I haven’t done much this weekend, so I guess it’s a good thing I decided to extend it into Monday, with a day off from work. (Next year, I think I need to actually do something a little more productive with these vacation days.)
Yesterday, I watched Goldfinger — or re-watched, I’m not entirely sure — and tonight I watched Paranormal Activity 2. The latter is decently scary throughout but ultimately something of a disappointment, forcing the connections to the first movie and the “mythology” that one introduced. It — and, judging by their trailers, the sequels — makes the mistake of thinking that story is what was so surprisingly effective about the first movie.
Though I’ll be perfectly honest: the part of me that can sometimes be a wuss about horror movies — the first Activity was maybe almost too effective — was maybe just a tiny bit relieved.