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Motion sickness for the audience again?


I knew someone who knew someone who almost got puked on during a BWP showing in 1999.

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I really hope this post is a joke.

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No joke. The shaky hand-cam footage the 1999 film was shot with were making the more sensitive members of the audience sick.

(Wikipedia) Because the filming was done by the actors using hand-held cameras, much of the footage is shaky, especially the final sequence in which a character is running down a set of stairs with the camera. Some audience members experienced motion sickness and even vomited as a result.


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First off, everyone who doesn't easily get motion sickness and still bitches about the "shaky cam" in found footage movies exaggerates greatly.

Second, if you're one of the VERY few people who actually DO get motion sickness very easily, I've got a little newsflash for you: You shouldn't be seeing found-footage movies.

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I don't understand posts like this. I watch found footage movies all of the time and not a single one of them has ever made me feel weird/sick.

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I don't understand posts like this. I watch found footage movies all of the time and not a single one of them has ever made me feel weird/sick.

How wonderful for you. But you aren't everyone, are you?

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I tried to see the original in the theatre twice with two separate groups of friends and BOTH times we ended up having to leave early due to someone getting motion sickness. When I actually saw the film on video, I realized it literally had less than 10 minutes left both times ("Josh? Josh?! JOSH!!") I always hated my friends for that until I got super nauseus during Hardcore Henry last year at TIFF.

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Just because you "don't understand" doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I saw Cloverfield with my best friend when it came out, and the scene involving them running up and down staircases of the skyscraper really made him nauseous. The guy doesn't have a problem with motion sickness (loves roller coasters, simulators, etc), and couldn't even look at the screen during this sequence.

In fact, I'm the one with slight motion sickness issues (can't read while riding in a car, hate roller coasters), and I had no issues with the sequence.

So yeah, it DOES happen.

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Sure, it happens, but it's extremely rare, and the people who DON'T suffer from extreme motion sickness are just being dramatic. If you DO suffer from motion sickness? Don't go see a found footage movie it's that simple.

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In fact, I'm the one with slight motion sickness issues (can't read while riding in a car, hate roller coasters), and I had no issues with the sequence.

I've gradually become more and more subject to motion sickness as I've grown older. Never again will I enjoy the wild rides like the ones I repeatedly rode as a kid. Such is life.

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I didn't bother with this remake, but I'm still curious whether it happened to anyone this time around.

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Yeah, motion sickness is a real thing people. I got it when I saw "The Devil Inside" and I somehow sat through all of it, although I wanted to leave the whole time. It was also an awful film.

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I don't believe a single human being has ever gotten "motion sickness" from the first blair witch movie or any found footage movie since, it is a stupid thing that stupid people claim because they didn't like a movie and choose to latch onto that because they heard some other idiot say it at one point so they continue to parrot it all over the internet. A headache I wouldn't argue impossible but motion sickness I don't believe anyone who claims it, being on a boat that is being tossed side to side is what motion sickness is about, your body is not able to orientate itself with the horizon and is thrown out of whack by not being on stable ground, watching a film does not cause that as you are not moving. Que idiot trolls

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Disbelieve it all you like, Brainiac, but it was very well documented at the time and not just on the 'net. Do your homework before posting infantile smack:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/features/witchdizzy.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project

http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/5-movies-that-will-make-you-sick.html/

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And that someone grew up to become... ?

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Back when it came out, news outlets made it sound like 90% of people watching it were getting nauseous.

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