Post by Lick Ness Monster on Nov 20, 2009 13:54:43 GMT -5
I don't know about you, but I think a cinema verite Ju-On would be creepy as f***.
Something like that actually might have enhanced PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, to be honest. Even a fleeting glimpse of something, you know?
Another thing that's been bothering me about that film since I saw it is the fact that, essentially, the movie implodes on itself about twenty minutes in when the couple calls the paranormal investigator.
{Spoiler}Him agreeing outright with Katie that the place is haunted, and then bringing up the demonologist just KILLED the arc that the movie SHOULD have taken. This was set up to be a film where we are the skeptics going in, and then this film convinces us. But it tries to flip the script and give us evidence that this is real, the paranormal expert agreeing something is messed up in that house,and Katie PLEADING with Micah to leave/not provoke things/call in the demonologist. The fact that Micah refuses to, and the fact that he treats this as a joke even AFTER several instances pointing to the contrary, paints him as a huge asshole, and in some instances, almost makes him look sadistic.
From that moment on, the film just lost me. You have all you need to call in the freakin' Ghost Hunters, people! Any sane person would have done that after the first instance, let alone the first THREE instances that you caught on tape!
I don't know...just seems like one of those films where the more you think about it, the more stuff you find wrong with it.
{Spoiler}Even better, when the boyfriend FINALLY caves at the end of the movie...and the demonologist is out the country. Derp!
I agree with you there - it's pretty much the only thing I didn't like about the movie and what prevented it from getting a **** from me.
Wow - we're here again? Guy has taken on the unofficial role of starting new threads, but hopefully he won't mind if I take that mantle for the next one. New Hall of Fame inductions on the way!
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