2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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Hopefully they have a better reveal for Scream 8. Other than that I fukks with the movie.
the studio need to get at me
Scream 7 | Discussion Thread
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the studio need to get at me
2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
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this a top 1 ghostface easy
2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat
Superstar
that beer tap kill was fire
I can remember watching Scream around May 1997 on PPV, the scene with Billy and Stu covered in blood in the kitchen, and it was terrifying. At 12 years old I knew I wasn't supposed to be watching it, but it also gave you that visceral, uncomfortable feeling, like it was real. I eventually saw the whole thing and rented Scream 2, whenever it came out.
Of course I am 40 now, and it's all different. The 90's are long gone. The 2000's are long gone, and I still go to horror movies, but it's a funny feeling, like the world has turned all around on you. I've seen all of the Scream movies in theaters, and they were all better than this. In some ways that's just the way it has to be, but this was objectively a mess of a movie.
Things that kind of worked for me:
-The fog in the headlights as the car rolled up in the opening scene, nice touch
-The leaves that he focused the camera on a few times
-When the twins were on screen, the movie seemed to light up
-The first attack, to a degree worked. They didn't check the attic?
Things that didn't
-I say this all the time but modern filmmaking looks so rushed. The directors cut, cut cut. They don't allow scene to breathe at all. No tension to develop, no atmosphere to develop. The opener is a perfect example.
-The karl scene was so bad. The first one. So obvious.
-The writing is sloppy. The characters never approach sounding like actual people. You get 12 minutes with Omar and Jada in 2, and they seem like an actual couple. The themes hit you in the face.
-I know this all Hollywood in general, but the Marvel effect. The feeling of filmmakers being led by the social media voices.
-The scene with the car.
-The killers reveal is by far the worst of the series. I was like who the fukk is that? I kinda guessed the other one, it was between them and the only other plausible one, which would have been better, if they wrote it different.
- At some point these movies lost the realness that they had back then. Scream 3 was sillier, but 100X more solid than this.
-The direction itself is choppy. Maybe they could have shot on film, or used some sort of filter, but the movie itself looks pretty bland.
- A pysch ward is by far the cheesiest part of the entire franchise
-None of the characters behave like plausible people, at any point. They don't seem like real kids or real adults, or people in general. THAT's why the first two were so good, because they felt like real people. They talked kind of like teens. They looked like teens
-The less said about that TV scene the better. The less said about that live interview the better. The script just went off the rails.
-Part of getting older, but it was pretty frustrating to see the use of AI, FaceTime, Imessage, I mean that in the sense of that's what made those earlier movies so great, the lack of those things. Their inclusion consistenly sucked any tension right out of the movie.
-That gun scene with the daughter was horrible. Maybe the worst of the series.
-The movie isn't playing in even the "real" world of Scream, even 5-6 stretched it a little, but this just went way way out of any realm of believability, within the movie series own logic. They would obviously know if Stu was alive or dead. It was a small town. It would have been in the news forever. They would have known the next fukking day. And they would never forget whatever the answer was. The movie playing with that narrative is just bullshyt.
-The movie got a a laugh or two out of me, but the writing just wasn't there.
-At some point, they started just doing fan service for social media. And it's clear that drives a lot of the movie development now, which is just part of the game. Tail wagging the dog or whatever that saying is.
If I was writing this, I would get rid of all the old shyt. If you HAVE to have Sidney's daughter, get her better lines. You have to stop with Sidney being targeted, or helping out or whatever. Get rid of all the old characters. What everyone loved about Scream was the mystery. They made it too much about the "lore".
I would have Sydney's daughter at college, and have her being stalked. But the motive would have everything to do with a lover, or a secret admirer lunatic, or a deranged professor trying to sell a book. That's the basics. A good cast. An attarctive cast. Sharp writing. A good mystery. Have maybe 3 murders the whole movie, but crank the tension so high the audience can't breathe. This movie isn't getting back to basics, it went mostly off the rails. It's maybe as bad as I Know What You Did Last Summer. It has that same fake ass look and feeling.
Of course I am 40 now, and it's all different. The 90's are long gone. The 2000's are long gone, and I still go to horror movies, but it's a funny feeling, like the world has turned all around on you. I've seen all of the Scream movies in theaters, and they were all better than this. In some ways that's just the way it has to be, but this was objectively a mess of a movie.
Things that kind of worked for me:
-The fog in the headlights as the car rolled up in the opening scene, nice touch
-The leaves that he focused the camera on a few times
-When the twins were on screen, the movie seemed to light up
-The first attack, to a degree worked. They didn't check the attic?
Things that didn't
-I say this all the time but modern filmmaking looks so rushed. The directors cut, cut cut. They don't allow scene to breathe at all. No tension to develop, no atmosphere to develop. The opener is a perfect example.
-The karl scene was so bad. The first one. So obvious.
-The writing is sloppy. The characters never approach sounding like actual people. You get 12 minutes with Omar and Jada in 2, and they seem like an actual couple. The themes hit you in the face.
-I know this all Hollywood in general, but the Marvel effect. The feeling of filmmakers being led by the social media voices.
-The scene with the car.
-The killers reveal is by far the worst of the series. I was like who the fukk is that? I kinda guessed the other one, it was between them and the only other plausible one, which would have been better, if they wrote it different.
- At some point these movies lost the realness that they had back then. Scream 3 was sillier, but 100X more solid than this.
-The direction itself is choppy. Maybe they could have shot on film, or used some sort of filter, but the movie itself looks pretty bland.
- A pysch ward is by far the cheesiest part of the entire franchise
-None of the characters behave like plausible people, at any point. They don't seem like real kids or real adults, or people in general. THAT's why the first two were so good, because they felt like real people. They talked kind of like teens. They looked like teens
-The less said about that TV scene the better. The less said about that live interview the better. The script just went off the rails.
-Part of getting older, but it was pretty frustrating to see the use of AI, FaceTime, Imessage, I mean that in the sense of that's what made those earlier movies so great, the lack of those things. Their inclusion consistenly sucked any tension right out of the movie.
-That gun scene with the daughter was horrible. Maybe the worst of the series.
-The movie isn't playing in even the "real" world of Scream, even 5-6 stretched it a little, but this just went way way out of any realm of believability, within the movie series own logic. They would obviously know if Stu was alive or dead. It was a small town. It would have been in the news forever. They would have known the next fukking day. And they would never forget whatever the answer was. The movie playing with that narrative is just bullshyt.
-The movie got a a laugh or two out of me, but the writing just wasn't there.
-At some point, they started just doing fan service for social media. And it's clear that drives a lot of the movie development now, which is just part of the game. Tail wagging the dog or whatever that saying is.
If I was writing this, I would get rid of all the old shyt. If you HAVE to have Sidney's daughter, get her better lines. You have to stop with Sidney being targeted, or helping out or whatever. Get rid of all the old characters. What everyone loved about Scream was the mystery. They made it too much about the "lore".
I would have Sydney's daughter at college, and have her being stalked. But the motive would have everything to do with a lover, or a secret admirer lunatic, or a deranged professor trying to sell a book. That's the basics. A good cast. An attarctive cast. Sharp writing. A good mystery. Have maybe 3 murders the whole movie, but crank the tension so high the audience can't breathe. This movie isn't getting back to basics, it went mostly off the rails. It's maybe as bad as I Know What You Did Last Summer. It has that same fake ass look and feeling.
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