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Problems (SPOILERS)

posted 8 years ago by stevew84
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First of all, the entire premise is utter nonsense. There is no way in hell that his sister would be alive that long after last seen, period.

The main issue I had with Blair Witch are the two new elements introduced toward the finale - possible aliens and time travel.

The entire hook was that his sister was possibly found on video tape at the cabin. But then at the end, we're shown (in a very obvious freeze-frame) that we're not looking at Heather at all.

The biggest question here is how the hell did that happen? How could the "witch" have any sort of power over people outside of the woods? We're supposed to believe that the manufactured video was a glimpse into the future, provided by the witch?

Secondly, the "night all of the time" thing, mixed in with "it's been 5 days since we've seen you." or however many days it actually was. I liked this little addition, but it really didn't make any sense.

Lastly, the all too cliche "bright lights shining through slats of wood." If it's not aliens, what else could it possibly be?

[–] medo-off 8 years ago

i bielive somehow he thought that his sister would be alive but deep down inside him he just wanted to know how his sis disappered all his friends that he brought them were just a sacrifice for the witch and i agree that at the end of the movie were lights and i thought maybe the whole time could this be done by aliens not demons or witchs the movie dissapointed me

[–] stevew84 8 years ago

Not sure if the possibility of aliens or the confirmed time manipulation irked me more.

[–] Golden_Boy_28 8 years ago

I'm fine with the time manipulation. The movie was just really poor executed. That's the real problem here.

[–] stevew84 8 years ago

The time manipulation between the two groups, yes, but what about the beginning and the video tape that was found?

[–] Golden_Boy_28 8 years ago

He wanted to believe it was his sister. We all knew that wasn't the case.

[–] stevew84 8 years ago

Obviously wasn't his sister. But it turned out to be one of the girls in the group? That's just so out of left field.

[–] macedoniall 8 years ago

Why do people suddenly think that there were aliens in the movie? Yeah there was some strange lights but that doesn't mean there are aliens in the woods. I took the weird light effects at the end of the flick as a sort of visual queue that the Witch was manipulating time.

I will not fear, fear is the mind killer

[–] stevew84 8 years ago

The reason I think this is because of the countless times in a movie where a bright light shines through wooden slats, and aliens emerge from the other side.

From the movie Alien Abduction in 2014

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w6BTmuPeyXE/maxresdefault.jpg

From Blair Witch

https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1782409/size/tmg-facebook_social.jpg

[–] JamesMcFly 8 years ago

Exactly. I never once thought "are those lights from aliens?" Seriously? Maybe it's just the fact that I was around to experience the first two films new, along with being a huge fan of the whole mythology within them. I never once thought aliens.

[–] stevew84 8 years ago

I saw the original and sequel in the theater.

Maybe I've missed something in the movie's own mythology, but since there hasn't been any manipulation of time shown in the original, why do the blasts of light give off the impression this is to symbolize time?

The only reason I, along with others, brought up aliens is because this same effect has been used to show an alien aircraft in various movies and TV shows like The X-Files. I even linked an example in another post.

[–] r_jayy_dylan 8 years ago

They're watching about a movie about a witch.

The Witch made stick figures that are now voodoo dolls of their victim.

The mythology is thoroughly explained from the first and second film and even adds more to it saying her limbs were stretched by weights.

She clearly manipulates time and the time loop is more than stated. The film at the beginning, the house not being found when search parties went but when they encounter it, the Witch clearly making wendigo, shrieking, laughing sounds.

Yet we have people thinking aliens. 

[–] kmags84 8 years ago

Love it or hate it, the film works is the Realm that exists. I agree. They had to expand the film. If they just rehashed it, it would be worse. They tried something different and on 2nd Viewing, I must say that I really enjoyed this film. It has some genuinely creepy moments. If I had one beef, it was the pacing. It still could've been getting chased, rather than lost and been slowed up just a bit.

[–] tigers08 8 years ago

As I understand it, the movie's mythology does talk about time manipulation. In the original movie that talk about how the serial killer's house was burned down after he confessed. One interpretation of the two in the original movie coming across the house is that they are existing in the past before the house was burned, which is also why their bodies weren't found. I also heard that the marketing campaign mentions that the footage found was beneath dirt that had not been disturbed in a hundred years. I'm paraphrasing that part, but it also adds to the idea that they were sent back in time

[–] abstract-sunflower 8 years ago

As Heather's brother, he wanted to believe that Heather could still be alive. Even if deep down he knew that she couldn't be, he wanted to find answers.

The manipulation of time and space wasn't an entirely new thing. We know that the Blair Witch's curse on the woods manipulates space, because in the first movie they were walking north all day, using a compass and ended up where they started; just like in this movie how they were using a GPS and still ended up where they started.

The time manipulation thing is a little more complicated. In the first movie they ended up at a house, which we saw at the end of the movie. However, search parties never found a house. The house itself showed signs of being Rustin Parr's house (with the children's hand prints all over the walls). But a long time before Heather, Mike and Josh went into the woods, Rustin Parr's house had been burned down. The "footage" from the original movie was found during an Anthropological dig at the burned down remains of Rustin Parr's house. This suggests that Heather, Mike and Josh in the first movie were in a manipulation of time, in Rustin Parr's house before it had been burned down.

Although bright lights shining through slats of wood has been used in many alien movies, I don't think it is suggesting aliens in this movie. I think it has to do more with the presence of the Blair Witch.

[–] jude-75 8 years ago

It is supposed to represent one day passing by.