If nothing else, it seems people remember the original far more fondly than the third because it's that much more insulated from the awful, awful later instalments. After all, Dream Master tries to carry on via the survivors, but as mentioned before, the drop-off is so sharp that you lose nothing by thinking of Dream Warriors as the final chapter. The atmosphere was still great: dark and gloomy much like the original, really adding a nice layer to the big scenes. Contrast this with the follow-up, which was so inexplicably bathed in daylight that Freddy winds up on the beach at one point. By the time Dream Child rolled out, even Freddy's makeup made Englund look exhausted. With all due respect to Lisa Wilcox, it did little more than guarantee that her slice of Elm Street lore was a forgettable experience that strengthened bad habits and led us to the ironically titled Freddy's Dead. Why does Dream Warriors get lumped in with these other affronts to the kinescope? Probably because the latter ruined the series by doing (very poorly) the same things the former did quite well. The over-the-top scenes, the wisecracks, the increasingly over-baked story all the things that neutered Freddy later on were very much his strengths in Part 3. Well, I'm all out of evidence. What say you? One, two, comment on your views.
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Hopelessly unfamiliar with Yellow Submarine.