I was off work today and my kids were in school and the wife was working so I figured I would go see this since my wife didn’t want to.
The movie was avg at best. Didn’t bring anything new to the story whatsoever.
The kills weren’t exciting. The targets were still annoying.
There was alot of boobage though. That was nice.
The thing that annoyed me the most was that the sound was mixed to make you jump instead of what was on screen. It was so loud in the theater that you would jump at a cat meowing. I really dislike horror movies that rely on unrealistic base or loud crashing to scare you. I would rather be frightened by what’s on screen.
You never really see Jasons face, even for a second. You see part of it briefly just before he gets the mask but not enough to make it out. That annoyed me. My favorite part of the past series was waiting to see how horrible Jason looked in the latest iteration. I didn’t get that payoff this time.
I don’t know why they didn’t keep Kane Hodder on as Jason. He and this new guy are indistinguishable and anyone that claims that this new guy is better/worse is just talking smack. The character is 1-D and there is no way to play him any differently.
There are no twists or surprises during the movie or even at the end. I don’t mean like “I saw that twist coming from a mile away” I mean “No attempt at interesting development or twist ending”
The fucking targets in this movie were dumb as usual. I really didn’t understand the ending and why they unhooked Jason from the woodchipper and carried him down to the lake to throw him in. Why didn’t they just get the fuck out of dodge?
It could have been worse, I guess, but it really didn’t feel like a F13 movie. I think if they ere really going to do a remake, they should have done it at the camp, and done it right. I realize a straight remake would have entailed a problem about whether or not to do the same ending, and I realize you really want to get Jason himself in there rather than just the killer mom issues which this movie handles before the opening credits are finished rolling, but I still think they could have done an old school camp counsellor massacre 20 years later. I think a proper reboot really should have required that milieu.
The targets were very much stock, annoying slasher movie stab dummies, but that’s as it should be. Seeing obnoxious, drunken horndogs get their heads split with machetes is part of what this franchise is all about. The whole subplot with the sister being held prisoner in the cave was, I think, a weird departure for the franchise since Jason has never done anything like that before, nor does this movie really explain why he would.
One small innovation which I though was kind of neat was Jason using a bow.
All in all, I think t’s just very ordinary. It’s not the wosrt thing I’ve ever seen, but I think it squandered the chance to do something really special.
There was a rumor a couple of years ago that Quentin Tarantino had shown some interest in doing a F13 reboot. That’s something I would have really liked to see.
Am I the only one who thought the the guy looking for his sister was kind of a douche, even though he was supposed to more or less be the hero? I would have rather seen the Asian guy live.
The bitch scream got a laugh in my theater (you’ll know it when you hear it).
Even though it was not like Jason to do that, the reasoning or explanation was that the girl “looked” like his mother. Earlier, in his cabin, her boyfriend told her that she looked like the woman in the locket (which was Jason’s mother). Also, a couple of times, when the girl calls him by his name, he stops, as though his mother were calling him. By keeping her prisoner, it was in line with keeping Pamela Voorhees’ severed head.
The one thing that I really liked that I haven’t seen in another F13th movie is the treatment of Jason like a sort of fact of life or wild animal by the locals - the entire exchange with the old woman who says something to the effect of “outsiders disappear here, they’re dead. They don’t know where to walk.” The idea of Jason being a sort of local legend or custom is really appealing - it always felt weird to me that that wasn’t accounted for in the other films, considering their rural setting. It’s treating him more like a Sasquatch or local lore thing…
The one thing that I thought was really kind of weird and unintentional is that Jason actually seems to be guarding his marijuana; you can almost watch the entire film as being a weed picture, and I don’t mean in the lowbrow Cheech-and-Chong way. The first ~7 deaths in the film seem to be the direct result of people messing with Jason’s weed, which just seemed bizarre and kind of unintentionally funny. My friend pointed out that this particular time around, it’s almost possible to view Jason as being a survivalist/unabomber type character - he’s out there with his weird little camp with his tunnels and his generator, growing his weed and attacking anyone that trespasses.
Yeah, where did the weed come from? And why was there still power?
I wanted Jared to punch out Rich Boy so bad (he seems to have settled in a niche of being a dick, since he played the same type in Transformers). My friends and I joked that Jensen Ackles would have just kicked the crap out of the guy at the store, stolen his girl, and ended the movie with Jason tied to the front of his car.
It was weird seeing Jason run. And he’s all smart(ish) and strategic now. I miss Kane Hodder, not this new young pup.
And yes, the young lady’s chest was stupendous, hope it doesn’t kill her career. It was no more and no less than I expected. Next, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, minus Robert Englund.
I just saw this on DVD over the weekend (the “Killer Cut” specifically) and I gotta say, I was pretty impressed. Yes, it’s nothing more than a standard Friday the 13th flick, but like Rob Zombie’s Halloween, it takes the Friday the 13th we thought we remembered and actually put it up there on screen. But unlike Zombie’s Halloween, the new F13 is actually good.
I liked seeing Jason as a crazed hermit/woodsman and I think it actually fits with the character.
I also liked that the female lead you thought was going to make it was stabbed through the throat and was likely burned alive. There weren’t many other surprises, but that was a good one.
I saw it in the theater. I thought it was a good enough horror flick. I’m thinking of picking up the DVD, but I’d like to hear from someone who’s seen it to know if there is any more new/deleted stuff worth picking it up for. Usually extra commentary doesn’t mean much for me.
From the reviews I’ve read online, the Killer Cut adds a couple of minutes to the second sex scene, a little more gore to each kill and a scene where Jason is sharpening his machete and he flashes back to his mother’s death.
Meh, I thought they had a great opportunity to really do something different with this one. They had the perfect setup at the beginning with the hidden pot fields to have made it so that ‘Jason’ was just a cover a bunch of drug dealers used to keep their drug operation secret. Killing people in horrifying ways was just a method of covering everything up by using a local legend.
Even though I’m a huge fan of the originals (because?), I don’t think I’ll ever get around to seeing this or the new Halloween. What’s the point? Give me a prequel, a (decent) sequel, a completely different take on the original. Or at least Kevin Bacon, all grown up.
