tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post6339559839161243236..comments2024-03-28T19:10:19.359-04:00Comments on my new plaid pants: Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of ThemJason Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254334131909339157noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-76841007198886863252011-04-26T01:59:45.817-04:002011-04-26T01:59:45.817-04:00I just came back from it and all I can feel is meh...I just came back from it and all I can feel is meh. Lots and lots of meh. I didn't want to feel meh. I guess I just thought they were going to go for something different. Really explore different aspects of the genre ... things that developed in the last 10 years like torture porn or handheld horror or J-Horror or French horror. <br /><br />They just kind of pasted a few "new" references (Facebook! Saw! Streaming! Twitter!) into a lesser remake of the original. It also felt really ... safe. I knew when every jump was coming. I knew Dewey was going to fuck everything up again (how does he keep getting promotions?). <br /><br />Though I never ruled out Emma as the killer, I did like that she was the killer. It may be the only thing I liked, though.<br /><br />And, no, there will not be a part 5. The box office was pretty meh as well.<br /><br />(There I go sucking the joy out of everything again. Who the hell invited me to this party?)timothy granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09178816364209218617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-73557332607760713162011-04-19T06:51:19.321-04:002011-04-19T06:51:19.321-04:00"Sidney seemed, in spite of her book/talk abo..."Sidney seemed, in spite of her book/talk about how she had moved on and gotten so much stronger, to have actually spent the last 10 years getting weaker and more shell-shocked by her prior experiences. Where'd her trademark ferocity go?"<br /><br />This. Gale too. I'm not sure it's the actors fault-Gale's career is dead, Sid has gone from plucky heroine to world weary survivor, Dewey is now actually halfway competent and the SHERIFF-on the one hand, the characters should have evolved and changed in 11 years. But they took away the prime trait that defined each of these characters, and as a result I thought all of our returning trio seemed to be phoning in their performance. <br /><br />I thought the entire movie lacked energy, that pacing was a consistent problem. There was just none of the wit or suspense of the original trilogy (yes, even Scream 4). And other than Emma Roberts, I didn't give one damn about any of the younger set of actors. Rory Culkin's perma sadsack face in particular made me want to punch him, and he made a most unsatisfying killer. <br /><br />Scream 3 was WAY better than this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-15821260248378667052011-04-18T22:45:34.222-04:002011-04-18T22:45:34.222-04:00One last thing... I agree with the opinion that if...One last thing... I agree with the opinion that if they had ended the movie with Jill being wheeled out of the house as the lone survivor, that would have been too impressive and ballsy to hate. And it would have left an amazing angle open for Scream 5. But then we wouldn't have had Sidney's best line of Scream 4 dialogue: "Don't fuck with the original".John from Jerseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-56549632696237242392011-04-18T22:36:06.437-04:002011-04-18T22:36:06.437-04:00The first time I saw Scream 3 (the night it opened...The first time I saw Scream 3 (the night it opened back in 2000) I was disappointed that Sidney, Gale and Dewey all survived because it just seemed like it was necessary for one, some, or all of them to die in order to outdo Scream 2. And not to mention it was the supposed climax of the trilogy, so why not end with a bang. To some extent, I not only expected them to die, I WANTED them to die for the sake of making the overall trilogy a gutsy and brutal package. <br /><br />The other day when I watched Scream 4, I found I was now hoping that Sidney, Gale and Dewey would survive. In fact, during the Stab-A-Thon scene when Gale has gone to investigate her hidden cameras, I kept putting my hand over my chest because I could not believe how hard and fast my heart was beating. It was unreal. I had gone from "kill em all" with Scream 3 to "noNoNO" with Scream 4. I was convinced that Gale was going to die, and it was shockingly unbearable getting through that scene. As was the hospital scene where I first thought Sidney would take it upon herself to hurl both Jill and herself out the window as a means to end the killings, or minutes later when Jill reaches for the shard and sneaks up behind Sidney. <br /><br />I have no hatred for Scream 3. I have grown to love it for the entry that it is, and Parker Posey was outstanding. Two complex characters are better than one.<br /><br />And Scream 2 is (in my opinion) the best of the four movies. It had two of the best chase/suspense moments (Gale in the music studio, Sidney in the car), it had already established the core story with the first Scream so it had the freedom to just run with it right outta the gate, it had the best motive out of all the killers (a mother avenging the death of her child makes more sense to me than overreacting to a divorce, being a soap-opera-surprise brother or a fame whore wannabe), Beltrami's score has never been better (especially during Gale's chase), it had the balls to kill a surviving main character, and Gale and Sidney had their best hair styles...John from Jerseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-28247153340822814442011-04-18T21:52:58.425-04:002011-04-18T21:52:58.425-04:00I agree with every single line of this! We're ...I agree with every single line of this! We're on the same page here, Jason!<br /><br />Also, I do love that they made it all about Emma Roberts being "Sidney 2.0" and making this new trilogy around her and the new crew and then not only killed every single one of them, but made the "Sidney 2.0" the killer! Amazing. Didn't you find that close up of her face surrounded by flashbulbs to be so... classically hollywood? Like, I almost expected her to say "I'm a STAR!" It reminded me of the end of <i>Black Swan</i>, funnily enough.<br /><br />If they had to excise any character, I'd say the cops. They were an obvious <i>Last House on the Left</i> reference and didn't do much. How much Brody died easily from a stab to the back yet Anderson was walking around after a knife to the brain? "Fuck Bruce Willis" didn't work either since these films have never made light of death. They've never been a punch line. That was disappointing.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm gonna write my own pros and cons thing soon.Glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08194113062830373898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-36730803062940546492011-04-18T18:21:07.476-04:002011-04-18T18:21:07.476-04:00I thought it should have ended about 15 minutes be...I thought it should have ended about 15 minutes before it did, personally. I mean, can you imagine!? Poor "victim/heroine" Jill being carted out of the bloodbath house on a stretcher, blinded by the flashbulbs of reporters, with a faint smile all the while, then bam! Cut to black, roll credits. Would have been insane!<br /><br />Gotta say though, there were some things I didn't love about it. The opening was kinda funny, but it went on a few too many times, I think. <br /><br />Sidney seemed, in spite of her book/talk about how she had moved on and gotten so much stronger, to have actually spent the last 10 years getting weaker and more shell-shocked by her prior experiences. Where'd her trademark ferocity go?<br /><br />And finally, Woodsboro has the most laughably inept police force in the world. Granted that's par for the course in horror, but still. It got kinda ridiculous toward the end after the main cops died.Joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-43081953666457941392011-04-18T15:59:43.907-04:002011-04-18T15:59:43.907-04:00Was this a movie or an iPhone commercial?Was this a movie or an iPhone commercial?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-2248993487973569812011-04-18T14:48:35.933-04:002011-04-18T14:48:35.933-04:00R.I.P. Laurie StrodeR.I.P. Laurie Strodeshawnpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-58100494226422113722011-04-18T13:55:03.251-04:002011-04-18T13:55:03.251-04:00Yes, I didn't say anything on the beginning, b...Yes, I didn't say anything on the beginning, but it was really really funny, and struck the perfect note to begin on. I didn't know my life needed to have Kristen Bell stabbing Anna Paquin in the gut in it until this movie showed me that I did.Jason Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18254334131909339157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-69190818457070382392011-04-18T13:52:36.790-04:002011-04-18T13:52:36.790-04:00"But it seems at this point that the talk of ..."But it seems at this point that the talk of a second trilogy with the new young hip cast was a fun game of smoke and mirrors, throwing off our scent, and underlining the film's eventual point, right?"<br /><br />I was so excited walking out of this, b/c I was afraid that in the age of the Internet, it was impossible for really clever marketing spins like that to work. From day 1, they really did a great job of throwing us off the scent. <br /><br />I thought the middle section got a little messy, and there were definitely some signs of too many cooks in the kitchen, but it's hard not to walk out feeling good with an ending as great as this one. Emma Roberts. Who knew?<br /><br />Also, I thought the beginning was a hoot.RJnoreply@blogger.com