For my third media meditation I will be talking about a movie I just watched recently. The other night some people stopped by and asked if we wanted to watch a movie. We all agreed and somebody decided they wanted to watch a scary movie. We ended up with Paranormal Activity. Paranormal Activity is a movie about a couple that is trying to capture, you guessed it, paranormal activity on a camera. The movie is shot in a very interesting way. The camera the couple is using is the only point of view we get for the whole movie. I find this so interesting because it almost adds a sense of helplessness to the movie because you literally can only sit and watch, as compared to other movies where you feel like you’re moving around a bit more. That said that’s about all this movie had going for it. For starters it’s a suspense movie…that’s it. I don’t mind a scary movie that has suspense, in fact I love those movies, but Paranormal activity is just suspense. I mean you sit there for two hours of suspense watching this movie, waiting for there to be a couple seconds of something happening, followed by the credits.
Also the parts that aren’t suspenseful are the same thing over and over again. Here is who the characters are: Guy, he is happy to have camera and thinks what’s going on is cool. Girl doesn’t like what’s going on and doesn’t thinks it cool, also she hates guy’s camera. I mean come on if I went to the theaters and saw this I would be pissed that it was just wasted time.. Now also to be fair I realize that seeing it in theaters where people are screaming adds a bit of fun to it but I really don’t know if it would have been enough for me. So as a test I’m actually going to go see paranormal activity 2 with some friends once we all have enough money. I just hope that this one isn’t as bad.
The 2nd movie's trailer.
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