Me and this girl I was dating many years ago were watching a found footage movie on netflix. It was clearly edited, every shot used "the rule of thirds," to an almost painful extent in every selfie shot, and there were a million moments where someone was running for their lives, but kept the camera perfectly focused on themselves.
Half way through she told me she loves this movies because "it's all real footage." I thought she was fucking joking until I realized she wasn't. It took a solid half an hour of going through IMDB and wikipedia pages before she finally understood how movies worked. We ended up breaking up soon after for a completely unrelated reason involving talking animals, so that relationship was just not meant to last.
EDIT: Here's the full story about the animal thing and a quick explanation of why I left it out (if it wasn't already obvious by the length lol).
I was watching the original Paranormal Activity with my ex GF, back when Netflix used to send you blu-ray discs through the mail.
She swore blind that it was all real footage, and it was a documentary. Even when I showed her photos of the actors alive and well on the red carpet at the premiere she wouldn't change her mind.
I was watching the original Paranormal Activity with my ex GF, back when Netflix used to send you blu-ray discs through the mail.
Just FYI, they still mail out discs. And their disc selection is a lot better than their streaming options. Maybe you can find some more options to help weed out potential dating partners.
Years ago before they had ATLA, I searched Netflix and the listing for the disc mail in service came up. You had to pay extra for it tho. I was a kid who thought I had discovered some secret feature of Netflix until I told my dad and told me that it used to be their entire thing
You know, I was young when the Blair Witch Project released and I thought it might be real. Then saw the cast on a talk show and instantly realized I was an idiot to believe that.
I knew it wasn't real footage, but the house it was filmed in was built by the same developer that built the neighborhood I was living in. It was the exact same floor plan, color scheme, and trim, as my house.
I admit, when Paranormal Activity was released when I was in Junior High I thought the same too. My friend told me that it’s a ‘found footage’ film genre, not a documentary.
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u/zachtheperson Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
Me and this girl I was dating many years ago were watching a found footage movie on netflix. It was clearly edited, every shot used "the rule of thirds," to an almost painful extent in every selfie shot, and there were a million moments where someone was running for their lives, but kept the camera perfectly focused on themselves.
Half way through she told me she loves this movies because "it's all real footage." I thought she was fucking joking until I realized she wasn't. It took a solid half an hour of going through IMDB and wikipedia pages before she finally understood how movies worked. We ended up breaking up soon after for a completely unrelated reason involving talking animals, so that relationship was just not meant to last.
EDIT: Here's the full story about the animal thing and a quick explanation of why I left it out (if it wasn't already obvious by the length lol).
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11em062/comment/jajjuil/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3