I just finished watching the new 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movie with Jackie Earle Haley replacing Robert Englund in the role of Freddy Krueger. I was kind of expecting a decent movie, but nowhere near as classic as the original... and I am right... except for the bit about this movie being decent.
Every single memorable piece from this movie came directly from the original. And the thing is, the original did everything ten times better. This post from someone else's blog shows some of the shots from the trailer of the movie with scenes from the original.
As you can see, they redid a number of the iconic scenes from the first movie. Freddy coming through the wall to watch his victim being one that immediately jumped out at me as "why did they bother doing it with CGI?". The comparison from the other blog is on the right here.
Seriously, how bad does the effect look when done in CG compared to the original rubber wall trick? The original is creepy looking and it was real, whilst the new one looks tacky. It looks like a shitty version of the effect done in 'The Frighteners' where the reaper traveled through walls and shit.
I was expecting more, but this movie was just bad. I wish that I could get my bandwidth back... that's right, I didn't pay to see the movie. I wasted bandwidth that I could have used to download more porn.
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