Good grief, that is the most overworked factoid of that movie: "Scary Movie" used Scream's original title. So much so that it almost single handedly proves there's nothing else interesting about the movie to say so.

Scary Movie was a dumb, sex-joke parody. Scream was an intelligent, interesting, bloody, and fun scary movie.

Sorry, Scream still rules.

And at least Scream was somewhat original. Nothing in Scary Movie was new. Just old and stale. I'm serious. Fart and sperm jokes are not new. Not even the extremeness of the movie was original. Only the fact that a big studio would pay that much for what low budget, direct to video, frat house comedies had been doing for years prior.

Scream challenges viewers' intelligence, Scary Movie requires one to leave their intelligence at the door. But I guess since Scary Movie was a parody, you're entitled to like it more. But Scream was not a parody. So, saying it "wishes it were Scary Movie" is really kinda crazy.