Q. I was born in 1993 but don't remember much of the 90s but it seemed like a fun generation. I hate this generation now, can't talk to anyone cause their eyes are glued to their phone, the music now is absolutely fake and horrible, I love 90s music though. Was the 90s fun and better to live in?
A. You know something, I was looking at a video of someone driving in a car from 2006. Where were their eyes? On someone else, on the road, etc. And recently a video of 2012, where were the passengers eyes? On their iPhones the whole time, music going in the car; no one can appreciate scenery anymore. Gotta blast the music and whip out the phones, so I hear you there.
The 1990s were good. I'm around your age, but I know far more about the decade, primarily because my memory dates back to 1998.
Until just recently, we all went outside, we all couldn't stay inside (parents wouldn't let us), or be on the computer for long. We all looked at each other as humans, not as gametags or usernames on their internet. Friends meant, getting your ass over to THEIR house and seating your ass on THEIR chair, even playing what videos games there were back them, (N64, dreamcast in 2000 but close to 1990s, playstation one haha)
Not texting them, or not Even in the MySpace days, no one was ever so anti-social, so I feel you there. Pretty much anything 1980s or 1990s was a breeze and joy to live in compared to nowadays. And the pre-2001 viewpoint on society, and people, and strangers, was refreshing compared to now. You could feel comfortable talking to strangers about simple, non-personal things sometimes. Nowadays, we've let paranoia get the best of everything we do in therms of communication. Have a listen to a some music from the 90s. Look at some videos, jeopary, news, whatever to feel the decade. Look up when the Internet started up and became popular! AOL Dial-up sounds. And don't forget, the early 2000s, like 2000-2003, even 2004-2005 or so, was a lot like the feeling of the 1990s to some extent. Look at some gameshows that carried into the 1990s (I love gameshows, but that's mostly a 1980s topic). Enjoy the graphics that were decent (total crap today but I like them), but not developed enough and still required imagination and creativity.
What was Paranormal Activity 4 like?
Q. I'm going to see it tomorrow. :) I never seen any of them, but I really wanna see this one. I hear the ending is hella scary. What's the ending like, for people who seen it? I really don't wanna have a heart attack there. LOL , cause I sawthe apparition, and it wasn't scary at ALL. Just the sounds.
THANKS! (:
A. 'Paranormal 4' is one trip too many to the 'found footage' well
Published: October 19, 2012
By ROGER MOORE — McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The jig is up and the joke's on us.
The weakest, most derivative and funniest film in the "Paranormal Activity" quartet still can claim that a few of its cheap-jolts-that-pass-for-frights work. So does my ancient KitchenAid washer. That doesn't mean I'm not bored with it and that I don't keep it out of sight - in the garage.
Which is where one of the best scenes of this best-scene-starved new installment takes place.
It opens with a 2006 flashback, home movies of a toddler being coddled by his "Aunt" Katie, played by Katie Featherson, the young woman chased by demons. "Hunter," the baby, "was never seen again."
Cut to last November and Nevada, where a family of four meets a real "Danny doesn't live here, Mrs. Torrance" 6-year-old who's moved in across the street. Robbie (Brady Allen) is a loner with scary eyes. His mom has to go to the hospital, so he comes to stay with the Nelsons. He whispers to an invisible friend, clings to their son his own age, Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp), and scares the willies out of nubile and curious Alex (Kathryn Newton), 15, and her tech-savvy Alex-lusting boyfriend, Ben (Matt Shively, funny).
Who is Robbie talking to?
"You'll find out," he warns.
The teens' late-night video chats inspire Ben, when he isn't putting the moves on Alex, to rig up computers to record video in much of the house. So whenever Alex says "It's three in the morning. And I just heard a noise," she picks up a laptop and walks it downstairs to investigate. There's a smattering of cell phone and camcorder footage, for those who like to keep track of the "who?" "why?" and "how?" this footage is gathered.
The kids are onto something. And the adults (Alexondra Lee, Stephen Dunham) aren't listening.
"Paranormal Activity 4" isn't content to merely recycle gags and bring back characters from the earlier films in the most successful "found footage" series of them all. Because that plainly isn't enough. Now, they're shoehorning homages to "The Shining" into it, and delivering that staple of modern horror, horny teenagers, to the peril.
A kitchen knife shows up, foreshadowing later events. Wyatt rides his big wheel through the frame, and chairs mysteriously slide out to block his way.
The novel addition here is making use of a phenomenon of the video game age - the dot matrix that your xBox Kinect uses to track movements for you to play the game without hand-held controllers. Point a camera at a room where the Kinect is on and the lights are out and watch ghostly shapes of little boys follow creepy Robbie around in the dark.
But even that isn't that frightening. Everything the co-directors of "Paranormal 3" show us in "Paranormal 4," they show too much of. Mysteries are solved so blatantly that there are no surprises. So they resort to the cheapest of cheap scares - Alex or the family cat lunging into the frame in extreme, EXTREME closeup (this is supposed to be a computer screen they're coming at) at opportune moments.
The lengthy lulls of surveillance footage that set up the frights are as suburbanly bland as ever. It's just that our patience for them is gone.
Showcase that you'd expect these hit movies to be, actors - either those menaced or those lurching along menacingly - don't launch their careers with them. That's because the formula needs them to be generic and turns them passive in the face of the supernatural. Alex's odd proactive character moment here stands out because that's not what they've been hired to be. Just try (not too hard) to alert others to the menace, sit back and let things happen to you.
Just like the audience. At least this time we, like they, know this jig is up. Which is why they went for laughs to break up the monotony.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4
1.5 stars (Grade: D-minus)
Cast: Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Brady Allen, Katie Featherston, Aiden Lovekamp, Alexondra Lee, Stephen Dunham
Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/10/19/2267826/paranormal-4-is-one-trip-too-many.html#storylink=cpy
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