I was really looking forward to seeing this one...and then I saw it.
What potential they had with this story! Oh, the things they could have done with it! Instead? It was filled with shortcuts and summaries. I was cheated! I didn't get to see how a family evolved (or de-evolved) into cannibals...I saw how one day they just decided, hey! Let's all be cannibals, how about it? I didn't get to see how Leatherface built his disturbing behavior...I saw a ridiculous rip-off of a thousand other movies with imitation headlines passing over the screen. Disappointing shortcuts, rehashing scenes we've all seen before: The dinner table, the torture room, removing faces and wearing them. The chainsaw chases. If you've seen the original Tobe Hooper masterpiece, you've seen this one.
I would have liked to have seen a young Leatherface born into an inbred backwoods family. Struggling to try to maintain some degree of humanity, and yet thrilled at the crimes committed by his loved ones. How would he have been punished by his grandmother? Did he have any friends? When did he first begin killing? How painful was his guilt after his first kill? I was let down, as was--pretty much--the entire theaterful of people. This one is a carbon-copy of the remake of Tobe Hooper's original. Wait for DVD...you'll thank me.
What potential they had with this story! Oh, the things they could have done with it! Instead? It was filled with shortcuts and summaries. I was cheated! I didn't get to see how a family evolved (or de-evolved) into cannibals...I saw how one day they just decided, hey! Let's all be cannibals, how about it? I didn't get to see how Leatherface built his disturbing behavior...I saw a ridiculous rip-off of a thousand other movies with imitation headlines passing over the screen. Disappointing shortcuts, rehashing scenes we've all seen before: The dinner table, the torture room, removing faces and wearing them. The chainsaw chases. If you've seen the original Tobe Hooper masterpiece, you've seen this one.
I would have liked to have seen a young Leatherface born into an inbred backwoods family. Struggling to try to maintain some degree of humanity, and yet thrilled at the crimes committed by his loved ones. How would he have been punished by his grandmother? Did he have any friends? When did he first begin killing? How painful was his guilt after his first kill? I was let down, as was--pretty much--the entire theaterful of people. This one is a carbon-copy of the remake of Tobe Hooper's original. Wait for DVD...you'll thank me.