Why The Nightmare On Elm Street remake (2010) sucked?
This is a review, sorry for my broken english but i really needed to talk about this, reposts are open for conversations!
Spoilers and graphic content ahead!
Made some fixes and additions.
Deleted scenes: I think this was the biggest issue that this movie had as a whole was the deleted scenes. There was alot of deleted scenes and i was shocked to find out that THEY ARE ALOT. There is a link to all those scenes, and i’ll put it in here if someone got curious. I am going to talk mainly about the ones that i think would make the movie better, and would like to see.
Freddy’s Hospital scene: After freddy get’s burned to death thanks to the parents, there was actually an after scene, where freddy lays down on his hospital bed, all burned, with bandages all over his body, broken breathing, untill the heart monitor stops showing any signs of heart beats. (If there is a another name for this machine, i don’t know what it is, but you get my point.) This scene was so sad to see, you feel bad for freddy and you hate parents at that point, still, there was no need to delete that scene at all, freddy dying in the hospital wouldn’t be crucial hit to the script, a basic scene. This scene was a good one, and there was no point in deleting it, but it was gone, and you can only see this scene with blu-ray as a extra scene i think? i will put the link in here again, if anyone want’s to see it, it’s really uneccecary to delete this scene, and i know people will understand my point here.
Freddy’s glove making scenes: The movie’s alternative opening this was, and freddy casually makes his glove in that scene, sadly i think this was in the BTS video, so i will link that video in here too, but what i want to talk here is that, if we were to get this scene as a opening, (not dean’s death) this would make the movie actually better. We are talking about freddy here, and if they were going to add the old movie’s deaths then adding this scene would be a cherry on top of the cake. But what did we got? dean’s death infront of kriss, false start characters, and a bad nancy hitting on cinnamon roll quentin. Was this worth it? No. I don’t think this was worth it, even as not for an opening, this could have been added to the scenes where nancy’s mother talks about pre-burned freddy. But no, no no and no we got.
Freddy’s alternative ending: I am so dissapointed for the ending we got in the movie, but this ending? I love this ending, so much, because we have pre-burned freddy, a longer scene with nancy on top of the bed, scaring the shit out of nancy, but at the same time being sexy about it. (I think the scene where freddy moves nancy’s dress up was a reference to freddy vs jason movie.) Nancy was so looking uncomftrable in this scene, crying, and begging to woken up, but even freddy’s hit on her shoulder, she didn’t wake up and this scene was a long good ending, which nancy ends up taking freddy to the real world, with him still looking pre-burned, and nancy puts up a good fight with him, not just a cut throat and being like “oh it’s over!” no, after hitting his gloved hand, she hits him again in the face, making freddy go down from the stairs, starting a fire, then she hits him again, saying “i remember what you did to me.” This makes freddy laugh all while burning, and in pain, “You are my little nancy.” and she burns him again, and freddy, our freddy burns again, hits everything on his path then falls to the ground, why did i explained all of this? cause what we got in the movie was so shitty that i was very dissapointed as a elm street fan, and if we didn’t mind all those deleted scenes, they could’ve make this alternative ending as a movie ending, and people would like it, just because of that ending, and trust me, it’s pretty good, and i hate the fact that they put this on blu-ray as a alternative scene, atleast they thought about the curiosity we would get for the alternative. If you want to see this scene, here, i’ll link it.
Cast: I am going to talk about the main cast in here, and going to give my opinions about them. Don’t worry, i will not say that we need robert in here, but i will touch on him as well!
Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger: This, here, was the best choice for freddy, and i know some of you will say “oh he was a shitty freddy-” “He can’t be robert englund!” But he was not shitty, putting this aside, Robert liked his freddy, Jackie was so respectfull to Robert’ freddy, and both of them were so good for freddy. Then why people hates remake freddy? Because of the old quotes from the movie, because he’s not a jokester like OG freddy (he does some jokes like: after killing kriss’ dog, he says “i was just petting him.” which was actually funny. The problem was the fact that, people are sensitive af and most of them doesn’t get the dark jokes it seems.) Another thing is that, people shitted about his real person burned make-up, which took 3-6 hours to people to put that make up on jackie, which he said it was hell in short, second, this guy got damage to his eyes thanks to the contact lenses they put on him. The movie stopped thanks to this ‘accident’. One of the lenses were red, and the other one was cloudy, (im going to touch about this for DBD version, don’t worry.) Haley really hated the make-up part, poor guy, he played freddy diffrently but geniune, and for robert, he’s old, 76 years old now, and you can’t push him to play freddy anymore, he would be yes, good, but in remakes, we need new people to play these characters, nobody minded when Halloween 2018 came out, and micheal was played by a diffrent actor. (which not just halloween 2018, in the other movies as well.) When someone played jason in Friday the 13th, He was played by a diffrent actor too. (same goes with micheal’s as well, jason was played by many diffrent actors.) Jackie was the perfect choice, and no one can change my mind about that, he really put his soul to playing freddy, He’s rorschach ffs, don’t shit on him. I want to mention his other movie “Little Children” in here too, “Watchmen” and a show called “Human Target” which was a good show. Check those out if you want to, you won’t be dissapointed.
Rooney Mara as Nancy Holbrook: first of all, this woman doesn’t like horror movies, at all, on top of this, she didn’t even wanted to play nancy, she gave us this blunt, shaking head nancy that we didn’t needed. As in the alternative ending, rooney did a great job, but for the whole movie, she was the worst main actor that i ever seen, she didn’t suit for nancy- im not saying that our old nancy should be in the movie, no, she got old too, and we needed new characters, so why i hate her? she played nancy like a tree, and she was a disrespectful image for nancy, sorry for rooney fans here, but she was not suitable for nancy at all. I don’t hate her but she really didn’t suit for nancy. They should’ve killed this character and focused on quentin more, that would be a new opening for doors.
Kylie Gallner as Quentin Smith: Lot’s of people thought that quentin was unneccecary for the movie, calling him a emo, or a boy that tries to be good, let this man go please, he was a good character, and was relieving the worst nancy situation here, i wouldn’t even minded if he was the actual main character here, Kylie played him really well, and you feel so sad for him. He was so good in the finding out scene where he confronts his father about freddy, being sad that it was his fault, and all the other childrens fault for freddy’s death. I was stunned by that outcome, and he was really looking mad too, such emotion there, let this cinnamon roll be please.
Dead By Daylight Game wise: I am not here to explain the game, if you are so curious, check out their steam page, it explains most of it, but it’s a survival game, where you avoid killer, do 5 gens with other fellow survivors, and as a killer, killing those survivors and not letting them out. So, freddy’s dlc got out at the time and everyone was happy expect how quentin looked, how freddy’s power was so OP, remember how i said im going to touch about this for freddy’s eyes? yeah, so in the movie, remember how i said one of his eyes is red? the other one is cloudy? in the game, his eyes are just red. Yes, plain red. For quentin’s face situation, his face looked like he was smoking weed non-stop every single day, a crack head for short, they reworked on this because of people hating it, but the rework was bad too, this time looking like a barbie doll, and not looking like kylie at all, which kylie himself pointed out how his character didn’t look like him. Poor quentin. Another thing is that, Freddy’s main power got reworked after complaints that he’s op, now in my opinion, he’s unplayable. (I am a freddy and quentin main, don’t attack me.) Why? People knows how to counter him now, (kind of) and not all perks work for him, and he might even get a another buff just for the gigs. Cosmetics? Forget about them, you will be not finding a cosmetic for pre-burned freddy, nor quentin’s other casual clothes, nope, this is the only dlc that doesn’t get updated. Even micheal has a hospital cloth ffs, we could’ve get freddy’s pre-burned version, or that hospital scene where he’s all bandaged.
: I tried quentin’s all perks, and two of them works good, especially VIGIL. (im more of a helper in the game so, vigil, borrow time, self-care, are the ones that i go, i don’t change those perks at all.) Freddy’s all perks are good expect remember me i think, was the name of the perk, you hit survivor and get additional seconds for the exit gates, when you have that i don’t think it’ll be a good choice, you can go with his other perk which blocks the both exit gates when you down a survivor after all gens are finished, and hook.
Bad stuff about the dlc: all the other things. Freddy doesn’t look like remake freddy, on top of this quentin doesn’t look like quentin. Both of them looks similar but nope, they don’t. Freddy’s eyes are wrong, no cosmetics, if you get this dlc, just get it for the perks and character perks, and if you see a guy called quentin playing quentin, that’s me, hi! Like i said, i wish they added cosmetics like:
Quentin with his other outfits from the movie or their creations of outfits, some fans created some clothes for quentin too, why not?
for freddy, hospital look, pre-burned version, or his gardener look, would be so good and beautiful!
So, this was my review for the movie, and the game itself, do i think that this remake needs a another remake? YES. do i think robert should come back? NO, jackie did a great job. Do i want in game freddy to change to old freddy? hell no! Do i want cosmetics atleast for both quentin and freddy? YES.
Remake this remake, add the cutted scenes, and this movie will survive again.