[UA] Blair Witch 2

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 04:28 PM 11/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I saw "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" over the weekend.  A good movie, if
>not a great one.  If you enjoyed the first (for whatever sick, twisted
>reason, as I did), I think you'd probably like the sequel.  I don't want to
>give away any spoilers here (yet), but I think you could easily insert most
>if not all of the supernatural elements into UA.  We had a pretty good
>discussion of the Blair Witch and UA last October when the first movie came
>out, just wondering if anyone has seen the sequel yet.

(If this isn't OT...)

I saw it and I thought it was a piece of shit, quite frankly.  It reminded
me of the presidential election: A dire demonstration of the limits of
focus groups.  

Lemme switch gears into world-weary Gen X cynical insider mode here...
(whatever, whatever, whatever...)  Okay, I'm there.

I think BW2 was a rather clumsy attempt to reposition the "Blair Witch"
property.  I think they were trying to sell it to everyone who DIDN'T like
the first one, so they did everything differently.  First one worked solely
by implication and made you think your way through to the terror?  Not BW2!
 We'll just go for the gore!

Feh.

-G.

"About halfway through the movie, I found myself thinking, 'You know what
this flick needs?  Jackie Chan.'"   -The Self-Made Critic, reviewing BW2

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