The Reel Rejects - SCREAM 2 (1997) IS BRUTAL!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watch
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Tara on that note are we ready for scream two we are
three two one I clicked it
this is the reject nation I would say we just finished watching scream two but
here's what actually happened we watched scream two it was amazing that was last week
then we waited for the patreon questions because that's what we do and due
Tara and I remember every part of this movie in the meantime.
We're certainly going to try.
Thank you to Prepper for editing this down.
We know it's more difficult when we don't do everything at once.
We had a little bit of behind the scenes technical difficulties.
We did.
But we are here to talk about the movie and to answer your guys' Patreon questions.
So let's do it.
Tara, from what you remember, girlfriend and that two-minute recap that we watched.
How did you feel about the movie?
I liked it.
I thought it was fun and entertaining.
The fact that Cotton wanted to be on Diane Sawyer so bad.
I just love that part of that story.
But I'm really glad Dewey survived.
And Gail is like she's up in his business now.
So I feel like, you know, they're going to be in love, in no time, cute.
Her hair.
Yeah, it was fun.
There was a lot of moving parts.
And we loved her hair.
Her hair was sick.
So good.
It makes me want to do that.
You should.
I think that'd be sick.
And the boyfriend, super cute.
He died.
but love him.
Yeah, very true.
And you knew him from other stuff.
I did it, but you did.
Yeah, the Diane Sawyer stuff,
my favorite line in the whole movie,
which is I remember from last week is her saying,
consider it done.
He's like, you know, I wasn't really going to hurt you.
And it's like, I kind of think he was.
I think that you were, Cotton.
For sure, Cotton, you needed to hear she was going to do Diane Sawyer with you.
But listen, that's the price of fame.
Agreed.
So that's fine.
Yeah, I thought this was really cool.
lot of huge stars we got that sarah michelle gellar stuff which was really cool yeah uh you know
just early early young her jada pinkett smith stuff really cool so that was cool yeah a lot of great
stuff shall we answer some patreon questions let's do we go jdell if you were sitting in that opening
movie theater theater during stab and realize things were starting to feel a little too real
what would you do first trust your horror instincts and run or try to convince everyone it's not part
of the show. Oh, fucking running the, out of there.
If I genuinely really knew, then I would
shout one thing like, this isn't real while I was running.
Yeah. And
clap your hands, maybe. Try to grab a weapon, but popcorn doesn't make much of a weapon.
So clap your hands is a better option there. Maybe so to pop, take the lid off. That has
some eyes could do some damage. I like that that prepper has to sink things based on when we clap and
you and I just continue to clap throughout the entire.
Clap your hands, baby.
Here we go.
Gatcham Furnan's.
Major plot points leaked during filming, including the identity of the killers.
Oh, bummer.
Because of this, the script was rewritten extensively.
Oh, cool.
Some pages were completed the same day the scenes were filmed.
Do you think that that was noticeable?
No, I don't.
No, I do not.
I think that they know what they're doing by this time.
I mean, even if it was just the second one,
the first one did so well that you know that most sequels don't
live up to the first so I think they were they were went a smart way about it they were went
I think they were I think they were they were a smart I think they did a good job because I guarantee
you they had pretty good writers that they trusted on set that could say let's deliver this
think about it and then rework it and I think that's great side note what's on your finger a band-aid
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prize picks it's good to be right resident z what did you guys think about cotton being the red herring
in the movie i did bite a bit i did bite a bit but the i did bite a bit but the reveal was definitely
much better uh also laur mac kaff plays unhinged so well she really does what does i did bite a bit
but the what does that mean oh he might he maybe he meant to say i did a bit but the meaning you
oh I'm not sure I don't know what that means I have no idea maybe I did quite a bit
I did I thought that it was cool that he was the red herring because we didn't know much about
cotton but he was so heavily featured in the first one by name like that you know I I was
glad I was suss of him for sure so I think that worked for me yeah I thought it was great
going back to captain Fernand's I'm curious who was in who the initial identities of the killers
were that was leaked I know
Because now I'm like, oh, they must have switched it.
Yeah.
Right?
Last minute.
It still worked.
James Henry the second, which means there's a first, maybe a junior.
I hope you too enjoyed Scream 2 with these films being whodunits and also being
rewritten while filming to change the original killer.
Wow, apparently that's known.
Do you think it pays off for the killers to be revealed as who they are, even with Billy's
mom being a character we don't know, is his.
is his him until she reveals it with Sydney.
Yeah, I thought it paid off.
Yeah, because, I mean, sure,
I kind of get where you're headed with this, James,
in saying, well, if they had planned it way up top,
we could have had more Easter eggs
that were laid out in the script
that maybe we could follow a bit.
But I did like it, you know,
at the very end that it's like,
ah, it's, you know, Debbie Salt is not actually Debbie's Salt.
I get that maybe people could view that.
as a cop out where you're like, come on, you got to, you got to give us something here.
There's no way our heads would have gone there in you saying it's a whodunit.
People find it fun to figure out who it is.
In this one, there's just no way, because we didn't know she was Loomis.
She was obsessed with Gail the whole time.
She was.
I liked that it was relevant.
We did think that was weird.
So I thought it totally worked.
And it's not like we didn't know who Billy's mom would have been, like we know
who Billy was.
So it's not like, wait, who?
That's true.
It made sense to me.
Totally.
Malique.
Hey, Tara and Roxy.
Hi, Malik.
This movie had a lot of kills.
Which one?
Here we go, Tara.
Which one was the most shocking for you?
He's hugged up like Jesus in the theater.
That was a good one.
I think Sarah Michelle Geller.
Yeah, in the very beginning.
She's so famous now.
Yeah, that we didn't expect that when she's in the sorority house.
And it's just kind of like, wait, whoa, we're going to really hurt.
but of course at this time it wasn't so but that was the most shocking and jada pincett like how many
times she got stabbed and then like making her way up to the thing and like bleeding screaming
and then falling over that was pretty cool too the way it was done for sure i like that hunter
preston i skipped one all right fun fact it might have been missed but mrs luma's found micky
bragging about his other kills on a forum so before even becoming ghost face he was already
serial killer what found mickey bragging about his other kills on a forum oh so before oh yeah so
he's saying that's how she said she found him so before he even became ghost face he was already
killing people right right and that that that that's what makes him great to fall down with it last and final
j rushed in lori mackaff ending reveal so epic and the song by the partridge family was epic kind of end
question was this great ending was this great ending i think was this a great ending of the movie there
um yes i love the ending i like the ending too i liked it i i like that you know um we get that
laurie metcalf she has justification for doing it you know in regards to her son and then i
I really like that. Cotton is so obsessed with fame that he basically threatens to kill Sid,
but Sid's like, got it. I'll give you an interview or whatever. I like it. Considered done.
Considered done was so great. And like, what in, okay. And Gail going off a duet, I think is cute.
Yeah, me too. I like them together. I actually lied. I want to do one more because this answers our question.
Okay. Jay Dell with the trivia in the original Scream 2 script, the killers were supposed to be
Haley, Sydney's roommate.
Okay.
And Derek, Sidney's boyfriend.
But the script leaked online before filming,
so they rewrote it and made the killers Mickey and Mrs.
Loomis instead.
I like that so much better because we already had the boyfriend.
Yeah.
I mean, that would have been way too.
I would have gone, what are we doing here, Scream 2?
I honestly.
But you thought it was the roommate at one point.
I did.
I did.
And then it wasn't.
And I did think the boyfriend at times, but.
I think the roommate would have been a cool one.
but the roommate
would not have been...
No, I would have been like,
what are you guys doing?
We already...
Are you rewriting the exact same script
and just changing names?
Because what in the actual F?
Yeah, agreed.
So I'm glad it went the way it did.
All right, we like this.
We're excited for the rest of the franchise.
We can't wait to keep watching
and we hope you scream alongside us.
Later, Rejects.
