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**yahyynzer** · 12-05-2008, 03:47 PM

Because, yes you know, were you to get attacked by Zombie's first thing you'd think to do would be to run around with your DV-Cam. I really don't get this whole idea of making these things more 'realistic'. It's cinema for God's sake it's all about fantasy and the suspension of disbelief. Is that a little too taxing for today's movie goers? Zombies aren't real, neither are Cloverfield style monsters it's fiction. Are there loads of people out there who just read Auto Biographies because they are more realistic than novels?

I can tell by your highly cynical post that you clearly have gone sailing past the point of the style used in these movies. [rofl]

The whole idea is that it is a mechanism and technique filmmakers use to pull the audience more into the film in attempt to make them feel as they are actively involved with the action going on on the screen rather than passively watching. Whether or not it is effective is debatable and depends on the person. I have been drawn in by many fantastic films that do not use that technique but I personally think it plays well with the types of movies using it.

12-05-2008, 03:47 PM	#16
yahyynzer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 521 Senior Member	Because, yes you know, were you to get attacked by Zombie's first thing you'd think to do would be to run around with your DV-Cam. I really don't get this whole idea of making these things more 'realistic'. It's cinema for God's sake it's all about fantasy and the suspension of disbelief. Is that a little too taxing for today's movie goers? Zombies aren't real, neither are Cloverfield style monsters it's fiction. Are there loads of people out there who just read Auto Biographies because they are more realistic than novels? I can tell by your highly cynical post that you clearly have gone sailing past the point of the style used in these movies. [rofl] The whole idea is that it is a mechanism and technique filmmakers use to pull the audience more into the film in attempt to make them feel as they are actively involved with the action going on on the screen rather than passively watching. Whether or not it is effective is debatable and depends on the person. I have been drawn in by many fantastic films that do not use that technique but I personally think it plays well with the types of movies using it.
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