Nostalgia
I'm nostalgic for the FvsJ hype around 2002-2003. I especially have fond memories of that old Friday the 13th message board.
shareThe hype was a lot better than the movie.
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I've come to like this movie more over the years. But I remember the rumors that Tommy Jarvis and Nancy Thomas would be in it really had me disappointed in the movie at the time. Also, as a Jason fan, it was disappointing to see that this was basically a NOES movie with Jason softened so he could be the protagonist.
And what was the deal with that piss poor excuse for a copy of the Elm Street house?
That said, I enjoy the movie more now.
As a bit of a Fred Head, I always quite enjoyed this movie. Though was never much of a Jason fan.
Enjoyable enough though.
I'd still say it was a bit of an insult to Freddy fans that the filmakers felt Jason had to be weakened for Freddy to be a match for him....
shareWell, like I say, I was never a huge Jason fan. I saw the first couple, and a bit of Jason X, but never really liked Jason. So I perhaps don't have the best knowledge of what Jason was like previously.
shareA lot of Jason fans were mad that Kane Hodder who played him in Parts 7 and 8, and played him in Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X wasn't cast as him. I myself didn't mind the change. I liked all the Friday the 13th movies. There was a guy on one of the Friday the 13th boards who said he hated all the ones that came before Kane was brought on. But he's in the minority.
shareLike I say, I'm not as huge Jason fan, but I never really understood that. I thought Robert Englund would've been a bigger loss if he wasn't in this. No disrespect to Hodder, but Englund was always Freddy. Even in the TV series. Hodder had only played Jason in 40% of the movies.
shareI know. I also don't get people saying Kane had more emotion as Jason in his movies than the actors in the previous movies. Jason acted just as angry in Parts 3 and 4.
shareI missed out on it unfortunately. I was 9 when this was released in cinemas.
I did have some hype though, this was around the time my parents started letting me buy horror DVDs. I first bought Jason X and then Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday in relatively quick succession. One of those DVDs actually had the trailer for Freddy vs Jason on it at the beginning of the film (back in the good old days when you were forced to watch trailers on DVDs and couldn't fast forward them.)
This was back in the early-00s of course when DVD releases weren't as fine tuned as today. Those films were likely only released on DVD in the UK some years after they were in the USA. Hence how they had a trailer for a 2003 film on them.
I ended up seeking Freddy vs Jason out on DVD, got it and watched it religously. At one point I was watching it every day. It was my introduction to ANOES and Freddy Krueger, I was on team Jason obviously having seen him prior. I didn't even know the Friday the 13th franchise at this point in time, I just knew the series as the Jason films.
To a fledgling 10 year old horror fan this film was the coolest thing ever.
Being older than you, I was already a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series. To use your words, it was indeed the coolest thing ever and I still watch it from time to time and it's still the coolest thing (maybe that nostalgia that TommyJarvis82 is talking about have something to do with it). A real guilty pleasure. The soundtrack was pretty nice too !
I think I just secured my choice for tonight's viewing. 🔥🆚🌊
I like to joke that it's still the coolest thing ever too.
The soundtrack was pure early 00s nu-metal goodness. I was a big nu-metal fan at the time (my favorite bands were Slipknot, Korn, Disturbed & Linkin Park) it was the in music and was nicely edgy for boy just about to enter high school.
I'm planning on rewatching it tonight too.
Oh yes. I was(and still is) a thrash metal fan but when Anthrax made "Bring The Noise" with Public Enemy, I thought it sounded great. Then, Rage Against The Machine's self titled album blew me away. Judgment Night's soundtrack being collabs between metal and rap artists made me like that new kind of music even more. Contrary to lots of metal purists I welcomed Nu-Metal and still like it to this day. I find that Limp Bizkit's "Still Sucks" album that came out on Halloween 2021 is surprisingly pretty damn good (now I'm waiting for a shower of insults from... everybody! Bring it on !).
Good JvsF viewing !