re: Saw Scream 4 last night

The gf and I saw this over the weekend, and we both thought it was pretty terrible. Some thoughts (some of which echo things already said):

Self-aware movies are one thing. This one was just too over the top and stupid. I agree with whoever it was that said this was basically just a shitty remake of the original Scream (which we all seem to agree was awesome). Or a parody even, a la the Scary Movie franchise.

The killers. So puny high school kid and deranged tiny chick are the killers? Yeah, okay. When they killed the cops, at one point, they showed the killer and he/she was taller than Anthony Anderson by a good bit. Neither of those two kids were big or tall at all. Not to mention that neither one of them were strong enough to pull off some of the killings. Which leads me to...

Anthony Anderson's death scene. How stupid can you get? Someone gets stabbed directly in the head/brain with about a 6 inch blade, and he walks around for 30 seconds and tries fighting the air? Okay...

The cops. Dewey is an idiot. And the other cops were just as stupid, if not more so. Stupid decision after stupid decision solely to advance the plot, like someome said. And I agree that it worked in Scream when Dewey was just a young, bumbling idiot officer on a real police force. But in this one, I wasn't buying him as the sheriff for a fricking second.

Also, just because you reference the first movie ("Just like Billy and Stu..") doesn't mean that anything you do after that just magically works and becomes legitimate. Don't pretend like you're making a legit movie or sequel, and then shroud the entire thing with self-referential bullshite. I'd have been much happier if they'd have jsut called this Scary Movie 5 and told me beforehand that it was a comedy.

Bad movie, although somewhat redeemable in how easy it is to make fun of.