I never saw any 'Nightmare' movie past the first one, i think. I saw part of one where there was a nun in an insane asylum? No clue.
I think it worked on a lot of levels, yes. It was silly and campy and riffed on a lot of other movies, but in the same way that 'Buffy' did on other things. The 'Scoobies' made Giles despair, but a lot of the offhand comments that Xander made - and Buffy, too, sometimes - actually showed a really broad knowledge of more than pop culture, and more than of just 'their' time in it, you know? Not a *deep* knowledge, a lot more surface stuff, but still - they weren't quite as clueless as we were led to believe.
Same with the movie. A lot more was going on under the surface, it just kind of got hazed out *by* the surface.
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Date: 2010-11-15 12:19 am (UTC)I never saw any 'Nightmare' movie past the first one, i think. I saw part of one where there was a nun in an insane asylum? No clue.
I think it worked on a lot of levels, yes. It was silly and campy and riffed on a lot of other movies, but in the same way that 'Buffy' did on other things. The 'Scoobies' made Giles despair, but a lot of the offhand comments that Xander made - and Buffy, too, sometimes - actually showed a really broad knowledge of more than pop culture, and more than of just 'their' time in it, you know? Not a *deep* knowledge, a lot more surface stuff, but still - they weren't quite as clueless as we were led to believe.
Same with the movie. A lot more was going on under the surface, it just kind of got hazed out *by* the surface.