Ever since I saw the previews for Paranormal Activity, I wanted to see it. The movie is about two young goofballs named Katie and Micah. Bothered by a shadowy spirit since the age of 8, Katie tries to leave the past behind and build a life with Micah in a two-story home in San Diego, CA. The spirit decides to follow Katie to their new home, and Micah sets up some cameras to film the paranormal activities. Long story short, they determine that the spirit is a demon who is attached to Katie and they film an escalating series of paranormal events leading to a rather silly “pop out” ending.
I did not find this movie to be believable or scary at all. In fact, I felt like this movie robbed me of the $3.99 it c0st me to rent it. There were so many holes and clichés in this movie, I don’t even know where to start, nor do I know if I want to expend the energy to blog about it. Despite the marketing hype, this was not the scariest movie of the year and it was not a nail-biter. Heck, my friend Rick who gets frightened out of his gourd watching Wizard of Oz would probably rest easy after watching this movie. Don’t waste your time and money on this movie.
After watching this miserable failure of a movie, my wife demanded to watch another movie, this time her choice. She chose Where the Wild Things Are. We almost didn’t make it through this film, which started off depicting a young boy named Max who obviously has anger issues running amok in a broken household. After a particularly nasty tantrum, the boy runs away from an incredulous and unconcerned mother and finds a tint sailboat, which he uses to sail across the ocean to a rocky coastline. Reaching the mainland, he encounters some “wild things” which look like giant muppets or fraggles.
Running amok, much like Max himself, these Wild Things frolic around, destroying the local forest and generally acting the fool with one another. Various tantrums are had by all, and the boy is made king of the Wild Things. After building some enormous and stupid fort, there is dissent amongst the Wild Thing clan and Max eventually sails back home to an equally unconcerned mother.
The movie was creepy. More creepy than the remake (or the original) Willie Wonka. It was utterly pointless, and definitely, definitely not worth watching. In addition, I feel the movie is wholly inappropriate for children of any age, as it glorifies “getting your way”, throwing tantrums, and violent activity.
So there you have it. Two horrible movies in one day. I guess these make up for the one good movie we have seen this month…Avatar.
My rule for the film companies… “If it is pointless… YOU MUST NOT MAKE IT!” LOL. “wild Things” is probably the realization of some cross-cultural phenomenon … i.e. Something French… that is much beloved within its own cultural context… but looks jack-knobbish when realized on the SILVER TV screen, in 2010.
Muppet-style stuff can be cute… but also disconcertingly scary beyond belief!
Thank God they don’t make tons of movies based on frightening Ventriloquest dolls!
You came, you saw, you wasted your money… Sucks huh?
Speaking of creepy ventriloquest doll movies, one of the best ones IMHO was Devil Doll, the ’64 version. I like the first version too from the 30′s. It was dark and creepy! Then there are dumb ones, like Dead Silence. I don’t think Saw is worthy to be called ventriloquist doll movie though…