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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1194440" data-attributes="member: 871">Fwiw...I saw the movie, & I enjoyed it.  I did not enjoy it as much as the original (for certain reasons that I'll point out below), but I think it was much better than the 3rd & 4th movies of the TCM "series."  The remake was much more of a Chainsaw Massacre than the original--only 1 person was actually killed with the saw in the original, whereas the body count by saw is much higher in the remake.There are some things about the original movie that I liked over the remake:* The dinner scene.  This was the key nightmare moment of the original, in my mind.  It wasn't that the family saw their captive as food, but that they knew that she was a living being with feelings, and enjoyed tormenting her the entire time.  The captive could have been replaced with a hog or a cow, and you get the feeling that their behavior would have been the same.* The ghoulishness.  The remake didn't have the gruesome display throughout the house that the original did.  No dead & decaying bodies of family members sitting in the same room with the living.  No use of the "materials" of the victims throughout the house (like the furniture in the original)--both human and animal.  The original had a feeling that the family kept doing the work they did best, though their victims had changed from beast to human.*  The sense of the family unit.  The original had 3 brothers (Leatherface/Bubba, Hitchhiker/Nubbins, Old Man/Drayden; 4 if you add in Chop Top from TCM2), & Grandpa.  And there was Grandma (who was a decaying corpse).  There really wasn't such a clear family structure in the remake.  From what I could guess (SPOILERS ALERT): [SPOILER]Grandma ran the store, Grandpa stayed at home.  The sheriff and Thomas/Leatherface were brothers.  Jebediah was a grandchild (though whose son he was I'm not sure).  Then there was the young woman & obese woman, who may have been neighbors or distant family.[/SPOILER]*  The sense of madness/deficient minds.  In the original, the lone survivor lived, but didn't escape sane at all.  Leatherface seemed to be mentally challenged.  The older brother was a sadist, but seemed to be a bit more "normal" when he wanted or needed to be.  The Hitchhiker was a complete loon, and didn't have any sense at all of normality.Then again, the remake does have its merits.  It was more of a Chainsaw Massacre than the original.  You get to see Leatherface's actual face (though the mystique of not seeing it  was a good element in the original).  Leatherface actually wore the "face" of one of the victims in the movie (I'm not sure if he does this in the original--I'm not sure if the "pretty woman" mask he wears in the dinner scene was actually the face of the victim's female friend).  R. Lee Ermey was awesome (& very twisted in this movie).  Some of the victims actually showed a "fight or flight" response instead of just a "flight" response.I did my best to watch this movie without any real preconceptions about the original, because I knew I'd ruin it for me that way.  I think it's very good, but I don't think it outshines the original.  I did like it better than House of 1000 Corpses, though--I couldn't stand the editing style in that movie, & I feel that it has a lot of missing material that should be stitched back in.</blockquote>

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