You're saying a thread hasn't stayed on track? Sweet Lord above.

If Martin Scorcese made a clever, self-referential film constantly winking and tipping the hat to his hard-as-nails gangster dramas so the audience "got him".... would he be smart to do so?

People would think he had gone all Tarantino - but at least QT started in this vein as he meant to go on with Reservoir Dogs right up to Kill Bill.

Perhaps horror film fans like smarty-pants posturing more than they used to... or perhaps Scream is what the genre has been waiting for, to show it up for the predictable nonsense that it really is?

But you're right, Williamson's creations are universally odious - Craven just abandoned his true horror abilities (if he had any left) in time to make some serious bucks by selling out to those who need to leave cinemas pandered to, satisfied, safe and untroubled.

Clever, Wes.

Bye, Wes.

I think Wes can do both....but i agree he have to make a serious horror movie soon or else...:confused:

I think Cravens days of real horror are long gone. What and when was his last real horror movie? All those guys from the 70's are just about finished. We need some youngsters to pick up the slack.

About Serpent and the Rainbow-I always liked it , but haven't seen it in about a decade. I'll have to go buy the dvd.

just like Chevy Chase. he was funny. now he is as funny as dried paste.

His last half-decent one was The People Under the Stairs in 1991 - Shocker, The Serpent and the Rainbow and Deadly Friend before it weren't bad at all.

Perhaps Wes's next venture should be a film-within-a-film pastiche of Chevy Chase movies...

I still say if Scream hadn't been Sequelized and/or endlessly ripped off it would be held in much higher regard than it is now

i tend to agree with that ..

i really didnt see as smug but that is pretty open to personal perception. Its the way i feel about stephen kings writing but everyone else in the free world thinks he's the cats ass.

scream should have stopped at one..
by #3 it blew its credibility like an old tire.

Hey, you cant blame the original if the sequals suck. It wasnt Jurrassic Park's fault that The Lost World was a campy, pc, over the top piece of dino shit (i still like it though....)

Do me the courtesy of keeping your posts the fuck out of my threads.