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Blair Witch Tanked, The Director Joked About It

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19 September 2016

By Alex Khalil

You must ask yourself, what would happen if every time a director failed, they joked about it? Instead of Zack Snyder defending BvS he should’ve laughed about it, admitted it was a piece of garbage and promised us more next time, instead of defending what was an awfully edited CGI fest.

Well, Blair Witch director Adam Wingard seems be taking negative reviews in stride; he shared banter with Simon Barrett too, the film’s writer.

https://twitter.com/AdamWingard/status/777552291939229696

This would be a reference to Clint Eastwood’s film ‘Sully’ which opened at No.1 at box office last week, and stayed there with $22 million.

Adam then continued by saying:

https://twitter.com/AdamWingard/status/777552591429304320

https://twitter.com/AdamWingard/status/777588982016126976

https://twitter.com/AdamWingard/status/777606889236406272

And then, quite rightly, he said:

https://twitter.com/AdamWingard/status/777607039736426496

I have mass respect for the two creators. They made something that didn’t do so well, but are standing by it instead of lashing back at fans who maybe didn’t connect with it. It takes a lot of guts to have a laugh, I believe, when something you worked on gets dashed by critics.

Kudos guys. You tried.

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