I’m sure everyone and their mother has either a) seen it b)wrote about or c) read about it, so this is just my short opinion on the remake.
I love Jason. I can’t say I love all of his movies, but I love the “character”.
And every actor that portrays him brings something different to the table.
My personal favorites are Ted White (4), C. J. Graham (6) and, of course, Kane Hodder (7 - X).
I was ready to hate Ken Kirzinger in Freddy vs. Jason, because I’d gotten so used to Kane (the only person, so far, to play the character more than once). But, after seeing the movie, I liked his interpretation of the retarded zombie psychopath.
So the remake/reboot/still a fucking sequel (in disguise) had to go and cast someone ELSE in the role. Derek Mears.
So, the movie gives us a quick and bloodless recap of what happened with Momma Voorhees right in the credits, so we don’t have to worry about wasting time with her.
I cringed as the “Produced by Michael Bay” flashed on screen , then relaxed and thought "C’mon. Wow the fuck out of me. You’ve got a budget, dammit. Make this the ultimate fucking Jason movie.”
And the movie, proper, began.
Quick re-cap: Kids go looking for a secret pot field and are killed by sack-head Jason. New group arrives 6 weeks later to party in a parent’s cabin, near the same area. And there’s a dude looking for his sister (from the first group). Jason kills people and finds a hockey mask and likes that better than a sack.
They’ve condensed 1-4 into one movie. That’s a great idea!
They had very few memorable kills. That’s just fucking stupid!
It was cut so quick that, sometimes, you couldn’t tell what just happened. That’s unforgivable!
Jason was on screen so little, that it felt like he was only in about 20 minutes of the film. That’s fucking retarded.
And I very much dislike Derek Mears portrayal of Jason.
Sure he was fast and kinda vicious, but also boring to watch.
I paid money to watch Jason be a bad-ass mother-fucker and kill people in ingenious ways.
One of my friends said “But they’re going back to the basics of the originals.”
Dude, in the first one, Kevin Bacon got an arrow pushed through the bottom of his bunk and through his throat. You remember shit like that.
As I said before, there are a few memorable kills. The rest are bland and basic. Not very F-13, at all.
So, it was shiny and very Hollywood. The blood was minimal. Jason was boring and barely in the movie and Nix was not a happy camper (pun intended).
Of course, I’ll buy it, when it comes out UNRATED! As it is sure to be.
But I just went home and watched Part 7. Jason vs. Carrie.
