If anyone needs me, I'll be reading. Please don't need me.

If anyone needs me, I'll be reading. Please don't need me.

Monday, January 31, 2022

Scream and scream again

Maybe it still feels like a novelty to enjoy movies at the theater again, but I enjoyed the new Scream.  They dropped the numbers after the title, but it's still the same Scream characters from the other films, though a handful of new ones are along for the ride, too. Some of the reviews haven't been kind, using words like "retread" and "nothing new here" but, I don't know, one person's dull repetitiveness is another person's comfortable familiarity.

So, yeah, I went in expecting the usual tropes of this series: Pretty people, sharp and quick pacing, decent suspense with bursts of graphic violence, and a serviceable whodunit. And I got all that. If I can think of one criticism, the movie went a little heavy on the "rules of horror movies" discussions, but then all the movies in this series give you a little more of that than you need.

Anyway, it was fun to see this in a theater with other people, as scenes with knife-wielding maniacs always are more fun in a crowd. And in a couple of years, sure, I'll be ready to sit through another Scream movie. Because, while I'm certainly not against new elements and some updating, I'm also perfectly fine with having a pretty good idea of knowing exactly what I'm gonna get.

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