"Paranormal Activity"

OK...the "hand-held camera" genre needs to end now. Paranormal Activity was the last straw. We get it--you're trying to make the actors seem more like "real" people. But the thing is, real people don't carry a giant camera around and film everything while they are being pursued and accosted by a demon in their home. It's completely irrational. I think I could past it--as I did in Cloverfield and Quarantine--with the aid of cool special effects or terrifying on-screen footage. But the complete failure of Paranormal Activity in terms of a scary movie prevented any sort of cinematic appreciation. For example: the attic scene. Here was an opportunity, with a camera panning back and forth over dark piles of insulation, to scare the audience completely shitless. But instead, nothing happened. And nothing happened, again and again over the course of one and a half hours of my life. This one reached for the pinnacle of the mountain of bad movies I've seen. In fact, this was the first movie I have ever been to where there was booing and loud verbal pleads for getting money back after the film ended. Terrible. We've been tricked by the Internet and its hype once again.