i thought paranormal activity was supposed to be scary

So I have been hearing a lot of people talking about paranormal activity 3 and what not. I wasnt feeling all of the hype when the first one came out and when the 3rd came out everyone was going to see it and talking about it being scary, so i logged into netflix and started to watch the first paranormal activity, nothing really happened the first hour of the movie heck i dont think i saw any action until the last 10 minutes, lets just say i was highly disappointed in it and it was not even scary, I did more laughing then anything. So i want to know if i am the only one who thought that movie was not even remotely scary and if the other 2 are even scary at all?

well the jokes on you then

I thought that people would have realized that America is incapable of making scary movies. :? (There are exceptions... and Paranormal activity is not one of them...)

If you want scary movies that are actually scary, you pretty much have to go foreign..

You watched it wrong.-Tish-

[QUOTE="-Tish-"]You watched it wrong.surrealnumber5

because drugs are bad mmkaysurrealnumber5

It is scary if you've got anything even remotely resembling an imagination. Sadly, since the release of the first one it's become plainly obvious that not many people do.

The intention of the movie is to be scary, but it isn't. You can watch with a straight face and not feel any emotion for it.

It's your loss if you don't find it scary. Don't see why people brag about how they didn't find XX scary, just means the person that found it scary gained a better experience and you wasted your time.

It wasn't a "scary" movie. Like Insidious are something like that. It was more creepy than scary. mrmusicman247

Imagine my disappointment when I saw it in theaters. :evil:

[QUOTE="mrmusicman247"]It wasn't a "scary" movie. Like Insidious are something like that. It was more creepy than scary. The-Apostle

I bought into the hype and watched the first one in theatres, and I was severely disappointed. I still might watch the other 2 someday.

"Suspension of disbelief" is important for most "shaky cam" type movies.foxhound_fox

Yea they wanted to much of that after 1. part 1 was ok even though the end was a bit much it still was fine. Part 2 on the other hand went overbord. They want you to beleive that this is real people and not just victums in a slasher flick which lets be honest most are brain dead and do dumb things,but part 2 does that with a character and you say to yourself "noone can be this stupid" and the end was crap in 2 and then uncessary backstory made it looks even more dumb to no end. Im not going to bother to see 3 since I heard what the end was and its even stupider then 2 if thats even possible.

It's only scary if you really believe it.XilePrincess

It is scary if you've got anything even remotely resembling an imagination. Sadly, since the release of the first one it's become plainly obvious that not many people do.

black_cat19

I thought that people would have realized that America is incapable of making scary movies. :? (There are exceptions... and Paranormal activity is not one of them...)

If you want scary movies that are actually scary, you pretty much have to go foreign..

LORD_BLACKGULT

It is a pretty funny movie, it's one of my favorite comedies.:|UprootedDreamer

Of course it wasn't scary lol, you ever seen a scary "horror" movie? If you want to be scared play scary games not scary movies.

[QUOTE="LORD_BLACKGULT"]

I thought that people would have realized that America is incapable of making scary movies. :? (There are exceptions... and Paranormal activity is not one of them...)

If you want scary movies that are actually scary, you pretty much have to go foreign..

parkurtommo

Yeah the JP grudge movies are more scarier and better then the remake series, through the first of that series was still decent. The 2nd movie was just crap howeverand didn't bother seeing the third.

I felt like I wasted 1 hourand 18 minutes just to see 5mins of action:evil:

The whole series seemed like more of a parody or comedy to me.

There are no scary films sadly. Maybe one day but definitely not now.Dracula68

[QUOTE="Dracula68"]There are no scary films sadly. Maybe one day but definitely not now.Mkavanaugh77

i have no interest in seeing any of these movies

[QUOTE="Dracula68"]There are no scary films sadly. Maybe one day but definitely not now.Mkavanaugh77

I didn't even like the first one so I didn't bother with the others. It was pretty obvious that the rest would be crap as well.