Official Noes Remake Review Thread!

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<!--quoteo(post=360169:date=May 2 2010, 06:10 PM:name=carter1010)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (carter1010 @ May 2 2010, 06:10 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=360169\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecHow can you not compare a remake to an original? That would be like if a band came out calling themselves the beatles and doing all their songs but you have to critique them as an original idea and forget that the beatles ever existed? The reality is you have to compare it to the original the same as you compare a book to the movie version, or the makeup from one film to another, or the humor from one film to another. Its all related. The question you have to ask is did the director make a picture that contained elements of the original but was equally as unique and daring as the 1984 version 20 some odd years later or did the studio make this purely as an exercise to see how likely we are to spend hard earned cash on garbage to turn a buck and add generations of fans. We all know studios are in it to make money, but every now and then a director or writer have a vision that is more important than all of that and fight hell to make it happen. The original Nightmare was one of these films and unless someone comes along that is equally thirsty to make something that really is worth a golly gee willikers I am afraid it will continue to be lackluster at best. You can take all the anticipation and hope and try to paint it as a good movie, but the reality is that its not. I wanted to like it as much as anyone here, but fredsmidfinger said it best.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndi didn't say not to compare it. not to compare it would be impossible. i said over compare, which is what a lot have done in my opinion. it's not the same movie. it wasn't made to be the same movie and some just can't accept that. there's also a large portion of people who hate remakes yet they go see them anyway and cry the entire time. if you know you aren't going to enjoy it for what it is then why bother?i agree with you on some of what you're saying but you still have to realize it's a re-imagining of the original. the original is the original and nothing can change that. in the end it's just a movie.