Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner On ‘Troll Hunter’

COMMENTS (9)

• If this is another found-footage movie I will shoot myself in the face. Incorporating video cameras into your story isn’t an excuse for shooting cheap- and crappy-looking movies.

  Anyone else remember the good old days when movies (even scary ones) were actually pleasant to look at?

  Comment by HW — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 11:06am PDT  Reply to this post

  • It is found footage. Deal with it. It’s better than the current glut of needless 3-D.

    Comment by Bruce — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 12:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Blair Witch Project II

  Comment by Curtis Scoon — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 12:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Paranormal Craptivity 2. Rumors are that Blume and Co were scrambling to bring in horror hitmakers to try and re-tool the pile that’s about to be released. 72% drop second weekend.

    Comment by Captain Awesome — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 12:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Holy Shit! Can we just buy and make real stories. No more 3D, no more tape found, no more funny guys who are not funny. Let’s go back to the 70s or for christsakes the 90s. God bless Harvey Weinstein. At least he made movies and not garbage like Avatar.

  Thank you.

  Comment by Anhonestanswer.com — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 1:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fantastic Fest was proud to unveil the film several weeks back at a secret screening, and it is indeed fantastic – a highly ingenious, very impressive crowd pleaser. Very smart pick-up for Magnet.

  Comment by Robogeek — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 2:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Troll Hunter was one of the secret screenings at Fantastic Fest last month in Austin, and it was a genuinely entertaining little film with some impressive visual effects. It’s not meant to be a horror film, just an odd little fantasy flick handled in documentary-style format (maybe more like the first part of District 9, rather than Paranormal Activity or Blair Witch). I was pleasantly surprised by it overall.

  Comment by John in Austin — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 2:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Just saw the trailer for the film, and guess what, it involves *SPOILER ALERT* crappy-looking video footage of people running into the woods at night with video cameras and panting breathlessly about what the f%* is going on.

  It’s the curse of the Blair Watch, blessing distributors with really really cheap pickups and dooming movie-goers to bouts of nausea and deja-vu.

  Comment by HW — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 5:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow, tough crowd.
  This is, as far as I know, the first found footage film to ever come out of Norway, and although it is miles behind hollywood, this is an extremely high budget film over here. Never seen such CG in a Norwgian film before.
  The reviews from fantastic fest suggest the camera is a non-issue, but if that was their personal taste or if it is comparatively smooth in this film I don’t know.

  But hey, it is from my home country, I’m biased.

  Comment by Roald T. Karlsen — Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 7:24am PDT  Reply to this post