Nightmare on elm street remake makes me SICK !!!

I just watched the trailer for the Nightmare on elm street 2010 remake and it made me so angry! I am really sick of these classic horror films being destroyed! Leave these films alone! They are classics for a reason! Hey, I have an idea, why don't these big time Hollywood film makers write a movie, rather then ruin a classic such as Nightmare on elm street?

So here is what upsets me. First of all, the film looks very dark, depressing and hauntingly scary. Like one of those newer horror films out today. Nightmare on elm street scared me as a little kid, but for the most part it's not a scary film, even though it was intended to be. The fact is, all these new horror films that scare you to death make these older films look like the Goose Bump films. Now that happens and I am not trying to say that making this film scary again is a bad thing, but we love it the way it is. It's not the pop ups, screaming or violence that scares us, it's the insane things that go on in this dream world and the very thought of your worst nightmare becoming a reality. The film does not need to be enhanced and redesigned to scare the day lights out of you.

The second thing that upsets me is the timing of this film's arrival. Now I have gone over this many times before and I can't tell you how much it annoys me that these films that really are not that old are being remade as if it is an old film that everyone has forgotten about, especially when the film had a sequel that is not even 10 years old! That is way to soon for a remake. They did the same thing with Friday the 13th and Halloween, it's ridiculous. Lets take a second to review these film's releases, shall we?

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Not to say this was not a while ago, but it was not long enough ago for a remake. The thing is, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees and Freddy Kruger were never forgotten, even by kids my age. Everyone knows who they are and they are still horror icons. Every Halloween they are all over every store and every kid wants to dress up as them for Halloween trick or treating, so why is this the time to remake these films, as if they were forgotten or something. Why not just make another sequel? Now The day the earth stood still for example was just remade, and I wont fight that, because it was a film from 51, that was a long time ago. Of course as a classic horror/Sci Fi fan, I am kind of upset that this film was not left alone, because it's a classic and a real classic at that, a film from well over 20 years ago. But my point being it's not a film that any kid my age (unless they are just like me) would remember and Klaatu, unlike Freddy Kruger, is not a house hold name.

The last thing that upsets me is the Freddy Kruger character. He is nothing like the original and that is a very bad thing. Now I understand that this a remake so they should not keep the original actor in the new film, but in this case, they should consider it, because Robert England is Freddy Kruger. The face, the grin, the attitude, it's all Robert and that could never be recreated or even attempted. The new Freddy, from what I have seen, has no attitude and looks nothing like the original at all. With Jason or Michael Myers, you could find any kid from off the street to play them and it would not matter because they wear masks. But Freddy has a face that is easily recognised and we all know it. Once you lay eyes on the original Freddy, you will never forget him.

So long story short, I don't even want to check out this film. It makes me sick to my stomach and I feel as though my favorite horror film characters will now be lost in the past, overwritten and redesigned to fall in to the category of today's horror films. I understand that remakes are just what they seem, an older film that is remade. But I wish that in this case, considering that this is A Nightmare one elm street we are talking about here, this should be a film that honors and celebrates this amazing film, rather then remake it. But the one cool thing about this film is that it looks like it sticks pretty close to the original as far as remade and redone scenes that were in the original film. You don't see that regularly with remakes when you should and I like that. But if this film hits big, then one of the greatest horror film characters, one the biggest horror icons of my time and one the coolest movie characters ever as we know him will forever be dead.

R.I.P.
Freddy Kruger
1984 - 2010

A word about Lizzie Mcguire

So when I was younger I was really into the Disney channel. This was before Billy Ray's daughter was ever known for anything but being the child of a one hit wonder singer and the Jonas brothers finally became popular. No, this was back when the Disney channel aired television series like Boy meets world, Even Stevens, That's so Raven and Lizzie Mcguire. They were funny shows that were just what they were meant to be, television shows. It seems that today's new and improved Disney channel shows have taken over the world with shows like Hannah Montana, Zack & Cody, Cory in the house, Wizards of Waverly place and Jonas. It's getting out of hand if you ask me! Every where I go I see High school Musical, Camp rock, & Hannah Montana. It's about time for this to end and let the next cycle of shows have their turn. My point being, these earlier shows were not taking over the world, they were television shows that kids enjoyed. Sure they were popular, but not to such an extreme point.

Today, while flicking through then television channels I stopped on the Disney channel when I saw that Lizzie Mcguire was on. I was actually kind of excited to see this on television again, as this was one of my favorite, if not my very favorite television show from back in the day. It aired when I was 6 and ended when I was 10. Disney even released a Lizzie Mcguire movie in theaters as a way of rapping of the series and sending it out with boom before it is lied down to rest and finished with for good so to speak. I loved this show and even though I have only been alive for 13 years, it was one of those television shows that made me think about my early childhood, back when I was really little. So as I began watching the show I was thinking "This is going to be great, I haven't seen this in so long" but to my surprise, it was terrible!

Now the show ended in 2004 and since then Hillary Duff (Lizzie) has done a lot. She has been in some big time films, she has released some new records and she is a very talented actress if you ask me. But while watching this show now, in 2009, now that I am 13 years old and can see it from an older perspective, I can not understand how this roll as Lizzie Mcguire got her started. I wonder who saw this and said "Hm, we can make something of this girl" who??? If you ask me, this show is full of bad actors, including the adults on the show. The teenagers seem to be at least 15 or 16 years old but they act like they're 10. Looking back on it now, I think I enjoyed this so much as a little kid because I was not old enough to really tell a good actor from a bad actor, because these kids could not act to save their life, it was very unrealistic and hard to sit through.

All in all, I can't watch a show or a film from the Disney channel and go into it taking it seriously, it's the Disney channel! But have to say that today's Disney channel shows and movies have at least decent if not good actors.

Halloween - Review

Well, I know I'm a little late on this review, seeing as how the movie came out in 2007, but now that the Halloween remakes are going to continue (with or with out Zombie) I decided it would be a good time to review the film. After all, I have had over a year to gather my thoughts on it.

First of all, I was not happy about the idea of a Halloween remake. I love the idea of an older film being brought back and remade so that these famous, classic movies are not forgotten, and or ignored by today's generation of kids. On the other hand, a film like Halloween is just too much of a classic to be messed with. Now in the future, people will look back on this film, rather then the real film. Plus I don't think it's an old enough film to be remade, especially because there was another Halloween sequel that came out, only about 6 or 7 years ago. What the heck??? Is that not too soon for a remake? Maybe in 2015 we can remake Twilight.

So if you have not seen the original, Halloween is a story about a young boy who goes insane and becomes a serial killer. It's a very basic idea for a film, but it's not the kind of movie that needs an incredible story line to be good. It was a small low budget film that is now a classic and is famous for introducing one of the most popular horror icons of all time, Michael Myers. The remake keeps the same story line, not changing it in anyway. The big difference between this film and the original film is that this one shows the man behind the mask, in other words the making of this evil man, from a child, to an adult. Now, I was incredibly interested to see how Michael Myers grew up and what went wrong in his life, making him angry enough to murder people for no reason. But at the same time, the fact that you don't know who Michael Myers is or why he does this is part of what makes the original Halloween film so great. You write the story, you write the script. You can make it up in your own mind and try to figure out what it is that you don't know. So I guess I like both versions.

With heavy metal singer and horror film director Rob Zombie directing this film, you know your in for a blood bathed, terrifying, horror film that wont be so easy to forget. I mean that! This movie is bloody as could be and pretty explicit, in every way possible. Now some people see blood and gore as the feature that makes the film good, I, on the other hand, do not see blood and gore as scary, just gross.

So over all, I enjoyed this film as a horror film, but not as a remake of the classic we all know and love. If you think about it as a remake of Halloween, it just makes you compare the two films, if your watching a remake and not comparing it to the original film, you know your watching a good movie. As just a horror film rather then a remake, it's good. I was not thrilled about the classic Michael Myers, Dr. Lumes and Lory Strode characters, as they were nothing like the original characters, in a bad way, and I couldn't bare to watch all the blood, gore and stabbing scenes.

Now, with Halloween 2 out and 3,4 & 5 on the way, I am still upset about these films being remade. But Rob Zombie is right about one thing, Michael Myers as we know him, is still a horror film icon, but is no longer scary, and his Halloween makes you remember how scared you were of Michael Myers, watching the original as a little kid. So I give him kudos for bringing back the horror in this character, but I give him a huge thumbs down for destroying one of the greatest horror films ever!

I'd give this movie a rating of 3 stars