where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, April 15th, 2011
show: 6:25 p.m.
costs: $10.25 Ticket + $8.11 # 3 meal ( upsized to a medium ) @ Wendy's Restaurant on Plaza Drive = $18.36
auditorium: 2
seat: 4th row, 8ht column
synopsis/overview: Sidney Prescott ( Neve Campbell ) returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book's promotional tour. Unfortunately, her presence draws out Ghostface who goes on a killing spree once again, taunting the guilt-ridden and hapless Sidney into a climactic do-or-die confrontation.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Facebook stalker; 2.) "Did that surprise you"; 3.) "Not an app"; 4.) "Wherever she went, people died"; 5.) "One generation's tragedy is another one's joke"; 6.) "Re-invent myself"; 7.) "That's betrayal"; 8.) "It's my rental"; 9.) News; 10.) "I wrote the book on this"; 11.) "Your Lemon Squares taste like ass"; 12.) "Nobody ever asked me about my scars"; 13.) "No match for a ninja"; 14.) Former classmates; 15.) "I never said I was in your closet"; 16.) "She said you were the Angel of Death"; 17.) The high school cinema club geeks; 18.) "I love you"; 19.) "You're fired"; 20.) Parking garage; 21.) "It's all under control. Huh, Sheriff"; 22.) "To survive a horror movie, you pretty much have to be gay"; 23.) Stab-athon; 24.) Cameras; 25.) Webcam; 26.) Perimeter check; 27.) "F--k Bruce Willis"; 28.) Channel 6; 29.) Hospital; 30.) Text message; 31.) "Time to make a move"; 32.) "Did I just interrupt something here"; 33.) "I'm gay. If it helps"; 34.) Horror movie trivia; 35.) The killers; 36.) "I'm not the girl you cheat on"; 37.) "You'll slip. They always do"; 38.) "It's about becoming you"; 39.) Staged alibi; 40.) "She's in ICU"; 41.) "How did she know I was, too"; 42.) "Consider this an alternate ending"; 43.) "Clear"; and 44.) News reporters.
audience reaction: The audience was entertained by it.
recommendation: It only has one good scary scene. This is more of a Comedy than it is a Slasher/Horror Movie. It's passable entertainment. By "passable" I mean that you can either go see it or wait for it to come out as a rental.
spoiler alert! When was the last time that you saw a house in the good ol' USA with a front door that has no peephole viewer in it? You would think that the whole town of Woodsboro, especially the survivors and the relatives of the victims, would be up-in-arms over the tasteless anniversary celebration and shameless exploitative commercialization of The Tragedy. You cannot deliberately take a photograph of, or film, someone ( except for news reporting ) without that person's expressed and/or written consent--don't the people who made this movie know that? If I lived in the town of Woodsboro and I knew that a serial killer armed with nothing more than a knife was running loose, I'd arm myself with a knife, a machete, a mace, a teargas gun, a stun gun, a 45-caliber handgun, a shotgun, a pair of brass knuckles, and at least a couple of pitbulls---Oh, and let's not forget the good ol' aluminum baseball bat! When Ghostface's knife got stuck in the front door, the victim should have ripped-off his mask ( a masked assailant will always feel vulnerable once unmasked ) and gouged his eye ( -s ) out, and tackled the son-of-a-bitch to the floor! A civilian, whether a stranger or a spouse, who interferes in an on-going criminal investigation by the police is guilty of the charge, Obstruction of Justice! Why would you go into the house, knowing that a serial killer is in it and there are a couple of cops parked on the street? Why did the doctor wait until they were stepping out of the x-ray room before telling her that she had no broken bones? For a sheriff, Dewey ( David Arquette ) sure can't hit his target. The last thing you want to be, with a serial killer running loose, is to be drunk! With the door made out of glass, sure they could feel "safe" in the house. There have got to be some knives ( plural ) in that kitchen! The killer's staged alibi was funny for the audience to watch. Those defibrillator paddles applied to either side of her head made for a very extreme form of ECT ( Electroconvulsive Therapy ). Usually, a patient receiving ECT is given an anesthetic and a muscle relaxant first. Otherwise, said patient will be in pain, become unconscious and suffer whole-body seizures. And, nope, the patient won't wake up for at least five to ten minutes. But in the scene with the defibrillator paddles, the patient WOULD BE DEAD, more than likely! But we won't know for sure until we can get one of you to volunteer for the "defibrillator paddle" experiment. Ha, ha, ha. Okay, the whole wide world knows that Emma Roberts is the niece of Julia Roberts, but did they have to name her character, Jill Roberts? Come on!
fyi: Watching all those spilled guts gave me a craving for sausages! I've got to put that at the top of my shopping list for tomorrow. I don't know why I got such a craving, but I suspect that "subliminal advertising" has something to do with it.
All of those trivia questions just lessened the audience's "fear factor." A good scary movie must vicariously engage its audience in the victims' plight. And a good scary movie does that by not giving its audience and its victims time to think! Otherwise, they get too distracted by their thought processes to be afraid of the predator/bogeyman.
One of my co-workers was so dissatisfied by this movie that she demanded and got her money back!
In Australia, defibrillators are called, "Packer Whackers"!
word of advice: If you fear for your safety at home, pack some serious heat and get at least a couple of dogs! I don't mean the kind of dog that is so tiny that the bad guy can just kick it out of his way.
The Cardinal Rule of film-making is: "Show. Don't tell." Or, to put it in another way, "Action speaks louder than words." And in the case of this movie, they should have left all of the trivia nonsense out of it.
tidbits: After the movie, I went to Hancock Fabrics to buy some Velcro fasteners to lengthen the elastic straps of my new shin protectors. Then, I went to the Dollar Tree Store a few doors down to buy some ice cream and a pack of Luigi's Lemon flavored Italian Ice.
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