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Friday the 13th Countdown, day 2
May. 3rd, 2005 10:01 amYesterday's entry.
Yes, the latest entry in the series is far from the greatest.
Freddy vs Jason
Concept: Freddy can't get to the kids of Springdale because they're all either doped up with an experimental drug that prevents dreams, or are completely unaware of his existence, and thus unafraid. It's a vast conspiracy of the adults against the kids! So Freddy goes to hell and unleashes Jason onto the town. Once Jason's killed a kid or three, Freddy gets powerful enough to attack dreamers as well, but Jason, being Jason, wants to continue killing kids himself. Eventually, the two killers face off in a showdown over who gets to keep slaughtering the kids!
Primary Killer: Zombie Jason.
Kills: Jason kills eighteen "real" people, and one when he's in hell living out his fantasies. Freddy kills one person. Really. He's like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of killers here.
Really Bad Kills: There aren't many terrible kills in this movie, but one of the worst involves an off-screen death. When Blake, the jock who'd been hoping to get into the lead character's pants, wakes from a dream in which Freddy tried to kill him, he turns and sees his father there. He reaches out to his dad, whose head promptly slides off. Yes, Jason had decapitated Blake's dad, sat him down, and placed the head back on his shoulders so well, that there was no blood on his shirt, the bench, or anywhere else. Gotta love that micro-filament machete.
Well-done Kills: There were a few good ones. My favorite was Jason's opening kill, in which he stabbed an asshole named Trey, then folded the bed in half, breaking the guy's spine. Just a brutal moment, and one that really shows Jason as the monster he is. The thrown flaming machete is also a nice one, and offscreen or not, I got a kick out of the security guard crushed beneath the door.
Notable Celebrities: They went with some C-list celebs as the heroes (John Ritter's son and one of the many untalented actresses from Dawson's Creek). As far as people who actually died, the Dawson's Creek Bimbo's best friends were played by a chick from Destiny's Child who isn't Beyoncé (she gets machete-chopped by Jason into next week) and by Ginger from the Ginger Snaps movies (she's about to get killed by Freddy when Jason comes along and impales both her and the raver who was going to date-rape her). The guy who would go on to play Adam on Joan of Arcadia also plays the nice nerd who gets thrown around a cabin and dies of an almost-accidental stab wound.
Denouement: Freddy and Jason duke it out, and our two heroes cause a nasty explosion. Freddy somehow survives (*gasp*) and is attacking them on the dock with a machete, when Jason (who also *gasp* survived) reaches out of the water and stabs Freddy with his own claws. Dawson's Bimbo then decapitates Freddy, who sinks into the lake with Jason. Our heroes wander off, and we then see Jason emerge from the lake carrying Freddy's head, who winks at us.
Miscellany: Part of the problem here is that Jason acts woefully out of character. After the opening kill of Trey, the classic Jason would have then killed Gibb while she showered, and taken out the other folks in the house, instead of just leaving. Likewise, he wouldn't try the crap with the decapitated head. And the idea that Jason, who is, y'know, dead, being susceptible to being injected with a narcotic (and that he'd then dream?)? No fucking way. We also see Jason get drugged, and Freddy manage to possess someone so completely, that he can control his actions to the extent of stabbing him.
Overall: It's hard to hate any movie in which at least nine ravers get slaughtered. That said, this is a vastly flawed movie (dead ravers aside), which seems to assume that just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks is the way to go. It isn't. There was some nice work at the beginning to genuinely recognize the mythologies of the two characters, but although the Freddy stuff stayed pretty on track, the Jason stuff went way into left field. Not an awful movie at all, but one that has almost no impact on the series or the mythology. Still worth watching (really, all of them but JTM are enjoyable, if you like horror flicks), but not one of the top-tier flicks.
Tomorrow: Still not doing Part V. Seriously.
Yes, the latest entry in the series is far from the greatest.
Freddy vs Jason
Concept: Freddy can't get to the kids of Springdale because they're all either doped up with an experimental drug that prevents dreams, or are completely unaware of his existence, and thus unafraid. It's a vast conspiracy of the adults against the kids! So Freddy goes to hell and unleashes Jason onto the town. Once Jason's killed a kid or three, Freddy gets powerful enough to attack dreamers as well, but Jason, being Jason, wants to continue killing kids himself. Eventually, the two killers face off in a showdown over who gets to keep slaughtering the kids!
Primary Killer: Zombie Jason.
Kills: Jason kills eighteen "real" people, and one when he's in hell living out his fantasies. Freddy kills one person. Really. He's like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of killers here.
Really Bad Kills: There aren't many terrible kills in this movie, but one of the worst involves an off-screen death. When Blake, the jock who'd been hoping to get into the lead character's pants, wakes from a dream in which Freddy tried to kill him, he turns and sees his father there. He reaches out to his dad, whose head promptly slides off. Yes, Jason had decapitated Blake's dad, sat him down, and placed the head back on his shoulders so well, that there was no blood on his shirt, the bench, or anywhere else. Gotta love that micro-filament machete.
Well-done Kills: There were a few good ones. My favorite was Jason's opening kill, in which he stabbed an asshole named Trey, then folded the bed in half, breaking the guy's spine. Just a brutal moment, and one that really shows Jason as the monster he is. The thrown flaming machete is also a nice one, and offscreen or not, I got a kick out of the security guard crushed beneath the door.
Notable Celebrities: They went with some C-list celebs as the heroes (John Ritter's son and one of the many untalented actresses from Dawson's Creek). As far as people who actually died, the Dawson's Creek Bimbo's best friends were played by a chick from Destiny's Child who isn't Beyoncé (she gets machete-chopped by Jason into next week) and by Ginger from the Ginger Snaps movies (she's about to get killed by Freddy when Jason comes along and impales both her and the raver who was going to date-rape her). The guy who would go on to play Adam on Joan of Arcadia also plays the nice nerd who gets thrown around a cabin and dies of an almost-accidental stab wound.
Denouement: Freddy and Jason duke it out, and our two heroes cause a nasty explosion. Freddy somehow survives (*gasp*) and is attacking them on the dock with a machete, when Jason (who also *gasp* survived) reaches out of the water and stabs Freddy with his own claws. Dawson's Bimbo then decapitates Freddy, who sinks into the lake with Jason. Our heroes wander off, and we then see Jason emerge from the lake carrying Freddy's head, who winks at us.
Miscellany: Part of the problem here is that Jason acts woefully out of character. After the opening kill of Trey, the classic Jason would have then killed Gibb while she showered, and taken out the other folks in the house, instead of just leaving. Likewise, he wouldn't try the crap with the decapitated head. And the idea that Jason, who is, y'know, dead, being susceptible to being injected with a narcotic (and that he'd then dream?)? No fucking way. We also see Jason get drugged, and Freddy manage to possess someone so completely, that he can control his actions to the extent of stabbing him.
Overall: It's hard to hate any movie in which at least nine ravers get slaughtered. That said, this is a vastly flawed movie (dead ravers aside), which seems to assume that just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks is the way to go. It isn't. There was some nice work at the beginning to genuinely recognize the mythologies of the two characters, but although the Freddy stuff stayed pretty on track, the Jason stuff went way into left field. Not an awful movie at all, but one that has almost no impact on the series or the mythology. Still worth watching (really, all of them but JTM are enjoyable, if you like horror flicks), but not one of the top-tier flicks.
Tomorrow: Still not doing Part V. Seriously.
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