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Every one of the well-meaning cast and crew are so enamoured by the minutiae of how they’ve painstakingly and slavishly recreated the look, the locations, the shots, the everything of the first film, even down to the directors of this – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – telling us with huge smiles that when they didn’t know what to do, they’d just watch the first film and ‘do their version of that’, that it soon becomes obvious this is more than just a basic remake of the first film. thrilled, and there are few UHDs that prove so drastically better than their Blu-ray counterparts as this. Sadly, that speaks to the bad state in which Deleted Scenes– About 15 minutes’ worth, but these were wisely cut. I felt the film stood on its own quite well without these.
artificially sharped and actually made to look worse. At this resolution, and with this master, the image capably reveals exact textures and fine point Being the last of the 'Scream' series, part three looks expectedly better on Blu-ray than the first two, but it's still far from what it could be.The full list of supplemental features included are featured on both the 4K and accompanying 1080p discs: various examples of bright 90s clothing, and of course red blood. The palette is very natural in flavor without a feel of bursting color excess. It's very Of course, there’s nothing wrong per se with this film – it very competently inserts Tab A into Slot B in doing what it sets out to do: be the now ubiquitous ‘legacy sequel’ (thanks to The Force Awakens, it’s a carbon copy plot of the original film with original cast members cameoing to hand the baton over to a new, younger cast to continue its fan milking for many more entries to come…). The kills are bloody, the holy trinity of original cast show up and do very little (with the exception of David Arquette who actually is fantastic as a very different Dewey Riley, possibly because he’s actually given a decent amount of screentime (unlike his returning co-stars Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox) and the new young cast are exactly like the old young cast, only with half the charisma and a quarter of the depth. Paramount brings Scream to the UHD format with most of the legacy extras from the 2011 disc (note the absence of a trailer collage) and And so, with the benefits of time and a healthy sense of getting over ones-self, do Sid, Gail and Dewey get the send-off they deserve? Not quite…but it’s clear to see that underneath that misguided comedy tone, there is a clever and intelligent commentary trying to get out and now, with nearly a quarter of a century to get over that initial disappointment felt so keenly on release, it’s an awful lot easier to see the positives in what really should have been the trilogy capper for this still-fantastic cast of characters.
Behind the Scenes Montage (SD, 6 min) — A set of clips from all three movies, pieced together for no real purpose. Deleted Scenes (SD, 14 min) — With an optional commentary by Craven, Maddelena and Lussier, the collection is mildly interesting but adds little value to the movie.
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Like its predecessors, 'Scream 3' comes with the same supplemental material as its DVD counterpart. Penned by Ehren Krueger (' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,' 'The Ring,' ' The Brothers Grimm'), this sudden shift in focus away from Sidney is a bit bizarre since the closing moments reveal the world revolves around her and her mother. But as mentioned earlier, there is plenty of fun to be had in this third installment. The best scares are early on with Sidney's chilling apparitions, but they turn out not to serve much purpose except to freak out the audience. Parker Posey as Jennifer Jolie playing Gale Weathers is a great character and offers a few facetious observations about actors portraying real-life people. And there's also the fun game of name that star in a cameo with Lance Henriksen, Carrie Fisher, Roger Corman, and Jay & Silent Bob of all people. If you want horror movies, October is the month for you. Tons of horror releases (and 4K horror re-releases) are heading our way in October, including a bunch of Screams, The Mist, Friday the 13th, Rosemary's Baby, and the Shrek 6-film collection. Kidding about that last one!
To call this a vast improvement over the 2011 Blu-ray would be a gross understatement. Paramount's new 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release is stellar, Second time around does this new iteration of the Scream franchise no favours at all, with this just released 4K disc from Paramount going out of its way to remind you exactly what’s so wrong with the film itself... The Dolby Vision color grading does not push tones to the extreme, but natural greens are appropriately deep and vibrant, as is a yellow school bus, compared to the overengineered Blu-ray. Hair colors dazzle, natural greens leap off the screen, and all variety of colors are solidly grounded in reality.
Paramount releases Scream to the UHD with a very strong 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release. While I did not review, nor have access to, the It's sad really when the first two movies in a series start off strong — full of laughs as well as smarts — but the last entry ends the entire franchise with a whimper. The laughs and smarts are still there, but it all adds up to a silly conclusion that takes fans to a deep, dark past. It's a plot twist that comes completely out of left field and seems far too convenient to ever be taken seriously. Then again, according to Randy (Jaime Kennedy) in a posthumous video recording, all bets are off in trilogies. The rules don't apply because the point is to explore a deep, dark past, something that changes everything we knew about the slasher series. Hence, 'Scream 3' fails at meeting the expectations set by the previous two.
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