I agree, that one was interesting at first and it was the one I was most excited for. But as soon as
the ****ing mutant appendages
came out I said BYE and knew it was over for the entire movie

the last one was decent too, although I'm still confused on how it ended. The first tape was complete trash, stupid, poorly acted, and like you said, not even found footage

and yeah the wrapping story... a complete disaster. Remember the
shootout? That poor dog that died? The woman in the taxi?
I had no ****ing clue where those were going, the entire thing just made no sense. Still confused how they approved this when V/H/S/2 was even better than the first.
I guess they included the Gorgeous Vortex tape on the US Blu-ray release and it's a bonus feature on iTunes, but I REFUSE to give them any money for this. Just annoying because no one's posted the tape online yet, but apparently it's not any better than the others.