Your Honest Thoughts/Opinions on "SCREAM"???

Your Honest Thoughts/Opinions on "SCREAM"??? Sept 5, 2018 19:43:43 GMT via mobile

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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 5, 2018 19:43:43 GMT

Sept 5, 2018 19:16:35 GMT Salzmank said:

Sept 5, 2018 19:03:33 GMT moviebuffbrad said:

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.

The question of whether the death of Maureen and the current killings are connected is raised from the beginning. We're not supposed to be particularly surprised Cotton is innocent, as even Sidney herself (the witness that helped put him away) starts to think so halfway through. The surprise is more who the actual killer is and why.

Tatum was killed because she didn't like the killer and would have gotten in the way of their end game. And I thought we got to know her just fine. What more could have been said about her?

Desensitized teenagers wasn't necessarily a cliche in 1996. Making the teenagers desensitized was "the original part". When I said it was mocking it, I was talking about the real life climate at the time with sensationalized murder and whatnot. The same kind of stuff Natural Born Killers was satirizing (in fact, Oliver Stone got in a huge bidding war for the script because he wanted to make it).