At 9/17/16 01:59 PM, BrandonIsNear wrote:
My rant is that people sensationalize the movie as they do everything else.
Not the production, campaign, etc. The movie.
I've seen multiple friends of mine compare the new season of American Horror Story to Blair Witch Project.
It's those edgy weed girls or 'sophisticated memers' saying that 'Omg AHS6 gives off a total Blair Witch vibe so hyped for the new movie'
Now I haven't watched AHS season 6. I got uninterested in the series after season 3.
But exactly what vibe could Blair Witch Project put off? It's an amateur found footage movie with no real horror elements and just a lot of character reactions that gets dubbed 'psychological thriller'.
The only thing that WOULD make that movie scary is thinking that it's real, meaning believing the entire campaign the producers put you through.
1. Why do people have to make everything a 'vibe'
2. Why do people sensationalize things for reasons that don't make sense
3. Why do I even care
4. Why did I even make this thread
I don't even wanna post this now that I think about it but usually when I complain someone ends up destroying my rant with a good point, so I'm looking forward to it.
This is going to be a long read but I did my best to break it up.
I'm going to jump around with answering your first 3 questions. I feel like your 4th one is kind of a cry for help in that you want the opinions of others.
I was in 6th grade when blair witch came out. Everyone else had gone to see it and I was like "Meh." It didn't seem like anything I would be interested in and I was too young to care. I finally saw it and just didn't think it was scary. The found footage idea was good, but they had interviews with the cast that pretty much revealed it wasn't real at all.
I gave it another shot a few years ago in college I finally got around to seeing it my reaction was still the same. "Meh. It could have been better."
1). About your rant, I think the reason you care is that it really takes away from what something is supposed to be when it gets generalized. Idiots make something about something else because deep down it comforts them. They're not smart enough to have a new idea or just think that a story can be its own entity without having to "be" another story or entity. Saying that something is like something else takes away from the creativity of both. Couple this with the fact that there are Assholes everywhere that have to say "This movie is the same as this movie because of minor details in the movie" and you start to get pissed.
If we're going to play this game, then Old yeller is practically CUJO because they both have dogs that get rabies.
Apocolypse now and Godfather are the same movie because Marlon Brando is in it.
Alice in wonderland and Wizard of oz are the same thing because a girl is transported to a magical world where she meets mysterious creatures.
If the world is going to do things like this, then there's no point in writing any more books or making any more movies because "It's just going to be like something else"
2)I think people come out and sensationalize this stuff because they want to look profound. They want their 15 minutes of fame on buzzfeed ( They'll make anyone famous.)
Again, completely alien concepts are scary monsters that need to simply become something familiar.
I watched the preview and didn't really see any connection to blair witch other than portions of it appear to take place in the woods and there's some kind of "Found Footage" But other than that, there's no other ties to it.
Good horror is really hard to do. Other than lame jump scares and excessive gore that has made its way to today's cinema, it's difficult to have a real good scare. The reason being is that even if there's some kind of eerie background to it, there's too many damn people online talking about it that can easily be skeptical or disprove it. You couldn't have the media hype that blair witch had back when it came out because the internet was just getting started. You could make a missing poster for the kids and there wouldn't be hundreds of people, facebook and 200 other sites to disprove it or call it a hoax.
3) Why you care - Because you're an artist. While writing out this longwinded reply I took a look at your art. Namely, your original art I see that you've got some creativity flowing through your head and that despite doing a few pieces of fanart, you'd like to be more noted for your original pieces.
If you get surrounded with people that have to generalize and say that "A is like B because of a minor similarity" Someone will eventually compare you to something and it might not be that good of a comparison, but it will stick. It'll make you think that "Whats the point in trying. So-and-so did it first, they'll just think I stole their idea. That thought will burrow into your head, despite the fact that you truly do have an original idea that's better executed
You're one of the few out there making new stuff that hasn't been done to death. Keep up the good work, Amigo .
