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Oct 9, 2013 - 2:01 AM
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Francis
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I forgot to mention in my original post that I felt Nightmare On Elm Street went astray after part 3.
For me it went astray with the horrible part 2 "Freddy's Revenge", known as the gay ANOES (with bondage and all), which changed too many rules Wes Craven established with the original and aside from Young's score, felt so cheap.
Part 3 got the series back on track by bringing back Wes Craven and Heather Langenkamp and so much more talent that made that the best sequel to the original. Parts 4 and 5 were too style and effects driven to bother with story or acting, but I do like Lisa Wilcox as she definitely holds her own against Freddy. "Freddy's Dead" is the bottom of the barrel and why they let Rachel Talalay (a producer!!) play first time director on what was to be the big send off of the franchise, when they had Peter Jackson (!) working on it, is still beyond me. As far as the franchise goes, it's apparent that Rachel Talalay and Bob Shaye had no idea how to do "Freddy" properly and each time Wes Craven got involved he had to come in and fix what they wrecked. Did they learn? No, because after New Nightmare they returned with Freddy VS Jason.
Regarding the remake, I'm still on the fence; The fact that Michael Bay and co turned Freddy full fledged pedophile made that a lot of the nightmares involved him getting into victims pants instead of their fears, it's just so different from what we were used to. Sure, there was sexual tension between Freddy and Nancy in the original, but it was much more subdued. I do wish that if Jackie returns for a sequel, they will take the series back to the abstract and surreal dream scenarios and nightmares and mabey even revive the 'dream warriors' concept. But I'm sure what we'll get will be more of the same with hot teens getting slashed. Mabey it's the right time to give Wes Craven another call?
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Oct 9, 2013 - 4:56 AM
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Francis
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I was going to add the Chucky series (although I actually thought Bride of Chucky was good), but having just watched the brand new Curse of Chucky, it's been officially reinvigorated, IMO. 
because after New Nightmare they returned with Freddy VS Jason.
Which was highly entertaining, and far better than it had any right to be.
Entertaining yes and it isn't that bad, but still... I heard Englund mentioned recently he would still like to do one movie as Freddy even though after FvJ he said he felt he was too old for the physical stuff; It would still be cool to see him in action, even if it was just a cameo in the new rebooted franchise.
Regarding Chucky, I just saw there is a boxset collection of the Child's Play movies on blu-ray, will have to get this one! I had mixed feelings about Cursed, I liked it better than Bride & Seed, but the house/family setting felt out of place to me. Liked the Loduca score though, hope it will get a release.
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"John Carter (of Mars)"
As for "The Godfather", its sequel "The Godfather Part II" is, far and away, superior to the original.
The second "First Blood" movie, likewise, is my favorite of the series.
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Oct 9, 2013 - 10:20 AM
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Dana Wilcox
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While the Swedes filmed all three of the Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander trilogy (quite expertly, IMO), the sequels to David Fincher's English language version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara) have as yet failed to materialize. The anticipated chorus of boos from the Daniel Craig haters on this board notwithstanding, I thought DRAGON (English language) was well scripted, designed, filmed and acted, and held its own vs. the Swedish. I'd love to see the two sequels made but apparently there is some issue about that. Fincher's DRAGON won a number of awards, including an Oscar for film editing, so I'm not alone in appreciating this film.
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