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Posted on 11/1/09 at 7:16 pm to
Posted by Flapjack
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Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 11/1/09 at 7:16 pm to
Liked Blair Witch. Liked Cloverfield. Liked The Ring. Hated The Mist. Hated Paranormal Activity.
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Posted by Bucktown Tigah
Metairie, LA
Member since Jul 2008
3431 posts
Posted on 11/1/09 at 10:35 pm to
Where can I see the alternate ending?
Posted by Baloo
Formerly MDGeaux
Member since Sep 2003
49645 posts
Posted on 11/1/09 at 10:40 pm to
Finally saw it this weekend. Meh. I liked the final scene and it was all build up to that moment, but really, this movie would have worked better as a 30 minute short film. And, man, did they find the two most unlikeable people on earth to be the leads? I was rooting for the demon to kill that douchebag by the third reel.
Posted by spslayto
Member since Feb 2004
21798 posts
Posted on 11/2/09 at 3:23 pm to
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'Paranormal Activity' Becomes Most Profitable Movie Ever


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The movie's box office success has reaped a staggering 414,233 percent return on its initial investment [of $15,000].


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The studio has reportedly spent less than $10 million to market the movie.


So the money spent on marketing isn't counted? That would really lower that 414,233 percent return on investment.
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
126669 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 1:17 am to
the end was creepy but nothing scary, i almost passed out during it but maybe b/c i was just stoned but not what i thought it would be.
Posted by Daydreamer83
Member since Jul 2008
614 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 1:38 pm to
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This post was edited on 11/14/10 at 8:27 pm
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 1:58 pm to
I was scared. I had the ending where he was thrown into the camera. I am a pretty big wuss when it comes to scary shite though. I don't like things that go bump in the night. I am an avid door locker and closet checker
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
126669 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 2:33 pm to
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I had the ending where he was thrown into the camera


i didnt even know there was more than one ending
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155798 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 2:37 pm to
That's the only ending in theaters now. There was another one that was shown early on to test audiences, and one that was supposedly shown to only one test audience. But the one that everyone talks about (the one in the trailers that RUIN the movie) is the nationwide one, I'm pretty sure.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
41221 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 2:37 pm to
Spoilers.....

The original ending has her walking downstairs. The boy friend wakes up and goes down to look for her. You hear a scuffle then she comes back in the room with a knife and blood on her shirt. She sits on the floor until the police arrive, then she gets up and runs towards the police and they shoot her.

Another ending has her coming into the room with the knife. She walks up to the camera and slits her throat.

I think the theatrical release was all the same ending.
Posted by Salmon
I helped draft the email
Member since Feb 2008
85659 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 3:03 pm to
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the one in the trailers that RUIN the movie


You keep saying this, but I have no idea how showing that in the trailer ruins the movie for anyone who hasn't read the ending on-line.

I saw the previews, saw the guy being thrown at the camera, but in no way did I know that was how it was going to end. You can't tell he is dead from the trailer.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155798 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 4:00 pm to
Because I was waiting for it to happen. So the more and more the movie went along, I knew I hadn't seen that part yet. So at what was obviously the climax of the movie, I knew what was about to happen. I still liked it, but it would have been infinitely better if I wasn't expecting a particular thing to happen (another thing was the pulling off of the bed covers). It would have been much freakier if I was seeing it for the first time. That's why I say that.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
59064 posts
Posted on 11/3/09 at 4:22 pm to
I thought the part where she was dragged out of bed was much scarier than the ending
Posted by Gindoni
OKC Thunder Fan
Member since Apr 2009
6307 posts
Posted on 11/4/09 at 7:51 am to
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I thought the part where she was dragged out of bed was much scarier than the ending

I agree.
I kept waiting for the part where he gets thrown backwards or something like what the preview showed. Maybe that was a different ending or something???
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155798 posts
Posted on 11/4/09 at 7:53 am to
That didn't happen at the end of yours..?
Posted by ezride25
Constitutional Republic
Member since Nov 2008
26400 posts
Posted on 11/11/09 at 4:35 am to
I just watched it and like many movies thought the ending didn't deliver. It was a great buildup, slow at times yes, but I was thinking ok here it comes. The money shot, this is going to be great!

Uh wut?

Here is my ending... I think it's much better.

So after she kills the douchebag boyfriend she walks back upstairs with the knife, lays back down in the bed, and says to this demon "I think we are going to be ok now." You know, like she's got some strange attachment to it.

After she falls asleep the demon lights the ouija board on fire again, only this time it burns the whole house down while she is still in the bed.

Amidst a commotion of cop cars, news cameras, fire fighters, and a gathering of friends and neighbors the girls best friend has a glassy stare come over her and mutters to no one in particular... "I think we are going to be ok now."

Exit with creepy music.


The most glaring weakness of this film's ending was that in never answered the question of how the demon came from that one girl who bit her arm off during the exorcism, and the girl that is the subject of this film. They should have hired me.
Posted by TexasTiger34
Austin, Kind of
Member since Mar 2008
11344 posts
Posted on 11/11/09 at 8:07 am to
This movie wasn't half as good or scary as
The Happening.
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