Yeah this is the superior thread with the superior opinion. EC's thread sucks.
So psyched for this, but I basically love every horror movie. (Except the Saws and Hostels)
Too late, me and my thread win.
They ruined Jason dammit and i stand by that statement! You don't give the mysterious slightly paranormal stalker-killer a
lair to hang out in. I knew even just seeing him run in for a kill in the trailers that something was off about the character, it took away what made him a bad ass. He wasn't a relentless killer that just magically shows up behind you when you think you'd lost him, they made him chase people down as if he was desperate for a kill and that just didn't sit well wit me.
The dialogue sucked too. Sure the old movies had their cheesy moments but this one felt like it went out of their way to include bad lines such as
Trent losing his gun and saying "where are you gun" only to find it and say "thank you" when no ones around at all. Or "say hello to mommy........ IN HELL.
I will give it some credit, the boobs were top notch especially Willa ford
The asian kid was pretty awesome too, the crowd loved him. Really thats all i could think of that i liked about the movie. Well that and the fact that they
payed homage to the originals ending but even that i have my problems with....
So for 6+ months Jason keeps Whitney alive because she resembles his mother, a young version of his mother mind you not the elderly looking one he saw get decapitated at the films start making not much sense if you ask me..., but at the end decides to kill her anyway? Then there were other small details that i picked up on thinking maybe they'd be important like
what if the reason Jason kept Whitney alive is not because she simply looks like his mother, maybe it'd be revealed that she was a relative (similar to the Freddy movies but i know they also mentioned Jason having family in the 4th or 5th film)? Then there was that old woman who said
something like "people 'round here like to be left alone, especially him. I felt like there should've been more too that but no, she ended up being the only person who even remotely knew anything about Jason other than the stoner in the beginning of the flick. They had a good opportunity to either introduce some mythos into the movie, or at least scare the crap out of the second set of kids. Instead of the sex crazed teens who are afriad that some
thing might be out there but decide to do what sex crazed teens do best anyway, we got a bunch of potheads who had no idea what was going on for the most part and it took away the tension that built up in the older movies, like a hot chick taking a shower and someone pulls the curtain open but...!! oh its not jason, its her boyfriend. PHEW. Nope, none of that though.
Some random complaints:
When the **** did jason become a skilled enough archer to hit a speeding target from 100yards?
Why did they keep showing him unsheath his machete with this action-y pose that made him look like a fucking Spartan or something?
So Jason has a lil lair, fine i'll buy thats how he kept from being discovered when people tried to go finding their dead teens. He sets up a lil alarm system throughout the woods to alert him to presence of outsiders in/around Crystal like.. fine i'll take that too, i guess. But why didn't he react when that guy and girl tripped over it, and continued to pull on it after discovering the chain that rang the bells underground? In fact it made it seem like only Whitney heard the bells though Jason was underground with her at the time.Ok thats all i can think of for now. I will say this though, the entire experience at the theatre was horrible so maybe thats why I'm judging this so harshley. I paid almost $30 for the last available showing in the "directors hall" that has leather seats and you get the option to pick where you want to sit in the theatre, assuring you get good seats. Its a small luxury i don't mind paying for when i see a movie on opening night, cuz it makes things easier. I can walk in late and know my seats will be th ere, awesome. But it didn't work out smoothly this time. We didn't have to fight for our seats or anything, but they didn't have any ushers showing people to the seats they paid for either so after the last trailer (the Watchmen if you cared, looks awesome) and the second the "feature presentation" message appears on screen, guess what happens... They turn it off and put the lights up super bright.
Just then a single usher walks in and tells everyone that they need to be sitting in their assigned seats (the ones you payed extra money for...) and no one moves, yet she has like 20 people behind her with tickets saying they're in seat J7 or whatever but someone is sitting in J7. After 15 mins of trying to move people around, they start the movie... with the lights on and the usher screaming at people to move if they're not sitting in the right seats. Thats when they stop it again, but nothing happened on the screen yet. The other thing that annoyed me was the fact that every fucking conversation i heard from the people around me, was how HIGH they were and i knew i was in for trouble. They left too hard at things that weren't that funny, they talked the whole time cuz they were paranoid "oh no he's gonna be right there i know it i just know he's gonna be right there OMG!" and they'd all, guys and girls, scream like bitches when something 'scary' happened... sometimes the screams become before the scare would. Oh and the two big ghetto guys sitting next to me were pussies. They didn't jump at any of the scares but the second there was more than an ounce of blood shown, he'd squirm and say something annoying like 'oh god yo my stomach be turning' and he'd lean towards me. Did i mention he smelled like weed and BO? Well he did. Oh, and this same guy always had a comment to make whenever anything about sex came up.
the scene in the tent he kept saying 'yo thats dirty, they cant even wash up when they done, thats just grimey'.
Oh, and after the first few kills
when the title screen finally popped up everyone in the theatre thought the movie was over... really? They did the same **** during Vantage Point when the movie would go into its lil rewind and start again from a different persons perspective.
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