Gaear Grimsrud
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- Dec 29, 2020
The Outwaters. It's on Amazon video right now. I waited for a theatrical release but it was playing nowhere near me so I grabbed an online copy. It's definitely long in the tooth. Editing this down would greatly streamline the whole thing. It's basically a Paranormal Activity style movie that goes apeshit in the 3rd act. Just like those shitty Paranormal Activity movies there's a LOT OF ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING HAPPENING. The entire 1st act - 25 minutes- could have been almost completely cut out. There's a lot of meandering and nothing until our main characters get to the desert. It does the Blair Witch thing too by claiming this is recovered footage.
Here's my advice: don't watch it in theaters, watch it online or download it, after the opening scene just skip right to the 25 minute mark. You don't miss a god damn thing. A fan-edit would be pointless because you just need to cut a good 20+ minute portion from the movie in one massive chunk and you're done.
Once the 2nd act begins it starts to get really good.
So do I recommend it? Yes but with an * to remind you to skip to 25 minutes in.
I feel about the same. The movie is way too long for what it is, and the characters are not interesting. Just some generic people.
Even the "good" parts get tedious, because they go on for so long, and it's in pitch black.