![]() They also set up what I think is a real camera (hard to tell no one ever uses it or even notices its there, so it couldn't be a giant Macbook, right? But how does it record all day? Shit, I'm putting more thought into these movies than the filmmakers again) in the living room, and that one is used for the film's only real creative touch. However, the focus is on a new, unconnected family that live across the street from them, and who get involved when Hunter keeps wandering over to their backyard to play in their treehouse.įrom there it's the same old shit the family's teenaged daughter is fond of filming everything she does, and after seeing 1-2 freaky things, she enlists her boyfriend to set up 3-4 Macbooks with webcams to record all day, provided no one thinks to close the damn things. PA3 ignored all that for a story about the two of them as children, but now we're finally in the present day - after a recap of 1/2's events, we flash forward to 2011, where Katie and the now grown child live in Nevada. To its credit, this is actually the first proper sequel in the series PA2 was mostly a prequel about Katie's previously unseen sister and her family experiencing similar events about a month before the first film took place, with a "present day" epilogue showing ghost Katie killing them all and taking their infant son, Hunter. And since it's based around a thin concept and a particular novelty, I'm not sure that they can pull off a "good" PA5, as even PA3 suffered a bit from franchise fatigue. It seems like this has been balanced with the PA series, as the first and third films are its best, with PA2 and this one being very underwhelming in my opinion. well, the ones that make those even ones look even better. The series is distributed by Paramount, who were also behind the Star Trek films, which became infamous for having a tradition of the even numbered movies being great and the odd numbered ones being. ![]() Maybe I should just wait for DVD from now on for this series. ![]() Yet, I've never been invited to a single press screening of any of its sequels, which is why I once again found myself in a regular audience for Paranormal Activity 4, where jaded critics are replaced by chatty teenagers. I was one of the first to champion the original Paranormal Activity my review was up before the film even had an IMDb page, and the filmmakers used quotes from that review (without asking me) for two years until the film got a release date, at which point my thoughts were replaced by bigger critics. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |