tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post5893571158670265519..comments2023-12-18T23:20:31.042-06:00Comments on Scriblerus Club: Savageland (2017).PrisonerNumber6http://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post-24307005156611548402020-06-07T22:28:20.392-05:002020-06-07T22:28:20.392-05:00(1) I don't think (at least I hope) age has no...(1) I don't think (at least I hope) age has nothing to do with it. Like I say, it's a much more simple question of the lack of imagination.<br /><br />(2) I think I heard somewhere that the original concept was for both the movie and the mockumentary to be like that just this one whole thing. Like they were going to pass off this fake documentary with all the snippets of the movie forming just a part of the overall thing. Somewhere along the way, they had the brilliant idea to split the mockumentary and the footage into two separate, yet related, entities. It was a gamble that paid off quite well in my opinion.<br /><br />(3) Yeah, I agree. It's not bad by any means. It just doesn't grab me in the way this one did. I never got the sense that Romero (a master in every sense of the word) was firing on as many cylinders as could have. For instance, I'm not sure the film has a real ending, and it was a problem that never quite got resolved. Still, you can tell his strengths are on display here and there.<br /><br />(4) I should mention, "Savageland" is available for free viewing on Amazon Prime Movies. It seems like a kind free temporary service deal. That's how I watched it. So I'd urge any who wants to head over and give it a free check out while the offer lasts. I know I wasn't disappointed.<br /><br />ChrisC.PrisonerNumber6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post-48454283728618694802020-06-07T22:13:47.479-05:002020-06-07T22:13:47.479-05:00Yeah, I just never minded, or wasn't bothered ...Yeah, I just never minded, or wasn't bothered by this stuff as much as others were. There seems to be at least few angles that allow people to get creative with this kind of thing. Ever heard of Alan Resnick and Wham City Comedy? They've taken the concept and expanded it into a term known as an A.R.G. (Alternate Reality Game).<br /><br />The gimmick is you take a fictional concept and try to play it out as much as possible on the streets of the real world. It's kind of like conceptual street theater where the audience sometimes has to play a part to move the action forward.<br /><br />ChrisCPrisonerNumber6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post-11913488608173571052020-06-07T21:49:23.796-05:002020-06-07T21:49:23.796-05:00This sounds like something I should check out.
(1...This sounds like something I should check out.<br /><br />(1) My personal take on the found-footage approach is that it's like any other. There are good examples, and lots of bad ones. I'd have a hard time trusting the opinion of anyone who writes a movie off based purely on the fact that it was told in found-footage or mockumentary style. Sure, there are bad ones. So what? Writing the entire approach off strikes me as being the move of older people who aren't interested in most newer movies at all, and have seized upon this subgenre as being a bad thing simply because it came after their time. In some cases, that's heavily their loss.<br /><br />(2) "The Blair Witch Project" is one of my favorite movies, so I'll happily sing its praises. And "The Curse of the Blair Witch" is, to me, an indispensable part of it; I think of them as being the same thing. For me, it conjures up the one thing horror movies need in order to really work: it makes one believe in the situation for long enough to be scared of being in it oneself.<br /><br />However, it was not the first horror movie to work in that format. That distinction seemingly goes to "The Last Broadcast," which came out a year before. The "Blair Witch" filmmakers were already at work on their own film, though, so it's not a case of one influencing the other; they just happened around the same time. I saw "The Last Broadcast" years ago and remember liking it reasonably well; but it's not the masterclass "Blair Witch" is.<br /><br />(3) I like "Diary of the Dead" fairly well, but methinks King is being a bit overeffusive in his praise for it. I do like it, though; it feels like it's still generally underrated. My own pick for the next best use of the subgenre apart from "Blair Witch," though, would be "Paranormal Activity." That movie is scary as hell.Bryant Burnettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189356171455609865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917612005522287441.post-60248532543698833842020-06-07T20:59:33.688-05:002020-06-07T20:59:33.688-05:00I need to see this.
I love those early days (and ...I need to see this.<br /><br />I love those early days (and Blair Witch would be my guess, too, for first out of the gate in this) of multimedia film experiences. (With website, fake documentaries about the fake documentary, etc., everything you cite). Although I guess you could count any movie with a videogame and/or fast food marketing/ merchandise as a multimedia film experience, too. B McMolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706178983936146307noreply@blogger.com