Escape to the Movies: Scre4m

rddj623

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I've always felt that the Scream franchise was the B-movie guide to B-movies. And I've always enjoyed them as such. To me they have enough clever moments to warrant a viewing while also having enough B-movie cliches and failures to warrant MST3K style commentary. Perhaps it's just me, or perhaps it's cause it didn't ruin my adolescent niche.
 

wastedcharlie

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Wow. Movie Bob sucks again. So a 14 year-old Movie Bob had seen all movies ever and thoroughly appreciated their art.
Really?
So when a film showed that your oh-so-inciteful observations of tropes was already known in the adult world your life fell apart. Do you really think that nobody noticed tropes prior to 1996?

Bob, grow up and realise that the world has been around a lot longer than you. The Screams may not be especially original or well made, but your hatred is misplaced. They're not so bad, just lighten up and enjoy them for what they are: Mass-market-friendy horror - a market that they managed to satisfy very successfully.
 

Triviumaddicted

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I liked the first Scream, I thought it was more of a tribute to people that love slasher flicks, didn't bother to see the 2nd or 3rd movie, and I wont see this one either. The first Scream tied the story off nicely so no reason to go back, I'd rather stay satisfied with one movie than disappointed with two or three
 

hem dazon 90

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Aiddon said:
I have to agree; Yahtzee isn't so much irritating any more so much as he is boring me. Even if he WAS producing a comedy show (which he isn't, let's be honest) his humor has gotten stale and tired. He just seems to be falling back on the same jokes over and over again that, dare I say, come off as bigoted, hypocritical, and self-righteous at times. Like his Other M review where he has the GALL to act like he's being fair to women...AND THEN MAKES A MENSTRUATION JOKE. The only people Bob mocks are the assholes, the bigots, the hypocrites, and the holier-than-thou. Which, oddly enough, all seem to comprise MY GENERATION. God my generation SUCKS

Those "assholes" were people who bullied him in high school and let's be honest, judging by bobs attitude towards everything he deserved it

Oh and Yahtzee made a menstruation joke, boo frickin hoo. Who cares except for overly PC weirdos?
 

deathmetalfan

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Best way to put it, Movie Bob is just pissed because he came from a generation where geeks weren't cool, and now they're all the rage with WoW, Big Bang Theory, and of course, Scream. I watched all except this one, but for the most part, I found they were fun and at some points even slightly scary, but apparently Movie Bob didn't find it like this. Then again, this is the same man who liked Sucker Punch and would later say that Green Lantern was worse than Fantastic 4.
 

TokenRupee

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Just saw this recently and I completely disagree with Bob on this movie (surprise, surprise). The kills may not be the most creative, but then again, when have Michael Myers' or Jason's kills been anything other than repeated stabbings? Possibly some strangled kills at times, but never much more.

It was a good satire I felt. While some may brand it as a "poison" to the genre, the same people say the same about Saw and the "torture porn" craze. Don't blame the movie because it got popular. Blame the people who trying to cash in on the craze.

As for the intro, if that's one of the real reasons why Bob doesn't like this franchise, then...I'm not really surprised. After the whole Scott Pilgrim/Expendables debacle and Bob completely missing/ignoring the reason why people were upset, it's not unusual that he would let petty bitterness and a pointless grudge against a perceived blow to his social status sway him towards hating anything to do with this series of movies.
 

Roman Monaghan

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So here's another cool thing to love about the new upencoming game, Lollipop Chainsaw.

Basically it's about if repressed cowardly cunts like Bob had the power to summon the zombie Apocalypse, which he has been on record saying he'd create a deathray or some shit if he could, and then the protagonists are exactly the kind of people who bullied him in his youth saving the day and stopping him.

I look forward to the Game Overthinker episode on how the 90s sucked that results from when that comes out.