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Scream VI 2023
Not saying it *was* made for this reason but if I was gonna make a movie to promote the idea that getting stabbed in the stomach is not that big a deal, I would make Scream VI.
This is the first Scream movie where I correctly guessed the killer, and the first one where the killer explicitly references that it's kind of obvious. Probably not a coincidence. Usually, part of the fun of these movies is rewatching and seeing clues…
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Fight Club 1999
The satire of this movie hits so much harder 22 years later. But keeping in mind what the late-90s were like, it makes sense that so many dudes took it purely at face value and made Fight Club some kind of soft manifesto. I do wonder how much of the style and slickness here is commentary about the presentation of consumerism, and how much is just Fincherian gloss on the material. Ultimately, I would rather this movie didn't exist than…