Just finished this and yep I felt more of Blair Witch meets Cloverfield style filming but definitely not Paranormal Activity. Some of the characters were entertaining and the film wasn’t as jerky as many of this style. Plus I guess the cameras were more high-tech so it didn’t make you feel sea sick. Onto the next filming fiasco..

“The enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend it’s just another fu**er I gotta worry about” lol

So, we’re now at the point where the Paranormal Activity name is slapped on any “found footage” type horror film. There is very little actual paranormal activity in this film whatsoever. This feels more like a Blair Witch ripoff with a little bit of The Village thrown in.

An absolute mess of a series. Starts off good and quite disturbing and then just gets progressively more absurd and nonsensical after the first episode. Its like the writer stopped taking their meds after the writing the first episode. The characters spontaneously break out into these ridiculously long monologues all the time. Seriously, there must be like 10-15 monologues per episode. The whole thing watches like the unbearable creation of a schizophrenic on cocaine. Jesus, I feel like watching that has actually negatively effected my own mental health.

*There are very light spoilers. Nothing that gives away plot any more than the title.

Gravitas, Gravitas, Gravitas.

If I see the name Gravitas Ventures on a film I usually don’t bother watching it. In order to watch something of theirs, I have to be out of everything else. And I have to be suffering somehow - sick, hungover, stressed, etc. In a position where I don’t have to think too much and don’t really care what I’m watching. Where there’s some kind of background noise.
But this film broke through. Perhaps it’s because I personally related to the situation. About 10 years ago I was a victim of police brutality. I happened to be drunk, my cell phone dead, and in need of a cab. A stranger was about to hand me his cell when before I could take it we were both slammed to the ground by Redington Beach, FL police officers. As I have complex PTSD (somewhat different symptoms than soldiers) my response was not normal: I simply went silent and pretty much became an empty doll. They threw me down on my knees, cuffed me, dragged me up by the cuffs and made fun of me and my “boyfriend” while placing us in separate cars. When I was being processed I was so freaked out I couldn’t even give them my name. This made them verbally abusive at the station, even trying to get me to argue with another lady there (probably so they’d have something to actually charge me with). So there I sat in a cell until about 9am (about 9 hours) until they finally let me go - minus the money I had to pay for a cab. There was a thick ring of bruises knees from where I hit the pavement, my wrists from the handcuffs and a weird bruise on my hip I don’t remember receiving. I wasn’t falling down drunk, but I was drunk and I concede that could have been my own doing. I can see why they may see what was going on as a crime - it could have looked like the passing of drugs or money or something. What I can’t see is the justified mistreatment thereafter…and then later the petty theft of $23 ($18 for cab fare plus tip). Honestly I’ve left my house very little since because seriously, there’s no good guys left out there. Primewire’s been an amazing distraction for someone like me. I digress.
They did this to a 110 lb middle aged white woman; I can’t begin to imagine what they would do if I were black/male. I will say one thing: If there was ever doubt in my mind before (there wasn’t) I will never doubt anyone’s story of unnecessary police procedures (aka abuse) again. “Liability.” Humph. If I never hear that word again it’ll be too soon.
Why this matters concerning this movie: If anyone thinks this movie is over-dramatized or even one-sided, I promise you that you are wrong. It’s definitely not a perfect movie but it’s completely watchable…more so than most of their other ‘ventures.’ The only concrete problem I had with this movie is the misrepresented strength of the slap-lock…but then again, it is Gravitas.
Bravo, Gravitas Ventures. Finally. Keep up the better-than-mediocre work! I’d give this movie a solid B-. Now I’m off to nurse my triggers.

I think Lydia’s starting to come around, after that incident with the cattle prod and the chewing out from all that. And look how she’s started being kind to and watching out for cyclops girl.
She’s ate up with the cause, fer sure, but she’s starting to show there’s a human in there somewhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up doing something heroic and self-sacrificing before it all ends.

This show really isn’t for the faint of heart. I managed to convince my girlfriend to give it a try and she said she’s been scarred for life and can’t unsee what she saw in the first 2 episodes of season 1. Had she binge watched the entire series up to the end of season 3, I wonder how she’d have reacted because the capitol incident took place barely a week after she attempted to watch this show. Even i freaked out.

This episode was nerve wrecking. I can only imagine the pain she’s had to deal with while those who didn’t experience what she and the other women went through just expects them to move on and act like nothing happened. Ok, now you’re out, you’re safe, we’ve heard you, sorry about what happened to you. Alright it’s time to move on.

I was super pissed when the deal to grant Fred and Serena immunity was made. I really would have stopped watching this show had he actually made the trip to Geneva.
What’s sad is i work in the intelligence community and i know and have seen this shit happen alot behind the scene. Anyway, for what it’s worth, i think fred got only a fraction of what he actually deserves, but considering the alternative, I’ll take this jungle justice, and i hope they reserve the grand prize for the gender traitor called Serena. I keep saying the biggest problem we have as women isn’t men but other women.

I don’t want to disappoint you but aunt Lydia is in the sequel to the book, which is set like 15 years later, so I don’t think anyone’s going to be killing her off

When this first started out I sympathized with the main character and felt horrible for all that she was going through even really angry but at some point her thirst for revenge turned me against her and I was hoping she get killed off or something lol. I would never be for treating a woman like that ever but there’s a reason we have laws and a reason why we don’t have vigilantes. Glad this is just a TV show and not real life. It got to a point where I really didn’t want to watch the series any more but I liked some of the other characters and wanted to see what happened to them so I kept watching. Wonder what next season is going to be about? I have a few ideas.

The good: Unexpectedly fun…however I don’t understand why some people found the ending surprising. I found it pretty typical. The bad: Acting was mediocre at best; only the dad seemed to know how to act but he’s not winning any awards. The ugly:The plot itself was shot full of holes. The writing was lackadaisical to the point I don’t think they had a script to work with. That all being said, I enjoyed it. Imagine the book you only read at the beach because you don’t care if you’re distracted. You’re still enjoying reading it but you don’t mind putting it down.

Look, I get the metaphor. It’s the only thing that saves this movie for me. This came out in what, 2013? We had plenty of new knowledge about wolves by then. Why didn’t the director use it? The old, disproven wisdom about wolf behavior dulls the true meaning of this movie, at least for me. All I could think about while I was watching was, why are they dumbing this down? I always feel insulted when they do that in movies. This could have been so much more. If they wanted to tread the path of dumb action flick they could’ve hired Gerard Butler. Liam Neeson was too good for this movie.