How can anyone point the criticism of "ageing" to this film.
It doesn't make sense. The nature of found-footage films means they literally cannot age. The film isn't supposed to be happening - it's supposed to have already happened.
Some poster said they can't relate to this situation in the age of iPhones. But I've never thought the audience is meant to be scared for themselves when watching Blair Witch - The fear is for the three people on screen.
I agree. To me, films that "don't age well" are movies that rely on constant pop culture references and ones that you absolutely cannot enjoy except in the time period they were made. This movie doesn't rely on being hip and trendy. I think anyone from any time can relate to the story of being lost and alone in the wilderness.
shareFunny how they say the film doesn't age well, because it actually HAD to be aged. The film takes place in October 1994 but was actually filmed in October 1998. So they had to process the footage in post production to make it look older than it actually was. And films that take place in an earlier time period than when they were shot are immune from the aging argument-they're about an old subject. Can we then say "Raging Bull" hasn't aged well because it's events take place from 1941 to 1964, despite being shot in 1979?
shareFilmed in 1997 not 1998.
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It always sucked, from the first time it was shown.
shareThe people who keep saying films are "dated" and "didn't age well" are the same ones who love to point out a minor error and call it a "major plot hole".
shareI live near a bigger forest! Fast internet full signal in village for 25 yrs as well as all other surroundings villages!
However if you drive by car 5 minutes into the wood to a popular lil swimming sea and there are always several other people around for leisure walks over entire day you already have hardly signal there! Wandering few more minutes deeper inside the woods you lost def all signal!
Generation Trash Millenial 🗑️ 💩 is fukkin reletubby-retarded and lost all reality to reality!
The film is pop culture sensation on the rise of internet and if you haven't watched in cinema at night Autumn/Winter 1999 it's rather pointless just watching later in living room over a shiny spring/summer day! KNOWING PLOT before watching. Esp when having no connection to nature/woods in big city steel sterility!
Still it was a genius brilliant idea - esp creating the first myth hype on internet spreading as cheap marketing - by film students on low budget. The 100 million gross says it all!
Anything unique epitome 80s/90s than any soulless digital 21st Millenium Trash!
"The film is pop culture sensation on the rise of internet and if you haven't watched in cinema at night Autumn/Winter 1999 it's rather pointless just watching later in living room over a shiny spring/summer day!"
Yeah, that's how and when I saw it -- back when it was only playing in a couple of theaters and before it blew up into a big hit. And with the cryptic marketing in my head. I saw it at a midnight showing in a packed theater and the mood was electric. The dark cavernous theater was perfect as one could hear the sound of limbs breaking all around -- one could get lost in the film and feel as though one were in the woods along with the characters. So I've often wondered if I'd have loved the film as much had I seen it much later, sitting at home and . . .
" KNOWING PLOT before watching."
. . . . that.