tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post8794863717047331588..comments2024-03-28T15:14:59.689-07:00Comments on Shmegalamonga: I love the Freddys!!Diacanuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546351653341768549noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post-16647694015730931222011-08-17T21:48:13.661-07:002011-08-17T21:48:13.661-07:00You have some good criticisms that I hadn't co...You have some good criticisms that I hadn't considered. You're certainly right that the remake didn't feel as--pardon the pun--cutting edge as the first did. The remake amped up a lot of the "serious," but it lost the original's gleeful perversity. And, yes, the killin's weren't especially clever...Paladinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post-45141220178653594872011-08-17T20:50:18.615-07:002011-08-17T20:50:18.615-07:00Meh, I'm just saying why it rubbed me the wron...Meh, I'm just saying why it rubbed me the wrong way.<br />If this shit's nitpicks to you, and it worked for ya, okay.Diacanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546351653341768549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post-61399364591443849612011-08-17T06:18:21.355-07:002011-08-17T06:18:21.355-07:00Paladin-
Well, the bit with him being a diddler di...Paladin-<br />Well, the bit with him being a diddler didn't bother me, since it's always been subtext, plus, they already WENT there in part 6, when he turned into that girls abusive father.<br /><br />What didn't make sense was his ONLY being a diddler, and not a killer (until he got changed by dying).<br /><br />If he was only a diddler, where did the glove come from?<br />The point of the glove is that it was homemade in a workshop.<br />If he created it in the dream world, he just dreamed it up.<br />If he dreamed it up, why homemade looking?<br />You see? He has to be a killer before he dies, or no glove, and then he's just not Freddy.<br /><br />Also, they went out of their way to emulate iconic scenes, but not others.<br />If the tub, and the morph out of the wall, why not the tongue phone, the bed kill, the long arms, etc, etc?<br /><br />And that gets to, there were no imaginative kills.<br />Just stabbing with the glove.<br />Well, why have him even be a dream ghost then?<br />Why even have it be Freddy?<br /><br />And, the teen characters weren't engaging and likable, they were cardboard cutouts.<br />Nancy in particular was bland.<br /><br />Nancy is Batman to Freddy's Joker.<br />You have to get her right, or not bother.<br /><br />Oh, and the head lop, and "welcome to my world bitch!", was perfectly stolen from "Freddy vs. Jason".<br />I still dunno WTF that was about.<br /><br />Those are my basic problems, I could really pick it apart to atoms, but yeah, they really didn't get what this film was about.<br /><br />It looks pretty.<br />I'll give it that.<br />Kind of an "American McGee's Alice", thing going on.<br /><br />But, it had the heart sucked out of it.<br />Another glossy animated corpse.<br /><br />Watch 1 and 7 as a duology.<br />That's what Nightmare's about.Diacanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546351653341768549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post-43004394314695534492011-08-17T06:01:16.176-07:002011-08-17T06:01:16.176-07:00Philip-
"Are you ready for Freddy?", is ...Philip-<br />"Are you ready for Freddy?", is better than the generic rap song part 5 used.Diacanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546351653341768549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post-40658087110220757642011-08-16T23:06:20.823-07:002011-08-16T23:06:20.823-07:00My older brother--who I have little in common with...My older brother--who I have little in common with besides a somewhat perverse sense of humor--took me to see the original when it came out ('85?). I absolutely loved it.<br /><br />The sequels, eh, not so much. Though I will say I still love the theme song to "Dream Warriors." I have the DVDs of the entire series, but I haven't watched past 3 in a number of years. I can't recall ever watching "Freddy vs. Jason", so I should get around to it. I was a big fan of the Friday the 13th series, although I got into about the time it started to nosedive.<br /><br />(Incidentally, I had [have?] a big crush on Heather Langenkamp. She was pouty, big-haired, baby-faced 80s perfection.)<br /><br />I actually liked the remake well enough (only seen it once, in the theater), especially the tease about whether Freddy was innocent or not. I thought the retconn of Freddy as a molester made a lot of sense. I believe they intended to do that in the original, but they changed him to a child-murderer because, perversely, child murder was less controversial than child rape...Paladinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375691158383831389.post-9780178635587157272011-08-16T05:11:42.878-07:002011-08-16T05:11:42.878-07:00The films bring back manya memory and I think they...The films bring back manya memory and I think they are excellent - the spin off music however....<a rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUl5Ke5jbM</a> :DPhiliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12240443331565724533noreply@blogger.com