Comments on: Friday The 13th Review

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:56:02 +0000

I watched this the other night & I have to say I enjoyed it – It did exactly what a Friday film should do! Homicidal maniac kills lots of people that should die, plus the exception that shouldn’t but does anyway.Leave your brain at the door and enjoy the gore :=)
Granted the missing sister storylie was a bit much,but lets face it, I wasn’t expecting Macbeth.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:06:43 +0000

At first i could not wait for this movie to come out but when it did i was sadly disapointed. My friends said it was good. I guess i can never trust them again. The old ones were much better. This movie really did not have a good story with it. It’s the same old same old, teenagers go out to the woods, do bad things then get killed for it. They just need to think more mix it up. It was not even really gory. I give it a four and thats being nice.

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:09:13 +0000

I just bought the dvd and I kinda liked it. it’s not great, it’s not an oscar nominee, but then again, it’s a friggin’ slasher flick. does it need to be?
I personally think that the kills were pretty creative and the movie did honor to the other Friday films. I liked how they really did something new with Jason. if I want to see the old Jason, I’ll just watch the other films. this wasn’t a remake, this was like a reboost or whatever. this wasn’t supposed to be exactly like the other films. so i think they did a great job. I wasn’t expecting to see characterdevelopment or anything, I wanted to see Jason killing pretty, annoying people. and I got what i asked. why should they make characters all deep and stuff, when they die anyway. but Aaron Yoo was funny and I liked that.
but there were some downs for me. even though I love Jared Padalecki, his story line was a bit much. SPOILER! and why did Jason left Whitney alive and kidnap her? yeah, it’s never done before, but we wanted to see killing, not brother-sister-happy-ending
but otherwise, I think the movie was pretty good. I’d watch it again

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By: SIN187UM

SIN187UM — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:40:41 +0000

Saw the movie on Sunday the 15th (work). I have to agree with others who question the integrity and lack of supernatural elements. I have to say this film could of been so much better if they would have kept to the supernatural element, which they threw back in at the last scene of the movie. It was also boring the way the deaths were in acted, I mean come on Friday the 13th with Jason Voorhees was all about the dang u got messed/comedic kills. Hopefully the unrated DVD will be better than the rated version, but overall not too bad.

By: Christopher R. Mohr Sr.

Christopher R. Mohr Sr. — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:59:12 +0000

I enjoy a well made horror film as well as anyone, but most are completely illogical and quite a few are downright stupid. To act of expending time and energy commenting on the lack of logic and holes in the plot of such a film baffles the hell out of me. To do this with a quality film makes sense, but to try and make sense of something that starts out at birth as fantasy and unbelieveability seems kinda dumb and a complete waste of time, does it not?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:19:48 +0000

Vic,

I saw this for the first time last night. While it was a descent horror movie I felt the ending was a little too out of control. Spoiler Warning!! I know that the end of slasher films like Friday the 13th are supposed to always have one last come back from the killer but the fact that the main characters in this film would probably had to disassemble the entire wood chipper to get Jason’s body and the chain his neck/head were attached to out of it and they felt the need to bring along his mask and a token of his mother along with to drop him in the water was just too much for me.

By: mopar

mopar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:58:57 +0000

i went to see this movie with high hopes. maybe that was my problem, but this one is the worst remake i’ve seen. rob zombie should have done it, Halloween was great! my problems with this:
1. friday the 13th is not a comedy. there were way to many laughs.
2. this is a slasher flick. where were the blood n guts?? sure there was some blood, but there should have been lots more. and i dont remember seeing any grusome seens with guts all over the place. those 2 things are most important in a slasher film, IMHO.
3. jason doesnt run. period. sure i can understand, who hasnt complained about him catching up to people who run away from him. but thats jason. he has the big, powerfull, fully in control style walk.
4. this should have been a remake of the first movie. retell the origins of jason. there was not much of a back story at all. ok, so the guy tells the back story durring the camp fire scene. for a person who has never watched the originals, how much can they understand that little story? for a better idea of what i’m trying to get at, just look at halloween. the rob zombie version explained the origins of michael meyers very well, and did an excellent job with the present day part. they could have easily worked this movie that way too.
5. the mask. why was an old, beat up looking hockey mask, found in the attic of a hillbilly?? i did not get the impression that he even knew what hockey is!
6. jason is smart? he has never needed a trip wire to alert him to someones pressance. tunnels? he had to dig them himself, why would a campground have them? and to be able to dig them around the woods, he has to have mapping skills. ive never felt that jason was smart from watching the originals (that i can remember).
8. jason lived in a shack in the woods, not one of the huts (or bunkers, or whatever they’re called) in the campground. by the way, that sure looked like a house to me..

what i did like about the movie.. the sleeping bag death scene was pretty cool. i did like that one. although the girl should have been burnt alittle more. jason did look like jason. that was a plus. and the nudity was good.. lol but thats about it i think. all in all, i would like my 12 bucks back please.

By: david

david — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:52:55 +0000

I guess, to me, I was expecting a little more background.For those young folks who might have never seen a friday film, this was probably a good one, but for me, there was nothing new. I left the movie wanting thoses two hours of my life back.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:56:42 +0000

I read alot of negative comments about the movie, series and similar remakes on this site…and I say, forget you.

Lack of substance? Yes.
Lack of Plot? Sure.
Poor directing? Maybe.

Oh well boys and girls, guess what, you went to see the movie as well which is what the production staff and crew wanted you to do, so they have obviously accomplished there goal now didn’t they. Are there alot of cheesy and over the top moments in the Friday saga, I say yes there most certainly are, but I take each and every movie for what it is and personally love each and every one of them for that reason. If you hate the movie and series so much, than why don’t you just go find a dungeons and dragons site to post on while sitting in your mothers basement, instead of reading reviews of a movie that you “Claim” to hate.

By: Reverend

Reverend — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:48:40 +0000

Johnny,

It’d be stupid-hard to cut his head off even if he were already dead, cutting through sternomastoid and vertebrae is probably more difficult than Akira would have us believe =)

Not to mention, if you take the original three films as the “main story,” ( as it was supposed to be a trilogy, nothing more ) Jason totally takes an axe to the forehead, killing him. I love how you can see that gash in his mask in every movie after.

Rev

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:37:43 +0000

@Johnny

Maybe he’s wearing a neck brace in addition to that hockey mask, lol.

Vic

By: JohnnyDarkKnight

JohnnyDarkKnight — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:20:48 +0000

One question why cant anyone just freakin cut Jason’s head off?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:14:32 +0000

I think what I liked best about this movie was all the subtle shout-outs to the previous Friday the 13th movies. Like Mark’s wheelchair from part 2 which could be seen mounted on the wall in one of the tunnels beneath Jason’s house.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:53:56 +0000

Alex, what can I say? I liked this latest one.

And the first one was of course totally creepy throughout the first time I saw it.

Vic

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:45:08 +0000

By the way, Vic, how creepy was the part in the first one when one of the girl counselors is about to go to sleep after reading two lines from her book and she hears a faint voice of a girl yelling, “help me!”
I thought that was kinda scary.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:43:18 +0000

That is exactly the point, Vic. That they’re all the same. Fans needed to see something different, something fresh and new. They needed to, at least, write a decent script.
Take Halloween, for instance. The acting was crap but they gave Michael Myers a solid and great backstory.
You’ve seen this Friday the 13th, you’ve seen them all.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:00:58 +0000

You know, today I just re-watched the original Friday the 13th for the first time in many years.

Those who are complaining about lack of plot and character development in this latest film REALLY need to go re-watch the original again then come back and tell me how much of each of those that film contains.

Vic

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:51:48 +0000

I’ve always been a huge fan of slasher films, even though I spend half the movie criticizing it and the other half hiding (I’m a big chicken).

The Friday the 13th franchise has always been my favourite, at least up until that whole weird supernatural mystic knife thing they tried to do around the ninth film with the guy who played the police captain on 21 Jump Street. What was that about?

But, I digress.

Reading back on a few comments there was a mention of why Jason would kill “Barn Guy”, and while Vic pointed out it was because he (“Barn Guy”) was trespassing on his property to steal weed, it could also be because “Barn Guy” interrupted Jason while he was stealing kerosene from the upstairs loft. The kerosene theft being something “Barn Guy” had mentioned to Clay earlier on in the film.

Or, perhaps the filmmakers just wanted a total of 13 deaths by the ending credits. Who knows?

While we’re on the subject of the weed garden…At the beginning of the movie, when “Geek Boy” and “Jerk Guy” reveal their true motives for camping, they mention it was a third party who tipped them off to the marijuana growing in the woods. My question is, if Jason kills anyone who sets foot on his property, how did this third party find the weed and make it out of Crystal Lake alive?

Now onto the tunnels…I don’t think the tunnels were just underneath Jason’s house, but stretched throughout the camp. Remember, one the tunnel exits came up through that over turned bus. I believe that was the filmmaker’s way of explaining how Jason could be behind you one minute, then pop up in front of you the next. He created underground shortcuts to intercept his prey. The same was he rigged those tripwires to bells to inform him when someone was trespassing on his property.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:30:40 +0000

Oh, I haven’t seen that movie. I just remember that in movies, everytime they show the moon in movies, from what I remember the moon always happen to be full, not just horror movies, any kind of movies. But that’s just what I remember from the movies I have seen so it could just be a weird coincidence.