Not that bad

I'll have to be the nay-sayer here (sorry, don't wanna be a jerk), just because I'm a Freddy fan, and I was very excited for this, only to feel like I had the director and producers spit in my face.

I was really, honestly looking forward to this. I thought the trailers looked great, I thought Jackie Earle Haley was perfect for the new Freddy (and to be honest, he was the only redeeming quality in this), and I had faith that it would at least be halfway decent.

I just thought that it followed the check-list of everything that could have been done fundamentally wrong with a remake.

The characters were beyond paper-thin. Not a single one had any real redeeming quality, or even any "character" to speak of. I didn't care about them in the least.

They were all played by disturbingly older people than they should have. The actors portraying the kids all looked 30-40 years old, even the ones who weren't that old. And nobody could really act. (Even Roony Mara, who is an incredible actress that I quite admire after seeing her in other roles, sucked here.)

Freddy was mishandled completely and utterly. Everything about him was ruined. There was no subtlety. I've said it before, and I'll say it again- everytime he was on screen, it felt like the director and Michael Bay were dancing circles around you, banging pots and pans together and chanting "Freddy's evil! He's sooooooo evil!" He was too blatant and poorly handled by the script, direction and editing.

The dreams were beyond boring. Freddy is basically god in the dream world- he can do anything. Yet every dream was the same- Freddy takes you to the school or boiler room, does one or two poorly-executed jump scares, then stabs you. And the dreams were all short and boring as heck. Incredibly poorly-conceived usage of the dreams.

The jump-scares sucked. Too many, and too phoned in.

The script was obnoxiously written and formulaic.

The direction and editing was atrocious.

I thought it was honestly the worst remake of a horror film from the past 10 years. Sure, others are technically "worse" films, but this one was so blatant in how terrible it was, and the original was so iconic, that by default, it made this one feel worse than any of the others.



And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?

Wow, so you do the exact same thing I do. Every October I watch almost every horror movie in my collection. Been doing it for the last five or six years. It's so great to sit down and pig out on zombie movie after zombie movie. Then slasher flick after slasher flick. I finish off by watching Return of the Living Dead, Death Proof, Planet Terror, Rosemary's Baby, The Thing (1985), The Shining, and then finally The Exorcist. I watched this film (the 2010) version for the first time this year. I really don't know why people are giving it so many bad ratings. It was nice watching this reboot. I know I enjoyed it.

Sadly people who like it are few and far between. I just never understood the level of hate this film garners.



Haters gonna hate but trolls are pathetic

Definately not!! Its just different from what many expected, or hoped for, and different for many equals not good. Reminds me of a film a friend gave me, saying it was HORRIBLE and they couldn't believe they watched it. (Drive) On Bluray, of course I took it and I loved it!!! It wasn't at all what I expected and it really blew me away. It was like an art film with extremely graphic scenes and some great race scenes. So I went back to my friend and I was like "what didn't you like? It was awesome!" And they replied "I was expecting a Transporter type film and it was totally different." Huh.

How mature of you Chip my boy.

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Grow up please.


Thank you.