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Limber up.
We 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.
The very first clip is of live!Freddy running from the Elm Street Mob (note to self: great band name), then holing up, screaming, "Whatever you think I did, I didn't do it!" just before they torch him.
This might seem like a small thing, but this is a big break from canon. In original flavor NoES, Freddy was let off on a technicality involving a bad search warrant; all the evidence they found in the his boiler room was ruled invalid and the court had nothing to hold him with (yes, this would never happen in reality. Go with it.:). He knew full well what he was being accused of, he was arrested for it! (And was a complete smirking bastard about the whole thing.)
But not in the reboot. If the trailer is to be believed, Freddy is powerless and scared before his death. Now this could just be showing the inherent cowardice of someone who preys on children (and is the most likely answer) but there is one other explanation.
How awesome would it be if he didn't do it?
Now that would be a twist on the franchise. The Elm Street Mob lynches an innocent man (because he's the Son of 100 Maniacs, because he creeps people out, because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time) and wind up creating the monster they thought they were destroying.
Because seriously, if you get burned alive and turned into a horrific dream demon because a mob thought you were killing their children there's no reason to then not prove them right.
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.
The very first clip is of live!Freddy running from the Elm Street Mob (note to self: great band name), then holing up, screaming, "Whatever you think I did, I didn't do it!" just before they torch him.
This might seem like a small thing, but this is a big break from canon. In original flavor NoES, Freddy was let off on a technicality involving a bad search warrant; all the evidence they found in the his boiler room was ruled invalid and the court had nothing to hold him with (yes, this would never happen in reality. Go with it.:). He knew full well what he was being accused of, he was arrested for it! (And was a complete smirking bastard about the whole thing.)
But not in the reboot. If the trailer is to be believed, Freddy is powerless and scared before his death. Now this could just be showing the inherent cowardice of someone who preys on children (and is the most likely answer) but there is one other explanation.
How awesome would it be if he didn't do it?
Now that would be a twist on the franchise. The Elm Street Mob lynches an innocent man (because he's the Son of 100 Maniacs, because he creeps people out, because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time) and wind up creating the monster they thought they were destroying.
Because seriously, if you get burned alive and turned into a horrific dream demon because a mob thought you were killing their children there's no reason to then not prove them right.
Man, do I ever want fic where Sam and Dean try to hunt down Freddy. Talk about the ultimate evil spirit.