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

>>87044128
Ever since three shitheads got lost the woods there's been an endless supply of copies.

>>87044128
Because it's lazy. Dude why bother putting any effort to a film's production when we can just do found footage lmao?!

Also, the majority of found footage films are really, really terrible (in part related to the point above). Yeah, it's such a mystery why so many automatically "write them off"!

>found footage movie
>It's a LOL SO SPOOPY MOVIE :^)

Why can't they try a drama/comedy with this format?

>>87044528
>what is project x

>>87044245
Not really true actually. Surprisingly there weren't a large number of Blair Witch imitators in the early 00s. It was actually Paranormal Activity in 2009 that kicked off the found footage craze.

>>87044128
When it's good, it's really good, but it doesn't take much to make it crap. Any of the following pretty much instantly break immersion:

>bad writing
>bad acting
>bad effects
>breaking convention

Pretty much any of those can take a decent premise and crater it. They should stick with camera crews, surveillance footage, phones and GoPros. Even then, a camera crew should frequently be abandoning cameras, dropping them and shit. Only a fanatically dedicated cameraman would stoically keep filming the horror coming to kill him, and it's hard to "accidentally" film things with an unaided camera. The best found footage recognizes this and has a lot of footage obviously filmed by a source lying immobile on the ground.

BWP and [REC] are the only good examples of found footage horror

There are like 10 shitty found footage horror flicks a year and they all suck.

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>>87044128
someone /rec/ me some good found footage kinos? I've seen tony blair witch, and paranormal activity, that's about it.

>>87044910
>forgetting Cannibal holocaust
>forgetting Noroi
>forgetting Guinea pig 2: flowers of flesh and bone
>forgetting troll hunter
Pleb

>>87044128
>some of the best horrors in the past few years
Not exactly a high praise

>>87044128
Because there are only 3 good movies out of hundreds. Cannibal Holocaust, Blair Witch Project and REC

>>87044940
check out:
>banshee chapter
>the borderlands
>as above, so below
>hell house LLC

that's a nice starter kit.

>>87044128
because its badly made. found footage always thinks home movie quality/editing = realism . even then they often have shots they could not have gotten so its high tech trying to be low tech ending up being a waste of time

>>87044981
Cannibal Holocaust should have been all found footage like BWP. The framing device with the TV station was a mistake.

>>87044981
fuck the contrarians, noroi is a good spooky movie

>>87045013
I liked Cloverfield.

>>87044886
I think best movie would be a movie crew that plane crashed in some woodu place

>>87044981
>cannibal holocaust
DUDE REAL ANIMAL KILLINGS LMAO!

>>87045093
Noroi is a pleb filter, people don't like it because it's a slow burner

>>87045126
I watched one a couple of days ago with a pretty decent premise. It followed a Bear Grills type out filming a survival show when an alien starts trying to kill him. I think it was called "Man versus."

If the effects hadn't been total ass, it could have been fantastic.

>>87044940
Troll Hunter and VHS 1

>>87044128
They get a bad rap because they're very easy to screw up.