A little off topic, but the debate about non experienced hikers doing dumb stuff made me remember a little story that still makes me giggle.
We had gone to the BWP with Loud Friend (LF). LF drove home telling us that there’s NO WAY that would happen to her, she has EXTENSIVE OUTDOOR SURVIVAL TRAINING! Really? Huh, I’ve known her 20 years and never knew that. OK.
A week or two later we’re “camping”. On what is essentially a front yard of a house with all the mod cons. (My buddy’s cabin) This will be almost urban for extensively trained outdoor survivalist one woman SAS camper, I guess. So she goes to set up her tent on a slopy, almost v-like vegetation-free part of the property. I’m no expert, but my inner geomorphologist would wager that it’s shaped like that because when it rains heavily, it channels the flash flooding off the property and into the lake. She sniffs at this. And how much education of the outdoors do you have, Gretchen? I shrug and do the sensible think (start making drinks) while she busts out her old school, forty pound tent that took up my whole trunk. Those dome shaped ones? Hah! If it doesn’t open on two sides it’s not worth it. A little odd, but remember that, it will be important later.
Sure enough it rains that evening. Those two tents openings? doing a fine job of funneling water right into her tent and directly out the other side. She ended up sleeping in my car.
Lord, I hope that I never need to battle supernatural forest demons with her.:rolleyes:
CYA (cover your a$$) Note: I do not endorse or condone in any way the piracy of movies
OK, before BWP was released anywhere other than at various film festivals (I had never heard of it), the young BOFH intern that I worked with handed me two burned CDs. Little explanation was involved.
“It’s about these 3 films students doing a documentary about a witch yadda yadda yadda,” said the young BOFH, “It scared the crap outta me.”
That weekend, hyperjes and I plugged the 1st cd into my pc and watched. We were at my parent’s house, and they were gone for the weekend. The quality of the rip was horrible, very pixelated. Trust me, it is alot scarier when you get a grainy bootleg cd copy with little explanation from some kid at work. I must have said, “Is this real?” 50 times during that movie. After we watched it I went around the house locking doors and windows. hyperjes laughed at me. I was not amused.
When it came around to the $1 theater in town, we went to see it, just so we could better see what the hell was going on (“Is that a finger?”). In the theater it was less than overwhelming, as many of you describe. But there was a residual feeling of ooginess left over from my first viewing.
I rather liked it the first time - I saw it at a theatre when it first came out (and skipped school to do it - maybe this helped. A movie will always be improved by seeing while your skipping school) and I really quite liked it. I got involved, and even though I knew it wasn’t real by the end with the running through the woods and the house with the hands I was getting freaked out.
I saw it again with a different group of people a couple of days later and it totally sucked. It was boring, I knew what was coming up I’d had time to think about it.
When I saw it for the third time when it was out on video, I hated it.
It was an OK film, but it definitely didn’t stand up to repeat viewings.
(I don’t camp and I do read.)
Utter Crap. I watched it waiting for something… What did get?
Bad camera work anoying characters whoes dialogue consisted of cursing and nothing of any insight. And then there is the ending. My wife and I sat there dumbfounded. Then she looked at me and remarked.
“All that “Build” up for a shot of a guy pissing in the corner?”
Kind of a good metephor for the money I pissed away watching this garbage. When will they be able to make a good horror film again?