I don't know if I'm just used to it but I don't get motion sickness anymore.

Yeah, I don't either.  I do get irritated sometimes when there is the shaky cam with the holder running and people screaming.  Overall though it doesn't bother me.

We talk bout FF a bit in the FF Thread...but will say here, that the article that was linked above did have some good points.  I know all genres and sub-genres have some bad movies, and FF of course is no different.  Still...man, I've sat through some really bad ones to get to some that I liked.  Among the worst in my book are Megan is Missing and June 9.  Though the worst, by far was a movie I don't remember the name of, it was an Exorcism one, but think maybe it was of the Jewish religion or something?  It was beyond horrible, and not in a good way. 

Anyway...again, there were some I loved.

^ Thanks for the link Vasquez...good article.

I am a lover and supporter of FF, it is my favorite sub-genre and has generated some of my favorite movies ever.  Yet, even saying that, I totally agree with this line form the article:

Sure, there are some good found footage movies – those rare, occasional flashes of brilliance, like Troll Hunter, that can overcome all the motion sickness, but they’re so few and far between that they could never compensate for the rest of the imagination-free dross we’ve had to suffer through in these dark, post-BWP days.

I don't know if I'm just used to it but I don't get motion sickness anymore.  The very first time I watched Blair Witch and Cloverfield I definitely felt green in the gills.  Since then, either they've improved how FF are filmed or I'm just used to it.  I too have become such a big fan of FF films.  It just opens a whole new world of ideas!  I can't wait to see the future of it

I am a lover and supporter of FF, it is my favorite sub-genre and has generated some of my favorite movies ever.  Yet, even saying that, I totally agree with this line form the article:

Sure, there are some good found footage movies – those rare, occasional flashes of brilliance, like Troll Hunter, that can overcome all the motion sickness, but they’re so few and far between that they could never compensate for the rest of the imagination-free dross we’ve had to suffer through in these dark, post-BWP days.

http://www.brutalashell.com/2012/10/edi … es-to-die/

So yeah, your 80% criteria sounds good, but I would probably just think of it broadly as being most of the movie.

Off topic but what's up with the 4 star rating system, I hate it.

From the responses, it looks like the general opinion is that a found footage film has to be almost all found footage, a la Blair Witch.  Or Grave Encounters, which just has a quick non-found introduction.

Then we have the faux-documentary/mockumentary films like Cannibal Holocaust and The Last Broadcast, that use the found footage inside of a larger tale.

And then there is the full on (false or not) documentary that is just creepy, like Cropsey and the Toynbee Tiles.

Thanks for all the responses, I was wondering how people defined the term.

Paper dolls trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b31kwMt8iOk

I personally think the 'Found Footage' sub-genre (if you can call it that) has many different types than just the "one" which decides if a movie is found footage or not.

A found footage film, to me, is one which is supposedly nothing but "found footage" from the opening frame, with a documentary feel to them.  The Blair Witch Project, Quarantine, Diary of the Dead, for instance.

I've never considered Cannibal Holocaust a found footage film and would argue against that notion.  The found footage isn't the point of the movie, it's merely a plot device; it's only a part of a larger, fictional story about a guy who's investigating the found footage.  I wouldn't call it a found footage flick anymore than I would the Nic Cage flick 8MM.

Well said Lon.  I think that the term Found Footage has become too broad and people have a tendancy to lump any film that includes some kind of previously recorded/filmed material into the genre, when they really don't belong.  As for The Last Broadcast, though generally thrown in with The Blair Witch Project, it is really a faux documentary, and really, its claim to fame is that it is considered to be the first desktop feature, completed and even realeased entirely digitally, without the use of any film.