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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Review

post #1 of 25
10/7/06 at 5:15pm
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http://creature-corner.com/?type=reviews&id=1725
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post #2 of 25
10/7/06 at 5:34pm
Good review. Effective use of hotdog eating contest photos. Grade A.
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post #3 of 25
10/7/06 at 8:48pm
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thanks. go tigers!
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post #4 of 25
10/7/06 at 8:55pm
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i really cant beleive that the word on tcm:tb was so positive. now that ive read the review like the one by Devin over at Chud, i feel a little better. his review which you can read here: http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=reviews&id=7802
is dead on. And I've read a couple others that made similar points. the movie was such a waste of time, and I liked the remake for what it was; a stylish, well-casted update that unfortunately left out the hitch hiker and the diner scene. this one had the dinner scene, but it was complete crap. they hsould leave movies alone. a nightmare on elm street prequel seems like it could be cool, but lets face it. its going to suck. when they remake friday the 13th, that's going to suck. maybe somebody will come up with an original horror film. I like Hostel, and I'm sure some people will bust out some foreign movie i havent seen or talk about how he roth ripped of miike, but Hostel seemed original enough. Cabin Fever was original as hell and I LOVED that movie. Thats one of the things that sucks about roth doing a sequel and also a book adaptation.
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post #5 of 25
10/7/06 at 9:27pm
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oh my god, the review on bloody disgusting actually says that tcm:tb is more violent than hostel and that hostel used alot of cut away violence. they must have bought this guy because its the complete other way around. what a joke. this movie was not intense or violent. the only thing remotely cool was when he peeled the guys face off.
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post #6 of 25
10/10/06 at 11:56pm
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nobody cares about this movie i guess.
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post #7 of 25
10/11/06 at 12:19am
Hey, I haven't even seen the first remake yet. And it's still right here in my collection. I'm more interested in these new dvds of the original flicks....
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post #8 of 25
10/11/06 at 1:09am
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im about to crack open tcm2 right now. i really like that movie. i know its silly. im not a big fan of the whole deal with the sexual chainsaw business but i really like bill mosely. i just picked up the remake for 5 bucks...its not the special edition but for 5 bucks i figured why not. and that dvd for the original that just came out kicks so much ass its unreal.
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post #9 of 25
10/11/06 at 3:28am
I think it's funny how all these remakes of the great 70's horror films are generally being dismissed for the shit they are.

The Omen, TCM, The Wicker Man and now TCM: TB.

The 1970's is the best decade of horror ever. They need to just give it up and stop trying. A period that will never be surpassed. It seems most of the filmmakers today have no clue how to make a horror film let alone a good one.

Unless the movie is bad to begin with, let's leave well enough alone.
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post #10 of 25
10/11/06 at 3:29am
Great review, Kev.
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post #11 of 25
10/11/06 at 12:47pm
Excellent review.
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post #12 of 25
10/11/06 at 2:10pm
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i think its possible to treat the 70's with respect. Rob Zombie did a phenomanal job with the devil's rejects. I thought house of 1000 corpses was retarded, but I love devil's rejects so much that it changed the way I looked at house. i love both movies now, although devil's rejects is one of my all time favorits. some people say he ripped off tcm2...well I guess he 'ripped off' alot of things, but it felt more like an homage to me. these studios just dont get classic movies. that fog remake made me want to kill myself. all that damn fog did was blow people out of windows. the old school fog had some hardcore ghosts pirates up in it cuttin people up.
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post #13 of 25
10/11/06 at 7:30pm
The Fog remake was sad. Again, another instance of people obviously having never seen the original, knowing nothing about atmosphere-I could go on all day about the suckage. It just made me love the original more and it's not even one of Carpenter's best films.

Zombie is an odd one. He's a student of 70's horror that's for sure, he knows the dance steps, just not too good with the rythem. I'm rooting for him to do something great, although the Halloween remake shit makes me want to puke. At least he tries.
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post #14 of 25
10/11/06 at 7:37pm
You're dead on about why TCM '03 is better than TCM:TB. There was tension there that's not present in the new film. The family basically get whisked along with Hoyt as he decides to kill people makes them considerably less scary. It's basically Hoyt and Leatherface doing the killing, while the others just sit idly by and shake their heads disapprovingly.
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post #15 of 25
10/11/06 at 11:47pm
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leatherface doesn't do a whole lot. remember when he's hiding out in the back of the car at the end. what the hell was that? give me a nell carter sized break.
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post #16 of 25
10/30/06 at 2:59pm
You guys forget the movie was a low budget movie. I have heard was made for 19 million. They made there money back and then some. I would not be surprised to see a sequel for a new chainsaw masscre movie. There were good moments in the movie also. My favorite was when Hoyt sawed the old mans legs off. that is a classic scene in my opinion.
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post #17 of 25
10/30/06 at 3:15pm
A sequel to a prequel? A sprequel? Whatever else it is, it'll probably be shit.
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post #18 of 25
10/30/06 at 4:15pm
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i think that scene with holt and grandpa was actually a good moment. i agree with you there.
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post #19 of 25
10/30/06 at 5:00pm
I liked the last remake but this movie wasn't that good. I thought the gore was really intense, but no real understanding or point to the story. It just kind of happened.
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post #20 of 25
10/30/06 at 5:06pm
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Originally Posted by r0ckstar666
You guys forget the movie was a low budget movie. I have heard was made for 19 million. They made there money back and then some.
19 million dollars is enough for 19+ horror masterpieces by people with original ideas.

True fans of horror shouldn't care what sort of money a mis-guided piece of shit film like this makes. A bad idea is a bad idea - but evidently to some, if it makes money 'it can't be bad', right?
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post #21 of 25
10/30/06 at 5:29pm
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i wouldnt say making the movie was a bad idea...but their whole idea of what it should be was bad. but you know, they act like tobe hooper didnt tell this part of the story because he didn't have the means or something. he didnt tell this part of the story because it was the least interesting...leatherface should have entered a pod race, then we could have all been entertained.
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post #22 of 25
10/30/06 at 6:04pm
It is completely unnecessary to dig into the backstory or origins of these people, who are essentially monsters. They should remain monsters. The original tells us all that we need to know: out of work slaughter house employees feed on whatever they can, driven to hateful extremes by a combination of poverty and their conditioning to killing living things.

That's perfect.

To uncover more truths about them, to find out how it starts or why ... it is begging for disappointment. It leads down a path to understanding, and understanding them is completely contrary to the terror experience the original so perfectly creates. How could knowing MORE about Leatherface or the cook or any of his family possibly enhance or otherwise help the horror of the original story and scenario?

This prequel and the remake before it were made for kids who lack the sophistication to understand why the first film is considered a classic.
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post #23 of 25
11/3/06 at 3:29am
When you start to get inside the head of characters like this, inevitably it leads to sympathy or someone trying to "understand" why they do what they do. Who cares?! They are retarded freaks and that's good enough for me.

I knew this was going to be awful when I heard the shit about Hewit having a deformed face and being picked on as a child. Boo fucking whoo. Who wasn't picked on as a kid? The original is still untouchable to me.
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post #24 of 25
11/6/06 at 3:41am
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Originally Posted by Big Black
It is completely unnecessary to dig into the backstory or origins of these people, who are essentially monsters. They should remain monsters.
Which makes the support for what we've heard about Zombie's approach to remaking Halloween (hell, Zombie's entire filmic output) seem questionable. He keeps making the "boogeyman" the protagonist. It's easy to point at this film and say "it doesn't work", but really, look at the original and see how well the absence of "digging into the killers' backstory" works.
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post #25 of 25
11/6/06 at 4:25am
I for one am sick of anything to do with Michael Myers. I don't see what that character has to offer anymore.
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