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I've spoken endlessly about the Scream movies before, so I'll just say this:
Scream -- I loved it. One of the best lite-horror films I have ever seen. Great opening scene, great characters - I was in awe.
Scream 2 -- I don't know what it is, but I love this movie more than the first, making it my favorite of all three. It's darker, it's more fun to watch than the first (in my opinion), the opening scene was better to watch at the movies than the first film's (something about being in a theatre while watching a scene with people in a movie theatre watching a horror movie), I loved the characters more, loved Sidney's greek play, and thought it had a cooler ending. This one showed how they REALLY messed with Sidney's head. The first film was just barely doing that. She seemed more phased by her mom's death which happened in the past.
Note: There's a second draft of the script on the internet. It has many differences, especially with the ending. I liked a lot of that story better than the filmed version - I am pissed that it wasn't filmed. Even if just as an alternate version on the DVD.
Scream 3 -- They really screwed up. I thought that if I could love Scream 2 better than Scream 1, then Scream 3 will have to be THE ULTIMATE. Instead, they made this totally ridiculous piece of *****. I was hoping to see Sidney as maybe an actress in Hollywood, or doing some kind of job there - no. They wrote her as a PHONE CRISIS COUNSELOR. Whoo hoo! She only had one scene where the killer called through her crisis counseling line, and it was AWFUL. The killer also had this device that could change his voice to sound like anybody he could get a sample of their voice of, and it makes NO SENSE. I was completely shocked that Wes Craven went along with this. Parker Posey was fun, but she overacted, and did not seem someone who should be in a Scream movie. I don't get how people can say this movie is better than Scream 2. Scream 1 and Scream 2 fit together, but Scream 3 just doesn't. It stunk to high hell. Only bits and pieces of it I liked - such as Sidney being chased around the replica of her house on the set of Stab 3.
Note: Scream's writer and creator, Kevin Williamson, didn't write this one. He wrote a treatment, but the screenwriter, Ehren Kruger, didn't use much of it. Kevin's idea was to take the story back to Woodsboro, the setting of the first film, and I really wish I could know exactly what he planned.
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