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Comment by Santos on April 20, 2011 at 10:46pm

Slight Spoiler Alert

 

 

Co-Host could have gotten his Ghostface mythology if the killer had gotten away with it, but Wes Craven doesn't like his villains winning so so much for that.

Comment by Santos on April 20, 2011 at 7:39pm

I'm with Cyrus. Low Matinee.

Comment by Michael-Orian on April 19, 2011 at 11:33pm

I actually liked Scream 2 more than the first. Scream 3 was pretty bad though. This one was awesome to me.

Comment by Toe Knee Bee Ears on April 19, 2011 at 11:16pm

Comment by MultiTool on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pm

@Shinigami64
Thanks for not spoiling anything.

Comment by Shinigami64 on April 19, 2011 at 1:08pm

I loved the first two Scream movies. I still love the first one, but once I gave the second movie a little more thought I grew to hate it. It dawned on me that the franchise realized too late that they shouldn't have killed off Randy (Jaime Kennedy) without a contingency plan. Case and point: that bullshit post-mortem video in Scream 3. The movie still needed that character or some form of equivalent, and taking him out in the 2nd act of the first sequel turned out to be a huge mistake that they had no way of correcting. Or rather, they hadn't thought about how much weight that character was actually carrying and how to shift it if the need came. But the biggest problem with Scream 2 is the biggest problem that carries over into Scream 3. Dewey, Gail, and Sidney are too fucking safe. The movies pad out the roster with new characters we're given no reason to give a tumbling fuck about only so that they can be killed. Meanwhile, the returning cast is shielded from harm and end up walking away from the scenario with only a few scratches. This didn't really stand out that much to me in Scream 2, but then I remembered the opening sequence of the first film. Killing off the most recognizable actress in the opening scene created a tone that none of the other Scream movies have recaptured because they been completely missing the point. It wasn't about offing Drew Barrymore and her football hero boyfriend or horror movie trivia or manipulation of tropes. It created a sense of unease that let the audience know that no one was safe in this movie within 10 minutes. Each installment in this series has gotten further and further away from that with Scream 3 being the worst that I've seen (still haven't seen this one). Instead of improving and playing with formula, the Scream movies became formula and that all started with Scream 2. Returning characters are clunkily reintroduced ("Dewey!! What're YOU doing here?"), the "witticisms" are more heavy-handed, and the attempts to create tension come up short because we already know who's walking away from this alive and who's not...

I can only hope that Scream 4 doesn't make the same mistakes, but I'm not optimistic...

Comment by randy on April 19, 2011 at 11:10am

I love scream 2 so much, it's one of my favorite sequels of all time.

 

There is 2 of the best action set pieces on any horror film ever in scream 2.

Comment by ManicFanatic on April 19, 2011 at 3:27am

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