N1 is properly original and scary.N2 is batshit and kind of grim (maybe the equivalent of Friday V?)N3 and N4 are Hollywood slick and entertaining and actually exhibit some continuity in terms of character/story (iirc). Plus ... Dokken song? Don't remember much about the rest, really.
Like F4, it's a peak of competency, with excellent Savini FX, and quirky actors/scenes. Same for F6, plus humor (tho minus Savini FX) and a solid attempt at closure. Plus ... Alice Cooper song? The worst Friday movies, basically the rest, are borderline inept, but particularly 3(D), Goes to Hell and NYC. Goes to Hell has a sort of funny meta-intro too, iirc, though not as ambitious as the reboot.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
NSFWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmPPt6xk_I
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 12:25 (seven years ago) link
don't particularly understand the ambitious qualities of the reboot's intro. they just dispatch an entire group of teens in the first 20 minutes
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 12:47 (seven years ago) link
jason getting blown up in goes to hell is awesome and hilarious
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 12:48 (seven years ago) link
I only saw the reboot once, whenever it was, but iirc it starts out with a pretty standard campfire scene, followed by a Jason massacre. Then it turns out *that* is a campfire story being told by a contemporary batch of counselors ... who are then slaughtered themselves. Then it turns out *that* is something of a flashback, and it jumps to the current story, at which point we get opening credits, like, 15 minutes into the movie. They do something similarly clever with the "My Bloody Valentine" reboot, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Then it turns out *that* is a campfire story being told by a contemporary batch of counselors
that is NOT what happens
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
it starts off in black and white telling the abbreviated story of part one, then shifts to the teens who are looking for giant weed plants in crystal lake, who get slaughtered, then it shifts to jared padalecki and the other group of teens
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
Sure set *me* straight! Which is the one where that person is stabbed with that thing?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
The Care Bears Movie 2
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
That's the one that starts with the flashback, right? That's the one where we find out how the Care Bears became the Care Bears?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
No, that's the third one. The second one is where the Care Bears blow up the Death Star.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Spoilers, dude, I only saw the first one.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
If Parts 2, 3 and 4 are supposed to take place on subsequent days, then which of those were on Friday The 13th?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 06:42 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_f0ELRcgCo
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 06:43 (seven years ago) link
only 2 iirc
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 07:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbzF3NN_7aA
― Milkwalker's World (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 12:25 (seven years ago) link
I guess I didn't vote in this because I would've voted for Goes to Hell.
― Milkwalker's World (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
glad to know someone else on earth who likes goes to hell
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
that movie is a diseased dick tbf
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 00:40 (seven years ago) link
no accounting for taste
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
lol soz but as soon as the medic took a big ole bite out of Jason's heart I knew it was gonna be a long 90 minutes
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 01:45 (seven years ago) link
binge watching these now, up to VI Jason Lives.
So far I'd say 4 was the best due to more interesting characters.
V is an utter joke.
I am liking this new and improved super Jase in VI so far.
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
totally confused as to how Jason got to NYC though.
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Thursday, 22 June 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
there's a boat
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
yeah, I wasn't sure how the small boat got from the lake to big boat. Guess there's some kind of river.
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
jason isn't generally constrained by the laws of physics by that point in the series
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
Doubt it will stay up long, but some psycho edited all of the movies together into one sort of coherent 85 minute movie that has every victim/camper converge on Camp Crystal Lake at once to be picked off at a crazy clip:
https://vimeo.com/289599739?cjevent=0f5e55b1ca8711e8837d01b30a240614
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 October 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
ok so 3-8 are all on prime and what do i have better to do with my life than rewatch the friday the 13th movies for the 2918290049th time?
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
but this time i came away really loving vii: the new blood. it's deeply flawed and was sliced and diced in order to get an r rating... yet it rocks??? probably the only movie in the series where there's a stronger antagonist than jason in the mix (dr. crews, the worst gaslighting piece of shit man in the world!!!!) which makes the dynamic sooo interesting; jason kinda becomes this subconscious response to one's life and pain being exploited constantly by abusive men. practically a horror essay in and of itself!
sleeping bag death forever
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
i also like part v now! it's so sleazy and mean and yet... the free range halfway house for teens with mental illness is a v weird place for jason to murder a bunch of people, it kind of reminds me of dream warriors for some reason? i normally don't spend a lot of time identifying with the people jason murders but in v i basically feel them all (except for the hillbillies) (god what a fucking weird movie)
lot of objectively lame things about the movie like the twist and ending with tommy jarvis' second heel turn in two movies, but i loooove the character of traumatized tommy jarvis regardless, if anything the worst tommy is part vi's horn dog dumbass who accidentally resurrects jason by impaling his dead body with a large metal pole, we all saw that one coming tommy (i love him too don't worry)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
i just watched them all except for freddy v jason and imo:6412goes to hell (i can't believe this movie exists)xmanhattan7reboot53― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 17, 2017 6:04 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
6412goes to hell (i can't believe this movie exists)xmanhattan7reboot53
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 17, 2017 6:04 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
jason goes to hell pales in memory, i need to rewatch it but now that i have more affection for the core 8, i can no longer completely fuck with it. my current ranking:
vi: jason livesvii: the new bloodiitie: jason takes manhattan / jason x (basically the same movie, boat vs. space)iv: the final chapterv: a new beginningiiiijason goes to hellreboot
weird that they all changed lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
oh i've seen freddy vs jason now, it's somewhere in the bottom of that ranking. i think it's fun but it's tarnished for me bc freddy makes a racist joke at kelly rowland
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
...and then she calls him a faggot
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
oh yeah! i for some reason erased *that* part from my memory. fuck freddy vs. jason (which is so so fun outside of that scene, whyyyy)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
It’s jarring as hellWhat I mostly remember about that film is how explicitly it emphasises (to the point of exaggeration) the sexual undertones of both franchises - Freddie’s child molestation and the virginity of the lead character - in a way that feels properly sleazy and nasty. Obv that kind of making the subtext text was what passed for clever in the 90s slashers, but it really gave that film an edge (and yeah, it is generally fun)
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
I do not love this franchise but I enjoyed goes to hell a lot, also whichever one has the kids in
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
VI, which is the best. I actually read the novelization of that one!Hell was the only one I saw in the theaters. I did not pick a winner, but it definitely has perhaps the best cold open.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
vi does a pretty great tightrope walk imo, extremely goofy and fun and meta but also straight up chilling at points, cf. the one cabin with blood spattered EVERYWHERE, anytime jason's figure looms over the kids and you wonder "is... is he going to murder children??!?!?!"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
The cutaway to a kid reading no exit before bed was a good cheap lol I was not expecting, also “what were you gonna be when you grew up?”
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
Terry Kiser was Dr Crews in #7. A real "That Guy" actor. He was good as a corpse in the two Weekend at Bernie's films but i think i first saw him as a comedian named "Vic Hitler" iirc on WKRP.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:03 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
two of my favorite moments in the whole series
vi is just an embarrassment of awesome scenes. hard rock summer in the usa
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
The humour in these films is usually excruciating to me so I maybe overrate it when it lands
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
also something i noticed recently: the only friday movies with zero nudity are i and vi
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
Interesting! That's like learning that "The Godfather" supposedly has no profanity (I haven't seen it for a while).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark
vic hitler is from hill street blues
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
yeah that's right, he was someone else on WKRP. Also had a recurring role early during Night Court's run.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:13 PM bookmarkflaglink
Woltz says "son of a bitch"
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
I've seen these shitty movies so many times over the years, in various forms and formats, and only noticed something nuts: Jason's mom goes crazy because he died unsupervised at the camp as a kid in the late '50s. So how did Jason become a full grown adult by the second movie?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
no one knows
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
well, also, he's a full grown adult because these movies take place in the '80s. my theory is that he didn't die and lived in the woods for 20 years, either unbeknownst to his mom or beknownst to his mom but she was still driven by the delusion that he died. this idea is sorta ventured in friday part 2
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link