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Scream 3 (2000)
I'm In The Minority....
But this is my favorite SCREAM movie, and Roman is by far the best villain in the quadrilogy! My only question is: since in Scream 2, Mrs. Loomis & Mickey were the killers and Roman never mentioned them in his killer reveal monologue like he did Billy & Stu from the original SCREAM...did he just sit back while Sidney was stalked at Windsor College (the action in Part 2 probably playing out during one long weekend, thus Roman might not have had the chance to know about the goings-on at that locale/time until Gale & Cotton's news stories hit the airwaves! I just find it ironic how he pretty much relishes in being culpable for the multiple terrorizations of Sidney but the events in Part 2 aren't even mentioned, as though it never happened (kind of reminds me of the new Halloween!).
China Beach (1988)
Lingering Question About Series Finale!
OK, this is without a doubt my favorite television series of all-time, and the grand finale was devastatingly bittersweet...the cast was always stellar, and I loved the additions to Season 4 especially Colleen Flynn, Finn Carter and Christine Elise. To me, this last season was Karen's story (Christine Elise deserved an Emmy!): her search for K.C. ended with the two of them finally meeting up again after several years, taking a short walk and making amends??? One of K.C.'s final lines was "I'm not really good at writing letters!", then she slipped away in her limo! OK, when I was a kid and watched it live, I had hope for the two of them, thinking that K.C.'s hidden meaning in her anti-pen pal stance was that Karen could visit or live with her (I think she was back in the Far East) BUT upon watching it again on DVD, I was totally destroyed by their ending, K.C. leaving Karen on the curb like that for McMurphy to take care of when she returned from The Wall with her young daughter. Marg Helgenberger, who along with Dana Delany were two extraordinary actresses leading a superb cast...IDK why I see her playing it both ways: that last scene, she closed the limo door when it should have been left open for Karen to maybe leave with her, or they could have waited for McM to return (I'm sure she would have a few choice words to say to K.C. if she was indeed abandoning Karen again! That truly sad last look on Karen's face said it all! I know K.C. was a cold, ruthless, selfish woman at times and I loved her despite those flaws. I guess I expected more of a resolution either way! Are they going to now be a part of one another's lives (maybe not in that moment but in the future?) or was this short little reunion all there was left for both of them? Did anyone else feel hopeful and then hopeless about the two Karens??? I want to believe there was hope! I can't watch it again for a while!
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
I Wish I Was Blanche's Old Beau Shep Huntleigh!
Imagining/fantasizing about being a character in the film, I'd love to inhabit the talked about role of Blanche's former boyfriend Shep Huntleigh, reconnecting with her while visiting New Orleans (one night when she sneaks off to a high class Mardi Gras ball), sweep her off her feet again (better than Malden managed to!) and rescue her from Stanley's sexual wrath! I'd take her on a cruise around the world and show her what its like to really be loved! God, Vivien Leigh was so sexy in this movie despite her deteriorating mental state and youth-obsessed nature (how old was she? 37 or 38???). There's hope for the character even in the real ending, leaving among the kindness of strangers, away from that hellish hovel!
Feud (2017)
The Oscars
OK so a jealous Crawford, goaded by Hedda Hopper campaigned against Davis for the Best Actress Oscar win that year (my personal favorite was Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird Of Youth, whose Alexandra Del Lago character triumphed in the end). Katharine Hepburn & Lee Remick were also great in their nominated roles, as was the ultimate winner Anne Bancroft (who, if Crawford & Hopper hadn't intervened, would have split the vote with her fellow Broadway New Yorker Page, thus garnering Bette her 3rd Oscar...which she should have won in 1950 for All About Eve!). Baby Jane wouldn't really be a crowning achievement part considering Bancroft's heroic Annie Sullivan persona...WHAT I DON'T GET IS: why weren't Davis, Robert Aldrich and/or Jack Warner tipped off about Crawford's campaign against Davis??? Wouldn't at least one of the Academy members she and Hopper manipulated have a different opinion altogether (whether they were pro-Davis or not?) and get the word out that Davis was being sabotaged??? I know Bette's circle of friends was very small (so why didn't Crawford's alleged popularity among her endless supply of loyal colleagues snag her a nom in the first place? Plus, scene for scene, Bette was the lead and Joan on the fringe of being a supporting player!). Why was Davis (alongside Aldrich & Warner, I'm sure) so blindsided that fateful Oscar night? I wouldn't have trusted Crawford or Hopper whatsoever once the nominations were announced! Plus, the two diva's engaged in a brutal verbal battle over the awards on the set of Baby Jane long before production was completed! I know Bette got her revenge in the end by replacing Joan with her one true BFF Olivia de Havilland in Sweet Charlotte 2yrs later, and embarked on a much better successful post-JANE hagsploitation era in The Nanny and Dead Ringer, plus her critically acclaimed final film in 1987 entitled The Whales of August!
I knew about the Academy sabotage before watching that truly excellent episode of FEUD...I'm just wondering why with all the stars Crawford aligned herself with, that Bette & Co. were never aware of her backstage dealings until the big moment? Was she that sure she was going to win? That sort of bitchery would never go unnoticed in today's awards ceremonies! Crawford's Mildred Pierce Oscar should have been stripped from her mantle, and she should have been booted from the Academy for life! Her career totally fizzled after JANE, and she was left with TROG as her final crowning achievement! Bitch!
Prom Night (1980)
Alternate Twist: Back Story (Fan-Based)
When Nick, Wendy, Jude & Kelly were playing "Killers Are Coming" in the abandoned convent (which was such a dangerous structure for these kids to be running around in), and Robin interrupted their twisted variation of Hide & Go Seek...just what was the last man standing (in this case Nick) going to win/lose? Oddly enough, Nick was the catalyst for Robin's literal downfall that day; instead of warning her that Warpath Wendy would target her mercilessly and ushering her out of the building before the others caught him, he screamed "Here Killers, Here!" (which might have been one of their rules in case an outsider intervened), getting the attention of his three co-conspirators who literally scared Robin to death! Nick always seemed the guiltiest of the four, from the get-go when he started to mention that they needed to "get somebody, quick!" but outnumbered by the three girls, he agreed to the pact and still felt totally guilty six years later on the day of the prom during his romantic scenes with Kim.
WHAT IF??? Nick ran home that day in 1974 and confessed everything to his father, Lt. McBride...who in turn was looking for a reason to capture local pedophile Leonard Murch, and decided to cover up his son's crime by blaming Murch, leading to his car explosion capture? McBride seemed to be a single father in the 1980 story, and I always thought he was a widower but there were no paintings or photos of Nick's missing mother in their apartment (but there was a framed photo by Nick's phone of him and another guy on a tennis court). I'm assuming that Mrs. McBride was devastated over her young son's malicious mayhem & subsequent coverup by her cop husband...so she flew the coop and left them both! (I know, like the mothers in Happy Birthday To Me and the original Scream did). Maybe Mrs. McBride was friends with Mrs. Hammond at the time and couldn't bear to see her friend suffer at the hands of her own family! And maybe she couldn't live with the fact that her husband framed an innocent man (at least at that time) of Robin's murder. Maybe Lt. McBride and Wendy's obviously wealthy unseen no-show father conspired to keep their children's crime a secret? I know all of this couldn't play out in the 90min movie (with the post-production tacked-on Leonard Murch scenes still in tact!).
Speaking of Nick & Kim, after all that time...their Senior year romance seemed to be new since Wendy's jilted lover routine didn't come off as desperate like they've been fighting over him since they were 12!
I just wonder about these things years later!