exaggerated - don't read if you haven't seen it yet

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 1999)

well i too got sucked into the hype of this movie and went to see it tonight. my friends said it was really really good and really really scary. i went in positive and with an open mind. unfortunately, after an hour or so i started to get really annoyed and bored. i don't know about anyone else, but i saw a clear line, exactly where the characters started to crack. it wasn't a gradual deterioration - it was almost all of a sudden. okay *now*! let's just completely flip out and start crying. i mean, it's maryland. even the characters themselves said, "this is america" you just can't get lost like that - they had a compass and that should be good enough. if you walk straight you should eventually hit a road or something. mike never even seemed like he wanted to do this right from the beginning - so why did he? his attitude was completely annoying. the only character i liked was josh cuz he didn't say a whole lot of annoying things. heather i felt got a little far-fetched at times. i'd like to see her get lost in the middle of downtown manhatten.
the issue of leaving it all up to our imaginations is cool - but dammit, like others have said, it's way too vague. i went into the moving knowing *this* much of the Blair Witch, and i came out of the theatre knowing *this* much of the Blair Witch, and $10 broker. besides the characters' clumsiness of either disappearing, or i guess hanging themselves, there would have been no movie at all.