Zarko

Finally got around to watching it - Probably safely hops into my favourite movies list, can't remember enjoying a zombie film nearly as much.

Captain Awesome

Agreed^ Didn't expect much from it but it's perfect when you're chilling with a few mates, grab a six pack and some take away. Sorted.

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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

pourmeanother

Who is seeing Hot Tub Time Machine?

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Life is just blah, blah, blah
You hope for blah
And sometimes you find it, but mostly it's blah
And waiting for blah
And hoping you were right about the blahs you made
And then, just when you think you've got the whole blah'd damn thing figured out
And you're surrounded by the ones you blah
Death shows up... anddd blah, blah, blah.

Guybrush

I saw :



Yup, the fifth nightmare on Elm Street movie. This one has Alice from the previous movie in it and - spoiler alert - she's pregnant with a child. The unborn child is dreaming and Freddy uses those dreams to get to Alice and her friends.

Again, not a brilliant film, but perfectly enjoyable and entertaining. I see the imdb score is a mere 4.7 which I find a bit puzzling. I think I had as much fun with this as I did with the fourth. The kills are just as outrageous if not even more than they were in the fourth (more extravagant with each sequel seems to be the general trend). Especially Dan's motorbike scene, what was that? A lot of the movie is a bit surreal and we get more nice 80s special FX scenes than in the previous films. Despite funny kills, the movie is a little bit dark, but I think only a child would find it scary. It also includes some insight glimpze Freddy's past and his mother Amanda is again included in the story.

All things considered (it's an 80s horror somewhere way down the line sequel in a horror franchise etc), it's a fine film. The only part I didn't like so much was the ending, but meh - I knew I had more Freddy in store anyways.




And then I saw this one This one was quite different from the other sequels. Above all else, they've changed the whole feel of the Freddy setting and turned it into more of a comedy. This change has been going on across the sequels, but this film takes a bigger stride towards comedy than it's predecessors. Also, it doesn't seem to worry much about being consistent with reality in any way, even when we're in the real world and not the dream world. In a word, it's sillier.

The story is also different because this one takes place long after the events of the 5th movie. A John Doe suffering from amnesia (Alice's dream child perhaps?) is a survivor from Springwood, a town where all other kids have been killed by Freddy. A therapist, Maggie, working with the kid and some other troubled youth that tag along end up in Springwood where they get familiar with Freddy once again and it turns out the therapist and Freddy, once repressed memories surface, share a relationship from the past.

This movie starts in medias res as we're dropped right into a surrealist nightmare. Then follows the standard formula more or less, people follow a story which includes them falling asleep and they subsequently get killed by Freddy. The makers of this film had probably realized that the franchise had gotten a bit silly and instead of aiming for horror, they aim for something between a horror and a comedy. The result is a movie which concerns itself less with realism. The acting is lame and the story is incredible. There are very few characters that seem like they could be real in this film. Some are obviously just cows for the slaughter and we don't tie any bonds with them before they get killed. It still manages to entertain and it's fun to see all the crazyness that goes on in dreamland.

What I like about this film is that we get to see Robert Englund also without his typical melted skin getup. We see a lot of different Freddys as we see several glimpses from the past. In the end, spoiler warning, Freddy gets killed. This happens more or less in all the films, but this time it seems more final. I'll say the ending was rather dumb and not a dignified way to kill off such an iconic character, but I still have one more film to watch so I know I'll see Freddy again. Although my angle may seem a bit negative, the movie was entertaining and I'd say worth checking out for those interested in Freddy. Perhaps especially since this reveals more of his background than the others .. and it's not like you expect oscar material from these flicks, so who cares about realism or acting, right?

The next will be Wes Craven's New Nightmare. It sounds to me like it's a bit more of a spinoff than anything relating to what goes on in the sequels, so I guess that makes this a final film if not THE final film in the franchise.

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TheCunningStunt

Nicely put together movie, enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Looking forward to the sequel now

Burning Down

I just saw that one too! It was really nicely done, as you said. I think RDJ did a really good job in this film.

TheCunningStunt

I was waiting to hear him speak, an American trying to do a British accent can sometimes be really embarrassing, likewise with a Brit trying to do an American accent, but the accent was fine.

Minor Spoiler
I like the way Guy Ritchie shoots some of his scenes, y'know that fight scene where he he said what he was gonna do before he did it? and then he went and knocked him out. Really nice shots.

Guybrush

Finally got through the Elm Street collection. This was the last one :



Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes is back in the director's chair perhaps to have the final word. He started it all so it's fitting he should end it. This film is not part of the Nightmare on Elm Street story continuity. Rather, it is set in the "real world" where Freddy is just an iconic horror character like you and me know him to be. However, life becomes hard for actor Heather Langenkamp who played Nancy Thompson and her son when an ancient evil entity, which has the ability to take the shape of story characters, brings Freddy to life - out of the movies and into in the real world.

This meta-film was a brilliant way to end the franchise, I think, and must have been quite satisfying for the die-hard fans! Some of the people involved in the earlier movies play themselves in this film, for example Wes Craven and, obviously, Robert Englund who plays both himself and the "new" Freddy. Especially Robert playing himself was fun to see as he's really the number 1 guy I've felt I've built up a relationship with over the course of all these sequels He is, after all, the only actor appearing in all of them.

It's quite different from the other sequels in that new Freddy is not really comical like his story-predecessor. He's there to scare you, not to make you laugh and the movie does feel more serious than the others. Gone are the outrageous kills and a lot of the crazy 80s special FX. There are still some comical scenes (the tongue scene towards the end for example) and the movie is, while a bit scarier than the other sequels, not particularly spooky. It is still entertaining and well worth a watch.

The only slight disappointment is a somewhat weak climax (imo) and that this isn't really Freddy, is it? It's something mimicking Freddy and he does "feel" a bit different. The real Fred died in movie number 6 after all It takes away a little, but then you get some, so.

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Something Completely Different

Bulldog

^ I've heard about that one before, and I've wanted to see it myself for quite a while as I'm quite a fan of film-within-a-film type, erm, films. Also, I'm half-expecting it to be atrocious, but nonetheless I'll probably be going to see the remake when it comes out - looked alright judging by the trailer.



My first time seeing this and I loved it. If there's such thing as a slapstick tragedy then this is it. Brilliantly-told story and pretty much the definitive film of two halves.

Violent & Funky

All I can say is: Bad Ass...