Texas Chainsaw 3D | A sequel to Hoopers classic

[The Shredder]

Like the concept, not too sure about it's execution though. Especially after watching the trailer. Since it didn't really do anything for me. I'm sure I'll check the film out though. For my love of the original, and those cameos from original cast members.

 

[steintym]

Wow, I had no idea this was even coming out. I'm liking the idea so far.

 

[Project862006]

original leather face Gunnar Hansen makes a cameo

 

[PyroChamber]

If I didn't know anything I'd swear that was the original house.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Definitely still a meat eater.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

 

[Lex Luthor]

Having Bill Moseley portray Drayton 'The Cook' Sawyer is something I'm very interested in seeing.

 

[The Shape]

Something is way off with this production. They're not selling it as a sequel to the ORIGINAL Chainsaw film. Rather, based on the trailers, it looks more like a remake of the Jessica Biel version more than anything else.

I'm sure they're holding a lot back from the trailers to save some surprises and shocks, and I understand that they're trying to market the film to a specific crowd. But man, it's going to suck when this completely bombs. I love the Texas Chainsaw films.

 

[GRangerPrimeNYC]

Meh, looks like another stupid teenage slasher flick.

 

[The Shape]

I'm also curious as to how the film will explain Leatherface still being alive and in great shape after 30+ years, unless there is a "new" Leatherface...at which point I will walk out of the theater.

 

[marvelman2006]

I'm also curious as to how the film will explain Leatherface still being alive and in great shape after 30+ years, unless there is a "new" Leatherface...at which point I will walk out of the theater.

Leatherface doesnt age in this dojo

 

[PyroChamber]

Having Bill Moseley portray Drayton 'The Cook' Sawyer is something I'm very interested in seeing.

Is that suppose to be Grandpa in the back?

 

[gwynplaine]

I like how Leatherface is almost always wearing a tiet:
It as much part of his persona as the flesh masks imo.

 

[The Shape]

Is that suppose to be Grandpa in the back?

Clearly.

 

[Figs]

I don't like that this is apparently a "sequel" to the original. Um...the original already had a sequel. This is basically them trying to appeal to the hardcore fans that hated the remake and it's prequel.

 

[Nightmare]

I didn't even know that this was a sequel to anything. I just thought it was at a random point not related to the beil movie cause he still has his arm.

Also, i don't like his outfit with a red shirt. He also looks kinda too thin. I guess I'll find out friday when i see it.

 

[Slushy]

The movie was terrible with a bullsh** ending to top it off. Avoid like the plague. Hope this flops. And yes, the 2003 remake was a superior film.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

The movie was terrible with a bullsh** ending to top it off. Avoid like the plague. Hope this flops. And yes, the 2003 remake was a superior film.

Really? The reviews I read haven't been all that great either. My friends are set on seeing this Saturday night..... and they are trying to bring me along with them. I do have a 30 dollar cinemark gift card, but I still don't want waste money on a crappy movie lol. Maybe I can talk them outta seeing it, but mostly likely I will be seeing this with them Saturday night. Better start setting my expectations really low then. But seriously, is this as bad as Devil Inside that came out this very weekend last year? That movie gave a HUGE middle finger to the audience by ending right when the movie finally started to get good. Then it told you to go to a website to learn more......

 

[The Shape]

The movie was terrible with a bullsh** ending to top it off. Avoid like the plague. Hope this flops. And yes, the 2003 remake was a superior film.

Honestly, the 2003 TCM was solid. If you accept it as a complete re-imagining of the original, then it works on every level. The cast was good, the cinematography was visually appealing, and there were some great moments.

This new TCM looks completely uninspired, almost as if they churned this one out just to hold on to the rights to the franchise.

 

[marvelman2006]

Honestly, the 2003 TCM was solid. If you accept it as a complete re-imagining of the original, then it works on every level. The cast was good, the cinematography was visually appealing, and there were some great moments.

This new TCM looks completely uninspired, almost as if they churned this one out just to hold on to the rights to the franchise.

own it on bluray and really thought it brought the franchise back in the right direction but then 2006 came and the prequel to it just derailed any chance the franchise had. This new film shows all the problems I have now with horror icons from the 70's and 80's getting remade or reborn or revived where they just dont work in today's cinema. The audience just doesnt find them scary or mysterious anymore and its become all about the kills and the victums are actors who are more bland then daytime soap actors. Not to mention the saw and hostel movies did so much gore that audiences have become so dissensitized. Of course my statement about remakes contradicts my affection for the 2003 film but that is one of the rare exceptions where they took it in a fresh direction and speed up the action and horror.

 

[DACrowe]

This movie is bad, but no worse than the 2006 prequel remake. In some ways I prefer it to the remakes because not only is it a direct sequel to the 1974 classic (which never had a real sequel per se despite three follow-ups), but because it brings back the original concept of leatherface as a lipstick wearing simpleton out to protect his family. I also liked how they for the first time ever threw out the traditional third act and did something kind of unique with its ending which got me to enjoy the mindset of the Sawyers more.

Still, it is terribly directed, bland looking, poorly acted and features the most banal dialogue I ever heard. It is an ugly looking film that is not scary in the least. But then again, only the original and R Lee Emry in the remake were scary in this series. It's still the third best TCM movie ever made, even if it is very bad.

P.S. The 3D sucked.

P.P.S. It begins in 1974 and cuts to about 20 years later....when they all have smartphones? WTF? Oh well.

 

[Rodrigo90]

lol

 

[The Dark Defender]

Still, it is terribly directed, bland looking, poorly acted and features the most banal dialogue I ever heard.

It amazes me that anyone that liked Scream 4 (which I'm sure plenty of people I now see bashing this movie did) with dialogue like "fu** Bruce Willis!" and "you can't kill me I'm gay!" and that entire idiotic opening, and every stupid thing that came out of Alison Brie's mouth, the stupid garbage that came out of Ghostface's mouth "you don't have to be a bi*** about it!"..."I'll send you to the hospital alright...TO THE MORGUE!" can make a statement like that about a movie like this.

That said, there was some terrible dialogue in this, but neither the acting or the dialogue are anywhere near as bad here as any of what was mentioned above. That movie had some of the worst writing I've ever seen and no movie should be too stupid for anyone that liked it.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. I thought the 3D worked well enough, I liked the direction they went in with Leatherface and it has one of my favorite supporting characters in the series.
Maybe not technically superior to the remake, but defintely more fun.
TCM 2, TCM:TB and this are pretty close for my favorite after the original.

I like the remake and TCM 3.

4, just...no (that said, as terrible as it is, I'd still rather be watching it than another miserable excuse for a movie that was the part 4 of another crashing and burning franchise I previously mentioned).

ADDED:

Oh yeah, and the writing in this isn't nearly as stupid as in both Rob Zombie Halloween films. Also horrendous movies that make this look like Silence of the Lambs by comparison.

 

[DACrowe]

I think there is a difference between disliking cutsey self-aware comedy writing and simple generic lines like a father saying to his daughter, "You came from a **** heap!" while guzzling a beer. Scream 4 tried to be clever. You think it failed. TC3D didn't try, period in terms of dialogue.

Another way to put it is that I actually bought Jill and Kirby and the Culken kid in S4 as real people and new characters. Even the creepy/funny deputy who stalked Dewy I could buy in the way you accept characters in a comedy. In this movie, none of the supporting cast seemed real. Though I will concede that as forced as Alexandra Daddario's arc was, it did lead to an interesting couple of twists in the last third of the movie and she is by far the best protagonist in any of the TCM movies. Ever.

Really, just because the third act was so different I will agree this is one of the better TCM movies. The only ones I like better are the 1974 and 2003 iterations. But that's because they're good movies. This is the best of "the rest." It is bad, but the most entertaining of the crap heap that are the sequels and prequels in this series.

 

[The Dark Defender]

My problem with S4 is almost the entire movie was just failed attempts at comedy, and I can't buy anyone as a real person that apparently finds their own death funny, which several in that movie did. Jill and Rory (the Culkin kid) were boring as hell right up they're revealed as killers, and Kirby is nothing but cutesy one-liners throughout. They didn't feel real to me at all and I found Daddario's character in this far more likable and easy to care about then all of them combined.

Dialogue like

Spoiler

"do your thing cuz!"

and especially "welcome to Texas mother*****r!" is pretty damn stupid, but there's writing in S4 and the RZ Halloween that's so bad it makes stuff even that bad sound brilliant.

S4 is literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I think you can consciously try to make a bad movie and still not screw up nearly that bad. It ruined the series for me entirely. I can't even watch the two good ones without thinking about that and getting pissed off.