The New Nightmare on Elm Street movie

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge scary movie fan! I'm not into unnecessary gore or monsters - gore is cheating, and monsters are just stupid - but an honest, scary, it-could-happen-in-real-life story in film form is a treat for me. Of course, as an 80s baby, I grew up watching movies like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and movies like that. So, when I went to see the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, I had a particular perspective.

My first thought, when watching, was that the recasting of the teenagers was great! The casting directors obviously paid close attention to the physical details of each character, and tried to replicate the looks of the original characters and did a great job! Even with the modernization, anyone who is familiar with the characters from the original would know right off who was who.

I did, however, have a problem with Nancy's mom. She wasn't deep enough for me. Granted, the original was attempting to shelter her daughter and came off pretty fake, but the duality of the role came across as well. Somehow she was able to convey the concern of a mother while also revealing to the audience that she had a secret. The new mom honestly should have been the redhead from Desparate Housewives. The oringal mom was a very neat and polished woman, which did not come through in the remake.

One thing that kind of annoyed me about the story line is that they tried to make the audience feel compassion for Freddie Krueger! WTF??? There at least 13 movies in the original series. THAT MEANS HE'S KILLED AT LEAST 13 PEOPLE!!! HE'S A VILLAIN DAMMIT!!! I'm sorry, once you've killed that many people your compassion card has been maxed out, remake or not! 

I may be old school, but Robert Englund will always and forever be the best Freddie! The new guy wasn't bad, but his Freddie swag was just different.    

Lastly, I think CGI is ruining visual effects artists creativity! Though someof the effects in the original were kinda cheesy, there were some that were phenominal, and they didn't spend much money creating them. Like the part were Freddy leans through the wall while Nancy is sleeping, the original is very minimal an effective while the remake looks absolutely ridiculous and overdone.

Of course, there's always the part in the movie where the characters do things that just wouldn't make sense in a real life situation. Who "kills" Freddy and decides they also need to burn the body but throws the lantern to the far corner of the room, as opposed to throwing to at (or at least very close to) him, so that he has time to resusitate and excape before the fire consumes him??? If you gon' burn the motherfucker, BURN HIM!! If I'm ever afforded the opportunity, I'm gonn make the first scary movie to feature characters with common sense.

Overall, I give the movie a C+, and that's largely due the fact that I'm a fan of the series of movies and that that they explained some things from the original. 

..:: IMUNURMe ::..