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FFDragon posted...

Huh I always thought people adored v/h/s for some reason. Top of my bottom half, but I still enjoyed it a lot more than some on the list. None of the shorts were awful to me, but none came close to Amateur Night, so it was a steady fall after a rush out of the gate.

I guess found footage went out of style at some point? I saw people trashing on Blair Witch earlier and that is crazy to me.

I think the problem is that found footage as a genre has never really felt like quality so much as "how much of a profit can we make for bare bones investment". Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity are both extremely cheap films that had massive box office returns, but they're not great movies. They're both largely boring with one scene at the end that's really and truly scary, which doesn't warrant the runtime up to that point. That being said, when found footage is given a budget and treated like a movie first and foremost (Cloverfield) it's still enjoyable.