I think the previous one was better in that it did keep me at least guessing who the killer or at least who the other killer was. Here they go overboard with the whole character nonchalantly says something super important trope and I'm of course talking about how they keep talking about their dead brother/son and how nobody messes with my family and lives etc. so after all that it's not exactly a huge mystery who the main culprit is. It's also kind of silly how they say they went through all this trouble to vet the people in their inner circle, but somehow the entire immediate family of the previous killer is somehow unknown to them. What else....Courtney Cox looks really rough like she did in the previous one and I still can't understand why women have such a fixation on ruining their looks with plastic surgery. Also the characters in these movies seem to take knife hits like eminems.
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Reply by Ask Me Anything
on May 2, 2023 at 6:55 PM
Oddly enough, I was able to predict the killers a lot easier in the last one than in this one, but that's because this one was incredibly stupid. I was never that big into the Scream movies but this one might be the worst. Part 3 was pretty bad but it was more fun than this one.
Who the killers turn out to be makes absolutely no sense. The people playing the killers were clearly big, bulky dudes. They do not match up with who the killers turned out to be. And pretty much all of the characters were annoying. I didn't really care about any of these characters.
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on May 3, 2023 at 12:14 AM
This was actually the biggest problem with who the killers were, because it would have made so much more sense for the bi-racial twins to be the killers, that would have been interesting, but I knew that wouldn't be the case. Instead both survive (again) despite surviving apparently fatal stabbings.
And yes, two of the main killers were straight white dudes (one an admitted virgin, so incel) and the third killer was female, though the movie starts with a "false" killer who is not a white guy so there's that. I initially suspected the two white guys but thought that would be stupidly obvious, I was expecting the movie to actually take a risk. That was my mistake.
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on May 3, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Follow my logic. For that to be the case, the main girl Samantha never met her killer boyfriend's parents/family? She never looked at his social media or phone and saw his family? Really? After he was revealed to be the killer his ENTIRE FAMILY would have been on the news or brought up in the media, especially given his dad was a cop. The news would have been all over that guy for a statement.
They fake the death of the daughter and her name never appears in the news? Or rather our main characters never watched the news to see the coverage of their supposedly dead friend/roommate being murdered? Especially when they show us the news coverage of the opening murders? The main characters were shown hanging around with the ambulances after the "murder" and must have not seen the body of the fake dead girl being wheeled out on a gurney?
And then there was the virgin brother who the lesbian twin girl had suspected, but she never checked his social media like most women do these days? I get he changed his name, so even then the lack of social media presence should have been a huge red flag.
But most importantly, as I mentioned, the body shape of the Ghost face killer did not match up with any of the three killers; the brother and sister were just too small/skinny. Ghost face physically overpowers a number of people in this movie and none of the killers, aside from perhaps the dad, had the physical strength to do any of that. The movie basically cheats its way to that ending. It almost feels like the killer was meant to be someone else and they changed it.
My mistake was assuming that the movie would be clever. The killers just turned out be such a boring choice I didn't suspect they would be that lazy about it.
Reply by cpheonix
on May 8, 2023 at 2:41 AM
I can understand, people in general don't like growing and looking old, even more so for women in Hollywood and all the pressures. But yes, it's a shame for Cox because she looked odd and when she was fighting ghostface her lips were very distracting.
As for the film, like everyone else has said, the storyline was so poor, everyone's actions made no sense (why did the girls have to climb out of the window on the ladder, surely 3 of them could've held the door until the police came) and nobody's even mentioned yet how Hayden was shoehorned in as an FBI agent! I know they set her up as a red herring but her scenes were pretty bad. And yeah, the killers being white again didn't help.
However, I did like how aggressive ghostface was in this (particularly the convenience store scene) and the deaths did seem more graphic. Plus the subway scene was well done.
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on May 8, 2023 at 11:33 PM
Well, given he was planning to kill her I can see why he didn't introduce her to his family, but let's not pretend girls don't stalk dudes online profiles. And even if he were super careful about that, once he's dead and his identity is known people would have been looking into his family and the news would have certainly mentioned his dad was a cop.
Stunt people come in different shapes and sizes. My solution would have not cast a woman who looks to be 5'4 to be one of the killers when at no point did Ghost Face appear to be that short.
Oh, you mean her new black boyfriend who had maybe two lines and then dies? He was there simply to die and create a sense of danger for that one scene, yet another reason why I though this movie was lazy.
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on May 10, 2023 at 1:14 PM
Yes. Like I said, was never a big fan of these movies, but I was entertained by them. This was the first one I felt like it was a slog to get through. It's the Tokyo Drift of the franchise.