Escape to the Movies: Scre4m

[ZZoMBiE13]

The world needs another Crow movie like I need an extra 30 pounds added to my already ample frame. Honestly, is that a real thing? They're bringing back The Crow?

Paul is sad now. Paul is very sad.

 

[Dana22]

Red Eye. Good movie. Wat ?

 

[upgray3dd]

Meh. In my happy fantasy world, Scream was a 20 minute short film that ended when Drew Barrymore died.

Seriously, go back and watch just the opening. It is so good.

 

[Stickfigure]

Seriously dude, fuck your 90s hate. The 90s had far more to offer than preceding and following decades.

1.The birth of the FPS before they were all Call of Duty.
2.The advent of internet ubiquity before that hateful beast 4chan appeared.
3.The beginning of the Silent Hill franchise before it started to suck.
4.The best cartoons arguably of all time before 4Kids decided all anyone wanted was poorly packaged,dubbed, and badly written here-as-well-as-in-its-native-land anime. Seriously, The Tick, Animaniacs, Earthworm Jim, Freakazoid, Eek the Cat!, Pinky and the Brain(and Larry), Tiny Toons, X-men, Batman The Animated series, the list goes on!
5.Home Movies appeared, helped really launch H. Jon Benjamin, and now we have Archer.
6.The greater bulk of the Pixies, the Breeders, Weezer before it was all same-y, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and about a million other bands that actually did try to have their own sound rather than choose amongst "Cute" indie, "Garage" indie, "Dance" indie, or simply be one of the vapid genres established already in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
7.Darkman, Shawshank Redemption, The Professional, and about a million other movies that could be considered classic.
8.Internet porn was born! INTERNET PORN!

There's way more than that! Yeah, the 90s brought Gen Xers, the first in the prequel trilogy, live-action fmvs, bad horror, and boy bands. But it was still a way better decade than what followed, especially for 'murrrica.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

ALL contemporary "scary" movies suck some major asshole.

 

[Axolotl]

He's the problem though, the entire Horror Genre is crap, formulaic, horribly written, and always pushing for the lowest denominator, so you can't really be upset that this is the same thing.

That's not true.

Really is the 90 so bad? we had many great movies during that era

But a much lower ammount of good movies than in the previous and subsequent decades.

 

[jackpipsam]

another biased review from Bob... yay?

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

The only thing that made me the least bit interested in this movie (loved that you called it 'Scre-four-um') was that Anthony Anderson was in it. He's not a great actor, but he is fun to watch (and he was in The Shield). This franchise had one sorta-good movie and had no reason to exist after that.

Having sasid that, I'm glad we're starting to move away from Saw-style torture porn bullshit and back to movies that are at least putting in something resembling an effort. For awhile there, everything was "stick people in darkened room, show sharp objects in vaguely threatening way, and have people scream for two hours" and that was what constitued a film. Scre-four-um might be stupid, but I'll take a fourth helping of pseudo-intelligent "deconstruction" over another minute of that garbage (thankfully, I've been finding more choices than that).

Oh, and other exhibits that the '90's emphatically did not suck (at least not in the way Bob is implying): Buffy. Alice in Chains. Tupac. Luc Besson's three best films to date (The Professional, La Femme Nikita, and The Fifth Element), and by extension Jean Reno. Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise. Grant Morrison's run on JLA. Darkwing Duck. Gargoyles. I think I'll stop there.

 

[Srdjan Tanaskovic]

Really is the 90 so bad? we had many great movies during that era

But a much lower ammount of good movies than in the previous and subsequent decades.

really? Find that a bit hard to believe

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

fuck. I was really hoping he would do Atlas Shrugged since I'm seeing that tonight.

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

What's MovieBob's favorite scary movie? Not this one.

Huh... I thought deconstruction was more showing how the tropes work outside a fictional universe, rather than just smugly pointing them out. As far as I know, the Dollars/Man With No Name trilogy and the spaghetti western genre was a deconstruction of the Western, Watchmen a deconstruction of superhero comics, Metal Gear Solid 2 a deconstruction of video game escapism and so on and so forth.

 

[DTWolfwood]

for the longest time i kept mistaken I know what you did last summer was the same as Scream. in my mind the 2 movie are the same lol

 

[unacomn]

You keep saying the '90s were horrible. As someone who lived(a bit) in the communist, oppressive, no freedom of thought, no freedom of choice, no freedom of speech, no personal life '80s, I can say the '90s were the most awesome thing to ever happen to me. But hey, what do I know, I'm not a wrestler.

 

[RyePunk]

Wow, you really let her rip into that movie.
Also the 90s wasn't that bad, we had Samurai Pizza Cats.

 

[Bigwig]

I like Bob, but he came off as a real self-important jerk at the start of this. Also he contradicted himself when he said that Scream started the self-awareness trend and then later said its references to tropes were tired and obvious.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I would love to watch Scre-four-'eM.
It's a shame that when I type that in google search it refers me to a shit film called Scre4m....
Oh.... that's the same film. Shit.

 

[fundude365]

I'm already watching Shaun of the Dead

 

[Fursnake]

This just reinforces my belief that not watching any of these movies has been smart move on my part.

 

[Tonimata]

Bradley Cooper? BULLSHIT! Brandon Lee needs to come back from the dead to make justice! Where is that damn crow when you need it?!

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I expected someone to post a Youtube video about the only good minute in the film. Can someone do that please?