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Tristan
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 8:38pm
Do you even consider yourself a horror fan?
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Shakes
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 8:45pm
me? yeah, why?
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Nirrad
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 8:45pm
Yeah seriously. Better than a lot of the F13 shit? Holy piss! I don't even know what to say.
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Shakes
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 8:48pm
yeah, man, I'm a huge fan of F13 and horror films in general. a lot of it is garbage. don't sell yourself short, dude. don't get all gung-ho and shout blasphemy because my opinion differs from yours.
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Tristan
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 9:29pm
I could care less what people thought about this film, but I'd love to know which F13 originals you think this is better than. Because I think I speak for everyone when I say that out of the 11 (now 12) movies, there's maybe 2 or 3 that don't quite stand up with the rest, and this is certainly one of them. When a horror franchise spanning almost 30 years manages to pull of a 75% success rate, it must be doing something right.
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grain of sand
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 10:07pm
Damn, yeah, I enjoyed it for what it was. I thought the \"where are you gun?\" was funny as hell.
I actually wish Jason WAS a pot dealer, it would have made this mess a lot more fun, but hey..
4/10? that screwdriver kill took Jason like 30 seconds.
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Nirrad
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Posted: February 17, 2009 at 11:49pm
I'm not going to lie to you, I've said things exactly like \"Where are you (insert here)\" so many times. Like batteries, remote (on a number of occasions), guitar pick...etc. So when he said that I was like \"yeah man, I know how you feel.\"
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Chad
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 2:04am
Same thing that the review said. Wretched, disgusting, and insulting to the franchise. We're a full seven weeks into 2009, and we've already got our flop of the year. 0/10.
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bluemeanie
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 10:26am
Having seen all the F13 films more times than I can count verbally without losing my voice, there is not a single one of those films that is worse than the remake. Let me add to that -- \"Jason X\" is better than the remake. Jason Vorhees in fucking space is more entertaining that this waste of time. IN FUCKING SPACE!
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Crispy
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 10:48am
Whether or not you enjoyed or hated the remake is all well and good, but I find it hard to believe you found Jason Goes to Hell better than this. How anyone thought this that bullshit was a good idea, I'll never understand. And for the record, Jason X was fun as hell. :P
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Anthony Spadaccini
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 11:25am
I realize that the extended pre-credits sequence isn't a novel idea. That wasn't my point.
My point was that I have never seen a film's title appear at the end of the 1st Act before. It just struck me as slightly odd.
I've done the same thing (ask an inanimate object where it is) - however, it just didn't belong in the movie.
Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. Just because an individual likes or dislikes this movie doesn't necessarily mean that he/she is or isn't a real horror fan.
FYI - Jason X was fun in a guilty pleasure sort of way. It was so ridiculous that you couldn't possibly take it seriously. I took it as more of a horror comedy than anything else.
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bluemeanie
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 12:10pm
For me, a F13 film gets the highest marks for the quality of the killers therein. That is why I hated the remake. Only one kill was worth a damn and that was the aforementioned dock kill. \"Jason X\" had the head freeze kill and the sleeping bags/giggling girls kill. Every \"Jason Goes to Hell\" had more inventive kills. The kills are what make a F13 movie a F13 movie. So, if you're going to have more than one kill where Jason stabs someone in the head or neck or chest, it needs to have some kind of fun twist.
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Crispy
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 12:37pm
*nods* That's a solid reason; but no love for the sleeping bag kill? I'll concede that it wasn't very Jason-y, but at least it was different.
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bluemeanie
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 1:43pm
I guess I don't like the idea that Jason had to think about that sleeping bag kill. His murders were always kind of improvisational, spur of the moment kills. That one seemed too orchestrated and too thought out for Jason.
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Anthony Spadaccini
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 2:33pm
I saw a few subtle hints that the story was influenced by the \"torture porn\" subgenre (sleeping bag, the girl being held captive).
You're right - it didn't seem a lot like Jason Voorhees.
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Shakes
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 3:32pm
well let's see what we got here. new blood, goes to hell, jason X...lol? is it even necessary to provide a full-length explanation? some real gems there, bub! i'm willing to bet you walked in there expecting it to be shit (like all of us), then guess what?
well that was a surprise..and those 3 that i mentioned, are really the movies I was initially referring to. not exactly the originals. the point i'm making is i liked it better than some of the F13's and the shitty horror movies that are made today. so i liked it, you didn't. there's no problem.
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Crispy
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 6:24pm
Yeah, this was definitely more of a 'thinking killer'. I think that's the biggest reason I liked this more than everyone else; like I said before, I separated this from the rest of the series long ago. As soon as I saw that we had a running Jason I realized a lot of \"rules\" were going to be rewritten and went in treating this like a brand new franchise. Obviously, as a remake it'd ideally have some consistency, but we all know that this is very rarely the case.
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Shakes
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Posted: February 18, 2009 at 7:11pm
yeah. categorically, it can (and probably should) easily be erased within the series just like with Jason X etc... and really, was anybody on the face of the planet expecting this to be some top number? of course not, at least, no one should have. if you expected anything other than what it is, then you were doomed in the first place.
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Ginose
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Posted: February 19, 2009 at 8:26pm
I watched the first teaser as well as the theatrical trailer and told myself that there was hope. The \"TCM\" remake was decent (though felt more like sequel than a remake), so, if theis one followed appropriately then it could be a great entry into the \"Friday the 13th\" franchise. The later two trailers watered my enthusiasm greatly... but, hey, if the gore was good then there was something to look forward to... I told myself that there was NO WAY this could be any worse than \"Jason Goes to Hell\"...
Yup, went and saw it opening night with hopes of reviewing it (and the blessing of my lady divine... had planned to spend the night with her).
Well, thanks for writing my review for me, Tristan... with the exception of the \"Blue Velvet\" reference at the begining this was a test of endurance.
0.1/10 for makign me smile hopefully at the beer crack...
...I wish Jason was the pot-dealer... probablly would have fit the tone better...
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Shakes
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Posted: February 25, 2009 at 6:03pm
first off, the TCM remake was godawful. what trash. and this F13, if we should dare to call it that, was a hell of a lot more entertaining (funny, freaky, etc) than \"jason goes to hell,\" which was a complete kick in the balls, and a pathetic attempt. you made my day, bra', cuz that film has absolutely nothin goin for it, and it was just plain RETARDED in every single way. you can do better than that. shit, where's the fucking 211??? god bless.
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