03-28-2009, 08:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2009, 08:48 AM by Slasher Asher.)
<!--quoteo(post=306362:date=Mar 27 2009, 09:57 PM:name=EverythingJason)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (EverythingJason @ Mar 27 2009, 09:57 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=306362\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecSee this is something that has always bothered me as a genuine horror fan - how fast people jump ship instead of showing a bit of loyalty and demand to see a certain actor in a movie. Robert Englund is Freddy. He played many a character but Freddy is what he did best and what created his fanbase. I am not a die hard Freddy fan by any means but if after so many movies all of a sudden they decide that Robert Englund is not good enough to be Freddy anymore than start up a different franchise instead of ruining one that is legendary. There is no one that would be able to pull Krueger off like Englund does, no one.But instead of showing the studios that we as fans won't stand for getting fed these steaming piles of celluloid diarrhea, people flock to the cinemas because the name of their favorite franchise is plastered all over it no matter how bad the product is.That's why studios don't bother to put a hefty amount of money behind these projects anymore because they know that they can get away with mediocre product and that's also the reason why smaller studios will always produce better movies because they actually care about what they put out.Would you go watch another Jason movie if all of a sudden he wore a cowboy hat instead of a hockeymask, just to keep things fresh? There are some things that you don't change in a franchise. There is a certain formula that you have to stick with and if you stray from that you will end up ruining the movie. It's the reason why Zombie's Halloween sucked, why the TCM remake blew and why the F13 remake was only mediocre.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndYes, Englund is Freddy and only he is Freddy. I find it idiotic to remake movies from the 80's. Especially when they could've just as easily done another sequel with Robert instead. He's still in good shape and no one will be able to detect he's any older than he was in the first film when he's covered by a thick layer of burn makeup. A friend of mine told me he overheard someone in the audience when he saw the trailer for the F13 remake say: "Jesus, how many of these are they gonna make?" Which shows what I always suspected. They can claim it's a reboot, remake, reimagination/whatever till their tongues fall of, but to the mainstream audience it's just another sequel. So why not just make it a sequel then? But instead they have to follow this remake trend cause for some reason the idiots in Hollywood think remakes of 80's movies sell better than sequels. I guess they didn't see the box office results for John Rambo or Indy 4.