So, spoilers.
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- The film opens with all the studio logos tinted red, accompanied by the classic "ki ki ki, ma ma ma." Awesome.
- I loved the prologue. It was like a little mini-movie before the actual movie!
- The actress they got to play Pamela here was much better than the one from
Freddy vs. Jason.
- I loved the tent/campfire death. Though I thought she had escaped at first when the tent broke; she had been screaming and kicking just a moment before, but then when she fell out she was completely dead.
- How the hell did Whitney survive? When they cut away to the title, Jason had his machete in midswing towards her head... he couldn't possibly have noticed she looked like his mom
and stopped his machete that quickly.
- Jason in this movie... wow! He's much faster and smarter (setting traps and using that one guy (I can't remember his name, dur) as bait!) than ever before, but he's still undeniably Jason.
- I chose to use the barn guy's death as my bathroom break opportunity. Apparently that's when Jason found the hockey mask. Damn.
- One thing that annoyed me were the little "stings" of music they kept blasting throughout the movie. Due to the volume in the theater, they scared me more than anything that was happening on-screen.
- Both sex scenes in the movie... uhm, damn.
- Some great deaths in this movie. The aforementioned tent/campfire death, the machete-through-the-pier-(and-head) and the cop's death were awesome.
- I was shocked that they killed Jenna off. I had her pegged as the only survivor (along with Clay). I assumed Whitney was a likelier victim (perhaps acting like Pamela and sacrificing herself so Clay and Jenna could get away).
- They kept bugging me by introducing items that were perfect for Jason to off people with, then not following through. Chewie hands Jason a hockey stick? He gets a screwdriver through the head. The black guy walks by a bugzapper? He gets axed in the back. They wrap a chain around Jason's neck then throw the other end in a wood-chipper? He gets "hung."
- This is probably my biggest gripe of the movie. How the hell do you kill
Jason Voorhees off with a
wood-chipper and not actually manage to involve the wood-chipper? That's like killing someone with a gun without shooting them. And then, instead of killing Jason how they did and then getting the hell out of there, they actually
untangle him from the wood-chipper and chain, carry his body down to the lake, then apparently sit there with it for several hours before finally kicking him into the lake? Remember, Jason was killed during the night, and the sun was up when they dunked him into the lake. What the hell? Everyone else got killed and
these retards survived? I was glad when Jason burst up through the pier and grabbed Whitney.
- Speaking of which,
Friday 1/3 nod there. Nice.
- Quite possibly the one thing I liked most about this movie was that, even though it was a remake, there's really nothing to stop this from being just another entry in the series. The events of the first film still happened, and there's nothing to suggest the other movies didn't. The only continuity problems I can think of at the moment are that the construction site from
Freddy vs. Jason wasn't present... but, hell, that's easy enough. They shut down due to the destruction caused from the fight between Jason and Freddy. There's also the sack/hockey mask thing... but, heck, Jason made the switch once before. Maybe he felt like mixing things up.
