08-16-2016, 02:49 PM
A Nightmare on Elm Street, The 2010 version. Twilight watched it with me last night in her vessel, sitting on my left shoulder like a little purple parrot-horse. Maybe everyone here has already seen it, but it was the first time for us. I'm a fan of the horror genre, so it was nice to see a remake that didn't totally bite. The 2004 Dawn of the Dead is a perfect example of what not to do, this one, however, was worth the watch. It's been a while since seeing the '84 version so I can't rightfully compare them, but going by the 2010 version itself:
The Good: Special effects. Similarly the cinematography; the director was good at setting up the lighting, and using the environment to enhance his scenes. Also, the lack of jump scares was great. Nothing will turn me off of a movie faster than a director who relies on sudden, loud - especially when they're 10,000 times louder than the spoken dialogue - noises to elicit cheap scares. Drag Me to Hell, I'm looking at you.
The Bad: I disliked how they clarified Freddy's guilt. It would have been a more poignant story, imho, if we never discovered whether or not he was innocent of the crimes for which he was killed.
The kid's plan for dealing with him was also kind of dumb. It seems to me, that since they knew Freddy was killed, and reduced to ashes, yet still came back as a murderous, dream-invading ghost, that their plan of pulling him out of the dream world only to kill him and burn him again was simply moronic. Sure, from the Watsonian perspective, they were extremely sleep-deprived, and from the Doyalist point of view, the slasher's got to come back, but it just irked me that nobody said "wait, isn't this what got us in to this mess in the first place?"
Pacing. It was way too fast, jumping from one scene to the other with insufficient time to "reset" from the last scare.
The Meh: The casting. Nobody was bad per se, the girls were quite pretty, and I enjoyed the new portrayal of Freddy. Seeing the DI from Starship Troopers was kind of cool, too.
It was also neat to see the photo boxes in the attic labeled "1996." In my youth, I would see stuff like that in movies, with the labels reading 197X, and think "that was SO long ago." Now, years I clearly remember are being used in the same way, and it threw me for a moment. Like the first time I saw a Playboy model who was younger than me. Trippy.
The Good: Special effects. Similarly the cinematography; the director was good at setting up the lighting, and using the environment to enhance his scenes. Also, the lack of jump scares was great. Nothing will turn me off of a movie faster than a director who relies on sudden, loud - especially when they're 10,000 times louder than the spoken dialogue - noises to elicit cheap scares. Drag Me to Hell, I'm looking at you.
The Bad: I disliked how they clarified Freddy's guilt. It would have been a more poignant story, imho, if we never discovered whether or not he was innocent of the crimes for which he was killed.
The kid's plan for dealing with him was also kind of dumb. It seems to me, that since they knew Freddy was killed, and reduced to ashes, yet still came back as a murderous, dream-invading ghost, that their plan of pulling him out of the dream world only to kill him and burn him again was simply moronic. Sure, from the Watsonian perspective, they were extremely sleep-deprived, and from the Doyalist point of view, the slasher's got to come back, but it just irked me that nobody said "wait, isn't this what got us in to this mess in the first place?"
Pacing. It was way too fast, jumping from one scene to the other with insufficient time to "reset" from the last scare.
The Meh: The casting. Nobody was bad per se, the girls were quite pretty, and I enjoyed the new portrayal of Freddy. Seeing the DI from Starship Troopers was kind of cool, too.
It was also neat to see the photo boxes in the attic labeled "1996." In my youth, I would see stuff like that in movies, with the labels reading 197X, and think "that was SO long ago." Now, years I clearly remember are being used in the same way, and it threw me for a moment. Like the first time I saw a Playboy model who was younger than me. Trippy.
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The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
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The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.