Best movie of this year hands down!

the audience applauded

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

By far the worst movie of 2014, and one of the worst movies I've ever seen in all of my years of cinema going. I found out about this little flick because the official Twitter account followed me (you know a movie is gonna be great if it makes an direct attempt to get you to watch it). I followed back, thinking "hey, why not, I'll support a little indie film." As I read more and more into it, I became incredibly interested. The reviews were raving, comparing it to some of the best found footage movies. Every fan-based review of it was also very positive, leading me to believe that it must be pretty good if EVERYONE is talking about it. So, I got pretty pumped. The idea of this being the "first film experience of its kind" compiled of supposedly real footage of a young woman's death was intriguing to me. I guess I'm sick and twisted, but I was sold. Well, I just watched what is being called one of the most important films of our generation. This brings me back to a little flick called 'Megan is Missing.' Marketed towards scared parents and teens, this film aimed to scare people out of talking to strangers on the internet. All it made me do was laugh. It was my second least favorite movie up until that point. Now it's my third. To be completed honest, Megan is Missing is a masterpiece compared to this and I would watch it any day because it is entertaining. All 'The Upper Footage' is is a bunch of pretentious young upper class city kids snorting coke and saying some of the most racist, homophobic and sexist things you can imagine. Oh, but it's alright, because it's a MOVIE and we're not SUPPOSED to like these characters! Well, you can't market your movie as a real thing and then use the excuse that it's just a film to say whatever the hell you feel like. And if the characters are unlikeable from the start, NOTHING IN THE MOVIE MATTERS. I had no sympathy for a single character throughout this whole movie. I did not care one bit what happened to anyone. So, the "plot" is that a girl named Jackie parties with a bunch of idiots and dies, so they have to hide the body. It is a lovely adventure full of domestic violence, f-bombs in every sentence, out of place fast food stops, and... that's about it, because literally NOTHING happens in this entire movie. There is a four minute long shot of hair. Only hair. There's is a whiny blonde spitting out phrases like "I wanna go home" and "I don't wanna be here" in the most annoying high pitch voice you can imagine for the entire last half of the film. If this sounds good to you, by God you are going to love the hell out of this film. Needless to say, I have unfollowed the Twitter account. The Upper Footage is probably the most unpleasant film I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through and I would recommend it to absolutely no one. It actually pains me to see this getting praise. If this is considered a good film, there is a part of me that almost wants to stop being a film critic.

when i first heard about the movie, i was immediately hooked to the idea and followed it all the way to the recent release. i followed the ups and downs with all the news on the film and to finally see it, there's a great sigh of relief and accomplishment the whole time, i was at the edge of my seat. it was definitely worth the wait, and the amount of publicity this movie gained was just awesome. I'm not going to lie, it had me going the whole time with the plot that bordered the line of fact and fiction. UPPER was like a mixture of The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. it was great! hopefully one day, i can watch this one the big screen to better enjoy this movie to its full potential.

Truly excellent movie! The film is about 4 friends on a night out, they pick up a girl and head back to an apartment where a lot of drugs are consumed. The new girl takes a lot of drugs and ends up dying. This is where the greatness of the film begins. Once the girl is discovered dead the argument of what to do takes place and it is amazing and scary at the same time. It truly will make you ask yourself what would you do????? From here we follow the friends to cover up what had happened and it is truly amazing.As a huge fan of found footage films, this is one of the BEST found footage films I have seen in awhile. This film single handedly breaths life back into the found footage genre. If you have not seen this film, then do yourself a favor and see it. It is impossible to be disappointed. I had followed the viral marketing campaign of this film for a LONG time, so the build up of what I had been expecting was extremely high! The one thing I can promise is that it lived up to the high expectations that I had for the film. It is truly amazing and delivers in every way possible!!

I think the marketing for this movie was GENIUS. They definitely fooled many media outlets with its convincing story. The movie itself is quite simple to be honest. Not that its a bad thing. So the story follows 4 friends (3 guys and 1 girl) who pick up a girl while they are out in their limo and bring her home. After a lot of partying and whatnot, they decide to do cocaine that they bought earlier that night.Unfortunately, the new girl takes too much and dies of an overdose in the bathroom. Everyone flips out and now we have our story! The death itself actually doesn't happen until about halfway through. The whole half basically just shows them in the limo and in the apartment where they party. Whether you like the characters or not, you get a sense of how they are by the time the death happens. Once the girl dies it becomes incredibly intense. They start arguing about what they should do and it's kind of scary! It's one of those movies that makes you ask yourself, "What would I do in this situation?" This movie isn't necessarily a horror movie, but it is scary because it's something very real and possible in the real world. How many times do you hear of people having an overdose in the news? This is basically a fictional first-hand account of one of those events. I think it serves as a lesson to our young generation of teens who need to be able to control themselves when it comes to peer pressure. Like I mentioned earlier, it's a very simple premise, but I think that is an advantage of this movie because if it got too complicated, it might not seem as real. I think that was the goal of the filmmakers, to portray something very real and convincing. That's how Blair Witch Project was back in 1999, which is a movie I hear was a great inspiration for this movie. The story for that was incredibly simple. A group of 3 friends go into the woods for a school project and then they get terrorized by ghosts. That movie, along with this, had an established "mythology" to back it up as context. Blair Witch had the "legend" and this movie had the publicity it got years back when a video was uploaded online showing the girl who overdosed. Although I don't know if this can be as successful as Blair Witch, it has potential if given the right opportunities. I wish the filmmakers the best of luck in the future because they think differently than most filmmakers who want to create a horror-esque movie, especially in the found-footage genre. While the movie itself is not ground-breaking with the found-footage genre, the back-story definitely is and I respect all they went through to make this happen. If you like horror movies or found-footage movies, I think you should totally give this a shot! It's great that in the beginning they provide you with a timeline of everything that happened.