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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
A movie so bad..
Every once in a while I watch a movie so loathsome that I feel the need to vent my frustrations through this site. This is one of those movies. The first half was actually pretty good. A fantastic build up with great scenery. Then out of nowhere a huge plot hole. One so big, that it halts everything the movie has been up to that point.
The plot couldn't have lost the attention of the audience quicker if a jet flew in and crashed the theater. I don't know who exactly was the creator of this, but if it was Guillermo it must have been a side project that he put five minutes into. It's just very out of character coming from him.
The movie then goes in a dizzying fall of plot holes. This is the main one.
**Spoilers**
Guy gets stabbed multiple times, everyone writes it off as an accident. Cops show up and do nothing. I don't know what else needs more be said. All the characters seem to not care afterwards, and the movie moves on without any explanation. It's insulting. "Hey look at this giant thing on screen, now forget about it!"
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Fell apart in the third act
I gave it this rating for the ending alone. For 2/3rds of this movie I was fairly scared, and had a pretty good bit of suspense built up. Then it got weird and the story fell apart. The characters' reactions to everything that was going on was way off and not something normal people would do. The ghost or entity was very overt way too quickly. The ending was tragically lame and left everyone in my theater with an expression of utter confusion and of let-down
--Minimal Spoilers-- Once the entity showed himself in the blanket there was no way of turning back. The characters' reactions after that did not follow any logical formula. And it's not as though they missed it, it's on film and they saw it. At which point almost everybody would actively do something to change their situation. These characters saw that they were being haunted and did nothing. This was relatively early on.
From there on, it was too fantastical. Everything was taken to the extreme in the worst possible story directions, and not much reality or story freshness ever returned.
The ending made this film reek of crap. They took all the plot from the first two films, threw it out, and made up some bullshit. This was meant to be a surprise, but the only surprise the audience was left with was feeling cheated. Remember how it was supposed to be an entity that was attracted to Katie? Well, they rewrote it to be a group of witches or something. They weren't scary in the least. It doesn't make sense, and whoever made this movie doesn't care. For what this story was supposed to be out would make the previous two impossible, or at least an endless amount of explanations were needed. Katie, to start, would have to have been a sociopath or not remember anything from her childhood somehow, such as her mom's boyfriend dieing in front of her.
--------- Don't see this film, even if you're a fan of the first two. Remember, your money is your vote, vote for quality. Cheap Hollywood films, that's sole reason for being created is for a quick buck, needs to end. There will no doubt be another film to come, and it's going to be worse.
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie (2011)
Huge fan of Penn & Teller
I'm a big fan. I think every show they've done thus far has been pretty outstanding. But even the greatest artists must hit a speed-bump, and this is Penn & Teller's. The concept I think is pretty good, but the quality of the show isn't.
The real trouble with this series is that it relies on about one minute of actual information per subject. The other 99%, not including advertisements, is pure hype for the next matter at hand.
Hype can be a good thing, when used with caution, but here it's the only commodity. Every episode is full of, "just wait five more minutes and we'll present the subject, but first..." Five minutes pass and it's merely 20 seconds of information followed by the next five minutes of hype and build-up. Cycle, and repeat.
Frustration is the only real thing one gets from this show. The game is to try and pick out the lie, but the editors, or whomever, aren't very good at hiding it. One can easily discount all fact being provided, and just look at the video at hand. In the first show, the fake was obvious because the "security cameras" we're in almost perfect HD with multiple angles on the same scene. Why would security cameras overlap on the exact same position. I know I wasn't the smart one out of the many dumb who picked up on it. According to their own poll half the audience picked the right one, out of 6 choices.
It feels like its who wants to be a millionaire stuck on question 1.
Whitney (2011)
I knew it was going to be bad.
I knew it was going to be bad, but not sure how bad. So I was curious and watched. I felt the urge to scratch my eyeballs out within the first few minutes. Comedy stylings from the early 90s, with the wit of a mule.
All you have to do to understand what this show is about, is to go to Whitney Cummings's wikipedia page. There it reads, "She was formerly a cast member of the MTV television show Punk'd." Yes, that sounds about right.
Please NBC, cancel this show and try something else. Look at how successful Community is. Don't keep doing these copy and paste jobs. It's like you mashed every bad sitcom you can imagine into one turd.