstill is beyond me, but hey, there it is...
In the end, i and my wife, were both somewhat nauseous. she liked it, but then again she also likes me too, which goes to show where her tastes are at. my best friend, the man known as secret agent j liked it, but then again still lovingly referred to it as blair witch goes to N.Y.
Those who say that it is nothing like blair witch really need to get a clue, cause it was almost exactly like blair witch, only with more running, screaming, and eye candy...
... and no stupid man standing in the basement of a cabin looking all... stupid...
I had to be fair and give it five stars. 5 cause, and again, what it did, it did really well, but i just didn't like what it did...
... although the star trek teaser gave me chills... >8^P