This weekend A Nightmare on Elm Street will be arriving in theatres near you. Weird thing is though, you won't have the option of viewing it in 3-D. Why not? Everything from Alice in Wonderland to Clash of the Titans has been converted. Because of the uprising of 3-D films, are you surprised to not have the dimensional choice this time around?
When New Line initiated several conversations about converting A Nightmare on Elm Street to 3-D, ‘we pushed back,’ says director Samuel Bayer. ‘This was shot in 2-D and was meant to be shown in 2-D.’ He added, ‘Just like I don’t want to see a lot of great movies remade’ — alluding to the other Hollywood vogue — ‘I don’t want to see a lot of them in 3-D.’3-D is all about money anyway! It is very nice to hear that a director is actually standing up for his vision. I applaud Bayer for not giving into the suits of Hollywood. There obviously is plenty of time for the money-grabbing 3D conversion trend down the road.
There is no way i would ever want to sit through this movie, especially if it was in 3D. The commercials look creepy enough, but why is it that they have to keep remaking the movie. They remade all the Jason movies, and then Freddy vs. Jason, and now another Freddy movie. Why do people get a kick out of this, they know whats going to happen, thats the funny thing. It's the same story, just differnt actors, and new effects. If watched in 3D, i'm afraid some elder people in the audience may have a heart attack.
ReplyDeleteWell, in Hollywood, especially in the remake business, they look at them more as a rebooting of the franchise, as opposed to just a straight remake. Me being in Korea at the moment, I have not had a chance to see NOES the remake, althought I did see Iron Man 2 earlier than the U.S. and it was AMAZING! Anyways, back to the point. I have always been a huge fan of horror movies, I own the whole NOES and Friday the 13th series on DVD, and Freddy Vs Jason sits in the middle of the two, to make it even of course. When you reboot a franchise such as this one it provides many opportunities you didn't have the first go around. You've got name recognition, which is something more valuable than people realize. For every Harry Potter series, there is a Spiderwick Chronicles (One movie was made and flopped hardcore so they dropped the sequels) What you have in these movies is that name recognition where you are going to get the hardcore fans of the series who want to check it out, but you've got a new film for those who have never been exposed to Freddy before. You can also turn the story into something of your own. As seen in the preview, they show Freddy being chased down by the parents and burned alive, this is something that is only alluded to in movies. (You don't see Freddy in human form till NOES 6: Freddys Dead, The Final Nightmare(Which oddly enough, was in 3d)) So although remakes may be cheap to some, there is merit to them. I thought about a career in film for a long time, and there are some movies I would have loved to have remade because people have different ideas than the orignal creators. As for the 3d treatment, it was a smart move and a respectable one to keep it in 2d. Look at Clash of the Titans, it was completely filmed in 2d and then given the 3d upconversion, and it was horrible. Nothing at all like AVATAR, which is what people were expecting. Even the critics ravaged the 3d version in reviews saying that you could tell the movie was made for 2d and it in fact took away from the beauty of the picture by making it blurry for 3d. Sorry, I know it was supposed to be only 100 words but when it comes to movies, I can talk for days. Good post though.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad Nightmare on Elm Street wasn't in 3D. I haven't seen the movie yet, but the whole 3D thing is definitely a money-making scheme. I went to see Alice in Wonderland in 3d because I thought it would be cool. Yeah, I couldn't tell a difference between the regular version and the 3d one. Not to mention some scenes in the 3D version were really dark and it seemed they didn't work well with the 3D version. Glad to see this horror movie didnt go with everyone else and use 3D.
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