Scream 4

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I feel the need to say that I watched this movie at 9pm in a smallish movie theater at college. Playing this movie to a room full of college students was actually really hilarious. While half of me was scared because a random masked figure was popping out and stabbing people to death, half of me was cracking up because of all the people who would scream when that happened. The funniest thing was when the movie leads you to think Scream is going to pop out and kill someone but it's just something stupid like it'll just be a random character. People pretty much screamed whenever the music got louder.

As for storyline goes, as in most horror movies there isn't really one, which is the main reason why I typically don't like them. The point is just to get people killed. But there's a certain attraction to the movie because of the fun part of trying to figure out who Scream actually is. I won't say who, but I'll say it's pretty unexpected. That simple fact is almost the whole reason I'm giving this such a high rating. The other reason is the cast: Lucy Hale, Anna Paquin, Courteney Cox (whose first name I didn't know was spelled like that until recently), Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, and David Arquette being among the long list of the well-known actors/actresses in the cast. Having all of them in Scream 4 just makes it that much better because it doesn't seem as cheesy as it may have been if they had used unknowns.

I give it: 8/10

The Forgotten

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Okay so I may have fallen asleep the first time I tried to watch this movie, but that's because it was late and I was tired. A few days later I remembered I was watching it and decided to finish it to get it off the Instant Queue on Netflix. I almost fell asleep again.

First of all, The Forgotten is confusing in the not-so-fun way. Nothing makes sense at all and the ending doesn't even explain the whole point of anything either unless I was too out of it to understand what was going on. The plot itself was pretty dry and since nothing gets explained it's not worth watching.

The main character named Telly (a stupid name) was played by Julianne Moore. I am not a fan of Moore because of her small role on 30 Rock in which she had to pretend to have a Brooklyn accent. Her version of said accent was the worst I have ever heard. Now it bothers me pretty much every time I even see the woman.

I give it: 4/10