1 out of 5 stars 90% incompetent:Forget Pokemon,Star wars,W.W west THIS IS THE CON JOB OF 1999

Rating: 2/10 (23 June 2000)

Pros: Good for a few chuckles. Cons: Proof that critical and popular moviegoing opinion can be quite absurd.
The hype for this movie is quite absurd.
Even the most respected film critics of professional and amatuer types drooled over this.
Sadly so did a large portion of the public.
The plot simply goes like this 3 filmmakers go into the woods to find the blair witch and they end up lost.
This is one of the dumbest,most inept,boring movies of 1999.
Sure blair witch isn't the only highly-hyped film of 1999 there are films like American Beauty,Three Kings,Being John Malkovich,Toy Story 2,The sixth sense,etc. were better than this movie.
Even highly-hated films of 1999 like Pokemon the first movie,Baby Geniuses,Wild wild west were much better than this dreck.
And no I'm not hating just because it doesn't have traditional scare tactics like big budget scares or cheaply made killers or just to sound different.
I may be too nice for giving this film a 1 instead of a 0 but I find some of the intentional humor funny so it is at least worth a few chuckles.
This film is purely for "Arthouse" fans only sure although I'm not a big fan of arthouse flicks there are plenty of good arthouse flicks out there.
But needless to say THIS ISN'T ONE OF THEM!
Although it was more boring that irratating afterall this film could be fun if it were treated by the folks of MST3K.
This film could've also been tolerable if they used the actual footage instead of this shotty re-make.
Originality is not a bad thing. But this makes the concept of originality look like "something nobody else was stupid to do".
Low-budget films can be good. Now I can't say this films budget should be bigger it just needs a better script.
So please I know that films like Pokemon the first movie,Wild wild west,Star wars episode 1 are highly flashy but they are more entertaining than this thrash.
Though it wasn't as bad as films like Very Bad Things and such but it was pretty close.
After sitting through this film I actually felt sleepy so I guess it is at least good for some sleeping medicine.
So please ignore the massive slobber over this and stay away from this unless you're a certain MST3K fan.
So if you want to see a good critically aclaimmed flick see Toy story 2 or the sixth sense (which sadly didn't do as well as blair witch)or something like that.
Hey say most of anything 1999 flick than this.
(Sure films like "Titanic" and "2001:A Space oydssey" weren't all that much but they were better than this.)