A Nightmare on Elm Street (Platinum Dune)

[bumblebee86]

Is it true that Bradley Fuller produced A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/

[Blunderful]

Oh boy, I was hoping this day would never come but Platinum Dunes seems to have a pretty good track record so I'll keep the faith. As long as its not a scene for scene redux like the Hitcher I'm sure it will be decent.

[Chemical Superfreak]

Yea, i'll definitely see this, i will have zero expectations for it, since it's a friggin Freddy movie and all. But i did really enjoy the other Freddy's. Now the new Jason movie? LOL. I'll skip it, never got into the whole Jason thing.

[bumblebee86]

Oh boy, I was hoping this day would never come but Platinum Dunes seems to have a pretty good track record so I'll keep the faith. As long as its not a scene for scene redux like the Hitcher I'm sure it will be decent.

I think that Platinum Dune have the right to. Craven is no longer the right person for the job.:(

[STEPhon IT]

I don't have a problem with remake as long the person cast for Freddy Kreuger is non other than Robert England. Lets face it, all of other monster these thieves at platnium can screw with because they don't have a personality. THere simply killing machines, but Kreuger has everything monster should have and it's soul was created by England. England is still healthy--he should continue his great work. They do it another way and it will be the worst piece of shit they've done yet.

[IMT Guyver]

yer i would love to see Robert England to do another freddy film but real lets face it he will not live forever as most of us would like him to. But i think know is as good time to past on the role to someone else.So lets just hope they get some one just as good.

[Chemical Superfreak]

I think i read that England said he'd do it. At any rate i would think they'd be smart enough to not re-cast him, as he's the only actor that's ever played him, even on the tv show.

[redqueenar]

I don't have a problem with remake as long the person cast for Freddy Kreuger is non other than Robert England. Lets face it, all of other monster these thieves at platnium can screw with because they don't have a personality. THere simply killing machines, but Kreuger has everything monster should have and it's soul was created by England. England is still healthy--he should continue his great work. They do it another way and it will be the worst piece of shit they've done yet.

Robert Englund Talks Nightmare on Elm Street Reboot (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nightmare_on_elm_street/news/1709860/)

There was a fun rumour going around for a while that Michael Rosenbaum (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742146/)might get tapped for the gig but it was just a rumour. Ah well. :)

[STEPhon IT]

Robert England is not a stunt man and I think he's a method actor especially when appliance is on him. England isn't dead yet and these guys know a cameo aint going to cut it. England did too much for Kreuger to just be simply replaced--Kreuger was great in Freddy VS JASON and he's still healthy enough to be the character for many more years. These ego driven bastards make me sick. I don't care about a remake for A Nightmare On Elm Street nor would I wish for a GOD AWFUL prequel, I would love a re-imagination. C'mon Elm Street is not just one blasted block, this street can expand and there's tons of ideas they can do to make these film awesome. I'm warning these asshole--DON'T REPLACE ENGLAND AS KREUGER! They have a wonderful opportunity to make a great film that everyone can love. Look how Bay answered the fans by casting Peter Cullen for Transformers. There is no one complaining about that decision because it's smart. I hope the guy who did the new Chainsaw Massacre is hired for the film or the guy who shot Craven's remake The Hills Have Eyes. A really good re-imagining of the first film and not fucking up continuity.

[Blunderful]

It will be very, very difficult for me to accept anyone else besides Robert Englund as Freddy.

[LadiesMan217]

It will be very, very difficult for me to accept anyone else besides Robert Englund as Freddy.

Agreed.

[tish]

no one can do as good a job as robert englund and there are many fans out there that will never see this movie should he be replaced.

[garyo]

There are plenty of new movie ideas out there .. Boycott this crappy remake

My name is Gary-O and I am a Horror Drunx

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[Trailbreaker]

There are plenty of new movie ideas out there .. Boycott this crappy remake

My name is Gary-O and I am a Horror Drunx

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r270/saoi_3/horrordrunxfinal.jpg

Did you come back from the future or something? Because you said it was crappy so one can only assume that you have seen it.:rolleyes:

[garyo]

They are all crappy, fanboy.

[Trailbreaker]

Now lemme tell you something, I am in no way a fan of horror movies, but making judgments about a movie before it is even finished is absurd. And what are you going to do if the movie is good? Now I'm not saying it will be good, but what if? You must want it to suck.

[garyo]

The point is the movie was already made .. in 1984 by Wes Craven most video stores still carry it.

You are being ripped off.

There is no reason (except artistic laziness and greed) to remake this movie.

-G

[Trailbreaker]

Um, no. Reboots (I don't call em remakes) help keep the franchise alive. Seriously, A Nightmare on Elm Street is practically dead. I can't remember the last time there has been some serious A Nightmare on Elm Street stuff out in the open. The franchise needs a major reboot to attract more fans.

I have a better idea, if you are so bent on hating this movie, instead of wasting server space forming this boycott, why don't you just ignore the damn movie? It's easier.

[Mobe1969]

Um, no. Reboots (I don't call em remakes) help keep the franchise alive. Seriously, A Nightmare on Elm Street is practically dead. I can't remember the last time there has been some serious A Nightmare on Elm Street stuff out in the open. The franchise needs a major reboot to attract more fans.

I have a better idea, if you are so bent on hating this movie, instead of wasting server space forming this boycott, why don't you just ignore the damn movie? It's easier.

I think you hit the nail on the head with reboots.

[garyo]

"Um, no. Reboots (I don't call em remakes) help keep the franchise alive. Seriously, A Nightmare on Elm Street is practically dead. I can't remember the last time there has been some serious A Nightmare on Elm Street stuff out in the open. The franchise needs a major reboot to attract more fans"

You can call them anything you want to fact of the matter is it's going to be crap and it is not not keeping anything alive - The rip off occurs when the majority of horror movies that are released are R E M A K E S :lol This is bad for the genre as new and original projects are not being made.

"The franchise needs a major reboot to attract more fans"

Why ? Are you saying that Bay is doing this out of the goodness of his own heart ?

"I have a better idea, if you are so bent on hating this movie, instead of wasting server space forming this boycott, why don't you just ignore the damn movie? It's easier."

Because.

I'm not trying to "form a boycott" but I what I have been seeing pushed on the movie going public pisses me off and I am going to say something about it. I am seeing trailers promoting Bay as the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this is an out and out lie and he needs to be called out for it.

(Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974- Tobe Hooper also available at your local video store)


-G

[Trailbreaker]

Just because something is a remake doesn't instantly make it crap. There are some good remakes out there. You are really not coming up with a good argument, just repeating yourself saying that "it's gonna suck." It doesn't help you one bit.

And the first and only time I have heard about the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot was on IMDb only recently from randomly browsing around. It's not like it was in neon lights saying "OMFG THIS MOVIE IS BEING MADE!!!" If I can ignore something like that, so can you.

In fact, signing on Michael Bay's site and posting against movies he is producing while you are surrounded by his fans doesn't do you any good either.

[Michael Do]

Apparently, garyo didn't get much attention on other sites, he came here and continue whining about movie remake.

This is why I love this site - that is the ignore feature. Ignoring the movie-remake-whiny-attention-seeking-fanboy is the best way.

[redqueenar]

They already dislike Michael Bay enough that they have him listed in their Pumpkin Kickers Hall Of Shame (http://thehorrordrunx.yuku.com/topic/501), so you really don't want to get their attention. They are responsible for one TV show being cancelled before it began and making a couple studios have to answer publically to them on some other issues. They have also been known to swarm to the point that a few websites have had to shut down for a week or longer to try and remedy the situation.

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Excuse me...did you just threaten us?

[The Great]

And obviously you live in dark denial or ignorance about an organization called THE HORROR DRUNX... With over 60 chapters world-wide and about 65,000 members.


Why SHOULDN'T Garyo come here to the source to voice his displeasure about remakes? Most specifically a NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or FRIDAY THE 13TH or (insert name of any Micheal Bay remake here). This is the logical place, is it not?


THE HORROR DRUNX is a group of very vocal horror genre activists. You won't win an arguement with any of them about remakes, since remakes is one of the main things they are against. You especally won't put a dent in their armor with such a lame response. You'll just draw more of them here and get your forums lit up by them. And BTW many of their members are IN the motion-picture industry. And of those people they have access to screenplays and other things for films, sometimes several months before they are released in the theaters. This includes rough cuts. So they usually know what they are talking about. They probably even have members working in Bay's offices.


They already dislike Michael Bay enough that they have him listed in their Pumpkin Kickers Hall Of Shame (http://thehorrordrunx.yuku.com/topic/501), so you really don't want to get their attention. They are responsible for one TV show being cancelled before it began and making a couple studios have to answer publically to them on some other issues. They have also been known to swarm to the point that a few websites have had to shut down for a week or longer to try and remedy the situation.


Again, you won't win the remake arguement with any of them, so don't try. As Horror Activists, they even have REMAKES covered in their organizations manifesto available online. Here is a segment cut and pasted...


1. THE HORROR DRUNX ARE AGAINST REMAKES.


As anyone who has ever pitched a movie idea to a studio can tell you, it is the unwritten rule that every meek motion-picture executives job is to say "NO" to any new idea that is brought to them. "NO" means job security to them, because if they say "YES" and the film loses money for the studio they might lose their job. They know however that they DO also need to say "YES" once in a while to keep their jobs. The safest way for them to say "YES" is to green-light a movie that has a name recognition factor to the public. That is the ONLY reason why you see so many remakes of older movies and television shows being made. It is not in any way a creative or artistic decision, it is a decision ultimately made by a) a bean counter that works in the accounting department, or b) someone whose creative well of original new ideas has dried up and they can't get any other idea produced. The bottom line is, they can now make a film that has a familiar (presold) title in the public consciousness and they don't have to spend as much on advertising either.



From the beginning, very few producers of remakes even consider it will even do well at the box-office after the opening weekend, so why put any more creative thought into it than is needed to make a quick buck.


As far as The Horror Drunx are concerned, remakes are therefore the domain of the "pukers" (those who chew up the original, then upchuck it) and the "puke eaters" (those who are stupid and tasteless enough consume what the pukers produce). That is why we have a hard time discerning which is worse, the makers of a remake, or those who would see a remake.



Truthfully, when is the last time that you saw a good remake? There is honestly only perhaps one marginally passable remake made every decade. Remakes of films just don't as a rule do a service to the original.


We have been given the argument by the ignorant and uninformed that: "Remakes are good because they bring attention to the original to people who may not know about it". This is bullshit. If a remake is a bad film made by someone just out to make a fast buck, it is not going to lure anyone who didn't already know about the original film to seek it out and see it. More commonly than not they are made by people who are NOT fans of the original. Remakes are done with no respect to the original, other than a jumping off place for the seed of an idea.... That is why you seldom see many of the ingredients that made the original a success, included in a remake.



Where the original often had a lower budget so had to find creative and inexpensive ways to make itself work, the makers of a remake often substitute throwing more money and CGI effects at it. The very idea of a remake denotes that the original and all those who made it were somehow not good enough, so it needed to be remade, therefore no respect to the original is shown. They are also usually made by people that have no creative ties to the original film, except for maybe occasionally including someone in a cameo that was in the original.



We honestly would have less trouble with remakes if they were titled something completely different, took us a direction original enough as to appear new and not draw comparisons, and didn't rely on the familiar name value of the original. EXAMPLES: The Fly, The Thing, Dawn Of The Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, etc. People like Rob Zombie (with his HALLOWEEN) have tried to fool the public and lie to them by saying it is a "re-visioning" of the original story, but a remake is still a remake no matter what you call it.



The bottom line on remakes as far as The Horror Drunx are concerned is, that story has already been told. Use the time, money and film stock to make a movie with a creative original concept and ideas, not one that degrades our memory of the original.



The final argument people have given us is: "You are never going to stop remakes, so you are doomed from the start". Wrong. While there have been secluded pockets of people who have disapproved of remakes in the past, The Horror Drunx is the first organization that has made it their policy. We have 60,000 members and are still growing at a fast rate. If those people, who are the target audience for horror films, BOYCOTT a movie and are vocal enough to educate the general public about their reasons for it, that takes money away from feeding the remake monster. Once we are large enough a segment of the target audience population, that will mean a major loss to the income of remakes at the box-office. As soon as it is no longer financially rewarding to release a remake, they will all but stop. So don't be a weak little puke eater that consumes anything given you... Continue to pay to see remakes, and they will continue to be made. If enough people stop going to see remakes and there will be no reason for anyone to make one.



We are the first anti-remake organization. When we first started, all we got were arguments about it, but we didn't give up. Someone had to be first and lead the way taking a stand. Now, years later, have already seen the Horror community begin to change through our education. More and more non-Horror Drunx are picking up the NO REMAKES stance too. We won't stop until there are no more remakes. If that is a lifetime job, so be it, it is what we believe in and what we stand by.
This also why we are against Horror publications and websites that promote remakes. It is just a sellout on their part to fill their pages and make a deadline, as well as make advertising money from the producers of remakes.



Other people may now be picking up our anti-remake torch, but remember that it was US that first fought in the trenches and made it fashionable for them to. We are proud to have had a big part in changing the world in this respect. Now is the time for everyone else to try and catch up with us.


you are telling me you don't want to see a "Critters" remake?

[r-type]

you are telling me you don't want to see a "Critters" remake?
Johnny Steele is a saint!! You leave him out of this.

[Trailbreaker]

Excuse me...did you just threaten us?
That's right. The "Ku Drunx Klan" is threatening to pillage our site and lynch the "puke eaters.":rolleyes:

They say you don't want to get their attention, but if you look at the posts, it's like the other way around. I wasn't the one that went to them and said "HEY LOOK THEY ARE REMAKING THIS MOVIE, FUCK YOU GUYS!!!" The fact is, I never even heard of these Drunx, and wish I didn't. But I can't help that cuz it was Garyo and his pal's idea to show up threaten to pillage our site. THANKS GUYS!!! :)

[nelson]

I can't believe people get this worked up over a fucking movie.

It just makes you wonder what kind of a world we would live in if people spent this energy on making the world a better place.