Sinister: blair witch/eyes wide

[Jim Schmidt]

     someone asked:
     American listees who have seen either "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Blair 
     Witch Project" (can't wait to see both of 'em). 
     
     ok,ok...i have to say that i haven't been so overly disappointed by 
     two seemingly exciting films in a long time. my advise is: don't buy 
     the hype. save your money for another copy of tigermilk.
     
     "blair witch" has a great premise and is overall well-done, but it 
     failed the ultimate test for me...it WASN'T scary!!! maybe if i was 
     ten years old...or afraid of the dark. c'mon, i love to make videos 
     and shoot film as much as the next fledgling director, but i felt the 
     characters really started to lose credibility when they were running 
     around with their cameras turned on. if something is chasing you and 
     you're scared to death, screw the heavy equipment--either drop it or 
     use it as a weapon. film the ghoul or live? hmmm, tough question. but 
     alas this would've destroyed the premise... plus the people spent an 
     awful large amount of time sitting around moping instead of getting 
     the hell out. great idea, not scary. maybe it's also because i'm just 
     not scared of ghosts... midnight crackheads and painfully high rent 
     frighten me more.
     
     now on to the masterpiece itself--"eyes wide shut". inexcusably 
     excrutiatingly dull. if people talked this slow, nothing would ever be 
     communicated. this film was obviously made by a man. it's pretty much 
     just a titty movie with skinny model girls running around tempting tom 
     cruise. i did have a good time laughing at the "rituals" that occur, 
     but please, the underground sex scenes are vanilla at best. ho hum. 
     everyone's white and rich and boring. this film might have had 
     something interesting to say 20 years ago or if it had been made by 
     david lynch.
     
     ok, that's all...if you wanna see something more suspenseful, waste 
     your money on "arlington rd"...if you wanna see something at least a 
     bit more provocative, check out "summer of sam"...if you wanna see a 
     tit flick, buy tigermilk.
     
     i've got the beginnings of a stomach illness today and i'm blaming 
     "eyes wide shut" (perhaps the really annoying sparse piano music which 
     was supposed to signify ???)...i really want my 7 bucks and 3 hours 
     back please.
     
     sign me.bitter.
     

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