Paranormal Activity

**Robert D.** · 10-30-2009, 10:55 AM

don't waste you time or money on this movie, it's long, boring, stupid AND not scary at all...big disappointment.

AKIRA · 10-30-2009, 10:58 AM

BIG DISAGREEMENT.

If youre looking for gore, spectacle, and high budget geriatrics... Then youre right, stay away.

**Robert D.** · 10-30-2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

If youre looking for gore, spectacle, and high budget geriatrics... Then youre right, stay away.

No, just a movie that doesn't make me look at my watch every five minutes hoping its over.

I kept waiting for it to get "scary" or even mildly entertaining, and it never happened.

AKIRA · 10-30-2009, 12:36 PM

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

So you didnt get scared when she was dragged away into darkness? You couldnt imagine sleeping in your own home seeing shit move on its own, your wife standing for hours in complete blackness, or fucked up foot prints that appear out of no where on camera?

I am not questioning you directly. I am discovering why people think some things are scary while others are not. I love these sort of movies because the aura of being scared is being sold here. Auras are slower than their counter parts, spooks. Spooks are no more than simple "BOO!"s and never work twice with the same intensity.

In class we learned about people running on a treadmill to exhaustion. They would want to end at a certain time, but right before they quit, the tester would fire off a starter gun which, of course, scared the shit out of the running tester. After the scare (or spook), the running could continue running a little while more. They fired it again later on and the result was not the same. However, the fear of another gunshot, though not as intense as the initial gun shot noise, lasted the entire bout that the runner could continue running.

Kind of a side effect of a study that sought out to see if a person who wanted to quit was really fatigued or just unmotivated.

I know something scary is going on in this movie and when I know something MORE is going to happen, the suspense I feel is fear. "Whats going to happen next? How will this get worse?"

This movie can happen to any of us since we all live in houses and sleep normally. Not all of us are camping out like in Blair Witch, so I can see the separation. But to say you werent scared at all could just mean you personally just didnt find this sort of thing scary or you went in with a bad attitude.

**Robert D.** · 10-30-2009, 02:57 PM

no, I honestly found nothing about it scary, but part of it may be because I really don't believe in demons or people being possessed. I believe there may be ghosts or spirits, but not evil demons that possess people like in this movie, so it was just too fake for me.

AKIRA · 10-30-2009, 04:36 PM

Ahhhh, see, I remember in Exorcist III the spirit spoke about how they cant really touch people except through possession. I suppose the one part in this movie (my favorite part) throws that shit out the window.

In any case, thats why I can see it taking over her, but if you dont buy into it, then that gives me a good reason why you didnt enjoy it.

Doublebase · 10-30-2009, 05:34 PM

First person I have heard give this movie a bad review. I'm waiting for DVD anyway.

**Robert D.** · 10-30-2009, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Doublebase

First person I have heard give this movie a bad review. I'm waiting for DVD anyway.

that is why we went to see it, everyone said it was good and the scariest movie they had ever seen, wait until it hits cable, save your money.

**I Are Baboon** · 10-30-2009, 06:52 PM

No Will Farrell no care.

Little Wing · 10-30-2009, 06:57 PM

i just skimmed over the thread so as not to spoil it but the exorcist scared me to death so i think i'll still watch this (via pirate bay). i don't believe in demon's possessing people but it's a scary damn idea. the trailer looks kinda unnerving. if it sucks i can't say i wasn't warned.

AKIRA · 10-30-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Doublebase

First person I have heard give this movie a bad review. I'm waiting for DVD anyway.

This never made any sense to me. Unless youre renting, buying the DVD would be more expensive than 2 tickets at the theatre. Not to mention, if you dont like the DVD, you now have the hassle to get rid of it.

I only buy movies Ive seen and loved. If I love them, I am going to want to watch them over and over again.

maniclion · 10-30-2009, 08:24 PM

Fourth Kind has more potential to be "scary" to me, but I'm really not frightened by much of anything anymore..... maybe I'm numb from years of blood and gore and violence in movies and tv......A recent movie that I think would get to me is Men Who Stare At Goats, even though it's a comedy I'd be thinking about all the crazy shit our government has spent time and money researching, then I'd think about all the shots and injections I got while in the military....

**Robert D.** · 10-30-2009, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

This never made any sense to me. Unless youre renting, buying the DVD would be more expensive than 2 tickets at the theatre. Not to mention, if you dont like the DVD, you now have the hassle to get rid of it.
I only buy movies Ive seen and loved. If I love them, I am going to want to watch them over and over again.

he may have meant to rent it, you can go to a McDonald's Redbox and rent a movie for $.99

AKIRA · 10-31-2009, 08:59 AM

Look what I found!! And with a different ending. Id say a more fucked up ending..

cinema haven » Paranormal Activity (2009) ZShare

**Robert D.** · 10-31-2009, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Look what I found!! And with a different ending. Id say a more fucked up ending..

cinema haven » Paranormal Activity (2009) ZShare

Nice find, you just saved a few people here some $$$

gainmusclemass · 10-31-2009, 02:21 PM

yeah the movie sucked. was not scared at all

AKIRA · 10-31-2009, 06:04 PM

Lotta tough guys in here.

**Robert D.** · 10-31-2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

Lotta tough guys in here.

why are you taking it personal?

jmorrison · 10-31-2009, 08:19 PM

I'm looking forward to it. I love a good scary movie. I almost shit myself at The Unborn. When the little demon bastard came out of the medicine cabinet the lady in front of me almost got punched in the back of the head out of sheer panic.

Little Wing · 10-31-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Prince

No, just a movie that doesn't make me look at my watch every five minutes hoping its over.

I kept waiting for it to get "scary" or even mildly entertaining, and it never happened.

my son and i saved this to watch tonight. we both agree with you. we give it

Doublebase · 11-01-2009, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AKIRA

This never made any sense to me. Unless youre renting, buying the DVD would be more expensive than 2 tickets at the theatre. Not to mention, if you dont like the DVD, you now have the hassle to get rid of it.

I only buy movies Ive seen and loved. If I love them, I am going to want to watch them over and over again.

I actually still go to Blockbuster and rent movies. I enjoy going and looking to see what is out. I haven't bought a movie DVD in a over 2 years. I'm just waiting for every movie ever made to be accessible from your service provider. I will continue to support my local blockbuster until then

AKIRA · 11-01-2009, 07:10 PM

Blockbuster has gotten expensive. Renting a game is crazy! You can BUY a used game nowadays for cheaper than the rent price.

Crono1000 · 11-01-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

Blockbuster has gotten expensive. Renting a game is crazy! You can BUY a used game nowadays for cheaper than the rent price.

the only renting service for video games worth a damn is maybe gamefly, if you spend about that much per month on video games anyway. Personally, I just buy the must have games and play them long past bored of them

Hoglander · 11-01-2009, 11:56 PM

It's a novel movie. It's very good IF you don't have ADD.

Having had Graves I can relate to people with ADD.

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maniclion · 11-02-2009, 05:44 AM

I haven't bought, rented nor gone to a movie in a long time....I wait for it to go to HBO, I really don't understand the need to see a movie as soon as it comes out.....

sara · 11-02-2009, 07:15 PM

Any soo called scary movie would be a scary movie to me

soxmuscle · 11-03-2009, 04:16 AM

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MeatZatk · 11-06-2009, 02:58 AM

I thought it was good. Not the scariest movie of all time, but look how much cash they're raking in with that slogan. The picture in the attic was a little cheesy, but other than that I had chills a few times throughout the show.

Little Wing · 11-06-2009, 09:22 AM

the other night leaves blowing outside my window, combined with having recently seen this, scared the crap out of me for a few seconds. then a woman told me she saw it a hadn't slept for two nights.

JonPiven · 11-06-2009, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoglander

It's a novel movie. It's very good IF you don't have ADD.

Having had Graves I can relate to people with ADD.

it's crap with like 15k budjet. i knew it will be crap from the trialer, they probbly spent 10k on the trialer and 5k on the movie lol

10-30-2009, 10:55 AM	#1
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10-30-2009, 10:58 AM	#2
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,789 Photos: 3	BIG DISAGREEMENT. If youre looking for gore, spectacle, and high budget geriatrics... Then youre right, stay away. 6' 209lbs (8/16) Bench 365 (12/3) Weighted Pullups 80lbs 3x3 (3/19) Squat 370 Deadlift after herniation 385lbs 3x3 (3/17) NASM certified 2/06 Journal

10-30-2009, 12:36 PM	#4
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,789 Photos: 3	SPOILER ALERT!!!! So you didnt get scared when she was dragged away into darkness? You couldnt imagine sleeping in your own home seeing shit move on its own, your wife standing for hours in complete blackness, or fucked up foot prints that appear out of no where on camera? I am not questioning you directly. I am discovering why people think some things are scary while others are not. I love these sort of movies because the aura of being scared is being sold here. Auras are slower than their counter parts, spooks. Spooks are no more than simple "BOO!"s and never work twice with the same intensity. In class we learned about people running on a treadmill to exhaustion. They would want to end at a certain time, but right before they quit, the tester would fire off a starter gun which, of course, scared the shit out of the running tester. After the scare (or spook), the running could continue running a little while more. They fired it again later on and the result was not the same. However, the fear of another gunshot, though not as intense as the initial gun shot noise, lasted the entire bout that the runner could continue running. Kind of a side effect of a study that sought out to see if a person who wanted to quit was really fatigued or just unmotivated. I know something scary is going on in this movie and when I know something MORE is going to happen, the suspense I feel is fear. "Whats going to happen next? How will this get worse?" This movie can happen to any of us since we all live in houses and sleep normally. Not all of us are camping out like in Blair Witch, so I can see the separation. But to say you werent scared at all could just mean you personally just didnt find this sort of thing scary or you went in with a bad attitude. 6' 209lbs (8/16) Bench 365 (12/3) Weighted Pullups 80lbs 3x3 (3/19) Squat 370 Deadlift after herniation 385lbs 3x3 (3/17) NASM certified 2/06 Journal

10-30-2009, 02:57 PM	#5
Robert D. Who Me? Administrator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Colorado Posts: 37,416 Photos: 356	no, I honestly found nothing about it scary, but part of it may be because I really don't believe in demons or people being possessed. I believe there may be ghosts or spirits, but not evil demons that possess people like in this movie, so it was just too fake for me. BOARD SPONSORS: MassNutrition.com - Discount Supplement Superstore IronMagLabs.com - Bodybuilding Nutrition AlltheWhey.com - Bulk Protein Powders & Supplements CEMProducts.com - Research Chemicals & Supplements MusclesProd.com - Steroids, Bodybuilding & Training Blog Maximizer.com - Maximum Strength for Maximum Performance MikeGetsRipped.com - The Original 'Get Ripped' Blog ProteinRoutine.com - Experiments in Healthy Living Follow on Twitter Join Facebook Group Befriend on Myspace

10-30-2009, 04:36 PM	#6
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,789 Photos: 3	Ahhhh, see, I remember in Exorcist III the spirit spoke about how they cant really touch people except through possession. I suppose the one part in this movie (my favorite part) throws that shit out the window. In any case, thats why I can see it taking over her, but if you dont buy into it, then that gives me a good reason why you didnt enjoy it. 6' 209lbs (8/16) Bench 365 (12/3) Weighted Pullups 80lbs 3x3 (3/19) Squat 370 Deadlift after herniation 385lbs 3x3 (3/17) NASM certified 2/06 Journal

10-30-2009, 05:34 PM	#7
Doublebase Lightweight, Ya Buddy! Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Philly Posts: 7,325	First person I have heard give this movie a bad review. I'm waiting for DVD anyway. "A child does not learn to squat from the top down -- in other words, he does not suddenly make a conscious decision one day to squat. Actually, he is squatting one day and makes the conscious decision to stand." - Gray Cook

10-30-2009, 06:52 PM	#9
I Are Baboon pedal pedal pedal Moderator Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Beerville Posts: 11,942 Photos: 4	No Will Farrell no care.

10-30-2009, 06:57 PM	#10
Little Wing Mommmmmm, turn it down!!! Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 23,759 Photos: 191	i just skimmed over the thread so as not to spoil it but the exorcist scared me to death so i think i'll still watch this (via pirate bay). i don't believe in demon's possessing people but it's a scary damn idea. the trailer looks kinda unnerving. if it sucks i can't say i wasn't warned. "MUSCLE IS TRULY GUARANTEED IF YOU WILL HONESTLY work out to BE YOUR VERY BEST - GO FOR IT!!! BECAUSE YOU CAN!!!!!! Take Care, John H."

10-30-2009, 08:24 PM	#12
maniclion Cartographer of the Mind Elite Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mens Incognita Posts: 20,441 Photos: 10	Fourth Kind has more potential to be "scary" to me, but I'm really not frightened by much of anything anymore..... maybe I'm numb from years of blood and gore and violence in movies and tv......A recent movie that I think would get to me is Men Who Stare At Goats, even though it's a comedy I'd be thinking about all the crazy shit our government has spent time and money researching, then I'd think about all the shots and injections I got while in the military.... "We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

10-31-2009, 08:59 AM	#14
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,789 Photos: 3	Look what I found!! And with a different ending. Id say a more fucked up ending.. cinema haven » Paranormal Activity (2009) ZShare 6' 209lbs (8/16) Bench 365 (12/3) Weighted Pullups 80lbs 3x3 (3/19) Squat 370 Deadlift after herniation 385lbs 3x3 (3/17) NASM certified 2/06 Journal

10-31-2009, 02:21 PM	#16
gainmusclemass Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: United States Posts: 5	yeah the movie sucked. was not scared at all

10-31-2009, 06:04 PM	#17
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,789 Photos: 3	Lotta tough guys in here. 6' 209lbs (8/16) Bench 365 (12/3) Weighted Pullups 80lbs 3x3 (3/19) Squat 370 Deadlift after herniation 385lbs 3x3 (3/17) NASM certified 2/06 Journal

10-31-2009, 08:19 PM	#19
jmorrison Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 325	I'm looking forward to it. I love a good scary movie. I almost shit myself at The Unborn. When the little demon bastard came out of the medicine cabinet the lady in front of me almost got punched in the back of the head out of sheer panic. You should bang this chick like a mountain gorilla ~ ROID

11-01-2009, 07:10 PM	#22
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,789 Photos: 3	Blockbuster has gotten expensive. Renting a game is crazy! You can BUY a used game nowadays for cheaper than the rent price. 6' 209lbs (8/16) Bench 365 (12/3) Weighted Pullups 80lbs 3x3 (3/19) Squat 370 Deadlift after herniation 385lbs 3x3 (3/17) NASM certified 2/06 Journal

11-01-2009, 11:56 PM	#24
Hoglander Cleaner Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Washington Posts: 1,501 Photos: 10	It's a novel movie. It's very good IF you don't have ADD. Having had Graves I can relate to people with ADD. Home

11-02-2009, 05:44 AM	#25
maniclion Cartographer of the Mind Elite Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mens Incognita Posts: 20,441 Photos: 10	I haven't bought, rented nor gone to a movie in a long time....I wait for it to go to HBO, I really don't understand the need to see a movie as soon as it comes out..... "We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." Thomas Edison: In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

11-02-2009, 07:15 PM	#26
sara INK NOT MINK Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Earth Posts: 7,005 Photos: 5	Any soo called scary movie would be a scary movie to me

11-03-2009, 04:16 AM	#27
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11-06-2009, 02:58 AM	#28
MeatZatk Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 1,001 Photos: 5	I thought it was good. Not the scariest movie of all time, but look how much cash they're raking in with that slogan. The picture in the attic was a little cheesy, but other than that I had chills a few times throughout the show. I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself

11-06-2009, 09:22 AM	#29
Little Wing Mommmmmm, turn it down!!! Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 23,759 Photos: 191	the other night leaves blowing outside my window, combined with having recently seen this, scared the crap out of me for a few seconds. then a woman told me she saw it a hadn't slept for two nights. "MUSCLE IS TRULY GUARANTEED IF YOU WILL HONESTLY work out to BE YOUR VERY BEST - GO FOR IT!!! BECAUSE YOU CAN!!!!!! Take Care, John H."

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