Yea they both had paper thin new characters and the absolute worst killer motives.
At least Scream 7 didn't shyt on a legacy character.
Did you think it felt like "unnatural" as in the sets had no character or feeling of a real place? And the characters also talked like no people ever would. The characters in the
I Know What You Did Last Summer remake made a Nicole Kidman AMC movie joke, despite being 20 years old and living somewhere on the Massachusetts coast or whatever that was.
There was this jarring line in
Summer about "
what if men went to therapy?" It doesn't offend me as a man, it's just a bad line that made no sense, and that no real person would ever say. There's an equally bad line in
Scream 7 "I'm Sidney fukking Prescott's daughter"
Both movies had horrible shots, and editing, and pacing, they lurched around from scene to scene. There was an inertness to both, like they never really got started or settled in. There's a really good movie somewhere in the genera
l Scream 7 plot, with a lot of tension and creeping feeling of dread as the killer gets closer and closer to Sidney's domestic life. This just dives right in. There's no buildup of normalcy, outside a few pat scenes.
I personally didn’t care for the core 4. 
Especially Mindy, but Scream 6 proved that you can do a Scream movie without Sidney. They could’ve let the Barrera sisters finish their trilogy and return to Sidney in Scream 8. Especially since Ortega was going to die in the original Scream 7. I mean, even Halloween had the Jamie Lloyd Trilogy.
