Watched it last night, and all I can is .........nothing

I didnt like it, and thought it wasent that good, and at times was disturbing. The end was the best IMO.

You requested this thread so you could trash it! Damn you!

I love this movie. It's one of my favorite horror movies, and it matches the original in every single way in my book. Jessica Biel was not only hot, but she did a great job in the movie as well. One of the best remakes ever.

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the hot part is true..

did they ever catch the guy? Also, how the hell does that big of a guy run that much and fast with a chainsaw in his hands? he wasent hugged enought as a child.

It's one of the many horror mysteries. How does Jason walk all the time, and always catch up to the person who runs?

HAHA Thats an easy question....He transports.....gosh!

I loved it. The cast is good (especially Jessica Biel IMO) and the film is very entertaining.

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i love this movie!, is one of my favorites of 2003!!, Jessica Biel was great on it!!

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THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003)


The trailer for the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the best trailers for any movie I've ever seen, and easily the best trailer of 2003. It was gorgeous looking and had a great, effective, and haunting song with "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil. It worked amazing in the trailer.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre didn't impress me much at all. The characters were unlikable and the movie was just boring. The last half an hour was really good and intense, but that just wasn't enough to make the movie likable as a whole. This remake manages to fix the problems of the original, and in my opinion, improve greatly on it.

The characters are really likable, and you don't want to see anything happen to them. Sadly, you know that some of them aren't going to make it, and this makes the impact of a death much more effective when it actually does happen. I certainly never felt the same way about any of the characters in the original. I actually just wanted them to all die so the movie could end. Here, it was actually heartbreaking to watch death fall upon one of these characters. Jessica Biel's character, Erin, was really likable, and you don't want anything to happen to her. The same goes for her boyfriend, Kemper (Eric Balfour). He was a cool and nice guy, and you just don't want to see him fall victim to Leatherface. And I really liked free-spirited Pepper (Erica Leerhsen - whom it was nice to see in a movie again since being in Blair Witch 2, which I really liked her in) as well. The only one I didn't care all that much about was Morgan (Jonathan Tucker). This could have to do with the fact that I don't care for Jonathan Tucker, but I really don't think that's it because I'm usually able to separate characters from the actors playing them. And even if I don't care for the person playing the part, it won't stop me from liking a character if they're likable. But here I just didn't care much about this character and found him kind of annoying.

I found myself annoyed by some of the really stupid things Erin (Biel) did though. ****SPOILERS****Both scenes where she just stands by and lets her friends get hacked up bugged me. If it were I I couldn't just stand by and watch this happen. I would have fucking tried to help them. It especially made me mad when Pepper (Leerhsen) caused a distraction to help her and yet Erin just stood there and watched while Leatherface was attacking Pepper. She doesn't jump on him or somehow try to help her. Nope, instead, she just watches it happen, and THEN once Pepper is dead, decides it's time to run. I mean COME ON!!! Why did Pepper go and cause a distraction for you that cost her her life if you're not going to do a damn thing? She could have done SOMETHING!!! And when the sheriff had them lie on the ground while he tortured Morgan (Tucker) I was thinking, "Why don't you guys just jump the fucker and knock him over the head with something?! I know he has a gun, but still, the strength of three should be enough to take him down." And then during the scene with Erin and the chainsaw on the floor I thought, "Grab the fucking chainsaw! Don't just sit and watch!" I didn't really care that Morgan got finished off then and there though. It was for the best. It would be hard for Erin to lug him around while trying to run and hide.****END SPOILERS****

I'm not the kind of person that actually says stuff like "Oh no!" out loud during a movie, but this one made me say it. I didn't say it really loud or anything, but I did quietly say it to myself. Whenever something would happen to a character I really cared about, I would find myself saying stuff like "Oh no!" quite a bit. Usually in movies like this, I don't care about the characters quite enough to actually be upset when something happens to them. But here, it was actually sad when one of them would die.

I can't say the movie was all that scary, but it did make me jump at times. It also kept me on the edge of my seat. The last half an hour had me constantly on it. However, what this movie had me doing most of the time was cringing. Some parts are really hard to watch, and I actually had to turn away a couple of times. ****SPOILERS****The hardest stuff to watch is probably the stuff with Andy (Mike Vogel) being tortured. I felt really bad for him, and the scene where he wants Erin to kill him his sad. Actually killing someone you care about, even if it's for the best and to put them out of their misery wouldn't be easy at all. Especially when you have to stab them. I don't know if I could plunge a sharp object into someone. She was faced with a very difficult decision, and it's a difficult and uncomfortable scene to watch.****END SPOILERS**** It's hard to witness some of the things in this movie happening to characters we care about. This is one very brutal film. I didn't mind it though. It made the whole experience that much more effective.

The cinematography here was downright beautiful. This is a GREAT looking film. It's very technically well made and has some of the best cinematography in a film of 2003.

This was a very interesting film for one viewing. Sadly, some parts are a tad slow, and while they didn't bother me on my first viewing, I figured some parts would end up being kind of boring on repeat viewings. While I did see it a second time a few months after it hit video and wasn't bored at all during it, I think that was because it had been not far from a year since I had seen it. I don't think the re-watch value here will be the best, but if it's only watched once in awhile (maybe once or twice a year), then repeat viewings shouldn't be very hard to sit through. I did recently order the 2-Disk Platinum Series DVD of it though. I wanted it for Halloween weekend because the first time I saw it was Halloween weekend 2003, and it was an unbelievably great weekend and one I cherish and don't want to forget. So now I want to watch the film again Halloween weekend this year as a way to reminisce about last year, since I know it's doubtful Halloween will ever be as amazing for me again after last year. I can't see it being topped. I'm very fond of that weekend and therefore the film holds a special place in my heart because of when I saw it.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) is a beautiful and effective horror film. It's much better than the overrated original, in my opinion. The only thing that bothers me is that so many people actually think it's a true story and really happened. While it was a neat trick for the filmmakers to treat it as one, it's annoying all of the people that don't know that it's only VERY loosely based on what happened with Ed Gein. What happens in the movie didn't actually happen. Yet you'll still have people argue with you that it really did happen. I wish they would broadcast it on the news or something that this DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN, so more people would know and you wouldn't have to argue up and down with them about it. But oh well, that's basically just a little annoyance, and doesn't make me like the movie any less.


Grade: 9/10 (A-)

Good? Yes. Overrated? ABSOLUTELY! The movie offers some good performances, but it's a bit boring and silly at times.

7/10 (B)

One of the worse remakes of alltime.The acting is terrible,the rioded up leatherface is laughably bad.I hated everything about it.Classic films shouldnt be remade.

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Good one

I know your not serious

at least i hope your not

I think he's serious.

:o that hobo ! its one of the best remakes in my list!!

I am seriouse,and so are many fans of the original.

Hmmm.... I cant believe you think that


O well

My personal favorite horror movie. A

D- this movie sucked! not scarey at all just gross for the sake of being gross. the plot was freaken stupid and the acting was pretty damn stupid to. I thought it was ghonna be scarey! it was boring and slow.

This movie has one of the best trailers I have ever seen!

Finally saw this tonight and was immensly dissapointed. A boring mess of a film it made little to no sense. The macabre humor was both unneeded and distracting. The acting was decent but the story dragged and the death scenes were nothing to be proud of.

C

Theoriginal'sbetter.Heck,IevenliketheonewithReneeZellwegermorethanthisone,butthis isstillagreathorrorfilm.Unlikesomeoftheothershere,IthoughtJessicaBielwastheworstthingaboutthefilm. Ijustcouldn'tstandseeingheronscreen,whichisalsoaproblemofmineinallhermovies.

Butanyway,excellentgore,lovedthechasescenes,butnonecameclosetoMarilynBurn'schasesceneintheoriginal.

B-.

The biggest problem I had with the film is that it's just not scary, or even gory. I liked R. Lee Ermey, but that was about it.

C-

Wow a bit overrated this movie is here, or wasmaybe opinions changed. Anyways, just watched it now and It was good, a little scary, well scary and gory but a good mix of both, the acting and cast was great..But Leatherface as a vilian didnt really do anything for me, but it was wonderfully shot and had a lot of decent jumps, so it entertained me.. I could see myself going back to it.
B

A huge letdown after the great trailer. I remember thinking an intelligent, nicely paced, classy thriller/horror film was finally going to see the light of day out of this series. I'd be sadly wrong of course. Back to square one...

What we have hear is a highly generic slasher with a nice look, but nothing much else to hold it up. It's also moderately dull at points which is a big "no no" in this reviewer's view. If this film were released 25 years ago, before cliches become overly familiar, it might have been a little scary. However, there's nothing new displayed here.

Well, some of the shots were nice, at the time, until a handful of other horror films copied this film's look -- most shamefully displayed in the film's own prequel.

In this film's defense, even worse remakes have arrived since its release (The Fog (Grade:F)), so I'll take it a little easy on the rating.

C-

Addendum: The younger, unseasoned horror fan might find more here. Me... I've seen so many horror films/slashers over the years, that this just did nothing for me.

Rent "The Descent."