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Posted: Oct 04 2009 07:19 am

Saw the trailer before Zombieland. Thoughts:

1. Freddy being innocent and apparently half-retarded is dumb. Freddy was way cooler as the clever, calculating child murderer.
2. Why the fuck does Freddy look like Voldemort?
3. The new Freddy voice is fucking awful.
4. The trailer showed a few scenes that look like remakes of some of the more classic deaths, which is cool.
5. The cinematography looks fantastic.
6. The CGI seems iffy. The flames in scene of him being burned to death looked FUCKING AWFUL.

Posted: Oct 04 2009 10:02 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Saw the trailer before Zombieland. Thoughts:

1. Freddy being innocent and apparently half-retarded is dumb. Freddy was way cooler as the clever, calculating child murderer.
2. Why the fuck does Freddy look like Voldemort?

These were the points I tried to make earlier and were the same impressions I got from the trailer. The trailer hints that Freddy was innocent, which is totally retarded. The whole point of him killing teenagers in their dreams was because in life, he was a monster who loved to kill children. To make him innocent removes any of the fear that one gets from being chased by a complete psychopath that can't be reasoned with that made the original Freddy so effective. It made you think when your head hit the pillow after watching the film, "what if Freddy is real..." and made you a bit nervous about going to sleep.

Revenge on specific people is a far less compelling motive for a horror villain.

As for the new alien face, I know they tried to make the burn scars more realistic, but they are so far from the mark, it makes me wonder if they even researched what burn victims actually look like. I went to high school with a girl whose whole head and face had burn scars from when she was a kid, and I can tell you, the old Freddy is much more accurate. A smooth, gray face is not even in the right direction.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I think this remake will be fine. I don't expect the epic horror movie experience but I certainly don't expect it to be awful.

There are so many people pissed that it's not Robert Englund, which is retarded. It would be lame for him to play Freddy Krueger in a remake of a film in which he starred in all the sequels as well. When shit like that starts happening, the world will explode.

Posted: Oct 04 2009 04:59 pm

I would have been happy if they had got Billy Bob Thornton.

And besides, Englund would have worked. No one does REMAKES anymore; it was a RESET. And if you're going to reset the franchise, might as well do it with the guy who sold all those tickets in the first place.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

My point is:

Robert Englund in a Nightmare on Elm Street sequel? Fantastic.
Robert Englund starring in a remake/reset of a movie he was already in? Redundant.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

I know some (if not all) detest the Distressed Watcher but watch his review of the new Elm Street movie:

http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/vids2/dw/tf/12049-ep04

That moment when he showed Englund saying "you are all my children now" is when i felt like i was watching a really Elm Street trailer. Haley did a fine Rorschach, sold me on the role, but this. I didn't get the freddy feel from his take. Well see come April, which seems like an odd time to release a freddy movie. NOW would be a brilliant time.

Which brings me to this question:

Do any horror movies get released in October anymore?

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

I know some (if not all) detest the Distressed Watcher but watch his review of the new Elm Street movie:

http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/vids2/dw/tf/12049-ep04

That moment when he showed Englund saying "you are all my children now" is when i felt like i was watching a really Elm Street trailer. Haley did a fine Rorschach, sold me on the role, but this. I didn't get the freddy feel from his take. Well see come April, which seems like an odd time to release a freddy movie. NOW would be a brilliant time.

Which brings me to this question:

Do any horror movies get released in October anymore?

Halloween is saw time, any horror movie that comes out then would be competing.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

I know some (if not all) detest the Distressed Watcher but watch his review of the new Elm Street movie:

http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/vids2/dw/tf/12049-ep04

That moment when he showed Englund saying "you are all my children now" is when i felt like i was watching a really Elm Street trailer. Haley did a fine Rorschach, sold me on the role, but this. I didn't get the freddy feel from his take. Well see come April, which seems like an odd time to release a freddy movie. NOW would be a brilliant time.

Which brings me to this question:

Do any horror movies get released in October anymore?

Halloween is saw time, any horror movie that comes out then would be competing.

I am now sad that a sequel to a beaten horse has become the dominate horror movie for halloween season . . . really . . . nothing original, even if it is b-grade.

Posted: Oct 05 2009 06:17 am

joshwoodzell wrote:

My point is:

Robert Englund in a Nightmare on Elm Street sequel? Fantastic.
Robert Englund starring in a remake/reset of a movie he was already in? Redundant.

I disagree with that. It's like rebooting Indiana Jones and using Christian Bale instead of Harrison Ford. Indy will always be Ford's character, and no one else should play him. The same applies to Robert Englund and Freddy. No one else can do it as well as he did and is so iconic in the role, that anyone else can't hope to measure up, so the whole thing is just pointless.

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bit really. I'd e fine with bale as jones in a remake. in fact I want it!

and you know what? it's the series themselves that are to blame for these remakes. if tehy hadn't gotten so money hungry and sequel happy when they first had popularity, there wouldn't be like a hundred silly sequels that did retarded thigns to the canon. it would have been easier for studios nowadays to just make a straight sequel instead of saying "they put jason in SPACE? how THE HELL do we follow that up and expect to be taken seriously?"

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

FNJ wrote:

bit really. I'd e fine with bale as jones in a remake. in fact I want it!

and you know what? it's the series themselves that are to blame for these remakes. if tehy hadn't gotten so money hungry and sequel happy when they first had popularity, there wouldn't be like a hundred silly sequels that did retarded thigns to the canon. it would have been easier for studios nowadays to just make a straight sequel instead of saying "they put jason in SPACE? how THE HELL do we follow that up and expect to be taken seriously?"

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2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

ouch.