About to watch the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street.
Meh, it was ok. It stayed pretty true to the pacing of the original.
The new Freddy isn’t right. They deepened his voice to make him more menacing, but only succeeded in making him a laughable Candyman wanna be. They had him drop a few F-bombs which was a new thing for Freddy. His make-up sucked - he looked like an alien monkey fish.
And even though the new Freddy sucks, they didn’t’ use him hardly at all. Maybe because they knew he sucked? Very little Freddy action in this movie.
The over-use of cell-phones ruined a lot for me. Back in the original 80s version, when parents said the teenagers went to bed but they wanted to call each other, it happened on a boxy landline - that rang every extension in the house waking the parents making it even more tremulous and risky. But with a Blackberry, not only can you set it to vibrate, but they even had freaking alarm clocks to wake them up. Crap.
This is one of those movies that does NOT remake well. It needs to stay back in the 80s where it shined. I just kept wanting it to end so I could say I got through it. Not scary at all……it just seemed to drag out to the point where I wanted Freddy to stab me already!
