The town-

pretty bad minus a couple solid action scenes.

Company Men-
Awful, seemed like a made for tv movie.

True Grit-
Pretty safe for the coehn brothers. Technically pretty good, sometimes i think jeff bridges gets away with some bs acting, and he comes pretty close in this film. Also has a fake out ending which i hate. Movie has a weird tempo, spends the first hour setting everything up and then has multiple climaxes (lol) at the end with it getting all rushed.

So far pretty disappointed with this fall season minus black swan :(

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Excellent stuff.

I loved this as well. Great acting all around, and it's a story that happens in many people's lives but rarely is put to film.

yeah...i have to agree The Squid and the Whale was really well done on all aspects....and hit close to home in many ways

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Loved it, the wrestling scenes are brilliantly done and Rourke is great. Far more enjoyable than anything else Arnofsky-related.

come on...

That is a ****ing great movie. Ram jam fo life.

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Well bugger me sideways - I actually quite liked this. I liked the update of Freddy K that we're given here, like how he's actually made up to look like a more realistic burn victim, how we're told a lot more about his past (and that way how there's a new slant on his bad guy...ness) than in other Nightmare movies and so on. The acting wasn't bad, the gore was pretty cool, the music was well-chosen and so on. Pretty good as far as horror remakes go, especially considering it comes from the same Platinum Dunes that gave us that dull-as-hell re-hashes of Friday 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Hitcher.

It's cool how it wasn't exactly a shot-for-shot remake as well and tried to show off a few new tricks, but this worked against it slightly as well. Identical re-shoots of scenes from Wes Craven's original are few and far between, which means some of the better scares from the original got passed over (like that human blender bit for instance).

As such, it's certainly inferior to the original, but I still really enjoyed this.

hmmmm...really?

this is on my "avoid like the plague....but i won't because i like playing with rats" list

actually i've read that the further into freddy's past life part of the film was done quite well...are all of the effects digital? and if so are they at least done well?

I wouldn't be surprised if they were all digital. I know at least a lot of them are (there's a hole in the side of Freddy's face for instance which is digitally-rendered), and I'd say a good 9/10 of them are impressive enough. There's the odd moment where it's painfully obvious and doesn't come off as so great though, like in the last kill of the movie for instance.

I've heard plenty of opinions that totally contradict mine as well, but I'd say watch this nonetheless, as it's a newer horror flick that it's actually worth forming your own opinion of (unlike, say, the Fourth Kind).