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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010
I don't expect much from remakes,I keep my expectations fairly low and perhaps that is why I can usually find at least a modicum of enjoyment in even the most modest of "reimaginings",not in this case I didn't.
I thought Jackie Earle Haley was excellent in Watchmen and on the back of that I thought he was a good choice to play Freddy when the casting was announced,I have now changed my mind.I didn't find Haley's Freddy to be at all menacing,or to have any real presence.I don't think this lack of menace and presence was at all helped by the way several scenes were shot making Freddy look so diminutive that he resembled I child wearing a Halloween costume.I didn't like the make up either,I know they were going for a more authentic burns victim look,but all I saw was a miniture,bald version of Vincent from the Beauty and the Beast TV series.
The teen characters were so bland and utterly devoid of charisma that it was hard to care when they met their (Predictble) ends,in fact the entire cast (Ironically) seemed to be half asleep throughout,although to be fair I don't think they had a lot to work with.Even the more memorable and impactful scenes from the original were reproduced here with such a lack of style and imagination as to render them criminally ineffectual.For me this is the worst remake since The Fog.
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