Continuity mistake: There is a scene at the school, where Quentin and Nancy are talking by the lockers. Quentin is wearing a Joy Division shirt. The jacket he is wearing over the shirt keeps changing depending on whether it's a closeup of Quentin or a shot of both him and Nancy. You can easily tell, as the band's name is partially obscured during closeup and fully revealed when it's further away. This changes back and forth several times during that scene. Quentin doesn't move enough to warrant the jacket changing so noticeably. (00:18:15)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
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Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Kyle Gallner
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A complete misunderstanding of what made the original work?
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Paper-thin characters?
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Sloppy direction?
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Constant cringey jump-scares?
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2010's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is among the most unlikable and most condescending cash-grabs to emerge from the recent trend of horror remakes and reboots. It completely lacks in the charm and creativity that defined Wes Craven's iconic original, and instead settles for lazy scares and a hackneyed execution with all the subtlety of a brick to the face.
And if you don't take it from me, take it from the audience I saw the film with. To this day, "A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)" remains one of only two films I've ever seen where members of the audience actually booed as the credits began to roll. And others just sat there laughing. The atmosphere was practically venomous.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)" easily earns a miserable 1 out of 5 from me.
9.7/10. The way they should've done the original Nightmare back in 1984. I like how friendly and kind Freddy Krueger was shown as having been in the past. Then we learn he was a child molester. This worked a lot better than the child murderer idea because it taps into our fear of who can you trust. Sure Jackie Earle Haley isn't Robert Englund but he still delivers a solid performance. I liked the burn design, just creepy as heck.Yeas I also found Rooney Mara's performance pretty good despite her real life attitude. She's more believable than Heather Langenkamp who acted so stiff and wooden. This is how A Nightmare On Elm Street should've been done.
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Freddy Krueger: Little Nancy. Now that you caught me, what game do you wanna play next?
Nancy Holbrook: Fuck you!
Freddy Krueger: Ooh, sounds like fun.
Trivia: Prior to production, there were rumors that Billy Bob Thornton would play the new Freddy Krueger. Original Freddy actor Robert Englund was very instrumental in reporting and talking about this rumor, and would publicly speak about it, even implying it was a done-deal on several occasions. This caused some minor confusion when Thornton was not cast, and it turns out that Englund was talking about it so much (especially in implying Thorton was in the film) in an attempt to pressure the studio into casting Thornton, as he felt Thornton would be the perfect actor for a modern Freddy.
Question: At the beginning of the movie, when Dean is asleep, Freddy holds a sharp knife to his throat and cuts it while in the real world it looks like Dean is doing it himself. When Kris falls asleep in class, she is trying to escape from Freddy but is forced into a chair in the back of the classroom. When she wakes up screaming why is she still in her own seat instead of a seat in the back of the class like in her nightmare?
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Answer: It is not consistently portrayed throughout the series where victims will end up when attacked by Freddy. Some victims are shown running from Freddy down hallways and their dead bodies are found in their bed, others are shown "sleepwalking", and end up being found relative to where they were in the dream world. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason for this inconsistency.
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