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Summary: ABSOLUTE CLASSIC on its own!!!! but not a REMAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: JUST P!!!!L!!!!E!!!!A!!!!S!!!!E!!!! STOP SAYING THAT ITS BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL BECAUSE THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY 2 DIFFERENT MOVIES, AND BECAUSE THERE IS NO HORROR MOVIE THAT IS OR WILL BE BETTER THAN THE GROUND BREAKING LANDMARK ORIGINAL "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" and by the way!!!! GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!!!!!!!! SPECIAL EDITION DVD SET!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: I was expecting more....
Review: Ok, this movie is O.K. but it kind of sucked at the same time! it had a good story line and everything it is just really disspointing! its really not all that scary, it does have a few spots that make you jump about 73 feet high but other than that its just kind of long and boring, the original one is better!
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Summary: Scary Movie, really strange
Review: First thing, there was never a real Texas massacre or anything, so that Glenn Abel who told you that some of the Co-writers are survivors of the original massacre is wrong. The writer of the film one day saw chainsaws in a hardware store and came up with a story, but that story is linked with a real massacre of Ed Gein. So the story is sort of true, but there was no cannabilistic family that wields chainsaws, etc. at that time. I've seen Halloween and Friday the 13th before, and I expected this movie to be the same, a psycho that goes and kills people, but I was wrong. This is a FAMILY of psychos we're talking about and thier most dreaded weapon, is one of the family members. And I have never seen a movie with cannibal psychos. I was freakin scared at the end of this movie. I was shaking all over, and I could not sleep at all for about 2 days after watching the movie. What I've got to say is that when you watch this movie, during the movie, and after all that will be coming out of your mouth is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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Summary: compare and contrast
Review: This movie made the claim that it was inspired by an actual story which is true (sort of.) The true story happened in Wisconsin in the 50's not Texas in the 70's. Also, a chainsaw was never used, but whatever. The original was probably more like the true story with the grave robbing and the brief scene where leatherface has make-up applied to his mask. Still, there was more fiction than fact in these movies. Not that anybody watches such movies for their historical accuracy. The massacre plot points parallel the original closely. Only this time the effects and execution of the killing scenes are far superior. The original was rather clumsy and rather unconvincing in their portrayal of violence. The plot points apart from the massacre however have no resemblance to the original at all. The 70's version had a more developed story and actually provided a motivation for this demented family. This one however has almost no story at all. They turn leatherface into a Jason Vorhees type character that kills just for the sake of killing, but much scarier. I might not have liked it at all except for the adrenaline rush this film gave me. I just wanted to jump into this movie and fight leatherface myself. When I add up the pluses and minuses this movie ends up as equal to the original in my book. So I give it 3 stars also.
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Summary: THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This was the scariest movie i have ever seen in my entire life! ok, i dont get scared in movies. Im 13 years old and i saw 28 days later, not scary, Dawn of the Dead, ok, Jeeppers Creepers, Dumb, Scream, Ugh dont wanna go there! But this omg! I was so scared its not even funny. The acting is amazing in this and i cant say it enough but after u see this movie you wont want to be in a room alone! All the charcters,exept the 5 kids, are extremely creepy. Some of them are really funny casue there supposed to be but the suspense left at the end of every 5 mintutes is unbearable! Trust me, buy this or rent this now and you wont be dissipointed!!!! The Best Movie I have EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Never should have been remade....
Review: When I was a kid and saw the Taxas Chainsaw for the first time it scared the hell out of me. From John Laroquett's opening monolouge to the final shot the movie captivated me and held me in it's grip. This movie on the other hand.....
The new version follows the same path as the first one. Four teens traveling on a desolate road find them selves thrown into madness after running a fowl of a family of phscyopaths led by a charactor know now a leatherface.
Comparisons stop there however.The teens pick up a hitchhiker, just like in the original, but this time the hicher is a survivor from the family and as she sits in the teens van crying, babbeling and just making no sense, she shots herself.
After trying to get a hold of the police, they find themselves in the house of the family.
Unlike the first one there are many more members of the family in this one, and for that reason it lose's some of it's flavor and horor. The main protaganist is still Leatherface but some of the sub charactors, like R. Lee Ermey in an awful role as a loony sheriff, comes off as cartoonish, where as the teens you really couldn't care less about them. Ermey can be forgiven for this mistep. He had done such great work in the past, like Full Metal Jacet, Boy's of Company C, and Dead man Walking that one bad film can be forgiven.
The only one who comes out of this mess looking alright is Jessica Beil. Known for movies like Summer Catch she plays the part of the heroine well and she is the only one you root for while other's drop like fly's.
Remakes are all the rage these days. Some movies, like Dawn Of The Dead, Walking Tall, and even Starskey and Hutch are not bad films and offer a new, fresh look, at older movies that could do with a good retelling, but the one thing the the people who made those movies knew that the makers of this one seemed to have missed is that if people like the originall they want to see an updated version as In Walking Tall, or a new, fresh retelling, As in Dawn Of The Dead, what they don't want is a movie that is compleatly void of the basic concepts and feelings that they like about the first one, like fear and suspense.
Once they realize that mabey we can finnaly get a movie remade that will not insult us.
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Summary: Care to hang around?
Review: V. 2 of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was considered blasphemy by the horror hardcore -- until they got a load of the mind-bending work of first-time director Marcus Nispel and his co-conspirators, some of them survivors of the original massacre. New Line celebrates the improbable artistic success of "Chainsaw" Jr. with a surgically sharp two-disc "Platinum Edition" DVD set. Video (an artsy 1.85:1) and audio (ES and EX encoding) approach reference quality. Extras dig deep, providing more background than any sane fan could want. Then there's that cameo by Ed Gein. The DVD set's three feature-length commentaries give the filmmakers plenty of time to delve into issues such as the fine art of trying to act while hung on a meat hook. The talks are broken down as chapters: production, technical and story. Speakers are identified by name, radio docu-style, and their comments seem edited for coherence, a welcome contrast to DVDs' usual thrown-together gang commentaries. Nispel, writer Scott Kosar and producer Brad Fuller do most of the talking. All involved with the remake seem awed by Hooper's legendary indie pic about a family of rural cannibals who prey on a van full of teenagers. Texas drive-in critic Joe Bob Briggs tries to explain its sickening but undeniable pull: "You're watching and thinking, 'Oh, my god, I might be in the hands of a madman.' " Casual viewers will get what they want from the slick but satisfying 75-minute docu "Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre," which begins with a brief history of the original. Don't miss the interviews with fans at the 30th anniversary screening of the original, predicting the remake will suck. Then the night-vision footage of terrified viewers trying to ride out the new film. Connoisseurs of carnage will lap up "Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Planfield," a 20-minute documentary about the Wisconsin mama's boy notorious for making skin suits out of victims.
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Summary: Makes the old one look bad
Review: I rented this movie when it came out on video, and I thought it was awesome. I love slasher movies, and this one in my opinion is almost as good as Nightmare on Elm Street. So a few weeks later I watched the original, thinking it would be better, I was excited. But the original seemed boring and not really structured well, and I thought why would anyone want to remake this movie? And it isn't true that the acting was better in the original. Jessica Biel did great, and John Tucker(Morgan in the movie) hit his role perfectly especially with the quote "I am way to stoned for this." Also you develop a liking for the characters in the newer one, where in the older one I just wanted Leatherface to kill them all. The family in the newer one is more extended, and the vibe you get from the remake is scarier and better. This movie kicked a$$, and I reccomend it to any true horror fan who can handle amputations and a little violence.
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Summary: Timing is Everything
Review: The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic largely because it was somewhat original, unique and shocking when it was first released 25 years or ao ago.. much like the original Dawn of the Dead ushered in Zombies, TCM introduced us to the modern concept of horror/slasher films. Of course over the years, hundreds if not thousands of horror films have been made all borrowing from the TCM idea. So what is wrong with this new remake ?
It's 25 years too late.
If this had been the movie we saw all those years ago it may be something special but as it exists now in 2003/2004 it sinks into the sludge pile of being just another "dumb stupid teens meet Deliverance type country people" film. All these movies share a common trait (although nowadays the teens are usually at some cottage in the woods 90% of the time)......... the teens are always so stupid you don't care about them and actually are kind of glad to see them get killed. Think about it... if you need to escape danger from a house... how hard is it really ?
These dumb kids keep running in circles around the house so they keep running headlong into leatherface and family. Worse yet they toss in a little "tribute" to Blair Witch Project at the end of this movie.... UGHHH.... Blair Witch... that's a whole other story in terms of junky over-rated movies.
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Summary: Over-rates the Original one. An OSCAR WORTHY
Review: Holy ****, this movie gave me goosebumps after watching 20 mints of it. This is a true horror movie based on true story. It over-rates the original one and delivers the story line so clearly. This story that happened in Texas in 1973 is gruesome and unbeleivable back then, whereas today it's normal becasue of the mass murders and crimes happening around the world in each day. The scary thing in that storyline is that imagine you are one of those youths back then in 1973 in Texas and that the murderer "Leatherface" traces you where-ever you go with his chainsaw and the the more scarier is that it's a TRUE STORY which you think it really happned and watching what really happened shocks you because it happned by real and not just a movie that hollywood make as action/horror flick. I think the story delivered to us accuratley much more than the classic TCM. If that girl Erin, did what she did in the movie back then in 1973, i think she's a true HERO beacuse non of those muscular youths did anything to that butcher and a young pretty girl does all mayhem and defeats a 6-foot huge guy and cuts his arm by half, It's ASTONISHING. Well, still they didn't kill/arrest that leather face since 1973 and they killed the wrong person instead. I think the case is not closed and what really happened i really don't understand, well, I mean after what has happened? The DVD is Perfect with the ES.5.1 DTS surround. Go give it a try and u won't regret it at all. All those reviews that gave this movie a 1 or 2 stars I think it's their own point of view that they liked the original flick in 1974 or in the 80's and not the one that added on it the final touches of Digital sound and music and delivered very clearly to the people. I would say that some people like Classic flicks and don't like Remakes to them or enhancing them, whereas, people like me I hated Hollywood movies of the 70's and some of the 80's beacuse they lacked visual effects and sound systems and acting wasn't superb as the ones today where technology plsays a big role in them. With the exceptions of the EXCORSICT and Hellraiser. I love remakes which gives the final touches into the movie that sometimes add into them rather than changing all the storyline, whereas as i said, Technology plays a big role in making a movie from downs to ups. TCM the original classic flick wasn't even close to that one in acting and it didn't scare me or many others that I know as this one did, so Remakes like this one and many others you know what i am talking about did a good job some did like TCM and some didn't like Holloween Ressurection.
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