Motion Sickness
ZrinClabberdinkVonPuttywiffleIII
way through the movie? I attribute it to the rocky camera
motions.
Also I don't agree with the whole deception the movie
played on the audience. If there really was no
disappearance of the college students, the filmmakers
should not have trumped it up to seem like it. It just
annoys you when you find out there actually wasn't.
Everything the showed about the movie before it was
realeased was designed to make you believe it was true. In
fact several people I know believed it was. The documentary
on the sci-fi channel was totally misleading, as was the
web site. Nothing tells you that the scenes in the movie
are actually fake and filmed.
Of course it's obvious the film in the movie is fake
(seeing as the actors have appeared on talk shows now.) But
putting the whole "In 1994, three students disappeared into
the woods" thing before the movie was very dishonest. If
your going to make a fictious movie, don't try to make
others believe it's true.
But I have to be honest I was a bit deceived myself. And
I feel a bit railroaded now that I've seen it, do to all
the false publicity. All in all, I kind of liked it anyway.
But I think I would have liked it more, if they were honest
about it.
Anyone feel the same?
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Cliff Evans
> Also I don't agree with the whole deception the movie
> played on the audience. If there really was no
> disappearance of the college students, the filmmakers
> should not have trumped it up to seem like it. It just
> annoys you when you find out there actually wasn't.
See, whether or not it was real or fake was never an issue for me,
because the first I heard about it was an article in Premiere about
Sundance back in March, and there was a picture of the cast and crew
whooping it up at the end of the film. So I knew the whole thing was a
put-on from go, and the premise *still* creeped me out.
> Of course it's obvious the film in the movie is fake
> (seeing as the actors have appeared on talk shows now.) But
> putting the whole "In 1994, three students disappeared into
> the woods" thing before the movie was very dishonest. If
> your going to make a fictious movie, don't try to make
> others believe it's true.
> But I have to be honest I was a bit deceived myself. And
> I feel a bit railroaded now that I've seen it, do to all
> the false publicity. All in all, I kind of liked it anyway.
> But I think I would have liked it more, if they were honest
> about it.
> Anyone feel the same?
I really don't think the effort to present it as true was all *that*
comprehensive...any of the initial interviews with the directors that I
read made references to the living cast members and even discussed how
it was filmed. Unless all you'd seen was the Artisan Entertainment
publicity (and I do think the gag order on the actors wasn't fair), it
wasn't too hard to figure out it was a put-on, I think. I didn't think
was much different from the way "Twin Peaks" was marketed as a complete history/mythology.
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ZrinClabberdinkVonPuttywiffleIII
afterwards (little hairs on the back of the neck,
oversensitive to noises, etc.).
The filming made me a bit nausious however. Half-way
through I had to look away from I had to look away and take
some deep breaths, because I felt like I was going to throw
up.
Kevin Karstens
> Anybody else in the theater get really sick about half
>way through the movie? I attribute it to the rocky camera
>motions.
> Also I don't agree with the whole deception the movie
>played on the audience. If there really was no
>disappearance of the college students, the filmmakers
>should not have trumped it up to seem like it. It just
>annoys you when you find out there actually wasn't.
> Everything the showed about the movie before it was
>realeased was designed to make you believe it was true. In
>fact several people I know believed it was. The documentary
>on the sci-fi channel was totally misleading, as was the
>web site. Nothing tells you that the scenes in the movie
>are actually fake and filmed.
> Of course it's obvious the film in the movie is fake
>(seeing as the actors have appeared on talk shows now.) But
>putting the whole "In 1994, three students disappeared into
>the woods" thing before the movie was very dishonest. If
>your going to make a fictious movie, don't try to make
>others believe it's true.
> But I have to be honest I was a bit deceived myself. And
>I feel a bit railroaded now that I've seen it, do to all
>the false publicity. All in all, I kind of liked it anyway.
>But I think I would have liked it more, if they were honest
>about it.
> Anyone feel the same?
>
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I know this has already been addressed countless times here, but...
COME ON!!!!!
You ACTUALLY BELIEVED it was REAL?!?
Did you not think it odd that the 'story' was not TOP NEWS everywhere back in 95????
That film alone, when found, would be all over the news...not to
mention that if it WAS real, it would most certainly NOT be 'released' as
a feature film...come on, man...you CANT be serious here....
You didnt REALLY think that, did you?????
Kevin
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> Did you not think it odd that the 'story' was not TOP NEWS everywhere
> back in 95???? That film alone, when found, would be all over the
> news...not to mention that if it WAS real, it would most certainly NOT
> be 'released' as a feature film...come on, man...you CANT be serious
> here....
>
Reminds me of my mother's story about when "War of the Worlds"
first aired on radio. She was at college in St. Louis then. Her parents
called from rural Illinois to find out if she was alright. The streets
were full of panic-stricken people fleeing the city. And the Martians had
alledgedly landed in New Jersey, 1000+ miles away! I think (hope) that
people are more skeptical about what they hear and see in the media now.
--Doug