The Blair Witch Project

I’ve been wanting to see this movie for quite some time now. I’ve heard good things from people whose opinions I trust…but I’ve also heard people saying it’s one of the worst movies they’ve ever seen. Those two facts alone almost always make me want to see a movie.
Also, I’m a fan of the style that it was filmed in…similar to Cloverfield etc.
Basically, these three friends are making a documentary on the Blair Witch, who is said to haunt this local forest. After interviewing a few people around the town, they travel in to the forest, set up camp, and stay the night…filming almost everything as they go. Unfortunately, things start going south after the first night…when they cant find their way back to their car. They end up spending another night in the forest…hearing strange noises this time.
They pretty much conclude the next day that they are lost, and one of the guys even admits to kicking the map into the river, which enrages both the other people. They continue to hear strange things, mostly at night, and they stumble across strange things during the day. One of the guys, Josh I believe, ends up missing about ¾ of the way through. Dun dun dunnn.
I’ve talked to a few people about their “theories” as to what is exactly going on, and what happens at the end of the movie…and the majority of the people I talk to bombard me with questions as to why the witch does what she does to the characters at the end of the film…and why she lets some other unknown party come and collect the tapes that recorded what went down. People have themselves really worked up over what/why this witch is doing what she’s doing.
MY theory, if that’s what you want to call it, is that there really is no witch…
I mean, at no point throughout the entire movie do we ever get concrete proof that the witch exists…nothing.
My first thought is that it’s Josh setting his friends up…I mean, I obviously don’t think he’s sane…I feel like maybe he went kinda insane? Maybe being paranoid with the Blair Witch curse and being in the forest…it all just got to him?
HIS pack and clothes are the ones that got covered in slime…HE is the one that disappeared…they hear HIM screaming…but as much as they try and find him he seems to avoid it…
I don’t really know…
As for the ending…I’m not really sure what happened…MIKE…yesss I just remembered his name. Mike ends up staring at a wall…screaming? I’m not sure, I don’t remember…
The beginning of the movie states that they remain missing, that they, nor anything that belonged to them, aside from their tapes, was ever found.
On the whole, I really enjoyed the movie…I can see how its kinda a ‘love it or hate it’ kind of movie. As I said before, I’m a sucker for movies that feel like you’re watching a playback of something recorded on a video recorder. I think it gives it an eerie realistic feel that you lose when they put a lot of effort into the professional filming. And although it had the feel of just spontaneous filming, it was obvious when you paid more attention that many of the shots were thought out very thoroughly and some pretty neat shots were achieved.
I also liked the fact that there was a lot left to the imagination…never seeing the witch and the camera turning off and on, cutting out parts…you miss some stuff…for example, we don’t figure out until later that Heather actually took one of the little stick figures that were hanging in the tree.
ANYWAY. I liked it…it kept me entertained.

7.7/10

Audition

Mkay. So this is like a Korean horror movie…
It starts out with this guy, and his wife passes away. Years later, his son mentions to him that he thinks that his father needs to get out, start dating, perhaps get married again.
So, the man, being a part of the movie industry, sets up an audition for a female lead role that describes what his ideal woman is. Obviously, he finds and falls in love with one of the women who auditioned. The first three quarters of the movie is them building up a relationship basically. We see a little bit into the girls past…which as more and more is revealed to us we find out that she’s had a fucked up childhood…then we figure out that SHE is pretty fucked up as well. It’s a really really slow beginning…they’re building up…and the “climax” is moderately surprising. Because it was advertised as a horror you kinda suspect something is going to happen.
But, when the climax does happen, it wasn’t really…disturbing enough for me :/
I know, I’m probably really fucked up. But I can deal with a really slow build up, but the big BAM better be big and worth it! It just feel short for me a little bit.
My thing is eyeballs…I cannot stannndddd stuff with eyeballs. And in part of her torture…she sticks pins under his eyeballs, and I almost wish they would have shown them getting put in! That would have made me cringe…
But, they didn’t so…ahh well…
One thing that I did love about the movie, and it was really really memorable for me, was what she was saying while she was putting the pins in various areas of his body. Every time she stuck one in she would kinda coo “kikireekireekireeeee…” and it was quite eerie.
Other than that…acting wasn’t fantastic…plot was mehh…wasn’t all that disturbing…
I felt a little bit let down.

5/10

The Sixth Sense

I honestly have no idea why I haven’t seen this movie before now…haha. I had always heard about it…it’s the movie that brought about the ever famous line “I see dead people” But I, for whatever reason, had always passed it off as a typical horror movie. You know, scary ghosts, spirits all that kinda stuff. But I definitely had NO idea that it would be as good as it was…in comparison to what I expected.
We start off with this child psychologist, played by Bruce Willis, and he is visited by an old patient in his home…The patient is extremely frustrated and claims that he didn’t help him at all. Eventually his anger escalades and he shoots at the doctor. A few months later, Willis has another patient…one that reminds him an awful lot of the other one that he couldn’t help.
Because of that fact, Willis has a special place for this kid, and really wants to help him.
Eventually, after earning the kids trust, the kid tells him that he sees and talks with people who are dead…but don’t always know that they’re dead. He starts helping the kid to actually communicate with these ghosts…and the child ends up helping them, so they stop hurting him.
The acting was very well done. That kid! I love that kid :P After seeing him in Pay It Forward I think he is absolutely adorable. A pretty good crier too.
Bruce Willis was decent too.
The ending was one to definitely remember…and its definitely going to be a movie that I watch again. Similar to a Lost episode…you get to the end of the movie and you try and desperately recall what you’ve just seen…almost searching for ways to prove the ending wrong…or find a slip up.
How they pulled off that ending without me suspecting…I have no idea. I did figure out the “twist” about five/ten minutes ahead of when you typically figure out what’s going on…but it honestly surprised me.
The general plot wasn’t extensive…but it was very entertaining…and it was very well done (:

7/10

Jacob's Ladder

Mkay. So, basically, this is about a soldier, Jacob, who was in the Vietnam war. The movie starts out in the middle of the war, they're under attack, then suddenly flashes to after the war. Now, after the war, Jacob is seeing all these creepy people and voices and shit, and he's kinda on a mission to figure what the fuck is going on.
I think this is one of these movies where you either love it or you hate it. I mean, I wouldn’t really know…no one I know personally has seen it, so I haven’t been able to talk it out with people, but I get the feeling that some people would just totally give up on it. It’s definitely not for people who are looking for a movie that serves you the answers on a platter…it brings up question after question. And when it finally seems like your getting your questions answered, BAM they get you with the big ‘What the fuck!?’.
Anyway, Tim Robbins plays the main character. I think he's a strange guy lol...Ever since seeing Shawshank Redemption, I just think he’s really funny looking! And it was honestly hard for me to get past that, it was so strange.
I didn't think that the acting was great...but the plot made up for it, it really did.
I think my favourite character was Louis the chiropractor!! He had some of the best lines. Amoung my favourite: "Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth"
Most of the film is dark...and it gets darker as it goes on (I feed off of this stuff in case you haven't noticed lol) BUT you get the dark and gory feel without an excess of actual gore. Then, when they do throw a bit of gore in, the impact is much more intense.
Usually, I would have hated the way this film ended...I won't go into great detail...because doing so would totally ruin what I love about this movie, and would be beyond unfair. BUT Jacob's Ladder actually pulled it off.
It made me feel content with an ending that I usually hate, because it just fit, and they made it work.
I dunno. I loved it though.

9/10

Blue Velvet

I really enjoyed this movie...I’m starting to become a pretty big David Lynch fan. It’s dark, full of dark humour, it was great.
It starts out with the main character, Jeffery, and he finds an ear lying in the middle of a field. Eventually, he gets all wrapped up in the investigation following the discovery of the ear, and discovers some things about his town I’m sure he found surprising and disturbing :)
My favourite character was night club singer, Dorothy. I just felt like she really developed especially compared to the other female role, Sandy, played by Laura Dern. I just really don’t like Laura Dern, I think she’s a terrible actress. For me, she’s never really brought anything that I haven’t seen before, nothing interesting, nothing. Plus, she sucks ass at crying…Like, really. It’s terrible. The first movie I saw her in was Novocaine I think…which may be why I dislike her so much :P
Okay, on to something else I really loved. The scene where the cameras slowly zooming in towards the grass, then it takes us into the dirt and there’s all bugs and shit. Yes, I’m aware I do the scene no justice. I liked the whole introduction into a dirty sketchy kinda world underneath everything else that is seemingly perfect.
I also thought it was really neat. When the main character found the ear in the field and we were taken on this eerie trip like through…into the ear. And I totally didn’t even notice (shame on me) that the camera never came back out…until the very end of the film, when all is well, and we get the same journey except out of the ear.
Something I kind of noticed was that when a scene was kind of portraying innocence, that kinda thing, the dialogue and everything seemed really cheesy, and dumbed down kinda, and when the darkness was added back into the film everything seemed to improve. I don’t know if that was on purpose…I mean, I got the feel that it was, but I could be wrong. I thought it was neat anyway.
The music and sounds were fantastic, and the contrast between the black and white and colours, most notably the red curtains that kept popping up, were incredible.
Would recommend it for sure!
Although, with saying that, there is some nudity/sex/rape etc…just wanna put that out there.

8.5/10