Future PhaZe
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Paranormal Activity 4 |OT| Move Out or Die Hard
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brandonh83
Banned
First one was pretty good aside from the terrible acting. The story and suspense was in the right spot though and I enjoyed the twist.
Killing_Joke
Member
Saw was amazing, too bad 2-7 gave it the spider-man 3 treatment and no one really likes it anymore.
PA4 is the first time i felt like they're either starting to milk the series or just ran out of creative juice. I wouldn't say it's a shit film, just simply disappointing. The main reason why i like PA2 a little more is because it give you a lot of answers.
-Katie is being haunted because they wanted to save Kristi
-We find out the great grandmother/grandmother made a deal with a demon
-The burned picture
-Implied the wealth is passed down generations while every bf/husband is a scrub (flat out answered in part 3 but it's hinted here too)
Probably a bit more when i rewatch it. The only question i had was what's next?
PA3 gave us some back story on what they built with PA2 but gave us a few more questions. Why is Kristi able to communicate with Toby? Why did grandma Lois kill Julie? Couldn't she just brainwash her like the rest? What kind of powers do these witches have? But despite all the questions it's the best in the series. Everything is great, and all the questions just gave more build to PA4 which is why i'm really disappointed.
I do like the idea of spin offs. More movies connecting the dots with the others. Interesting.
PA4 is the first time i felt like they're either starting to milk the series or just ran out of creative juice. I wouldn't say it's a shit film, just simply disappointing. The main reason why i like PA2 a little more is because it give you a lot of answers.
-Katie is being haunted because they wanted to save Kristi
-We find out the great grandmother/grandmother made a deal with a demon
-The burned picture
-Implied the wealth is passed down generations while every bf/husband is a scrub (flat out answered in part 3 but it's hinted here too)
Probably a bit more when i rewatch it. The only question i had was what's next?
PA3 gave us some back story on what they built with PA2 but gave us a few more questions. Why is Kristi able to communicate with Toby? Why did grandma Lois kill Julie? Couldn't she just brainwash her like the rest? What kind of powers do these witches have? But despite all the questions it's the best in the series. Everything is great, and all the questions just gave more build to PA4 which is why i'm really disappointed.
Nothing is answered. Not only that but a chunk of the movie is just explaining shit we already knew. We knew about the deal, the symbols, everything. The only thing added was a stupid sacrifice virgin crap which is dumb because 2-3 point out the only sacrifice would be Hunter. This actually could have been the last one. The deal is done. Hunter is now possessed/sacrificed. Now they only have 2 options. A prequel to fill in all the holes or another sequel with a demon Hunter.
I do like the idea of spin offs. More movies connecting the dots with the others. Interesting.
brandonh83
Banned
Alright, movie starts in an hour and I am loaded up on coffee. Here we go.
As a huge fan of this series, you are overthinking it.
brandonh83
Banned
Loved it. I'd put it above 2 for sure but a few notches below 1 and 3. Still very entertaining. I liked the story a lot, I really don't get people's complaints about it not moving the story forward. I felt like it really addressed the whole Hunter situation in a really cool way, and some parts had me so anxious that I felt like I was passing a fucking kidney stone.
Well done. Bring on 5 and 23.
Well done. Bring on 5 and 23.
brandonh83
Banned
Wow, the actor that played the dad passed away last month, and he was married to the actress that played the mother in the film. Sad.
Nemesis_
Member
Yeah, I read that this morning. Surprised that they didn't have any dedications since he passed so long ago.
brandonh83
Banned
He was dedicated to in the credits.
Nemesis_
Member
Really? I must've missed it when I was listening to the WHOLE THEATRE complain about how terrible the film was
I nearly left like, three times throughout the credits too, wasn't expect the post-credits to actually be like, you know, PAST ALL THE CREDITS lol.
samus4ever
Banned
I felt 3 was pretty freaky. The whole camera on the fan bit was awesome. 2 wasn't so great. The end was the only bit that I liked. Just wish Featherstone would get more work. She's so hot.
UpperCaseN
Member
Just got back. I liked it, but it's clear the material is running dry. I hope PA5 is the last one. There are a lot of questions to be answered but the typical lead up and acceleration of the paranormal stuff is getting stale.
Make sure to stay after the credits, there's an extra scene.
Make sure to stay after the credits, there's an extra scene.
The Mana Legend
Banned
My friend is bringing me to see this tomorrow because she is obsessed with the series and thinks going to horror movies alone is lame. But I found PA1-3 to be some of the stupidest fucking movies ever, and I spent all three movies trying to hold back laughter. I really hope that this one isn't as bad as it looks, but considering my opinion on the rest of the series, I doubt it'll be any good.
Then again, I'm the same person that thinks Saw VI is infinitely better than the rest of the Saw series, and I'm the only one that seems to appreciate how well directed and edited it is, especially after the shitfests Saw IV and V. So maybe PA4 will be a stroke of genius. Who knows.
Then again, I'm the same person that thinks Saw VI is infinitely better than the rest of the Saw series, and I'm the only one that seems to appreciate how well directed and edited it is, especially after the shitfests Saw IV and V. So maybe PA4 will be a stroke of genius. Who knows.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Saw it just now...not the worst thing ever, but they've clearly run out of ideas. Anyone know what the scene after the credits was supposed to be? I walked out too soon.
I have not seen Pananormal Activity 3. Can I go see this one without really missing out on anything?
Also, it seems like they're really stretching the plausibility of the premise. In the first two movies all the cameras were passive, set up only for surveillance purposes. Just going from the trailers, it looks like people are now carrying around cameras even as they are being stalked by demons and ghosts. Which of course makes little sense at all. Is there a reason for anyone to be doing this? Especially in those shots of the blonde girl where she is walking around with the camera pointed at her own face....
Also, it seems like they're really stretching the plausibility of the premise. In the first two movies all the cameras were passive, set up only for surveillance purposes. Just going from the trailers, it looks like people are now carrying around cameras even as they are being stalked by demons and ghosts. Which of course makes little sense at all. Is there a reason for anyone to be doing this? Especially in those shots of the blonde girl where she is walking around with the camera pointed at her own face....
UpperCaseN
Member
I'd say it's necessary. If you care about the story, gotta go in order. 1, 2, 3, 4.
she's video chatting online most of the time. The reason she is walking around with the camera on her face is because she's holding a laptop on wifi.
It almost didn't even make sense until my wife and I talked it over and figured it out a minute after:
Spanish speaking neighborhood. Camera footage of a spanish speaking male. Shoots across the street to what looks like a hispanic shop. He enters, snickering, clearly entering the shop is a joke. Religious stuff everywhere, lining the shelves, big shot of Jesus on the cross statue. Hispanic woman comes out, kind of thin, straggly hair. In Spanish, starts speaking... spiritually? (I don't speak Spanish, but it sounded that way). Dude runs out of the shop, laughing.
After discussing with my wife, we believe it was the housekeeper from PA2 and this is where she is now
After discussing with my wife, we believe it was the housekeeper from PA2 and this is where she is now
Damn. I guess I'll have to watch Frankenweenie or something until I can get a copy of PA3 somehow. Maybe Redbox has decided to keep it in stock because the new film is being released....
WordAssassin
Member
Again, all PA films are on sale for under $10 at Best Buy and a trilogy pack was just released that's $20. Those are the BluRay prices, too, pretty sure the DVDs are cheaper.
Also OMG at that after-credits scene revelation.
Also OMG at that after-credits scene revelation.
Nemesis_
Member
Post credits scene spoiler
I've also heard this regarding where the franchise is going, specifically they're creating something that will tie the current franchise in with
The Devil Inside
As someone who has enjoyed every other movie in this franchise so far, I thought this one was completely awful. The majority of the film borderlines on self parody with the way things are presented to the audience that is already aware of what is going on and what is happening but the new cast has no clue for what they walked into. So we laugh at their misfortune and their obliviousness to what they're about to experience.
There was hardly anything scary or intense for the majority of the movie outside of maybe one particular scene
and aside from that the movie failed to fill us in on what happened between the events of PA2 and PA4 and only brought up more questions than answers.
The thing that made the previous movies scary was how the characters start out in disbelief of what is happening to them and their house and slowly they begin to realize that something is terribly wrong and by that time it is way too late to stop it. That feeling of dread, no hope, absolute despair, etc is what I personally found so chilling in the previous movies. In this movie
I don't think there were any particularly extremely tense moments like the ones in the previous movies and found this to be really boring. Thanks to The River and PA4, I'll probably pass on the inevitable PA5 next year until it hits Redbox.
Also the post credits scene was dumb and not even worth watching through the two different credit reels.
There was hardly anything scary or intense for the majority of the movie outside of maybe one particular scene
the disappearing knife act
How did Katie and Hunter get separated?
Why would the demon / Katie wait all this time to reclaim him anyway?
The entire premise of the movie was lame in police showing up and Katie being presumably taken to the hospital, how does that even make sense?
Is Robbie even real? Is he even human?
Why would the demon / Katie wait all this time to reclaim him anyway?
The entire premise of the movie was lame in police showing up and Katie being presumably taken to the hospital, how does that even make sense?
Is Robbie even real? Is he even human?
The thing that made the previous movies scary was how the characters start out in disbelief of what is happening to them and their house and slowly they begin to realize that something is terribly wrong and by that time it is way too late to stop it. That feeling of dread, no hope, absolute despair, etc is what I personally found so chilling in the previous movies. In this movie
only two characters go through that, the teenage daughter and Hunter himself, who is a child and doesn't realize what is happening to him until the very end. The parents were only messed with once and they seemed to not be that freaked out about what happened and never believed the daughter's claim, despite the video evidence.
Also the post credits scene was dumb and not even worth watching through the two different credit reels.
brandonh83
Banned
I didn't feel like they've run out of ideas. I thought it had a lot of very cool little story details everywhere and there were plenty of neat scenes like
, etc. etc. etc.
Also, about the running out of ideas thing, even if it were, all it takes is another good entry to put it on course. I thought PA2 was the weakest by far and recycled so many things-- that's the one where I was like "ok it's getting milked," but then PA3 came out with a better script and directors, and whaddya know, it's suddenly not running out of ideas anymore!
And overall I thought it was cool to have the webcams set up around the house instead of traditional cameras/security systems. In fact my only two problems were that I thought the ending could have been longer and executed better, and I do agree that sometimes you feel like "why the fuck are you still filming this." But apart from that I thought it was very solid and at least on 3-4 occasions I was very anxious, even looking away from the screen a few times because a few parts got to be a bit much.
the bath tub, the flying knife (I was positively anxious here), the kid riding the bike around with the chair suddenly pulling out in front of him, the garage scene was VERY different and awesome, actually using Katie as a Michael Myers figure worked for me and she was really creepy, Katie blending into the couch in one of the Kinect shots was fucking awesome, Robbie standing in the treehouse was creepy as fuck, Alex's Felix the Cat clock had a great moment where the tail pendulum just suddenly stops moving and you're like oh fuck now what, the chandelier falling and almost killing her, Robbie seemingly being a lot older than he appears (the 100 year old folk, some of his mannerisms that mimicked an adult like wanting to shake hands with Wyatt and telling Ben to stop using bad language)
Also, about the running out of ideas thing, even if it were, all it takes is another good entry to put it on course. I thought PA2 was the weakest by far and recycled so many things-- that's the one where I was like "ok it's getting milked," but then PA3 came out with a better script and directors, and whaddya know, it's suddenly not running out of ideas anymore!
And overall I thought it was cool to have the webcams set up around the house instead of traditional cameras/security systems. In fact my only two problems were that I thought the ending could have been longer and executed better, and I do agree that sometimes you feel like "why the fuck are you still filming this." But apart from that I thought it was very solid and at least on 3-4 occasions I was very anxious, even looking away from the screen a few times because a few parts got to be a bit much.
when the dad goes into the kitchen in the middle of the night and starts pilfering around where the knife went missing, I thought I was going to have a fucking seizure
I felt like the
And the more I think about the ending the more it pisses me off.
camera footage aspect of the PA films was the weakest in all of these. I had a conversation about this with Gryphter before the movie came out and how he was rolling his eyes about the Kinect being in this but I was giving them the benefit of the doubt and thought it would be a neat or cool aspect and it hardly added anything to the scenes and felt like really awful product placement. For another unrelated reason I think there was a part in the movie where the controllers were on the table and then when it returned to the Kinect camera shot a moment later the controllers were in that central storage thing but that's not a critique just something I thought was funny. But back to the cameras, after the first few nights the daughter stopped watching them for whatever reason and she didn't get a chance to react to any of it.
In fact the creepiest thing that happened to her was when possessed Hunter snuck into her room and the demon pulled the blankets off and lifted her straight up into the air felt lame because she didn't wake up during it due to the sleeping pills and she never watched the footage and got to react to it. What's the point of showing us that scene? Also I liked how apparently the demon was thoughtful enough to put the blankets back over here when it let her down on the bed since in the immediate scene following the mom comes in and wakes her up to go to school and she's under the blankets instead of having nothing on and being freezing, which actually might've been a good opportunity for her to be spooked or scared.
In fact the creepiest thing that happened to her was when possessed Hunter snuck into her room and the demon pulled the blankets off and lifted her straight up into the air felt lame because she didn't wake up during it due to the sleeping pills and she never watched the footage and got to react to it. What's the point of showing us that scene? Also I liked how apparently the demon was thoughtful enough to put the blankets back over here when it let her down on the bed since in the immediate scene following the mom comes in and wakes her up to go to school and she's under the blankets instead of having nothing on and being freezing, which actually might've been a good opportunity for her to be spooked or scared.
And the more I think about the ending the more it pisses me off.
Buttonbasher
Member
Also a heads up: Paranormal Activity 3 got added to Netflix Watch Instantly today.
Dammit lol. I just payed to rent it from RedBox last night.
I thought PA3 was much less scary and intense than any of the others. The additions to the story were okay though, and the trick was the oscillating camera was pretty inventive.
Heart Attack
Member
finally someone with common sense. I felt the way way. Me and my GF are huge fans of the franchise and we just hated this movie. So many pointless scenes, and i just didn't care about any of the characters at all. The "kills" in this movie were so random, and so sudden, like if they just wanted to end the movie, without a climax or reason to. But... what bothered us, was that they had 2 hours to follow up the story from PA3, but they chose to ignore it and just gave us more questions.... so yeah.. milking confirmed.
WordAssassin
Member
The movie REALLY should have been from the boyfriend's POV. If they had done the exact same movie but from his POV it would have improved it like 50 million times over.
Spectral Glider
Member
Definitely a disappointment and my least favorite of the series. Nothing new to see, nothing worthwhile gained in the plot in regards to the other 3 films either. Just another cash grab IMO.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Agreed. He was great.
The movie was pretty boring until the last ten minutes or so. Decent, but not great.
NoLootBoxDev
Member
I have not seem this movie yet, but if someone did a pact with a demon, weird things are happening,why the hell they do not go to a church or talk to a priest regarding their ideology?
Its like I watch my wife being dragged to the basement by some unknow force, and the retarded husband advices to: hey!!!! lets pretent nothing happend here, the evil force will dissapear, if we dont pay attention.
Its like I watch my wife being dragged to the basement by some unknow force, and the retarded husband advices to: hey!!!! lets pretent nothing happend here, the evil force will dissapear, if we dont pay attention.
xKilltheMx
Member
I've laughed at every single one these movies (except 3 which actually creeped me out) but this was the ABSOLUTE WORST. holy fuckin hell this was terrible. I honestly laughed with my friends and cracked jokes the entire time during this movie. Im sure I ruined it for some people but it was so bad that it wasn't worth being respectful honestly. If anybody was actually scared during this movie then I look down on them with the shame of all of my ancestors.
NoLootBoxDev
Member
Killing_Joke
Member
So after reading a bunch of theories and comments for things i might have missed, i'm still disappointed. But have hope for a good one next year.
I want PA5 to focus on the coven. A higher budget wouldn't hurt either. At this point they have no choice but to leave the PA formula and think outside the box.
I want PA5 to focus on the coven. A higher budget wouldn't hurt either. At this point they have no choice but to leave the PA formula and think outside the box.
Mariah Carey
Member
I don't understand why the characters don't know about the other Paranormal Activity films. The others DO exist within themselves otherwise what the hell are we watching?
First 90% was more boring than the rest of the series.
Last 10% really tense.
Last 1% nearly made me shit my pants and vomit at the same time. I've never been more terrified than when
I just have no idea who
The scene with
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Last 10% really tense.
Last 1% nearly made me shit my pants and vomit at the same time. I've never been more terrified than when
Katie came sprinting at the girl with the demon face. I didn't see that coming. I just expected her to walk up slowly. And then the WITCHES HOLY SHIT
I just have no idea who
Robby is. If Wyatt is Hunter, then who the hell is Robby? And why is the demon sometimes a tall, large figure, but then in the Kinect scenes, he's a small, unidentifiable child?
The scene with
the car and the carbon monoxide really made me fidgety because realistic horror is more scary to me and that is actually a really scary way to die
Just got back from seeing this. It wasn't awful, but it was definitely the worst one. For the record, I loved the first 3.
The webcam shots were a cool gimmick, and I was looking forward to some scares from having the laptop webcam move around the house, but it wasn't utilized much for actual scares. There actually wasn't a lot of scares in the whole movie. Some loud noises in the beginning, then shit goes crazy at the very end.
I somehow always forget that these movies are actually pretty funny. If it wasn't for the humor in this one, I would've been very bored.
The webcam shots were a cool gimmick, and I was looking forward to some scares from having the laptop webcam move around the house, but it wasn't utilized much for actual scares. There actually wasn't a lot of scares in the whole movie. Some loud noises in the beginning, then shit goes crazy at the very end.
I somehow always forget that these movies are actually pretty funny. If it wasn't for the humor in this one, I would've been very bored.
You seem nice, honestly.
xKilltheMx
Member
Haha I made sure to wait till a time when there were very few people in the theater. Some of the other people actually joined in with it us and we all laughed. Calm down.
I'm glad that you feel you and your friends should be the next Mystery Science Theatre 3000. So much so, that you felt your level of taste was so much higher than the rest of the plebeians, that you redeemed their hard earned money with your comedic stylings.
xKilltheMx
Member
ugh stuckup PC gaf right on time.
Terrible movie. Don't feel bad. Came for a drive-by post. baiii
WordAssassin
Member
No, that's completely wrong. Have you watched the movies at all? They're found footage. As in, this family has had things happen. We are now watching the tapes of these events, as if investigators had found them and cut them together as evidence. None of the families in any of the movies have any way of knowing what happened before.
Edit: I understand what you're saying but that's not how it works. It's like these tapes are real, in our world, but everyone is dead. We are watching them because an unknown source found them and cut them together. PA3 takes place before PA 2 which takes place before/during/after PA, but everyone dies by the time each movie is over and they're all different families (though the same lineage) so nobody would have access to the other tapes anyway. ESPECIALLY the family in PA4.
There are two demons. I'm pretty sure there have been two the entire time. There is a smaller, human-like spirit that possesses people, and there is Toby, who is a huge beast creature. Toby leaves clawed footprints in the first movie and roars/snorts in Katie's hair, but when the dust falls from the "earthquake" it lands on the shoulders of a small child-sized ghost. I don't quite remember the second movie that well, but in the third movie he does some insane shit that the smaller ghosts just could never do. In PA4,
the scene you are talking about confirms 100% that there are two entities, because the human kid (Hunter or Robby) is talking to something very large off-screen (his head is tilted upwards to look at it) and behind him we see the smaller child-sized ghost, who also is the one that possesses him in the tub (because after he's possessed, Toby roars and throws shit around like a mofo at the end).
I was talking to the girl I saw PA 4 with, and she's pretty upset and done with the series now. I told her my idea for 4 and she said it was way better. If you've seen it take a look and tell me what you think:
Paranormal Activity has a pretty easy to follow formula: There is a couple/family, there is a ghost, someone believes in the ghost and someone doesn't, things start going weird, the non believer believes, things go to hell. They also have all managed to do interesting things with the camera idea. PA was new and fresh, PA 2 had the home security system, PA 3 had the oscillating fan camera. PA 4 has the computer network, but they fail to use it to its full potential because the main character is the young girl. My movie has all the same cast and follows the same basic story, only we see everything from the boyfriend's point of view.
This does something different and exciting with the formula. In all the other PA movies, we are viewing the action from inside the house, with the family. In my PA4, we are removed from the family and house, instead watching everything from the boyfriend's house on his computer as he tracks the video feeds from the main house. This escalates the sense of dread because when things start to happen in the house, we're far away from it, he can't immediately go and help, he can only watch from his computer. We're removed from the action and we feel with the boyfriend, who is essentially a vessel for the audience because he himself is just the audience to the events happening at his girlfriend's house.
In order to incorporate the house across the street, we can travel with him as he walks to his girlfriend's house and films himself skateboarding, noticing lots of cars in the driveway. That covers that plot point without needing to be in the main house.
This also brings up a very easy way to have the non believers that are essentially absent in the movie. The girlfriend can get scared and call him over to her house. He sneaks in, things go crazy, and the parents catch him there. They try to explain there are ghosts but the parents think he's just trying to sleep with their daughter and that the kids are full of shit. Later on Toby kills the mom and we get our satisfying "HOLY FUCK GHOSTS" moment when the dad realizes shit is happening.
Third, this gives us access to more mythos and history of the demons and cult. In the movie as it is now, the only one who seems to give a fuck is the boyfriend, who researches the cult but he's never there so we don't see what he finds! If he is the main character, we are with him as he researches the cult, finds out about the symbols, learns about the demons.
He is also the only one who checks the fucking recordings, as in the current movie when he comes home and the girlfriend isn't there the FIRST THING HE DOES is log onto her computer to watch the recordings, something the girlfriend NEVER DOES.
So we're at the boyfriend's house and he's talking to the camera, he's set up a kind of video journal of his research and his recordings from his girlfriend's house, and shit happens. The mom dies. He flips the fuck out and runs out of the house, and we're left watching his computer screen which has all the feeds running on it. We see him enter the house and find the mom. He runs upstairs and the camera changes to the girlfriend's room. Scene plays out the same, Katie kills him. PLOT TWIST! The movie changes main characters and the girlfriend is now in charge. She finds his body and Toby knocks her on her ass, things play out essentially the same, she runs accross the street after Hunter and her dad, huge coven of witches, Katie kills her, end film.
This does something different and exciting with the formula. In all the other PA movies, we are viewing the action from inside the house, with the family. In my PA4, we are removed from the family and house, instead watching everything from the boyfriend's house on his computer as he tracks the video feeds from the main house. This escalates the sense of dread because when things start to happen in the house, we're far away from it, he can't immediately go and help, he can only watch from his computer. We're removed from the action and we feel with the boyfriend, who is essentially a vessel for the audience because he himself is just the audience to the events happening at his girlfriend's house.
In order to incorporate the house across the street, we can travel with him as he walks to his girlfriend's house and films himself skateboarding, noticing lots of cars in the driveway. That covers that plot point without needing to be in the main house.
This also brings up a very easy way to have the non believers that are essentially absent in the movie. The girlfriend can get scared and call him over to her house. He sneaks in, things go crazy, and the parents catch him there. They try to explain there are ghosts but the parents think he's just trying to sleep with their daughter and that the kids are full of shit. Later on Toby kills the mom and we get our satisfying "HOLY FUCK GHOSTS" moment when the dad realizes shit is happening.
Third, this gives us access to more mythos and history of the demons and cult. In the movie as it is now, the only one who seems to give a fuck is the boyfriend, who researches the cult but he's never there so we don't see what he finds! If he is the main character, we are with him as he researches the cult, finds out about the symbols, learns about the demons.
He is also the only one who checks the fucking recordings, as in the current movie when he comes home and the girlfriend isn't there the FIRST THING HE DOES is log onto her computer to watch the recordings, something the girlfriend NEVER DOES.
So we're at the boyfriend's house and he's talking to the camera, he's set up a kind of video journal of his research and his recordings from his girlfriend's house, and shit happens. The mom dies. He flips the fuck out and runs out of the house, and we're left watching his computer screen which has all the feeds running on it. We see him enter the house and find the mom. He runs upstairs and the camera changes to the girlfriend's room. Scene plays out the same, Katie kills him. PLOT TWIST! The movie changes main characters and the girlfriend is now in charge. She finds his body and Toby knocks her on her ass, things play out essentially the same, she runs accross the street after Hunter and her dad, huge coven of witches, Katie kills her, end film.
I feel like that would have just been unfathomably better than what we got. We get a better lead, we learn more about the coven and the demons, we get something new and even more anxiety producing from the camera gimmick, we get the disbelievers, we get a fat plot twist. Two even.
ConradCervantes
Banned
What's PC about not wanting to hear idiots talk during a movie? Fucking idiot.
Anyways, saw it tonight. Definitely the least favorite of the four. While PA2 did recycle some ideas and dragged at times, it did flesh out more story which helped its cause. This movie introduced nothing new except even more questions, which I'm sure will be maybe addressed in Paranormal Activity 5 coming to theaters next fall!
Anyways, saw it tonight. Definitely the least favorite of the four. While PA2 did recycle some ideas and dragged at times, it did flesh out more story which helped its cause. This movie introduced nothing new except even more questions, which I'm sure will be maybe addressed in Paranormal Activity 5 coming to theaters next fall!
WordAssassin
Member
Might not be next fall, that's probably when the Latino spin-off hits. PA 5 will probably be out in 2014. I doubt they'd put the spin-off and proper series entry out in the same year.
And it's not like the story didn't advance AT ALL, we got
but it was such a small part at the very end that I understand and share in feeling like we got nothing. If it had happened half-way into the movie and we actually got some time with it and the consequences, that would have been a major step forward for the over-arcing story.
And it's not like the story didn't advance AT ALL, we got
demon Hunter now
ConradCervantes
Banned
Que?
Femmeworth
Banned
Those spoilers sound very disappointing but expected. I like your idea WordAssassin.
WordAssassin
Member
There is a stinger after the credits for PA4.
A man with a camera walks into a spanish voodoo store. A woman, likely a witch or possibly the housekeeper from the 2nd movie, comes out and yells at the man, telling him 'this was only the beginning' or something.
Apparently movies like PA and Devil Inside do REALLY WELL with the Latino demographic so they're making a spin-off exploring the covent/demons in other parts of the world, with the first(of many?) one being set somewhere in Latin America.
Apparently movies like PA and Devil Inside do REALLY WELL with the Latino demographic so they're making a spin-off exploring the covent/demons in other parts of the world, with the first(of many?) one being set somewhere in Latin America.
brandonh83
Banned
That's pretty much what it still is. It's just that they feel obliged to have some semblance of a story there to have something a bit more than just recording ghosts, but IMO it isn't anything gripping and I realize that it's just a thread they've come up with to make more movies. Honestly I don't care about the story. I go to watch the camera feeds and that's it, which is maybe why I didn't care whether or not how much it advanced the "story." The first movie probably wasn't made with this plot direction in mind therefore to me it exists as nothing but a means to an end-- they thought, well, we want to do more, but we need something of a story to string them together, so let's come up with this weird wealth/family lineage plot.
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