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I agree. I think either begin where they left off or start off further down the chain only to reveal that Joel survived and has a plan to kill the entity.
I didn't empathize with Freddy in either case although I agree that the teens are bland. What really gets me about making Freddy an opportunistic pedophile aside from his repugnance is there is nothing specific about him for him to become a haunting dream spectre. The original Freddy was on a killing spree that only stopped when he was caught so Freddy becoming a supernatural killer made sense to continue the atrocities he commited while alive. The reboot Freddy straight up changed his MO.
I agree. This is how I interpret the plot as well.
I felt that the very beginning was a tad fast and I would have liked some brooding flashback scenes or more interaction at his home before he embarkss (a pace similar to A Cure for Wellness) otherwise I agree with everything you said. Also I didn't like what was done to the lamb on that ferry.
I agree that could be cool especially if 3 were rebooted to be less cynical and anti-climactic in regards to the Dream Warriors impact and formidability against Freddy.
What's wild to me about Glen and I agree that he didnt dream about Freddy at all was that it could be a riff on him being a mindless jock who Freddy didn't want to waste his time on. Alternatively Glen could have been a secret Balinese Dream Master that up until that point had successfully warded Freddy off using the methods he spoke of. It's crazy to think that his lack of Freddy experiences and sleeping like a rock as he put it could point to either or.
It's an interesting thought even still as come to think of it the guys nightmares in the reboot didn't hit right for me with the exception of the first, last and bookstore I actually liked the bookstore.
Freddy's haunted(?) glove was kept there and he was burnt to death for the second time there.
Freddy's glove was stored in Nancy's furnace as a souvenir - and he was sent back to the dream world by Nancy when she immolated him so maybe he has two houses because of this. I do agree that sticking with only the boiler room would have been better.
For me making David unabashedly evil and also hinting that he is malfunctioning in this film was a mistake. Better I think would have been for the colonists to have aggressed against David who wanted to be left alone. Also I agree about the mistakes especially the ones in the medlab.
I go back and forth on whether I like Freddy's Dead better than Dream Master but I agree that Dream Child is the worst of the bunch. The premise is too weird for sure better would have been for Freddy to put Alice in a coma to hijack her power that way. I think the sequel to Dream Master should have started with some rematch between Freddy and Alice to solidify Alice's coolness and superiority (like she beats him without using the rhyme) and then Freddy gets Dan or someone else to sleepwalk and harm Alice in the real world just enough to put her in a coma.
"No screaming while the bus is in motion."
As I understand it Nancy made a similar mistake as Nightwolf and by setting Freddy on fire she completed his ritual for returning to the dream realm (the same death that sent him to the dream realm originally). Perhaps Freddy is similar to a deadite and requires total body dismemberment and exploding him with dynamite accomplished this. I always thought that while lame his death is more sensible than the one we see in Jason Goes to Hell.
Yeah that's what I'm saying. That's why I think a reboot should be done after the first film like a reboot of Dream Warriors or Dream Master.
I never understood it and would like to, I hope it's not the horror-is-beneath-me response, also her scene in the snow was particularly flat like laughably so. I did enjoy some of her scenes with Quentin though.
I always thought that Nightmare 4 would be a cool sequel to reboot and redo. The Scream requel idea is cool but who is left of the old cast either in real life or story-wise? Lisa Zane?
All good points. For me personally, I didn't like how the kids start off not knowing each other at all and the ones that do know each other aren't written like they know each other well at all. And to your point the redo of Tina's scene I thought was flat, it was much better done in New Nightmare.
Agreed. It's such a random additional element that isn't even tied into the lore. It would have been better if he was a zombie that died crossing the road or was a voodoo priest battling the Wendigo (something along the lines of Child's Play 1). Personally I think Stephen King was changing things up from having an arbitrarily psychic supporting character and giving them a zombie-ghost advisor instead. If you haven't seen Leprechaun Returns I'd suggest it because it makes fun of this element.
I'd be one of the first to call several of Logan Marshall-Green's performances one-note such as Prometheus, Cold Comes the Night and that new movie where he is a Navy Seal who kidnaps his daughter. This movie I feel is a realistic take on it and also subversive in a way because we don't get any look at how his character comports himself under otherwise nonstressful circumstances. Similarly who kills who in the end is both subversive and realistic in my opinion.