john-mitchell77

The main reason I thought Scream was so good was the way it played with fans' expectations. It said 'Here's what usually happens in the genre, and here's what we're going to do'. Sometimes that was to totally subvert a genre convention and sometimes it was to follow one, having first pointing out that it was one. I thought it added a lot of humour to the film, as well as being very clever. With Scream 2 we got more subversion and more of a kind of knowing wink, which was delicious. With the third, imaginatively titled Scream 3, we got something that appears to going somewhere new and interesting, but soon became a little run-of-the-mill and very predictable. In short, it turned into the very kind of stuff that the original and the follow-up were lampooning. OK, there are moments in this which are worth a giggle, but I wasn't rubbing my hands together with delight at how clever it was, as I had done with the first two. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that, as the movie progresses, it gets sillier and more contrived. It pains me to say it, having loved the first two, but, the trilogy ends, not on a high, how it should have, but rather fizzles out.

A rarity, and not in any way, shape or form do I mean that in a good way. It is a rare thing, this movie, in that it has no merit; no redeeming aspects whatsoever, in that it has no merit; no redeeming aspects whatsoever. It is vile, and is second only, in terms of vileness, to the movie 'A Serbian Film', and that is saying something.

Another aspect of this terrible movie to which I take exception, is the title 'Day of the Woman'. It's not the title I first knew the movie by, but that's not the issue. The issue is 'Day of the Woman', Was obviously a title given to the movie in a ham-fisted attempt to make something that is quite plainly nasty, misogynist rubbish, seem like a feminist work. It's quite sickening, really.