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I SO want to see this movie however I'm in Orlando! I'm all excited about b/c I love J.J. Abrams and I am really interested to see how well they build up the suspense and fear in the unknowing times of a post 9/11 world. I believe that is what he is trying to achieve by filming it in the style of "The Blair Witch" project, as you put it. 
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I saw it. I thought that it was o.k. I rather liked the idea of keeping under wraps what lurks out there. One of the high points of this cinematic motif was Alien. The terror of not knowing that which stalks was best done by Scott, and it's tough to top it. There are clear homages to The Blair Witch Project, but that isn't revealing much about the plot of the movie since I am sure you have all seen the movie trailer.
Scenes of falling buildings and billowing clouds of debris recall the news video of 9-11. I think, without reading too much into the movie, that the director in fact wanted the audience to recall 9-11. One theme, perhaps a bit overdone and heavy-handed in the film, is that we need to seize the moment, to live in the here and now, for in the next instant the vicissitudes of life may take us or our loved ones away. We may be lost to forces and influences that feel no malice nor are motivatived to provide us succor, that are primal, elementally existential in composition. After all, isn't that sort of monsterous mutablity the most terrifying experience of all?
Scenes of falling buildings and billowing clouds of debris recall the news video of 9-11. I think, without reading too much into the movie, that the director in fact wanted the audience to recall 9-11. One theme, perhaps a bit overdone and heavy-handed in the film, is that we need to seize the moment, to live in the here and now, for in the next instant the vicissitudes of life may take us or our loved ones away. We may be lost to forces and influences that feel no malice nor are motivatived to provide us succor, that are primal, elementally existential in composition. After all, isn't that sort of monsterous mutablity the most terrifying experience of all?
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Originally Posted by triman54,Jan 18 2008, 08:09 PM
I saw it. I thought that it was o.k. I rather liked the idea of keeping under wraps what lurks out there. One of the high points of this cinematic motif was Alien. The terror of not knowing that which stalks was best done by Scott, and it's tough to top it. There are clear homages to The Blair Witch Project, but that isn't revealing much about the plot of the movie since I am sure you have all seen the movie trailer.
Scenes of falling buildings and billowing clouds of debris recall the news video of 9-11. I think, without reading too much into the movie, that the director in fact wanted the audience to recall 9-11. One theme, perhaps a bit overdone and heavy-handed in the film, is that we need to seize the moment, to live in the here and now, for in the next instant the vicissitudes of life may take us or our loved ones away. We may be lost to forces and influences that feel no malice nor are motivatived to provide us succor, that are primal, elementally existential in composition. After all, isn't that sort of monsterous mutablity the most terrifying experience of all?
Scenes of falling buildings and billowing clouds of debris recall the news video of 9-11. I think, without reading too much into the movie, that the director in fact wanted the audience to recall 9-11. One theme, perhaps a bit overdone and heavy-handed in the film, is that we need to seize the moment, to live in the here and now, for in the next instant the vicissitudes of life may take us or our loved ones away. We may be lost to forces and influences that feel no malice nor are motivatived to provide us succor, that are primal, elementally existential in composition. After all, isn't that sort of monsterous mutablity the most terrifying experience of all?
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ALIENS is almost as good.
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Jillian and I saw it today and I think it's worth seeing it in a theater with REALLY good surround sound. Not a fan of the handicam cinemagraphic style, but the movie had great sound editing/effects.