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Every time you fall asleep, another remake is made
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So Michael Bay is remaking Nightmare on Elm Street. I know I should be used to needless remakes by now, but this one bugs me in a special way. The promotion for the movie even brags:
"Platinum Dunes--the production company behind the remakes of FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR--tackles another classic horror franchise with this redo of the Wes Craven film."
as if it's a good thing. Yes, the company guilty of twisting fondly-remembered classics into over-glossed soulless CGI-fests is doing it again! And this time to the classic horror movie that probably needs a remake the least.
Robert Englund is still making movies. In fact, he just played Freddy Krueger in a movie like 4 years ago. Do we really need a new one? Johnny Depp was even in the original!
Also I hate how the first scene of the trailer is Freddy running into the boiler room and getting burned up. It completely discards the creepy ghost story vibe of his backstory. It's similar to how we all know the reason Heath Ledger's Joker was so chilling was because of his well documented and filmed history amirite?
But hey they have Rorschach playing the new Freddy. Maybe that's cool?
What are your thoughts on this crap, SE++?
tl;dr: BAWWWWWWWWWW
So Michael Bay is remaking Nightmare on Elm Street. I know I should be used to needless remakes by now, but this one bugs me in a special way. The promotion for the movie even brags:
"Platinum Dunes--the production company behind the remakes of FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR--tackles another classic horror franchise with this redo of the Wes Craven film."
as if it's a good thing. Yes, the company guilty of twisting fondly-remembered classics into over-glossed soulless CGI-fests is doing it again! And this time to the classic horror movie that probably needs a remake the least.
Robert Englund is still making movies. In fact, he just played Freddy Krueger in a movie like 4 years ago. Do we really need a new one? Johnny Depp was even in the original!
Also I hate how the first scene of the trailer is Freddy running into the boiler room and getting burned up. It completely discards the creepy ghost story vibe of his backstory. It's similar to how we all know the reason Heath Ledger's Joker was so chilling was because of his well documented and filmed history amirite?
But hey they have Rorschach playing the new Freddy. Maybe that's cool?
What are your thoughts on this crap, SE++?
tl;dr: BAWWWWWWWWWW
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Easy mistake to make tbh.
1/45th of the movie length.
1/45th of the explosions.
STOP RAPING EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THE 80s GOD DAMMIT
god damn it
god damn it
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Clancy Brown is rad.
a while ago
1) When it comes time to make sequels to Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, will they be remakes of the original sequels? Will we see the new Jason in Manhattan in 10 years?
2) At the end of Freddy vs Jason, there was a cliffhanger that made it seem like there would be more (no surprise there). Will this storyline continue? Will it exist as a parallel dimension to the remake storyline? Or do the remakes usurp the originals and will we never have Englund cracking jokes while slaughtering people again?
If people already know the plot, instead of filling the movie with exposition, development, or any of that boring shit, you can just fill the entire movie in with explosions.
Duh
Clancy Brown was awesome in The Shawshank Redemption
This could be the only decent outcome of these tepid remakes.
I don't understand why film companies don't just save themselves a boatload of cash, pick out the niche classics that have held up decently well, reprint the reels, and ship those out for large screen showings.
I'd imagine he has a very limited role in this though.
There should be a new artistic synthesis of these seemingly competing elements of fiction called explosition.
wait what that is his backstory.
Did I miss something? Do you mean it is revealed too early? I mean, that is what happens in the original.
I wouldn't think that that has half the potential for making cash
Does Michael Bay have a huge boner for the franchises of yesteryear or is this a cash only deal? Like, is Michael Bay selling the idea of these remakes or is someone selling them to him?
which they are doing anyway
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_17381.html
I would imagine it has almost no potential for cash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Dunes
Judging by how much money they're making I'd say Bay's intentions are purely monetary.
The original is a classic don't get me wrong but it's fucking A Nightmare on Elm Street. There really isn't much there for those involved to fuck up other than excessive CGI, which is totally endemic to hollywood now any way.
I'm not really that put off by this and I'd say I enjoy the original. I think I'm more upset that the climate of infinite remakes is pushing out the potential for new material than I am about a remake of an already arguably not astounding film.
and they are usually the same story told worse
I don't have a problem with remakes if something interesting is done, more often then not it's crap
I hate many many things and have done so for a long time. Hatred is the background radiation of my emotional spectrum.
it's incredibly lazy and motivated solely by making easy cash, of course the film industry has always been about making money, really there's too much of an audience ready to pay for any old nostalgic crap.
Did you see Rob Zombie's Halloween remake? I thought it was actually quite well done and was very pleasantly surprised. His other movies were complete shit, but he injected a lot of depth into Halloween.
One of the better remakes, especially horror, that I can think of in the past couple years. I don't know why it didn't get good reviews I thought it was borderline masterfully done for a horror film.
nothing was good about the 80's except me
and we certainly aren't gonna stop raping Pip. Oh no.
I haven't and I'd be reluctant to see it, but I don't know it is the season
This remake, on the other hand, is pegging the needle at 'looks awesome':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEMZwQulT1Q
There is a prequel to The Thing planned, which focuses on the norwegian camp. The Thing is one of my most cherished horror movies and I am on board with this prequel idea.
EDIT: Thumbs up for The Crazies and also using Mad World in the trailer.
well, now just hold on there a second
that just sounds fucking wacky
oh wait, it'll be terrible. robert rodriguez will use his internal cgi studio