Bad Heather! Go stand in the corner!

Spliffy.

cheap_thoughts: I remember her being on leno and being touted as the next big thing. Glad to see she made it.

cheap_thoughts: I remember her being on leno and being touted as the next big thing. Glad to see she made it.

More honest job than working for Hollywood.

I knew Blair Witch was fake as soon as the woman from the Steak N Shake commercials appeared on screen.

Glad to see she moved into an honest profession

AbbeySomeone: Spliffy.

I still say we need a spliffy tag for end-the-drug-war stories

Wasn't she in that SciFi TV series "Taken" way back when?

She wasn't bad if I remember right.

Weed helps me deal with PMS and "women problems" too. I smoke a bowl and do not care about them at all.

ToddMU03: I knew Blair Witch was fake as soon as the woman from the Steak N Shake commercials appeared on screen.

Steak and Shake is the bomb when you are high!

Because of her, I was rooting for the witch that whole movie.

nice rack

She must eat a lot of Steak & Shake after smoking dem buds.

/obscure?

aedude01: Wasn't she in that SciFi TV series "Taken" way back when?

She wasn't bad if I remember right.

She was in that...and she was actually the worst part of the entire series...(that's saying a lot...)

Her acting consisted of constant eye rolling and bug eyes.

howdyyall9999: Because of her, I was rooting for the witch that whole movie.

Me too. But the two guys were just as annoying.
Good gimmick + bad execution = flash-in-the-pan

I'd still hit it. And make it breakfast too.

She got a pot perscription for PMS? Link (new window)

Gyrth: howdyyall9999: Because of her, I was rooting for the witch that whole movie.

Me too. But the two guys were just as annoying.
Good gimmick + bad execution = flash-in-the-pan



/Heather is angel piss.

Wow an ad for a Tom Waits album on that web page. You don't see that often.

He hasn't exactly had a copasetic relationship with advertising.

There are a surprising amount of fake NSFW pictures of this girl online.

Marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized nationally. Medical MJ is an insult to management of chronic diseases and legitimate medical care. Which is the whole reason that it's not being used on a national level medicinally. If I treated other substances the same way as medicinal MJ is, I'd have my license revoked by the DEA.

Here have some adderol to help you lose weight. Oh, you have a headache, he's some oxycontin.

Anyone who went into The Blair Witch Project thinking it was supposed to be real was apparently too dim to get the gag. It was never supposed to be real; It was supposed to have a strong mythology from outside of the movie theater which supported the movie experience. If you watch the movie by itself you're only getting part of the story. That's the way it was designed. It was the first truly viral movie experience, and in that it was wildly successful.

And it seems like everyone gets hung up on two things: The witch, and the whole "lost in the woods" aspect of the film (usually with words of bravado claiming they'd never get lost like the idiots in the movie). The people who focus on these things are missing the ENTIRE POINT of the film. It's not about the witch, nor is a "lost in the woods" movie. It's a movie about two completely different things:

Time travel
and
A serial killer

When the group goes into the woods, they step through some anomaly and end up back in time. They never figure this out, and apparently 96% of the audience fails to get it, too.

Now, if you watch the side-projects like Sticks & Stones you get a better understanding of this fact. They mention that after the group was missing for a couple days, there were search parties and helicopters scanning the area (which, you'll note, were never seen nor heard by the group). This is only hinted at in the actual movie (the whole "found their gear" part), but this bit of information isn't necessary to understand that this is a story of accidental time travel, and not a monster-in-the-woods story

For example, there's the whole story of Rustin Parr, which is laid out in pretty intricate detail for the protagonists before they leave on their trip. Rustin Parr's house, they're told, was burned down many decades ago-- Yet they find it intact with all the little handprints on the walls. Why? Because they're back in time, in the actual house before it was burned down.

Their gear and tapes are found buried in the foundation of the house, greatly aged. Why? Because it was all buried there by Rustin Parr decades ago after he murdered the trio.

The group is harassed in the woods? By who? Rustin Parr, who is obsessed with the witch legend, of course! They're in his territory, and he's a nutcase serial killer who believes a witch has compelled him to murder people.

They walk in the direction of the highway but they never find it, seemingly going in circles. Why? Because the highway hasn't been built yet, and they're not going in circles; They're going straight, just like they thought. It's just there's nothing for them to find in the time period they've gone back to; It's all forest, no road, no telecommunications towers, no modern things for them to trip upon. Do the trees and rocks look familiar? Sure they do, but if you've ever been lost in the woods you'll know that trees and rocks don't tend to be all that unique when there are thousands of them all around you for miles.

What happens to the group? As I said, they're toyed with and then murdered by Rustin Parr. Josh was apparently taken in the night (or maybe he walked away) and was caught. Mike and Heather go into Parr's house, down to his basement and are killed there. Mike is traumatized and in the corner because Parr is down there with a weapon, and Mike is freaked out, submissive, and probably resigned to his fate. Heather goes out the hard way, screaming and being hit from behind. Either way, it's Parr who does it.

ALTERNATE POSSIBILITY FOR THE END: It's not Parr at all, but it's Josh who flips out because of the situation and kills his friends after finding Parr's house and realizing the truth ("We've gone back in time and this is a serial killer's house" is a pretty big revelation for some people to deal with, and harder still after the week he just had.) However, I think he'd have to be pretty extreme to send that little care package to Mike and Heather, so I think it was Parr and that Josh was quite dead by then.

Either way: There's no damned witch. There's no "just" lost in the woods, either. They entered a time warp, ended up way out of their own era, and wandered in the middle of nowhere while a nutcase terrorized them. So I don't want to hear any of you giant Boy Scouts talk about how the movie was stupid because it just about people being lost in the woods, and how you'd have gotten out of the situation if it were you; NO, you wouldn't, because you'd be just as confused and freaked out when the direct path back to your car (and a highway!) led to nothing familiar. You'd be just as burned-out after having some freak-job making it unlikely you'll sleep, or sleep well, anyway.

This is a movie about time travel. It's not a movie about a witch.

Michael10101: Marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized nationally. Medical MJ is an insult to management of chronic diseases and legitimate medical care. Which is the whole reason that it's not being used on a national level medicinally. If I treated other substances the same way as medicinal MJ is, I'd have my license revoked by the DEA.

Here have some adderol to help you lose weight. Oh, you have a headache, he's some oxycontin.

herpaderp. You started off good and then went right off the rails. MJ has been shown in most peer-reviewed medical literature to be a substantial benefit to those suffering chronic illness -- better than many pharmaceutical "solutions". Further, the apoptopic properties of THC are showing to be, mildly to moderately, anti-cancerous.

TMYK.

Eh, in the Battle of the Found Footage Chicks, I'll take Katie over Heather any day.

RockofAges: Michael10101: Marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized nationally. Medical MJ is an insult to management of chronic diseases and legitimate medical care. Which is the whole reason that it's not being used on a national level medicinally. If I treated other substances the same way as medicinal MJ is, I'd have my license revoked by the DEA.

Here have some adderol to help you lose weight. Oh, you have a headache, he's some oxycontin.

herpaderp. You started off good and then went right off the rails. MJ has been shown in most peer-reviewed medical literature to be a substantial benefit to those suffering chronic illness -- better than many pharmaceutical "solutions". Further, the apoptopic properties of THC are showing to be, mildly to moderately, anti-cancerous.

TMYK.

Oh. Yes. Please. Let's all talk about marijuana. Again

Jizz Master Zero: Eh, in the Battle of the Found Footage Chicks, I'll take Katie over Heather any day.

Katie was a big part of why I was able to enjoy PE, despite Micah being a completely unlikable ignoramus.

Michael10101: Marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized nationally. Medical MJ is an insult to management of chronic diseases and legitimate medical care.

This. I'm totally fine with people growing and smoking weed for recreational use; I think the decision by the Kool-Aid-drinking types to use the term "medicine" in preference to other terms for marijuana is completely stupid. It's of a piece with all the "alternative health" idiots who want to call any old type of bullshiat "health care". I mean, at least weed gets you high, but I don't think people who call it "medicine" are any more intellectually honest. Anecdotally, I wouldn't be surprised if the people who buy the most into the marijuana-as-medicine idea are more likely to be psychologically dependent on it than your normal occasional smoker.

Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy: RockofAges: Michael10101: Marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized nationally. Medical MJ is an insult to management of chronic diseases and legitimate medical care. Which is the whole reason that it's not being used on a national level medicinally. If I treated other substances the same way as medicinal MJ is, I'd have my license revoked by the DEA.

Here have some adderol to help you lose weight. Oh, you have a headache, he's some oxycontin.

herpaderp. You started off good and then went right off the rails. MJ has been shown in most peer-reviewed medical literature to be a substantial benefit to those suffering chronic illness -- better than many pharmaceutical "solutions". Further, the apoptopic properties of THC are showing to be, mildly to moderately, anti-cancerous.

TMYK.

Oh. Yes. Please. Let's all talk about marijuana. Again

You do realize you're in a thread where pot is the headline, correct? Or do you simply save up your writerly nihilistic sarcasm for use at ironically inappropriate times?

Who? Someone from Blair Witch got fame from that project?

The Face Of Oblivion: Michael10101: Marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized nationally. Medical MJ is an insult to management of chronic diseases and legitimate medical care.

This. I'm totally fine with people growing and smoking weed for recreational use; I think the decision by the Kool-Aid-drinking types to use the term "medicine" in preference to other terms for marijuana is completely stupid. It's of a piece with all the "alternative health" idiots who want to call any old type of bullshiat "health care". I mean, at least weed gets you high, but I don't think people who call it "medicine" are any more intellectually honest. Anecdotally, I wouldn't be surprised if the people who buy the most into the marijuana-as-medicine idea are more likely to be psychologically dependent on it than your normal occasional smoker.

It depends upon your definition of "medicine". I'll just leave this here.

Link (new window)

There are thousands of others. Yep, lots of guys just like being high. Nothing wrong with that either. But it is a legitimate medicine for many people, and just because you want to look cool and oh-so-smarty ("Pssh. Whateva, poseur.") you can continue with your ignorance if you please.

Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy: Anyone who went into The Blair Witch Project thinking it was supposed to be real was apparently too dim to get the gag. It was never supposed to be real; It was supposed to have a strong mythology from outside of the movie theater which supported the movie experience. If you watch the movie by itself you're only getting part of the story. That's the way it was designed. It was the first truly viral movie experience, and in that it was wildly successful.

And it seems like everyone gets hung up on two things: The witch, and the whole "lost in the woods" aspect of the film (usually with words of bravado claiming they'd never get lost like the idiots in the movie). The people who focus on these things are missing the ENTIRE POINT of the film. It's not about the witch, nor is a "lost in the woods" movie. It's a movie about two completely different things:

Time travel
and
A serial killer

When the group goes into the woods, they step through some anomaly and end up back in time. They never figure this out, and apparently 96% of the audience fails to get it, too.

Now, if you watch the side-projects like Sticks & Stones you get a better understanding of this fact. They mention that after the group was missing for a couple days, there were search parties and helicopters scanning the area (which, you'll note, were never seen nor heard by the group). This is only hinted at in the actual movie (the whole "found their gear" part), but this bit of information isn't necessary to understand that this is a story of accidental time travel, and not a monster-in-the-woods story

For example, there's the whole story of Rustin Parr, which is laid out in pretty intricate detail for the protagonists before they leave on their trip. Rustin Parr's house, they're told, was burned down many decades ago-- Yet they find it intact with all the little handprints on the walls. Why? Because they're back in time, in the actual house before it was burned down.

Their gear and tapes are found buried ...

I might have enjoyed it more if I had watched it with this interpretation. I think my viewing was marred by the fact I had already seen the actors on Leno a week before my theater finally got it and merchandise like this made me think they were going for a supernatural angle:

RockofAges: It depends upon your definition of "medicine". I'll just leave this here.

My definition of medicine is evidence-based and relies on standardized clinical trials, not anecdotes (however emotionally powerful), particularly anecdotes from people who don't represent the majority of people who claim to be using marijuana medically. Again, I think recreational marijuana use should be completely free of penalties, but I also believe that the national conversation about standards of medical care is being diluted and distorted by all sorts of people on the flimsiest evidence and that we as a society need to make fixing that priority #1.

The Face Of Oblivion: RockofAges: It depends upon your definition of "medicine". I'll just leave this here.

My definition of medicine is evidence-based and relies on standardized clinical trials, not anecdotes (however emotionally powerful), particularly anecdotes from people who don't represent the majority of people who claim to be using marijuana medically. Again, I think recreational marijuana use should be completely free of penalties, but I also believe that the national conversation about standards of medical care is being diluted and distorted by all sorts of people on the flimsiest evidence and that we as a society need to make fixing that priority #1.

That's nice. You're so full of shiat (anything to save your feeble argument to begin with, given that clinical trials for cannabis and THC have already been produced en masse and indicate precisely the terms I was already alluding to) that you just spout off some nice-sounding terms.

No, priority #1 is to talk honestly about what cannabis can and can't do. So far, it has proven to be remarkably effective (clinically) in palliative care, care of chronic pain, and is showing mild to moderate promise as an anti-cancerous agent (particularly when ingested without combustion).

Basically, shut the fark up regarding your perceived "hippie war on medicine", attempting to essentially conflate cannabis use with real junk medicine such as homeopathy, and be honest. I am a researcher -- I get paid to do research. For you to sit there and claim that clinical trials and peer-reviewed medical journals have not been producing broad sheets of data on cannabis use (longitudinal studies by Tashkin aside) that is largely positive (though not uniformly) is just plain bullshiat.

So yea, quit talking out of your ass and presenting your opinion as fact -- because it's quite clear you have no real anecdotal evidence and your reliance upon your presumption of the medical field's standing towards cannabis is either about 20 years old or completely fabricated.

You'll note that most "con" articles re: cannabis refer only to the act of smoking it, not to the effect of THC itself (almost universally positive) on the human body. Further, plenty of "con" articles refer to "reefer madness" era arguments which have been largely discredited, including in the Canadian Senate Report on Illegal Drugs chaired by Sen. Claude Nolin.

Here's a little start. Hopefully you can figure out what to do from there.

Link (new window)

What was the article about again?

DrZiffle: What was the article about again?

The fact that Heather Donahue has a really nice rack.

Nihilist's Guide to Reticent Entropy

(interesting stuff about time travel that made the movie actually make sense)

....

Holy shiat. I actually get that farking movie now.

RockofAges: You'll note that most "con" articles re: cannabis refer only to the act of smoking it, not to the effect of THC itself (almost universally positive) on the human body.

Wow, way to totally misread my argument. My POINT is not that marijuana or extracts thereof have no clinical uses. My point is that what we definitely don't need in this country is rank amateurs and ignoramuses like Donahue going around telling everyone that marijuana is medicine and will benefit them. That's no better than a lay person claiming any other medicine will cure or treat something, if one actually cares about the use of a particular substance having clinical validity. That level of analysis IS junk medicine akin to homeopathy. But please, continue getting SO MAD AND BUTTHURT AAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH at anyone with the intellectual honesty to want to separate legitimate medical use and recreational use for clarity's sake, even if that person wants to see penalties for any type of marijuana use disappear. I've read many studies relating to marijuana. I don't disagree with the validity of their findings. What I do disagree with is the idea that marijuana is some sort of magic medicine for anything, as many lay people will claim. Surely you can agree that idea goes beyond what the studies show.

I am a researcher -- I get paid to do research.

Oh hey, nice appeal to authority. "Graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor's degree in English language and literature, as well as a Master of Philosophy (Humn.) degree." Yeah, sounds like NASA's just about to pick you up for your boundless talents, braintrust.

tomWright: cheap_thoughts: I remember her being on leno and being touted as the next big thing. Glad to see she made it.

cheap_thoughts: I remember her being on leno and being touted as the next big thing. Glad to see she made it.

More honest job than working for Hollywood.

someone sounds star struck

The Face Of Oblivion: RockofAges: You'll note that most "con" articles re: cannabis refer only to the act of smoking it, not to the effect of THC itself (almost universally positive) on the human body.

Wow, way to totally misread my argument. My POINT is not that marijuana or extracts thereof have no clinical uses. My point is that what we definitely don't need in this country is rank amateurs and ignoramuses like Donahue going around telling everyone that marijuana is medicine and will benefit them. That's no better than a lay person claiming any other medicine will cure or treat something, if one actually cares about the use of a particular substance having clinical validity. That level of analysis IS junk medicine akin to homeopathy. But please, continue getting SO MAD AND BUTTHURT AAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH at anyone with the intellectual honesty to want to separate legitimate medical use and recreational use for clarity's sake, even if that person wants to see penalties for any type of marijuana use disappear. I've read many studies relating to marijuana. I don't disagree with the validity of their findings. What I do disagree with is the idea that marijuana is some sort of magic medicine for anything, as many lay people will claim. Surely you can agree that idea goes beyond what the studies show.

I am a researcher -- I get paid to do research.

Oh hey, nice appeal to authority. "Graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor's degree in English language and literature, as well as a Master of Philosophy (Humn.) degree." Yeah, sounds like NASA's just about to pick you up for your boundless talents, braintrust.

Oh, now any expertise is worse than none! Nice appeal to zero authority on your behalf. I'll take my expertise over yours any day there, zero, since I actually know what the fark I'm talking about rather than, like so many of your ilk, shooting my mouth off and trying to sound intelligent when I really have no sweet clue.

Anyways, you believe whatever it is that you believe, and I'll stick to the facts and the peer-reviewed studies. Hopefully you can figure out what "research" means someday, since it's quite clear that you have an "e-education".

Her new career started after Donahue met a man who had lived in "Nuggettown," a Northern California community where growing weed was common.

I have no idea where "Nuggettown" is, but it sounds like a magical place.

Wait...who's Heather Donahue?

RockofAges: Oh, now any expertise is worse than none!

You haven't established any expertise, which is why your comment is an appeal to authority fallacy.

Hopefully you can figure out what "research" means someday, since it's quite clear that you have an "e-education".

I hold a graduate degree in a non-liberal arts, non-fine art, non-communications, non-business, non-bullshiat field from Georgetown University. I'm sure that Memorial University is the __________ of Canada, like everything in Canada.

Anyways, you believe whatever it is that you believe, and I'll stick to the facts and the peer-reviewed studies.

Clearly not the case, because you're attempting to counter my argument that pro-marijuana laypersons with no special expertise are not a reliable source of valid claims about the medical uses of marijuana. Curious that you would go to so much trouble to sputter "LOOK AT TEH STOODIES" and then totally ignore them when it suits your internet argument.