Anyone else tired of found footage movies?

They can be interesting if done well like REC and the original Paranormal Activity, but now they are just getting dull. Chernobyl Diaries looks like a pretty tasteless excuse to have Chernobyl as a horror setting, and that recent movie Chronicle would have been much better without the pointless found footage aspect. Also the Paranormal Activity sequels are getting dull too. I heard there is now going to be a 4th one.

I was sick of that style of movie half way through Blair Witch. They are crap.

I was sick of that style of movie half way through Blair Witch. They are crap.

Pirate700

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I was sick of that style of movie half way through Blair Witch. They are crap.

Jandurin

no, when a movie does it right its a great experience "cloverfield, chronicle"

Yeah, some bother me. But others are done fairly well. You already listed REC and Paranormal Activity. I thought Cloverfield was all right. Chronicle was awesome, as well.

Cloverfield was all right.

airshocker

If the movie itself is at least decent, I enjoy that sort of film style. Though of course, it's certainly much for suited for horror films.

It was fun at first. Now it got old, fast.

i like them alot actually b/c they give low budget movies a chance to look real.you claimed that the movie chronicle would've been better without it but you were skipping the fact that it would've needed way more production costs to be able to leave the same realistic impression.

Yes, I am. However there are still some do it right, Trollhunter for example.

Yes, I hate it more than anything in movies. I've never seen a film where I thought the style improved it and I'm also sick of shaky cam and lens flare.

I personally see them as having a lots of potential. I am aware that some of the movies looks dull but there has been some gems as well. I am especially intrigued by the Chronicle. I expect that it will be popular at the box office.

It's getting quite tired, but some movies actually do it pretty well.

I don't have a problem with them and I just view them as a variation on cinema verite that when used properly can greatly enhance the immersive qualities of a film which of course translates well into genre films like horror as it's easy to generate a somewhat inescapable or claustrophobic sense of terror using such a technique. It's also a way to make a film on the cheap so similar to reality TV studios have snapped up or approved practically anything employing such a technique as the risk is very low and so we have to endure a glut of films of mediocre quality employing this technique. They're just like any other type of filmmaking technique...I like the ones I like and not so much the others.

I think the only found footage movie that I've seen was Troll Hunter. It was kind of a neat style of filming, but I don't think I'd want to see much more movies of the genre. They all just seem a bit corny.

I was sick of that style of movie half way through Blair Witch. They are crap.

Pirate700