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Title: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 28, 2009, 11:28:40 AM: He looks like a Ghoul from Fallout 3 with a fedora, striped sweater and claws for hands.

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Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: DJ_Tet on September 28, 2009, 11:32:58 AM: The one shot at the end looked like

(http://archive.seacoastonline.com/2004news/9_12joel_home.jpg)

To me...
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 28, 2009, 11:33:35 AM: Jesus, what is that?
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: demi on September 28, 2009, 11:40:07 AM: Roman Polanski the movie
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 28, 2009, 11:45:53 AM: Quote from: Kosma on September 28, 2009, 11:43:32 AM
He looks like a muppet.

This was actually the second thought that crossed my mind. :lol
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Brehvolution on September 28, 2009, 11:49:15 AM: Will we get another dokken song?
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Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: duckman2000 on September 28, 2009, 12:02:03 PM: The fuck, is that Patricia Arquette?
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 28, 2009, 12:09:59 PM: What's this? Another horror movie where we get to see the crazed killer's origin story? Joy!
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 28, 2009, 12:14:33 PM: Jesus Christ, is there nothing Michael Bay CAN'T ruin? First he denies us Scarlett's boobies, now this.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 28, 2009, 12:29:41 PM: Quote from: mojovonio on September 28, 2009, 12:20:34 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 28, 2009, 12:09:59 PM
What's this? Another horror movie where we get to see the crazed killer's origin story? Joy!

You know the origins in the original movie...

Anyways, i think it'll be entertaining at least. I still think the TCM remake was one of the better horror remakes to date.

It's mentioned briefly, but that's it.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: Raban on September 28, 2009, 12:43:03 PM: Good casting choice for Freddy. That's about all I have to say. It's funny that Watchmen ended up being a vehicle for Jackie Earle Haley.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: duckman2000 on September 28, 2009, 12:45:43 PM: Is that the chick from that god awful Harper's Island crap?
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on September 28, 2009, 12:47:20 PM: it can't possibly be worse then the Platinum Dunes remake of The Hitcher, can it ???
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 28, 2009, 12:51:57 PM: Quote from: The Card Cheat on September 28, 2009, 12:14:33 PM
First he denies us Scarlett's boobies.

what? story to this?
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 28, 2009, 12:58:57 PM: Quote from: Father_Mike on September 28, 2009, 12:51:57 PM
Quote from: The Card Cheat on September 28, 2009, 12:14:33 PM
First he denies us Scarlett's boobies.

what? story to this?

Scarlett wanted to be nekid in The Island, Bay said it had to PG-13.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 28, 2009, 01:05:58 PM: Meh, I'm so tired of origin stories in horror remakes.

I sure thought the actor was a great choice when I first heard about it. But eh, the voice is horrible...guess that's not his fault though. The mask sucks...everything about that trailer sucks in fact
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 28, 2009, 01:33:20 PM: Quote from: duckman2000 on September 28, 2009, 12:45:43 PM
Is that the chick from that god awful Harper's Island crap?

yes :hyper
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: Himu on September 28, 2009, 01:52:09 PM: The only way you'd make me be able to see this is if Johnny Depp starred in it and ended up being turned into a giant blood stain on his mattress.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 28, 2009, 02:00:35 PM: In the 70s we knew Jackie Earle Haley as "that ugly kid from the bad news bears and breaking away"
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Mandark on September 28, 2009, 02:03:01 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on September 28, 2009, 02:00:35 PM
In the 70s we knew Jackie Earle Haley as "that ugly kid from the bad news bears and breaking away"

Wait, that's Moocher? Now I want to see this.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: duckman2000 on September 28, 2009, 02:04:54 PM: Quote from: fistfulofmetal on September 28, 2009, 01:33:20 PM
Quote from: duckman2000 on September 28, 2009, 12:45:43 PM
Is that the chick from that god awful Harper's Island crap?

yes :hyper

It's not a good thing.

Well, it's got at least two good actors in it, so hey.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: DJ_Tet on September 28, 2009, 02:08:05 PM: Quote from: Willco on September 28, 2009, 11:45:53 AM
Quote from: Kosma on September 28, 2009, 11:43:32 AM
He looks like a muppet.

This was actually the second thought that crossed my mind. :lol

haha

The pic I posted was of a real-life burn victim (isn't Freddie a burn victim? I'm not big on horror.)

I saw a burn victim on Oprah that was a dead ringer but I couldn't find her pic online. She looks like a muppet when animated too. I wonder if that's where Bay got the idea.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Bebpo on September 28, 2009, 05:29:20 PM: This will probably suck which is too bad since Freddy and the Nightmare series is one of the most interesting slasher franchises there is.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: duckman2000 on September 29, 2009, 12:24:18 AM: Quote from: dcharlie on September 28, 2009, 08:19:26 PM
stop remaking shit from my childhood/teens please.

when these things get remade i always end up thinking : "Why are we getting this remake it's not that long sinc.... oh wait... no ... it's at least 20 years ago"

Sad, isn't it? (http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff320/altogetherandrews/oldfogey.gif)
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: pilonv1 on September 29, 2009, 12:31:58 AM: awesome, michael bay is involved so i can avoid it
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 29, 2009, 12:46:23 AM: Quote from: Green Shinobi on September 29, 2009, 12:34:58 AM
Remakes of The Goonies, Jaws and Labyrinth can't be far behind at this point.

The Goonies and Labyrinth don't have the brand strength to make a remake worth the financial gamble. Jaws makes so much money as a catalog title that it might be foolish to jeopardize that cash flow for a crappy reboot.

... my issue is why remake these horror films? They're all pretty good, and all of the Platinum Dunes remakes feel like they've been pumped out of a music video factory.

The original films looked visually raw (albeit mostly due to the low budget), whereas the remakes suffer from this slick sheen of polish that undermines the horror. I don't feel scared, I feel like I should be bracing for a wicked guitar solo.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Bocsius on September 29, 2009, 01:22:49 AM: ...loading burn_hollywood_burn.scr...

:piss Remakes :piss2
:piss Re-Imaginings :piss2
:piss Hollywood :piss2
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Disposable White Guy on September 29, 2009, 11:14:35 AM: Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on September 28, 2009, 12:47:20 PM
it can't possibly be worse then the Platinum Dunes remake of The Hitcher, can it ???

It probably will. Probably make for a decent rental to see Jackie Earle Haley as pre-crispy Krueger. I guess I can see the logic behind these remakes (pop culture then is pop culture now) but I would prefer to see them as sequels rather than defecating on the memory of what the original style was with modern cinematography techniques and over-budgeted nonsense.

Also, where the fuck is Freddy vs. Jason part Deux >:(
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 29, 2009, 01:25:40 PM: Quote from: Willco on September 29, 2009, 12:46:23 AM
Quote from: Green Shinobi on September 29, 2009, 12:34:58 AM
Remakes of The Goonies, Jaws and Labyrinth can't be far behind at this point.

The Goonies and Labyrinth don't have the brand strength to make a remake worth the financial gamble. Jaws makes so much money as a catalog title that it might be foolish to jeopardize that cash flow for a crappy reboot.

... my issue is why remake these horror films? They're all pretty good, and all of the Platinum Dunes remakes feel like they've been pumped out of a music video factory.

The original films looked visually raw (albeit mostly due to the low budget), whereas the remakes suffer from this slick sheen of polish that undermines the horror. I don't feel scared, I feel like I should be bracing for a wicked guitar solo.

I'm stealing this line

Also dudes, how come the creators of these reboots feel the need to flesh out ridiculous origin stories for the villains. For we got what seemed like an hour of Lil Michael Myers, now I'm guessing we're gonna witness middle age Freddy's sad obsession, the woman that loves him begging for his life, and his brutal murder. I almost feel like shedding a tear - oh wait, he's a pedophile.

The 80s were content to give up a blip of origin and get to the killin

"alright, this dude kills his sister on Halloween. Then goes to a mental hospital and becomes a killer"
"this pedo gets burned alive and then haunts teen dreamz"
"this dude use to be an angel right, now he's a sadomasochistic genie in a box"
"lol check this out, this guy drowns in a lake and his mom goes crazy lol"

that's all the origin i need god dammit :punch
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 29, 2009, 02:22:55 PM: Older films were content to simply create evil characters; Michael Myers had no motivation in the original Halloween, he was just pure evil.

I think people were more inclined that a person could be "born" evil several decades ago, and not necessarily a product of their environment.

As the films progressed, all of them received more sympathetic origins (Myers' got a druid cult, Freddy's mom was raped a thousand times, Jason was not just neglected but also treated like shit, Pinhead used to be a nice dude, etc.) because our generation requires motivation to commit heinous acts.

It is not enough to be evil anymore, because we are raised to question why said person is evil. It's obviously their childhood or a traumatic event.

Right?

I always thought the genius of Freddy Krueger was the he was a violent, evil monster when he was alive - killing him just exacerbated the situation. Making him sympathetic undercuts the whole thing.

Now we're left with a bunch of horror icons with mommy/daddy issues and shitty childhoods.

Where have all the real boogeymen gone?
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: demi on September 29, 2009, 02:41:59 PM: Freddy's Dead had a valid origin story

DREAM DEMONS and 3D glasses
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: Diunx on September 29, 2009, 07:46:37 PM: Wow that trailer looked fucking horrible.
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Ghoul?
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 29, 2009, 10:06:02 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 28, 2009, 01:05:58 PM
Meh, I'm so tired of origin stories in ALL movies

^^
Title: Re: Michael Bay's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! ... why does Freddy look like a Gho
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 30, 2009, 12:24:55 PM: Eh, I think you'd have to include the Scream and Saw killers as legitimate icons of their time.