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Re: Has the found footage genre run its course?
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2011, 06:40:35 PM »
Found footage cannot run its course until we get a meta film where there is found footage inside a found footage film.

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Re: Has the found footage genre run its course?
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2011, 06:59:52 PM »
Found footage rom-com?  ;D

I guess that movie would be 'The Virginity Hit'.
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Re: Has the found footage genre run its course?
« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2011, 05:36:25 AM »
Found footage rom-com?  ;D

I guess that movie would be 'The Virginity Hit'.

The rom-com joke was good, but maybe for the 'genre' to survive it needs to get away from the monster/horror area and into comedy or drama.

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Re: Has the found footage genre run its course?
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2011, 11:27:10 AM »
Found footage rom-com?  ;D

I guess that movie would be 'The Virginity Hit'.

The rom-com joke was good, but maybe for the 'genre' to survive it needs to get away from the monster/horror area and into comedy or drama.

Not really. Why?
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Re: Has the found footage genre run its course?
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2011, 03:18:11 PM »
Why? I suppose it goes back to my comment about fresh ideas. I would agree it does not have to, to survive, but a different genre might be the way to inject fresh ideas. By survive I mean produce films that are not just b-grade straight to video trash that only a few see.

 

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