movies/tv What's your opinion on Found Footage Films?

[MLPFanatic34 3,241]

Yes, yes it is. It had some things working for it, like the atmosphere, but for the most part, it was a very poorly made film.

Yeah I watched Brad Jones's review of it and he said it was the worst horror film he's seen and the ending was so retarded.

[Alpha-neos 46]

It seems like most of the good Found Footage films are either foreign or not in theaters here.

 

Its kind of weird, but I'm not saying we can't any good ones for theaters! ^ ^;

[~Rogue~ 193]

Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch Project are both great movies. Project Almanac was okay, and Chronicle is one of my favourite movies. I think Chronicle used found footage to the best effect. It is a great effect and makes a movie much better if you can put it into context. However, I feel more and more of these movies will be popular, and turn it into just another silly horror cliche producers will use to make a movie 'Good' rather than making it 'Better'

[Antidaeophobia 299]

I love found footage and mockumentaries. I'm really into scifi and monster movies, so adding a bit of realism to it makes me love it all the more. I'll gladly sacrifice film quality for being scared or excited when seeing a film. My favorite film is District 9, I love the whole feel of it, part mockumentary, part footage, and part regular cinema- it's great. Fourth Kind scared the shit out of me though, alien abduction scares the bejeezus out of me in general.
There are lots of good found footage films, but there are a lot of stinkers for sure. 

[MLPFanatic34 3,241]

Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity 1 and 2, Cloverfield, and some others I can't remember the names of, are good found footage movies, and I don't hate found footage films in all, I just don't think they're very original anymore. 

 

Case in point with The Gallows, I've heard it probably would have been better as a regular horror movie.

[Alex Z 848]

I dislike them, especially Paranormal Activity. I never understood the appeal of that franchise.

[Prince Firemane 309]

I really can't stand found footage movies and honestly, I just want the style to die. The only one I actually enjoyed was Blair Witch because it went out of its way to do something different. All of them nowadays are just part of a thinly-veiled scam in order to rake in as much money as possible with doing as little work as possible. I found Cloverfield compelling, but the shaky camera bullshit ruined it for me because it distracted from the story in an ill-fated attempt to make us feel like we're part of the group running away from the monster. Now, all we're getting is Paranormal Activity rehashes, including yet more sequels to a series that should've died after the first one. They all follow the same formula now: spooky shit happens, people always decide to set up cameras, more spooky shit happens, people get scared, pepper in a bunch of "make-the-audience-jump" moments, yet more spooky shit happens, then there's some kind of climax before we're left at the end of the movie still not knowing just what the hell was going on. At least when Blair Witch did it, it did it right.

 

Major films have always followed a trend that is the "in" thing at the time. Remember the 3D craze after Avatar came out? Remember the gore-porn craze after Saw came out? Now it's the found footage craze after Paranormal Activity came out. But out of all the film fads of late, I think the found footage one annoys me the most. Why? Because there's no talent in it. Any half-baked idiot with a camera can make a found footage movie, I suppose that's kind of the point to it. But found footage movies have perpetuated a trend in media entertainment that has really become prevalent lately; the trend being general laziness and trying to rake in as much money as possible with doing as little work as possible. We've all seen it, in television programs more and more shows are jumping on this "produce-six-to-eight-episodes-a-year" bandwagon, the production companies probably spend the rest of their show budgets on advertisement to hype the holy shit out of a series that has no real content. Film's answer to that is found footage movies. Like I said, there's no real talent in it; literally anyone with a smartphone can make one. These films don't earn their praise and audience to me. It's literally the easy way out. Movies with good actors, good producers, people who take pride in their work; those are the kinds that earn it.

[Blake of Gilead 140]

 

 

If done right these can be pretty cool and creepy

 

Totally! An example of found footage done right is Paranormal Activity, ESPECIALLY the last 15 minutes of 3. 

[Celli 4,343]

Eh, I think they're mostly crap.

[MLPFanatic34 3,241]

Totally! An example of found footage done right is Paranormal Activity, ESPECIALLY the last 15 minutes of 3. 

Oh god, I covered my eyes during the last 15 mins of the 1st movie, Micah's body being thrown at the camera and then Katie jump scaring the camera made me jump.

[Gearbox10mm 794]

What about real found footage films like the Timothy Treadwell documentary? Pretty creepy stuff seeing what led up to his death.

Edited July 22, 2015 by Gearbox10mm

[Dynamo Pad 11,574]

I like found footage films. It gives you that feeling of what you see is what you get, or something along those lines. It also gives you that feeling like you're in the movie with the characters in my opinion. My favorite found footage film would have to be Chronicle. 

[GuyNamedEarl 1,332]

I think they are kind of dumb, especially ones like The Blair Witch Trials.

[MLPFanatic34 3,241]

Yes, yes it is. It had some things working for it, like the atmosphere, but for the most part, it was a very poorly made film.

I finally saw The Gallows and while it wasn't the best horror movie I've seen it was decent, the only thing that bothered me were the ending and the main male named Ryan, other than that an average film.

Edited August 7, 2015 by MLPFanatic34

[Valynne 2,733]

I LOVE FOUnD FOOTAGE! my favorites are Rap Rat, The bitteroot footage and Imsomnio let me give the links!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW5m3ix8KuI

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSJlzuRTiLM

[Ochre_Dust 329]

Can't stand found footage films. Cloverfield was the nail in the coffin for me.

[Moony the Cat 3,707]

I like the lost footage movies. But I would LOVE a Lost Footage style horror game!

There you go :

 

 

Its not completely Found Footage, but from my understanding, most of the game plays trough the perspective of an camera and its your job to record important footage. I havent played it though. The game is kinda rare 

 

I love Found Footage Movies, my first was The Blair Witch Project followed by The Amityville Haunting 

I loved them both, you almost feel like you are really there. Specially in running scenes, when you see scenes were the other people are way ahead of you, its just more intense. 

Specially since you dont really see whats around you, since the characters can only look at one direction at a time.

I like Found Footage Films. Im kinda interested to watch Rec and Paranormal Activity too sometimes  :grin2:

Edited August 7, 2015 by .hack//RARITY

[Alpha-neos 46]

There you go :

 

Michigan.jpg

 

Its not completely Found Footage, but from my understanding, most of the game plays trough the perspective of an camera and its your job to record important footage. I havent played it though. The game is kinda rare 

 

I love Found Footage Movies, my first was The Blair Witch Project followed by The Amityville Haunting 

I loved them both, you almost feel like you are really there. Specially in running scenes, when you see scenes were the other people are way ahead of you, its just more intense. 

Specially since you dont really see whats around you, since the characters can only look at one direction at a time.

I like Found Footage Films. Im kinda interested to watch Rec and Paranormal Activity too sometimes  :grin2:

 

WHERE THE HECK WAS THIS!?!? I didn't even know it existed!! D:

[Moony the Cat 3,707]

Um, what exactly do you mean? The Game?

 

I know the game from an Wikipedia article. It was released in 2004. The producers of this game also worked on Shadows of the Damned, NoMoreHeroes and Killer7. ( to name a few more famous titles )

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan:_Report_from_Hell

Edited August 13, 2015 by .hack//RARITY

[Xeltor23 704]

They are good supports for horror movies, like really, but the spectator has his own role to play, by functioning with the power of suggestion, mostly when we see the villain at the end only

[Alpha-neos 46]

Um, what exactly do you mean? The Game?

 

I know the game from an Wikipedia article. It was released in 2004. The producers of this game also worked on Shadows of the Damned, NoMoreHeroes and Killer7. ( to name a few more famous titles )

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan:_Report_from_Hell

 

Hmmmm. OH! I actually do remember this game! Wow, I totally forgot this game's existence. XD

They are good supports for horror movies, like really, but the spectator has his own role to play, by functioning with the power of suggestion, mostly when we see the villain at the end only

 

Your signature is really cool!   Is that the opening to Dragon Ball Super? Or is it something else?

Also, I don't get what you said, could you explain it, if you don't mind that is. ^ ^;

Edited August 14, 2015 by Alpha-neos

[Buck Testa 5,505]

I have yet to see a found footage movie I could truly call great. Most of the ones I've seen ranged from barely watchable to awful. 

 

The only one I've ever even mildly liked was Chronicle, and really the only reason I liked that was because it was near lawsuit levels of similar to the anime movie Akira. 

 

The gallows commercials looked so horrendously bad and cliche that i didn't even bother watching it, and it was subsequently critically panned for being just another washed up found footage cliche calling itself a movie. 

 

I think there COULD be a good found footage movie if someone with some actual script writing chops and some sort of concept of film making got behind it, but until someone with an actual vision does give it a go I don't have high hopes for found footage movies. 

[Xeltor23 704]

 

Your signature is really cool!   Is that the opening to Dragon Ball Super? Or is it something else?

Yep, it's from the opening

[Alpha-neos 46]

I have yet to see a found footage movie I could truly call great. Most of the ones I've seen ranged from barely watchable to awful. 

 

The only one I've ever even mildly liked was Chronicle, and really the only reason I liked that was because it was near lawsuit levels of similar to the anime movie Akira. 

 

The gallows commercials looked so horrendously bad and cliche that i didn't even bother watching it, and it was subsequently critically panned for being just another washed up found footage cliche calling itself a movie. 

 

I think there COULD be a good found footage movie if someone with some actual script writing chops and some sort of concept of film making got behind it, but until someone with an actual vision does give it a go I don't have high hopes for found footage movies. 

 

I'm starting to lose a bit of hope if this keeps going on. Guess I'll keep my fingers crossed. By the way, that girl in your icon looks familiar, I feel like I've seen her before but I don't know. What's her name?

 

Yep, it's from the opening

 

EPIC! XD

Edited August 14, 2015 by Alpha-neos

[Buck Testa 5,505]

 

 

I'm starting to lose a bit of hope if this keeps going on. Guess I'll keep my fingers crossed. By the way, that girl in your icon looks familiar, I feel like I've seen her before but I don't know. What's her name?  

 

If what keeps going on? Bad found footage movies or comments pointing them out? Like I said it could work, but you have to have someone outstanding behind the cinematography and screen writing. Alot of the people who make these movies are seeing the low budget and the filled movie seats as good investments and that wiggling a handheld camera at a scene is good enough for "found footage"

In reality a found footage movie done right is HARDER to do than a regular movie, which is why so many flop.

 

Her name is Maria Ushiromiya and she is from the Umineko/higurashi series, her expression and me go together so well she became my near universal avatar on the internet.