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Originally Posted by horcrux2007
A couple of reviews for Poltergeist was released today, and they're actually not that bad. They said it obviously doesn't improve on the original, but it modernizes it well, and there are a couple of good scares.
And Jake, how exactly is PA bad (and don't say "nothing happens"; that's a cop out)?
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2 positive and 1 negative on RT. That's surprising.
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No cop outs my good man. I was just bored with it, I was in highschool when the Blair Witch Project came out and I very much remember all the hype behind that. I was so pumped up to go and see it in the theater and had the same reaction when it ended... "What the fuck was that?" My problem is in the first movie there was very little depth. At least with Blair Witch there was a boat load of back story before the movie came out that made it interesting. With PA it was just so abrupt. There where some decent scares and whatnot, but there just wasn't any content. It also kills me that they have been able to rehash the movie five times basically re-filming it with different name and making millions of dollars off of it.
As I always say though, to each their own. PA just wasn't my thing. For the most part found footage isn't my thing. Not that I haven't seen some decent ones but you just cant do the things that are key to me in building a really scary movie as found footage. I need to care about people before you torture and kill them, and you cant really build a character in found footage because your being dropped into a moment in their lives.