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Post by GL on Jun 17, 2006 12:46:58 GMT -5
Rate it on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the worst, 5, being the best.
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Post by CK on Jun 17, 2006 14:40:04 GMT -5
3/5, this was one of the creepier NOES movies for me, with a few laughs thrown in as well. For me there was a feeling in this one I havent felt since part 1. Had a bit of darkness to it.
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:10:53 GMT -5
I really liked this movie. The back story stuff with Freddy is just awesome. Its getting a 5 from me.
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Post by Freddy's Revenge on Jun 19, 2006 13:54:04 GMT -5
3 out of 5, this one is good, but my least favorite. They're all very good movies, but I like the others more.
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Post by HNT on Jun 25, 2006 11:50:30 GMT -5
1 from me. the worst of the series. I remember sitting in the theater as a kid waiting for the 3-D part (which was totally unimpressive). This piece of crap has a cameo by Roseanne and Tom Arnold. Enough said
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 0:55:16 GMT -5
“Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare” is easily the best of the sequels and is also the funniest.
**SPOILERS**
Freddy (Robert Englund) forces one of the last surviving Elm Street children, John Doe, (Shon Goldblatt) to do his bidding in the other world while he gains strength in the dream world. An annoyed therapist, Maggie, (Lisa Zane) is having her hands full with the kids in her control in a children's shelter when John comes to the shelter, mentally fit but babbling about some weird guy in his dreams who was out to kill him. She becomes fascinated by him, as well as Doc. (Yaphet Koto). She decides to investigate further and brings him with her back to the town of Springwood, the birthplace of Freddy Kruegar. In Springwood, they discover no children in the town, and a conspiracy surrounding Freddy's possible children. Unaware, three followers stumble into Freddy's house and kills them all, toying with each one until they die. Maggie and arrive in time to discover what Freddy is up to regarding his child: Freddy possesses Maggie in order to provide him with more souls. Possessed by Freddy, Maggie unknowingly brings him back to the shelter where he begins a giant wave of horror on the unsuspecting staff and patients. The Good News: I really want to applaud the film-makers for making this movie so enjoyable. This is my favorite of the sequels, right before 'New Nightmare.' The reason why this one is so good is that Freddy has some of his funniest lines ever in this film. This one is a lot funnier than Part 4, which everyone says is the funniest. The lines though are not obtrusive and add to the enjoyment of the film. They are funny but to the point of enjoyment, but don't cross the delicate line into cheesiness. Even his torturing is far more enjoyable. It is very exciting to see Freddy doing a best of both worlds between his comedy and his horror. Torturing victims one minute then cracking a humorous line the next is very refreshing to see Kruegar do. The supposed 3-D ending is nicely realized, even if the viewer has no glasses to see it. I also like to comment on the plot as well. It is one of the most creative ways to give Freddy a credible reason to come back, as well as allowing Freddy an inventive new way to continue his reign of terror. Perhaps the best example in the series of what a large amount of special effects can do to a film. The kills are probably as creative a bunch as Freddy has ever had, and they are just a joy to watch. They’re not really scary, just enjoyable, and the film makes them work quite easily.
The Bad News: The only bad thing about this movie was how totally non-threatening Freddy was. The make-up didn't make him look very scary, a complete down grade from the previous films where he at least looked menacing. This, of course, is mainly due to the constant joking by Freddy, but then for those that don’t like this side of Freddy’s nature probably won’t see it.
The Final Verdict: Completely enjoyable entry for all Freddy fans. It has the best of both worlds: very funny lines and a menacing atmosphere all around. Recommended for all fans of Kruegar and slasher fans in general.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and mild drug references
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Post by Jen on Aug 11, 2006 13:46:40 GMT -5
My least favorite of the movies, I was a kid when I saw this and I liked it okay then, I was with a group of friends, and we pretty much made fun of it all the way through. So we had fun. But then I watch it again, and I was less then impressed. Freddy isn't scary in the least; I just couldn't believe this was the same character that frightened me so badly in the first NOES. Nothing about the film measured up to the first one, or even the third one, or New Nightmare. In fact, I think I enjoyed every single film in the series much, much better than this one. 2/5; I give it a 2 rather than a 1 just because I like some of the backstory that was given and some of the kills. Other than that, it was more annoying then anything.
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Post by razors on Jun 7, 2007 17:48:54 GMT -5
BOOM!
The series takes a turn for the worst.
not nearly as good as ANY of the previous ones.
This is the worst Nightmare movie.
The 3d at the end sucks. The worst 3d I've ever seen. The 2d version looks so cheesey with people pointing knives and clubs at the screen and throwing things at the audience which looks riddiculas. The storyline also is disapointingly boring and sucky.
This gets a 2/5 from me. Why a 2? Because the opening 10 minutes were pure gold.
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Post by GL on Jun 8, 2007 10:34:18 GMT -5
I give this a guilty pleasure tag, mainly because some of the jokes are good. Are they great? No. Do they appear to be coming from a mile away? Yeah, but it's still fun. The chalkboard sequence, though, is the real gold, not the first ten minutes.
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Post by razors on Jun 8, 2007 16:00:37 GMT -5
I noticed that "seven eight better dayed up late" never appeared onscreen as the other lyrics did.
I've just remembered the video game sequence, so I'll chaNGE MY VOTE TO 3/5.
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Post by GL on Jun 9, 2007 10:30:19 GMT -5
I still like the chalkboard scene, funny and creepy at once.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 23, 2008 9:25:56 GMT -5
I wanted to like this movie. And there are things about it that I still like. Like the music. The songs in this movie are pretty damn cool. Iggy Pop's song and that montage at the end are masterful. And the rest of the songs are either fun or just cool. I really enjoyed "Everything Remains the Same" and the song that plays when we first see the van driving in circles. Oh, and, I was shocked, but the Goo Goo Dolls didn't always suck. They did a very good song in this movie. Miles ahead of the crap like "Iris" and "Slide" we were forced to listen to so much from '97-2000. God, they got annoying fast. I also really liked Katherine and Tracy a lot as characters. And the final "showdown" ending in the Basement Armory was awesome. It just was. And the actress who played Tracy was very intense and very believable. I loved the scene where she confronted the nightmare version of her lecherous father. She seemed to be saying 3 completely different things when she was swinging the coffee pot at him - "you're not my Dad!," "do you love me now?!," and "you let me down!" And they all work if you think you hear only one of them. But... there's so much wrong with this movie. So very, very much. I gave it a 2. Because the backstory was horrible and unnecessary, the "dream demons" stuff was stupid, all the people playing bit parts (except for 1 person- the woman at the orphanage...oh, and Katherine's adoptive mother) are really bad actors (why the hell did Bob Shaye do a cameo where he's laughing like a jackal?), and most of the death and nightmare scenes are silly and dumb. This film is really my favorite of the series. And I think it's a brilliant film, but the low budget hurts it. However, it can easily be seen as a kind of social / psychological / personal portrait of a young man fighting with intense feelings of homosexuality. Though to be fair, most people only say that because it's kind of obvious that the actor playing Jesse is gay. I voted 3 for the film because of the fact that this was too ahead of its time to work in 1985 and the subject matter was too ambitious to work on such a low budget. And I thought the score was the least impressive of the series. Very old fashioned (yeah, I never thought I would say I prefer the kind of techno-ish thing they had going on in part 1, but I do). Sort of the audio equivalent of squinting at the sun. But I think it's more of a 3.5, because darned if that actor (Mark Patton, I believe) didn't try his best with this role. And that little "blood on my hands" sequence is actually quite heart-breaking. This guy is facing some personal demons on-set, during filming, right in that moment. Credit where credit is due. Even if some of the vision of the film is compromised.
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Post by GL on Jan 23, 2008 11:14:53 GMT -5
I like that dream and nightmare stuff because it is so silly and fun. Utilizing the tone that had been established by that point in the series, going away from the pure terror and fear that had been on display, to throw in the cheesy lines and all that other fluff makes it more watchable to me than some of the "better-made" entries in the series because it's a lot of fun. It also doesn't hurt that watching cheese is really appealing.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 24, 2008 10:40:48 GMT -5
I like that dream and nightmare stuff because it is so silly and fun. How much did you like it when it was in Part 4: The Dream Master? going away from the pure terror and fear that had been on display, to throw in the cheesy lines and all that other fluff makes it more watchable to me than some of the "better-made" entries in the series because it's a lot of fun. For me, a movie with as much bad acting as Freddy's Dead has in it, can't be much fun. Bad acting hurts to watch. Nothing fun about something that hurts to watch. Freddy's Dead is way beyond cheese.
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Post by GL on Jan 24, 2008 11:07:15 GMT -5
I guess you should know a secret about me before we continue on: I can't judge acting. To me, it all looks the same, and it doesn't really stand out who does a good job or a bad job. I've learned to accept it and don't really care about acting, it's the last thing on my list to judge a movie on, almost not even registering. Therfore, countering anything against what I say by bringing up "bad acting" is a choice that few don't make.
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