10 Movies That Should Have Started 5 Minutes Later

10. Scream 3

It's no coincidence that Scream 3, markedly the worst of the series' four films to date, also features the single dud opening of the bunch.

The threequel kicks off with a painfully drawn-out, wholly un-cinematic opening where Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) is taunted over the phone by Ghostface, who is spying on his girlfriend Christine (Kelly Rutherford) at his home.

In a one-two punch of ridiculousness, Cotton speeds through traffic to race home - almost causing a pile-up - while Ghostface toys with Christine by... playing a Creed song over Cotton's stereo.

If you start the movie at the five-minute mark, we get to skip all this nonsense and the Scott Stapp needle-drop and kick things off with a far more concise, contained set-piece at the house.

Considering that the rest of the sequence is actually moderately suspenseful, culminating in the death of Cotton and Christine, Wes Craven could've got Scream 3 off to a far punchier start without all that plodding, pointless setup.