V/H/S: I'm of mixed and mixed feelings about this one.
Good: Decent horror stories, good twists, a bit of gore (but not too much). A couple of clever turns on the "found footage" theme that turn a plot hole into a plot twist.
Bad: One of the clever turns gets used twice, a sign that maybe the anthology featured one story too many.
Ugly: Look, we get it. Part of the appeal of the "found footage" genre is the unstable camera work. The shaking, the juddering, the sudden blur-and-refocus when the camera is violently turned in one direction or other, the sudden sense of imbalance and panic when all you see is flashes and zig-zags and hear people screaming and... I think you get the point. This movie features WAYYY too much of all of those, and after a while you wish those stupid fuckheads would have learned to use a goddamn gyroscope or something. After a while, the whole "handheld camera" thing is no longer a feature; it's a migraine-and-seizure-inducing bug. Stop fucking doing it, assholes.
Yeah, I got a bit annoyed at that.
Good: Decent horror stories, good twists, a bit of gore (but not too much). A couple of clever turns on the "found footage" theme that turn a plot hole into a plot twist.
Bad: One of the clever turns gets used twice, a sign that maybe the anthology featured one story too many.
Ugly: Look, we get it. Part of the appeal of the "found footage" genre is the unstable camera work. The shaking, the juddering, the sudden blur-and-refocus when the camera is violently turned in one direction or other, the sudden sense of imbalance and panic when all you see is flashes and zig-zags and hear people screaming and... I think you get the point. This movie features WAYYY too much of all of those, and after a while you wish those stupid fuckheads would have learned to use a goddamn gyroscope or something. After a while, the whole "handheld camera" thing is no longer a feature; it's a migraine-and-seizure-inducing bug. Stop fucking doing it, assholes.
Yeah, I got a bit annoyed at that.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould