Catfish

Narcissus

Has anyone heard about this film?

Link to the trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi769787417/

It looks very intriguing. I wouldn't want to find out too much before seeing it though.

filmfan

Yeah just posted up the trailer, looks very interesting!! Probably better to know as little as possible about it to really make the most of it in the cinema

Skerries

yeah i looked at that the other day and thought hmmm could be very interesting
trailer had you thinking it was some kind of documentary but at the end it's kind of Blair Witchish

Basq

Watched this last night.. and I really enjoyed it!

But

I kept waiting for a twist that never came

.

Enjoyable nonetheless!

basquille

basquille wrote: »

Watched this last night.. and I really enjoyed it!

But

I kept waiting for a twist that never came

.

Enjoyable nonetheless!

Is that necessarily a bad thing though?

Ghost Train

Watching trailer it does look really interesting

Basq

(Bear in mind.. my spoilers below don't reveal anything about to the major revelation mid-way through.. they simply allude to it)

Well.. I wish it lived up to the

various discoveries that the gang make about Megan and Abby

.

I mean, it's obviously a faux-documentary.. but I do wish

the payoff was "better written"

.

Don't get me wrong.. I enjoyed it, I just wish the last 30 minutes lived up to the more interesting hour that preceded it.

Peyton Manning

Just watched this having been very excited about it since seing the trailer months ago.

I really do think this has been advertised cleverly, but at the expense of those who want to see it, because

the trailer is very misleading, and is very suggestively marketing it as a documentary that turns into a thriller, dare I say horror, at the end. That never happens, which is strange, because even while watching it, it built up to it very well and given that's what I was expecting, the scene where they pull up to Megan's "farm" was very unsettling.

Bit disappointed I must say. I mean, it's good, but not the good I wanted it to be.

Phony Scott

Looks very interesting. I've heard of real life situations like this before (going on the trailer) where someone met up with someone else without knowing a damn thing about them in reality. It was in a documentary about MMORPG's (go figure) but I can't remember the name of said doco. It's a odd, but very interesting documentary called Second Skin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOxuOCGi9I

Narcissus

I forgot I started this thread ages ago
I just watched this recently as it turns out.

Archimedes wrote:

Just watched this having been very excited about it since seing the trailer months ago.

I really do think this has been advertised cleverly, but at the expense of those who want to see it, because

the trailer is very misleading, and is very suggestively marketing it as a documentary that turns into a thriller, dare I say horror, at the end. That never happens, which is strange, because even while watching it, it built up to it very well and given that's what I was expecting, the scene where they pull up to Megan's "farm" was very unsettling.

Bit disappointed I must say. I mean, it's good, but not the good I wanted it to be.

I couldn't agree more. I liked it but it wasn't what I expected.

Gerty

I really have to disagree about the marketing. I thought it was border line unethical.

In the trailer it states "The final forty minutes of the film will take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride that you won't be able to shake for days", "A bizarre and completely unpredictable mystery"," A shattering conclusion'","The best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never directed" and the final shot in the trailer shows Nev apparently freaking out a bit and shouts 'put the camera down'.

From all this i almost expecting them

Them to be raped and murdered up there. The last shot almost assumes that they're scared someone is in the house with them and those lines are completely taken out of context. I don't think the film comes to a shattering conclusion like described, in my opinion it is more aptly described as 'sad and uncomfortable'

That being said, i really enjoyed the film and understand that it wasn't the film-makers choice to market it like this.

Peyton Manning

Gerty wrote: »

I really have to disagree about the marketing. I thought it was border line unethical.

In the trailer it states "The final forty minutes of the film will take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride that you won't be able to shake for days", "A bizarre and completely unpredictable mystery"," A shattering conclusion'","The best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never directed" and the final shot in the trailer shows Nev apparently freaking out a bit and shouts 'put the camera down'.

From all this i almost expecting them

Them to be raped and murdered up there. The last shot almost assumes that they're scared someone is in the house with them and those lines are completely taken out of context. I don't think the film comes to a shattering conclusion like described, in my opinion it is more aptly described as 'sad and uncomfortable'

That being said, i really enjoyed the film and understand that it wasn't the film-makers choice to market it like this.

What are you disagreeing with though? I said the marketing was at the expense of those who wanted to see it after viewing the trailer. Never said I agreed with it, I was damn well pissed off afterwards tbh.

Gerty

Em, sorry. My bad.

Bob_Harris

Very disappointed with the ending. It wasn't unpredictable or shocking at all. In fact it was very predictable.

I was hoping for something much more sinister.

yermandan

Just finished watching this. I havent had the chance to check out the background or anything but I really enjoyed it.

I really dont want to say anything as it would spoil it but suffice to say it is well worth a watch. Try to watch it without knowing anything if you can.....

If it is completely true then I am just freaked out and it is a real eye opener!!!

Edit, just found the original thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055990973&highlight=catfish

Could a mod please merge them!! Apologies!

sherrybobbins

Either way, it's brilliant!

Richard Dower

^ it's fake...all self promoters.

Renn

So? Don't think it really matters if it's 100% real or 100% fake. Who cares. It's about being entertained, and if a film succeeds in doing that then fair play. I never sit down to watch a documentary and believe everything in front of me - it's all constructed in one way or another. You're missing the point.

S.M.B.

Exactly.....

pwd

I watched it without encountering the marketing.
If you watch it without seeing the ads saying that, then it comes close enough to what the ads describe. There's no anti-climax that way. I thought it was hilarious in a lot of places too.
I think it was staged rather than fake, if that makes sense. I think the last 40 minutes were genuine. Other stuff before then was probably acted/re-enacted for the camera. I think the basic plot being presented really did happen.

johnny_ultimate

Just watched this and was thoroughly entertained, pretty much glued to the screen from beginning to end. I'd seen the trailer, and it made me want to watch the film desperately, but I had concluded that it wasn't going to go the way the marketing had suggested. It didn't matter - I found where it did go to make excellent viewing anyway. Best to keep it vague, because admittedly the first half of the film does play out like a perfectly paced mystery, and there were a few moments when I questioned how genuine it was so absurd and dramatic the twists. But that the film has that tension that keeps you glued to the screen as well as what happens after is what makes the film feel so well rounded.

Spoiler tag territory:

Is it exploitative? No, I didn't think it was, because once Angela's true identity was revealed I felt the directors handled it sensibly, letting her actions speak for themselves. She's just a sad, disappointed woman, and even she seems to think the story deserves to be told. Is it real? Doesn't matter, much like Exit Through The Gift Shop's strengths aren't necessarily diminished if it was all a prank. If it is true, then it may be one of the luckiest stories to have ever played out in front of a camera.

It's a funny, entertaining and ultimately strangely moving documentary. It's different, and extremely engaging. Whatever ethical debates or suspicions people have about the film, none of them take away from the fact that it's one well told story.

pickarooney

I wonder if cherryghost has seen this?