Speaker 1: When a film has this many sequels, it becomes harder
Speaker 1: to think about things to write in the introduction to
Speaker 1: this podcast. So I'm just gonna say, here's Scream seven.
Speaker 1: I'm Ronel Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater. All right.
Speaker 1: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after seeing
Speaker 1: Scream seven. Scream seven written by Kevin Williamson and Guy Busick,
Speaker 1: Directed by Kevin Williamson, starring Nev Campbell, Isabelle May, Jasmine
Speaker 1: Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding and a camp McKenna Grace, Joel Michale,
Speaker 1: and Courtney Cox And as usual, for complete listing of
Speaker 1: the cast and crew, you can go to the link
Speaker 1: in our show notes. It is just me today. Scream seven.
Speaker 1: This is the seventh iteration of the popular Scream series,
Speaker 1: which probably debuted in something like nineteen ninety seven through
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. I can look that up and tell
Speaker 1: you right now it's funny. I looked it up and
Speaker 1: immediately pulled up the twenty twenty two version of Scream,
Speaker 1: which I I still don't understand why they named that
Speaker 1: one Scream because it's the fifth Scream. A Scream franchise
Speaker 1: started in nineteen ninety six. I was very close. These
Speaker 1: movies started as a satirization of the slasher genre of film.
Speaker 1: I believe they first were Wes Craven was somehow involved
Speaker 1: in these movies to begin with. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he wrote the first one, or if he was involved,
Speaker 1: or if they were just spoofing his films specifically, but
Speaker 1: I know what, Yeah, he directed the first one. Yes,
Speaker 1: so he's been in around this franchise for a while.
Speaker 1: They're satirizing of horror movies of the time, slasher films
Speaker 1: in particular. So now we're seven films later and we
Speaker 1: have now they've rebooted the series. I believe it was
Speaker 1: Scream four that kind of reset the franchise, and this
Speaker 1: iteration of the film was supposed to feature Melissa Herrera
Speaker 1: and Jenna Ortega. Melissa Herrera was fired because she posted
Speaker 1: some pro Palestine sentiment in her social media and it
Speaker 1: was deemed to be anti Semitic by her boss, so
Speaker 1: she was fired and Jenna Ortega walked after that. So
Speaker 1: they're not in this franchise. They are not the youthful
Speaker 1: burst of energy that we've had over the last couple
Speaker 1: of films, and these films have been popular recently in
Speaker 1: that they have made money. I know I'm watching this
Speaker 1: one on Sunday evening. It is currently six fifty four,
Speaker 1: and I already know that this one has broken the
Speaker 1: records in terms of opening for a Scream film, which
Speaker 1: means people are still going to see them. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to recite the plot to you, because it's not important.
Speaker 1: I think the question I have is, I don't know
Speaker 1: why people are still going to see these. If you're
Speaker 1: listening to this and you're a Scream fan, there's something
Speaker 1: nostalgic about this. You could go see this film, But
Speaker 1: for me, it is a mind numbingly terrible film. This
Speaker 1: makes me feel the way I feel when I watch
Speaker 1: Fast and the Furious, which I've committed to watching all
Speaker 1: of them as they come out. But as someone who
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the middle movies Fast and Furious, Fast five,
Speaker 1: whatever the six to one is called, and then Furious seven.
Speaker 1: As someone who enjoyed watching those middle movies, I now
Speaker 1: walk into those films hoping that they take them seriously
Speaker 1: and not just say well, we can literally do anything
Speaker 1: and people are still going to come see it. And
Speaker 1: I think Fast X or Fast ten was the biggest
Speaker 1: mistake they made, because they made it with intentions of
Speaker 1: having more and because it underperformed at the box office.
Speaker 1: They did not get what they expected by just throwing
Speaker 1: slop at the camera. I think the screen movies are
Speaker 1: well beyond that. Now. They're not just throwing slop at
Speaker 1: the camera. They are committed to just giving whoever is
Speaker 1: into this franchise exactly what they think they want. I
Speaker 1: just don't know if this is what we want anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want it. I don't want it. It's just
Speaker 1: it's Scooby Do now. It's literally Scooby Do. Now. It's
Speaker 1: just who's the killer? That's all we're asking every time,
Speaker 1: who is the killer? And they're not doing much work
Speaker 1: to conceal the killer anymore. It's just one massive game
Speaker 1: of who's the killer? And it's not fun, it's not
Speaker 1: clever anymore. The nostalgia and stuff that they're pointing to
Speaker 1: is just it's gone. It's over. It was nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: six and Scream was a film that we all saw,
Speaker 1: wanted to see, or was just prominent in the culture
Speaker 1: at the time. I understand why y'all want to mind
Speaker 1: this over and over again and get as many pennies
Speaker 1: that you can out of it. But for the love
Speaker 1: of God, just try a little harder in the writing
Speaker 1: and directing. The acting is fine, they show up and
Speaker 1: do what's in the script. But other than that, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I just I cannot watch another film in
Speaker 1: which they are beating the absolute tar out of ghost Face.
Speaker 1: In this film, ghost Face is shot, ghost Face is
Speaker 1: hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. Ghost Face
Speaker 1: is hit with a meat grinder. Ghost Face is thrown
Speaker 1: down a flight of steps off of a balcony. Every
Speaker 1: time ghost Face is getting back up. And that's what
Speaker 1: bothers me about these films is the quasi supernatural element
Speaker 1: to them. At some point, ghost Face has super strength.
Speaker 1: At some point, ghost Face is beating people who are
Speaker 1: twice their size, and whenever the killer is revealed, you
Speaker 1: go back and start looking at these one on ones
Speaker 1: between ghost Face and the person that they're up against.
Speaker 1: There's no reason in the world ghost Face should be
Speaker 1: winning unless they come out with Scream eight and say
Speaker 1: the Mask has special supernatural powers or something. It's just
Speaker 1: I can't there's nothing. There's nothing good about these movies anymore.
Speaker 1: They're updating the technology. We have deep fake technology and
Speaker 1: AI in this film. It doesn't do anything to help.
Speaker 1: They added podcasting into these films, it doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: to help. They're doing an examination of media. It doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything to help. Let it go. We've got to stop.
Speaker 1: We don't need to make these no more. They're not good.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a good time watching it. And let
Speaker 1: me just be honest. If you like Scream, I can't
Speaker 1: guarantee that you'll like this movie. If you go in
Speaker 1: there and you say, I just want to be brain
Speaker 1: dead for the next hour and fifty four minutes, why
Speaker 1: is it this long? You know you didn't need to
Speaker 1: be no hour in fifty four minutes, you're not revealing nothing.
Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? If you want to
Speaker 1: be brain dead for an hour and fifty four minutes, yes,
Speaker 1: go see Scream. Go see Scream. Other than that, what
Speaker 1: a huge waste of time. It's a huge waste of time.
Speaker 1: And I'm realizing the more I talk, the more I realize.
Speaker 1: I there was at one point watching it where I said, okay,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's good enough. It's probably a two
Speaker 1: point five star movie. It's definitely not gonna get the three.
Speaker 1: And then the further it went, the lower the score got,
Speaker 1: and then it ends up getting into a range where
Speaker 1: I just feel disrespected. I feel disrespected as a movie
Speaker 1: watcher going in and seeing this because it's okay if
Speaker 1: it's bad, because sometimes it's bad and I still like it.
Speaker 1: But when it's bad and I feel insulted, disoriented and
Speaker 1: walk out saying, man, I could have done something else
Speaker 1: with my time, or it makes me regret starting leaving
Speaker 1: the theater because I'm forced to have to watch films
Speaker 1: like this. That's when I know you just don't deserve anything.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't and count your money, go to
Speaker 1: the bank, sure the movie's doing well for the studio
Speaker 1: or whoever produced this absolute garbage of a film. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's it's I'm torn because when I
Speaker 1: say bad, I just mean bad in the sense of
Speaker 1: it's It reminds me. It frustrates me the way pro
Speaker 1: wrestling FROs frustrates me. I just want to see the
Speaker 1: Rock do the people's elbow. I know y'all gotta fill time,
Speaker 1: but don't make me watch the Rock get beat up
Speaker 1: like and beat all the way from this side to
Speaker 1: that side and like it just I just I just
Speaker 1: want to see the rock do to people's elbow. I
Speaker 1: just want to see the rock do the rock bottom.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta watch for ninety minutes of y'all jumping
Speaker 1: off the cage and we can't just come on, man, oh,
Speaker 1: here comes stone Cold. And if y'all are wrestling fans,
Speaker 1: y'all might be like, but that's part of the theater
Speaker 1: in the build. I'm like, yes, But if we know
Speaker 1: what the outcome is going to be, which in most
Speaker 1: cases we do when it comes to the screen films,
Speaker 1: then I just don't want to watch them beat these
Speaker 1: people up and do these graphic deaths all I don't.
Speaker 1: I have more fun watching Final Destination. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's something repetitive because it's it's it's a Rupe Goldberg
Speaker 1: Rube Goldberg machine of deaths. This is not that, it's
Speaker 1: just the killer. Like every time they run and the
Speaker 1: killer slaps their legs so that they trip. It just
Speaker 1: reminds me of watching someone get pinned in WWE and
Speaker 1: they pull their shoulder up at the last minute, and
Speaker 1: you just like, I don't want to keep I remember
Speaker 1: as a kid, I'm like I just I said, why
Speaker 1: do they always do this over and over again? And
Speaker 1: that's when I was like, wait, is this not real?
Speaker 1: You know? And so I feel like, please bring someone
Speaker 1: smart in and let them reboot this franchise. Let them
Speaker 1: breathe new life into this franchise. Let it be a
Speaker 1: spoof of something new. Let it be a satire of
Speaker 1: something new. We don't have to keep going backwards here.
Speaker 1: I just, with all of that being said, this is
Speaker 1: a one of five star movie. This is a one
Speaker 1: of five star movie. It gets one star, one very
Speaker 1: very lonely star. I barely want to give it that one.
Speaker 1: It is a film, and the actors I just don't
Speaker 1: think did anything wrong. They showed up and did their job.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed seeing Nev Campbell. She looks great, and
Speaker 1: I put her in some other stuff, put her in
Speaker 1: something else. She obviously she plays a mom. Now put
Speaker 1: her in some other stuff. Let her be a mom.
Speaker 1: I just, yeah, it's frustrating, and with that leaving the
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Speaker 1: been so busy. Last week, I was in New York
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Speaker 1: which was away. We shared a house and he made
Speaker 1: a bunch of pasta. It was amazing. It's actually DeAndre
Speaker 1: who's been on the show. It was his birthday. We
Speaker 1: had a great time a house full of twenty people.
Speaker 1: It was wonderful. And then I came home and did
Speaker 1: Sunday school, and I took a four hour nap and
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. I'm Ronald Young Junior and I'm beating
Speaker 1: the absolute tar out of ghost Face