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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Stupid Movie
This film ranks among the dumbest I've seen, and it's outright ridiculous to compare it to the work of Hitchcock in suspense or fright. But beyond that, are we to believe that these young adults didn't have the sense to go in one direction... they had a bright sun to guide them... or that it took them over three days to find their way out of a woods that only took them less than a day to enter. The young woman, in fact, tells us that she spends her Sundays hiking through the woods near her home for enjoyment... yet she never learned to follow water downstream, or on which side of the tree the moss is on? Besides that goof, there are many times when it would be ridiculous that anyone would be video recording what was going on, and there are also times when the camera catches all of the characters, one after another... so who's doing the filming? In all, I think this is another instance where Hollywood is expecting the audience to be morons and suspend their ability to make critical judgments.
Sister, Sister (1982)
Intelligent telling of a common family circumstance.
Maya Angelou's story of the family stresses that occur when an older sister (Diahann Carroll) attempts to maintain a home, left by her revered father, in an ultra-moralistic way (regardless of the fact that she is secretly having an affair with the married preacher). Nevertheless, her uptight need to maintain a sense of propriety of course goes against the wishes of her much younger sister (Irene Cara) who, as an accomplished ice skater, is striving for her own independence. And if this isn't enough, into it is suddenly thrust a third sister (Rosalind Cash), who is a single mother with a pre-teen son, who "comes home" with her boy after living for years in the ghettos of Detroit. And because she is the complete antithesis of her older sister in morals and deportment, immediately she sides with her younger sister against the strictures set down in the home. And although the conflicts can be anticipated, the level of the dialogue and the intensity of the characters which Ms. Angelou has built into her story is well worth the price of the ticket. My only regret is that the ending is much too Disney-like unbelievable, and out of character which, I feel, could have been much stronger if there hadn't been such a need for a "happy ending" resolution.