I don't blame you in any way for your cynicism. I'm not even going to bother with Craven's last film- My Soul to Take. When I saw that ad, it was almost as though the days of The Faculty and Disturbing Behavior never ended. Somebody told at the beginning of this year- the 90's are back. And I took that with a grain of salt. Because, the early 90's would have to come first. Right? But as a matter of fact- I think we're going BACKWARDS into the 90's again. Final Destination tries to restart itself by dropping the sequel-identity. That's 2000. Paranormal Activity- bringing back Blair Witch Project. 1999. Then- My Soul to Take brings back the whole like body-switching / invasion type teen stuff from 1998's The Faculty and Disturbing Behavior. Plus, there's another Chucky movie coming out. And now, Scream's back.dvdjunkie wrote:I will not pay to support this franchise. The Scream movies are way overdone and are NOT horror movies, they are satire movies. And they aren't very good, after the first one, which I own.
If someone offers to take me to the cinema to see this - then maybe I will go. But I work to hard to waste money on this drivvel. It's just Hollywood's way of saying 'we need money, so we will go with something we know and is safe!'
Hollywood has no originality and gets none of my money with this one. Sorry.
Of course, that's not really my theory. My theory is that the 90's never went away. They just got dumber. Look at Saw. Other than the fact that the sequel is also ripping off Argento's Deep Red (1975) and Opera (1987), that series is just: Se7en (1995), Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Cube (1997) put in a blender. Rob Zombie's flicks are just more of the 90's road trip thrillers- especially Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and ... I didn't see U-Turn (anyone here see U-Turn?), but I saw ads for it and it's all in the desert. So was: Kalifornia (1993), Richard Stanley's Hardware (1990) & Dust Devil (1992), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Lost Highway (1997), and... did anyone here see White Sands? To say nothing of all the chatty indie movies that Tarantino invented. *We're fugitive killers runnin' from the law- let's have a conversation for 25 minutes.*
I've seen so many other examples, and after that ^, I don't think I need to name them. But if you have eyes, I think you can agree.
Anyway, I'm usually far more cynical than you are (remember NCIS). And Scream used to function as a social commentary on the way the horror genre was treated. You got it wrong- it's not a movie about what's ridiculous about horror movies. It's a movie about blaming society's problems on movies. The way stupid parents do, politicians always do, and the media will do it for the purpose of ratings. There was a great thing on the Jason X DVD- if only they had given it to us as a separate bonus feature, but New Line had Fangoria magazine's Tony Timpone as a guest debating horror films on a talk show against an audience of like bitchy housewives going, "oh, that's so disgusting," etc. I've said this before, many times on horror message boards- did you remember the killer's confession scene in Scream 2? Everything he said was true: people could have gotten away with blaming movies for making them kill if they'd tried- it's probably still never been done but with the way Bob Dole and The Christian Coalition were going against them, they were practically breeding the same stuff the Principal in the first Scream was complaining about.
Good one, Panfan, but- Scary Movie wishes it were sophisticated enough to be a satire! It's a grossout sex-comedy hybrid. And a bad one at that.PeterPanfan wrote:No, Bill, SCREAM, not Scary Movie.
