Re: Friday the 13th Remake
Wait a minute, I thought this was a remake of the original. It's a sequel?
Wait a minute, I thought this was a remake of the original. It's a sequel?
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Re: Friday the 13th Remake
I'm a huge Horror Buff, I loved all the Texas chainsaw massacre remakes, and I'm a hug Michael Myers fan, and I hated Zombies remake of Halloween. I saw this on Friday, just a little late to the party, I give this remake an A++, I loved everything about it, this movie brought back that good old horror feeling again when watching a Remake that effort was put in to.
LOVED IT!
OH yeah, by the way, this movie had a lot more gore then anything in the last few years.N.Y Mets
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I meant to post the other day. I saw it, not terrible, not great.
I was more hyped up for it, and it didn't deliver in all aspects. Sick of Platinum Dunes and their remakes. Now they are making Nightmare on Elm Street as well...
Eh, maybe eventually Hollywood will come up with another horror movie that is original, but I'm not counting on it. "Saw" is the last one. The other ones have been foreign like High Tension and Undead.Comment
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The guy who made this also made the remake of TCM.
Imo, this guy is really good at what he doesComment
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Ok, so while I'm a fan of horror, I've never really been into slasher films. I understand the idea behind them, I get what it's all about, but in general the films have always seemed so...insulting to me. I don't mean that the idea of an unkillable entity showing up and slaughtering a bunch of teenagers is insulting, I mean it's more that we keep getting the same rehash over and over again, becoming more and more stereotypical as time goes by, with more bizarre plots and less purpose beyond making a few extra bucks.
But I went to go see Friday the 13th this weekend, because I was asked to go. I had heard this was Michael Bay attempting to "reinvent" the genre, and I was interested in seeing where he planned on going with it. I was tragically let down. The two hours I spent in that theater did nothing to reinvigorate a genre that has become extremely stale do to numerous sequels and repeats of plots of lesser and lesser quality. In fact, Bay seemed to make it a point to hit every one of those stereotypes that ruins this type of film. Let's just go through a few.
First, the teenagers are motivated by all of three things: sex, drugs, and alcohol, with the exception of one character. That's it. There is no character motivation beyond this. Look, I'm young, I don't spend my days hounding over joints and getting absolutely trashed on cheap beer, and I'm not trying to sleep with anything that has a vagina and moves. In other words I'M TIRED OF MY ENTIRE GENERATION BEING DEPICTED THIS WAY! Not only is it wrong, it kills any interest I have in the characters. You want to make an effective horror film? Then I've GOT TO GIVE A FLYING **** ABOUT THE PEOPLE ON THE SCREEN! And to top it off, they're idiots! If you combined the collective IQ of every character in that movie, it still wouldn't equal the number of hours in the day. I'd find it more disturbing if the killer were able to take out somebody who thinks rationally and could put up a fight. Instead we get the guy who's dumb enough to run over the one bear trap in the woods.
Second, I'm tired of ethnic and class-based stereotypes as well. The black guy makes racial jokes, wants to start a rap label, and smokes weed. The Asian guy can't get a girl and is a whiz with mechanical stuff. The rich white kid is a douche. The rural guy is a redneck hick with bad teeth and a sexual attraction to inanimate objects who looks like he wandered off the set of Deliverance thirty years too late. The white girls all have fake breasts and hair. Everybody dresses like an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. Bay, you had a real opportunity here, yet you squandered it you piece of **** hack.
Third, it's ok with me the first time the killer is standing right behind someone. It's not so inventive the second. By the fifth, you obviously just have no idea what you're doing. Now I do have to give you credit for a couple of inventive kills. The sleeping bag thing was impressive. And the way Jason tilts his head up while he's impaling the guy's neck with the screwdriver, as if it's something that requires precision and technique, I liked that. But every other kill, impaling people through boards with the machete or popping up right behind somebody with a fire poker while they open the door...come on, I wanted to guess every now and again how Jason was going to kill these people. It's not a good scene if we see it coming.
Now I do have to give credit to the guy who played Jason. He was big and imposing, and little things like the way he'd pull out his machete or how quickly he'd be on his feet after falling were impressive. But then again, the guy's done this role before, and he's been a stuntman for a decade now. I'm just glad he didn't need character motivation, since there wasn't any. We get a vague mention about Jason drowning, there are a few hints about his room and all that, and then...what? Nothing. Just snippets and allusions to something that never gets explained. Look, Bay, it's a remake. We're not supposed to know the plot, you have to give us something.
Instead we get some locket that kinda makes him stop for a moment, and an old woman who talks about some guy in the woods. And that's another thing...if Jason were dumb enough to keep killing locals, they'd go after him. He's obviously smart enough not to stray out of his territory too often...but he does in the film. Considering all the stuff that's built up around the lake, such as the rich kid's house...how long has Jason been out there? Did he only just start killing folks, and if so, why does some old woman know he's there? Why hasn't he killed building contractors, or the rich hunters, or anybody out looking for his earlier victims? It's implied he's smart, yet he does some dumb things to give himself away, mainly because of the horrendous script.
Ok, so if you haven't figured it out yet...this movie sucked and I hated it. Then again, I don't know if I should have expected anything more, considering the source material, but don't tell me you're gonna fix something and then hit every pitfall that's killing the genre. Don't bother with this, just watch the original.Concrete evidence/videos pleaseComment
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LOL. The guy you just quoted acts like this is something new. Every horror movie for the last 30 years has been this way. The whole thing about "his generation" is funny too. The original Friday the 13th back in 1980 had the same thing going on in regards to kids, drugs, alcohol and sex. Every one of these has also had the bad stereotypes and idiotic teenagers too. I do agree with most of his points though. Horror movies have always been cheesy and will always be cheesy. The best horror movies are probably those focused on something that might actually happen. You can only expect so much when you're talking about a guy walking around with a machete, wearing a hockey mask or a guy with knived gloves and a bad sweater.
Edit: I'm not trying to diss horror movies here. They are what they are. I like them once in a while too. I just don't get where the guy is coming from since they've always been the same...high on shock value, low on realism.Last edited by caseyd; 02-20-2009, 02:34 PM.Mario Kart Wii: 1203 9969 5095
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Nothing like taking a review from someone who starts off saying "I don't like slasher films". Creditability..lost.Comment
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We were at TRU last night getting my son a new WWE ring and my wife spots a Jason hockey mask. I go take a look and its a mask made by NECA which is made out of a hard mold. They still have these for $20 if you are a big fan.
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This movie kind of sucked. The acting was just straight up annoying, didn't like any of the characters really.
A lot of tits and a lot of blood, but I really thought the "gory" scenes were pretty weak. There really is no story except for a 60 second mention near the beginning. Seemed kind of like a wannabe Texas Chainsaw Massacre at times also.
The acting is just horrible at times. And the characters do so many dumb things, which usually would be forgivable in a horror movie, but it's like they tried to cross this movie with Not Another Teen Movie or something, because the characters are like lame high schoolers with all the stereotypes like the ******* jock and the geeky asian kid, etc.
Complete with really lame smoking weed jokes/scenesComment
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K i guess ill say it.
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