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Just listened to an interview with Michael Green in which he said everyone is game for a third movie, everyone knows what it is and everyone knows what they want to do with it. But it was clear from his tone that he was down on its chances of happening.

The show is a real mixed bag. Some episodes are wonderful and improve on the source material; others are just disastrous (The Murder of Roger Akroyd). It's still wildly popular today, but it's also (singlehandedly?) the reason why people think of Christie as something cosy and exclusively for elderly women.

I felt bad for Barrera because nobody could sell that soap opera scene in the hospital with Tara. I liked the movie a lot but that really was the worst scene in any of these movies. She got better near the end, but there's no pretending that wasn't a weak performance. Doesn't help that Ortega is a genuine star and acted her off the screen at every turn.

This dude was insufferable in both Fear Street and in Woman in the Window. Unimaginably annoying.

She's fine in this. It's a considerably better take on the character than in the other two adaptations which portray her as a generally terrible person. This one at least fleetingly shows her better side. I also appreciate the efforts to make 'character coincidentally ends up on a boat with people who all have a motive to kill him/her and a detective' a bit easier to swallow. And as heavy handed as all the love monologues are, it does help make the movie more cohesive. I really do like this one a lot. Though, as everyone is mentioning, the CGI is often hideous. Egypt can look so stunning in one scene and then video-gamey in the next. It doesn't help that some backdrops that aren't CG still manage to look CG. There's a real artifice to it.

Tom Bateman is...the MVP? He and Branagh, like with MotOE, come off best. Mackey is good, too.

From Director Sam Raimi

I mostly loved this. Really don't care much for Branagh's MotOE outside of the opening and ending, but I thought this was entertaining from start to finish. The book is nasty and this is the first adaptation to really capture that.

MUSIC BY JOHN CARPENTER! TWO SCORES FROM BIG JOHN THIS YEAR! !

Branagh's definitely the actor getting the best notices.

The embargo is still up, but a lot of blue ticks seem to be hinting that they liked it. Refusing to get overexcited.

Back to living in fear that Sidney or Gale die.

All four movies are fab. I was down on the remake out of misguided Raimi loyalty for a while - that movie's great.

Reshoot all her scenes with Pfeiffer and make her the main Wasp.

The Bruce Campbell speculation is always so weird considering he's inevitably going to end up playing Peeved Cab Driver #2 or Disgruntled Paramedic.

I love every Del Toro movie bar Pacific Rim (which I like), so it's no surprise that I loved this too. There were ten of us there today (it just opened here) - three walked out, the people in front just slagged it off and my friends were all mad at me for making us go. I could feel the dislike for it in the room.

As a Kenneth Branagh fan and someone who was born and bred in Belfast and then had to leave to live in England, I can't begin to look at this objectively. Hinds and Dench reminded me so much of my late nanny and granda that I was honestly sobbing at every interaction they had. The way Balfe spoke to Buddy was the exact way my mum would scold me. I won't flatter my dad with a Jamie Dornan comparison, but I got the same 'as long as they're kind' speech he gives in this anytime the idea of Protestantism would come up (which was every day on the news). It's not for everyone, but it's 100% for me.

Parker Posey alone makes Scream 3 worthwhile.

Wasn't really sold by the opening. It was fine, but if you're going to set yourself up to compare with the original opening...taking twice as long to create a tenth of the tension won't cut it. Thought the first act was clunky overall tbh. The Skeet Ulrich visions were a choice. Loved everything with the legacy cast, though. Thought the writing for them and performances from them were spot on. All the Sidney and Gale interactions were either lovely or badass. Honestly, I think I'd like them to bow out with this one - would especially be a nice ending for Gale. Thought this was also Roger Jackson's strongest work in the series - he went into parody mode in 4, so it was nice to hear him have some good material. Tyler's score was so non-descript. I really missed Beltrami. Amber was the Mickey of this movie in that we don't get to know her enough for the reveal to work. Really enjoyed Jack Quaid, though - and I was delighted to see toxic redditors/youtubers portrayed as the 2d villains we all know they are. Definitely liked it overall.

This was good. Clunky opening act but really got into the third.

'Alive' is probably the last word I'd use for Scream 4.

Except for Brenda.

100%. She and Courteney are great scene partners. The movie doesn't work if you stop and think about it for even a second, but in the moment it's a lot of fun. Beltrami wrote a killer score for it, too. ouTube