What are your thoughts on the trailer for the reboot for "Nightmare on Elm Street"?

I think the success of the initial Nightmare on Elm Street was due largely to the time in which it was created. The eighties were, cinematically speaking, rather casual in both outlook and acceptance. Movies like Commando were unabashedly cheesy, with equal parts comedy and action, but was typical for many of the blockbusters at that time (the synthesis of the serious and the absurd).

Elm Street was no exception, though tailoured to a different genre. . .

And times have changed. What worked then, won't work now, and the overall tone of this revamp seems to acknowledge that. The question remains, will that be for better or for worse?

Kreuger was a sadist and delighted in what he did. He had fun killing kids and kept the monotony at bay by drawing out his kills with the hunt and humour. At the time, being able to laugh at what you were watching was a little edgy (I was just a kid when it came out, but I saw it with my older sister who was in gh School at the time and remember her talking about it with her friends afterward), but it also let you relax so when the next scare came you were even less prepared for it than usual.

I'm not a big horror buff, actually I am not really a horror fan at all, but even I can appreciate how the the setup worked on several different levels. It really was perfect for its time. I think the logic behind this is that since the remake of Halloween did rather well, then this franchise should be even easier to resuscitate.

The flaw in the reasoning lies in the type of film it was and who it appealed to. Halloween was intended to be dark, vaguely realistic and disturbingly violent. So, a gritty, relatively realistic and gratuitously violent re-imaging aimed at appealing to the new expectations of contemporary crowds makes perfect sense.It takes a still viable concept and transcends it past the somewhat dated interpretation and makes it once again relevant.

This movie has alot going for it, Michael Bay is not what anyone would consider an artistic film maker or visionary director, BUT, he knows how to keep audiences engaged and polish a movie so is popularly received at its opening (though many of his movies, like Bad Boys or Aliens 2 tend to feel dated within a few years). I think having him assist with the production value of the film means that it will be better than most would expect, enough so that we might even see a couple sequels, but I think the feel and former glory of the originals remain largely untouched.

It looks like the same old crap. I thought it might be reinvented with having a great actor like Jackie Earle Haley play the role of Freddy, but it's the same old thing. I liked A New Nightmare, that was something different than the same thing with the teenagers again.

I think it will be much better than the Texas Chainsaw sequals, and the Friday the 13th sequels, and I might see it if it gets o. K reviews. youtube.com/watch?v=E70Gr5Z3ixo.

The reboot looks so-so to me.... It has all the signature, the red-stripe sweater, the hat, the children song, the blade.... but I think the story is rather flat and not enough depth. The beginning of the trailer looks different, Kruger seems has been framed for some crime he didn't make (child molest? ) but I remember the TV series & movie was telling that Kruger actually did that and committed as a public enemy.

Although is under the name of Michael Bay, I won't give much hope about it. I'm tired of remake & sequel to some horror movie franchise.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.