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• Kind of Harsh... - jamesgarvin 15:37:47 01/28/08 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Well, we part company here....BWP was the biggest entertainment fraud EVER perpetrated against the public. * posted by mr grits on January 27, 2008 at 19:01:51

  I am not sure what an "entertainment fraud" is, but if the audience is entertained, well, then, it is hardly entertainment fraud. Entertainment seems to be in the eye of the beholder, and since BWP did a lot of word of mouth business, more often than not coming from the people who had seen it, I suspect they did not feel they were frauded.
  
  I'd say that the makers were something of a one hit wonder, but, let's face it, their one hit was rather commercially brilliant. BWP certainly is not the first in which the marketing, both planned and unplanned, generate success.
  
  As for the film itself, I thought it a brilliant idea wrapped around a mildly interesting plot. It took a pedestrian plot - kids in the forest which disappear one by one, making the camera one of the characters, rather than simply a passive observer. I do not think the concept had legs, after all, how many other films tried the same thing, but, then, the horror genre has been pretty much recycling itself, since, well, probably the first horror film. I think if you get around the hype, you can enjoy the film for what it is, and on its own terms.
  
  

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