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[MOVIE] The Operator
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JAL13
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 		I think some people are worried that if something hits mainstream, it goes to crap because the fans start to become annoying, the writing goes sour, strays from what the series is supposed to be, etc. It happens in video games, TV shows, movies, books, and in music. Its good to be with the times, but its bad to let your piece of art become subjected by it.


Personal Opinion: This sort of thing happened to the Walking Dead. Great comic series, bad TV series after season 2 (Im giving it some credit).

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 		You guys and your low/strange expectations for the movie over the last couple pages are confusing and just seem almost rude. I hope the people behind the film end up laughing at yall all the way to the bank.

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JAL13 wrote:
I think some people are worried that if something hits mainstream, it goes to crap because the fans start to become annoying, the writing goes sour, strays from what the series is supposed to be, etc. It happens in video games, TV shows, movies, books, and in music. Its good to be with the times, but its bad to let your piece of art become subjected by it.


Personal Opinion: This sort of thing happened to the Walking Dead. Great comic series, bad TV series after season 2 (Im giving it some credit).


To me The Walking Dead has been consistently good.

But anyways People usually don't care if it deviates from the source material as long as it's good. I mean look at the twist in Iron Man 3 concerning The Mandarin that deviated from the comics. It was good and many people thoroughly enjoyed it. Hell even look at Daryl from The Walking Dead, he's not even in the comics and he's still the fandom's most favorite character among the Show and Comic fans alike.

It's only when people don't like the deviation they get pissed about it.

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 		 So I just saw the "Slenderman" movie
The Operator - aka the Marble Hornets movie
Some of you may have heard a while back that they were going to do a movie based off of the Slenderman mythos, and more specifically MH. Well, they just did a screening here in LA, and naturally I jumped at the chance to go. Marble Hornets is what got me into the slenderverse way back when, though I haven't kept up with it since I got into EMH and TT (better scares and way better acting imho).

The basic premise follows a news team (cameraman, reporter and producer) who are working on a segment about house foreclosures. In one of the houses they come across a box of DV tapes (of course!), and inexplicably decide to take them. At first, it just looks like a bunch of innocuous home videos of a happy family, but guess who keeps popping up in the background? Cut to hours of obsessive slenderstalking footage, and mad scribbles of the operator symbol. This sets off our main trio on trying to figure out what happened to the family, and in the process, they become marked themselves.

The plot's not much to get excited over. It lacks the creepy, disjointed and atmospheric feeling of the Youtube series because it lacks the benefit of time, and short bursts of information that the youtube format lends itself to. There's also no text or major timejumps, so it doesn't necessarily 'feel' like a MH movie ( no Masky either Sad ). I caught a few shoutouts to the series, though (a missing persons poster for Alex!) Also, no one ever actually refers to a "Slenderman", or an "operator" for that matter. A bit disappointing, but I wonder if there were some legal issues with using that name?

For the good -- the acting is almost uniformly excellent (the main trio is very, very good). They really sold the fear, but also the banter and goofing around. I don't think any of the youtube series out there come close to this, and it's easily the most professional thing about the film. I was waiting with bated breath to see how awful the actors would be, so I was very pleasantly surprised.

There are also two very strong "money" sequences (you know, like how every 5 months an amazing, shocking entry comes out that leaves everyone floored, before we get another 5 months of bland, wheel spinning entries?). I'm not going to give anything away, but the ending for the three main characters is as thrilling and intense as any of the youtube series', if not exactly creepy.

And I guess that's my main complaint with the film. It's just not that creepy. Slenderman never moves (he's always facing straight towards the camera, and only travels via jumpcuts), or appears all that menacing. He wasn't especially tall, or slender, and his head had a very goofy roundness to it. I think back to that MH entry where Alex filmed Slendy creeping around on the front porch -- for me, that is slenderman, and there's nothing close to that here. Also, don't expect to see any razzle-dazzle effects like you'd see in TT. I almost wish they had've brought him on board for VFX, because he could've put some life into this thing.

I don't think the movie does much to expand the Slender mythos or bring anything new for fans of the series. We still don't know what the operator symbol represents, or why people keep drawing it everywhere. We also don't know why/what/how Slenderman does what he does, or what he really wants. And yet, for people not familiar with Slenderman, I don't think the movie really sells him as a character.

The audience I saw this with were laughing through a lot of the scares. I couldn't tell if this was "haha that made me jump" or "haha this is really stupid", but it didn't feel like the reaction the filmmakers were going for.

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 		the reported budget is $8,000. Unless this gets a reeeaally limited release with absolutely no marketing (which it might, depending on if it has a distributor), it should turn a profit.

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the reported budget is $8,000. Unless this gets a reeeaally limited release with absolutely no marketing (which it might, depending on if it has a distributor), it should turn a profit.


That's less than the actual show itself... that figure can't be right.

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Serum wrote:
fanofslender wrote:
the reported budget is $8,000. Unless this gets a reeeaally limited release with absolutely no marketing (which it might, depending on if it has a distributor), it should turn a profit.


That's less than the actual show itself... that figure can't be right.


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Serum wrote:
fanofslender wrote:
the reported budget is $8,000. Unless this gets a reeeaally limited release with absolutely no marketing (which it might, depending on if it has a distributor), it should turn a profit.


That's less than the actual show itself... that figure can't be right.


Now that you mention it, I can't find the place where I read that anymore. I may be misremembering...

checking up on IMDb shows that there is supposed to be a movie called "Marble Hornets", and the plot is about students making a short film, yet I just saw a preview screening of a movie called "The Operator" with very strong MH connections (to the point where we had to fill out surveys that asked if we were familiar with that series), but a totally different plot. Are they the same movie, or are there two in the works?

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Serum wrote:
fanofslender wrote:
the reported budget is $8,000. Unless this gets a reeeaally limited release with absolutely no marketing (which it might, depending on if it has a distributor), it should turn a profit.


That's less than the actual show itself... that figure can't be right.


Indeed. Internet manners state linkage is required for such information.


No, no, I just mean over the course of the entirety of them (Trosephim) making the show, they have to have put at least 20 grand into it.

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fanofslender wrote:
the reported budget is $8,000. Unless this gets a reeeaally limited release with absolutely no marketing (which it might, depending on if it has a distributor), it should turn a profit.


That's less than the actual show itself... that figure can't be right.


Now that you mention it, I can't find the place where I read that anymore. I may be misremembering...

checking up on IMDb shows that there is supposed to be a movie called "Marble Hornets", and the plot is about students making a short film, yet I just saw a preview screening of a movie called "The Operator" with very strong MH connections (to the point where we had to fill out surveys that asked if we were familiar with that series), but a totally different plot. Are they the same movie, or are there two in the works?


I know there's a bunch of other students and YouTubers and people who make their own little movies, many of which can cost anywhere between $100 and $10,000 (USD), I think there was a 'fan film' called "The Operator" awhile back, but I don't know.

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 		I hate to burst your bubble, but it seems to me from reading the thread about the film in the MH forum that this film is a fan film and not the official one coming out this/next year.

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 		nah, this was almost certainly the MH movie.

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AssassinB
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 		Dude I don't think you saw the actual MH movie that Troy and the gang are helping to create, you probably saw a low budget fan film that someone with good equipment made in their spare time and released it before the real one to grab some of the attention early on. I'm pretty sure they're even shooting scenes in the middle east from what I've heard for the real one and they would never let the movie fall short of the series, at least they're trying their hardest to make sure that doesn't happen.

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 		Here is the imdb info for the official Marble Hornets movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2737926/

If this wasn't what you saw,then it wasn't the official movie.It stars Doug Jones (a famous character actor) as "The Operator".
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 		no, this was definitely it. I just watched a panel discussion with the director, doug jones and the MH guys, and they showed a clip (which they didn't allow to be filmed, but the youtube poster described the clip on her tumblr) -- it is definitely the same movie. the clip she described was one of the scenes beat for beat, including the main character's dog Marty. I don't have any vested interest in trying to pull one over on everybody here, I'm just sharing my thoughts on what is, unquestionably, the Marble Hornets movie.

and that imdb is completely off, I don't know who put that plot description there, but even the MH guys admitted this would not follow the same story as the youtube series. there is a quick line at the end of the movie that suggests how this film is directly connected to the series, but that's about it. also, most of the main cast isn't listed there... the main guys are Miles and Charlie, and there's a female reporter, but I didn't catch her name.

this was NOT a fan film. still, I can't believe they got doug jones, and that's what they did with him. I think it's probably a case of not having a really articulated suit or VFX budget.

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 		Alrighty.I don't know much about it.I just posted something I thought might be helpful one way or another.I saw something briefly on Reddit yesterday about a screening,but I did not really see much info.So,I thought maybe the link to what was on imdb might have helped,but maybe not.To be honest,I am not even that active on Slender threads much anymore as I have been lately,but I've been sick and have had some personal setbacks that have given me some unexpected and rare "down time".So,I saw your post and the debate and was curious and posted the link to see if it would help determine what's what.Cheers! Cool
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