Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Pumpkin56 » Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:51 am

I saw the first one and needless to say, I had to watch cartoons afterwards :)

I didn't see the second one. My sister did though and she's such a scaredy cat but she is insisting that we go see the third and add the first two to our Halloween rotation. I guess she likes sleeping with the lights on or something.

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by ofwgdgaf » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:11 am

A movie will give more of an impact if it has only one or two versions. P.A. wasn't that scary but it was nice to see with some friends :wink: lmao.

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Jack Skellington » Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:51 am

I'm gunna be watching the first one for the first time tonight.
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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by ramaries69 » Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:13 pm

I think these type of movies, make more of an impact, if you've had your own paranormal experiences. Outside of that, I don't think, it would impress most viewers.

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Pumpkin56 » Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:31 pm

I think it also helps if you catch the movie before all the hype. That's what ruined the Blair Witch Project for me. I wasn't old enough to see it in the theaters when it came out and I had to wait until it was released on video. By that time, it had been built up so much that I was horribly disappointed by it.

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Murfreesboro » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:23 pm

Yes, I first saw Blair Witch on video, too. That last scene is creepy, but I had already seen parodies of it before I saw it for real. And the dialogue, which they say was mostly improvised, is a whole lotta F-words from the student-aged actors.

Even the impact of The Exorcist, which is very well made, was dulled for me because I saw it so long after it premiered, after I'd already heard so much about it.

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Jack Skellington » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:04 pm

I too saw 'The Blair Witch Project' on VHS & also thought it had been built up too much. I was also a little disappointed by it.

One film which I saw that was over-hyped was 'Jeepers Creepers.' Everybody was saying how good it was (especially some of my friends), so I watched it & thought it was a steaming pile of you-know-what!
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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Pumpkin56 » Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:29 pm

Jack Skellington wrote:I too saw 'The Blair Witch Project' on VHS & also thought it had been built up too much. I was also a little disappointed by it.

One film which I saw that was over-hyped was 'Jeepers Creepers.' Everybody was saying how good it was (especially some of my friends), so I watched it & thought it was a steaming pile of you-know-what!
I saw Jeepers Creepers the weekend it was released in theaters and needless to say, I didn't really know what I was going to see. It actually scared me the first time I saw it (phobia of monsters that eat people :)). I think it helped that I wasn't aware of the plot and that the filmakers waited until nearly the end of the movie to show what the Creeper looked like. By that time, my imagination was coming up with some horrifying stuff on it's own that just about drove me mad :lol:

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Jack Skellington » Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:40 pm

Pumpkin56 wrote:
Jack Skellington wrote:I too saw 'The Blair Witch Project' on VHS & also thought it had been built up too much. I was also a little disappointed by it.

One film which I saw that was over-hyped was 'Jeepers Creepers.' Everybody was saying how good it was (especially some of my friends), so I watched it & thought it was a steaming pile of you-know-what!
I saw Jeepers Creepers the weekend it was released in theaters and needless to say, I didn't really know what I was going to see. It actually scared me the first time I saw it (phobia of monsters that eat people :)). I think it helped that I wasn't aware of the plot and that the filmakers waited until nearly the end of the movie to show what the Creeper looked like. By that time, my imagination was coming up with some horrifying stuff on it's own that just about drove me mad :lol:
I can't believe it spawned a couple of sequels, WTF!?!?!?

:lol:
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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Pumpkin56 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:39 am

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Pumpkin56 wrote:
Jack Skellington wrote:I too saw 'The Blair Witch Project' on VHS & also thought it had been built up too much. I was also a little disappointed by it.

One film which I saw that was over-hyped was 'Jeepers Creepers.' Everybody was saying how good it was (especially some of my friends), so I watched it & thought it was a steaming pile of you-know-what!
I saw Jeepers Creepers the weekend it was released in theaters and needless to say, I didn't really know what I was going to see. It actually scared me the first time I saw it (phobia of monsters that eat people :)). I think it helped that I wasn't aware of the plot and that the filmakers waited until nearly the end of the movie to show what the Creeper looked like. By that time, my imagination was coming up with some horrifying stuff on it's own that just about drove me mad :lol:
I can't believe it spawned a couple of sequels, WTF!?!?!?

:lol:
It definitely did NOT need a sequel :) I suppose money always talks though :?

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Jack Skellington » Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:52 pm

Pumpkin56 wrote:
It definitely did NOT need a sequel :) I suppose money always talks though :?
Exactly! It's all about the $$$ & £££'s! :money: :money: :money:
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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by killem2 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:58 am

In general they are all decent, if you just want to pull the basic strings of fright. It is way cleaner than the earlier attempts with things such as Blair Witch.

There are a few plot errors dealing with timeline and such but over all, they aren't bad. My wife enjoys them, I'm more of a "push the envelope" kinda horror movie watcher.

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by iHaunt » Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:24 pm

Anyone going to see it this weekend? Next week? I rather wait for DVD. ;)

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by Pumpkin56 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:06 pm

iHaunt wrote:Anyone going to see it this weekend? Next week? I rather wait for DVD. ;)
My sister and her boyfriend saw it this weekend. I asked her if either of them had to change their underwear after the movie and she said "almost" :lol:

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Re: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Post by ramaries69 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:17 pm

Jack Skellington wrote:
Pumpkin56 wrote:
Jack Skellington wrote:I too saw 'The Blair Witch Project' on VHS & also thought it had been built up too much. I was also a little disappointed by it.

One film which I saw that was over-hyped was 'Jeepers Creepers.' Everybody was saying how good it was (especially some of my friends), so I watched it & thought it was a steaming pile of you-know-what!
I saw Jeepers Creepers the weekend it was released in theaters and needless to say, I didn't really know what I was going to see. It actually scared me the first time I saw it (phobia of monsters that eat people :)). I think it helped that I wasn't aware of the plot and that the filmakers waited until nearly the end of the movie to show what the Creeper looked like. By that time, my imagination was coming up with some horrifying stuff on it's own that just about drove me mad :lol:
I can't believe it spawned a couple of sequels, WTF!?!?!?

:lol:

For real, JS! Me neither!

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