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sarah michelle gellar's scene is so out of place and useless

posted 8 years ago by stepsonglass
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i actually like this scene in terms of its direction and execution, its one of the better chase scenes in the series, but ive always felt its so out of place and completely useless to the story. it feels tacked on in post production like they went back to film extra scenes to throw in at the last minute or something.

i think it would have worked better as the opening scene rather than the theatre scene maybe? but it probably would have been too similar to barrymore's scene

its just weird how her character has absolutely no relevance to the others, never interacts with the other characters, no relationship or friendship to any of them and is just kind of thrown in as an extra kill.

at no point in any of the other films do they do this so it has always stuck out for me as by far the most useless scene in any of the movies.

they have the random secondary character killed in all of the other films like the principal in the first one or the publicist in scream 4 but they at least did have relationships with the other characters.....cici did not.

anyone else ever notice this totally useless character?

[–] DracTarashV2 (4497) 3 years ago

Yet for me it’s always been one of the best scenes in the movie. Can’t change my mind. ;)

But hey, this is still a slasher. Why should all the kills be connected anyway, know what I mean? Hehe.

Though I guess I can see where the OP was coming from, other than it being a well-known actress one would expect to have a bigger role in this (it’s been the Scream way since day 1), Cici definitely was killed for a reason. I enjoy Sarah’s screen time in this overall.