Best scene in the movie

I just like any scene with Mike in it, he was so funny!!! I might be seeing the new one tonight, I can't wait to see more of his antics!!! :)

Randall chose Boo for two reasons, one of which you already hit upon: she was already scared of him and he could count on her to scream, hedging his bets a bit with that machine. If the machine actually worked or not, it would APPEAR that it did to Waternoose, who, as you recall, was overseeing that test run. That would seal Randall's end of the deal, to design, build and successfully test the machine, and he hoped that he'd get whatever rewards Waternoose had promised him(which I doubt Waternoose ever intended to deliver upon), while Waternoose was left to handle the legal aspects of getting the machine officially approved. The other reason, well, you kinda sorta hit on it, too, unintentionally. Randall NEVER designed the machine to KILL or harm children. Doing that would have been stupidity incarnate. Human children, although perceived as no more than dangerous, non-sapient animals, much as most humans perceive rats or snakes, were still VALUABLE animals. They were a vital resource, so killing children would be like killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden eggs. You just don't DO that! Killing the children that were made to scream using the Scream Extractor(s)-as I'm sure that one machine was just a prototype-would be eliminating the next generation of children. Dead kids can't grow up to have children of their own, now can they? Dead kids can't scream, either. What dead kids CAN do, though, is attract an awful lot of attention from the REAL dangerous humans-the adults. Grown-ups can overlook their child waking up screaming and claiming that a monster came from the closet as a bad dream, overactive imagination, etc., but when kids start turning up dead in their beds, in large numbers, night after night, all over the world, or going missing completely, don't you think SOMEBODY is gonna notice that? Don't you think that this will lead to heightened watchfulness and the eventual discovery of a monster coming into a child's room to kidnap a child or use a portable Scream Extractor on it? Once that happens, as Dean Hardscrabble in MU explained, it would pretty much spell doom for the Monster World, and surely Randall knew this. The last thing he or Waternoose would have wanted would have been to do ANYTHING that would either jeopardize the next and future generations of Scream producers, or to attract the attention of adult humans, as this would have been inviting genocide of their own kind. Now, here's where Boo's importance comes in: Boo is too young to TALK, to verbalize what has happened, and THIS fact is important because Randall can test the machine, and then put her back, a bit shaken, but safe, in her room, and she will forget about the experience as all children under the age of four forget about the majority of experiences before that age, and she won't be able to tell anyone what happened. THAT is why he couldn't just pick any child. Now, if Randall really wanted her dead-and keep in mind that Waternoose DID order him to kill or at least eliminate Boo along with Sulley and Mike-why didn't he drop her in the Door Vault, after he thought he'd gotten rid of Mike and Sulley? The Scream Extractor was destroyed. It would have taken several days, perhaps weeks, to get it back up and running again, IF it were reparable. Keeping Boo in the factory, with the CDA already on alert to a child in the building, would have been beyond stupid, so Boo was of no use to Randall at that point. It would have indeed been easier just to pick another kid later on if the machine could be repaired, so why doesn't Randall just drop her? SULLEY had been the last one seen with her, so once the body was found and it was realized she was a human kid and not a monster, SULLEY would have been blamed for bringing her into the factory. It would have been easy, had Randall actually intended to ever harm her, to simply let her fall to her death, but he doesn't. He actually pulls her up closer to him when she starts to slip from his grip a bit, which makes no sense if you believe that Randall wanted to or meant to hurt her or any other human child. If you pay attention to the settings on the Scream Extractor's control panel, you'll see it can be adjusted on several "channels", like the graphic equalizer on a stereo(which probably is what it started "life" as). Randall has the controls set at around 30-40% when he has Mike in the seat, but only sets them at around 15-20% capacity when he has Boo in the seat, probably the most minimal setting needed to get her to scream. Sulley, on the other hand, pushes the controls up to 100% when he puts FUNGUS in the seat and leaves him there unattended, yet most people ASSume that the same thing would have happened to Boo that they saw happen to Fungus!

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