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Limber up.
Oct. 5th, 2009 07:53 pmWe went to see Zombieland last week (at the midnight showing! Because that's the kind of dorks we are). Not only was it the funniest movie I've seen all year (probably the best movie I've seen in the theater since Watchmen), but it also serves as an excellent zombie survival guide. Go see Zombieland. Learn the rules. Love the rules.
But now I want to talk about the trailers.:)
We had an excellent ratio of good movies to probable crap; the only movies I didn't want to see was Saw VI (just no) and 2012 (I know people on my flist are excited about this, but I just can't watch a whole movie of people trying to out-drive the Apocalypse. I think The Happening broke me.) But as much as I liked the look of Wolfman and Legion nothing, nothing was going to beat the Nightmare on Elm Street trailer for pure squee.
Freddy Krueger is my very favorite boogeyman. You can avoid Jason by not going to Crystal Lake, Michael Myers by not being Laurie Strode but you can only stay awake for so long. Freddy's victims are helpless in a much more profound way than the doomed teenagers in other movies; he gets inside their heads and kills them from the inside out (what Freddy does is such a violation). There's no way to predict where he'll come from, what tactic he'll use or even what he'll look like. Even his Last Girl, Nancy, eventually falls later in the series. And the kids he kills haven't even done anything wrong; they're paying for the sins of their parents.
Which is what makes the preview for the Nightmare reboot so very interesting.
( Cut for trailer discussion and speculation on the Nightmare reboot. )
Man, do I ever want fic where Sam and Dean try to hunt down Freddy. Talk about the ultimate evil spirit.
But now I want to talk about the trailers.:)
We had an excellent ratio of good movies to probable crap; the only movies I didn't want to see was Saw VI (just no) and 2012 (I know people on my flist are excited about this, but I just can't watch a whole movie of people trying to out-drive the Apocalypse. I think The Happening broke me.) But as much as I liked the look of Wolfman and Legion nothing, nothing was going to beat the Nightmare on Elm Street trailer for pure squee.
Freddy Krueger is my very favorite boogeyman. You can avoid Jason by not going to Crystal Lake, Michael Myers by not being Laurie Strode but you can only stay awake for so long. Freddy's victims are helpless in a much more profound way than the doomed teenagers in other movies; he gets inside their heads and kills them from the inside out (what Freddy does is such a violation). There's no way to predict where he'll come from, what tactic he'll use or even what he'll look like. Even his Last Girl, Nancy, eventually falls later in the series. And the kids he kills haven't even done anything wrong; they're paying for the sins of their parents.
Which is what makes the preview for the Nightmare reboot so very interesting.
( Cut for trailer discussion and speculation on the Nightmare reboot. )
Man, do I ever want fic where Sam and Dean try to hunt down Freddy. Talk about the ultimate evil spirit.
