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Post by endo on May 4, 2010 1:11:09 GMT -5
Anyone seen this yet? I'll get the DVD when it comes out, I don't spend $11 a person for any flick.
Just curious about what you thought of it. From the trailers and clips I've seen, it seems like this one gives a better background of Freddy, but the rest seems like a re-hash of the original.
I think Jackie Earle Haley would make a great Freddy, so curious as to what others that have seen it think.
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Post by kaveman1969 on May 10, 2010 18:54:17 GMT -5
I'm waiting to rent it too, but from what I've read fans of the original are liking it.
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Post by magicmist82 on May 12, 2010 20:59:44 GMT -5
I haven't seen this one and I don't really plan to either, but I can tell for sure that good ol' Freddy used to scare the kajeebus out of me when I was a little kid, that sharp glove was no silly joke!
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Post by kaveman1969 on May 13, 2010 21:47:17 GMT -5
Sounds like the only differences are a different Freddy, who isn't into the one liners but much more grim, and some background info on what Freddy did while he was alive to get all of the parents to burn him.
Other than that, it looks like a re-hash of the original. I'll still get it on DVD, but I would have liked a complete prequel type movie. Take me through Freddy's life, and to why he was molesting kids in the first place.
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Post by somebody stole my name on Jul 20, 2010 4:23:05 GMT -5
My friend saw the new one, she said that it was really good. I haven't seen it yet but I'm going to get the DVD when it comes out.
I have the first Nightmare on Elm Street: I liked it. :]
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Post by endo on Jul 20, 2010 18:47:45 GMT -5
I have all of the Nightmare series with Robert Englund as Freddy. The first two were great I thought.
The rest were just OK to me. They got a little too campy for my tastes.
As soon as the new one is available on NetFlix, I'll get it.
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Post by somebody stole my name on Jul 21, 2010 2:59:35 GMT -5
is it me or does that always happen? whenever a series goes on for a really long time, the first movie (and sometimes the second and last ones) are epic, but all of the ones in the middle are -eh-. the same thing happened with the saw series: the first movie was sick, and the second one was crazy too, but even though the ones after were still really good, they didn't quite measure up... speaking of saw, I heard that in Saw 7 (which I think is going to end the Saw series) Dr. Gordon is alive.  |
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Post by endo on Jul 21, 2010 13:57:07 GMT -5
speaking of saw, I heard that in Saw 7 (which I think is going to end the Saw series) Dr. Gordon is alive. According to this link, Dr. Gordon is indeed back. saw-7-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/Oh, and it's not just you. It seems the more movies a franchise puts out, the more they pale in comparison to the original. |
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Post by somebody stole my name on Jul 22, 2010 2:02:08 GMT -5
that's sick  and yeah, that's usually how it goes...  |
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Post by queenfreaky on Dec 6, 2010 9:22:14 GMT -5
I have a very BIG problem with horror movie remakes. It annoys me. There was nothing wrong with them to warrent a remake, even if the originals were rubbish. Freddy is a classic cult horror movie icon. Yes they may have gotten a bit cheesy in the ridiculous amount of sequals but that was part of the charm. Sequals are a bad idea for any film. (except for in my humble opinion the Saw films of which I am a huge fan, and I think the resulting movies and the ever twisting story lines worked.) But back to the topic on hand I realise that different people will have different takes on how to direct/produce a film, especially over time, but I really wish the old classics were left alone!
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Post by endo on Dec 7, 2010 17:57:42 GMT -5
I tend to agree with you. If it's not broken don't fix it. Too many of the classics like Halloween, Nightmare, Friday The 13th, etc. are being re-made just for the sake of remaking them it seems.
And most of the remakes are not nearly as good as the original. I finally saw the new Nightmare on Elm Street and it wasn't nearly as good or scary as the original was, to me anyway.
Granted, I have seen a lot of horror since the first Nightmare came out, but that one scared the crap out of me when I saw it the first time.
This new one just made me wonder why in the heck they made it.
What happened to new, original horror? Not that all remakes are bad, or a bad idea. The Crazies was really good, and I'm hearing really good things about Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, but I think in most cases the originals should be left alone.
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Post by queenfreaky on Dec 8, 2010 8:57:50 GMT -5
completley agree. A new original idea would be great rather then remaking the classics, or copying the same idea over and over
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Post by kevin on Jun 16, 2011 7:44:15 GMT -5
I keep picking this up then putting it down again. I dont know if because its a remake and Im expecting it to be rubbish, or if its just because the freddy films never really did it for me the first time around. I was more into the friday the 13th films  |
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Post by Tony Hates Everything on Jun 16, 2011 11:13:49 GMT -5
I'm a big freddy fanatic and this film i didnt enjoy. they made freddy a pervert and not funny "he said one funny thing" i know alot of people that enjoyed it and the only thing i liked was it kept the freddy name alive a bit longer even after freddy vs jason which i didnt really care for either
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Post by queenfreaky2 on Jul 12, 2011 16:04:39 GMT -5
am watching it now..... definatly prefer the original Im afraid. the teenage cast cant act for toffee, freddy just is nt freddy without robert englund, and the deaths were much more grisly in the original. I felt this dragged a bit, did nt really explore the characters although I did like the way they explored the origins of the frddy myth. freddy was more pervy in this, I just did nt like it.  |
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