Paranormal Activity

This film is generating so much hype here today. Together with the industry presence (30+ seats blocked off for cast and crew) and enhanced security, it's either going to be a huge blockbuster or a serious disappointment.

...watches...

Eh, it was ok, but not worth the hype. It was very predictable and lacked the stick-with-you creepy factor of similar films like The Blair Witch Project. I didn't go to sleep thinking about ghosts, I went to sleep thinking up a better ending. I overheard the guy sitting next to me say that there are eight endings, and he described one of them. Sadly, the one he gave was better than the one they used.

Paranormal Activity
2007, 99 minutes, directed by Oren Peli

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The CG in the last second was totally out of place, and the ending was 100% predictable from the moment of the slashed picture. Come on, when she decides to not leave it's obvious she's been possessed. Rather than all of that, wind back to when she's dragged down the hall. Instead of having her pulled into a back bedroom until Micah rescues her, let's see her (via an arm, whatever) get pulled up into the attic through that back closet just before the door slam. Then Micah shouldn't be able to rescue her. He ends up alone. After the tension (and the activity) mounts over five minutes of him frantically figuring out what to do, she should reappear, just give a little grin, and then plug in the she-slaughters-him ending of choice.