+9-Year 6 (unobserved)
Since last time, I made that Harry/Jade-Shade crossover trilogy a quadrilogy with...
-Hello again, and goodbye again, Harry Hembock. (AKA The Emergence Saga)
Course, JS isn't actually in it.
But....with the 10th anniversary being next year....I should add something.
A special bonus wrap-up chapter maybe...
Yeah, stay tuned.
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Hannibal Rising guy died. Was that movie worth a crap?
Caught "A Futile And Stupid Gesture." Breezes by, but pretty good with the jokes and Doug Kenney makes for an interesting main character...and they even included the anecdote about how the only tragedy is that Chevy Chase didn't fall off the cliff with Kenney!
I didn't recognize a lot of the people in the movie (Thomas Lennon, Natasha Lyonne, Seth Green as Christopher Guest--?!?--yeah) but that's okay.
You can skip the new "Scream" if you weren't already going to. Seems like it has a good new subject bashing "legacy sequels," then it turns, of course, into a generic one itself . Which would be less of a problem if Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell weren't obviously there to sleepwalk through their performances and pick up a paycheck.
Aristocrats- Yeah, when you see the joke enough times, it starts to break down, and you see it's really about the craft of comedy.
Teeth/sodas- Been tellin' ya, switch to seltzers. Takes about a month for your taste-buds to adjust, but once they do, and you go back to sugar soda, it's like drinking fuckin' pancake syrup.
It was an easy habit for me to break.
Probably helped that I passed a stone. That's a "come to Jesus" moment.
Scream- I watched 2 and bits of 3 trying to work my way to 4, and I couldn't make it. They go TOO far up their ass with the self-awareness.
It was like teenage me was writing it.
Gaspard Ulliel- Yeah, that sucks. Not the best of the Hannibal films, but he was really good in it.
A Futile And Stupid Gesture- It reminded me of the forming and breakup of my high school friends. We were comedy goofballs that wanted to take on the world. Except we didn't invent Saturday Night Live. It was just the butt-hurt and acrimony part. And none of us jumped off a cliff. But Spencer should have. *Waves at Spencer if he's lurking*
Scream again- Ehh, yeah, about what I expected then.
Scream - The commentary on horror sequels in the fourth one was mildly amusing, but that was about it. All "Scream" sequels have the same problems, actually: too many boring new supporting characters, too many boring interchangeable "Ghostface jumps out of nowhere stab stab stab!" kills, and the reveal of the killer's identity is basically arbitrary.
They also seem to be taking place, all of them, in some sort of Charlie Brown netherworld where there's no parents or anything like that, and people barely react to the deaths of their friends, or the deaths of high schoolers. (The first one had this problem the least.)
The worst one was the third one, which Williamson didn't even write, it was the hack that wrote the Transformers movies (guhhh) and it was ridiculous, crazier plot than f***in' "L. A. Confidential."
I'll spoil it for you: they actually kill David Arquette this time. It's far and away the best sequence in the film, even though he dies for hilariously stupid and predictable reasons (he goes back to shoot the killer in the head and make sure he's killed them, then the killer immediately comes back to life when he gets a phone call and stabs him to death.) Arquette also seemed to bother not to sleepwalk through his performance unlike Cox and Campbell.
They also had a CGI-de-aged Skeet Ulrich show up as the ghost of Billy Loomis. That's used halfway interestingly.
But other moments were just awful. Courteney Cox gets shot in one scene, and her reaction is like someone who just pricked their finger.
I'd be no more interested in watching a part 6 than I was in watching the "Scream" TV series (which I didn't) but this one made money (4 didn't) so it's very much a possibility. If it does, the first scene had better be Cox or Campbell eating it hard.
"Except we didn't invent Saturday Night Live" - Neither did Kenney, really, and he seemed to loathe the whole SNL thing anyway. Had he written for SNL, I bet he would have been even more toxic than Michael O'Donoghue would have been; certainly the world doesn't need any more stories about all the coke that crowd did in the 1970s, and Kenney would have added them.
If his death could actually be proven to be a suicide, I don't know that I'd be surprised.
The device of Martin Mull as the aged, nonexistent Kenney was a funny one to me, most critics seemed to slag it off.
The actress playing Gilda Radner looked exactly like her, cant' believe there wasn't more of her.
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