Why does found footage get such a bad rap? I feel like a lot

Well, what's a good found footage movie?

>>84732997
There original Blair Witch in 2000, before no one know what a found footage movie was and they actually had promotions for the movie disguised as documentaries airing on channels like scifi and nbc. People were willing to believe a lot more back then.

it's mostly used in low budget films
conveniently seems to allow for the absence of good cinematography

if you look at the release dates for them, there's a big carryover between film and digital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_footage_(film_technique)#Films
I get plot wise it makes sense that cameras became a lot more common in the later 00s, but it's also when cheap digital cameras that could produce cinema quality too

when it's a bit bigger a film I don't mind it, Cloverfield and Chronicle were ok

seems to be a big split in comedy being fake documentary and horror being found footage

>>84732936
>Why does found footage get such a bad rap?

It looks and sounds like garbage.

the original Blair Witch is the only good found footage movie and that has a lot to do with the fact that it was the first of its kind and that it did the best it could with a really small budget, most modern found footage movies are just as bad as mainstream horror movies, filled with CGI, jump scares and orchestra stings

>If you don't like found footage horrors than you just don't like horror movies

go fuck yourself

>>84732936
You're a fucking retard.

>no effort camera work, obviously
>almost always shit actors
>the two gimmicks of found footage - some shit happening behind someone and someone (usually a generic white-eyed person) popping in front of the camera - are cheap

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the only thing I want to see it used for is an adaptation of this

>>84732936
>Why does found footage get such a bad rap?
It doesn't. Marble Hornets is above reproach. 1000 faggots tried copying its greatness, which hurt its image kinda, but it itself is kino.

>>84733226
>>84733281
>>84733288
>same faggots that think the conjuring and insidious are good horrors
lel, fuck off plebs

>>84733361
for the love of god under no circumstances should you ever touch anything else he has ever written
The Familiar series is the most pretentious trash on the market
Only Revolutions I believe is genuinely the worst book of all time
Danielewski is a fedora-wearing Yale faggot obsessed with hairless cats

because they are low budget cash grabs and 75% of them are trash. Even blair witch project was shit and just a succes because of the marketing.

>>84733041
>Can only name Blair Witch
Here's your answer why people hate FF movies.

>>84733041
My dad is still angry because he thought it was their actual found footage at first.

Only found footage I remember watching was REC (and rec 2, not as good though)
Good shit

Usually because it's lazy, it's an easy excuse to not spend money on effects, use jerky edits and camera blur/focus with bad lighting to disguise what's happening.

Found footage done right is great, but it's abused, like most things in every genre of cinema. Foundfootage is horror's dead horse that they keep beating, much like superheroes are action movie's bloody horse.

OP's pic is from Afflicted, which is a good found footage. It uses the medium to actually show us something interesting (first person of a feral vampire shredding a swat team, running round walls etc is fucking awesome).

Also something like The Borderlands, where the characters wear bodycams as well as having certain areas set up for video (it's an investigation team) mixes it up nicely and gives us a break from non-stop shaky cam.

>>84733361
But if you adapt it then the navidson record becomes real and all the fake bibliographies make even less sense

Although ive been wanting an adaptation for years, i honestly dont think theres a way it could be done well. Too much of the enjoyment of that book is in its presentation.

>>84733926
The fifty year sword is short story kino

Danielewskis problem is that his first book was too good and hes trying way to hard to capture lightning again.

>>84732997
i liked cloverfield
REC is good, the original

>>84732936
>found footage movie
>has that one guy who records absolutely everything

Nobody walks around with a camera or phone running 24/7. NOBODY!

lol you're an idiot, my man

>>84732997
Noroi is pretty good, and The Tunnel and The Conspiracy were alright. Lake Mungo is more of a mockumentary than found footage, but it's also worth mentioning.

>>84733926
Even House of Leaves was pretty awful with the writer's self-insert tattoo artist character. The book became a lot more enjoyable when I started skipping those sections.

If used correctly it can greatly enhance the horror experience and put the viewer right into the situation the characters are in. But this is a rare case.

Its usually just used because its super cheap and not hard to do.

Noroi and Lake Mungo are great but you have to see them alone at night

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This thread made me want to watch The Last Broadcast.
Thanks a lot OP.

>>84734387
>this guy is going to kill me and I'm running for my life
>better get it on camera