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Problems with this film

posted 13 years ago by Heretic_Of_Jeff_Bezos
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1)The title. Too generic and has no bearing on what actually happens.

2) Too many scenes of people eating. Seriously, there's like 4 of these. Even when they're 'drinking' beer, you can obviously tell that the some of the beers are empty, presumably because the actors are under 21. At least fill it with apple juice or something.

3) Too much time passes, where nothing happens. The killer should have killed them when he was videotaping them while they were asleep. Why did he wait? It's never explained.

4) The dialogue means absolutely nothing. They should have scripted more, but instead actors talk forever about nothing.

5) Too many errors, especially in the 'lost in the woods' scene. What I mean by this, is things like when a character says "It must be a bird or bear". If its winter, it wouldn't be either of those. Also, why didn't they just follow their footprints back? It wasn't snowing, and snow was on the ground.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 13 years ago

Can't argue with any of those. I wanted to yell at the screen 'it's WINTER, it's probably not a bear!'

Just in terms of general problems, there were many:
-Awful pacing (it's seriously half way through the movie before anything starts happening. Even then it's nothing interesting or well done)
-Annoying characters we want to see die
-Terrible acting by everyone involved
-Scenes that go on twice as long as they need to
-Intrusive music and sound effects that make no sense in a found footage movie
-Unexplained details (like you said, why not just kill them when he filmed them sleeping?)
-Cliche scenes from other similar movies (take the camera/no debate, we're lost in the dark and freaking out, etc)
-Countless scenes of them walking around a dark house
-Women screaming in the dark scene after scene (everything takes place off screen, which leads to the next point)
-No gore or nudity

This movie was a waste of time in every way...

"No it's not you, I just don't like having dinner... with people..." - Paul Rudd