I can't speak on the third of Paranormal Activity or Transformers, cause I never saw the third, (and in Transformers case, the second left a sour taste in my mouth so I'm not sure I wanna)
But Transformers 1 > 2
and Paranormal Activity I think 2 > 1 so far
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