Wasn't scared at all

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 2011)

I wasn't scared at all, and I don't say that with any pride, just indifference. This is one of the worst "horror," movies I've seen in a long time. Even the Blair Witch film had a more original plot than this.
Here's a typical scene in Paranormal Activity. Girl and guy lies in bed. it's dark and quiet in the room. Girl is waken up by a subtle bump. Girl wakes up guy. Girl asks, "did you here that?" and then oh it's a ghost! That's the only explanation for it right? And then there's the scene where the girl or guy (Can't remember) is just getting dragged out of the bed. It's paranormal, and it may be somewhat scary if it happen in real life, but in a movie? No.
The rest of the film is about the same experience you'd get from watching a home video of you and your buddies without the advantage of seeing people you know. It's hard if not impossible to care about the two "actors," sitting around the house, eating a sandwich or watching TV or flirting. It's just plain boring and it tries to take that "real life,'feel of Blair Witch and Cloverfield and somehow does a poor job of it.
Anything paranormal in this movie, just isn't convincing and is beyond mediocre, in fact, things much scarier than this happen in real life everyday, whither you believe in the paranormal or not, unexplained things happen and even for someone that doesn't believe in it will see how bland the happenings of this film are. But of course if they tried to say it was actually real, or it was actually happening (like they tried to say with the Blair Witch once) It wouldn't take a skeptic to debunk it. All it would take was someone with common sense.
I honestly can't remember the names of the guy and the girl. I didn't really care about them. I seen the alternate ending and I still didn't care about them.
The saddest part of the whole thing is that, you or I could easily make the same movie with a basic camera from Walmart and Windows Movie Maker but one thing we might couldn't do is get it shown in theaters. How Paranormal Activity did, I haven't a clue but one thing that helped it was those ridiculous commercials where everyone in the theater were screaming their eyeballs out. I'm pretty sure they were paid to do this or they were just that easily impressed. I don't see how this is horror. It's a fake documentary with a few bumps in the night and that's about it. If there was anything redeeming about Paranormal Activity for me, then it was the moderate hilarity of how cheap it was.
Every time a movie like this comes out, like with Blair Witch and like with Cloverfield, they are fast to say how scary it is, how terrified you will be when you see it and then in most cases you aren't. I've come to the conclusion that the movies that brag about about being the scariest of them all are actually quite the opposite and the good horror movies are the ones that you never see coming.