Marble Hornets

No, not the web videos, there's a movie coming out.

Thoughts?

How about, "Why would anybody want to pay eleven bucks to watch something in a dark, crowded room with annoying strangers when everybody can already watch it in peace and quiet and in the comfort of our own homes for free?"

I just never understand what's supposed to be so appealing about television-to-silver screen or internet-to-silver screen transitions. Sure, it gives the creators a bigger budget and bigger opportunity to do more things with their original premise, but going to a movie theater to observe it always drastically changes everything that was so great about how we originally enjoyed these things in the first place, and usually not for the better.

We might all like Marble Hornets, but that shouldn't necessarily mean I want to watch it in the same room as any of you.

edited 26th Feb '13 2:26:35 PM by SeanMurrayI

I live somewhere where the strangers aren't annoying. I'm always a little bemused when people talk about how horrible the movie-going experience is in other places.

My own movie-going experiences aren't bad themselves, either. My point was that something which I can already watch and enjoy outside of a movie theater is never made any better by going to the theater.

edited 27th Feb '13 10:43:40 AM by SeanMurrayI

Marbel Hornet worked because it was something you'd watch on your own. It was intimate and intimidating at the same time. Also, the very slow build-up really worked, for a very long time nothing actually happened.

This does not work in a feature film. And sure, I'm certain that the cosmic horror will only appear at the end of the film, and only a slightly bit blurry, but there is one big flaw here. A horror only works when you don't know how it looks like. This film all hangs around the Slender Man, and the main problem with Slender Man is that, thanks to some games out there, he's just not scary anymore.

No offense, but the games have desensitized us of the Slender Man. If it weren't for the games, the movie *might* have worked, but then again that would have made the Slender Man less scary as well.