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Paranormal Activity

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Paranormal-Activity

So after all the stuff that happened last night, I needed something to take my mind off everything. I decided to go with my mom and Stephan to see Paranormal Activity. After waiting in the incredibly long line to get tickets because only 1 person was working at the ticket booth and every kid had to go see Where the Wild Things Are, we got inside and got some popcorn. The previews were boring and then the movie started out of no where. It’s one of those movies that jumps right into the story. It started out just a bit creepy but it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Everything builds up so perfectly to the ending. I won’t give too much away but the ending is when the scary-ness really kicks in. I almost wanted to leave the theater. My mom is never scared of movies but she jumped out of her seat and screamed the f-bomb at one point in the movie. Stephan was freaking out hiding behind his knees.

After the movie, some guy got out of his seat and ran out of the theater while yelling “Waste of my money!” The guy behind me was like “He probably shit his pants.” I laughed. I waited for something to happen before leaving, partially because I was too scared to move, and then left when the blue screen popped up saying that the movie was rated R. An hour later after regaining my sanity, I realized how good of a movie it was. For such a low budget movie it was really well produced. I give it a 10/10 rating. Not like any of the other scary movies out there.

District 9

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

district-nine-posterSo today Stephan and I decided to go see District 9. We were going to see it Friday night but I figured that it would just be too crowded. I still wanted to see what people thought about it so I checked Twitter and sure enough it was a trending topic. Everyone was raving about it saying that it was amazing and it was a must see. I regretted not fighting the mob to get a seat after reading it all. But all worked out in the end when I saw the 2:50 showing at Regal on Medlock. We were there 30 minutes early and were forced to watch the Regal First Look. That pretty much consisted of 25 minutes of ads along with a funny Jay Leno commercial and the 2012 trailer (which looked pretty amazing). Then the previews started and I saw a few pretty nice looking movies that I wanted to see.

Onto the review of District 9… I’ll start out by saying that the movie was an amazing 10/10. Aside from the motion sickness brought on by the constantly moving camera, I very much enjoyed the movie. Peter Jackson was definitely the right person to direct the movie. The beginning of the movie had me a little bored and waiting for the action but it really helped pull the story together. I can’t say much without giving the whole movie away so to sum it up, this movie is amazing. It’s just one of those movies that you have to see.

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