Originally Posted by matome (Post 10410201)

I had a blind buy battle between this and Splice. I hope I made the right decision in going with this one as it's on it's way from Amazon already.

Originally Posted by Adam Tyner (Post 10407530)

If you hate yourself, I just posted a review of the remake: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/45303...-elm-street-a/

Originally Posted by therock69 (Post 10410631)

u could watch the focus points separatly correct

Originally Posted by The Monkees (Post 10410528)

Oh, please! Friday the 13th was just making fun of the series. They basically sat down and were like what's Friday the 13th known for? Tits and drugs? Okay lets put that in the movie and do it to death. Also, lets not actually make it a remake but more of some random addition to the rest of the series and call it a remake. Friday the 13th is my favorite series of horror films and yet this one didn't do the original or the original sequels any justice. I mean just the beginning where a group of teenagers are walking through the woods looking for weed made the movie absolutely horrible.

NOES wasn't the best but it added things to the character of Freddy that had really only been touched upon in the previous films. It gave background to him which had been touched upon in Freddy's Dead, yet it wasn't done as stupidly as it was done in Freddy's Dead, it was much more serious. Granted they did use some of the same deaths as in the original and that wasn't really necessary but whatever. I liked it.

Originally Posted by Lemmy (Post 10410876)

I agree with you, scott1598. The remake was far better than most of the other "official" entries in the series. :shrug:

Originally Posted by scott1598 (Post 10410195)

F13 (remake) was a lot of goofy fun. not a masterpiece by movie standards or horror standards, but eminently rewatchable with nice kills and overall sense of fun.

NoES (remake) was pure dreck. slow and plodding with not one ounce of creativity or originality. it was honestly a terrible movie- written and acted. it took the original and made its' iconic character of Freddy boring beyond compare.

Originally Posted by scott1598 (Post 10410751)

i guess you took "goofy fun" as a serious tome for movie making majestry.

Originally Posted by The Monkees (Post 10411622)

Everyone seems to take my review of the movie as me saying the originals were the best films ever made. Which is not the case. The original was a classic and the sequels were, as you put it for this one "goofy fun", however the "remake" was not that at all, it was just too much making fun of the original films. It seemed to me that they spent too much time trying too hard to make fun of the other films that they spent absolutely no time in trying to make a half way decent film.

Originally Posted by Mike86 (Post 10411909)

If anyone is interested at my Wal-Mart they seemed to have two versions of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. One was $24.xx and came with a slipcover and the other was $19.xx and had no slipcover. I'm not exactly sure the difference (didn't take a close look) but every other place has this movie listed for $24.xx. Also

Originally Posted by scott1598 (Post 10411917)

i think "making fun" as you say or as i say paying complete and total homage to the originals while updating it for today's movie going public with a lack of seriousness and much levity was completely the point the filmmakers were going for.

in that, i think they succeeded in spades while making a movie that is silly, goofy, with no plot and cliched characters aplenty. they also succeeded in making popcorn entertainment and a movie that can be watched many times over and i think stands above some of the less deserving sequels that came from the original series.

Originally Posted by The Monkees (Post 10121656)

What audio glitch?

Originally Posted by dino88 (Post 10414720)

Please rent this movie before making a purchase. I was really looking forward to it and I'm so happy I only spent $1.50 compared to the $10 I planned to spend at the theater. This movie was terrible. It only made me reminisce about the good ole days of NOES part 2.