Friday the 13th (reboot) & Jason X
I watched the new 'Friday the 13th' which is a mash-up of the first four movies. It was good, and a good idea to combine some movies, cause while I love this series, it really is a predictable, slow-moving affair movie to movie.
I was struck by how the 'teenagers', while looking like adults, spoke like 'the real deal'. Upon researching (wikipedia, the most unquotable source), I found it was the writers' choice after the 'disaster' of 'Freddy Vs Jason', a movie I frankly adore. Which got me thinking on the greatest film in the Friday the 13th franchise, 'Jason X'.
Jason X combines two wonderful genres, horror and science fiction (and to a lesser extent, romantic comedy), evolutionarizing Jason into a truly awesome being. By combining him with nano-technology, we have the joy of a robot stand off as well as clever (OK maybe not clever, but fun) space deaths, like being sucked out a tiny hole and face first in liquid nitrogen (more of an X-Files death but who cares!)!
By taking these films as what they are, a remake and a sequel, we can truly enjoy them, but if we take them as films, they make little to no sense. Like why do the nanobots recreate Jason's mask (because it's cool) and why are the teenagers speaking like teenagers but looking like middle aged folk (because teenagers are terrible actors)?
Anyway, Jason X is definitely more cream-worthy than Friday the 13th (reboot).
I was struck by how the 'teenagers', while looking like adults, spoke like 'the real deal'. Upon researching (wikipedia, the most unquotable source), I found it was the writers' choice after the 'disaster' of 'Freddy Vs Jason', a movie I frankly adore. Which got me thinking on the greatest film in the Friday the 13th franchise, 'Jason X'.
Jason X combines two wonderful genres, horror and science fiction (and to a lesser extent, romantic comedy), evolutionarizing Jason into a truly awesome being. By combining him with nano-technology, we have the joy of a robot stand off as well as clever (OK maybe not clever, but fun) space deaths, like being sucked out a tiny hole and face first in liquid nitrogen (more of an X-Files death but who cares!)!
By taking these films as what they are, a remake and a sequel, we can truly enjoy them, but if we take them as films, they make little to no sense. Like why do the nanobots recreate Jason's mask (because it's cool) and why are the teenagers speaking like teenagers but looking like middle aged folk (because teenagers are terrible actors)?
Anyway, Jason X is definitely more cream-worthy than Friday the 13th (reboot).
