Jason Vorhees gains new life at Paramount. Time to reboot the reboot!
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brandonh83
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No.
True.
Though that IS the anime artstyle. That's Kotobukya's big seller, taking american properties and putting out figures of the characters in anime style, with mixed outcomes (Pheonix looks great, Psylocke looks fucking terrible).
Mortimer Brewster
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How the hell are they going to make a found footage version work. Its going to be pretty contrived when every character has to have some sort of video camera in order for the Friday formula to work. Found footage also will make it challenge to show off whatever creative kills it has.
I honestly feel it starts really well with the surprise kill of the annoying fat kid, but it fails at presenting the central mystery because it's not even made apparent that it's a mystery until the big reveal, and the actor who played Tommy in that one was such a complete non-entity to center your film on that the final scene falls completely flat. Nice boobs in that one, though.
Laieon
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I can't wait. Friday the 13th is my all time favorite movie series. Most of them are terrible, but they're all (outside of Jason Goes to Hell) really enjoyable to watch. Part II is my favorite in the series, and my favorite movie of all time. I didn't think the remake was all that bad either.
I'm hoping that eventually we can get a winter camp Friday like the rumors from a few years ago were talking about, I thought that would be great and a nice change.
I'm hoping that eventually we can get a winter camp Friday like the rumors from a few years ago were talking about, I thought that would be great and a nice change.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Oh for sure.
Speaking of music in the series, Jason Goes to Hell also counts among its negative accolades the worst soundtrack in the series. It's all over the damn movie and it's obnoxious as hell. Everytime someone makes the slightest movement the soundtrack feels the need to chime in dramatically.
Yeah, and then once you find out it was a mystery and it wasn't really Jason, then you move on to, "Who the fuck was Roy?"
Best boobs in the series until the reboot.
brandonh83
Banned
That would be too interesting.
PhantomZone
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I loved Jason X!!!
Excited for more Friday the 13th madness but found footage is soooooo dull.
Excited for more Friday the 13th madness but found footage is soooooo dull.
Space Runaway
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lol yeah. It's a shockingly bad soundtrack for any horror movie, really.
I'd like to suggest Paramount use this new movie as an opportunity to re-release Friday the 13th Part 3D with proper 3D release and not the red+blue anaglyph shit the dvd and bluray are stuck with.
brandonh83
Banned
Jason Goes to Hell just sucks. It's also absolutely disgusting. It's one of the grossest movies I've ever seen. I actually liked the premise with the body-jumping and the family; that could have actually been really scary.
Oddly enough, it's one of the rare entries in the series that acknowledges that these kids have parents, and that they might feel at least a bit upset when their kid gets hacked to pieces. There's fertile ground there (and something that the ANoES series did a commendable job of working with), but yeah, they really weren't interested in that other than keeping their word about Jason being dead and buried.
Until a year later, that is.
I'd rather have Hack/Slash at this point.
I need to read this.
also. what if Jason is the Found Footage? someone sticky cams him and we see everything from his 7ft view?
brandonh83
Banned
I liked the... re-thing, wasn't really a remake as it didn't remake any prior movie (I know what you mean I'm just being difficult)
My major gripe was the setting. It was at Crystal Lake but across from the camps or something like that. It lacked that campground atmosphere.
You know, I wouldn't mind seeing a bunch of people wearing Google Glasses being killed.
brandonh83
Banned
I was just thinking the same. It would be amazing.
I mean, I don't actually wish those people harm in real life, but whenever I see one, I develop a gag reflex in the same way that I do whenever I see anyone use a Segway, and I secretly hope something bad happens to them in an alternate reality. It's petty, but damn it, they're the punchable ones, not me.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I care less about found footage films still being made and more about how they are still being marketed as if they are a new idea.
No it was just pathetic and utter trash. I hated it as a kid, hate it even more as an adult. It's funny that body jumping also gives Jason back his exact same tattered clothes and mask too. I can't believe when they finished filming, they didn't watch it and go, what the fuck did we just make? A Friday the 13th movie, with crawling fetus/demons, giant wood hands from the ground, spirits, and maybe 8 minutes with actual Jason footage.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Oh my fucking god.
Found footage Friday the 13th?
.....I want to cry tears of joy, that sounds amazing.
Found footage Friday the 13th?
.....I want to cry tears of joy, that sounds amazing.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Felt the same way about God's Not Dead.
Stevetopsy
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Maybe it was just how I was brought up, but I remember Jason Goes to Hell being some sort of forbidden movie. First off, is was a Friday the 13th movie, and 2) I had to use code speak whenever I was near my parents because a cuss word was in the title (i know.. i was like 7 or 8). It had this aura about it where kids I grew up with would boast about having seen it when it came out and all that. "This is it man, it's the end. He goes to hell in this one!" Years later when I was finally old enough and had the money to rent it, I had huge expectations and needless to say they were all utterly unmet.
It did have my favorite Jason design though. I love the the swollen head look, where it seems like the mask has fused to his face.
It did have my favorite Jason design though. I love the the swollen head look, where it seems like the mask has fused to his face.
Spectral Glider
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brandonh83
Banned
Yeah you're not alone, that's pretty much the stigma it had in the early 90's. Movie felt taboo as fuck and people frequently bragged about watching it.
brandonh83
Banned
I'd rather it not be found footage but if it were actually handled well it could be great. The problem is atmosphere I think. I love the aesthetic of The Blair Witch Project because it was so grainy and the forest just worked with the overall look of the film, and the actors really brought it. I would collapse if I got a found footage Friday the 13th in that vein, but instead we'd probably just get something like Halloween Resurrection instead.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Oh man, that fucking movie. Could it have gotten any worse?
How about a movie that is a character study (not tongue in cheek) about an ostracized autistic child, who goes to a summer camp and thinks he's finally made friends... Friends who tragically (and accidentally) kill him in a practical joke gone wrong in the first half of the movie, leaving watchers upset and uncomfortable (like the tone from Boys Don't Cry).
Then have him come back as the twisted brooding adult in a mask we all know as years later in a balls out second half filled with explicit gore to rival the Evil Dead remake. Like it should teeter on the edge of NC-17 and make even Stan Winston vomit if he could. Have the audience actually question whether Jason is justified in his actions in this gruesome brutal revenge flick.
Fuck yeah... screw found footage. Modern Hollywood needs this to get its head out of its ass. Found footage has been done to death, move on.
Then have him come back as the twisted brooding adult in a mask we all know as years later in a balls out second half filled with explicit gore to rival the Evil Dead remake. Like it should teeter on the edge of NC-17 and make even Stan Winston vomit if he could. Have the audience actually question whether Jason is justified in his actions in this gruesome brutal revenge flick.
Fuck yeah... screw found footage. Modern Hollywood needs this to get its head out of its ass. Found footage has been done to death, move on.
Busta Rhymes' part could have gone to Ja Rule instead, I guess.
brandonh83
Banned
Spectral Glider
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That movie was even worse than all the Thorn bullshit.
Shadowlink
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Busta Rhymes was the man who killed the original Michael Myers.
Yeah, you're probably right. I had heard some ideas being thrown around regarding a Friday the 13th being set during the winter. I feel like that's something that could be explored effectively and will give the series a nice kick in the ass. Having Jason, who is obviously threatening, coupled with a threating environment (crystal lake is a little too "homey" sometimes) could create very effective tension. It will also expose and expand on Jason's character as a whole, we will be able to observe his survival tactics and perhaps signs of intelligence otherwise untouched. Given that its handled well, of course haha.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Busta Rhymes was the man who killed the original Michael Myers.
Trick or treat motherfucker!
indeedKano on the Phone
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Awful. That isn't Jason. The reboot sucked so bad because instead of some superhuman monster, Jason was just a redneck living underground and popping out of tunnels. We don't need to see how Jason does what he does; knowing too much completely kills what makes the character great.
brandonh83
Banned
Eh... I don't follow, that's not why it was bad at all and just because they showed that Jason moves through some underground tunnels doesn't really destroy any mystique. In the older ones no one ever really questioned how he got around because they were never these huge areas with the characters spread out too far, so I don't think that just showing him moving around in tunnels "ruins" him. He never had some kind of magic teleportation ability that added anything to his character. And he pretty much was always a redneck living in the woods. I also loved that he moved really fast (although never really did it again like in the prologue).
brandonh83
Banned
Things like this can be shot and edited pretty quickly, especially if it's found footage. Definitely not a sure sign of the quality. It's not going to be some kind of major production with a huge budget.
Kano on the Phone
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They just didn't say and didn't need to explain it. "Ok, so he's a guy that runs through tunnels" added nothing, but a dude who walks and is still always behind you is scary.
Most of original films had about as long a production schedule. It's not like their format really depends on meticulous planning.
brandonh83
Banned
I agree it didn't need explanation, but it was also meant to be Jason's lair and where he kept the girl held. That aspect wasn't anything bad to me. I just wish it felt more like a campground massacre film instead of being set in some rich asshole's house.
F0rneus
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But that IS Jason! Or rather was. He only became a supernatural creature in Jason Lives. Before he was disfigured hick (and rapist! Part 3D!) that acted and felt like the reboot Jason to a T. Dash/Brooker/White era of F13th were the series's best years. I do love all of the films to bits though (Ok not 9 and 10)
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