# Scream 3 - I couldn't keep track of who was who **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scream-3-i-couldnt-keep-track-of-who-was-who/13791 "2000-02-14T19:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scream-3-i-couldnt-keep-track-of-who-was-who/13791/1 "2000-02-15T06:59:00Z")
I admit up front that horror movies are not really on my list of preferences, but I don’t think I’m an idiot either. I took my wife to see S3 the other night as she loves horror flicks. I’ve seen the first two also. I didn’t hate the move, as a matter of fact, it was kind of fun to watch. What got me was the amount of crap they dug up from the first two movies. I understand they have to relate them, but I felt like they pulled up so much information that I couldn’t keep up with it all. Anyone else feel that way? I felt like I needed scripts to 1 and 2 to understand who everybody was. Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scream-3-i-couldnt-keep-track-of-who-was-who/13791/2 "2000-02-14T19:14:00Z")
From what I’ve heard(though I have only seen the first two movies) S3 isn’t really that great at all. The screenplay was written by a different writer for one. As for having to know the previous movies…well, it is a sequel after all. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scream-3-i-couldnt-keep-track-of-who-was-who/13791/3 "2000-02-14T20:08:00Z")
I knew the other movies, but I felt like I was watching a bad soap opera ala “Tootsie”. "I’m not really your uncle Fred, I’m actually your little sister, Clara who fell in the well 20 years ago! " “Well that’s good, because I’m actually the illigitimate daughter of your father!” “Wait! If you’re actually my illigitimate daugher, then why did your mother say that you were killed in a car crash two episodes ago!” “Becauce I was in LOVE with Uncle Fred, and I’m carrying his baby!” ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scream-3-i-couldnt-keep-track-of-who-was-who/13791/4 "2000-02-14T23:04:00Z")
_Scream 3_ was OK, though not as good as the first two. The murder sequences were oddly disappointing. I recall that the director said in an interview, “There’s a lot of violence, but we don’t linger on it.” Well, in this sort of movie, you’re _supposed_ to linger on it (she said morbidly). Anyway… IMO, you have to have seen _Scream_ for S3 to make sense, but you could safely skip _Scream 2_. Which would be a shame, because it’s the best of the series; but you can understand S3 without it. Not that any of it is terribly complicated or anything, you understand. (The scariest thing in _Scream 3_? Seeing how desperately skinny the once-lovely Courteney Cox has become.) Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scream-3-i-couldnt-keep-track-of-who-was-who/13791/5 "2000-02-15T15:34:00Z")
Cat, You are so right about that. Courtney Cox used to be on my top five list of attractive women. Not anymore.