The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...

[Lil' Bitch 0]

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You must be pretty damn slow, as it was very obvious that he was fucking crazy, as well as OBVIOUSLY a member of the clan, the very first moment he was ever on the screen.  Hell, I thought it was obvious the very second that when they got to that old house, the old man said that it wasn't where the sheriff lived.

 

 

No offense.

 

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None taken, but its not that I was slow, but I figured R. Lee was playing just the idiot sheriff based alone on him using Saran Wrap to cover the body. Like I said, because of Dennis Hopper's performance back in 1986, I was always used to the sheriff to be the hero that saves them at the end. So when the sheriff turned out to be a fucking family member instead, yeah that got me.

 

I've also come to the conclusion that Leatherface is my favorite horror villian of all time. It's one thing for a crazed psycho to be chasing you around with a knife all silent like and poping up out of nowhere, and it's another for a crazed psycho to be chasing you around with a chainsaw, with it running almost all of the time, where you know just where he's at at every moment, and feeling as if there is just about no way to get away.

 

That's the only thing I hated about him. That this fat fuck was Speedy Gonzales-fast. I did love that Nike commercial making fun of horror movies, THAT is how it should be.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I'll give it ***. It wasn't great, but it was a good way to pass a couple hours.

 

A little predictable, and they went light with a couple deaths. But it was bad enough to where the girl I was with, WHO PICKED THE MOVIE! Wanted to leave early...I talked her into staying.

 

Although it was a little like House Of 1000 Corpses where they tried to go balls out with overly disturbing images and it seems to lessen the scares.

 

Although none of the characters were at all likeable...so you didn't feel any pitty when they got mowed down.

 

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If that's suppose to be the hitchhiker's son...why is the boy like 4, and she looking like she JUST gave birth?

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Well, I'm a tad disappointed I must admit. Maybe its because these days I know what to expect or because I'm familiar with the plot from reviews, but I just wasn't scared. No feeling of dread like the original...Something just felt off...I did enjoy Emery's Sherriff.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I'll eb damned. Morgan was Matthew from 100 Girls

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I liked it. I don't really get why the critics hated it so much and saying it was too gorey. There was one part that bugged me a lot though:

 

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I hated the fact that she cut his arm off at the end. It bugged me that they had to let her one up the bad guy at the end. I wished they would've ended like the first one with everyone dying.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

Everyone didn't die in the original.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

The ending lead you to believe that everyone potentially died I though, unless I'm confusing it with something else.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

In the original the girl gets away in the back of a truck

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I thought she got into a car and he was the driver? Crap I must have it mixed up.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

I think that's the ending of the version with Renee Zellwegger isn't it?

 

I don't remember how that one ends.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I don't know it's been years since I've seen either version.

[Guest El Satanico]

At the end the main girl is riding off into the sunrise in the back of a pickup truck. She also appears to have completely snapped mentally and likely never returned to normal sanity.

 

She escaped, but In no way did she get an upper hand on leatherface or the family.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

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Exactly. I thought it sucked that she basically had Leatherface at her mercy, stole the baby and took out one of the family members before she easily escaped. And then when he attacks the cops it's stupid because he only has one freaking arm by that point

[Downhome 0]

I thought she got into a car and he was the driver? Crap I must have it mixed up.

Are you sure you aren't just thinking of the ending of House of 1,000 Corpeses?

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Nope never saw that.

[dubq 0]

I liked it. I don't really get why the critics hated it so much and saying it was too gorey.

If anything this movie could've used MORE gore. If the critics think that this was too gorey.. then they're fucking pussies.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I liked implied violence more than actual violence.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Not me. I want to see someone getting hacked apart, in graphic fashion. Because of that, I'm positive I'll like this version, as well as R. Lee Ermey being involved, who is the coolest motherfucker on Earth.

[dubq 0]

I just couldn't understand how some people in the theatre I caught it in, were actually getting up and leaving saying that it was 'too graphic.' Lame-o's!

[Downhome 0]

Oh come fucking on.

 

This new version of TCM didn't have hardly ANY gore or whatever in it.

 

You saw blood, you saw severed body parts, but you basicly never truly saw the act as it was going on. The only TRULY scene with anything that I'd actually call GORE, was the suicide scene.

[Jingus 0]

Saw the movie, didn't care for it much. I was very disappointed, especially after that awesome preview trailer.

 

There was plenty of gore this time around, but for some reason, they made some scenes incredibly graphic (suicide, meat hook), while others went on with hardly a drop of blood to be seen (lots of the chainsaw stuff). Definitely felt like it had been heavily MPAA edited to avoid an NC17 rating.

 

R. Lee Ermey was hilarious as the world's scariest cop, and was easily the (only) high point of the movie.

 

Aside from that, the various things I didn't like:

 

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So the hitchhiker girl had that bigass revolver stuck up her pussy? Christ, that's sickening, brutal, and unnecessary in any medium of so-called entertainment.   Why was every single person in this town apparently a member of this fucked-up homicidal mongoloid family? Talk about unrealistic. And how come none of them resembled each other?   I can't believe they actually showed Leatherface's real face. He looked like a fatass version of Phantom of the Opera without his mask.   One thing I loved about the original was that it avoided all the horror movie cliches about why teenagers get killed. This one didn't: in the very first scene, we see them making out and smoking weed. Typically, the one girl who doesn't engage in sex or drugs is the only one who survives. I hate, hate, hate that stupid shit in horror flicks.   Why did they do not one, but two long sequences involving the main girl trying to rescure two of the maimed and mutilated guys? These poor broken fucks were missing body parts and had giant hook holes in their backs; you KNEW they weren't going to live. But you still had to sit there for half a goddamn hour and watch them stagger around and suffer horribly before they got their mercy killing. That's not scary, that's just sick.   Leatherface in this flick is one of the least realistic killers I've seen in a damn long while. How can a guy who is that damn big run that fast, that far? I've known athletes that would've blown up while he kept going. Also, is it just me, or did he seem to be able to start that chainsaw up out of nowhere at times? I mean, the girl is sneaking along, creepy silence, and then suddenly VRRRMMMMMM here he is. Yech.   And finally, the ending sucked hard. Could they rip off Blair Witch any harder, with the camera falling and everything? I mean, come on, the last bit of narration was laughable: "This is the only known footage of the man known as Leatherface. He has never been found." Yeah, but considering that he's a 7-foot tall guy with a fucked-up face and ONE FUCKING ARM, I can't believe that he could be that hard to find. My personal theory: he was never found because he fell into a river and drowned a week after the movie ended.

[Damaramu 0]

Oh yeah.....how was she able to cut his arm off with like 4 weak swings from a meat cleaver?

And how was the chainsaw able to make that clean of a cut on the guys leg.

[Red Baron 0]

My main beef was that from the beginning.

 

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The chick was walking on the side of the road, heading towards the town? Wouldn't she be trying to go the opposite direction?

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Small question,

 

Wasn't "Sweet Home Alabama" released in 1974 ?

[dubq 0]

My main beef was that from the beginning.

 

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The chick was walking on the side of the road, heading towards the town? Wouldn't she be trying to go the opposite direction?

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She was probably too fucked up to even realize which was was which. She didn't start freaking out until she noticed the sign in town when they were driving there...

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Just got back, this movie is incredible. It's not about gore, it's old school horror, tension, not cheap scares. Great atmosphere and casting for this film. I can't say enough good things about it, this is what horror is supposed to be!

 

This does not feel like a remake at all, it has it's own identity, it's own legs, this movie is freakin insane. Not much gore, more implied than anything.

"It's just as guilty as Blair Witch 2 for smothering bare-bones fright with ladles of gore."

 

"It's so caught up in concept and layout that it frequently forgets to push the jolt buttons."

 

"Next to this redundant, pointless and witless retread, the classic status of Tobe Hooper's original version is officially beyond dispute."

 

"This bloody, exploitative mess is the cinematic equivalent of a dumpster fire -- stinky but insignificant."

 

"This is easily the most gruesome, most pointless, episode of Scooby Doo ever."

 

"That it escaped the straight-to-video bin suggests that Hollywood's contempt for today's youth audience has reached a new level."

 

"Rather than exhilaration, this bilious film offers only entrapment and despair. It's about as much fun as sitting in on an autopsy."

 

"A remake that turns every kill into an opportunity for overkill."

 

"Drowns in red rivers of excess."

 

"Does convey the sense of being caught in a nightmare. A stupid person's nightmare."

 

These people don't know shit about horror.

the man doesn't lie.....it rocked.

[Guest Crux]

I saw it Sunday and thought it was great! There wasnt an over use of gore--I think it was more implied than anything else. Though, it kinda ended on a whimper and you're left with alot of nagging, insignifigant questions (At least, I was). But over all, I really enjoyed it.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I wasn't for showing his face either. Or the mask made from the boyfriend...that just seemed dumb

[Guest Urine Sane]

I don't know about you, but when I saw Leatherface come out of that Metal Sliding door after Andy and Erin, I was like shit, it's on. And I especially liked the shot of him running through the front door with the chainsaw helping just destroy it. I think they did a really good job at establishing how fucking scary leatherface can be in the first 20 minutes of him appearing.

 

This movie is pretty close to as old school as you can get with the high quality cameras of today. I hate how some movies use a shitty look to make it seem more edgy, or realistic.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Oh come fucking on.

 

This new version of TCM didn't have hardly ANY gore or whatever in it.

 

You saw blood, you saw severed body parts, but you basicly never truly saw the act as it was going on.

 

I love implied violence more. Reminds me of Psycho (the infamous shower scene).