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...Scream 2 seems destined to have no small success among the masses of moviegoers looking for a quick, all-in-one fix. First, it's something that we are led to believe by yet another media hooey-machine, plugs directly into our generational needs. Curled up in jim-jams and sipping Sprites, we supposedly affixed our gradually dried out eyes to horror movie after horror movie in the '80s, the genre's heyday, as parades of Jasons and Michaels, Freddies and Pin-heads ran off those screens and ripped out our hearts. So what's better than a history book...
...stew is incomplete: Let's pull that pot right over the stove again and add another ingredient. Actually, just a bigger helping of the same--piping hot self-consciousness, now of consummate sequelhood. Result? Scream 2 is a boring, wrecky bundle of nerves so obsessed with one-upping itself and zipping loop-de-loops round the audience's brain that no one cares after a while...
...nostalgia is the condemnation, the forbiddenness that made it all so appealing in the first place. Set bed times and the presence of parents do not jive well with the horrible, horrible baby-stay-up-late mentality of a video marathon (the rise of VCRs contributed to many a scream-filled viewing of gruesome death or porn-induced first masturbatory fantasy...
...outside so that we could scream with liberty," Stewart said. "As we ran outside, the heavens opened and the snow fell down and we screamed and hugged. It was beautiful...
...Also, because it's the coolest space monster ever. Because of visual stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen fame. Because of whole ship mama Sigourney Weaver. Because of genetics and the human attachment to willful mediocrity. Because we've never seen an alien underwater (where you also can't scream). Because bounty hunters watch the TV shopping network. Because of Dominique Pinon's forehead. Because aliens bleed acid, and androids bleed semen. Because alien-human hybrids have pixie noses. And, always, because of the deeper issues...