NLO 468: Paranormal Disappointment

[Patrick]

Patrick is alone, and that means he is sitting in a room and ranting on various topics du jour (that means of the day). He talks about getting earaches, his recent experience seeing the movie Paranormal Activity, and recaps some other stories in the news. He also attacks the fun-spirited people over at Improv Everywhere for their latest stupid mission. He hates those guys.

[WinkySugarFree]

I get some shitty ear aches myself, fella. I feel your pain. I have fucked up ears. My actual ear canal is above my ear opening. It's stupid and I get infections if I use other people's headphones.

Thanks for warning me about that fucking symphony of disappointment of a movie, by the way.

[Lyph3]

When, after 15 minutes, you start wanting to see the demon, just because he'll kill the shit out of the two characters you hate.. yeah, a movie did something wrong.

At least Blair Witch went around to town and interviewed people. This movie was literally sitting around the house while a dumb guy with a dumb fake name tries to piss a demon off.

Not to mention that they make an effort to show how often they turn the alarm system on, and it includes a very large very obvious motion sensor.. yet when everyone walks past it without turning the alarm OFF, nothing happens.

Also, when the 'spooky demon noise' is the same thump as when Micah steps off the side of the bed, you kind of know that it's time to leave.

What I can't get is all the people defending the movie on the IMDB forums, saying "good horror movies make you use your imagination." Hey, dummies, we go to movies to see moving pictures. If I wanted to use my imagination, I'd read a book.

Steven Spielberg claims he turned the movie off half way through because it was "too scary." I think he turned if off because he thought it was shit and didn't want to offend the shitty director, so he lied about why he turned it off.

[bk]

Originally Posted by Lyph3

...dumb guy with a dumb fake name...

Tthe character names were the same as the actors' names.

[Shn]

Originally Posted by bk

Tthe character names were the same as the actors' names.

BOOM.

BK got you there.

Edit: Here's a video of that mermaid girl "Shiloh Pepin" (who's name sounds like it belongs to a hobbit.)

[Lyph3]

Doesn't make it not a dumb name.

[DiggerF16]

I liked paranormal activity, the movie was based on realism and it was pretty cool, the ending was the typical Hollywood way to end a horror movie, which just ruined the entire movie for me.

[Cybersoulja]

Soooo.... yeah nobody's mention the caller that's getting divorced so I will. Hey can you invite me to the Freedom Party?!?!

[Kris3120]

I didn't HATE the movie... But I thought it could've been alot better.
It would have been creepier if all the spooky things that happened were not so concretely the results of a demon haunting the couple, and could have been explained away, so that there would be the possibility that Katie had actually been descending into madness. As in she and Micah were blaming a demon for her creepily standing and staring at him, and her falling out of the bed, but it also could have also been impending insanity.
The fact that it was slow building didn't bother me, because I absolutely hate it when horror flicks start off with gore and ghosts from the get go. There has to be that sense that things were normal and fine, and then slipped away into terror.

[ThisBirdHasFlown]

I fucking pissed myself during the satellite rant and Patrick's moon fantasy.

So fucking funny.