A Nightmare on Elm Steet

[sabei0990]

What were everyone's opinions?

I like that they changed Freedie's face but it may be to drastic. I loved his voice too.
Wasn't that actor in another movie were her molested or at least tried to molest kids?

 

[RRUGER]

What were everyone's opinions?

I like that they changed Freedie's face but it may be to drastic. I loved his voice too.
Wasn't that actor in another movie were her molested or at least tried to molest kids?

movie sucked crap

 

[Taurean79]

i saw it and didnt care too much for it. Waste of money. should have just watched it online............

 

[pallenk]

i thought it was good. but, it is the only remake that didn't come close to being as good as the original. i hated the NOES series. but, the first 3 films were good. and the first was excellent. but, it was worth the watch. and i liked the whole cast really.

 

[EthanStorm]

I liked it alot and glad they are taking it in a different direction. I went into it with low hopes because I'm such a fan of the original movies but reguardless what the critics say, I left the theater very happy.

 

[orton86]

I liked it alot and glad they are taking it in a different direction. I went into it with low hopes because I'm such a fan of the original movies but reguardless what the critics say, I left the theater very happy.

Exactly! I went in the theater thinking it was going to be awful, yet fun. I thought it was fun because I went Friday night where the theater was packed. So it was fun to watch it with everyone gasping and screaming. In the end, it was a fun event.

 

[Gemini_Valley]

I saw this movie over the weekend, my knowledge of the series extends no further than the original but I liked it. There were a lot of homage's to the first film so I was surprised there wasn't at least one cameo from the original. Initially I didn't care for Nancy being an introvert, sort of quirky artist, but in this reboot it worked well.

 

[BRIOHAZARD]

I went to the theater not expecting much, but it was really good.


I think Jackie Earle Haley did an amazing job as Freddy.



"Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet."

 

[SexyKev]

Haven't seen it yet but I'm definitely going to check it out!!

 

[EthanStorm]

Haven't seen it yet but I'm definitely going to check it out!!

Definitely a good horror movie, brush the haters off lol. It had some cool stuff in it.

 

[Gomaki]

I liked it, it had a different feel than other Freddy movies. I like that they made it more suspensful than gory. Also it's a little less campy, a little more dark.

I can see why there are haters though. People expected a reproduction of Robert Englund's version. I think part of the appeal of the character is Englund's kookiness. The 2010 version is a lot different, like *gasp* it's played by a completely different guy! However, some people may think of it as almost a different character and dislike it for this reason.

I like to think of remakes as separate movies. Let's face it, if they made it too much like the original, I doubt it would hold up to today's movies. 80s horrors have a certain nostagia, but don't really stand the test of time cinematically. That's why all the Freddy/Jason/Halloween sequels we so awful.

 

[matt1980111]

I saw this last night and I really enjoyed it. I'm not a huge horror fan but this was good. A few moments left me completely terrified

Now I've never seen the original but I really enjoyed this one.

 

[GM1985]

I liked it, it had a different feel than other Freddy movies. I like that they made it more suspensful than gory. Also it's a little less campy, a little more dark.

I can see why there are haters though. People expected a reproduction of Robert Englund's version. I think part of the appeal of the character is Englund's kookiness. The 2010 version is a lot different, like *gasp* it's played by a completely different guy! However, some people may think of it as almost a different character and dislike it for this reason.

I like to think of remakes as separate movies. Let's face it, if they made it too much like the original, I doubt it would hold up to today's movies. 80s horrors have a certain nostagia, but don't really stand the test of time cinematically. That's why all the Freddy/Jason/Halloween sequels we so awful.

I haven't seen the new one yet, not out here til Friday but I agree with this regarding other films.

I just dunno if I'll think this way with a movie series I really love

 

[EthanStorm]

I haven't seen the new one yet, not out here til Friday but I agree with this regarding other films.

I just dunno if I'll think this way with a movie series I really love

You should like it. I was skeptical too and disappointed the first 10 mins but boy was I wrong.

 

[LatinCoffee]

I liked Freddy's voice and that they stood a bit with the original and changed it up a bit at the same time.

 

[VaseFace808]

I liked it and I really appreciate that Bay didn't (A) fill the movie with tons of unnecessary nudity and sex scenes and (B) didn't resort to using the slapstick, corny, humor attempts that made so many past sequels so lame.

I liked that they took the film and Freddy seriously, but still managed to give him a "personality".

All in all, a solid movie and worth it if you want some quick fun.

 

[MyReply]

Fuck the remake. I might watch it when it makes it way to cable, but there's no way in hell I'm gonna support its box office. The trailers and commercials have done absolutely nothing to pique my interest or curb my initial skepticism. New Freddy doesn't seem nearly as unsettling, eerie or scary as Robert did in the original; he looks like a deformed lion, and sounds like his dentures are slipping. Meanwhile, critical reaction to this has been lukewarm at best. Roger Ebert gave it one star, and it's only at a 15% at Rotten Tomatoes. The CW-ization of ANOES. No thanks.

Some of the critic comments:

Drab leads and a lack of any sort of fevered investigative pop make this Nightmare come across like a boring, gory junior detective procedural.

Somewhere, Wes Craven is laughing up his sleeve, and Robert Englund is grinning. It's nice to know that you're irreplaceable.

Never has the lure of the recognizable been more obvious than in this familiar yet forgettable reboot of Wes Craven's 1980s horror franchise.

The movie takes itself way too seriously, like a Medieval Times waiter acting scared of a cell phone.

Haley does what's required of him--which mainly consists of growling and grimacing beneath layers of make up--but there's nothing at all memorable about his performance

Nice try, but they probably should have just left the original Nightmare on Elm Street as is.

When producers Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller go to sleep tonight, it's a safe bet that their dreams will be tormented by Wes Craven and Robert Englund sporting gloves with bladed fingers.

What we are left with is a higher body count and a faster pace, but no tension. ...Welcome to the low-impact world of modern franchise horror pictures

Save yourself the ticket price and buy the original on DVD and see what a true fright is.

 

[GM1985]

You should like it. I was skeptical too and disappointed the first 10 mins but boy was I wrong.

I probably will go check it out then, just for research purposes

They shoulda done what they are planning on doing with Chucky, have Wes Craven and Robert Englund take on their previous roles and remake the original film properly.

ANOES could have been Craven's re-imagined horror movie for this decade, just like he did with Scream in the 90's.

p.s. I still think that they should have done a more grotesque looking Freddie, in my opinion he looks like a burns victim that needs a good wash and sounds like an OAP without their dentures in!

 

[just_mills]

I'll be watching this soon, hopefully.

 

[GM1985]

So I finally went to see this movie tonight and it confirmed my initial opinion, Freddie should have been left dead. Thomas Dekker is a great actor and I like Kellan Lutz but those factors didn't affect the movie enough to make it anywhere near decent.

I thought some of the effects were good but they weren't as impressive as the originals, for the fact that you knew everything seen in the original was done for real. I also thought the added elements and changes of the story were totally unnecessary and well...crap. Trying to make you feel sorry for Freddie was a big mistake, in my opinion it took away the evil and twisted element to him.

I wish modern movies would stop trying to dumb down story elements whilst cranking up the gore. As for Freddie himself, the whole look didn't scare me at all whereas the original did, I also thought the one liners and references to "Little Nancy" were mediocre.

Another example showing endless, brainless remakes of movies are a waste of money!

P.S. Both myself and my best friend both couldn't get over the fact that one of the guy's had a certain resemblance to a modern popular vampire and his girlfriend also bore a resemblence to said vampire's love! In other words, drawing parallel's with Twilight! Which I found insulting!