Paranormal Activity 2 ?

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This movie is a prequel to the first one, which is pretty cool. I seen it yesterday, you know the ****'s coming because just like the first one, everytime the demon is near it mkaes that loud rumble that gets louder and louder so you know somethings coming but it still scares me.

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I'm pretty sure I'm going to "get" this on DvD and watch it then.
Too iffy to spend $10 on it in theaters.

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Screw scary movies. PA1 scared the **** out of me.

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first one wasn't scary, neither is this one, I was bored the entire movie. Had a girl sitting a few seats away almost crying, so I laughed at her the entire movie.

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Paranormal Activity is frightening if you're afraid of people sleeping. That pretty much sums up my view on it.

Proper pacing is almost nonexistent, the only potentially well-done scene was at the end of the movie (and in the trailer, for crying out loud), and I never once felt like I had any reason to feel sympathetic towards the characters. Tension never felt all there since nothing ever happened.

I'm still sticking to foreign horror, but I wish Hollywood horror has some sense of proper movie direction nowadays. Paranormal Activity was a boring, interminably-paced mess, and the second one definitely appears to be more of the same. Let Me In isn't even a horror film, to the best of my knowledge, unless they drastically changed it from Let the Right One In; while I'm not happy about the fact that Americans are remaking yet another foreign 'horror' movie, the fact that it's already an amazing (if slow-paced) film and that we're finally seeing a film delve into traditional vampire lore come out of Hollywood got me a tad excited. My Soul To Take is the one American horror movie I've been legitimately excited for, even if my expectations are low, mostly because Wes Craven's name is on it. However, it was dull, formulaic, and just downright unenjoyable. I am disappoint, Mr. Craven. Devil was just...entertaining. Predictable yet entertaining, even if they don't spend enough time in the elevator. Saw 3D looks to be absolute ****, and I hope they stay true to their word that this is the last in the series; whoever keeps going out to see the new Saw movie every year is a part of the problem.

tl;dr: American horror, WTF? Start being decent again outside of campy horror. Drag Me To Hell was wonderful and all, but come on.

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There was a demon a Paranormal activity

I just thought they very slippery floors

First one wasn't scary ,this one ain't gonna be either

All it is these days is suspense, nothing new

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The first one was very slow, not really sure if i want to see the 2nd one=/

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This man is pretty much a genius. Except it seems to me that I'm the only one who didn't enjoy Drag Me to Hell.

OT: I finally went out and saw Paranormal Activity 2 at midnight last night. It was about a hundred times better than I though it was going to be. There were a bunch of things wrong though, in my opinion.

First off, the acting in this movie was sub-par compared to the first one. I could really tell they were struggling to make it look real, especially the guy who played the dad. The first movie, although it had very few actors, did great on the acting and I could definitely relate with the characters' emotions easier. Not to mention I found many parts in PA1 quite humorous (when it was supposed to be), whereas the only parts that made me laugh in this movie was when the person behind me kicked my friend in the arm after a jump scare.

Which leads me to my next point: The horror. The movie mainly relied on jump scares to create fear. I enjoyed the first movie because the tension just kept building and things kept getting worse and worse. While this is sort of true in this movie, it's hardly effective at all and it made it much clearer when something was about to happen which actually made it less scary for me.

They also reused a lot of tricks for this movie, i.e. woman being dragged. Thus, I felt as if the scares were much less effective as I had seen it all before.

tl;dr, In my opinion, the first Paranormal Activity was much better than Paranormal Activity 2, although PA2 greatly exceeded my expectations.

Oh and I did really like how things tied together at the end, although the way it played out was a little silly and unimaginative. Other than that the movie really wasn't bad, surprisingly. It was, at the very least, enjoyable.