Totally pissed about Paranormal Activity 3

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**Ouze**

So, saw PA3. The movie itself kinda sucks, but I was babysitting and the kids wanted to see it. What pissed me off was, all those cool scenes in the trailer? Not in the movie. And we're not talking like Predators, where there is one fleeting shot that didn't make it in. I'm saying that in a 90 second trailer, 50 seconds of it doesn't actually occur in the movie.

In the trailer:

Spoiler:

Did I miss anything?

**Platuan4th**

So...

You're more pissed about that than the fact that they MADE one?

**Chowderhead**

Platuan4th wrote:So...

You're more pissed about that than the fact that they MADE one?

That what I was thinking. You actually watched it? And are pissed that things aren't in the movie?

More importantly, you actually willfully watched it?!?!

**warpcrafter**

The scenes that were in the trailer that weren't in the film itself where the watered down version.

Spoiler:

**WarOne**

So your mad that the trailer basically was a minimovie in and of itself?

**SagesStone**

Wait wait wait, there was a PA 2?

**Ahtman**

How old are these kids that they need a babysitter and can get into a rated R movie?

**Kanluwen**

The first Paranormal Activity is the only movie I ever walked out of.

Does not inspire any confidence in the sequels.

**warpcrafter**

Ahtman wrote:How old are these kids that they need a babysitter and can get into a rated R movie?

It's not hard to get kids in an R rated movie. At the theater where I saw it, the ticket taker was basically Timmy from South Park. (Not kidding, he just sits there in his mechanical wheelchair, tearing tickets and gazing at the ceiling.)

**Necroshea**

Yeahhhh I'm not sure why you'd pay good money to see PA. I watches the first one, and using my knowledge of horror stories and fiction about dead things, I was able to pretty quickly call poltergeist. As in you'll never see anything, it's just this ghost that messes with people. Was I right? Yes. As a matter of fact, I was so right, my decree proved true about the second one as well. I imagine it's the same thing with the third.

**Ahtman**

warpcrafter wrote:
Ahtman wrote:How old are these kids that they need a babysitter and can get into a rated R movie?

It's not hard to get kids in an R rated movie. At the theater where I saw it, the ticket taker was basically Timmy from South Park. (Not kidding, he just sits there in his mechanical wheelchair, tearing tickets and gazing at the ceiling.)

I didn't ask if it was possible, I know it is. I asked what age kids were in which they would be old enough to go to a Rated R movie and yet still need a babysitter. I wouldn't think it was all the good an idea to take a 6 year old to a horror movie.

**LordofHats**

Ahtman wrote:I didn't ask if it was possible, I know it is. I asked what age kids were in which they would be old enough to go to a Rated R movie and yet still need a babysitter. I wouldn't think it was all the good an idea to take a 6 year old to a horror movie.

It's not a good idea to take a ten year old to a horror movie

Alien traumatized me for weeks

**Ouze**

WarOne wrote:So your mad that the trailer basically was a minimovie in and of itself?

No, I'm mad that the advertisements for the movie misrepresented the content of the film. I don't understand why this is such a reach: If a pizzaeria ran ads for a Meat Lover's pizza that, in the commercials, showed Pepperoni, Ham, Sausage, and Bacon, and then when it arrived it just had ham, would that be OK? How is that different, exactly?

**warpcrafter**

LordofHats wrote:
Ahtman wrote:I didn't ask if it was possible, I know it is. I asked what age kids were in which they would be old enough to go to a Rated R movie and yet still need a babysitter. I wouldn't think it was all the good an idea to take a 6 year old to a horror movie.

It's not a good idea to take a ten year old to a horror movie Alien traumatized me for weeks

That's right. I saw The Exorcist when it first came out because my older siblings snuck me in, and oddly enough it was not the movie itself that scared me but the reaction from the other people. My older sister creamed so loud it actually hurt my ear on the side closest to her.

Ouze wrote:
WarOne wrote:So your mad that the trailer basically was a minimovie in and of itself?

No, I'm mad that the advertisements for the movie misrepresented the content of the film. I don't understand why this is such a reach: If a pizzaeria ran ads for a Meat Lover's pizza that, in the commercials, showed Pepperoni, Ham, Sausage, and Bacon, and then when it arrived it just had ham, would that be OK? How is that different, exactly?

It's just a marketing manipulation technique. I'm sure that they will put those scenes and a lot of other shenanigans in the director's cut blu-ray.

**WarOne**

Yes...you got to see the 13 dollar version of the movie.

The thirty dollar version of the movie comes with the trailers you watched for free.

**warpcrafter**

WarOne wrote:Yes...you got to see the 13 dollar version of the movie.

The thirty dollar version of the movie comes with the trailers you watched for free.

13 dollars? I bought the ticket, a drink and nachos and I didn't spend that much.