My Bloody Valentine 3-D

A remake that improves upon the original? A 2000's horror remake that's better than the 80's original? Is black white? Is up down? WHAT IS THIS WORLD?!? Yeah, I liked this more than the original. A lot more. What it improves on from the original is, honestly, almost everything. The characters actually have depth now. The love triangle storyline exists but doesn't dominate the movie and derail its forward momentum; it happens alongside the main plot, and really only to serve as a vehicle for the rivalry between the two male leads, Tom and Axel. This gets rid of the stupid Valentine's dance subplot that took up way too much screen time in the original. The direction is faster, especially in the chase scenes, which have an electricity to them. The killer reveal is a LITTLE obvious, but the actor playing the killer is having a ball once he's allowed to be the heel, so I call that a wash. And it has Tom Atkins. He's worth half a star on his own, because he's TOM ATKINS. Where it fails to exceed its predecessor, however, is on the technical side. The movie was shot in 3D, so there's a lot of "things coming at you" gags that fall flat in 2D. Add in that, however they shot it in 3D and then converted it into 2D has done something to the frame rate or the focus or something, but it leaves the entire movie with some visual weirdness to it, like the camera is panning over the film reel instead of moving within the movie itself, or odd blurring. It isn't all the time, but when it's there, it's unmistakable. The more annoying thing this gets wrong is the kills. While this is a more vicious and angry killer than the original, almost all the kills are done digitally. There is nothing more disheartening than CGI kills. They age like milk in the sun. I will still recommend it to slasher/horror fans, even with the technical issues. The intensity and pacing was good enough to cover over those issues. Even my wife, who isn't much of a slasher fan, said it was pretty good. That's a hell of a recommendation right there.