This is a smile.

Oh my, it has been a while since my last update. Luckily nothing very important has happened in the movie world since then. What? The Oscars? Oh, well, those aren’t really a big deal. And that Avatar film topping the money charts to become the greatest thing since eyeballs learned to see, well, that happens all the time. Wonderland? Whatever, man.
The important news is that my life is complete. As a kid, I was a huge fan of Clash of the Titans. So much so that it may or may not have had anything to do with my majoring in Greek and Roman history in college. So I’m kinda stoked that there’s a remake out there, even if I oppose remakes in general. My case,which I cannot embed for some reason:

The 1981 version

The 2010 version

All nostalgia aside, I really don’t think this is a contest, so I’ll move on.

Note: You're screwed.

Another remake reboot, and this time I’m dubious at best. I’ve been a fan of horror movies for as long as I can remember, and Nightmare on Elm Street has always been, in my opinion, among the best franchises out there. Oh sure, It is not without its cheese, but something about the idea of a monster who kills through dreams is utterly terrifying. I mean, sleep is when we’re at our most vulnerable and dreams are entirely beyond our control. Those two factors don’t bode well for anyone targeted by a certain Mr. Krueger.
For the series to be something new, they had to do away with Robert Englund. I understand that. But can it be Nightmare without him? We’ll see come April 30, though it’s got his endorsement:

“I really am looking forward to how they exploit the dreamscape with CGI and all of the new technologies that they have at their fingertips. That is something I think that is appropriate and that’s what I’m looking forward to. But I hope they make it their own. I hope they change it.”
http://www.fearnet.com/news/b15904_exclusive_robert_englund_on_jackie.html

… but not that of franchise creator Wes Craven:

“I don’t even know who’s doing it and I’m not interested. It’s actually really painful to think about it.”
http://movies.ign.com/articles/992/992845p1.html

Craven said he used his entire life savings to make the 1984 original and, after shopping it for 3 years with no response, desperately signed away his rights to make the deal he did, never imaging it would lead to an army of sequels (or remakes, for that matter).
That Michael Bay is associated at all makes me cringe, especially after last year’s reboot stupid and entirely unnecessary travesty that was Friday the 13^th – which, of course, reportedly has a sequel coming next year.