Tommy keeps his camera running at all times because he’s one of those guys. His footage consists of Sam and Ex fighting, and all of them sitting around a campfire. Fascinating.
In the middle of the night there is noise and they find Sam inexplicably hanging in the air. When a bright light zooms off, the two guys prove to be total tools as they run into the woods with the camera leaving both the girls behind.
The guys meet up with a policeman and a motorist who they follow into the woods to search for the source of the light. They want to be quiet but don’t seem to realize that means they need to shut up. The lesson here is if you think you see a spaceship, don’t try to find it because aliens aren’t going to say hello. They’re going to murder you.
After finding the light, all hell breaks loose. Tommy finds his way back to camp. He tells his girlfriend he’s going to continue to film because it’s the only evidence something really happened. However the camera is pointed directly at Tommy the whole time. So if there’s something going on in the woods, we won’t see it unless it specifically happens to Tommy.
This movie has an arc of being annoying, then getting interesting when they find a cabin, then getting annoying again. None of the characters are particularly endearing so you don’t care when things go wrong.
One of the things that makes them unlikable is they relate to each other so disingenuously. When the movie started, I thought maybe Tommy had an affected speech pattern because he was at work. Maybe he uses this superficial style of talking in the office. But when it’s just him and his girlfriend, they’re both using the same type of voice. It’s that fake type of talking people do when they’re relating to the camera and their potential audience rather then genuinely being themselves. I don’t care for it. Nope.
Quote of the day
Just because you get your own camera doesn’t make you a filmmaker.
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