according to this article from Rotten tomatoes. I still haven't watched the last one yet, never got around to it, perhaps someday
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Night...One-75597.html
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according to this article from Rotten tomatoes. I still haven't watched the last one yet, never got around to it, perhaps someday
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Night...One-75597.html
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Yeah it's all rumors right now since nothing official has been released, but if it is true I'm sure more concrete info will be revealed sometime soon. Either way, I thought the remake was pretty terrible.
The thing of it is Nightmare on Elm Street was successful because there was some originality to it that gave the horror film industry something it had sadly been lacking for sometime. Sure you still had Jason and Michael, but the audiences had been complaining for sometime that the storylines were getting to be very similar to each other. Fans were screaming for something original and NOES at that time was indeed that something the audiences were looking for. We are now back to the screaming for something original, and remakes / reimagings aren't what is going to make the cut. Mainstream needs to take a leap and make something as sick, twisted and demented as some of the independents out there have done, but then there's the MPAA to worry about that'll more than likely step in and totally screw things up. Possibly a revamping of the ratings guidelines maybe in order that are definately antiquated. Other than that I do believe fans are getting extremely tired of reboots, and any plans to do so will lead in failure
I believe that there could be another great Freddy Kruger. The most iconic horror performance of all time is Bela Lugosi as Dracula, who cemented the now cliche look for the character, but Christopher Lee was able to be a good, strong Count because he didn't try to be Lugosi. Freddy is a character worth giving another shot, so I'd be down for another crack at it. If it doesn't work, then the movie is forgotten about shortly and won't make any slight against the original (not entirely great) series of films.
Shit yeah. Im down for another New Nightmare. They need to handle this franchise and Friday and Halloween just like how Childs Play handled theirs. And thats Fuck the Whole Remake trend, just make a proper sequel!
Now I know with NOES it can be tricky to do a proper sequel seeing how it would need Bobby Englund to reprise Freddy. Where as Michael and Jason aren't Dependent on a charismatic speaking actor to bring their Characters to life. That being said I still think we can at least another trilogy out of Mr. Englund. And Yeah,Yeah I know the guys almost 70 yrs old, but Shit Angus Scrim is damn near 90 and he just reprised the Tall Man for a fifth time. Hell Even Doug Bradleys almost 60 and hes coming back for another go around as Lead Cenobite/Pin Head. And at the very least Robert Englund is truthfully at the age that Wes Craven originally envisioned for Freddy. So Fuck Yeah Im Down! Bring this Shits On! Just do it right!:metalbang::freddy::metalbang:
The last Child's Play was direct to video, though. Hollywood logic is that they can only use actors that have recently been in a big hit movie. Jackie Earle Haley was in Watchmen the previous year, so they picked him to play Freddy. Robert Englund hasn't been in a hit movie for decades, so even though he's a fan favourite he won't sell to the mainstream audience (again, this is Hollywood logic, not mine). :stare3:
This might sound crazy, but tap Johnny Depp to play Freddy. It could be a cool tie-in, since he was in the original and was killed by Freddy.
I say just leave it alone.
But if we are going to throw out names on who can play Freddy I'll say Michael Keaton :2thumbs:
James Edward Olmos.
Mask not needed.
That being said. Im pretty sure this is confirmed and in pre-production as we speak..... why they feel the need to reboot the series again, i have no idea. But i really hope they bring in a writer who can do dark comedy.
I guess the idea now is if the remake doesn't sell as well as they hoped it would to justify relaunching it as a franchise...just make more remakes until it does...aka throw enough shit against the wall, eventually some of it should stick.
So pathetic...I don't even care...they can't erase the original series...it still happened...I still enjoy it...let them continue with this nonsense...I certainly won't pay to watch it.
In my opinion the remake was made to be too serious, maybe it had to do with the dumb plot. My gripe was not with Jackie Earle Haley, the actor to replace Englund. My gripe was more of a combination of the following; a simple plot, inexperienced director making a debut, and too many boiler room sequences.
they do not need a mainstream actor to play Freddy! This movie will only be good if Freddy is played by Robert E! It is his mannerisms that people want. Ask anyone outside of us who doesn't know horror all that well but still enjoyed the movie who played Freddy. No one would know and no one would care. As long as his over the top comedic self continues to rape peoples dreams that is all they want! Jackie to me was to serious. Which is way I think this one failed. "He looked more like a burn victim." great I could careless. The tone was to serious and it tried to make the franchise something it was not.
Haley did play in watchmen but his face was covered was it not? so mainstream or not I could careless if he played Freddy. He was not convincing in the least! Freddy's face is burned so you cannot really make out who it is anyways through looks. It is all in how the character/actor carries himself and I am sorry I see no one coming close to it than Robert E.
sorry I will not get off his N U T S but I stand by it. :2thumbs:
I'd honestly be up for another NOES sequel. Doesn't have to be England, but it does have to be someone the can mimic what we all expect from Freddy as a whole. Need good writers that can get back to the source material and not try to do something unique with the character. Expectations from the fans and the audience will definitely make or break any future sequels in this franchise. To the best of my recollection I haven't seen the remake / reimaging of this franchise yet.........need to get on the ball:D
Cheap movie to make ... and people will collect the movies. They are good stay home and be drunk movies.
I didn't totally dislike the remake, but Jackie is no Robert. I guess I just don't get on board with remakes. It felt like any other generic update of an 80's classic.
The remake is good, they just should not have tried to copy scenes from the original like Freddy coming out of the wall. I like the new angle of making Freddy a child molester and the question of whether he was innocent or not. Old Freddy had a good run but those movies are too cheesy by today's standards of horror.
Anyway, I would like to see maybe a prequel or something that goes back to the original concept of Freddy being a creepy old hobo, like the one that scared Wes Craven as a kid. They could even bring back Robert Englund as he is old now, and would actually make a perfect Freddy.
The remake was horrible and it was very clear they had no concept of Freddy as a character, the NOES series, and what made these things work.
Another one could work if they have a good writer and the right actor to play Freddy. Robert Englund is some big shoes to fill, but I am convinced there is someone else out there that can do the character justice, just got to find him.
Thats what defined the character. Them recognizing the ridiculousness of the idea and being self aware of the story. Unless you just want to stick with the first movie and nothing after that, but even then the remake still failed at making him an acceptable character. Turning him into a pedophile is not how you do that, it adds a level of darkness and creates a lack of empathy for a character you're supposed to embrace for the next however many movies.
Even in the first movie he is goofy. Falling into traps and running around like a cartoon character.
The nightmare remake is maybe the worst remake I've ever seen. It's horrible. 1/10
without all the hype, build up and anticipation the remake isn't so bad. i watched it again for the first time in a few years
and didn't walk away hating it.
Haley was awful as Kruegar. He lacked the frenetic energy and perverse charisma englund brought to the role.
Making Freedy an actual child molester takes away from him being a sympathetic villain. have the kids lie about his actions and his revenge on their children make sense. it makes you root for him.
who wants to root for a child molester?
Who says you are supposed to root tor freddy? He's a killer. I have never seen hi as a sympathetic villain. I haven't seen the remake but changing a few things adds to the creep factor. He was pretty svary in the original first two films and wasn't this crazy wisecracking thing
As a Nightmare flick, yeah, the remake is pretty terrible. Freddy just isn't Freddy in it. However, if you take it out of the series and look at it as an independent movie, it's better, not great, but better. Like Faust said, you're really not supposed to be rooting for the bad guy. I did like how they almost made me feel like 'oh geez, they got the wrong guy...' and then pulled the 'wait, nope, no they didn't' thing. Again, as a part of the ANOES series, Haley didn't fill Englund's shoes, as a stand alone film, Haley did what he could with what he had.
Should allow the franchise to die already; they do it no favors by resurrecting a franchise that brings nothing new to the table.
I heard their gonna remake the remake of ANOES. :die:
No Robert Englund. No Freddy. It is that simple.
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they should aim lower; remake/reboot the Wishmaster franchise and, hopefully, get Andrew Divoff to return. or, hell, give Freddy's Nightmares another turn (with better writers, hopefully). with Mr. Englund back as Freddy, of course. couldn't be worse than the new season of American Horror Story.
^^ I agree with all of this
The movie itself wasn't terrible, as I didn't mind the actor/actresses in the movie, but the actor that played Freddie ruined the movie. Instead of having him do his own thing (Like they did with Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise) they tried to mold him into the same character that Robert Englund made legendary. Big mistake! People don't want to see something the same thing, especially something that was already nearly perfect, so the actor was doomed from the start. Plus, the makeup design made him more alien-like than human.
They seriously need to stop making these movies.
The joyride FK took us on is over for me. I'm content with the old flix....no need for new ones for this horror fan.
i'll still give them a go regardless....comparing them to that of the old will always happen though. Hopes are never high. Always down to see where some director/writer wants to take a legendary villain...
If they want to make a new Freddy movie they really need to do something different. This could be anything like changing the character of Freddy to someone else entirely. I think they need to break free from the wise-cracking child molester/killer. They could go to something far more serious and dangerous or something more comedic and relatable...but not both. The perfect storm of 80s pop culture and Robert Englund's portrayal have passed and it's not coming back anytime soon. I say let Freddy stay dead, you can still make a movie about a killer invading dreams, but you can't make them like you used to.
I think continuing the idea in general of a killer stalking people in their dreams needs to be over and done with. If not it will just come off as forced and trying to spawn something new off
an old idea that has been played to death. The franchise became a mockery of itself...it's over.
Everybody wants to create something that's been done before.
Nobody wants to be original anymore.
That's why 90% of horror movies these days suck.
meh at that point you'd just have a whole new movie and villain in my opinion...we can all harp on letting something die..but as long as it has once been successful and made money then mainstream directors and movie companies can make a quick buck without having to put much thought into a script...sad truth...
I guess it wasn't true, or it is dead, if anything was going on there would be news by now after two years