What was the last movie you've seen?

[REPO Man]

Plus it's just a horror movie that knows it's a horror movie. In fact, every single thing the killer does is based on horror movies. It's basically a cinematic version of Horror Movie 101.

At one point I would have said Scream is a masterpiece, but it doesn't stand the test of time like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, and even they pale in comparison to the likes of more classic horror like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or the early works of Universal.

While it will be part of bringing back slasher movies to movie theatres, it's more of a focal point in cinema history than a genuinely good film. In fact, of all the '90s Slasher Revival films out there, I'd pick "I Know What You Did Last Summer" or "Urban Legends" over "Scream".

I'm not bringing "Bride of Chucky" into this, either.

[TSTR]

I'm beginning to wonder if you kind of missed the point of Scream entirely.

[MrPopo]

I'm beginning to wonder if you kind of missed the point of Scream entirely.

I think he did.

I'll be right baaaaack!

[Ack]

Excellent, my popcorn is ready.

[samsonlonghair]

Last night, I hosted a free movie night in town square. We showed Batman (1989). There were a few poor kids there who would not have been able to afford to go to the movies otherwise.

[Forlorn Drifter]

I'm beginning to wonder if you kind of missed the point of Scream entirely.

I'm about 90% sure he did, I understood the point in 3rd grade.

Saw Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Let's Be Cops.

Sin City... great movie. I really loved it, as I did the first one. This one, in line with the comics, comes off with a truer noir vibe than the first, overall. The surprise appearances in the movie are nice, though I don't know if the color effects were used to the same level. (Not talking about the bright colors on the black and white, I mean swapping to the action being white and everything else being black, etc.) I imagine its spot on with the comic though, like the first one.

Let's Be Cops is a simple goofy buddy comedy, exactly what you would expect.

[Stark]

Last night, I hosted a free movie night in town square. We showed Batman (1989). There were a few poor kids there who would not have been able to afford to go to the movies otherwise.

Awesome!

[Fragems]

Last night, I hosted a free movie night in town square. We showed Batman (1989). There were a few poor kids there who would not have been able to afford to go to the movies otherwise.

Did you have to jump through any legal hoops? A Criminal Justice Society I was a part of in college tried to do this a few years back and the horror stories about even libraries getting jacked up fines for showing movies scared us off. To legally show just about any film even for a free event was a few hundred bucks for a license unless we went for a public domain movie .

To get around the BS I actually considered buying up multiple copies of specific movies so that we could distribute them amongst the club so that everyone legally had "ownership" of the movies and the right to watch it . A stink could probably be raised that way as well though so we never tried it. Copyright law is a freaking mess and can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

Now that I think about it I would almost like to try that just to see what the lawsuit would be like. Using legally obtained copies of a movie as tickets to view the same movie in a public setting.

Edit:
By the way I think it is awesome what you did and I wish stuff like that happened more often around here, but probably due to the licensing cost/issues the city only does a free movie for kids maybe a handful of times each summer.

[MrPopo]

Copyright law is a freaking mess and can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

All the rights issues around broadcasting are incredibly messed up. That's why many shows can lose an episode or an entire title sequence due to the music rights being licensed only for the show and reruns but not home distribution. Or to go with your movie example, I can watch a movie at home. I can invite a few friends and watch a movie at home. Heck, if I want to reenact college I could invite the neighborhood and we all watch the movie at my house. But if it's done outdoors or in a public building now it falls under a different set of licenses and I could get in trouble.

[samsonlonghair]

Last night, I hosted a free movie night in town square. We showed Batman (1989). There were a few poor kids there who would not have been able to afford to go to the movies otherwise.

Did you have to jump through any legal hoops? A Criminal Justice Society I was a part of in college tried to do this a few years back and the horror stories about even libraries getting jacked up fines for showing movies scared us off. To legally show just about any film even for a free event was a few hundred bucks for a license unless we went for a public domain movie .

...

By the way I think it is awesome what you did and I wish stuff like that happened more often around here, but probably due to the licensing cost/issues the city only does a free movie for kids maybe a handful of times each summer.

We have a plan for such things. Our public library bought a license to show movies in public. The MPLC Umbrella License for a public library in a city of fewer than ten thousand people only cost $115 per year. That's way less than the cost of going to court. There are a few caveats: We cannot charge admission; We cannot show these movies in an actual movie theatre, but a park is cool; All movies are billed as "in cooperation with such-n-such library" just so it's clear who has the license.

You can find more info on the MPLC Umbrella license here:
http://www.mplc.org/page/library