Movie Reviews

The other day I was watching the movie Unfriended. The way how the filmmakers structured the movie was interesting. The entire movie is just a laptop screen of a highschool girl. Financially wise, I see how this movie saved a lot. It's very similar to those found-footage films. Horror wise, it didn't do much for me.The movie pushes the boundaries of social life and question society's view on bullying. We always condemn bullying but in doing so, we sort of became bullies ourselves. In the movie a girl, Laura, kills herself because several embarrassing video was uploaded on YouTube. We later found out that her death was cause by many other classmates. Immediately we see that user from social media blamed and bullied one of the classmates. Despite the bad horror, this movie puts the audience into a self-reflective state where we question our modern life.
After watching the movie, I was on IMDb looking at reviews for this movie. Some people thought that this is movie was very creative and gave it high rating. I on the other hand don't think that the movie was that creative, although I do think that the movie have many themes and meanings. This movie can be put as found footage. The only thing that the movie did was to reinvent something that was once very popular. The Blair - Witch Project is what I would consider as creative, since (if I'm not mistaken) it is the first to invent the genre found footage horror films. Some reviewer praise it's horror aspect and acclaimed its level of gore. Both of which is very overrated in my opinion. When it comes to horror, I've seen better like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974. Movie like Saw 2004 definitely beat this movie. Movie reviews are very subjective to the individual. If you are not familiar with the horror genre, then any crappy horror movie you watch would be scary to you then compared to a person who've watch horror for years now. I just want to say, sometimes movie reviews are not accurate. Take the movie Citizen Kane for instance. It is now regarded as the movie well made movie of all times in the history of cinema. Back then, when it was first release, many critics gave the mvie bad reviews and claiming the Orson Welles was an ameture. We know now that these reviews are entirely wrong.