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I'm sticking to my allegiance to highlight negative reviews of
Paranormal Activity in a bid not to hate on the film myself, which I
enjoyed (but not adored), but to try to keep perspective amid the too-high-hype around the film. So this is comin' atcha via
Kindertrauma's completely un-(kinder)traumatized-by-the-film review, and it cracked my shit up:
"Maybe I just hated the way the couple depicted decorated their home. Was she having a crafty beading party at one point? I hate this couple. I think they cut in front of me at the concession stand before the movie and asked for unsalted popcorn."
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I'm sticking to my allegiance to highlight negative reviews of Paranormal Activity in a bid not to hate on the film myself, which I enjoyed (but not adored), but to try to keep perspective amid the too-high-hype around the film. So this is comin' atcha via Kindertrauma's completely un-(kinder)traumatized-by-the-film review, and it cracked my shit up:
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A very good point. It was hard to take just how ugly everything was in the house. I understand wanting to set this in a normal world, but this was the kind of normal that I instantly want to see burn.
The backlash is gonna come soon enough, I figure, right? Such is the circle of life for genre -- or really any -- movies. I wish there was a way to just opt out of that cycle entirely.
Also, not to engage too much in an actual discussion of what's simply meant to be laughed at, but if you're playing the game of presenting "regular people" in a movie who won't annoy anyone, that's a losing battle. Too vanilla and you get these guys, Too hipster and you get...I dunno, everything that gets hated on these days. Too yuppie and you get Cloverfield. These days, everybody kind of hates everybody in a movie if they're not doing something cool or interesting (and even then, you get the people who hate that). By design, the people in these movies aren't doing anything particularly interesting before they're victimized. So people line up to hate them.
Great insight into the couple. I did, indeed, find them a bit much to take - especially the guy with all his camera shit and how there is not way it would have kept happening. Please.
And I was not that terrified - felt they missed so much opportunity with the pounding and having something come up those damn stairs and into the doorway.
Feh is what I say to all the hoopla but, I have to admit, there were some in the theatre at the same time I was who definitely found it scary.
Hilarious. The entire review at Camp Blood was about the godawful decor.
Thing is, though, for straight white yuppies, they're downright fab. Petsitting in Hoboken has given me entree into an entire world of people for whom "eggshell" is a bold statement.
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