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Vertigo. An incredible film........but in no way the "best film ever made".

While I can understand not thinking that The Blair Witch Project is a good movie, I don't think you can automatically assume that it's bad simply because the film's budget ran out (especially since you're already assuming that the budget ran out in the first place). If anything, The Blair Witch Project is a film that builds off having a low budget with elements like amateur camerawork or creepy sounds doing the heavy lifting more so than any conventional monster movie scares. It doesn't really need a high budget to accomplish all that it does, so I can sort of appreciate that more than a bad movie with a lot of money - the idea that "nice CGI" compensates for a film's overall badness is also a questionable one, especially since it's very possible that the film's badness would extend to the CGI anyway.

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As much as I also think BWP is a pretty big fat waste of time, I agree, though I took it to mean that, in this instance, "the lack of budget shows" rather than "them running out of budget shows".

I also agree that the CGI comment is questionable. Big budget doesn't and shouldn't necessitate or equate to CG.

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Well, maybe it did not run out of budget, but still the lack of money shows. So it didn't run out money because the standards were already pretty low. I mean, what kind of ending was this? (Let's not spoiler though.) I paid the price of a full seat for basically watching an amateur film project. If I was a school teacher, I would have given a D-. It may have been only questionable if they at least had given me a cinema discount, but no. If you can make good movies with little money, fine. Enjoy your profit. IF you can't, don't let your audience pay for your lack of available money. It is an outrage. Simple as that.

The CG of course was an example of any class of nice special effects or other quality a high-budget movie usually has over a low-budget movie. Of course, as in any general rule, there are counterexamples. But they do not occur too often.

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Thanks for understanding my comment about the lack of money, friend.

Gone With the Wind,
Forrest Gump,
Pulp Fiction

All great, but also terribly overrated.

That rep is for Forrest Gump,a film I have become less and less enchanted with over the years.

I like how you try to dismiss Blair Witch Project as an "amateur film project" when that is literally what kind of film it is. If anything, it's better than your average amateur film because it actually does something sufficiently different even within the limitations of its low-budget production, which extends to the ending that builds off the central concept and forgoes something potentially more clichéd. In any case, I find your complaints curious, especially when it comes to the money. If I'm reading this correctly, you're saying that it's okay for low-budget films to make a profit off tickets that are the same price as more expensive movies if and only if they are good, but if the films in question are bad then the distributors should charge less simply because it's not "well-made". The thing is that there's no way to find out if the movie you've made is good (or at least popular) until people have had a chance to see it and judge it for themselves (which will most likely involve them paying for a ticket first). Besides, any judgment of a film's goodness or badness would be wholly subjective even if you introduced some RT-like democracy into the mix, so it's just flat-out simpler to charge a flat rate for every film regardless of the critical consensus.

I mean, high production values are nice and all, but a film doesn't automatically need them in order to be good. Clerks was made for less than $30,000 and more or less amounts to two random guys chatting in grainy black-and-white for about an hour and a half and I'd still take it over 90% of comedies that have big-name casts and eight-figure budgets.

I mean, what were you expecting at the end, SnappingTurtle? The witch to show up and summon a bunch of CGI demons? That would be ridiculous, of course. Personally I think it ended perfectly - subtly and eerily.

Heh, now you've got me wishing for a George Lucas-style "special edition".

I dont know if its distate people have with the handheld camera movies overall. I liked The Blair Witch Project, and its really the most telling film when it comes to just how much immersion a viewer will allow. People hate this movie then list all the flaws (there were many), and people that loved it - those flaws dont matter. I liked Cloverfield too, and people are back and white on that. I only got 10 minutes into Quarantine, yet some say its great, go figure.

I finally agree with something Snake said.

Flaws should matter to the people who love it most.

Taxi Driver (as mentioned before) is way overrated and in my mind not really even good, its just shock and awe with a little pzazz. .

Just my thoughts - then again I do tend to be strange.

Dog Day Afternoon is also a movie I think is overrated - I actually love it - unlike Taxi Driver - but it is more of a guilty pleasure type film for me.

That's not how love works though.

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Blood and Roses.

Really? I think that one was really awesome. But then again, I have a weakness for movies from the sixities.

• Forrest Gump
• Star Wars (A New Hope)
• Terminator 2
• Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Pulp Fiction

I enjoyed all of these, but I wouldn't consider any of them 10's or greatest of all time material.

Not in an obsessive relationship. Whether it's a movie or person, acknowledging and criticizing fault removes bias. If you do something wrong, it should hurt the people who love you most because they, more than anyone else, should care about your wellbeing and want to maintain what they love about you.

If there's a flaw in something I like, I'm going to be harder on it more than any other movie I watch, game I play, or person I associate with because I care more about them. It's tough love. It's how I treat others and it's how I want others to treat me. To call me out when I make a mistake. To do otherwise isn't genuine love, that's just a blind obsession.

But you still love it despite the faults. That's not to say that you're blind to them, but that you accept them.