Okay, I thought that was what you were getting at and I totally agree, I just got lost somewhere in that second sentence. Might just be my lack of sleep this weekend tho.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 October 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
it did just hit me that to mourn this evolution you have to wistfully recall movies like The Dream Warriors.
― da croupier, Monday, 25 October 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
The fourth Nightmare is pretty great overall.
― gay nerd fuel (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh which one is the one with Jason in space killing all this space people on a spacestation and if thats not an option I can choose, why not?
― The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Thursday, 28 October 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Jason X
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Thursday, 28 October 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta say I love that pop locking youtubeif I ever write a horror movie I think there will have to be a madatory pop locking scene
― popular music is destroying our youth (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 30 October 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wow so Part 2 is *good* then?
― piscesx, Saturday, 30 October 2010 10:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the end of #1 would have been cooler if he jumped all the way out of the lake like a dolphinbut I guess I still like the ending
― popular music is destroying our youth (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the longevity/persistence of this franchise is really some kind of small miracle given how uniformly stupid and poorly made these movies are
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
Wtf 2 sucks animal
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 October 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
it's funny though, nothing about the original F13 suggests "major movie franchise to come". Obviously they wanted it to catch fire given the ending, but the entire film screams "off-brand slasher flick", right down to the non-descript, hokey looking "Friday the 13th" font on the title screen.
it's not a great film by any means, but it's the kind of scuzzy slasher film I have grown to like. it doesn't have the inventive world-building or mythos of Elm Street, it's poorly paced at times, but it's pretty well-shot and has some great visuals and I still enjoy it.
saw it last night in an old-fashioned theatre and at least 10 people shrieked when Jason's corpse jumps out of the water. that kind of made my night. manipulative jump scare, sure, but one of my fav usages of it.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 October 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, October 17, 2012 4:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
particularly since it took them a sequel to even introduce the version of the franchise character that everybody knows today, and the three films to give him his hockey mask. it's as if NOES began with Peggy Krueger killing people in dreams, and Freddy shows up in NOES2 wearing a beanie and a "where's the beef" t-shirt.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 October 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link
*watches IV again cos he's bored*
20-something male: Naw, I can't come in.12 year old Cory Feldman: Aw, you gotta come in. I've got something really neat to show you in my room (*grab's stranger's hand, runs upstairs with him in front of horrified looking mother*)
https://m.popkey.co/e528fb/l4bN_f-maxage-0_s-200x150.gif
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 October 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
lol at Crispin Glover putting on "Love is a Lie" by Lion as makeout music
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 October 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
dear lord for a 90 minute movie that felt like Gunga Din. ooooh Jason has met his match, a young kid into horror and masks, defeated by....him shaving his head to remind him of himself and hitting him hard with a machete? ooook.
I'm gonna watch VI just for shits and giggles, skipping V.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
(Gunga Din in length, that is)
when i went through these a few years ago i came away thinking 1 and 4 are the best. 1 has this really specific atmosphere to it that they basically never try for again. a lot of it's the rain
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 October 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
i legit love 4 bc idk cory feldman's narrative in that movie is for some reason super compelling to me and also there's batshit crispin glover
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 October 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
3!
Cheesy 80s 3D shots.
Cheesy 80s bikers.
Mask appears.
The goofy self-aware stuff hadn't creeped in yet. It still feels like a lean, mean-spirited exploitation film.
― punksishippies, Saturday, 22 October 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
just watched VI. it was fun.
"what WERE you gonna be when you grew up?"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, one of my all-time favorite lines!
1=low-budget boilerplate2=boring, half-flashback3=inept mess. Lots of action in a tool-filled barn?4=my fave, good Savini FX, sort of scary-ish (for the series) at times? 5=pointless, no Jason, sort of the Psycho II of the series. 6=funny, self-aware. I read the novelization (!) when I was little. Chops off the heads of three paintballers at once? 7=can't remember. Telekinetic girl? Does this one have the sleeping bag kill? 8=NYC? A complete POS. Shot in Vancouver? 9=Goes to hell? Only one I saw in theaters. Some dude eats a heart and turns into Jason? It does have a clever opening scene. 10=space. Never saw it.11=vs. Freddy? Is this the one directed by a Hong Kong guy? Want to say I saw it but barely remember it. Battle in a corn field?Reboot: really cool opening conceit, don't remember the rest. (Want to say My Bloody Valentine reboot had a similar opening conceit?)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
how bad do these parents gotta hate their kids to keep sending them to this damn camp
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvVNfQDXnPo
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
I was half watching these things last week with the sibs while drinking beer and after spending the day at Disney World. Pretty much the optimal way to see them, imo. The depictions of city life in Manhattan are spectacularly hilarious (the heroine is kidnapped and shot up with heroin within minutes of the protagonists making landfall).
― the most corrupt, deceitful, lying, caniving, treasonist, POS (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 03:44 (seven 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), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
this series is way more dependable than Nightmare, btw
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, October 24, 2010 3:53 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's just empirically false. Nightmare has three great films in the series (the first, third, and New Nightmare), part 4 is somewhat entertaining (and directed by Renny Harlin and written by Academy award winner Brian Helgeland), and part 2 is brilliantly campy. Parts five and six are the only out and out stinkers.
― sounds like Dream Theater (J3ff T.), Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:06 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whiney from 6 years ago is right, there's an evenness to this series that nightmare does not manage, and characterizing nightmare 2 as "brilliantly campy" is giving a shitty movie with some gay parts wayyy too much credit
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
I agree Friday 6 is best, 4 second best, rest are degrees of shit, save the like three fake out meta intros of the reboot. Which then turns to shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
basically for me it's
Friday 1 - fun if not generic, off-brand feeling (the ending is hilarious)Friday 2 - never has watching kids get hacked up been so fuckin boringFriday 3 - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzFriday 4 - zzzzzzzzzz O FUCK FELDMAN IS CRAZY AT THE END also lol Crispin GloverFriday 6 - fun and enjoyable, w/ funays, but not amazing or anythingJason goes to hell - everybody who made this should be killed
all others - haven't and won't see em
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
These movies are pretty much garbage, but they had consistently good man-candy.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link
even NOES 3 is better than the best Friday (tho NOES 3 is actually p good, especially the scene w/ Freddie's nun mama)
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
tho "the bastard child of a thousand maniacs" annoyed me, like that's not how biology works, all their sperm didn't congeal into a crowdsourced baby
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link
well unless he was a chimera i guess
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
noes 3 is better than any friday and is one of the best movies ever, yes
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:25 (seven years ago) link
NOES is the better series, it's true, but I had a wicked good time watching a marathon of that Friday trash with my sibs last Halloween. It's working its charms on me.
― Gorvernment Stoodge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
And NOES 4 is better than NOES 3. I wish the world would just wise up and get behind me on that one already.
― Gorvernment Stoodge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 04:58 (seven years ago) link
I wish the world would just wise up and get behind me
o i bet u would
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
i turned off NOES 4 after chica's boyfriend died in the accident.
Freddy's Dead: The Final NIghtmare, I made it to the Arnolds' cameo
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:02 (seven years ago) link
Boyfriend dies in 5, which is not good.
― Gorvernment Stoodge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
derp - i guess I don't remember which one IV is then other than I know i didn't finish it either.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:43 (seven years ago) link
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