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There were at least two children who couldn't have been more than three years old in the theater when I went to see A Nightmare on Elm Street today. And one of them spent about half the movie playing a handheld video game, which was distracting and annoying and made me want to punch his parents in the teeth.
I don't know, I am all for letting people raise their kids themselves even though that has not proven to be all that great a choice in some cases, but taking a THREE-YEAR-OLD to a movie like that? And then letting the little bastard play video games the whole time? Seriously?
And it was actually a remake of the original, not a "re-imagining" or whatever like Rob Zombie's Halloween was, or a "screw-continuity-nobody-gives-a-fuck" like the new Friday the Thirteenth (which makes sense, since I think most people in current audiences who watch these movies might not actually know that ski-mask-wearing-Jason wasn't even IN the first movie.) The only thing I miss is the whole "Nancy goes kind of crazy and sets booby traps all over the house" bit. Because that was amazing and resourceful and it meant Nancy wasn't just the "girl who survived", she actually had some brains.
They did a pretty good job from transitioning Freddy into not only a monster who had, in fact, been a person at one point and had been terrified of dying and so on, but also from a dude full of one liners (though he had a few that were just as bad as in the day) into a creeper-pedo-dude. Which makes sense since they were actually very straightforward about saying "All of these teenagers who are being killed WERE MOLESTED AS CHILDREN and have been repressing the memories this whole time /sob."
Robert Englund will always be the Freddie for me Jackie Earl Haley did a good job. Even though he looked a lot like one of the alien things from Avatar with the burn make up. But I imagine that's what your face melting does to your appearance, so I can live with it.
Would have been nice if they weren't casting all of these people who look like they're out of college as high school students, but whatever. The guy from The Haunting in Connecticut was in it, which was cool, but it was kind of ruined by the fact that he looks like Edward the fucking vampire.
I don't know, I am all for letting people raise their kids themselves even though that has not proven to be all that great a choice in some cases, but taking a THREE-YEAR-OLD to a movie like that? And then letting the little bastard play video games the whole time? Seriously?
And it was actually a remake of the original, not a "re-imagining" or whatever like Rob Zombie's Halloween was, or a "screw-continuity-nobody-gives-a-fuck" like the new Friday the Thirteenth (which makes sense, since I think most people in current audiences who watch these movies might not actually know that ski-mask-wearing-Jason wasn't even IN the first movie.) The only thing I miss is the whole "Nancy goes kind of crazy and sets booby traps all over the house" bit. Because that was amazing and resourceful and it meant Nancy wasn't just the "girl who survived", she actually had some brains.
They did a pretty good job from transitioning Freddy into not only a monster who had, in fact, been a person at one point and had been terrified of dying and so on, but also from a dude full of one liners (though he had a few that were just as bad as in the day) into a creeper-pedo-dude. Which makes sense since they were actually very straightforward about saying "All of these teenagers who are being killed WERE MOLESTED AS CHILDREN and have been repressing the memories this whole time /sob."
Robert Englund will always be the Freddie for me Jackie Earl Haley did a good job. Even though he looked a lot like one of the alien things from Avatar with the burn make up. But I imagine that's what your face melting does to your appearance, so I can live with it.
Would have been nice if they weren't casting all of these people who look like they're out of college as high school students, but whatever. The guy from The Haunting in Connecticut was in it, which was cool, but it was kind of ruined by the fact that he looks like Edward the fucking vampire.