STUNK! It was horrible. They threw away the story and just had tons of gore. I'm all for gore, but man this movie was awful. Thank goodness I've got all the original movies!

Story? Since when have these flicks been about anything more than tits and gruesome deaths?

Oh ya, there was plenty of that. If you want to go to a movie just to have fun it's cool. My sis and I love scary movies. But it won't win any awards I guess. LOL!

I'm gonna watch the original one on DVD today.

The mother of Jason was practically wiped out of the movie altogether.

I've always had a weakness for Friday the 13th Part IV, The Final Chapter.



I've always believed that it was truly intended to be the final film, until the studio was like, 'are you fucking nuts? Resurrect him with lightening!' It was after that that they devolved from merely bad films to downright ludicrous.



ETA: I even remember the tv commercial "Because Friday, April 13th, is Jason's Unlucky Day." I was, like, 14 and had a total shit-fit. Here's the theatrical version where the announcer intones that at the end.

I've watched this, but never knew it was really the final supposedly. Now I'll have to watch this one tonight.

Worst of all the replaced the Che che che che-Cha cha cha cha creepy sound with some drum sound.

This is what I mean:

Dude, no che-che-che in the new one? That's a deal-breaker right there! Will not be seeing. I used to stalk my siblings around to that sound when I was 14.

Are any of them left? and do the police know about this?

dibs on the reward if smirk is on the most wanted list!!

LOVED IT! What a great story... totally a must see and loved the new Jason attack's theme... 10 boners ( <--- stole that))

Despite what I said earlier, we went last night. Basically the intent was to go to Slumdog. Firstly though, we went to the local Mexican eatery where, two giant beers and one small beer on my part, and three Margarita's on Ms. Smirks part put a new spin on the evening. This required a call to the teen child to act as designated driver - (wow, its great she got her driver's license, although I'm not sure that was the intent of the privilege) - who then drove us to the theatre and talked at least myself into Watchmen. However, Ms. Smirk, smart bitch, got tickets to the 9PM showing but our current time was 9:05PM, no biggie, except of course being the first Friday the biggest movie so far of 2009 opened, there were not three seats together as the previews were showing.

Oh well, says Mrs. Smirk, I guess its the award-winning Slumdog for us, seeing as it starts in 10 minutes. That was her intent all along.

So a four minute argument in the lobby about going in half-buzzed to see the BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR and how in this semi-inebriated state we might not give it the full attention it deserves, but of course, we could give Friday the 13th the full attention it deserves. Hell, a person in a coma could give it the attention it deserves which is pretty much how Mrs. Smirk saw it, falling into a deep sleep about 20 minutes in and only stirring whenever the girl in Jason's hideout did her "help me!" bit a couple of times a'la the senator's daughter in Silence of the Lambs - and that's how I ended up seeing it.

Massive disappointment to say the least. After the remakes of Texas Chainsaw and Hills Have Eyes, and Halloween not to mention the decent buzz around Blood Valentine, I figured it would at least be fun, but not so. It was actually worse than any of the originals. I do think the series could use a reboot if done correctly, but this certainly wasn't it. Not a single truly memorable death, too much sex (which don't get me wrong, love sex, but this was rote, by the numbers, cardboard character sex - at least throw some irony in there or something) - Maybe 10 years from now they can try again - pretend this one never happened - sorta like the Hulk. (Although, I never thought Ang Lee's take on Hulk was that bad, just didn't capture the imagination like it should have.)