The hype this movie got is just insane. This is the biggest disappointment since the LAST AIRBENDER. There was nothing scary, and the first 30 minutes had me bored me to death. So one hears a sound downstairs while they are sleeping (oooo that is sooo scary), and the lights come on, you hear footsteps, you see a shadow, the women is pulled by a spirit (ghost whatever), women wakes up during sleep and walks outside, and women goes downstairs kills herself and the demon kills the husband. Thats kind of what happens. What is so scary about that?????? I was expecting scenes like those cheaper people can do on youtube not this one setting movie. I can get scared easily and so you know something is wrong with this. Many said this was scary including reviewers! Some people even said that they wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Well I'm in a room alone, it gets dark in here, and the only other person in this area is my brother down the hall. The others are on the other side of the building. So yeah..I'm not scared.

Am I the only one who thinks this movie was a waste of money and time? I just watched it so I wanted to hear what you all thought.

IGN: 4 out of 5. 

Rottontomatoes: Using its low-budget effects and mockumentary method to great result, Paranormal Activity turns a simple haunted house story into 90 minutes of relentless suspense.

Meh, there was one part where I jumped a little that was it. I wouldn't call it the scariest movie ever. I heard the second movies scarier but I've never seen it to judge.

It's a movie that targets the "out of place" well. That's where it's easy to not get into it. It requires a certain level of detatchment from your self. The first part of the movie is slow for the purpose of the viewer to get an attachment to the stars. Similar to Stars Wars: A New Hope and Lord of the Rings: Fellow Ship of the Ring. If there was no attachment the second parts of these movies wouldn't have had the impact of being as good as they were.

In your case you found no attachment to the characters early on. Maybe you prefer gore, hack and slash and movies with sudden jumps. I'm not familiar with your movie preferences. PA uses about 2/3 case research study of "true" paranormal activities and hauntings. "Real" incidences don't start with a bang and lead to a climactic showdown fear fest. They are a slow build of "out of place" events to set your nerves on being uneasy.

It's a good movie, but like all movies. You need to be receptive of it as a movie for it's type. Instead of say being a Action Junky and expecting a good RomCom. My Mother in-law heard GTA 3d versions was awesome and wanted it. Once she got it. She thought it sucked. Good game, good movie doesn't mean it's good for you.

I was LMAOing at the stupidity of it all to be scared....not scary at all.

The scariest movie of all time is Shutter (not the crappy English version, but the Thai version). That movie literally made me SCREAM !!!

Some scenes were a bit creepy, but all that talk in between was so boring that I always fast-forwarded to the next night scene. :/

Definitely NOT the scariest movie in my book.

LMAO thats exactly what we started to do! 

mmm Ima have to check this out. So how do you know which version is which?

I think there's a big difference in the audience that actually lives on their own, and ones that live with their parents.

There's a certain vulnerability when YOU are the only thing standing between "an intruder" and your family.

imo

it had potential. but didn't mess with the psyche enough.. meh.

I suppose everyone has their own definition of "scary," but personally, no. Just, no.

Thanks to the home video/reality format of the film, there were far too many stretches with very little happening on screen as the screenwriter attempted to build up viewer awareness of what was going on in the house.

By the third act when most of the pieces are finally kludged together, we have a ghost/demon that is invisible, yet leaves corporeal form footprints, stays invisible, yet likes to make its presence known by banging loudly on doors and slamming doors, apparently has the ability to possess people, yet still feels the need to physically drag someone away from the only other person in the house, whose ineffectiveness is emphasized as he repeatedly claims he's "taking control" throughout the film while in reality doing nothing more than video a series of unexplained phenomena.

And of course the climax has the demonically possessed girlfriend killing the boyfriend with a common kitchen knife as though the demon is incapable of inflicting harm without the aid of a mundane piece of cutlery.

That was the demonic presence's grand plan with all the theatrical burning ouija board cryptic messages, paradoxical hidden photos, etc.: to kill the boyfriend with a kitchen knife. Really?