Going into the movie, I was nervous about viewing it. Having two passes, I engaged my roommate to join me and while he drove to the theater I looked it up. I was not 100% clear on its development. I wondered if it was recorded like Cloverfield (2008), Quarantine (2008) and, the ever so dreadful, The Blair Witch Project (1999).
All of those films I went to see and each gave me violent motion sickness. Paying for a film which one does not get to enjoy, having to exit and void the stomach of its outrageously purchased contents from the concession stand, is truly unjust. I had vowed never to see those types of films again. Yet, much to my dismay, I saw a comment answering my question – it was.
Being half way there, and six years since of avoidance to any film shot as such, I decided to give it a chance. For the first thirty minutes, I did not feel any of the effects of illness. However, like an ingested drug, the effects quickly began soon after thirty minutes. Not being brave like the lady before me who faced down, resting her forehead on her hand supported by her elbow on the armrest, I stood up to leave. I was unable to finish the film so had to ask about the ending I would have liked to see for myself.
I'm sure the director, Dave Green, or screenplay writer, Henry Gayden, may have produced the work this way, to give the perception of realism, but all it did was take away from the story. In doing so, the story was defeated with an unjust amount of unsteady scenic shots, gross amounts of odd angles, and robbing audience that do get motion sickness the ability to enjoy the story to its end.
This film had numerous comical lines that made the audience laugh, ECHOed by the children, making it cute and enjoyable, for those unlike myself, who may share it with their like family. However, I was unable to finish the film and in being the case I will have to mark it harshly as it marked me harshly.
All of those films I went to see and each gave me violent motion sickness. Paying for a film which one does not get to enjoy, having to exit and void the stomach of its outrageously purchased contents from the concession stand, is truly unjust. I had vowed never to see those types of films again. Yet, much to my dismay, I saw a comment answering my question – it was.
Being half way there, and six years since of avoidance to any film shot as such, I decided to give it a chance. For the first thirty minutes, I did not feel any of the effects of illness. However, like an ingested drug, the effects quickly began soon after thirty minutes. Not being brave like the lady before me who faced down, resting her forehead on her hand supported by her elbow on the armrest, I stood up to leave. I was unable to finish the film so had to ask about the ending I would have liked to see for myself.
I'm sure the director, Dave Green, or screenplay writer, Henry Gayden, may have produced the work this way, to give the perception of realism, but all it did was take away from the story. In doing so, the story was defeated with an unjust amount of unsteady scenic shots, gross amounts of odd angles, and robbing audience that do get motion sickness the ability to enjoy the story to its end.
This film had numerous comical lines that made the audience laugh, ECHOed by the children, making it cute and enjoyable, for those unlike myself, who may share it with their like family. However, I was unable to finish the film and in being the case I will have to mark it harshly as it marked me harshly.