Maybe I'm being a little brash in my judgement over this movie, but I am old enough to remember the original starring Robert Englund (Nightmare 84) scarring the living daylights out of me when I was a child. The new one which stars Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears) as the child killer known as Freddy Kreuger in this re imagining of the classic 1984 horror film. The only thing that disappointed about this film is Jackie's costars. I really hated the New Nancy (Played by Youth In Revolt's Rooney Mara, Kris (played by Katie Cassidy) who replaces the character of Tina and not to mention she seems to be too old for a high school student, the troubled Jesse (played by Thomas Dekker) who replaces Tina's troubled boyfriend Rod (played by a very convincing Jsu Gracia in the original), and Quentin (played by Kyle Gallner whose been playing a teenager for the last ten years) who replaces Johnny Depp's first character Glen. What bothers me the most is that the original teens were very convincing in playing insomniacs afraid to fall asleep, not to mention the kill scenes were better and Johnny Depp doesn't survive. I know this is a re Imagining of the film and that they wanted to explain Freddy's motives in more detail, but do it justice. Jackie Earle Haley as I said was a little difficult to get used to, but I see where they were going with him and I bought that. If there is a sequel which there probably will be, I hope they pick better actors to complement Haley next time. I give the movie a B- (riding the thin line of being a C+).
Sunday, October 17, 2010
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
Maybe I'm being a little brash in my judgement over this movie, but I am old enough to remember the original starring Robert Englund (Nightmare 84) scarring the living daylights out of me when I was a child. The new one which stars Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears) as the child killer known as Freddy Kreuger in this re imagining of the classic 1984 horror film. The only thing that disappointed about this film is Jackie's costars. I really hated the New Nancy (Played by Youth In Revolt's Rooney Mara, Kris (played by Katie Cassidy) who replaces the character of Tina and not to mention she seems to be too old for a high school student, the troubled Jesse (played by Thomas Dekker) who replaces Tina's troubled boyfriend Rod (played by a very convincing Jsu Gracia in the original), and Quentin (played by Kyle Gallner whose been playing a teenager for the last ten years) who replaces Johnny Depp's first character Glen. What bothers me the most is that the original teens were very convincing in playing insomniacs afraid to fall asleep, not to mention the kill scenes were better and Johnny Depp doesn't survive. I know this is a re Imagining of the film and that they wanted to explain Freddy's motives in more detail, but do it justice. Jackie Earle Haley as I said was a little difficult to get used to, but I see where they were going with him and I bought that. If there is a sequel which there probably will be, I hope they pick better actors to complement Haley next time. I give the movie a B- (riding the thin line of being a C+).
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