I should have seen this coming. Paranormal Activity makes a lot of cash, so Paramount is thinking sequel.
I guess we forgot what happens when you make a sequel to a film made in the same style of Paranormal Activity.
I saw the film the other day, and while I didn’t have the same jump back reactions like the people in the advertisements, I did find it to be unsettling.
I don’t see how you can follow up with a Paranormal Activity 2. Do we try to find the missing girlfriend and go into detail about what happened? Do we follow the demon as it haunts another victim? Electric Boogaloo? [*]
I’m not in the movie business, but that won’t stop me from thinking that Paramount should use this film as a learning tool of sorts instead of like a copy machine. Don’t place the menace with a new family. Don’t replace the ghost with an alien that happens to bother someone with a camera. It doesn’t have to be another shaky cam YouTube film quality attack from an unexplainable source. Get back to the basics. We’ve become so desensitized to the gallons of blood that are splashed about in every scene. After a while, things start to become comical.
Paranormal Activity is what a horror film should be. Explain little to keep our fear and imagination going. Show little of what hides in the dark. That’s what made Jaws and Signs the most effective, scariest movies I’ve seen. Well, Signs had me until the end where we saw the sucker standing there with the Culkin kid. But I still had trouble sleeping because the little teases kept playing over in my mind. Like the foot in the cornfield or the glimpse of the alien at the birthday party.
Basically, make a movie that plays on our fears and don’t sequalize a property to death.
I’m really sad to see that Yahoo! shut down Geocities yesterday. Like, I’m serious when I say that. I mean, think of how you would feel if Facebook shut down tomorrow (It will in about 10 years after everyone has moved to something else). Geocities was the first Facebook to me, but it was a Facebook you had to code by hand.
I built fan sites, which got me a lot of free stuff from companies like t-shirts, CDs, and DVDs (which were$30 at the time). My inbox on rocketmail.com would reach its limit if I didn’t check my e-mail everyday. I had people asking me for help with their websites. I was a God.
It’s where I got my start.
Goodnight Geocities.
A friend is have battery issues on his iPhone 3GS. I recommended that he buy a .99 cents app called iStat. This way he can kind of get an idea of what’s going on with his phone. When he went to the app’s page in the iTunes store, he asked if the app was worth it because of its two star rating.
Two stars? It’s a great app!
So I checked the page and saw that many people were upset that the Free Memory feature was removed from the app. This feature let you free up unused memory on your iPhone, and it was removed at Apple’s request. So instead of just demanding that Apple refund their .99 (the cost of a bean burrito at Taco Bell), they rate the app low too. This hurts the developer because potential buyers become instantly turned off by its two star rating, thinking that iStat is a piece of crap app.
I use it frequently to monitor my phone to see what’s going on. It preforms that function beautifully, so it clearly deserves more than two stars.
Look, a lot of people are upset with how Apple does its App Store business. I was upset to see the Free Memory removed too. Rating apps not developed by Apple low doesn’t do a thing to Apple. You’re just helping them.
milf became… Milford. How unsexy.
I did not know that telling a girl you like about your sad dating life was a way to pick up girls. I guess your plan backfires when they tell you to check out match.com
I’m still LOLin IRL.
“ She only loves me because I’m predictable.
Seriously.
If you want to mix it up a bit and turn a cheap, bland meal into something awesome. You’ll need to do the following.
- Break up two packs of Ramen noodles and cook them.
- In a bowl, add a little bit of Olive Oil and Light Soy Sauce.
- Dump the noodles into the bowl.
- Add one pack of the seasoning. Save the second pack for later. Toss it. Whatever.
- Sprinkle some Curry Powder.
- Mix it.
- Eat it.
- Thank me later.
“ A beard is the coolest accessory a man can have
The Beatles Rock Band is a wonderful Disney anamatronic like ride that you don’t get to watch because you’re too busy controlling the damn thing.
Someone thinks that you don’t see the trees turn during the fall because it doesn’t get cold enough.
I think it’s because a majority of the trees around here are evergreens.
