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Here's The Teaser For The FRIDAY THE 13th Revamp...
Merrick here...
A teaser for the Michael Bay produced/Marcus Nispel directed FRIDAY THE 13th aired last night during Spike TV's Scream Awards. Here's an embed for your consideration.
No one can tell me from whence this specific embed originated...but it's the best transfer I could find...so apologies in advance if we're inadvertently swiping your material.
Footage from WATCHMEN also aired on the show; interesting we've heard so little dialogue from the film thus far. You can jump to the WATCHMEN footage HERE.
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another jason. really?
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The last thing I need is to see Jason using massive amounts of plastic explosives and bazookas.
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Id much rather see an Original then another remake.
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So very bored.
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looked more like a semi-continuation of the original series... as if it took place after part 3...
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so its the same footage leaked this summer but in better quality.
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"If you wanna see (blah blah blah).. then you come to the Scream Awards!!"
*Cue legally retarded 16 year old girls in the audience to start screaming*
And so I'm assuming both of those people are in the movie, one of which I recognize from "Supernatural". So, that's the typical shit formula, right? Put together the most unnecessary and unwelcome horror movie remake of the year and just stick a couple actors from the WB or CW in it, yea? Because it would seem it's not the first time I've noticed this pattern. -
Seriously, why IS this needed? I really, really, hate remakes. And who's the douchebag who introduced it? He couldn't contain his fake "whoo!"
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Music to my ears!
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This will be awesome! Have you tried to watch the original lately? It looks like it was made in the 80's!!! I can't wait to see this. It will be the bomb!
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as another terrible sequel. Will they explain how Jason got back from space? or hell? or freddy kruger dreamland?
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But this looks like it would bring it.
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They are all out of imagination, so they are stuck re-imagining everything.
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Has there ever been a GOOD remake? I'm really asking. Anybody seen one? I don't mean "re-imaginings," which are bullshit anyway, or new movies from the same source material, like Manhunter and Red Dragon, I mean bona fide remakes. In the next few years we'll get totally unneeded remakes of Clash of the Titans, The Last Starfighter, and a bunch of others. So, fellow readers, what remakes are actually good?
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Just had to drop in a little message from Miss V.
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It was made in the 80's. 1980 to be precise. Now if we can just start working on a remake for Casablanca, because that looks like it was made in the 40's.
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should be butchered with a machete for being so frickin' gay. They probably had to pay those people in the audience for putting up with it.
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I am not a remake fan, but I would say the 80's Fly is a great remake.
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Yeah it was made in the 80's and the original will still be better then this piece of shit.
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i tried watching...i think it was the 5th one maybe (i have the collection on DVD)...its the one where he digs Jason up in the beginning, stabs him with a metal fence post...and it acts as a lightning rod that revives Jason (hi-fucking-larious). anyway...i forgot how atrociously BAD some of these films were/are....i DID have fun with it though, some of the Friday the 13th films fill that "so BAD its GOOD" formula perfectly...its a "i love to love to hate it" kinda movies.
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Wow, so Jason now runs after his victims? Now I can't wait to see this movie.
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The source material isn't untouchable. The problem is you can't just do a direct sequel at this point because of Hell, Jason X, and Freddy vs Jason. This "remake" is more of a continuation of sorts. Let the slasher fans have another slasher film with their icon. If you don't like slasher films, then why care? I think there have been very few decent slasher films. Even if this blows, it will be on par with most of the genre.
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The intro was painful to watch. I hate clips like these, they speed up what probably takes about 20 minutes in the movie. No glimpse of Jason? Looks like a fun scene with the head and all but I get the feeling they just shot thier wad.
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That sort of takes the fun out of it...
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good comment Abominable Snowcone but I think it looks pretty good. Shouldn't a summer camp movie take place during the summer? Still leaves and dead trees add mood.
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yeah...but the running part kills the "gag" of it all (but i welcome the change). i loved watching his victims run full sprint...hauling ass like a walk of fire is behind them, then it cuts to Jason casually walking after them...next thing ya know "POOF!!!" like a damn magic trick he steps out from behind a tree IN FRONT of them, its fucking hilarious and gave the movie a certain charm.
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i meant to say his victims haul ass like a WALL of fire is behind them
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Oh wait, I'm not the third retard on here to let your sarcasm soar far above my head.
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. . . the fanboys get a slow Jason versus fast Jason debate.
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Iam an official Friday the 13th geek.( my name on the fango boards is voorheesajollygoodfellow). This is an abomination. From what i have reckoned it is a conglomeration of the first 3 films and not a continuation which still means it's going to suck. I don't see why they couldn't just make some more sequels , there doesn't have to be continuity with Jason X.( never stopped them before ). This just aggravates me to no end..... ( plus why not hire Kane Hodder? the guy they got to play Jason makes him look like he's 5'8" and is a burned former GQ model. Netflix for me , I refuse to support more uneeded remakes.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! Why is the audience hooting and hollering all the way through this ? I thought when people said that Americans acted like that it was a JOKE. ARGH IT IS INFURIATING!
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I think most people agree that Cronenberg's The Fly and Carpenter's The Thing are the exceptions to the rule. Some think Snyder's Dawn of the Dead is decent (including me, but still like the original better). 3:10 to Yuma is pretty good, and DePalma's Scarface is a damn good remake (reimagining? how do we define these things?) I also think the Manchurian Candidate was well-done and entertaining. But the concensus is that most horror remakes are just a waste of fucking human ingenuity.
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That Jason ran in parts 2, 3, and 4? He even walked really fucking fast in that one scene in part 6. He started walking in 7. But by then the series was really into the supernatural realm anyway. At least parts 2, 3, and 4 happened within the same week.
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how is Bay going to do this movie?!?! not like Jason is going to drive on the freeway throwing grenades and blowing shit all to hell...i bet the end of jason has something to do with a massive explosion though.
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The new "Jason" is played by Derek Mears who is 6'5. He's taller than Kane Hodder by 2 inches. Derek Mears also isn't a fat ass like Kane Hodder, Derek actually works out. So I don't see how Kane can make him "look like he's 5'8" and is a burned former GQ model". Maybe in the waist size since Kane is like a 44 now, but not in height.
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A running Jason is nothing new. For those newbies who grew up with a lumbering Kane Hodder, you've missed the glory years that the remake is tipping the hat to.
In parts 2, 3 and 4, Jason remained silent, still, stealthful, and RAN HIS FUCKING HEAD OFF at the end. THAT'S why Jason was always scary to me from 1981 - 1984. Nothing like a mindless killing machine RUNNING after you with the intent of getting his mitts on you.
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And I hope he raps.
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This is going to suck ass!
Serious folks this movie looks like total horse shit! First off a remake that has JASON in the hockey mask? This is a remake to what part 2 or 3? Because it's not to part 1!!! Everyone knows Jason doesn't even come out in part 1 his mother is the killer.
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But that's the only decent recent horror remake I can think of. Too bad Aja hasn't lived up to his first two movies, I really hated MIRRORS.
Oh and this movie can kiss my ass. I was hoping a sequel to FREDDY VS JASON anyway (you heard me) so screw this and anything Michael Bay related. Yup, screw anything michaelbayish. -
Now you heard me.
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Marcus Nispel is a pretty talented guy who works with bad scripts no-win situations. Texas Chainsaw remake was a great B-horror movie, but an unnecessary and insultingly bad re-make. I expect this will be much the same - unnecessary but well-made.
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He seems to have some breath in him this time around. Smokers lung killed it before lol
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Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z. If you're going to "re-imagine" it, re-imagine it so it doesn't look so straight-to-video.
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This is the type of movie you watch hammered at midnight on DVD and just laugh at the way people get killed.
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I can't wait. I've always loved the F13 films since I snuck into VII. I know a lot of people are poo-pooing this because it's a remake, but really, they're all remakes or re-imaginings. Just give me Voorhees.
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Had it been called TCM 5, no one would even care and people would consider it a decent slasher movie. But since it's a remake, people complain about it endlessly. Marcus Nispel did a good job, and Jessica Biel played one of the better horror movie final girl's that we have seen in a while. As a remake, it's nothing like the original in terms of tone and the look. But as a sequel, it looked better than it had any right to (given it's meager budget) and it was fast paced and even had R Lee Ermey. What more could any self respecting slasher fan want? This film looks like fun. And if the online buzz is true (that it features the most gratuitious sex and violence of any Friday film) I guess it will give the fans what they are looking for. I even heard there is a nasty sleeping bag kill in this one. So I'm there basically.
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I'm a Friday the 13th freak. And I know people are complaining that this is a remake, but come on, they made the same damn movie 8 times, I'm all for an update. It's Jason, no silly outer space shit, in the woods, killing teenagers...and it's rated R.
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I believe that a box set featuring 1, 2, and 3 will be released early 09 to tie into the movie (since it's essentially a remake of those 3 films). I heard the set will have all new bonus features, and I think they are going to be remastered.
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I mean, come on. A Camp Crystal in the woods, the dead mother's head on a dirty-ass shrine, the hockey mask and machete, sigh. "Totally re-imagined" my ass. Motherfucker was even PROUD. "Totally", pffft.
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LAME
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yea I'm not feeling this one. It just doesn't feel quite right. Not sure if it's the messed up chant or the quickness of Jason, it just doesn't feel right.... But i'll watch it just to see what's up.
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...sums it up really. Nice to hear Harry Manfredini's score, though.
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..but a more faithful version of Campbell's original short story, "Who goes there?" (one of the greatest horror story titles ever). In terms of story, the 50's version changed everything but the bare-bones concept (alien invasion), the general location (inhospitable cold and remoteness) and maybe some of the names of the characters. I actually have a copy of Campbell's story and Carpenter's work is a direct translation of that story and not a remake of the original "The Thing from Another World". Only a small percentage of Carpenter's work was added to the original narrative and it was updated of course (Campbell's story takes place in the 40's or 50s I believe whereas Carpenter's takes place "in the present" when it was filmed so basically sometime in the early 80's.
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...The Car! Yes, that one. The one with James Brolin and the black demon car with the greatest horn ever. It takes place in the mid-west and there's even a white-trash asshole character built into the story! Plus, the scene where you see The Car coming from far away by its lights as Brolin's girlfriend gets more and more scared saying she can hear the engine and the lights get brighter as The Car gets closer...and then what happens! Asskickery from the 70s! natch! Get down on it!
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just kidding, I think its about damn time they let him move at killer speed. Though I think it is likely there will still be moments when he does that strut (carrying a machette of course) which we know and love. Maybe he was just really angry in this particular scene, perhap he stumbled upon the youngins using mom's head as a vollyball or something (they were kinda rough with it). Anyway you know that last scene ends with him cutting that girl clean in half all the way from her raised hand, down her arm and then straight to the ground! The first kill in the trailer was sort of weak but the 2nd was promising.
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I'm sorry, but that looks super, richard simmons gay. Just bad in every way. Like, if I was there I'd have to watch gay porn just to tone down the level of gayness in that. ... ...
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It's not a Michael Bay film without it.
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I'm not saying its a deal breaker but I'm just saying ... that guy is a douchebag! Spandau - LOL but why the micheal bay referrence?
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...it's that I prefer Slow Jason. Fast Jason is more realistic but less dreadful, and honestly, kind of a turn-off. And, as far as being a Newbie, I've been here since 2001, am 27, married to a guy who used to play Call of Cthulhu and pregnant with a baby we'll probably name after a Sin City character. So, you know. If I were any geekier, I'd be writing for the site.
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hope they aren't asian. :p
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The dude who introduces the clip initially addresses us as "Gars!"
That guy has crazy underwater voice.
Sounds like he swallowed his tongue.
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they've completely reimagined it with a better cinematographer! Where do they come up with these new takes on old favorites. just amazing.
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Damn, they just mire the shit out of the WB's shows and put them in glam-rock video type "re-imaginings" and then sell it off as "classic" Seems pretty weak. I'm waiting for the Nightmare on Elm Street re-make with the Jonas Brothers staring in the lead, one as Johnny Depp's former character and the other as Heather Lagenkamp's former character (in full drag.)
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They are already up to SAW V, is it? Give it another 6 or 7 years, let them cool down the franchise, then they will "re-imagine" it, this time with an ailing Rutgeur Hauer as the lead baddie, trying to make a last play for cash in his old age.
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Than too see this turd!!!
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hollywood is officially dead
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There was no need to remake this. F13 and Jason can go on forever without a "reboot" as long as you attempt at least the quality of scares and tension that the first two films had, or the gonzo shocks of Jason Lives, or both.
The most shocking and startling thing they could have done with this franchise is hired another visionary like Ronny Yu, but someone much more subtle and creepy, to do a straight, classic slasher - creepy Mancini-like music, shadows, noises in the night, silence on the soundtrack at times, and simple stalking, fear and murder. With almost no self-reflexive irony. If they did it like that-like 1 and 2-they would do well.
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have you considered the name Sheldon? j/k I think Wallenquist Magliozzi will be a beautiful name ;)
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The flash of Jason's bed was kinda cool. Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears and shit. Friday the 13th is like a Grimm Fairy Tale anyway. Don't go into the woods and fornicate or a mongoloid will hack you up. The floorboard scene was kinda weak although the glimpse of Jason was kinda awesome. My fave Jason was Part 3-D Jason. Jason RAN in that one and FAST. The final "dream" scene in 3 when Jason comes back to life with blood streaming down his face and comes after Dana Kimmell gave me nightmares when I was a kid, so I got no problems with Fast Jason. Look, they can remake, reimagine, reboot, restart, retool the series all they want; as long as it's got Jason hacking the shit out of horny teens, that's all I want from a Jason Movie.
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Would lie down and take it from anyone, machete or supernatural or what? You find a head you'd be like "WTF? LOL" and when a machete stabs up from the floor you'd be, "I'm gonna bust you up biotch" and that'd be from the girl. The guy would be ripping up the floor boards to beat the mofo to death with.
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because he's on Spike, so he probably thought a beer-guzzling blonde would come out and teach him how to tell if a prostitute is really a cop. And, she'd have a lot of boobage. Wooh! That or the "Wooh" light lit up. As for those two teenagers. They probably just finished having sexual relations. They had it coming.
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But I will be seeing this, as a dedicated F13 fan. I just hope the film isn't too serious, and that the Avid farts are kept to a minimum.
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The series is an anomaly. Great villain, generally creepy atmosphere, some terrific, suspenseful moments, plentiful laughs and scares, but they're ultimately TERRIBLE movies, all of 'em. It doesn't make sense. Unlike Zombie's Halloween last year, you can't screw this series up because there isn't a competent film in the bunch. I like parts 2 and 6, but they're not "good," just better than the rest. I look forward to this because I know I'll enjoy it regardless of how it turns out.
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"Has there ever been a GOOD remake?" Some more: _His Girl Friday_ was a remake of _The Front Page_, _The Magnificent Seven_ was a remake of _Seven Samurai_, the Clooney _Ocean's Eleven_ was a remake of the Sinatra _Ocean's Eleven_, and the famous version of _The Maltese Falcon_ was a remake of two earlier versions. (But good *horror* remakes? Um, that is a bit harder ....)
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And his shitty "re-imaginings".
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A slow moving zombie with his ribs poking out is? I don't get it. Seriously, I'm with Kid Idioteque, it will be hard to screw this up. Honestly, it can't be any worse than Goes to Hell or Takes Manhattan.
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..why is it any surprise that we're gettin retreads of modern horror icons. One poster above nailed it above by saying, they've all basically be been remakes or reimaginings. This really isn't much different, except it has a bigger budget. I love these movies, I will give it a chance.
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maan, I might actually watch it now to see his ass massacred-I always hated that character...I dont know why, he was just a bland as fook love interest. Which is probably what he is in this beyond being just being standard jason fodder. Naturally I wont PAY to see this, Ill be happy to wait a few years until its floating around the sky film channels and even then Ill only watch bits and bobs. Seriously, that footage is so amazingly bland and boring-nothing at all there to get a film goer already bored of the Jason mythos by film 5 to come back for another look. Except the promise of dean getting killed. If they throw in that taylor guy from the show as well Ill be sold!
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Movie, 1st, 2nd 3rd etc.... sorry revamped, define revamp?
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Oct 22, 2008 3:25:49 PM CDT
No matter how bad this may be, it can't be worse than the origin
by rev. slappy
I know some people like them because of nostalgia, but the original series is horrendous and incompetent. Nispel will at least make it look good, which the original series can't say.
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Can't stress that enough.
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...some people's problem with doing it again. the original Friday, and pretty much all of them, aren't really great.
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ya talkin like friday the 13th is the godfather it is what it is a guy killin teens they better have a topless chick in there
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Complete shit
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I'm certain of very little, but I'm almost absolutely sure we'll see someone's tits in this (hopefully, female) just before someone gets slashed for having sex.
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all the horror franchises are getting remakes, reboots...er whatever (correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't they re-making/re-booting Hellraiser as well???. watch them make a whole new series of Friday the 13th films reaching up to 7 films and the same with Nightmare on Elm Street. we'll have series after series of the same character doing different shit...is that good or bad???...i'm guessing BAD considering how much fun it was to watch the frist and second of the TCM remakes.
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Part 2 was a remake of 1 but with Jason instead of his mom. Part 3 did the same shit but in 3D. Part 4? Same as part 3 but with better Tom Savini effects and gore. Part 5, same shit but with an Ambulance driver as Jason. 6, same shit but with Zombie Jason. 7, same shit but with Jason vs Carrie. 8, same shit but had Jason in NYC. 9, another attempt to reinvent a simple formula needlessly. 10, see 9. 11 stupidity which featured the same shit but with a cameo by Freddy Kreuger. So I don't get why people are complaining about a remake now. The movie seems to have taken the best elements of the original and rolled them into 1 movie. So how is that bad? Is it because Michael Bay produced it and you guys can't enjoy anything with his name on it?
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i may be wrong...but they never intended for Friday the 13th to be a on-going series, did they???...originally Jason Voorhees was never gonna make an appearance outside of his brief moments in the 1st film, or so i thought. i think because of the success of the first film they had to think of a way to keep it going...so they thought, "hey!!!...just have that kid Jason, now grown up, be the killer" (apparently sitting on his ass for years and years, and what was he doing during the events of the first one???...apparently watching his MOTHER get her head chopped off). i think the Friday the 13th films became a series for $$$ purposes and NOTHING more...how else do you explain the HORRIBLE ideas for bringing him back time and time again...same goes for the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. dont get me wrong...i love em all, own em all...its good campy fun.
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You could probably argue that for most movies, but why should I be surprised that they're trying to make further money from their product.
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Friday the 13th cost $550,000 to make and grossed a little over $39,000,000....so yeah, they were gonna make more of these films no matter HOW bad the ideas. they'd have Jason put back together by evil Wood Elves just to keep the series going.
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..then say another sequel. They tried those and they were mediocre success's. But TCM and Hills Have Eyes had huge returns and sequels. That along with the Saw franchise and and all the others, bringing back ol Jason was a serious no brainer.
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why not just re-release original horror movies in theaters? is that against the law? they did it with the original star wars...
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Oct 22, 2008 4:36:51 PM CDT
Wow the "witty banter" was douchechlling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!`
by crackerfarmboy
I heard recently they cut the Mrs. Voorhees and young Jason scenes out of the movie. Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose of remake then? If you're not going to tell the backstory in the "first one" when are you going to do it? Then again, this can't be worse than 99% of the rest of the series, so what the fuck!
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April Fool's Day remake already came out on DVD early in the year and it sucked more nuts than a toothless squirrel.
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Just a smidge difference.
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Oct 22, 2008 4:54:41 PM CDT
soooo, they're remaking the second one, instead of the first, AN
by stovetopstuffin'
They're giving him a hockey mask? LAME!!!!
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Or maybe you just don't want Friday movie at all, which is fine. But Jason and the mask are obviously the iconic bits of this series. That's what people want. That said, the film is making an effort to appease loyalists as well, cause as far as I can tell he's wearing a bag on his head in that clip.
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Psycho, The Haunting, House on Haunted Hill, Thirteen Ghosts, The Ring, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, The Grudge, Dark Water, The Fog, House of Wax, The Amityville Horror, The Wicker Man, The Hills Have Eyes, The Omen, Halloween, The Hitcher, The Eye, Mirrors
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...by churning out this drivel. In the current economic climate putting this film out is a no-brainer. All the fans who lapped up god-knows-how-many previous piles of this steaming dreck will queue up again, like the performing monkeys they are and hand over their dollars for another turd that has been polished so that it resembles a turd in a hockey mask. Clearly some of you are excited about the fact that this is a runny turd, rather than a walkie. By attending this shitfest you are only encouraging producers (who treat you like shit anyway because none of these films are actually any good and that's what makes them laugh sooo much) to make another, rather than directing money into new and exciting projects...but hold on, nobody wants new when the economy sucks, they want safe, they want predictable. Face it, Freddy fans, you're being fucking appeased with this shit, not challenged or inspired. This is mass culture bullshit at its worst, it's just fulfilment...aagghh fuck I hate this sort of film. Thank you.
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...so angry I can't type.
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I love this series and can tell you right now that parts 4-8 were ALL remakes of each other, with actors in their late 20s playing teens in the exact same story over and over. So how come doing THE SAME THING in this decade is so awful? Although I will admit that I wish they'd just put a number after that title instead of saying it was a reboot. I want to see the day when Friday the 13th part 13 is playing, dammit.
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I don't need to remind you that the original Friday 13th had neither Jason or the mask, do I? And the Hockey mask didn't come until part 3 anyway, as I recall the dude had a bag over his head in part 2.
Who cares about this anyway? Friday 13th is the one horror series that actually NEEDS reimaging. they should have done that after part three.
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The Thing, The blob, The ring, The fly, and umm, that's all I got. I don't mind them remaking mindless slasher movies with more of the same, It's when they fuck up John Carpenter with trash like Halloween or The Fog remakes that I get all uptight about it.
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if you LOVED friday the 13th, then you had your fun in the 80's and 90's. even though it's rated R this movie is aimed at 13-20 year olds. most of its target audience arent AICN regulars, and the only reason it's posted here is because a lot of us have a passing curiousity to see what direction they're going with it. not enough to actually see the movie though.. because, once again, its not meant for us. I'm not sure what the budget is, but im sure it will make about $30 millon in B.O. and another 10-20 million (or more) on DVD. you can argue that they shouldnt call it friday the 13th, but come on, those movies we're never 'art' and this is just another (smart) way to make a few bucks off the franchise. It really should be below most of radars.
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The Thing and The Fly are more than 20 years old though, and made by talented filmmakers. Its this current crop of crap from the past 10 years, remade for no other reason than the relentless pursuit of money, that pisses everybody off.
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looks awful, just awful.
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re-imagining my rosy red arse. it looks like the same-old same-old. and the editing was so bad that i just hung my head in shame. however, i did like seeing jason run at the chick with a machete. pretty heavy scene there. other that than it's a pure waste.
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Oh wait. I actually stopped and read some FACTS about the plot before screaming foul! It is a remake of the first THREE movies. Mrs. V is the killer in what will probably be the prologue, then Jason takes up the reigns after. He even wears THE HOOD before aquiring the Mask. There. So, all lame comments about this not being a remake of the original and sucking ass...can kiss mine! Peace!
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Sure. Plenty of silent movies were remade once sync sound was invented. I mean really, The Wizard of Oz, Dracula, etc etc are all remakes. I'd say that The Omega Man is superior to The Last Man on Earth. And what about Alfred Hitchcock's remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, originally directed by, uh, Alfred Hitchock? Plus there's the many movie versions of Shakespeare's plays. I'd say the various versions of Hamlet all count as remakes.
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Mom? Dad? Uncle Frank? Is this a joke?
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Aha! But as my original question said, I'm not talking movies that return to the same source material, Last man on Earth, Omega Man, Oz, Dracula, they're all based on books, and many of the "remakes" returned to the original text and deviated in their own, independent ways. I'm talking about straight up movies remade again. The Hitchcock one is a great example. I'm thinking more along the lines of Abre los Ojos/Vanilla Sky or The Bad News Bears. When has it worked? And that's not a rhetorical question. I'm curious as to what remakes work.
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Is so, unfortunately, right. I've felt all along like this remake isn't for me. I don't automatically hate remakes either. But this just feels.... like it's for high school kids. My girlfriend, who's a few years younger than me, thought that clip looked decent, to which I replied, "yeah, but it didn't look anything like Friday the 13th." This isn't for followers of the original films. It's for kids who've heard of the originals from their older siblings, and the only good that can come from it is that maybe those kids will be driven to seek out the originals. The producer's promise of graphic violence helps, but I know said violence will be incomprehensible because they'll start shaking the fucking camera everywhere whenever something icky happens, ala SAW. Their promise of tits doesn't hurt, though. But I highly doubt it will be anything remotely similar to the GLORIOUS tits and bush scene from part 2. That is how you shoot a nudie scene for a slasher movie. Full on, no body double, not some lame side character. Why is it that the only nudity in modern films only comes from secondary characters? Does this annoy anybody else? Sorry. I'm rambling again. Just really, really love Jason flicks. That is all.
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Which was my point. Those are the iconic images of the series.
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i'm sad it won't happen. with jason x, they were only two movies away! and now it starts all over.
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Jason's mom was the killer in the first, killer Jason didn't show up until part 2. What a lack of imagination. They have the same shrine to his mommy's head they did in part two, and dare to call this a reimagining. This script bears a strong rememblance to the stuff floating in my septic tank.
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Unless its PG-13
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Sprinting Jason.
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I mean the series has always been about Jason kicking ass (except for his mom doing the ass kicking in the first of course) and this looks miles ahead of "Jason X" or "Freddy's Dead", if you want remakes to complain about aim you're rage at the Rosemary's Baby remake and The Bird's remake, not this
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But I loved them as a kid.
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I posted an explanation not 8 posts above yours as to what this movie is, in regards to a remake!
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Remaking Halloween was a terrible idea because the original was fantastic in its own right. Remaking F13 is a different story. The problem with the F13 series is that it took an idea that had a lot of potential and never did anything flashy or coherent with it. The original F13 is not what one would call a masterpiece in any sense of the word. It seems like they are simply doing what fans of the series have been wishing they'd do for a while: take the main character seriously. The closest they came in the previous franchise was the Duke character from JGTH. But that was also the movie that turned Jason into a snake. Some movies are too good to be remade. Some aren't. F13 is one of the few cases where a remake might actually be warranted.
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Woo, yeah! Rape a legacy! Woo, yeah! Shit all over a classic horror film! Woo Yeah, all you stupid mother fuckers are going to pay $12 a pop to sit through this polished turd! I like what Michael Bay did with the whole transformers movie, but he can seriously eat a dick sand which for attaching his name to this. I can't wait to see how shitty the trailers to Child's Play, and the birds are going to be. Get new ideas Hollywood! Or buy them, I'll sell you a few of mine if you're running out... Fuck.
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RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH
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The Ring is NOT a good remake. It's a festering turd of a film. The Departed is not a good remake either. What makes a remake good (rather than a different interpretation of the same source material- Scarface is a remake, the Thing and The Fly are different interpretations) is respect for the original, understanding of what made the original good (and I mean of what made it actually good, not what some focus group following hack thought made it good), and a dash of imagination. Good remakes add to the original without spoiling it, can stand next to the original without embarrassment, actually resemble the original and, above all else, respect what they are following. Their aren't actually that many examples, but off the top of my head- Scarface, The Thomas Crown Affair, Oceans 11 (even though I hate it), Manchurian Candidate leap to mind, but Horror remakes? possibly The Hills Have Eyes or Amityville. Beyond that? none, It also helps if the original was a shit film. Someone above raised the good point that TCM and This would be fine if they were just sequels, this is true. When you piss all over a beloved film and obviously make a sequel, but to cash in call it a remake and just name it the same as the original, then you have a turd. See Halloween for example.
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I read all of this bullshit pussy whining on this fucking site from you people and it's getting old. It's like none of you are really film fans, you just come one here to join the bitch brigade. Someone on here actually said they'd rather watch the original? Every single Friday The 13th movie is a bad film in so many ways. Don't get me wrong. I love them all. Friday The 13th is not a classic film because it's a masterpiece. It's a classic film because it gave birth to a monster. A monster that is now and forever will be a part of our collective conscience.Everyone knows who Jason is. Even if you've never seen a Friday The 13th movie. Just like everyone knows who Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf-Man and the Mummy are. Michael, Jason, Freddy, Pinhead, Chucky, Leatherface. These are our MONSTERS. And they will be here as long as storytelling and films exist. They will be here long after we're gone. While it's true that studios are cashing in on the Re-telling of these classic tales and some can probably be rightfully accused of having a solely monetary motive as opposed to deep creative endeavor, there is one important reason that this is a profitable thing to do that many people seem to be overlooking and that's that WE WANT TO PAY for this stuff!! WE CHOSE TO. And it's because these Heroes and Villains are part of us. We are witnessing the natural evolution of popular modern mythology and it's amazing. What if nobody ever made a vampire film since Nosferatu or Dracula? What? No "Lost Boys" or "From Dusk Till Dawn" or "Fracis Ford Coppola's Dracula"? Should The Wolf-Man's creativity and originality have been considered so sacred that we never got to see "An American Werewolf In London" or mother fuckin' "Dog Soilder's"??!!! That's absurd!!! Plus it's Friday The Fucking 13th!! How could it get any worse than the original. It's gonna be cool. I just wish Kevin Bacon we're in it!!!! Oh and quit you're bitching about Rob Zombie's "Halloween" too. He told it his way and it was a good movie that you can tell was given a lot of thought and hard work. You asshole would've complained no matter what.
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listen to the crowds at any event, be it the opening of a new packet of bog roll and you yanks whoop it up somit fucking desperate, that looked like complete shite
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...you may shout loudly but your words are useless. So you think this is popular modern mythology evolving? That's pure horseshit. This is mythology devolving as Friday 13th is, above all, an American phenomenon. Nobody I work with knows who Jason Vorhees is - the only reason he resonates vaguely anymore is because of the opening scene in the first 'Scream' film, but that's now seen as old and tired. The studios put these films out as an echo of one moment in the past, and each time the echoes are getting quieter and quieter. Modern monsters? Again, you cite Frankenstein and make the classic fallacy. Most people think that Frankenstein is the creature, whereas Shelley only ever refers to the monster as 'creature', 'devil', 'daemon' and any other quasi-religious Satanic moniker. Frankenstein is Victor and (though he is a 'monster') modern mythology has tossed him to one side and if that's what your modern mythology does then it can stick its head up its arse and fuck off while it's doing it. This is filmmaking as business, not filmmaking as art, and that is plain wrong. This has no imagination, no originality and diverts studio money from creativity.
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wellsaid. I agree with you 100%, where as Lost Jarv lost me when he said The Departed wasn't a good remake! Granted, i have not seen the original, but damn son. The Departed kicked booty. As for the remake of Friday the 13th. Everybody here seems to be judging it from 30 seconds worth of screen time. Give it a rest. Wait until it is released, in your local cinematech and you've seen the sucker with your own two bo peeps. if then, you scream GARBAGE!!! Then so be it, at least then you'll have reason. I doubt it'll be to everyones tastes. But the franchise has it's fans, who are loyal. So, give the sucker a chance. Maybe Jason will surprise you.
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Wish you would, then we wouldn't have to listen to that drivel. So your small select group of pompous friends have never heard of Jason. So what? Don't decree that as the cry of the populous. Pop Tart. And thankyou for clarifying the whole Frankenstein thing. Douche!
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it will rule
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the tagline, and figured as much, but I didn't read any of the comments of anyone because I was so pissed. This movie (the original part 2 that is) is near and dear to me as it was filmed in the town I grew up. Funny how the girls never went skinny dipping when I was at the beach.
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I guess that's what having absolutely zero expectation will do for you. I should try it more often.
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The Departed is not a good remake and barely even qualifies as a good film. You said yourself that you hadn't seen the original. Therefore you can't judge. If you think it's a good film, fine. I disagree. But it isn't a good remake. Josh. You're either 12 or a plant. This is the typical photosynthesised cry of the studio whore "give it a chance, pay to see it......." You are right though, Jason is the phenomenon and as I said, I wouldn't give a shit if it was just another sequel. But it isn't. It's a marketing whore, focus group cash in. I like 1, 2, 3 and X(although I will admit they're flawed), By the way Flags, everyone I know knows who Jason is. Halloween was painfully shit by the way.
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Your vampire comparison is horseshit. The Vampire myth predates dracula and is independant to it. Same goes for werewolves> As I said- you're either 12 or a plant.
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Select group of pompous friends? I never referred to them as 'friends', so read a little more closely. I said people I work with and as an educator I work with a lot of young people and none of them...and I mean none...had heard of Jason Vorhees when I asked throughout the day. I asked well over 200 young people, male & female, so I think that's pretty fucking representative. Friday 13th resonates as a date due to low-level superstition, but the films raise not one moment of recognition because of their lack of integrity, more than anything else. And you dislike clarification? Fair enough. Ignorance is bliss and you must be one happy guy.
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Is that they always remake films that worked in the first place. That’s why nearly all remakes cannot live up to the original. Why don't they remake films that had a good idea/story, but didn't work or could be better? There's plenty of those. Good examples are 3:10 to Yuma, The Fly and True Lies. All great remakes which re-interpreted or expanded upon the source material. As was proven, a remake such as Psycho is pointless. A remake of a foreign language film I can understand, but don’t agree with, unless it’s for those same reasons. One of my favourite films is a French film called La Apartment. They remade that as Wicker Park, which I haven’t seen, and don’t plan on seeing. I also saw Tell No One, which is a French film based on an American book. That was really good, and there is no need for an English language remake, but I’m waiting for that announcement any day. I liked The Departed and The Hills have Eyes, but I haven’t seen the originals (I plan on watching Infernal Affairs asap), so I can only say they are good films. But the reason remakes of 50's-80's horror films are getting made is because they are cheap to make, they make ok money upon release then make big bucks on dvd. They will continue to be made as long as they make money. Over and Out.
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I assure you, some yanks do not "whoop and holler" at everything. Those are just the dumber, gayer, and typically younger members of our population. Sadly, kids and young people have been hyper-socialized by american media about what to like, how to like it, and how to behave in response to it.
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Fine film - but perfect it sure as fuck ain't. Watch the fat bastard who plays the Jack Nicholson role - screaming and over-emoting - particularly in the eating in the interrogation room scene. And, oh look, its yet another Hong Kong movie with the "look - its TRAGIC - let me hammer it home with agonized looks and long, mopey stares ... TRAGIC" theme of "I'm cop - you're criminal - we live by codes of honor - we respect each other - but fate forces me to kill you." That was the - what - 45th Hker that had that trite element. And please - that ending flashback "Who admires Cadet Whateverhisnamewas?" "I do" Cheeeese. Ripe, smelly, over-orchestrated, soft-fuzzy-lens cheeeese.
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you lost me at Rob Zombie's Halloween was good. For that, I should just say "fuck you!" and move on. But, sadly, you do have a point (until the Halloween thing.) Yes, posters do like bitching about everything (that's part of the fun) but sometimes they make valid points. Of course there will be remakes. But, they won't all be good. Rob Zombie's "reimagining" was a pile of shit and somewhere deep down even he knows it. That didn't mean it had to be bad. I think the real problem is that these movies aren't "ours" anymore. For everyone who spent all of summer camp afraid they were gonna be killed at night while trying to sneak to the girls' cabin, the franchise has simply moved on. We can still kinda relate to the kids in the originals. We can't relate to the text-messaging, red bull-drinking, white suburbanite teen spouting rap slang in the new ones. That's my half-baked theory, anyway.
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we whoop and holler because there's usually someone getting us excited and telling us to yell and clap and make a lot of noise for the telly. WHOO! Spring break! WHOO!
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I just seem to recall reading Mr. Profit's comments on other movies, defending them against all criticism. Plus, um, how exactly did parts 2 3 and 4 all take place within the same week? That's a joke, right?
This movie does seem to be more like part 2 than part 1, if that was mommy's head in the clip. Nispel did the Chainsaw remake, right? If so, bad news, because that one sucked.
The lightning was part 6, and I would say that was the single worst movie in the series, although Manhattan was also quite dreadful. 1, 2, 4 are actually scary, 7 and Hell are fun. 5 is bad in a good way. X is almost bad in a good way, but ultimately is just bad. -
Even though I don't understand the need for a remake when the "old school continuity" Jason Vs Freddy movie was a success not that long ago, the new clip wasn't that bad. At least Friday The 13th, while I enjoy the series, is not a classic like TCM, Halloween, or The Day The Earth Stood Still. There's also no way it can be worse than Zombie's Halloween. All the good buzz he made with The Devil's Rejects, he completely lost with the unnecessary Halloween remake(learning the origin of villains causes them to lose their mystique; just ask George Lucas). Zombie killed that franchise more than Part 6 or Busta's kung-fu.
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Dude. You need to re-appropriate your energy.
"Everyone" does know who Jason is. Even if someone didn't know "Jason Voorhes" proper, that idea or image of the hockey mask wearing killer is part of the lexicon. Just looking around at Halloween I still see tons of Jason costumes.
Bottom line as always is you don't have to see it. But this movie is not for us anyway. The original series was not for 'us' either. You think serious film fans were lining up for any of the Friday the 13th films? It's for kids and it's for fun. -
Yes, Jason's mom is the killer in F13 part 1, but little boy Jason pops out of the water and pulls the girl out of the canoe at the end. Just clarifying, Jason gets a kill in the original.
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Incorrect. Yes Jason pops of the water, but the girl survives. Remember, not only does she ask about the boy, but in Part 2, which she is in for about 2 second is where grown up Jason sticks his mommy's head in her fridge for shock value, then kills her.
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need "reimagining" the only people saying this have got to be young enough that Friday movies didn't become part of your childhood. Nothing better than sneaking into the newest Friday the 13th movie back in the 80's. Who cares if they aren't Citizen Kane? They were always fun ( well with the exception of part5) Part 6 is my fave with the iconic shot of Jason on the overturned camper ( with fire curling up ) Great kills , Horschack! I loved Jason X as it was just as fun as one could want ! Gimmer 90 minutes of wacky Jason laden mayhem and don't try to turn it into some crystal clear tons of green lighting Bay wankfest. I want grain, boobs , blood and cornball awesomeness!
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He doesn't kill the girl in the end , she was dreaming it remember? Jason begins part 2 ith tracking her down to her home and getting her there .
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Parts 2, 3, and 4 do indeed take place in the same week. 2 ends with Potato Sack Jason crawling off. 3 opens with Jason with Jason paying a visit to the couple who raise rabbits or whatever. On the tv in the background is the news report of the killings that took place in Part 2. Part 3 ends with Jason taking an axe to the head and apparently dying. Part 4 opens with the ambulance carting Jason off from the farmhouse from Part 3.
Now, there may be time gaps in there, so it's impossible to say if it's literally the same week where all three movies take place. Who really knows how much time passed between Jason escaping from the morgue and his first teenager kill in Part 4? But it's roughly the same week. It's not like years have gone by.
I have no problem with the remake. I LOVE the original 8 movies, but come on. They're crap. The characters and stories are just there to showcase the different methods Jason comes up with to dispatch teenagers. As long as the kills are good and inventive in the remake or whatever, I think this will sit comfortably on the shelf with the original 8.
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Sounds like a kids toy. You hid the machete, ax, and other implements in his butt storage compartment.
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was when he put the hot girl holograms in a sleeping bag and beat them against a rock.
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My lord. Is this the one Chud has been talking up like it is something unique?
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God the last thing we need as an ADD edited shakey cam sepia tone fucking f13. HOLY FUCK I SHOULD NOT BE A SLACKER AND GO MAKE THEM MAKE ME DIRECT. Oh and I wouldnt direct a "reimagining". I would rather fuck a razor blade.
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God the last thing we need as an ADD edited shakey cam sepia tone fucking f13. HOLY FUCK I SHOULD NOT BE A SLACKER AND GO MAKE THEM MAKE ME DIRECT. Oh and I wouldnt direct a "reimagining". I would rather fuck a razor blade.
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Pathetic.
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on the edge of a free download...
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on the edge of a free download...
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on the edge of a free download...
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