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Jason Vorhees more like Jason Vorplease do something loving interesting. All the motherfucker does is grab people from behind and stab them in the neck that is just about every kill. I've watched Friday the 13th parts 1-4 and am amazed by how goddamn boring it is to watch Jason kill these vapid interchangeable teens. I'm still planning to watch through a few more to see if ridiculous poo poo ever actually happens in these movies but it's astounding how I'm either so desensitized to violence or just how plodding the pacing of these movies are to modern day eyes that I don't really care too much when Jason shoves a knife through someone's throat while they're lying on a bed for the umpteenth time. When do I get to the good stuff of Jason smashing people to death in sleeping bags because that's what I paid money for.
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The pacing of films really changed in the 90s. I think the original Texas Chainsaw is a very effective horror film. Most people I talk to that didn't grow up with films from the 70's and 80's found it too boring to watch to finish. I also think society got collective a.d.d. about 15-20 years ago, I saw mad max 2 weeks ago and there's like 30-45 seconds of silence after a big action sequence and you could feel the theater full of adult babies hoping some keys got jingled real fast cause God forbid there's two minutes in a film where poo poo isn't 3d flying at your face all extreme and poo poo. Cyberball 2072 fucked around with this message at 07:50 on May 27, 2015 |
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I haven't seen the original TCM, but a movie similar to it and I would think the first Friday, Halloween, still seems incredible. There's this sense of tensity and fear that still works in the original Halloween whereas the original Fridays to me just come off as plodding and boring.
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# ? May 27, 2015 07:53 |
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# ? May 27, 2015 07:57 |
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After a few minutes of thought despite everything I typed up, you aren't wrong OP, most of the Friday 13 movies are boring slasher fad cash-ins. I don't think anyone holds up those first few for merits other than "launched an iconic series"
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but jason didn't even kill anybody in first one.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:15 |
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What I love most about Friday the 13th is that it's such a grab-bag of iconography without a truly great movie to its name. I had a dude who unironically tried to convince me that The Final Friday was somehow some unsung piece of great cinema. Dude had bad taste.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:15 |
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mind the walrus posted:What I love most about Friday the 13th is that it's such a grab-bag of iconography without a truly great movie to its name. Part 4 was probably the best of the series. It's pure slasher schlock and I love the gently caress out of it. It's not a great cinema, though. That guy was a retard.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:20 |
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Jason X is unironically my favourite Friday the 13th movie and I genuinely consider it a good film because it is a piss-taking satire of it's own series.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:30 |
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doctor 7 posted:Jason X is unironically my favourite Friday the 13th movie and I genuinely consider it a good film because it is a piss-taking satire of it's own series. Many good tits were seen in the dark of space.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:31 |
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doctor 7 posted:Jason X is unironically my favourite Friday the 13th movie and I genuinely consider it a good film because it is a piss-taking satire of it's own series.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:31 |
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Im more of a Jason Goes to Hell guy but I willingly admit I havent seen that film since I was a teen and my opinion of it may not hold up.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:38 |
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I like how Jason's design in Jason X looks like Lord Zedd made love to Krang's robo-body.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:39 |
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Cyberball 2072 posted:Im more of a Jason Goes to Hell guy but I willingly admit I havent seen that film since I was a teen and my opinion of it may not hold up. It doesn't. And we all know how well that went.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:40 |
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one night when i was like 7, my friend and I watched jason and the puppet master. jason was chump poo poo but the puppet master ruined my life that poo poo was scary as hell. watching the trailer for it now gives me literal PTSD flashbacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soyYhEDDzv4
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:40 |
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The first Puppet Master legit rules. One of my favorite horror films and one of the few films worth a poo poo that Full Moon ever made.
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:43 |
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its a shame that a legitimate classic like the original tcm is lumped in with the slasher craze of the 80s/90s. its closer to psycho than ft13th
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# ? May 27, 2015 08:47 |
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Should have said, "Jason Voorhees? More like... Jason BORES ME!"
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:10 |
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You blew it, OP.
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:10 |
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Dead Precedents posted:It doesn't. I actually liked Freddy vs Jason because while it's really terrible it did deliver where it counted most, and wisely shunted Jason off to the background as more of a nuisance and let the Freddy stuff take center stage because face it there really isn't a whole lot to loving draw on in the Jason department. Dead Precedents posted:Part 4 was probably the best of the series. It's pure slasher schlock and I love the gently caress out of it. It's not a great cinema, though. That guy was a retard. I thought the conceit of having the cops trap and shoot Jason at the beginning was wise and something the series should had done at like part 3, and expedite the supernatural aspects of the character, but the whole body-swapping thing was lame as fuuuuuuuuck.
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mind the walrus posted:I thought the conceit of having the cops trap and shoot Jason at the beginning was wise and something the series should had done at like part 3, and expedite the supernatural aspects of the character, but the whole body-swapping thing was lame as fuuuuuuuuck. Yep. Let's bring Jason back for the last 10 minutes and before that it's people eating hearts. The gently caress.
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# ? May 27, 2015 09:39 |
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Dead Precedents posted:Part 4 was probably the best of the series. It's pure slasher schlock and I love the gently caress out of it. It's not a great cinema, though. That guy was a retard. Is that the one with wheelchair guy getting owned and Crispin Glover dancing? If so that is a good one.
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:23 |
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To answer the OP's question: skip part 5, because the ridiculous stuff starts with part 6. Zombie Jason = best Jason.
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:36 |
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I have some nostalgia for Friday the 13th, but there are a ton of horror movies I'd rather watch first now that I'm not 12 and seeing boobs isn't a reason to watch a movie. 4 is awesome because it's pure camp.Cyberball 2072 posted:The pacing of films really changed in the 90s. I think the original Texas Chainsaw is a very effective horror film. Most people I talk to that didn't grow up with films from the 70's and 80's found it too boring to watch to finish. I'm going to sort of disagree just on the grounds that a bad/mediocre horror film is a special kind of excruciating boredom. That said, anyone who says that about Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an idiot. On your second point, I think you're projecting.
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# ? May 27, 2015 10:40 |
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Three, four, and six are good. Nine is alright, just kind of a product of its time. X is bonkers. Seven was kind of lousy if I remember right. Five and eight are basically the worst. One and two are like the classic ones so even though they're not that great they get a pass. I dunno if they ever released three in its original 3D (red and blue glasses, not modern 3D) format but if they ever did as like a DVD feature or something, you should check it out. It's real hokey, though, like on the level where you'd swear it's a parody if you didn't know better.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:09 |
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Jason has the worst tunnel vision. in part VIII: Jason takes Manhattan he walks past ton of people who could kill, but doesn't because he's so focused on those 2 people who made it off the boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUsLgArC48o I love these stupid movies though.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:12 |
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i know ive seen several friday the 13ths but the only image in my mind of them that I retain is Jason facing off with a boxer and punching his head clean off
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:13 |
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Six was probably the best of the series.Zzulu posted:i know ive seen several friday the 13ths but the only image in my mind of them that I retain is Jason facing off with a boxer and punching his head clean off That's in eight and while eight was lousy (Jason Takes Manhattan more like Jason Spends Hours On A Boring rear end Boat and Ten Minutes in Manhattan), that scene, the scene where he slamdunks the old dude in the toxic waste barrel, and the ending in the sewer were definitely highlights. burritolingus fucked around with this message at 11:16 on May 27, 2015 |
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op is right op is tight
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:16 |
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:19 |
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Jason Lives is the best one.
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:39 |
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Five is hilarious and great and anyone who doesn't like it takes their murder movie canon too seriously
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# ? May 27, 2015 11:52 |
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pretty soft girl posted:Five is hilarious and great and anyone who doesn't like it takes their murder movie canon too seriously Really? It had a couple good kills, but I was always really bored while watching it.
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# ? May 27, 2015 12:10 |
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It has an amazing supporting cast that is far more memorable than the slobs most slasher give us. between fat goon chocoholic who gets axe murdered, weaselly mustached emt driver cokehead, goth girl dancing the robot, two backwoods rednecks hurling verbal abuse at each other, trailerpark leather jericurl guy singing on the toilet, and Tommy Jarvis kung fu master I barely even care that the killer is a boring sadsack
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# ? May 27, 2015 13:09 |
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This thread made me want to see The Frighteners again.
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# ? May 27, 2015 15:02 |
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The best thing about the Friday the 13th series was either figuring out how to keep your parents from figuring out what you and your friends were planning on watching that weekend or actually managing to sneak a copy from someone without them knowing.
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# ? May 27, 2015 15:32 |
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Rex Deckard posted:Is that the one with wheelchair guy getting owned and Crispin Glover dancing? If so that is a good one. Ya god drat right he's dancing in it. burritolingus posted:I dunno if they ever released three in its original 3D (red and blue glasses, not modern 3D) format but if they ever did as like a DVD feature or something, you should check it out. It's real hokey, though, like on the level where you'd swear it's a parody if you didn't know better. And it's awesome
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# ? May 28, 2015 03:21 |
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Came looking for this. Was not let down.
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# ? May 28, 2015 03:33 |
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Jason x also had "Gonna take more than a poke in the ribs to take an old dog like me down." -stab "Yup, that'll do it."
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# ? May 28, 2015 03:34 |
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You stopped right before the best one, dipshit. Part V has retards, rednecks and a topless redhead.
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