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Post by Salzmank on Sept 5, 2018 19:16:35 GMT
As kolchak92 mentioned, it doesn’t exactly hold up to re-watching; once you know the twists, it goes through these longueurs where it moves very slowly, with lots of red-herrings but little substance. The plot-holes and dead-end scenes also stick out like a sore thumb; in particular, so many just-introduced characters are killed unexpectedly, just as they were getting interested and with little emotional response from the characters. The stuff with Cotton What’s-his-name, the Liev Schreiber character, is also rather irrelevant to the plot, and the solution to that mystery is thrown in senselessly at the end, as if Williamson had just remembered it. What are the plotholes? I'm also not following you on the Cotton thing. Besides his use as fall guy, his story paints a picture of Maureen that leads into the whole motive of the killer. Even though he's only actually in it for two seconds (although it was actually planned from the beginning to make a sequel with him as a main character), he's detrimental to the plot. Also, besides the opening of course, no characters are really killed "just-introduced". Even Principal Fonz. You're right that deaths don't have huge impact on other characters, but the film was kinda mocking desensitization. Right. The fact that he’s only in it for 2 sec. makes his appearance rather pointless—and then we get a “wait! He didn’t actually do it,” as if we’re supposed to be interested or surprised by that. As he only pops up for 2 sec., though, adding that extra element that he didn’t do it, that the death of the mother actually has to do with this plot, just seems to come out of nowhere. OK, maybe not introduced just the moment before they’re killed, but killed very early on without any kind of look into their characters; no one really comes alive except for Sidney, they all exist on the periphery. (I’m thinking of the Rose McGowan character in particular, who’s just getting interesting and then stalked and killed for no real reason. Ho hum.) As annoying as Laurie’s friends are in Halloween, they feel like real people; Scream’s dead teenagers feel like types, or gags. And I’m not a big fan of justifying something by saying it was making fun of it. Just because a movie mentions the cliché doesn’t mean that it doesn’t use it, and in a not-particularly-original way. |
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