Zack

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Scream 3 2000

★★★½ Rewatched by Zack 16 Jan 2022

Frustration with this one remains with the killer, from the (inventive but very silly) voice-changer gimmick to their identity, motive, and retroactive involvement in the events leading up to Scream. Everything else is actually pretty good, especially the dialogue and the cast — taking things to Hollywood may have been cheesy and done entirely out of response to Columbine, but it’s fresh (crazy that we didn’t return to Woodsboro until the fourth installment, even crazier that we did it again…
Scream 2022

★★★ Rewatched by Zack 15 Jan 2022 6

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

OK, second viewing, slight uptick but not by much.
I've had friends who liked it more than me tell me my expectations were too high -- that I'm not accepting it on its own terms. It's a new creative team, a new cast, a new chapter. But my issues with it aren't really explained by that. I assure you, I am dealing with it on its own terms, and on its own terms, it's deeply frustrating.
For example, how is…