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**** Pissing it off wasnt even really the heart of the problem. Micah gave it reasons to voice itself and maybe act quicker than it would have, but it wanted Katie either way, and it probably would have gotten do her sooner or later.
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* PA4: During Wyatt's bathtime (don't worry, there wasn't any nudity...which would bring into FridgeHorror that Alex's plan to record the house meant that she inadvertently recorded her stepbrother bathing naked), before he was pulled underwater, the cartoon his laptop was playing suddenly stopped. How come the demon, if it did that, didn't shut off the recording too?
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* PA4: During Wyatt's bathtime (don't worry, there wasn't any nudity...which would bring into FridgeHorror that Alex's plan to record the house meant that she inadvertently recorded her stepbrother brother bathing naked), before he was pulled underwater, the cartoon his laptop was playing suddenly stopped. How come the demon, if it did that, didn't shut off the recording too?too?
** Maybe the demon can hit pause.
** Maybe the demon can hit pause.
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* In the third film, why was Dennis videotaping the wedding photos?
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* In Paranormal Activity 3, why [[spoiler: did Witch!Grandma and the demon have the mom killed? If this was in fact the same demon from the first two movies, and grandma was complicit in the whole thing, it seems like it would make more sense to "turn" mommy in to a witch as well, or at least do whatever they ended up doing to the two girls. It seemed more like they were trying more to make a scary ending and half-explain things than for it all to make logical sense.]]
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* In Paranormal Activity 3, why [[spoiler: did Witch!Grandma and the demon have the mom Julie killed? If this was in fact the same demon from the first two movies, and grandma was complicit in the whole thing, it seems like it would make more sense to "turn" mommy in to a witch as well, or at least do whatever they ended up doing to the two girls. It seemed more like they were trying more to make a scary ending and half-explain things than for it all to make logical sense.]]
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**** I thought that Lois found Julie really annoying (especially with her constantly blowing off Dennis's claims about the cult).
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** Probably figured that they wouldn't believe her.
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*** This is a geekier WMG, but consider this - It appears Alex was somehow unable to open the .mov files being recorded and Ben only arrived just in time to get killed off to avert any recovery attempts. But if the files being recorded are QuickTime files, on Apple laptops, where's the difficulty in simply finding and clicking on the files?
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*** This is a geekier WMG, will sound geeky, but consider this - It appears Alex was somehow unable to open the .mov files being recorded and Ben only arrived just in time to get killed off to avert any recovery attempts. But if the files being recorded are QuickTime files, on Apple laptops, where's the difficulty in simply finding and clicking on the files?
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*** Which religion would you start believing in though? Multiple religions have a concept of demons. Do you pick one religion and hope it will help? Or do you try to start believing in all religions at the same time?
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*** [[WordOfGod Word of God]] says that the crucifix that Katie was holding, while not doing much against the demon, was the only thing left protecting her. (And honestly, if I were an atheist and an actual real live demon started setting things on fire and screwing up my sleep schedule, [[ArbitrarySkepticism I'd start believing really, ''really'' fast]].]]
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*** [[WordOfGod Word of God]] says that the crucifix that Katie was holding, while not doing much against the demon, was the only thing left protecting her. (And honestly, if I were an atheist and an actual real live demon started setting things on fire and screwing up my sleep schedule, [[ArbitrarySkepticism I'd start believing really, ''really'' really fast]].]]
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*** [[WordOfGod Word of God]] says that the crucifix that Katie was holding, while not doing much against the demon, was the only thing left protecting her. (And honestly, if I were an atheist and an actual real live demon started setting things on fire and screwing up my sleep schedule, [[ArbitrarySkepticism I'd start believing really, ''really'' fast]].]]
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** It may have been odd, but wasn't she on a school trip at the time? (I don't remember specifically, so I could be wrong.) In which case, it may have been something she considered odd and, given what she and her family had been through, probably set her on alarm, but the teachers who organized the trip aren't going to end it for the sake of getting one girl back home to check on her parents, who the teachers probably are going to assume are just not answering for various reasons. Really, if she was going to be gone for several days, it's more surprising that she was the one to find them or a neighbor checking on them (especially since I doubt the demon would lock the doors behind it), or friends investigating why they hadn't been at work or something, or even the police, coming to let Kristi know that Micah was dead and Katie was missing and his presumed killer.
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* Forget the men folk, how about Julie in the 3rd movie? All that stuff we just bitched about Dan for happens with her, only worse?
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*** This is assuming that a Christian symbol would do anything. Christianity isn't the only belief system that acknowledges demons, after all. Maybe a Wiccan ritual would have banished the demon instead of a cross. Maybe God and his Prophet Muhammad could have. Still, as an atheist/agnostic myself, I would not remain so if I were confronted with this sort of thing, and I would show the evidence to a pastor immediately. If that didn't work, just try other religions until something works.
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*** This is assuming that a Christian symbol would do anything.in the Paranormal Activity universe, Christianity is true. Christianity isn't the only belief system that acknowledges demons, after all. Maybe a Wiccan ritual would have banished the demon instead of a cross. Maybe God and his Prophet Muhammad could have. Still, as an atheist/agnostic myself, I would not remain so if I were confronted with this sort of thing, and I would show the evidence to a pastor immediately. If that didn't work, just try other religions until something works.
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*** This is assuming that a Christian symbol would do anything. Christianity isn't the only belief system that acknowledges demons, after all. Maybe a Wiccan ritual would have banished the demon instead of a cross. Maybe God and his Prophet Muhammad could have. Still, as an atheist/agnostic myself, I would not remain so if I were confronted with this sort of thing, and I would show the evidence to a pastor immediately. If that didn't work, just try other religions until something works.
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**** Except for the fact that, as has already been said, it ''is the natural reaction'' of human beings in frightening and overwhelming situations, which just follows from the whole premise of the film: a fly-on-the-wall account of two ''normal'' people (not film protagonists) in such a situation. And normal people make terrible, illogical decisions and do things they explicitly shouldn't when faced with the kind of pressures which the demon applies. If the filmmakers had wanted characters that behave unnaturally, they wouldn't have bothered with the "ThisIsReality" setup of the FoundFootage style.
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** Not really, his MO is to create an unsafe atmosphere, making people feel vulnerable so that their fear empowers him. Hence the progressive attacks in the first two movies. He gains power, establishes himself within the house's threshold, and then strikes for the kill. In PA2, for example, he does things that cannot be otherwise explained, such as moving the pool floater, turning on the stove, and slamming/locking the front door. It makes the target family feel stalked by a predator. Here, though, the knife doesn't accomplish anything. It confuses the mother and startles the father, but that's it, it doesn't build to any conclusion. It just scares the audience.
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** Toby enjoys messing around with people just ForTheEvulz. It's been his MO since the first movie.
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* PA4: What was the whole deal with the knife? It disappeared and then flashily reappeared... but didn't seem to serve any particular purpose.
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**** That still doesn't make you ''less of an idiot.'' No matter what reason you intentionally jettison all common sense for, there's still no logical reason to do it other than "they needed to for there to be a movie."
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* Why exactly was Alex filming everything at the beginning of PA4? The very beginning with the soccer game can be overlooked as family footage, but a lot of other things, like most of the dialogue with Ben and Alex, are filmed without an explanation. This is done a bit in the earlier movies, but the lack of reasoning stuck out more in the latest film.
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* This is something I noticed in the third and fourth movie; apparently the demon is vulnerable to grown men. Think about it; apart from the first one, in which the demon was probably as annoyed with Micah as the audience was, in the second one, Katie kills Dan first, in the third, Dennis manages to put up quite a fight, and in the fourth Alex says that [[spoiler: Doug was the only one who could make Wyatt/Hunter get out of his trances]]. It kind of makes sense, since the cult is apparently made up of only women and women can get possessed quite easily.
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**** RealityIsUnrealistic, there would be a fair number of poeple who would antagonize the supernatural hellbeast for a varity of reasons (spite, disbelief, just wanting to see the world burn, etc.).
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*** It had three toes. I'm going to guess ''not'' adorable, unless it looked like some sort of miniature Big Bird.
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*** It had three toes, about for feet tall, a complete and total SOB... are you sure the demon isn't freeza from dragon ball Z?
*** It had three toes, about for feet tall, a complete and total SOB... are you sure the demon isn't freeza from dragon ball Z?
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*** When you're explicitly told not to antagonize the supernatural hellbeast and then double up your efforts to do it anyway, that is pretty damn stupid. In fact, [[TooDumbToLive there's a trope for that.]]
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*** Now this troper is wondering why Lois had them sleep in separate beds at her house. Obviously by then it seemed like it sunk in that she wasn't getting a grandson, but it seems to be implied that she's always kept them that way when they stayed over. I might think she would try to encourage more sexual practice.
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*** Now this troper is wondering why Lois had them sleep in separate beds at her house. Obviously by then it seemed like it sunk in that she wasn't getting a grandson, but it seems to be implied that she's always kept them that way when they stayed over. I might think she would try to encourage more sexual practice.
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