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This movie comes dangerously close

posted 8 years ago by pageboy
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Freddy vs Jason almost destroyed two movie franchises. It wasn't until the reboot of both Friday and Nightmare that was the nail in the coffin. The proof, no sequels have been made since. I would have paid Betsy Palmer whatever money she wanted to reprise the seminal role of Mrs. Voorhees. And why Freddy vs. Jason? Why not Freddy and Jason vs. another group of dead teenagers? They at least had the smarts to keep Robert Englund, something the producers of the Nightmare reboot failed to realize. Jason can be played by any actor, but there is only one Freddy.

[–] tinkerbell_jonna 8 years ago

I think one reason is, these franchises are over 30 years old and as Jack Shoulder said...there's only so much you can do with the idea before it starts becoming lame. In the original movies it was great and through the 80s was Freddy and Jason mania, but after that it started to trickle down.

I DO wish they would do one final definitive Nightmare, maybe where they kill Freddy once and for and/or maybe he passes the torch to someone.

[–] ThePhantomKiller 8 years ago

*beep* about "anyone" being able to play Jason. Kirzinger was awful. The one and only really terrible Jason. Boring, lazy, slow and about as scary as cheese doodles. I know some of this was the directors fault. It didn't help that his look was wrong too. The droopy eye that they seemed to fixate on made him appeared far more mentally handicapped in this movie. The point was to make him seem vulnerable to Freddy's influence but it backfired. Compare this Jason to Kane Hodder's in Friday 7. Or any of the other movies. Night and day.

[–] hurricanehorton 8 years ago

I'm not sure this movie killed the franchises, irregardless of how much you enjoyed it. In 2003, both franchises were pretty much considered passe anyway.

Bear in mind, it took years for this movie to come out. It was in development hell for a long, long time and if it hadn't have been a crossover everybody had wanted, it might not even have been made.

This movie came out nine years after the previous ANOES movie (Wes Craven's New Nightmare), and there'd only been one Jason movie in the previous decade (Jason X). Freddy and Jason were very much seen as 1980s slasher creations. It's not like they were still churning out Freddy and Jason films on a yearly basis when this movie came out.

They've remade both franchises since, but they remake everything now. You can't honestly say you think the decision to remake the films, or how long they waited to do it, has anything to do with the studios perceived quality of Freddy vs Jason.

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[–] mwgfgrey 7 years ago

This movie wasn't great, but Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X ruined that series. The remake was good. Nightmare remake was awful.

[–] lanakael2 7 years ago

Both remakes were the same pure trash. They were awful.