Unofficial Tex Murphy

Saw the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Decent, but not as good as the original.
I like how they played the pedophilia angle as it gave Freddy a reason to hunt the children, but I always felt that was sort of implied in the original but never outright said. He was obviously not just murdering them for no reason.

Didn't like how they changed the last half of the movie, but did like how this one was much more gory. I thought Freddy looked better in the original though.

They took out one iconic line which I thought was a mistake.
"I am God!"

Entertaining nonetheless.

I agree Baf, saw RED and was very entertained.

Saw a movie called "The Lucky Ones"... It is centered around 3 Army Soldiers who come home for leave for 30 days... On their way home they get stranded and all the flights are canceled, so they decide to rent a car and drive it...
It was a pretty good movie... Not one of those you'll watch over and over, but it had good levels of Comedy and Drama...

Sorry Lestat, I have to disagree with you on the Nightmare on Elm Street "Remake"... I didn't think it was decent at all... In fact I thought it was pretty pathetic... The only way I think this movie could have been worse was if Uwe Boll had done it...

First off, it was no where near scary... Might be my old age and the fact that very little gives me the jumps, but you always knew when Freddy was going to be there... Back in the Original, BAM he was there when you least expect it... This movie was quite predictable in the Freddy appearances...

Second, the Makeup was Amateur Hour compared to Robert Englund's Makeup... And the Gore, I can't say that it was better than the Original Freddy, I think the Gore was about the same... Actually in the Original, you remember how Johnny Deep's bed exploded with blood and junk, nothing even close happened like that in this new one... So actually I might lean towards the Original as being better in the Gore department...

Third, Nancy... For those that have seen it I don't think I need to say anymore... lol
But for those that haven't let me make a comparison for you... Have you seen Twilight??? You know how the girl Bella is all depressed and most think she is a freak just like the vampires, well that's about the case with the girl who played Nancy... She was a Depressed, Mental Freak... In fact just about all the kids in this one were...

Fourth, the movie was awfully dark, and I'm not just talking about it being done at night, the lighting was just horrible...

Okay lets talk about the Pedophile thing... Yeah they gave the parents a better reason to hunt him down and kill him... Show of hands of anyone who really thought this mattered???
I thought the original story of Freddy being a Killer and the police not being able to prove it, so the parents burned him in the boiler room, was just fine... No reason to turn Freddy into a Pedophile... A Child Killer is bad enough, but I simply detest pedophiles and to be honest, Freddy isn't the kind of Killer you want to detest... He ranks up there with Myers, Jason, Leatherface, and the rest of the well known and liked Screen/Movie Killers... I mean they are the reason we watch them over and over again... No one goes to see Friday the 13th part 27 so they can see how Jason is going to die this time, they go to see how Jason is gonna dismember his victims this time...


This movie was a complete waste of my time and that's 96 minutes of my life that I'll never get back...

If you need a reason to like the Original Freddy again, then watch this, otherwise don't waste your time...


Just my 2 cents, you can mail in for a refund if you're not satisfied... We're open on the 2nd Tuesday of the 6th week of the 14th month...

I didn't like it as much as the original.

I thought them taking out that scene with Johnny Depp, a big mistake.

It is one of those movies you watch when there is nothing else.

I am pretty sure I said the original was superior in many ways.

No you did, I wasn't trying to imply that you were putting it above the Original... I just didn't find it to be even decent... I'll break into the DVD Collection before I watch that simply because there is nothing else on... lol

Finally saw Inception last night (at the cheap show) and we loved it! What an incredible movie! Next is Red. Also, we eagerly look forward to the new Chronicles of Narnia movie coming out next month.

I've been a long time fan of Warren Ellis' work (the guy who wrote the graphic novel Red is based on) and I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing it. I hear it's doing quite well.

Recently I saw Harry Brown, a Michael Caine revenge film. Can't go wrong with Michael Caine. Anyway, the film has it's own pace, and if you're not expecting a high-octane action-thriller (there's an 80's term for ya!) you could certainly do worse. I recommend the film on it's own merits. Which is basically Michael Caine, actually.

-Fred

Neither of you will be disappointed with RED, Excellent movie...

Just finished re-visiting the Back to the Future trilogy: unbelievable in the way that it is just as thrilling as it was the first time around - no exaggeration. I especially refer to the epic final sequence in 1885 involving the train and the delorian. I knew exactly what was going to happen, but was just as excited. I'm not sure what it is, but the fact that there is minimal reliance on CGI might add to it.

After rewatching the trilogy one big glaring plot hole stands out to me.

P1
The Doc built the time machine in 1985. Okay I'll buy that.

P2
The Doc had to fix the time machine using parts from 1955. These parts were very large in comparison to the microchip that came from 1985. Okay that makes sense.

P3
The Doc is stuck in 1885 with Clara after he sends Marty home. How in the heck did he get/make the parts for a new time machine to meet up with Marty? He was complaining that he couldn't even make gasoline for the Delorean in 1885. The level of tech in 1885 would have made it very hard for him to build a new machine. I would have expected it to take decades for him to await the invention of decent tech or even if he had to invent the tech himself.

Hmmm. Really good question, Sam. I would venture two guesses:

1. The Doc is a genius creator and those types never let e little thing like unavailable parts and fuel get in their way. Remember, he made those explosive logs for the train in just a short period of time.

2. He had that hover-board from the future. Perhaps there were items he could expand and/or use to create new fangled gadgets (OK, poor choice of words) and adapt them to a train engine. Keep in mind this: even tho' he arrived shortly after Marty returned, he had several years to work on his machine, long enough to get married and have two children.

Possibilities, that's all. I'm sure there are others here who could present a more in depth postulation.

It did take him some years to build, because when he met up with Marty he had 2 sons... Now sure how old they were though, certainly not decades though...

So with his knowledge and not being under time pressure from being killed in a few days, I don't see it completely inconceivable that he couldn't do it... The fact that it Flies tells me that he went into the Future before going back to 1985 though... Because I don't care how intelligent the Doc was, I don't think he would have been able to re-create the Hover Technology... But the Flux-Capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, he created it once, and since we don't really know what it takes to create the Flux-Capacitor he could have done it...


But yes it would be nice to know exactly how he turned the train into another time machine...



Also let me throw this at you... The Doc went back to 1885 in the Time Machine... He put it in an old Mine where Marty and the 1955 Doc fixed it and used it... BUT, Wouldn't the Time Machine that the Doc went back to 1885 still be there when Marty got there???

So my guess would be that the Doc Salvaged the other Time Machine, but decided to turn it into a Train instead... hmmm??? Your Thoughts???

Yes that time machine would still be there in the mine where the Doc boarded it up for 1955 Doc and Marty to find.

In the letter that the 1985 Doc wrote to Marty, he said he did not have the parts to fix that Delorean. That's why he buried it because he did not have the technology necessary to fix it and go back to Marty in 1955 himself.

So he said himself that he did not have the tech to fix a mostly built time machine in 1885, but somehow he managed to build a new time machine from scratch??? Remember at the time he wrote that letter, he did not know he was going to get shot. He would have had all the time in the world to work on the problem.

Baf,
The problem with your theory was that if the the Doc salvaged the time machine he used to travel back to 1885 with, he would have had to return it back to the cave when we was done with it so Marty and the 1955 Doc could have found it in the future for Marty to go back. He could not have converted it to a train.

I might believe that somehow over the next couple years he figured out how to fix the Delorean, un-bury it, and travel to the future to get parts for another time machine. Then he could easily build a train time machine, and then put the car back in the cave for Marty to find.

Yea, if he took that time machine, it would create a paradox where Marty could have never went back to save him.... It would create a new time line until he put it back. Then it would revert to back to the original again.

I say he did have to go to the future at some point to get the train in the state it had to be. Maybe as long as he had the intent to put it back and nothing happened, then a paradox would not happen. Although, Marty going back in 1955 created a new time line completely.

Technically, the Delorean in the cave is from an alternate time line, so maybe it wouldn't affect 1955 Marty from going back to save him and as long as he took the time machine out after he was saved, everything would work out. He could use that time machine or take the flux capacitor out of it.

I think this last one is the most plausible with it being from an alternate time line/universe due to Marty changing it by going back to 1885.