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As opposed to locking yourself in with her!
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I think we can all agree though, that Micah was a tremendous douche, and it was all his fault.
in an argument between a pragmatist and a romantic, there can be no winners.
Also! The immediate identification of the nature of the beast and subsequent two week wait to try anything was kind of maddening. I've dealt with fucking mice with a more ferocious fear. I mean I'd have at the minimum looked for sanctuary at a nice big old Catholic cathedral. It's not like he wasn't sure, all the things he saw were definitely possible to fake (as the whole it being a movie is evidence of), but if you know you didn't fake it then why would you remain skeptical?
Also good lordy "OH GOD WE NEED TO LEAA *urgleblurgle* we'll be fiiiine heeeeere" didn't tip you off? At all?
And who sleeps in only a thin sheet during fall?
"Well I'd spin kick the demon, propose to my girlfriend then we'd have sex on the demon's corpse."
They live in San Diego. Is probably around 75 degrees if not higher
Jesus... thanks for ruining my idea on how to propose to my woman...
Jerk...
They did it on purpose and he spent some time messing with the lights to make sure they could see down the hall.
I was as well.
"The only scary thing in this room is how much I want you, baby."
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Well, in my mind they didn't exactly exhaust all their resources in a quest to combat this thing.
"Oh no! The one person I called is out of town! We're doomed!! DOOOMED!!!"
The funny thing is I currently have a mouse problem in my house. Such events would lead me to make a mouse trap.
Horror movies don't frighten me, as a rule, so that wasn't really an issue. I enjoyed all of the night-time camera scenes, and the bit with the attic was good, but very nearly every part of the movie not set in the bedroom was completely forgettable if not cringe-worthy for me.
Things that I actively disliked while watching the movie, putting aside factors of setting or acting or whatnot that are purely due to the budget:
The ouija board:
The ending:
I get that they can't afford another setting, but
The camerawork:
Sort of. Most horror movies have the excuse, "They didn't know they were in a horror movie. In real life there's no reason not to go into the basement with only a candle for light after you hear a weird noise because in real life it's the cat, not the undead."
Paranormal Activity is different in that the characters are fully aware that what's going on is supernatural in nature, but just stay there in the house where it's occurring for days and days at a time. They're told that running won't help, but the degree to which they are willing to just do nothing about what's going on defies belief.
no, it's less obvious in the movie. More something you think about after seeing it.
Really? Everyone I went with, and most of the people in the theater within earshot, questioned vocally why they hadn't left yet several times during the movie. Particularly near the end
Yeah, vocally questioning the characters during a movie makes your friends and theater goers obnoxious dicks. Sorry to say.
I'd say that the motives of the characters were established well enough that, I don't agree with what they did, it wasn't so unbelievable as to pull me out of the film. It helps that the film was interesting enough that I wanted to suspend disbelief. Contrasted with, say, Next, which I saw a week ago, and which was so fucking dumb that I couldn't help but question every damned thing they did because the movie kept donkey-punching me in the brain.
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that aspect. The whole
The girl was convinced that if they just stopped fucking with it, it would go away. The guy was convinced that they could drive it off by being obnoxious.
That situation plays out all the time in real life, I've had it before, not with demons. It's simple.
"bam, crash smash"
Her "what the hell is that"
Me "gumble mumble, I don't know, don't bother me with it"
Her "there it goes again"
Me "ah fine, I'll go.... it's a racoon in the trash, shoo, shoo"
Her "if you leave it alone, it will just go away"
Me "grumble mumble"
The next night
"bam, crash smash"
Me "alright, that's it, I'm getting a big fucking stick and his ass is getting out of my dumpster"
Her "no, if you just leave it alone it will go away, if you make him mad he might bite you"
Me "no, it gets the stick, and if that doesn't work the paintball gun"
Her "just call animal control"
Me "no, why bother, I can get rid of his ass"
Que arguing over what to do for weeks, while that little fucker kept making a mess.
When two people have opposite views on how to deal with something, you tend to sit around and bicker over it instead of fixing it.
I can agree with that up to a point. Once the raccoon
What about if you go to Eragon and intermittently speak the original un-plagiarized lines from Star Wars & Lord of the Rings and play the Imperial March on a kazoo... as a group?
PA is boring. If you're gonna have a movie about alien encounters that doesn't have the white house blowing up, at least have devil's tower in it.
Then I shoot it and get tested for rabies. :P
Normally I would agree wholeheartedly with you, but something about that particular movie seemed to encourage audience chatter during the daytime scenes. If there was a single person in my theater who was not talking during the scenes were nothing spooky was happening, they weren't sitting within a dozen seats of me in any direction. I think it may have been the long shots of Micah's t-shirt, or the shots of them eating, or the "I put a camera in a see-through bag and shook the shit out of it while walking around the house" shots. None of them were exactly crafted to hold the audience's attention.
No see, then the girl goes "LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE AND WE'LL BE OK" and he's all "Fuck that, I can take it!"
And there's more bickering.
There wasn't, actually.
"They're in the woods. The camera keeps moving around. I guess they're looking for some witch, I don't know, I wasn't listening. Nothing's happening...nothing's happening...something about a map. Nothing's happening...it's over. A lot of people in the audience look pissed."
-Brian as a seeing-eye-dog
PA is definitely in the same bag with Blair Witch.
No, he was a SuperDouche, but not just because the whole goddamn thing was his fault. It was because he did things that she specifically asked him not to do. If your wife has some panic attack about an unreasonably improbable situation, do you A.) comfort her, even if you think her concerns are unrealistic, or B.) do the exact opposite of everything she asks you to do?
Super. Douche.
Having dated a fair amount of women I can say that doing what they want, when they are acting irrationally, is a very dumb idea and just causes them to do it more often. It's best to just go about doing what you are doing because they will find something else to throw a fuss over.
Regardless, I don't disagree that the guy was a total asshole. Only that "total asshole" is a believable archetype.
I'd agree, but psychodramatic melodrama tends to bring out the "I'm not going to listen to this inanity and will go do what I find makes sense" action in most people.
Apparently, you attract horrible women.
Like nobody, male or female, has ever dated someone of the opposite sex who's prone to idiotic behavior. Going along with it is stupid.
In those cases, just do what you want.
Whoa, whoa, let's actually go back to what was said, here. Your exact words were "Having dated a fair amount of women", which says to me that this is how you view all women that you date.
On top of that, you generalize what I said ("comfort her") into "doing whatever she wants". You're moving the goalposts pretty significantly. On top of that, the argument about Micah wasn't that he should totally acquiesce to Katie's crazy ghost stories the first time she opens her mouth, but that doing the exact opposite of what he promised to do makes him a Super Douche.
To be fair, unless he's bi it would be weird for him to have dated men.
A fair amount of women, yes I have. I'm straight so I date women, I'm 28 so I've dated quiet a few of them.
Everybody runs into the drama/crazy person. I'd say any person claiming to have been (or in the case of the movie actually have been) haunted as troubled. In which case buying into their bullshit is encouraging it and doesn't stop them from going off about something. It's best to do what you think is best and ignore the crazy.
I said women because, I don't date men.