Friday the 13th (2009)

[Canelek]

Saw this last Friday, per tradition--I do love me some 80s slasher flicks. Shit got lost in translation during the dreary 90s with crap such as Scream and I know what you did in blah blah....

This was an enjoyable "revisioning" by the fokls that brought us the "remake" of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Solid opening sequence, imo. Good scenery and a decent visceral feel to the whole thing. Of course, it is just what it is, so please do not go into this with anything but a nostalgic feeling and low expectations.

However, I did find this quite enjoyable! Good pace, cheesy characters and some fun comic relief. Also, the film did indeed pay respects to the original, from start to finish.

6/10.

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Sprinter Jason. Don't fuck with his weed. Kidnapper, wtf?

[Fairweather Pure]

I generally enjoy the remakes.

There are shot by shot recreations, like Psycho and The Omen. These, I don't get so much but enjoy them none the less.

Then you have updates/modernizations, like The Blob, The Thing, or Dawn of the Dead which seek to modernize thier distant film counterparts. These are probbaly my favorite of the remakes and typically pull it off rather well.

You also have the reboots, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Hills Have Eyes, ect. I hear that Hellraiser and Nightmare on Elmstreet reboots are in currently in the works. Unfortuntely, a lot of these fall far short of thier source material, but a fan can still enjoy them as long as they check the fanboi at the door. I thought the Halloween remake was great, but the Texas Chainsaw Massacre took all the subtle scares from the first and went completely overboard. I still thought it was decent though. Most of these remakes came after the rise of Saw, so torture porn rules the screen time more than I care to see. I like being scared, not grossed out. Well, grossed out is also good I guess, but not when that is the focus of the entire movie.

Oh, I almost forgot foreign remakes, like The Ring, The Grudge, or The Uninvited. These are a mixed bag as well, but I still dig em!

I'll buy Friday the 13th when it comes out on DVD.

[Canelek]

no way dude see this on the big screen! worth it

[Fairweather Pure]

I hope to be rocking a 72 inch screen by the time it is released on DVD. That is my big screen!

[Canelek]

Fair enough, but I am more prone to seeing F13 movies (remake or not) in theater out of a very old habit. My 6/10 is a lower rating than I wanted to give it, but it really was an enjoyable film. I checked my fanboi at the door also...there were just a couple glaring things, but all else was bitchin'.

Oh, and it did do a nice homage to the original, as was expected.

[Bubba Grizz]

Were there boobies?

[Canelek]

Were there boobies?

well yeah!

[Soreali]

Were there boobies?

well yeah!

Cant have F13 without senseless nudity! they're the ones that get it first!!

[Kaldaur]

Then you have updates/modernizations, like The Blob, The Thing, or Dawn of the Dead which seek to modernize thier distant film counterparts. These are probbaly my favorite of the remakes and typically pull it off rather well.

Dawn of the Dead was the best comedy in the past ten years. I went to a packed theater to see it, and when the guy in the beginning got his throat chewed off by the girl, a friend of mine laughed, and from there it was downhill. The whole audience was shouting out one-liners every ten seconds.

[Canelek]

They should have called that movie 'Mall of the Dead' or something. It didn't even touch Romero's work. That said, I did enjoy that movie.

[Fairweather Pure]

I thought the remake was better!

[Soreali]

So I finally caught this movie this weekend and I must say, for a Jason movie, I was rather impressed for a remake. It stayed true to the jason form.

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Jason running? Wtf? And he's fast too! And whats with the killing in the daytime? He doesnt do that! And I dont know who Willa Ford is, but I do now