Nightmare On Elm Street Remake

What did you think?

  • I loved it. It was better than the original.

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • I liked it, but I still like the original more.

    Votes: 3 12.0%
  • What? Another Remake? Fuck you Hollywood. FUCK YOU!!!

    Votes: 20 80.0%

  • Total voters
    25

L3ggy

Special Operations FOX-HOUND
Whatever, all that matters is that when your 12 y.o. child watches it she'll remember that particular new Freddy...and then when she's 25 they'll make a new 'remake' of the movie and it'll be her daughter's/son's turn to be scared by the Freddy that will start acting then.

Circle of life mates. A new Freddy for the new generation...not the old one. That's the remake's purpose.
 

Shifty

O.G.
An Evil Dead remake might not be half bad if it included Bruce Campbell - as actor/director. They could improve on the special effects, just not go over the top and fuck it all up.
 

om3ga

It's good to be the king...
Can't be bothered - yet ANOTHER pointless remake!
File with Conan, The Warriors, War of the Worlds, Day the Earth Stood Still, etc.
 
I wish holloywood would stop remaking movies that were already once succsessful and instead turn their attention to other movies that were not so.

I'm loving that they are doing a remake of "Piranha"

Did not like the new Nightmare on Elm Street. Too much cgi removed any fear the orginal had. Jackie Earle Hayley as Freddy was more creepy without the burned face.
 
I wish we'd try to understand why hollywood is remaking these successful movies. There's a catch there, and I fear that we're not getting it simply because we'd rather conclude that they're full of shit.
 
No Robert Englund = No Freddy Krueger = No Nightmare on Elm Street.

I'm surprised by your response Blue. You're always more open minded than this. You can't try to compare it to Robert England. I thought Jackie Haley did a great job with HIS interpretation of Freddy. He wasn't trying to copy England, he made it his own character. Kind of how Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

Also, I've heard people complain that the new Freddy's eyes look too squinty.
That's because that is how a TRUE burn victim really looks. They were going for realism on this look and not "coolness."

It could not possibly be as good as the original.

It's not. But it's still worth seeing.


There are bigger things to be worrying about than going to watch this POS........like Iron-Man 2 coming out next week.

I'm so sick of the comic book trend too. They're trying to put every comic book character ever into a movie and it's getting pretty lame imo. The Dark Knight will be the last comic book movie I will see for a veeeeeery long time. And I'm a Spider-Man fan but I'm damn sure not going to go watch a remake of a movie that's only ten years old.

Superhero Movies + Remakes = Double Trend = Double :throwup:
 
It's not. But it's still worth seeing.
Totally. I intend on seeing it, and I'm not a rigid fanboy crying about how "they didn't do it justice" or whatever, I just think the vibe is going to be very different and not in a way that helps. The original is actually kind of disturbing in some places, kind of like a dream (slicing off his finger/nipples/whathaveyou).
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
Rorschach won't even have to change character!
 
Didnt know the new Freddy was the only normal guy for the time period in Semi-Pro. But yeah like most everyone else I agree no Bob Englund no Freddy.
 

PlasmaTwa2

The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Having someone other than Englund play the role is like, in my opinion, trying to cast someone else as Han Solo. It's possible, but in the end it just won't work out. Even if Haley attempts to create his own version of the character, he will not escape the comparisions to the original. I think it's good that he puts his own spin on it, but this entire remake was doomed to fail from the beginning. Unlike other horror movies, Freddy had a personality and a voice, and without Englund it just won't seem as fun to me.
 
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