Paranormal Activity

[prescient63]

Originally Posted by Devlin

No, I would get the fuck outta dodge, I've seen the Exorcist, just like everyone else, tbh, demons in my house after my gf? Laters Babe, I think we need to start seeing other people.

I don't see the point in making a movie in the amateur documentary style if you're going to make the actions of the characters completely unrealistic and quite frankly batshit insane.

In the end I was fucking begging for those two numskulls to be killed.

This makes me want to see the movie.

[Mr Element]

Suddenly everyone's a psychologist and they understand all different personality types.

For some people, the characters seem completely realistic. There are people out there that WOULD act like this. If Micah had a different personality and just got the fuck out, it wouldn't have been a very good movie. But no, instead he was a cocky guy and stubborn and therefore crazy stuff happened. It's not about a 'suspension of disbelief', its about not trying to constantly put yourself in the shoes of characters. Wake up. Some people react differently to stuff than you do.

[huh]

Yeah, I hated the movie but I had no problem with how the characters acted.

I would of just slept with my door closed. BAM problem solved.

[Arbitrary]

It's really about the kinds of characters that I actually want to be following around. Micah was a wormy, arrogant, unsympathetic douche and the only information we had on him was that he was a day trader. He wasn't any more fleshed out than the dudes that eat machete in a Friday the 13th flick.

The night scenes were very well done. The day scenes and the dialogue between Micah, his girlfriend, and her friend, were the weakest parts of the film.

[Astrocreep]

saw the screener, ok lets get some things out of the way. this was a piece of shit even for a cheap ass youtube movie. second the 3:15 thing is an homage to the ghost scenes in The Amityville Horror. that was the exact time the guy kills his family with a shotgun. Dunno if the Abrams mention is an injoke for Cloverfield. as i think this predates that movie.
on to why this movie is shit

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

There was no realism other than that the gf is a whiny bitch and her boyfriend is a colossal douchebag. did these people even have jobs? in 3 weeks time they barely even left the fucking house, why even set an alarm for 6:14 am? if they had jobs their work would have also called up wondering where the fuck they were. the ghosts only shows up at night and during the daytime stay quiet. if you're unemployed or whatever these people were then sleep in the day or evening so you can play ghostbusters after dark. after being repeatedly terrified at 3:15 am they would become conditioned to wake up at around that time anyway.

the ghost effects were ok. though why set up a motion detector burglar alarm that never goes off even when real people walk by it? why not set a camera up downstairs as well since the noises seem to have originated from down there? why no smoke detectors after the ouija board fire? the 3 toed claw marks in the powder was pretty cool even though i expected it.

the other part is how hopeless and scared these people sounded, the boyfriend whines that there isnt anyone they could call for help. after the first indisputable instance of a supernatural event, ( demon footprints or chick being dragged) i would have called The Amazing Randy to collect my check and have been in contact with all the news networks looking to cash in. they would bring in their own psychics to "judge" whats going on. i would become fucking rich and have my ghosts taken care of. at the least i can afford to stay on the move so Ghosty never has time to settle into my home and scare my ass. the "leaked footage" of that 1960s exorcism was hilarious, they film this chick eating her own arm and dont even attempt to stop her. i mean after the first bite you should probably fit her with one of those doggie cone things or put a blanket over her arms or something. god what a fucking stupid movie. i can see how this can be scary at the movies but when taken with no outside interference its simply terrible.

[arkk123]

Why do people not like the movie and their reasoning is akin to "Well Micah wore jeans in the film and if you had to run from a demon why would you not opt for sweatpants to allow for a greater range of motion during a sprint? Honestly, HOW FUCKING UNREALISTIC IS THIS MOVIE ITS SO DUMB AHSHDGDGDBSJBS"?

It is a movie...
about a DEMON..
and it's a movie.

roflmao

[Mr Element]

Originally Posted by Astrocreep

saw the screener, ok lets get some things out of the way. this was a piece of shit even for a cheap ass youtube movie. second the 3:15 thing is an homage to the ghost scenes in The Amityville Horror. that was the exact time the guy kills his family with a shotgun. Dunno if the Abrams mention is an injoke for Cloverfield. as i think this predates that movie.
on to why this movie is shit

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

There was no realism other than that the gf is a whiny bitch and her boyfriend is a colossal douchebag. did these people even have jobs? in 3 weeks time they barely even left the fucking house, why even set an alarm for 6:14 am? if they had jobs their work would have also called up wondering where the fuck they were. the ghosts only shows up at night and during the daytime stay quiet. if you're unemployed or whatever these people were then sleep in the day or evening so you can play ghostbusters after dark. after being repeatedly terrified at 3:15 am they would become conditioned to wake up at around that time anyway.

the ghost effects were ok. though why set up a motion detector burglar alarm that never goes off even when real people walk by it? why not set a camera up downstairs as well since the noises seem to have originated from down there? why no smoke detectors after the ouija board fire? the 3 toed claw marks in the powder was pretty cool even though i expected it.

the other part is how hopeless and scared these people sounded, the boyfriend whines that there isnt anyone they could call for help. after the first indisputable instance of a supernatural event, ( demon footprints or chick being dragged) i would have called The Amazing Randy to collect my check and have been in contact with all the news networks looking to cash in. they would bring in their own psychics to "judge" whats going on. i would become fucking rich and have my ghosts taken care of. at the least i can afford to stay on the move so Ghosty never has time to settle into my home and scare my ass. the "leaked footage" of that 1960s exorcism was hilarious, they film this chick eating her own arm and dont even attempt to stop her. i mean after the first bite you should probably fit her with one of those doggie cone things or put a blanket over her arms or something. god what a fucking stupid movie. i can see how this can be scary at the movies but when taken with no outside interference its simply terrible.

He said he was a day trader and he obviously worked from home and was doing quite well. Early in the movie you can see stocks and graphs all over his multiple computers. At the beginning she asked how much the camera cost and he responded "only half as much as I made today" insinuating he was doing well financially. She was a student, as stated multiple times, and she did go to classes and studied during the movie. There is the scene where she is trying to study, but Micah keeps interupting her to talk to her about his new ideas. Of course he's only going to be filming when she is home. Why would he film when she's at school if the ghost/demon/spirit follows her around?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

And they did try to call for help. After the events got really bad (the powder incident) they tried to get in touch with the Demonologist and when they couldn't they tried the psychic again and he refused to help. They didn't know where else to turn so they then decided to get out of there. They packed their shit and were leaving but then she was totally possessed and said she wanted to stay. The really bad stuff only happened over the course of a couple days.

And for all those people who don't understand how could someone stay in that house for even one more extra night, think about all the spouses who live in physically abusive households who don't just run for it. Sometimes they get the shit beat out of them and they tell themself "on friday when i get paid I'm gonna run for it" but then on Thursday they get hit just a little too hard and you hear about it on the news.

[Twobit Whore]

People stay in abusive households because they are conditioned that way over long periods of time. I don't know many people who are conditioned to tolerate fucking hauntings.

I totally get him being skeptical at first, I would be too. But the minute I had my door opening and closing on film then the next night hearing *thud* *thud* *thud * *thud* *SLAM!* and screaming like a bitch I'd be out the door, on the news, calling Abrams.. something. But what's he do? Get's a Ouija board that he was told absolutely not to get and tries to pick a fucking fist fight with the demon.

In no way is any of these remotely realistic.

And as to the 'sweatpants' comment, I have no problem suspending disbelief for a movie that isn't trying to be fucking realistic. Big difference in Poltergeist and a 'documentary'.

[arkk123]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

People stay in abusive households because they are conditioned that way over long periods of time. I don't know many people who are conditioned to tolerate fucking hauntings.

I totally get him being skeptical at first, I would be too. But the minute I had my door opening and closing on film then the next night hearing *thud* *thud* *thud * *thud* *SLAM!* and screaming like a bitch I'd be out the door, on the news, calling Abrams.. something. But what's he do? Get's a Ouija board that he was told absolutely not to get and tries to pick a fucking fist fight with the demon.

In no way is any of these remotely realistic.

And as to the 'sweatpants' comment, I have no problem suspending disbelief for a movie that isn't trying to be fucking realistic. Big difference in Poltergeist and a 'documentary'.

[Devlin]

Originally Posted by arkk123

Why do people not like the movie and their reasoning is akin to "Well Micah wore jeans in the film and if you had to run from a demon why would you not opt for sweatpants to allow for a greater range of motion during a sprint? Honestly, HOW FUCKING UNREALISTIC IS THIS MOVIE ITS SO DUMB AHSHDGDGDBSJBS"?

It is a movie...
about a DEMON..
and it's a movie.

roflmao

Yeah no shit Sherlock.

Its supposed to be scary, it isn't, its supposed to give the feeling that these are real people and that the movie was filmed by them, it doesn't.

Quit stating the fucking obvious and try to read and understand what people are saying without going for the most obvious conclusion your tiny fucking brain can come up with.

What I can't stand is that this movie is being hyped as some fucking crazy scary stuff when its actually a complete piece of shit, I love my horror movies and they're tough to come by nowadays so I usually have to go for foreign language films to get anything near scary.

[chaos]

I've known plenty of people like Micah, arrogant assholes who think they are invincible and have all the answers. That was the most realistic part, to me.

[Regime]

Originally Posted by chaos

I've known plenty of people like Micah, arrogant assholes who think they are invincible and have all the answers. That was the most realistic part, to me.

Wish that demon would visit a few of those guys on this board.

[Mr Element]

Originally Posted by Devlin

Yeah no shit Sherlock.

Its supposed to be scary, it isn't, its supposed to give the feeling that these are real people and that the movie was filmed by them, it doesn't.

Quit stating the fucking obvious and try to read and understand what people are saying without going for the most obvious conclusion your tiny fucking brain can come up with.

What I can't stand is that this movie is being hyped as some fucking crazy scary stuff when its actually a complete piece of shit, I love my horror movies and they're tough to come by nowadays so I usually have to go for foreign language films to get anything near scary.

Please share with us these foreign movies that are so scary.

Jeez, you seem to be the one taking this personal. it's been stated a million times that some people will like this and be scared by and it some people (you) wont. But from what I could tell, my theatre was freaked out. Not a single person spoke or even got up to go to the restroom and it was packed. The only people that left were my friend's gf who, as previously stated, was crying and another couple whom I'm assuming was too freaked out. You can be a hardass and movie critic all you want, but just for a second recognize that this movie is scary to A LOT OF PEOPLE. If it didn't tickle your fancy and you have nothing else to add, then GTFO.

[Vorph]

On a scale of 1 to 10 for horror movies filmed in this style, with 1 being BWP, 5 being Cloverfield or Open Water, and 10 being [REC]... this was about a 3.5. The other thing it kind of reminded me of was the fake-movie-within-a-book (Navison Record) in House of Leaves; mostly in the interactions between the characters. I liked the dialogue and their reactions to what happened and the only thing that really bothered me was the thing with the fire going unnoticed.

I just did not find the demon to be anywhere near menacing enough for it to be scary. I was constantly waiting for it to do something more than just go bump in the night, and it took far too long for it to get to that point for me to stay interested.


And either of those original endings would have been much better than what was attached to the final print. The whole point of movies that are filmed with a non-existent budget is that they are free of studio fuckwits' meddling, but I guess the suits at Paramount just couldn't help themselves.

[chaos]

Well, it kind of scared me, but I'm pretty much a pussy. I still can't bring myself to watch Martyrs, the chick in the trailer with the metal on her face freaks me out. I thought it was suspenseful enough that it made up for the lack of "OH FUCK" actions from the demon thing.