Somehow, I have never seen a Scream movie before, well, right now. Over the course of the day I will be watching all three films leading up to Tuesday night's New York preview screening of Scream 4 (or, Scre4m, for those of you that are hip). And I will liveblog the entire experience right here because, well, why not? I'll be checking the comments if you have any words of explanation, encouragement or scorn. OK, let's start this thing with the original Scream.
1:00 p.m. On to Scream 2! Follow me over to a new thread, if you don't mind...
12:53 p.m. Hmm, that's kind of a quick and abrupt ending. Do I need to watch the end credits? Does Nick Fury ask Neve Campbell to join S.H.I.E.L.D.?
12:52 p.m. Well, I can only assume a bullet through Skeet's head means the end for him. See you when the nuclear bomb goes off in Kansas, Skeet.
12:46 p.m. I went 15 years without the ending of this movie being spoiled for me. How is that possible?
12:42 p.m. The successful team of Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard. The first and only time that sentence has been written.
12:40 p.m. What the hell? How is Skeet alive? I was tricked!
12:38 p.m. Admittedly, some of the suspense is lost when there are still alive characters staring at me on the Scream 2 packaging.
12:33 p.m. Here's the thing... how do these Scary Movie films exist? (I've never seen one of those, either.) How do you parody what's already a parody?
12:30 p.m. Witnessing the demise of Skeet Ulrich affected me more than I would have ever imagined.
12:26 p.m. I wonder what the phone call was like for Skeet after this movie. "Hi, Skeet Ulrich? Do you know Matthew McConaughey? How would you like to play his brother in an old-timey western called The Newton Boys. It's got hit written all over it!"
12:21 p.m. The DVDs I borrowed are from Canada. The cover actually says "Frissons." Which apparently means "Shivers."
12:18 p.m. My guess for the killer, when taking into account his flair for overly-dramatic somersaults: Tommy from Terms of Endearment. (One person will understand that.)
12:16 p.m. I will say this, the killer in this movie is probably the most overly-dramatic killer I've ever seen in a film. "Oh, I got kicked in the leg, that causes me to do a backwards somersault."
12:12 p.m. From the comments: "I think the opening of the second movie was better. Drew was shocking, but the look on Jada's face when she's dying and nobody seems to notice is very intense for me." Um, spoiler alert?
12:06 p.m. I wonder if in this Blockbuster Video scene if Matthew Lillard has any desire to rent his performance in Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College?
12:03 p.m. From earlier, when Skeet was a suspect, I wish that today the first line of police questioning started with, "So, son, what are you doing with a cell phone?"
12:01 p.m. It seems that I make terrible guesses during horror movies.
12:01 p.m. Oh, good, the scary music stopped. He's safe.
12:00 p.m. Don't tell me Winkler gets killed, does he?
11:58 a.m. OK, I know that the '90s were a strange time, but when did "dressing up as a serial killer as a goof" become a wise thing to do? That would be like snooping around the deserted marshes of Long Island right now just for giggles.
11:54 a.m. And I love Winkler, I just think the role of "bad ass principal" should be left to the likes of Jim Belushi.
11:53 a.m. The scariest thing in this movie so far is Henry Winkler's acting.
11:52 a.m. An amendment to my first born statement from earlier: Yes, there's a good chance I will name my first born "Skeet," but, if I do, he (or she) will only be allowed to wear white, v-neck tee shirts.
11:50 a.m. If the original Scream were coming out today, Danny McBride plays Courteney Cox's cameraman.
11:48 a.m. While I my Internet was off, I had to marvel to myself at the awesome David Arquette mustache.
11:44 a.m You know what's awesome? Losing Internet during a live blog. It's the killer!
11:35 a.m. Am I supposed to care whom the killer is?
@Scraps: I would not be surprised if Regis showed up at some point in this movie. Actually, does he?
11:29 a.m. Well, there was that baseball movie with Freddie Prinze Jr., right?
11:28 a.m. And... hmm...
11:27 a.m. Like Matthew Lillard. He still has great roles like Shaggy ahead of him and...
11:26 a.m. It's so interesting to see the young talent assembled in this film and what they still had ahead of them.
11:23 a.m. I had no idea that Arthur Fonzerelli was in this movie.
11:22 a.m. Why didn't Courteney Cox's movie career really materialize? This film did well? Friends had only been on the air for two years. Now we get Cougertown.
11:19 a.m. There's a good chance that I will name my first born "Skeet."
11:16 a.m. I have very thin walls. I always wonder what my neighbor thinks I'm doing when they hear 30 seconds of non-stop woman's screams.
11:13 a.m. If there were a trivia game where a wrong answer is punishable by death somewhere at a New York City bar, I'd consider going -- depending on the prize.
11:11 a.m. Oh, the killer likes to play trivia. I like him more and more.
11:08 a.m. I like the killer's voice. It's soothing. I could fall asleep at night to his voice.
11:06 a.m. OK, I was going to pretend that I didn't know that Drew Barrymore dies in this scene. But I suppose that's lame.
11:00 a.m Why do I do this to myself?
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