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Post by GL on Jun 17, 2006 12:56:19 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 14:32:08 GMT -5
I didnt like this one as much as the original, the kid they got to play Jesse has to be one of the whiniest kids I have ever seen in my life. God knows why Freddy would want to be this kids body. 3/5
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:06:17 GMT -5
I really liked some of the effects in this movie. I will give it a 4.
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Post by Freddys Revenge on Jun 19, 2006 13:17:05 GMT -5
I didnt like this one as much as the original, the kid they got to play Jesse has to be one of the whiniest kids I have ever seen in my life. God knows why Freddy would want to be this kids body. 3/5 Freddy wanted a softer kind of boy that was a little weaker than average, it would be easier to posess such a freakishly meek boy. Whoever Freddy posessed, he'd still be his evil self, and not tougher nor any weaker.
May I advise these people to make the scales a 1 to 10 star ratio. I get really tired of such a short line of choices with a scale of 1 to 5. If you can, definetely, definetely, definetely change all these voting polls to a 1 to 10 scale, would everyone else like that too?As for a 5 scale, I give it a 4.
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Post by Freddy's Revenge on Jun 19, 2006 13:37:00 GMT -5
That should have counted as my post, but oh well.
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Post by Punk18 on Jun 21, 2006 18:44:10 GMT -5
I gave Freddy 2 a 3 out of 5, it wasn't that good.
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Post by HNT on Jun 25, 2006 11:44:35 GMT -5
3 from me. I was really dissapointed in the posession angle, as it seemed way out of character for Freddy to me. I did think that Jesse was a prety sympathetic character, though, and the film did have some solid gore in parts
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 0:51:42 GMT -5
“A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge” is a pretty capable sequel.
**SPOILERS**
Teenage Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) isn't like most teens. He and his family, mom Cheryl (Hope Lange) dad Ken (Clu Gulager) and his younger sister have just moved into the cursed house on Elm Street; he and the local high school jock Ron Grady (Robert Rusler) butt heads constantly; and he has horrific nightmares about a gloved maniac (Robert Englund) that cause him to wake up screaming every morning. His friend Lisa (Kim Myers) is worried about him, and doesn't know what to do. Jesse keeps insisting he's fine, but the dreams get worse. As the nightmares in his dreams give way to nightmares in the real world, Jesse starts to believe that he is crazy. When the gym teach, Coach Schneider (Marshall Bell) is murdered, Jesse begins to wonder about the masked man in his dreams, and why he's targeting Jesse. As more events pile up, Jesse realizes the truth about why Kruegar is using him to come back into the real world.
The Good News: I actually like the beginning of the movie. As children are being picked up for school, they sit amongst their friends, laughing and talking, until they realize that they are not heading for school and are going off into the desert. When it finally stops, they look out, and see the ground giving way around them. Left atop a dangerous looking precipice, the driver laughs demonic-ly, and it is revealed that Freddy is the driver. He approaches the kids and they begin screaming in agony. It's a great way to start a movie and keep those from the first one remembering who Freddy is. Also really great is that Freddy becomes a bit more of a psychological villain here. He takes a little bit longer to start his rampage, but he acquits himself well with a great rampage full of great and interesting kills. Among the best is when Freddy emerges from another body by slashing his way through the abdomen and then walking through, with the shredded remains falling off of Kruegar's back and shoulders. The tongue kill is really interesting, and is pulled off with great execution. It was also a good idea to make Freddy a little bit more creative, with him taking longer to appear and then being a raving maniac to scare people. The party scene, which is the film's great highlight, is perfect proof. It is a bit longer than what normal movies like it are, but it is also a nice progression because it flows so smoothly. If Freddy really were alive, that is how it would probably happen. It feels a bit more realistic than if it would be over in five minutes. It plays out, and seems more real. Surprisingly, the transformation scene is also really great. It looks bloody and painful, just the way it should be if Freddy Kruegar was trying to escape from inside someone, and it also featured a couple cool ideas that add to the overall realness of it. I think it rivals any werewolf transformation in terms of realistic-ness.
The Bad News: The 80-ness of the film is very apparent early on. The hairdos, the fashions, and the god-awful pop music played throughout is really a direct indication of when the movie was made. Those three things date the film incredibly, and are really distracting to the film anyway. It should always be pounding heavy metal music in horror films, not pop, as 90% of horror fans hate pop music and listen to heavy metal. (Myself included.) That just needs to stop and fast. Also, I think the redesigned facial make-up of Kruegar is dreadful. It looks like his skin is even more fried than before, and I don't like it all that much. I miss the great looking make-up from the first film: he looked really creepy in that one. Here, it really doesn't do the trick.
The Final Verdict: It is nowhere near the level of the classic original, but it is still a bit better than what most give it credit for. It has a huge shoe to fill, being the sequel to such a classic film, and I did like enough of it to give it a passing grade. Try to imagine it as such, and you may be surprised.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, rear male Nudity, and a clothed sex scene
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Post by Jen on Aug 11, 2006 13:55:47 GMT -5
Not bad at all, really, but I to was disappointed by the posession angle. I enjoyed it overall, though again, Freddy wasn't nearly as frightening as he was in the first film. But there was some good kills here, and it was pretty entertaining; really a pretty interesting sequel. No where near as good as the original, but hey, no surprise there. 3/5 for me.
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Post by Seeker on Aug 14, 2006 10:20:01 GMT -5
Well, I gave this one a 3 out of 5... I thought it was a pretty good NOES movie...It was one of the last times that Freddy was still more dark and evil, than funny...I wasn't too happy about the posession, but I did enjoy it...
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Post by razors on Jun 7, 2007 17:39:23 GMT -5
3/5. One of the weaker Freddy movies. it has some great dream sequences and some fun Freddy moments but this movie doesn't get anywhere near the origional. It's not bad but because it's in between part one and three, it looks kinda bad. Not terrible but nowhere near the brilliance of the others.
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Post by GL on Jun 8, 2007 10:24:51 GMT -5
Feel like that too. Sandwiched between greatness in 1 and 3, andthe "different feeling" evident in it maks it stand out more than it should.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 23, 2008 7:33:21 GMT -5
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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