# Who the Fuck Greenlighted This Piece of Shit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323 "2002-04-02T03:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Briminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@Briminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briminator)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/21 "2002-04-02T15:03:49Z")
The movie most likely cost around 20 million to make and I’m sure that they will make over 50 million in the theatres, and way more in video sales and rentals. Sounds like a good business decision to me. And I want to see it sooooooo bad!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/22 "2002-04-02T15:17:13Z")
I was just at the official JASONX website and the producers , and everywhere else on the site for that matter, refer to the “upgraded” Jason as UBER Jason. Im not shittin… UBER Jason This movie is gonna be a blast! ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/23 "2002-04-02T17:18:37Z")
Once the premise of the movie became clear, pretty much everyone who was in the theater started laughing, and didn’t stop until the trailer was over. That would be an excellent audience reaction, if it was marketed as a satire rather than a horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/24 "2002-04-02T17:56:14Z")
Horror films are supposed to be laughed at these days. They’re horror-comedies. Straight “scary” horror films flop in todays market. So, this is, in a way, satire. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/25 "2002-04-02T18:11:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kirkland1244 \* > \*\*Horror films are supposed to be laughed at these days. They’re horror-comedies. Straight “scary” horror films flop in todays market. So, this is, in a way, satire. \*\* Uh, I don’t think so. It didn’t look like satire to me, and it didn’t look that way to the audience I saw it with. Everyone seemed to be shouting, “That’s stupid!” or “Man, that’s gonna suck!” when they weren’t laughing at the trailer. Face it, this movie was a bad idea to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/26 "2002-04-02T18:12:44Z")
My partner and I were being considered to write and direct “Freddy vs. Jason”. We told our agent to tell them we might be interested, if we could do it as a musical. Curiously, we never heard back from them. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/27 "2002-04-02T18:19:08Z")
Wait! Wait! I’ve figured it out! The guys who decided to do this movie saw _The Producers_ and realized that they could make _more_ money from a movie that bombed than one that was successful! So really, its in their best interest that none of us go see this movie. After all, we’d hate for it to be a success and the producers all wind up in jail! ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/28 "2002-04-02T18:20:10Z")
LOL! You never know, **Halloween H20** was actually a damn fine movie. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/29 "2002-04-02T18:23:53Z")
The review at [Teleport City](http://www.teleport-city.com/) told me everything I need to know. Note that the review contains “spoilers” (if such can actually apply to a movie that is already rancid). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/30 "2002-04-02T18:30:51Z")
Oh, **cercaria** , your posts to this thread have been utterly hysterical! You really need to post more often! (Well, okay the Board really needs you to post more often, but get my point.) ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/31 "2002-04-02T18:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\*We told our agent to tell them we might be interested, if we could do it as a musical. > \*\* Freddy’s natural “jazz hands” would make the dance numbers a scream! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/32 "2002-04-02T19:02:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darwin’s Finch \* > \*\*The review at [Teleport City](http://www.teleport-city.com/) told me everything I need to know. Note that the review contains “spoilers” (if such can actually apply to a movie that is already rancid). \*\* I think that this paragraph says it best: > [@](#): > > A few years too late, missing the end of the trend, someone decided that the power of nostalgia and the waning interest in dippy slasher films was all we needed to get another Jason Voorhees movie made. But what could they do? What could they do to make this one different? I know! They could set it centuries in the future, in outer space! A novel approach if you ignore the fact that Hellraiser and Leprechaun had already done it. You are in big, BIG trouble when you follow the lead of a Leprechaun film. Why in goddess’s name would you _want_ to rip off one of the _Leprechaun_ films? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/33 "2002-04-02T19:06:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darwin’s Finch \* > \*\*The review at [Teleport City](http://www.teleport-city.com/) told me everything I need to know. Note that the review contains “spoilers” (if such can actually apply to a movie that is already rancid). \*\* Well, christ, he starts off by telling you up front that > [@](#): > > I have never liked the slasher genre. I’ve found it boring, juvenile, and generally uninteresting. They rarely deliver much of anything, and the chance to watch teenagers acting like idiots before being skewered by some hulking beast is not something I want to take advantage of when I could be doing other things, like watching a zombie movie or marveling at the way Billy Mays’ amazing Orange Clean unleashes the concentrated power of pure orange oil to clean away the decade-old grease and charring on my stove. I mean, what chance did the movie have if he doesn’t even know how to enjoy a slasher movie in the first place? Nope, look for a review from someone who is actually _capable_ of enjoying a slasher, it’ll be more honest. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/34 "2002-04-02T19:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*I mean, what chance did the movie have if he doesn’t even know how to enjoy a slasher movie in the first place? Nope, look for a review from someone who is actually _capable_ of enjoying a slasher, it’ll be more honest. \*\* The movie had as much chance as it deserved, in my opinion. Slasher movies, with rare exceptions, simply aren’t enjoyable; it’s a genre which has been done to death…so to speak. Quite literally, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/35 "2002-04-02T19:44:27Z")
Uh, **Max** , did you happen to skip over the paragraph where the reviewer says: > [@](#): > > So it is with no small degree of stubbornness that I occasionally find myself dragged unwillingly into the realm of simply hating a film from end to end. It doesn’t happen often, but I hate it when it does. I hate it because I want someone’s hard work to have paid off, and I want my time to have been, if not wisely, at least entertainingly invested in the ninety or so minutes I spend watching something. As I’ve pointed out before, unlike most critics, I don’t relish the thought of writing a thoroughly bad review, of having to dismiss a film as possessing no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Sounds to me that he was at least _willing_ to give the movie a shot, and he gave up once it demonstrated that it wasn’t worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![cercaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@cercaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cercaria)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/36 "2002-04-02T19:45:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*Oh, **cercaria** , your posts to this thread have been utterly hysterical! You really need to post more often! (Well, okay the Board really needs you to post more often, but get my point.) \*\* Yay! Somebody _likes_ me!!! As soon as this semester ends I’m sure I’ll be posting in an almost neurotic fashion. I just hope no one gets sick of me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/37 "2002-04-02T22:37:32Z")
Okay, let’s put it this way: _JasonX_ is not supposed to be a horror flick any more than _Triple X_ is supposed to be a James Bond movie. They’re both the over-the-top adrenalinifications of the genre and are not supposed to be taken as anything other than good campy fun with self-reflexive satirical elements. I mean, come on, you saw the trailer with _ **Blade II** _, you _know_ what can happen when a bad movie takes itself to seriously. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/38 "2002-04-03T07:09:07Z")
I was thinking the exact same thing **KKBattousai**. I’d actually expect a high percentage of _Blade 2_ fans to go to both movies. I’m sure I will watch _JasonX_ when it comes out on cable 3 months after its opening in the theaters. Hell, I’m sure I will watch it before I watch _Blade 2_. dead0man ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/39 "2002-04-03T07:10:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cercaria \* > \*\* > > Yay! Somebody _likes_ me!!! As soon as this semester ends I’m sure I’ll be posting in an almost neurotic fashion. I just hope no one gets sick of me. 🙂 \*\* Keep posting the kind of stuff you did here and you’ll be _worshipped_ on these boards! ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-the-fuck-greenlighted-this-piece-of-shit/101323/40 "2002-06-27T14:44:57Z")
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