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NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET REMAKE - 6/10
First of all, I've never been a huge Kreuger fan, and definitely not a huge remake fan, but this is one of the funniest films I've ever seen, and was genuinely entertaining, so that puts it about a billion times above than part 2, part 4, part 5, and freddy vs. jason. Not even half as good as part 1, part 3, freddy's dead, or new nightmare, though.
Some questions/observations.. spoilers, obviously:
1) Dean... okay, the camera clearly shows that there's a camera in the cell. So, you'd think this would be something important; to show that the police realize that people are getting killed without anyone actually, you know, doing it. I think this one is supposed to be open ended, for the eventual, uh, "remake sequel", but it still was odd that they lingered on the security cam footage for so long when nothing ever came out of it...
2) Why is everyone in this film obviously, like, 25-30? But playing 17-18 year olds?! Pretty odd.
3) I can understand how Freddy can interact with people in their dreams, but how can he interact with the real world? Take the scene at the pharmacy, where Nancy is scooting away from him. It keeps cutting back from the "real world" to the "dream world", back and forth. Showing her scooting away in the dream boiler room, and then showing that in reality she's scooting away in the dream pharmacy. All this is well and good, but then it shows Freddy clearly use his kills to spark metal in the dream world -- and in the real world, it shows that he knocked a bunch of products off in the aisle. This makes absolute no sense. He can't manipulate the real world at all, can he? Just the people's dreams.
4) This goes along with above. If people are "Running away" in the dream world, and it shows them "running away" in reality, why does that only happen part of the time? Nancy scooting back in the real world coincided with her doing that in the dream world. Yet, there are other scenarios where it just shows people dreaming, yet they're clearly running in their dreams. Shouldn't they be "running" (even in place) in the real world?
5) What the *beep* was up with the climax? Freddy enters the real world and gets beaten around because he was "on top" of Nancy at the top and that sucked him back into the real world?! What? There were other moments where he was on top of characters and that didn't happen.
6) If Freddy can manipulate all space and time in the dream world, why doesn't he just, uh, you know, kill people that way? I don't understand them "running away" and him "catching up to" them and whatever. That is pretty much half the movie -- the other half is JUMP SCARES!... But, like with Nancy. All that stuff at the end was unnneccessary. He could have just killed her in her dreams by manipulating everything, and molested her corpse or whatever he wanted to do.
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