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Post by drivebyluna on Mar 14, 2011 1:02:33 GMT -5
Jon and I watched this last night with some friends.
If you were wondering how they would pull off a sequel to a mocumentary movie, this movie follows Katie's sister Kristi. Kristi has recently given birth to a newborn son, Hunter, who has a significant role in the film. The sequel ties in well with the first one and has some good scares. Cons: some shaky acting from the actor playing the father and the scares aren't as good as the first one, although that may be because the first one was so good so my expectations were too high.
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Post by Scary Gary on Mar 14, 2011 7:18:47 GMT -5
I saw this a few weeks ago. I agree with your review. I'd add that I felt more for this family than the previous one. The kid and the dog are one obvious reason; but I think the less obvious reason is that this family didn't provoke the entity like the dude in the first movie did. Overall, a worth continuation of the story. I'm curious where PA3 is going to go. I have a bad feeling that they may be ready to jump the shark. We'll see in a few months, I'm sure.
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Post by lynn on Mar 15, 2011 4:15:51 GMT -5
God I hope they jump the shark! After two movies with low-level scares it might be interesting to see what they'd do as a shark jump.
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Post by Gilberto on Mar 24, 2011 19:50:26 GMT -5
I HATED this movie. Drivel re-treading the original formula with a crap tie-in and none of the raw suspense. The underlying story in the first was more plausible and claustrophobic. In this one there's no consistency and no one knows what's going on or why. The POV device doesn't work as well because they are always conveniently filming themselves for no reason. There is also way more asinine exposition (an hour goes by before anything substantive even happens). The story in the first was simple and so it worked. This just played to our sensibilities (baby, dog) while doing nothing to advance the story. Crap.
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Post by broox on Feb 18, 2012 8:42:17 GMT -5
I watched part 3 last night. In this movie we see the girls as kids in 1988, this time filmed by their step dad (what's with this family and their obsession with video??)
I had no idea VHS was so high quality. And widescreen to boot! It pretty much follows the same formula as the others with a lot of the same scenes. The only real difference is the end, where things get even more ridiculous than in the others. I'd hate to be a guy in one of these movies, it always ends badly for them!
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Post by lynn on Feb 18, 2012 16:32:19 GMT -5
Photographic evidence of supernatural misandry?
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Post by broox on Feb 18, 2012 18:53:56 GMT -5
I had to look up the word misandry. Bravo young lady!
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Post by Scary Gary on Feb 19, 2012 1:56:58 GMT -5
This franchise would have been so much better if they followed different families/hauntings each year. After a few, they could have tied them together with a paranormal investigator that has studied the tapes and seeks out the spirit. At least that is the route I would have pursued.
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Post by lynn on Feb 19, 2012 16:58:03 GMT -5
I didn't mind the concept of following Katie's sister, I thought it tied in, it was just the execution that failed for me.
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Post by Scary Gary on Feb 19, 2012 18:24:58 GMT -5
For PA2, the concept worked for me. But not for PA3. Once the original turned out to be the cash cow that it was, the decision should have been made to make a number of sequels. At that point, they should have figured out step-for-step where they were going. It would really be a sad commentary on what those people think of their audience if PA3 is what they were planning. If they had no plan at all (which is likely the case), then that is a sad commentary on the state of movie making.
Either way, I feel that someone really shit the bed with PA3.
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Post by lynn on Feb 19, 2012 18:46:22 GMT -5
I think the further you go back in time the less realistic filming is, so that's a trouble from the start with 3. And also one of the things that worked so well for the first one was them not knowing at all what was going on. They only just figured out it might be some sort of demon that wanted something with Katie and that Mica was giving it the shits (but that was self-evident from his character). Hell, it could have been a helpful guardian angel getting that poor girl out of the radius of her douchebag boyfriend in a creative and blood-splattered manner. You know, when it was carrying her away in its mouth it was just being acting like a mother cat who carries away its kitten to safety.
I think the problem was that once they went with the sister in the second one they had to stay with the family and the further explanations for the third. If they had, as you suggest Gary, gone with a different family, it certainly would have given the franchise a better longevity.
As for planning in advance, I think the vast and much discussed differences between the trailer and the final movie of PA3 showed that they had no idea what to do with the third film even while they were filming it.
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Post by broox on Feb 19, 2012 19:51:34 GMT -5
I really agree that they should've moved on to a different case but having decided to stay with the original family did they really need to stay with the found footage concept? They've really painted themselves in a corner with the last installment. What can they do now? They can't go further back, all they can do now is show more of what's happened after the first movie.
Unlike Cloverfield or Blair Witch and some others we don't see who is showing us these found home videos (ie there is no Dept of Defense labeling or journalistic disclaimer etc) so maybe they can reveal that some kind of detective or ghosthunter is the one who has uncovered these and is now hunting the demon girl.
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Post by lynn on Feb 19, 2012 20:08:29 GMT -5
that's the thing, doesn't part 3 start with Kristi and Katie going through some old tapes that soon after go missing? What's with that?
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Post by broox on Feb 20, 2012 9:34:08 GMT -5
Yes, for some reason the evil grandmother gets all the videotapes the stepdad has shot at their house (after killing him and her own daughter and erasing the entire memory of them from the kids??) and then the grandmother keeps these tapes in a box for twenty years and when she dies the girls inherit it (but none of the creepy witch stuff) and they have no desire to watch them.
These tapes are "stolen" and the next thing we see is the tapes being shown. No explanation. Oh, and they're also magically high definition and 16:9.
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Post by lynn on Feb 20, 2012 16:08:35 GMT -5
That's not strange at all. No, I understand what's going on, it's a demon with a fifteen seconds of fame complex, this is all part of its master plan to get its own reality show. Right?
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