Paranormal Activity

Fans, I'm disappointed in Paranormal Activity. Don't worry, it's not your fault, I just wanted to let you know.

After all of the hype and all of the sponsored links on Digg.com, after all of the newspaper reviews, after the 85% "fresh" review rating on rottentomatoes, and after all of the stories of soiled underwear in the theater, I thought that I would actually get to experience having the crap scared out of me. I decided that tonight - Halloween of all the nights in the year to see a scary movie - I would go out with my friends to see the supposed "scariest movie ever".

Meh.

Mikah and Katie represent the two halves of the movie. Mikah has a goofy sense of humor that kept me laughing through the first half of the movie. Katie kept me laughing for the second half:

*SPOILER ALERT*

When she was dragged out of bed by the demon, my friends and I thought she was going to get out of bed and stand up again. When she in turn flopped on the ground and started to flail her limbs, I lost it. The giggling continued through the remainder of the movie.

The final scene was the only satisfyingly exciting part of the entire wasted two hour attempt to scare me. I wouldn't call it scary, but that is probably because I was still laughing from earlier scenes. In the theatrical trailer it looked like a pillow was being tossed at the camera, leading me to believe that there was going to be a fun-loving demonic pillow fight at the climax of the film. I was pleasantly surprised when it was the idiotic "What the **** was that" character Mikah being thrown across the room by his steroid abuser of a girlfriend. When she was laying on top of his limp body for a few moments and turned up to face the camera with that wicked possessed smile, finally I felt chills run down my spine. But then, as soon as it got interesting, it was over and the end-of-documentary-on-runaway-homicidal-maniac text epilogue was scrolling up the screen, wiping away any chance of a decent horror film.

*END SPOILER ALERT*

As a horror film, I give it a 4/10 simply for the final scene. As a comedy film, it gets a perfect 10/10. My friends and I were debating going to see "This is It", the music documentary on Michael Jackson's final years when we decided to watch "Paranormal Activity" because of the whole Halloween thing. Maybe that would have scared me more.

That being said, I find myself looking into the shadows when I hear a noise. It could just be the MSG overload from the Chinese food we went for afterwards that's creeping me out.

Maybe it wasn't so terrible a movie after all... hehe just kidding.

The Rose - Bette Midler

A very strong song for those in times of need.

I first heard it during my first retreat with my church's youth ministry, and every time I listen it grows on me.

"Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed

Its the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance
Its the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance
Its the one who wont be taken, the one who cant seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember that in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed, that with the suns love in the spring becomes the rose"

And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live. Learning to live is the hardest part of life.

- Green

PS: Sorry for not keeping up with this, I forgot the reasons why I record my life in here. Recently, I heard that the mother of a good friend has been hospitalized, and that friend reconnected the broken chain between us.