Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-15 (Wednesday)

On 5/18/24 1:50 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 5/17/2024 6:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 5/16/2024 9:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

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I watched:
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What did you watch?

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ABIGAIL on the Plex
I liked it.
Almost anything else I could say would be a spoiler.
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Tangential:
I liked the lead actress (Melissa Barrera) and hadn’t seen her in anything
else

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She starred in the last two Scream movies.  If you like the franchise
they are worth checking out.
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And just got fired from the franchise
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She’s as dead as Gina Carano.
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I think I’m about eight SCREAM movies behind.

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Scream is a solid franchise.  Wes Craven directed the first 4 movies.
The only subpar one is 3 and there were some behind the scenes issues
with the writer that caused that movie's problems.  If you've never
watched Scream it is beyond worth watching.  If you like it, keep going.

 I know I saw the first and I think I saw the second. Maybe number three is
where I quit.

I've been meaning to rewatch 1, and maybe 2, at some point. They're on Max right now.
Arthur is right - "3" is the worst of the lot. I didn't like it when I saw it in the theater. So I'm ambivalent - stuck between not wanting to rewatch it and wanting to rewatch it to see if it's as bad as I remember.
I liked "4" quite a bit (it is chock full of hotties!!), even though it (co-)stars Emma Roberts.
"5" and "6" are OK - frankly, Melissa Barrera is kind of weak as a lead. But they are propped up, esp. "6", by having Jenna Ortega.