Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Scream to Scream, Scene by Scene: SCENE 19 of Scream 2 (0:53:08-0:54:08)

In this project I attempt to review the entire Scream trilogy scene by scene in chronological order. Heavy spoilers and gore throughout!



SCENE 19 of Scream 2
Length: 1min
Primary Characters: Gale Weathers and Joel the Cameraman
Pop Culture References:
  • None


Those are definitely some tight pants!


I love Gale's dismissive "what is it?" when Joel asks to "talk". She's so effortlessly bitchy. I also like that in each of the three Scream movies she works for a different program. Top Story in Scream, Up to Date in Scream 2 and whatever it is in the third one. She briefly works for 60 Minutes 2, as well!


I refuse to believe that Joel didn't know the goings on in Woodsboro before taking the job of Gale's cameraman.


"First of all, [Kenny the Cameraman] wasn't gutted, I made that up... his throat was slashed."
"Gutted, slashed, the guy ain't in the union no more!"

Funny you should bring that up, Gale. I know I said I wasn't going to discuss Scream 4 much, but it bares noticing. Multiple times throughout Scream 4 there are references to the killer copying the original Woodsboro killings - Robbie and Charlie (Erik Knudsen and Rory Culkin) even states that "the Stab formula is solid" (or something to that effect). This line comes after the "opening victims" as well as the next two, which means that either Gale just made up a new female victim to happen earlier in The Woodsboro Murders or Stab was just a very loose adaptation of the book. I mean, where was Steve in the opening scene of Stab? Hmm...

Wow, is this making sense? My Scream buddies and I tend to err on the side of thinking that Gale wrote Tatum's death as much earlier in her book. That or she changed Principal Himbry's death into some random cheerleader. Hmmm. The possibilities...


"Let's go get killed."

Scream:
Intro, Scene 1 Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 6, Scene 7, Scene 8, Scene 9, Scene 10, Scene 11, Scene 12, Scene 13, Scene 14, Scene 15, Scene 16, Scene 17, Scene 18, Scene 19, Scene 20, Scene 21, Scene 22, Scene 23, Scene 24, Scene 25, Scene 26, Scene 27, Scene 28, Scene 29, Scene 30, Scene 31 Scene 32, Scene 33, End Credits

Scream 2
Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 6, Scene 7, Scene 8, Scene 9, Scene 10, Scene 11, Scene 12, Scene 13, Scene 14. Scene 15, Scene 16, Scene 17, Scene 18

Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Dir. Rob Marshall
Year: 2011
Aus Rating: M
Running Time: 128mins

These days a trilogy just isn’t complete without a fourth entry to screw up everybody’s DVD shelves of collectable boxsets. Just last month audiences were treated to Scream 4, a sequel that transcended it’s obvious grab-for-cash qualities by reuniting the original trilogy’s director, screenwriter and (surviving) stars. Horror franchises are rarely given such liberties with their fourth instalments as they usually spin off into silliness and irrelevance. Now even Hollywood blockbuster trilogies aren’t safe, even after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull irked multiple generations of new and old fans alike. Movie series’ such as the Bourne titles and X-Men are getting mutant forth entries. Does nobody respect the sanctity of the movie trilogy?

First though we get Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth instalment of the popular franchise that began on such a high of swash and buckle with The Curse of the Black Pearl and ended in excessive blather with At World’s End. Rob Marshall has picked up directing duties from Gore Verbinski, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom must still be stuck on that cliffside shack because they didn’t show up either, although Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush do return as Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa respectively. Screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio are still here for writing duties, but they’re clearly working on fumes as On Stranger Tides feels excessively tired and been-there-done-that in almost every regard. Apart from Penelope Cruz’s cleavage. That’s new and special. And in 3D too.


Oh, 3D. Granted, I haven’t seen Clash of the Titans, which is apparently one of the worst uses of 3D on record, but Marshall’s film marked the first time I actually sat there hating the use of this third dimensional technology. Even in films like The Green Hornet or Pixar’s work where the 3D has been used unnecessarily it was never actually flat out bad and never did I actively start to dislike the movie for using it. The tinted glasses do this film no favours whatsoever, making an already dark and interior film look decidedly darker. Unlike the James Cameron produced Sanctum, the caves of On Stranger Tides are rendered muddy and lifeless due to the 3D. There is no depth provided by the technology; in fact, I was able to take the glasses off for a good 40 minutes or so and found no issue at all.

These films are traditionally bright, colourful and vivid with their use of colour and there are stretches of On Stranger Tides that are no different with its lush, tropical greens, yellows and blues. They don’t need the extra technology to look more impressive – nature is the greatest CGI after all. It’s needless and actually disruptive to the film’s quality.

I guess I should just be thankful that this film’s running time is a much more friendly 128 minutes rather than the absurd 170 of At World’s End. Marshall certainly did well in keeping a fine eye on the editing suite, directing the shortest film of the franchise. Marshall, it must be said, as always, has delivered a film of fine technical merit – Penny Rose’s costume design is yet again the unheralded champion, can you believe she hasn’t received a single Oscar nomination for her efforts on this franchise? – but he cannot save the film from its unnecessary, rather ho-hum atmosphere.


The cast are merely going through the motions, although Rush eats so much scenery in his early scenes I was frightened he’s get indigestion! Cruz and Ian McShane make acceptable, if unremarkable, newcomers to the franchise, but Sam Clafin is no Orlando Bloom and you know something’s not right when you write that in a review.

Perhaps it’s just a case of not being able to recreate the initial sensation that came with seeing The Curse of the Black Pearl, but this franchise should just stop. Not even the trademark fight choreography or Cruz’s delicately-placed crucifix can save it. At least the endless parade of sequels that horror franchise’s get don’t cost the GDP of some small nations! The excitement, or even the vaguest of interests, has gone and it’s going to take more than a few fresh faces to get it back. C

Review: Mad Bastards

Mad Bastards
Dir. Brendan Fletcher
Year: 2011
Aus Rating: MA15+
Running Time: 95mins

Another entry in the increasingly common arena of films about Indigenous Australians, Mad Bastards is a solid examination of the lives of some modern day Aborigines. It effectively portrays the good, the bad and the ugly, but never succumbs to numbing miserabilism like the works of Ana Kokkinos or the upcoming Snowtown. Many will want to compare it to Samson & Delilah, a work of cinema that will cast a towering shadow for many years to come, and while it doesn’t reach the soaring heights of that Cannes-winning title, it’s a powerful movie in its own right.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Review: 18 Meals

18 Meals
Dir. Jorge Coira
Year: 2011
Aus Rating: N/A
Running Time: 101mins

Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. From Babette’s Feast to Eat Drink Man Woman; from Mostly Martha to Like Water for Chocolate, food has provided the backbone to so many great films from around the globe and now comes 18 Meals (18 comidas) from Spain, an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Like most films of its kind, there are some story strands that rise higher than others, but Jorge Coira’s debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela, surely has enough tasty portions to please audiences.

Read the rest at the Spanish Film Festival Blog

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Scream to Scream, Scene by Scene: SCENE 18 of Scream 2 (0:49:55-0:53:07)

In this project I attempt to review the entire Scream trilogy scene by scene in chronological order. Heavy spoilers and gore throughout!



SCENE 18 of Scream 2
Length: 3min 12secs
Primary Characters: Randy Meeks, Dewey Riley, Herself/"Sidney Prescott" (Tori Spelling), "Billy Loomis" (Luke Wilson) and Tori's Reporter (Nancy O'Dell)
Pop Culture References:
  • Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman & Friends (Stab includes cast-members from these shows)
  • Quentin Tarantino (Randy compares Mickey to QT)
  • Friday the 13th & Candyman (Randy uses these films to justify Hallie as a murder suspect)


"So tell us about this part you're getting rave reviews for."

I don't believe Tori Spelling would ever get rave reviews for anything. I know some people say she did good work in that gay movie Trick, but I found her shrill. Still, I doubt someone like Tori Spelling would ever get positive reviews for a role in a slasher movie.


"Well, I play this young girl - Sidney Prescott - who discovers her boyfriend's this crazy serial killer who also killed her mother a year before that."

Wow, Tori! Way to totally Schembri your own movie!

(yes, we've made "Schembri" into an adjective. it's like McGyver!)

Of course, being that Stab is based on real like events and that they haven't altered names then I guess it's not so much a spoiler? Hmmm.


Poor Randy. Disappointed the makers of Stab cast "joe blow nobody" as him. No doubt that actor who drove Jane Seymour's stage coach in one episode of Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman is now a weird comedian who sometimes stars in bad Jennifer Love Hewitt television series' about ghosts or whatever.

"At least you get David Schwimmer."

Chalk that up to the first of two Friends references. I remember hoping against hope that Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow would somehow get referenced in Scream 3, but it wasn't to be.


Now, here's a question: Is that Luke Wilson playing Billy Loomis in Stab or is it Luke Wilson playing a fictional actor playing Billy Loomis in Stab. Obviously by Scream 3 they had stopped pretending that actual actors were playing these roles, but in a movie (Stab) with Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer they'd probably just make it so the actual actor was the actor playing Billy. Wait, what? Luke Wilson wasn't exactly known back then, but I guess that mirrors the way Skeet Ulrich and so many other Scream castmembers were of the up-and-coming variety. Hmm... so much to think about (or not)!


Ignoring for the moment that there was no possible way for Gale Weathers (author of The Woodsboro Murders) or the makers of Stab to know how this scene went down in such word for word specific details, I do love that they chose this particular scene of Stab. I love it because it's yet another reminder that Billy's family, and obviously his mother, are in fact still around and yet nobody is mentioning them. In fact, the only other person to even broach the possibility of it being someone like that was Mrs Loomis herself!

Also: My god, that hair is diabolically bad, isn't it?!?


Meanwhile, let's hear it for Nancy O'Dell! One of - I hope I have this number right - only five people to have appeared in all four films. Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Roger Jackson and, ta da, Nancy O'Dell. Not even Wes Craven's cameos count because his was cut out of Scream 4 (along with so much more, which we'll obviously be discussing at some point far far into the future.)

Speaking of Scream 4 for a moment. Back in scene one of Scream 2 we discussed the rumour that the Stab scenes featuring Heather Graham and Tori Spelling had been directed by Robert Rodriguez. Some of you weren't so sure and that the way the story goes was that he was just "credited" as "directing" Stab and didn't actually film these scenes. Well, if anyone saw Scream 4 they will know that they re-instated the "Directed by Robert Rodriguez" title card that was apparently taken out of Scream 2 for legal reasons. Aah, Hollywood being constantly re-written! Gotta love it.


"Okay, let's get down to business."

Funny you should say that Randy, it's been 15 minutes since the last kill and it feels like an eternity! Never fear, Craven and Williamson made it up to us by making the next one a doozy!

Time for Randy's Rules of a Sequel 101:


1. "The body count is always bigger."


2. "The death scenes are always much more elaborate."


3. "If you want your sequel to become a franchise never, ever -"

gah! Why did Dewey have to interrupt with that completely unnecessary (...) "who do you think the Killer is?" question?

I wonder what people's thoughts on rule number three is. What could it have been. Was it just that Kevin Williamson couldn't think of one and cut the scene short? The preface of "if you want your sequel to become a franchise" rules out certain possibilities, but I like to pretend it was something to do with the likes of "never, ever forget about past family members". Perhaps they thought they were cutting it too close to the bone (so to speak) and thought it gave too much of a big neon arrow to someone such as Billy's mother or father. Perhaps, it was an extension of rule of 2 and that he was just foreshadowing his own untimely demise far too well.


"Well, let's look at the suspects..."

I like that he says "forget the boyfriend, it's tired" before going on to say Hallie, the black female, would make a great suspect. These two being, of course, the original killers alongside Mrs Loomis/Debbie Salt. I do love how excited Randy gets when discussing Hallie as a possible suspect:





It's like he's conducting Beethoven in that last shot, except instead of classical music it's bloody murders on a college campus. I imagine Randy considers them of equally high regard.

And let's not forget about Dewey's collection of funny faces!







I particularly like the "aah!" nod that he gives in that third image when Randy mentions Mickey, "the freaky Tarantino film student", and the innocent look around when Randy implies both he and Dewey are suspects. Oh Dewey, so adorable.


Aw, Randy and Dewey comparing their "love scars" and "severed nerves". I can't remember if I was confused by Dewey's limp at the time or not. Were you?

Scream:
Intro, Scene 1 Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 6, Scene 7, Scene 8, Scene 9, Scene 10, Scene 11, Scene 12, Scene 13, Scene 14, Scene 15, Scene 16, Scene 17, Scene 18, Scene 19, Scene 20, Scene 21, Scene 22, Scene 23, Scene 24, Scene 25, Scene 26, Scene 27, Scene 28, Scene 29, Scene 30, Scene 31 Scene 32, Scene 33, End Credits

Scream 2
Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 6, Scene 7, Scene 8, Scene 9, Scene 10, Scene 11, Scene 12, Scene 13, Scene 14. Scene 15, Scene 16, Scene 17

Monday, May 9, 2011

Review: Kidnapped

Horror is perhaps the one genre of cinema that is capable of crossing all borders. What’s funny in Australia won’t necessarily translate to what’s funny in Russia, nor will a Bollywood title necessarily translate to international audiences, either. However, what is scary remains scary no matter what language you speak. Various parts of the world have their very specific niches within the horror genre – think Asia and their “scary ghost girls” – but from The Strangers (America) to Them (France), from Black Christmas (Canada) to Funny Games (Austria), the terror of a late night home invasion by deranged lunatics is a story that hits viewers, pardon the pun, where they live.

Read the rest at the Spanish Film Festival Blog

Yes, I managed to get a Scream 4 reference in there. So proud of myself.

Cinema of the Absurd: Teen Witch


TEEN WITCH
1989, dir. Dorian Walker


So, I watched this last night.


No, not just some random awful white rap musical sequence from 1989 teen fantasy Teen Witch, but the actual entire movie! All 93 bizarre, weird and somewhat wonderful minutes of Dorian Walker's cultish flick that can lay claim to some of the worst musical numbers ever put to film. It's like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, but with less talking cats that only ever look real when curiously running away from the camera and more dance sequences involving women with big hair wearing lavender leotards. I mean, if Sabrina had one of those then I sure don't remember it (so it might've been during the "Sabrina goes to college with Punky Brewster no it's true I'm not making that up!" years.

Beginning with an opening credits sequence that looks a lot like my Saturday mornings watching Video Hits, Teen Witch stars Robyn Lively as "Louise Miller", a dowdy and unpopular high school student who, upon her 16th birthday, discovers she's a witch. Isn't that always the way? Louise wants to look and be as popular as fictional freestyle pop musician Shana, a singer that sounds an awful lot like Brenda K Starr and looks a bit like Stacie Q meets Robin Sparkles (it's the bedazzled jacket, I think.)


Eventually she gets too popular and wants things to be the same again, except when she does she's still kinda popular? I dunno. Who knows what anything in Teen Witch is trying to be. The entire movie is filled with these completely random musical sequences that at once don't feel real and yet aren't ever presented as elaborate fantasies. They do nothing to propel the plot ("the plot"), but instead act as a less-than-stealth effort to ship ancillary soundtracks. It didn't work.


My favourite part of this particular scene, set to the song "Most Popular Girl", is the white boy rap (yet again rearing its ugly, bloated head) from the car window as Louise walks around awkwardly trying to be "sexy". Let's remember that Robyn was only 16 years old at the time and she carries the sequence off with as much confidence as a cat in a clothes dryer. Still, the actress went on to appear on six episodes of Twin Peaks so I'm gonna cut her some slack.

Of course, there is a hottie football playing jock that she is just totally in love with who's dating the sexy cheerleader bimbo. His name is "Mark" and is played by Dan Gauthier as some sort of Jake Ryan of 1989. I will give them this: Gauthier is a handsome man. And, yes, even more handsome without a shirt one, which is something we get to discover early on.


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It's my understanding that he got even more, ahem, handsome throughout the rest of his career, if you know what I mean. Especially Illegal in Blue. Ahem. Yes, very handsome. Naked handsome.

Oh, damn! I was trying to not be so obvious!


"Geez Louise!"*

We also discover that the cheerleaders at this frightening school (I'd certainly believe that the town Teen Witch is set in is actually Sunnydale and that the hellmouth is directly below them) are even more impressive than Nomi "Showgirl" Malone or Ali "Burlesque" No-Last-Name at learning choreographed dance moves; these cheerleaders can memorise them before they've even been shown!


So fab! Except not.

It seems silly to poke holes in the logic of a film such as Teen Witch, but there I was doing just that. Whether it's cheerleaders knowing dance routines through freaky mental telekinesis, Louise suddenly becoming a cheerleader or the increasingly perplexing manner in which Louise's witch powers work. Apparently she needs to be wearing a secret amulet, and yet if her teacher hadn't have found it in the school costume department (?!?) then her witchery would never occur. Furthermore, at first Louise just has to say "I wish..." for something to happen and then later she needs to do a spell, and then make a potion, and then use a voodoo doll (a particularly terrifying sequence involving a paedophile teacher walking into a car wash to get a "hot wax" *shudder*) and then... and then... it doesn't make a lick of sense. Louise is seen riding a broom stick on the cover (left) and this DOESN'T EVER HAPPEN ONCE! Very disappointing if you ask me. It also features a witches hat that also never appears. The makers of Teen Witch were clearly not very hip to the Wiccan ways.

The moment at film's end (OMG SPOILERS!!!) where Louise attends the prom and throws her magical amulet away in order to bring her old life back (except it doesn't, it just means she's no longer a witch? because her popularity seems to remain in check!) actually features the movie's best song. And from such a glorious soundtrack, it sure was hard to pick!!!


It's called "Finest Hour" and it's amazing in that '80s teen movie kinda way. I still don't understand why the creepy fortune teller played by Zelda Rubenstein is at a high school prom, but let's just leave that be, shall we?

Oh yeah, and that is Zelda Rubenstein as "Madame Serena", riding that late career Poltergeist spike into the ground with yet another mystical psychic person whatever. She even got on the poster! She wears a wicked shawl and funny hat, which is basically all the character she has.

And don't even get me started on Louise's obnoxious brother, "Ritchie", played by Joshua Miller. The worst movie character I've had the displeasure of watching since Josh Gad in Love & Other Drugs.


But, really, in the end, it all comes down to whether one finds hilarity gold within Teen Witch's most famous ("most"? Only!) sequence: the "Top That!" white boy/white girl rap number. Let's watch it again.


And again.


There really isn't anything about this clip that doesn't ring my bell of fantastic. How about the truly epic fugness of that Hawaiian shirt/blue singlet/capri jeans combo worn by "Rhet"? Actor Noah Blake went on to become kinda cute in a douchey sorta way (he starred on Harry and the Hendersons!), but I'd love to know what he thinks of this. Hell, I'd love to know what Amanda Ingber things especially. She's the actress playing "Polly". You know, the girl who's rapping and yet her lips and the vocals don't seem to quite sync up. Yeah. Wow.


Indeed, Polly. Indeed.

Just as an aside, I love that somebody tried to create links for each individual song on the "Teen Witch" soundtrack! Either they did exist at some point and Wikipedia took them down, or whoever did the editing on this movie's page had a lot of faith in its fandom. "Surely there must be a Wikipedia page for 'Top That!', right?"


Unfortunately it appears that no soundtrack was ever made and yet The Foo Fighters continue to get their music released? What kind of a world is this?

Of course, white boy rap was actually pretty common around 1989, but it's as if everything that could possibly go wrong(/amazing) did. The clothes! The bad singing! The homoerotic vibe! The bicycles! The Vine recently labelled it the third worst musical number of all time, higher than Vanilla Ice in Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, another all time classic white boy rap moment.

To paraphrase Polly in Teen Witch: Look how funky they are!!


It's impossible to resist the funk.

Teen Witch was apparently intended as a female version of Teen Wolf (why is it that the words "female version of" are almost always associated with really bad movies?), but got changed around and ultimately became the Teen Witch not many of us know and sorta love, but not really.

I particularly like this little factoid from the movie's Wikipedia page:

The production budget for Teen Witch was $2,500,000. The film was released in the US on April 23, 1989 and grossed $3,875 in its opening weekend at the box office, and only $27,843 total in its entire run.

Well done to everyone involved, I say! I imagine the box office would have been better if it had more studded denim jackets, robots and lines like "I'm gonna rock your body like it's Canada Day". Now, see, earlier I mentioned that a character in Teen Witch reminded me of Robin Sparkles. Little did I know that somebody out there in this magical world that we know as "the internet" had actually mashed the two of them together and made the fabulous video below entitled "Teen Witch Goes to the Mall". Amazing.


I can't think of anything better to end this entry on than that. Can you? Actually, not true... watch the video below for the final word on Teen Witch.

Teen Witch is certainly an absurd movie, just one look at Louise's denim jacket with leopard print panels will tell you that! It actually has a charm about it though that will remind many viewers of a certain age of a time of film and TV made for young adults. It's harmless, so it's absurdity ranking is lowered somewhat, but how can one watch "Top That!" and not think it is an eye-popping WTF moment? I give it a ranking of 3.5/5 on the scale of 1-5 thrusting showgirls.


*actual dialogue :|

Review: Insidious

A young boy lies asleep in his bed when suddenly the shadow of a woman crosses by the window, momentarily blocking the moonlight from entering the child’s room. The jingly pianos and strings of Joseph Bishara’s chilling score violently erupt into a fit of terror as the title Insidious fills the screen. And so begins the latest horror movie from director James Wan (Saw) and producer Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity). One of the finest and flat-out scariest movies to come out of America in years, Insidious may be old-fashioned, but it’s still a compelling fright factory that, quite literally, sent shivers up my spine.

Read the rest at Trespass Magazine

I need that score, by the way. It was so good. Shame it won't get taken seriously for award consideration like it may have once upon a time... dear Joseph Bishara and FilmDistrict: make this happen!

Friday, May 6, 2011

Scream to Scream, Scene by Scene: SCENE 17 of Scream 2 (0:46:24-0:49:54)

In this project I attempt to review the entire Scream trilogy scene by scene in chronological order. Heavy spoilers and gore throughout!



SCENE 17 of Scream 2
Length: 3min 30secs
Primary Characters: Sidney Prescott, Derek, Hallie, Mickey, Sister Lois, Sister Murphy, Portia de Rossi's Eyebrows, Officer Richards and Officer Andrews.
Pop Culture References:
  • Prime Time Live, 20/20 and Dateline (news programs Sidney has apparently turned down)
  • Jeffrey Dahmer (Mickey compares Randy to this serial killer)
  • The Bodyguard and Kevin Costner (Hallie references the movie)
  • Top Gun (Derek's impromptu singing is like this Tom Cruise movie)
  • The Partridge Family ("I Think I Love You" was originally performed by them)


Timothy Olyphant with an apple in his mouth. Oh dear...

Also, I like that Hallie and Derek are sitting together. Perhaps plotting their next murder in the original version of the screenplay. Hmmm.


"Where's the secret service guys?"
"Uh, over there."
"And which one is Kevin Costner?"
"The one on the right is Officer Richards, he is a Capricorn divorced father of two. And the one on the left is Officer Andrews and he is a Gemini, SINGLE but I think he's gay."




Teehee. Cute moment between Hallie and Sidney.


Okay, so I have to confess that I sorta really don't like this scene at all. Maybe if it was anyone other than Jerry O'Connell in his ivy league frat outfit I could enjoy it, but... ugh. Of course, it's meant to evoke Top Gun and it was awful there too, but everytime I think of this scene I just think of how much better it was two years later in 10 Things I Hate About You with Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles on the bleachers. Now that's a musical serenade that I can get behind! Let's look at both.


The only good thing about this scene is watching the reactions on the faces of Portia de Rossi and Rebecca Gayheart.





Mickey is pretty good value, too, with that massive grin on his face, little head-bop dance moves and his ringmaster attitude he makes. The bit where he moves the salt and pepper shakers is cute.






And then there is, of course, the stripper moment.


Actually, maybe this scene isn't so bad after all?


"Isn't that a big frat faux pas?"
"Oh yeah, that is a big no-no. See, you're not supposed to give your Greek letters to your girl. No way, shape or form. The brothers are gonna kick his ass... but it's tradition."

That necklace is so sharp and dangly it's almost like it could be used as a weapon.

Scream:
Intro, Scene 1 Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 6, Scene 7, Scene 8, Scene 9, Scene 10, Scene 11, Scene 12, Scene 13, Scene 14, Scene 15, Scene 16, Scene 17, Scene 18, Scene 19, Scene 20, Scene 21, Scene 22, Scene 23, Scene 24, Scene 25, Scene 26, Scene 27, Scene 28, Scene 29, Scene 30, Scene 31 Scene 32, Scene 33, End Credits

Scream 2
Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 6, Scene 7, Scene 8, Scene 9, Scene 10, Scene 11, Scene 12, Scene 13, Scene 14. Scene 15, Scene 16