Paranormal Activity sucks!

[janx]

This is just awful and stupid! It's supposed to look like a "real life" video--but it's awful! There's nothing suspenseful about it.

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. There were a few minutes of it that genuinely scared me.

The other stuff was exposition, which is okay if you're making a movie, but in this case it took away from the fright. If Paranormal Activity were a fifteen minute long short, it would have terrified me. For example,

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Katie waking up and just staring at her husband for about three hours, her begging him to stay when she was obviously possessed, and that smile at the very end of the movie really hit me. But those moments were too spread out. I really loved Blair Witch because of the rapid-fireness of it.

[janx]

2. Agreed, but--I wasn't scared at all.

There was no suspense and the "real life video" was totally unconvincing. Gah. Thank goodness there are creative movies coming out in the spring.

[Skittles]

3. it had its creepy moments

but no it did not live up to its hype

[janx]

4. Not at all, sis!

I and the dogs were prepared for fright, and all we got was some weird ass "live" video! :shrug:

[Skittles]

6. all I know is

if I saw evidence that someone stood there and watched me sleep for hours, I would not sleep with that person again; no INDEED

[EastTennesseeDem]

7. Me neither.

But that part scared the shit out of me. :scared:

I know I'm in the minority, but I think I got my money's worth.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Minority? Nah.

It was a sleeper hit.

Damn good movie.

[EastTennesseeDem]

10. Minority meaning DU

Critical reaction was overwhelming.

[Skittles]

12. aw don't get me wrong, I thought it was quite spooky

and I certainly was, er, entertained :D

[FedUpWithIt All]

5. Agreed. n/t

[Zomby Woof]

8. I didn't see it or 'Blair Witch Project' either

Somehow, when movies are overly hyped by the teen/twentysomething set which forks out money for this crap, I know to avoid it. I trust your review.

[hyphenate]

11. The friend who went with me liked it better than I did.

But we both got queasy with the hand-held camera.

There were a couple of big boo-boos in it that spoiled it for me.

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I guess I watch too much of Ghost Hunters, but those guys would have stayed and brought their demonologist with them! And probably an exorcist! That BF should have known what was going to happen after seeing the previous incarnation and possession. And the "psychic" was as dumb as shit.

Why would a demon wait until there was a camera filming what was going on before he "took" possession? And why does everything in the filmed genre go on only at night? The shit with the Ouija board made it jump the shark for me.

Again, if the demon had been stalking (for lack of a better werb) the girl for all her life, it most likely would NOT be an evil demon. Evil spirits come and go very fast because if they hang around, there likely IS an exorcist or whatever handy if they try to takeover a person. Everything in this movie was kind of screaming "how not to possess a subject and bring ruin and death to their lives in 72 hours or less."

If, after they'd been told that the demon was following the girl around, their best defence would have been to g straight to a church of their own choosing and stay inside the church as long as possible. Church grounds are consecrated and evil is supposed to be repelled. It almost looked like he couldn't actually attack the guy until it was of solid material, after it had possessed the girl.

But again, the information of the former possession made absolutely NO sense whatsoever in the context of the film. There are ways to trap demons, but you need to find the experts to do just that, and they didn't pursue the avenues they should have and could have.

I didn't care for Blair Witch at all. But I'm also a firm believer that witchcraft as these stupid movies are concerned doesn't exist--live near Salem, MA for awhile and you see enough Wicca to know it's really a gentle religion.