Remarkable...

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2000)

...not the movie, the people COMMENTING on it. I've posted once before, but scrolling down, I see that there are STILL so many suckers who bought INTO this piece of garbage, I felt it necessary to reiterate a few key points, mainly:
-"The Blair Witch Project" is, hands down, one of THE WORST MOVIES EVER MADE. And yeah, I AM taking movies like "I Spit On Your Grave", "Nail Gun Massacre", and "Robot Holocaust" into consideration. When you have NO script (I still can't believe that), amateurish cinematography that prevents you from actually SEEING anything ("use your imagination", the flick's fans bray, missing the point that when EVERYTHING is left to the imagination there's no point in SEEING the movie at all), "actors" whose best ad-libbing comes in the form of repetitive and offensive cursing, and a classic "Ebert Situation" - that the whole movie could have been over in fifteen minutes had the characters not been complete IDIOTS - this is to be expected.
-That BWP made the kind of money it did is a damning indictment of the American filmgoer, and a tribute to the effectiveness of fake word-of-mouth. So many people believed this was real, or terrified themselves by putting themselves "in the situation". Three words: Follow the river. There; the whole movie is unnecessary. But the characters are so stupid that this sure-fire solution never occurs to them... and these are COLLEGE students? It's never a good sign when you WANT the heroes to die.
-Most of the hype for this movie was fake, generated in spades via faux-amateurish Web sites and supposed "fan" reviews actually generated by the "filmmakers" and their friends. The glowing reviews? Fake (In fact, I'm willing to bet that half of the mini-reviews HERE are fakes - at least, the initial reviews; you'll notice that they soon become overwhelmingly negative, and that the people defending it become much fewer and farther between). While this practice is, of course, nothing new, I do not believe it has EVER worked as well as it has with "Blair Witch Project" - the Artisan spin machine must have gone into overdrive when the folks there saw what a hideously bad movie they had on their hands. They are to be commended for successfully deceiving so many people.
To sum up: This entire movie is a sham, made by untalented hacks and deceptively promoted. If you thought this was a "groundbreaking" horror movie, then you obviously do not watch horror movies, nor are you aware of the elements that make a successful one (the reviewers who glowingly compare it to movies like "Scream" are proof of that). If you identified with the characters - if you liked the movie at all - then you're an idiot.