User blog:TheScreamKing321/Why I actually like Scream 3

===Ok. So this is why I like Scream 3 better than the critics and lots of fans. Full disclosure; I like it in a cheesy, ironic idiotically charming kind've way, I don't think it's superior to the other movies.===

6 Reasons Why Scream 3 Is Better Than You Think
===> Randy Makes a Triumphant (cameo) Return. This was a character that was popular amongst the majority of fans and critics. I think it's safe to say that a lot of people loved Randy, including myself. He was a great meta guide and his comedic relief wasn't actually as bad as it usually is in those good ol' horror movies of yore that he so frequently refrences in the first two  movies, that is, until he is unexpectedly killed off in the middle of Scream 2. This left a lot of people saddened and shocked. For plenty of people, he was their favourite Scream character and to have him so dismissively, brutally offed in a van was.... lacking somewhat. I feel like if you're gonna kill a beloved and original horror protagonist, it should be a big deal. So I think it was a nice, meta and very Randy-like surprise to have him return (in post-humous video style) to give Sidney and the gang one last funny, meta piece of horror advice.=== ===> Cotton Dreary. First off, apologies for the terrible pun. Now, this was genuinely a good move that people seem to pass by when critically ripping this movie apart. One of the biggest criticisms of Scream 4 (which I loved by the way) recieved was that they introduced new teens only to have them killed off and for the survivors to stay survivors. Scream 3 opened with a major character from the previous films being killed off in quite a frightening fashion. And that was just the opening! This was a ballsy move that let the audience know that no-one is safe, which was the best thing the series could do at that point, and frankly, should've done in the fourth.=== ===> Plot Points. Another thing I liked that people seem critical of the is the plot of the movie. The whole thing of Sidney's mother having a life in Hollywood before she met Sidney's father and doing things for movie roles she never thought she'd do is kind of.....cool, actually. Sleeping with sleezy movie producers and breaking into Hollywood the "hard" way (no pun intended) would surely make her unpopular amongst at least a few hollywood bigshots. And for Sidney to discover her mother's secret past life and having to pay all those years later for her mother's misgivings in the city of angels is a great twist and ending to the trilogy. Unfortunately, Kevin Williamson wasn't there to put his witty twist on the plot and create clever dialogue and ironic "in jokes". I do admit that Sidney having a psycho half-brother wasn't the best choice, especially since he was only in like three scenes in the movie, I think if they were going for that, it should've been a character who was already in SId's life like Dewey, Gale or even Randy's sister. And that combined with the shaky dialogue and uneven acting from some of the cast didn't make the best movie, but I think if Williamson had written the script with a better killer reveal and smarter dialogue with the secret Hollywood life plot point still in there, I think it's safe to say it could've been a decent enrty into the series.=== ===> Parker Posey and Her Not So Rosy - acting. Now I know Parker Posey is VERY unpopular in this movie. And for good reason. Her acting is .............weird, to say the least. It's almost as if she somehow thought that she was starring in an out and out spoof, like Scary Movie, not in what it was meant to be : a clever, self-aware horror movie that pokes fun at the genre, while fully indulging in the tropes with the characters actually aware that they're in a horror movie. This WOULD explain her loud-mouthed, relentlessely energetic performance as the struggling actress Jennifer Jolie being stalked by the latest ghostface. Also criticised was the over the top way she delivered her dialogue and the fact that she was a two dimensional cartoonish character clearly there just to provide cheap laughs, instead of the usual ironic jabs at horror movies. And instead of being a character who poked fun at other horror movies for being transparent, cheap and appealing to the lowest common denominator, she WAS a character who was cheap, transparent and appealed to the lowest common denominator and hence made Scream 3 the type of movie that Screams 1 and 2 made fun of in the first place. BUT, if you can get past all this and do yourself the favour of getting past the fact that she (and others) cheapened the Scream brand with this confusing and slapstick acting method, then there is some joy to be found in this bizarre performance. Once you've gotten past all the above and, like me, seen the movie more than once, her OTTness and wildly misguided acting is actually kinda......funny. In a strictly unknowingly, stupid kind of way, of course. There is some comedic material to be salvaged from her feud and eventual yet reluctant alliance with Gale, their constant bickering and competition over Dewey. Also, her blatant, comletely un-subtle character kind've grows on you almost in the same way a "Dad Joke" would : Not funny, not clever, very bad and yet, you laugh anyway.=== ===> Carrie's Cameo. Yes, we have come to the second cameo in this list, but, in all fairness, I don't have much to work with here. Gimme a break. But it was a great scene, which is a rarity in this movie. It featured the recently deceased, beloved Star Wars actress, Carrie Fisher, who plays an actress who looks uncannily similar to Carrie, who auditioned for Princess Leia, but claims Fisher got it for sleeping with George Lucas. This was genuinely funny and comedically sound moment, which can't be said for the rest of the movie. This was the type of meta-humour we wanted out of a Scream movie, and did get it with certain rare moments such as this and the Randy comeback scene, but unfortunately, apart than those, we got slapstick and Jay and Silent Bob.=== ===> (kinda) Perfect Premise. The first one satired horror movies. The second one satired sequels. Where to go next? The choice was obvious. TRILOGIES. I love trilogies and I think it was a perfect way to incorporate a new set of rules, given, once again by none other than our favourite meta instructor, the incomparable Randy Meeks. In a movie where you were expecting a clever meta plot about the deconstruction of horror movies and you got Parker Posey shouting everything, Patrick Warburton saying "Dewdrop" every five minutes, the few meta concepts they got in there were very welcome. This was one. One of three, I believe. Randy's post-humous video, Carrie Fisher's cameo and this new set of rules that characters must abide by to survive the concluding chapter in a horror trilogy.=== ===If you're still reading, then you've stuck with me 'till the end of my list, and for that, I thank you. I know I rambled on quite a bit, but, hopefully I made viewing the Scream film series, as a whole, a slightly better experience. Thanks and keep on screamin'....... or somethin'. ===