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[MOVIE] The Operator
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Shockwave
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 		So, how is the movie? Worth checking out?

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DHawk314
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 		I'd say so.
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Sha Noran
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 		Where can I acquire the movie again exactly? Literally too uninspired to Google around. =]

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Sha Noran wrote:
Where can I acquire the movie again exactly? Literally too uninspired to Google around. =]

It's on itunes, amazon video, and youtube rental.

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Sha Noran
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Gold Knight wrote:
Sha Noran wrote:
Where can I acquire the movie again exactly? Literally too uninspired to Google around. =]

It's on itunes, amazon video, and youtube rental.


Thank you.

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Vesryn
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 		Finally watched it. Frankly my expectations weren't that high, so I thought it was pretty decent. The acting was good, even if the characters weren't real fleshed out. It had a pretty good set up, but I think they could have pushed it a little farther

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I really liked the bit where they turned off the cameras, but I was little disappointed that they got turned back on again so soon, I thought there was going to be more of a time lapse and then they would turn on when the characters had gotten more desperate and were in the middle of something really crazy. The dog- I kind of knew it would happen, so not that surprising or crazy.

I expected the suspense to really ramp up after they finally revealed the family's end, but... it ended a little too soon. I think it would have been really interesting if they actually had tried splitting up and we watched each character crack under the isolation and paranoia and be driven back together


Mostly I think they should have wrapped up the family's story a little quicker and spent more time ratcheting up the tension with the main characters

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 		I couldn't even finish it. I just hated the fact that "there was a serial killer in the 60s". The biggest revelation we got from Marble Hornets was that this all began with Tim. I'M PRETTY SURE TIM WASN'T BORN IN THE 60s. It was so boring, I didn't even bother to look for the Alex poster. Plus the plot was SO freaking generic that it physically hurt me. I don't mean it's cliche for the mythos, I mean it's cliche for HORROR MOVIES IN GENERAL.

I gotta agree, they should have put an emphasis on the slenderness of The Operator because he ISN'T JUST A GUY IN A SUIT. I gotta give Doug Jones some props, but JUST TAKE AN IMAGE FROM THE WEB SERIES AND COMPARE IT TO THE OPERATOR HERE.

Plus, one defining trait of the mythos is the mindfuckery and subtlety. THEY SPELT SEVERAL THINGS OUT THROUGHOUT THE FILM. SURE MARBLE HORNETS WAS TOO AMBIGUOUS, BUT IT WORKED. If you're gonna make a Marble Hornets film, make it CORRECTLY.

Okay sorry for the rant. I had such high hopes and it all came crashing down. Just wait till the user Marble Hornets watches the movie.
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Supersox
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The Totem wrote:
The biggest revelation we got from Marble Hornets was that this all began with Tim.


I don't think this is anywhere near confirmed. All we have is Alex insinuating it, but Tim mentions that there could be hundreds or thousands of others. To me, this implied that Tim got it from somewhere.

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lonsumtravlr
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Supersox wrote:
The Totem wrote:
The biggest revelation we got from Marble Hornets was that this all began with Tim.


I don't think this is anywhere near confirmed. All we have is Alex insinuating it, but Tim mentions that there could be hundreds or thousands of others. To me, this implied that Tim got it from somewhere.


Right. Maybe "started" with Tim in that Tim happened to bring The Operator to the audition, where it leaped to Alex's camera and onto Alex and then spread. But there's no evidence at all that Tim somehow engendered the thing. That sounds like the "Tulpa Theory" for Slender Man's existence, and The Operator is not Slender Man (which is not a refutation of the theory, true, but where's the hard evidence for The Operator being a Tulpa or any other fabricated being that was somehow brought to life?)... It's at least plausible that The Operator somehow sought out Tim or just happened to find Tim for some reason and then latched onto him.

A theory, mmm'kay?

The Operator, whatever it is, somehow feeds off of fear and insecurity (I mean biochemically, not spiritually). It also needs a host (who is fearful or otherwise chronically insecure). The hospital happened to be built somehow, somewhere near some kind of rift that enabled it to break through from its dimension into ours (which also could have something to do with the shifting within the trails of Rosswood). Somehow, when Tim--who really fits the case type of a neglected child and maybe even an abused child--was taken to this hospital, his fear grew and his security plummeted even more. He's a "problem child." Needs to be given "special treatment" (the quotes are not direct quotes--they're characterizing a mindset). The special treatment here we know involved drugs and also confinement to his room. Also probably some sort of operation, maybe involving electroshock ("Quadrant" shows footage of someone's treatment with ECT [electroconvulsive therapy], and while I know that TTA videos are not NECESSARY to the plot of MH, they do enhance the viewing and fill in some context--and as Hoody had been Brian and was TTA, and Brian had been Tim's first real friend, he MIGHT have known about Tim's past [he did have and then heavily redact Tim's records, so he knew what was in there]). Maybe something else--God knows and I'm afraid to speculate what else. But all of this made Tim, who was already a pretty attractive host for The Operator, a PRIME host for TO. However Tim was able to get stabilized we don't know for sure--he did say in Entry #67 that at some point medication and therapy stabilized him. And he learned to block out TO, treat it as if it were a hallucination--plus whatever those anticonvulsants that he takes are probably did dampen TO's effects somewhat (that's what Entries #72-74 suggest).

My thought--and I really doubt this is original to me--is that TO probably kept a claim on Tim until it found Alex during the audition, and saw someone so insecure (and not medded up on anticonvulsants) that it saw a prime host who looked better than Tim did at that point. There are entries where TO seems to be trying to get Tim, its old host, back again--#64 and #65, and even maybe #86. But Alex is the one feeding it until Tim kills him.

Probably too much for here, but it's on that theme of no, it's not been proven that everything "started with Tim." Hoody never blamed Tim, and that tape that he carried showed enough proof for anyone following the events portrayed in the series that Tim had at least brought TO inadvertently into everyone's lives.

Haven't seen the movie yet and I don't think I will, unless I can be convinced that the THAC boys will continue to get a cut, however small it is, of every purchase. That's really the only reason to watch it, from what I've been hearing.

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Cyan507
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Supersox wrote:
The Totem wrote:
The biggest revelation we got from Marble Hornets was that this all began with Tim.


I don't think this is anywhere near confirmed. All we have is Alex insinuating it, but Tim mentions that there could be hundreds or thousands of others. To me, this implied that Tim got it from somewhere.


My working theory is that he got it from the Hospital. I understand he was admitted already to but it's not unreasonable to assume Tim could have been brought to the Hospital in relation to a smaller child condition such as nightmares, bed-wetting or an existing form of epilepsy prior to encountering TO. The only evidence I have is Entry 74 where Tim points to the double door screaming "It came from over there."

Where Tim says there could be thousands of others, that group of victims isn't exclusive to people Tim, Jay, Alex or Brian have met over the years, that could be anyone who was admitted to the hospital during a certain amount of time. But it does seem like Tim is in a patient zero type scenario.

All of this could be scrapped if TO was simply a Tulpa and a manifestation of Tim's mind, which would click into so many places in the story but would feel like a reveal THAC would never opt for.

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 		Hey guys.........



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brdardin
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 		Sorry for the double post, but I finally watched the movie.

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I like the references to the series, like the missing person's report for Alex Kralie, and the hint that the original family had either Tim, Jay, or Alex's camera.


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