Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
Hmm. A remake of schlock getting bad reviews. Shocking. Just shocking. Almost as shocking as this thread.
Ebert gives Texas Chainsaw remake 0 stars
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All well put.
Kai Lord
Hero
Yes, the thread where people trashed Underworld until I set everyone straight on what a sweet movie it was.Mark Chance said:
The same applies for Texas Chainsaw; I saw it, I'm saying it kicks ass, and I recommend it. 
BTW, for all of you hanging on Roger Ebert's every word, check out what he considers to be a sweet, THREE STAR movie, and pay careful attention to the very first thing he says he looks forward to seeing on the big screen as he enjoys his popcorn....
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1997/06/062701.html
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jdavis
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Good grief. Look Kill Bill was exactly what it was supposed to be, sorry you didn't like it but there was a point to it and a reason for everything that happened, it was what it was and it did that very well, just because you didn't like what it was doesn't mean it didn't do it very well.
On Texas Chainsaw Massacre: well them advertising it as "based on a true story" makes me laugh. Every slasher movie made in the last 40 years has been influenced by Ed Gein and while Texas Chainsaw Massacre was influenced by him it wasn't "based" on him. He never chased teens around with a chainsaw or killed groups of people, heck for the most part he was a grave robber. He was a very sick man and he did some extremely horrible things but He was from Wisconsin, he never chased teenagers around with a chainsaw and there was never any real massacre (he killed older women when they were alone, with a gun). http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/gein_cf.htm Here go read up on him or watch one of the movies actually about him: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LDCM/103-1549622-5900635?v=glance or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000068TPD/qid%3D1066719133/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-1549622-5900635 (I've seen Deranged and it is creepy).
As far as the movie goes, well I haven't seen it but the original is going to be hard to beat. Of course by what I have read here (especially Kai Lord's defense of it) I got a feeling it will be another Cabin Fever for me. I'm not really looking forward to it (my wife is, but then again seeing Cabin Fever was her idea too, she feels I still owe her a scary movie night out, like it was my fault Cabin Fever was crappy.)
On Texas Chainsaw Massacre: well them advertising it as "based on a true story" makes me laugh. Every slasher movie made in the last 40 years has been influenced by Ed Gein and while Texas Chainsaw Massacre was influenced by him it wasn't "based" on him. He never chased teens around with a chainsaw or killed groups of people, heck for the most part he was a grave robber. He was a very sick man and he did some extremely horrible things but He was from Wisconsin, he never chased teenagers around with a chainsaw and there was never any real massacre (he killed older women when they were alone, with a gun). http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/gein_cf.htm Here go read up on him or watch one of the movies actually about him: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LDCM/103-1549622-5900635?v=glance or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000068TPD/qid%3D1066719133/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-1549622-5900635 (I've seen Deranged and it is creepy).
As far as the movie goes, well I haven't seen it but the original is going to be hard to beat. Of course by what I have read here (especially Kai Lord's defense of it) I got a feeling it will be another Cabin Fever for me. I'm not really looking forward to it (my wife is, but then again seeing Cabin Fever was her idea too, she feels I still owe her a scary movie night out, like it was my fault Cabin Fever was crappy.)
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Kai Lord
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Yes, kind of like saying Rambo was based on a true story because there really was a soldier with the first name "John" who killed the Vietnamese. Obviously they were trying to make it creepier by pulling a Blair Witch, I must say I'd prefer it if they hadn't done that. But the original did it too so there you go.jdavis said:
Yes I already noted that. I said it was based on his dementia, not his specific actions.jdavis said:
There's a lot of info on him here: http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/gein/bill_1.html
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