first: paranormal activity is a bad movie. as in excruciatingly bad, worse than new moon. okay, so i generally dislike horror movies, for about the same reasons i dislike porn movies - lack of plot, sketchy characters, weird reactions from said characters, buuuuuuuuuut sometimes i'm willing to give credit - like "the exorcism of emily rose" was a pretty nice movie, although i am not entirely sure it classifies as horror. but, back to p.a. and why it sucked gloriously. first of all, i could not care less about the characters. especially the guy. the guy is so obnoxious, probably because of testosterone poisoning or stuff, and he totally deserved his fate. the girl stabbed him to death in the end and i almost cheered. what do you expect when he was all like "whee! i'm a macho and i will totally provoke the demon that lives inside my house even though people warned me against that specifically". dude, you had it coming.
also, i somewhat empathized with the girl, but not enough because she also did really weird, out-of-place things (you're haunted and you don't tell your parents about it? even though the thing, demon, whatever, specifically attacks you in the bedroom you still keep sleeping in there?)
okay, so maybe i am picky and people could point out that i read all the twilight books (*hangs head). point is, the characters in p.a. don't make me care about their fate. live, die, whatever, ghost, blah blah (i even noticed the faux-reality editing - which is awesomely bad, i could have done it better. dude. you bought super-duper equipment and you edit movies like that??? i am not buying that. nuh huh. WHY DID THIS MOVIE MAKE A SHITLOAD OF MONEY??)
so. in conclusion. bad. also, some boys are evil and deserve knives and ghosts thrown at them.