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Anyone seen this piece of sh*t? Probably the worst remake ever. Just terrible in all the wrong ways.

Eh, it was good enough. If you want worst remake check out The Fog (2005).

I thought it was alright.
But I didn't have high expectations, still it's not as bad as The Fog.

In fact, there are few films that its better than. Not saying it's good or anything, just not as awful as some like to claim it is.

Haven't seen The Fog.

Odd I didnt realize they remade Fog...

The only highlight was Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy.

I guess, his voice was great but I thought he looked terrible. Plus, how much more awesome is Robert Englund?

With Tom Welling.

And that tells you everything.

Here's my biggest issues with this remake (and beware because there's plenty of spoilers in what I'm about to say):

- The movie literally re-enacts various death scenes from the Nightmare series. But they come off less scary and gory then the original versions of these death scenes. Specifically moments like Freddy appearing above the bed and the first death of Nightmare on Elm Street. In the original you have a girl covered in blood being drug across the ceiling as she screams bloody murder and is dropped on the bed splashing blood everywhere. In the remake it's the most tame and uninteresting death

- The best element of Freddy is the unique ways in which using the dream world he can kill you while exposing your worst fears (turning you into a roach, tapping into your drug addiction). This film may as well have just been another Halloween. Every death was just a blade glove stab.

- We spend half this movie discussing that maybe Freddy isn't really a pedo. He was wrongly fingered by these kids and this is a revenge story. Now we as faithful followers of the story know that Freddy is a child molester. If we're going to spend an HOUR questioning his innocence, he better f**king be innocent. Give us something new and different, instead it's just a way to eat up some extra minutes.

yeah I really hated this remake. Almost as much as I hated the TCM remake... that being said I enjoyed the Friday the 13th remake quite a bit.

... which was more like the TCM remake to me. Didn't feel any Crystal Lake/Jason vibe in the F13 remake at all.

Oh there were definitely issues. What I liked about Friday the 13th though was that it felt more like a bad sequel than a remake. It had a few interesting kills but in general it just sorta ranked a little above Friday the 13th VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan to me

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :buggedout:

Not to mention that half the things in this are retarded and illogical. Like:
"You have to believe in something." by our second turd protagonist. What? No, you don't, you can believe in nothing. It's called nihilism.
There's also the scene where the blond chick falls asleep at a funeral. Were supposed to take that seriously? I mean, who does that? It's rather disrespectful, and the film doesn't even seem to realize it.
Also, at one point in the film they mention that the dreams are supressed memories (I wish this movie was a supressed memory), but that doesn't make sense. In one dream she falls asleep and her class explodes into ashes. Is that a memory... ?

They sound like details but there's plenty more to get annoyed by.

Well, you can't blame the actor for how they designed the makeup.  I give him a lot of credit.  Englund owned that role for 8 movies.  And people tend to overlook that in the ORIGINAL Nightmare, Freddy was much more of a villain, not a comedic anti-hero.  So I give Haley credit for stepping in, and adding his own mannerisms to attempt making Freddy scary again.  Granted, the script could've been better.  But with what he was given, he was the highlight of the film.

I just didn't feel that Haley had the "Freddy" personality. Anyone can play a masked character like Jason or Leatherface, but Robert Englund's personality drove the character. Robert isn't too old to play the character (make up and CGI will be used anyway). I wonder if he was even approached to reprise the role? Re-imagining a movie with multiple sequels is usually a bad idea anyway. And even when it works, people still complain.

The only real reason to watch this movie is to see Jackie as the new Freddy.