Just looking over some reviews... Some critics are calling the Worst Friday EVER.

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Hmmmm... Second thoughts over watching it? Yes. :lol:

Edited February 12, 200916 yr by Joao.

Just looking over some reviews... Some critics are calling the Worst Friday EVER.

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What...??? Even worse than "Jason Takes Manhattan", "Freddy vs Jason" and "Jason X"??????... :lol: :lol: :lol:

What...??? Even worse than "Jason Takes Manhattan", "Freddy vs Jason" and "Jason X"??????... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Was just about to say that. :lol:

 

 

Although, I however enjoyed Freddy vs. Jason, even though it was really shit. :heehee:

I actually saw this already today, it was pretty much what I was expecting. It stayed true to its roots (not trying to make it Friday 13th in a Hostel with a Saw) but then on the other hand it really didn't have any real surprise twists that I was hoping it might have. None of the characters are annoying, there are plenty of jokes but actually the jokes are quite funny ones most of the time. And there are several scenes that make you jump. Of course the characters are cliched but that was to be expected. I'd give it three stars out of five (or three plus actually) for delivering excatly what it was supposed to deliver, 97 minutes (or so) of fun in a movie theatre. Of the all twelve Friday the 13th flicks I'd certainly rank this one into the top five, maybe even top three. Certainly a movie that most of the critics will hate but so what, I'd way rather watch this slasher than some boring artsy flick that the critics love but where actually nothing happens.

Ok so after reading a bunch of reviews me and my mate decided it was best left for download :lol:

Ok so after reading a bunch of reviews me and my mate decided it was best left for download :lol:

 

Same here... Deffo one for the "download"... Too many other good films in the cinemas at the moment to bother wasting my time with this one, I'd frankly rather see "Bolt" in 3-D for a bit of mindless entertainment (it'll probably be a hell of a lot more imaginitive, witty and fun than bloody Friday the 13th remake)..... And, I've still not seen "Benjamin Button" or "The Good, The Band and the Weird" yet.....

 

Certainly a movie that most of the critics will hate but so what, I'd way rather watch this slasher than some boring artsy flick that the critics love but where actually nothing happens.

 

You actually think you're being clever when you say this dont you.....? Well, it's not clever, and is merely an inversed version of snobbery.... What you really meant to say is "I think these films are boring because I dont understand them....". Go and actually really watch a film like "Baader Meinfhoff Complex", "The Chaser", "The Wave", "Hunger", "Gomorrah", "Milk", "Doubt", "The Reader", "The Wrestler" or "Revolutionary Road", EVERYTHING happens in those films, absolutely EVERYTHING that's human and powerful and emotional and great about film happens in those examples..... Films like the Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake are depressingly mechanical, manufactured, dehumanising, production-line rubbish, the absolute antithesis of good film-making.....

 

Same here... Deffo one for the "download"... Too many other good films in the cinemas at the moment to bother wasting my time with this one, I'd frankly rather see "Bolt" in 3-D for a bit of mindless entertainment (it'll probably be a hell of a lot more imaginitive, witty and fun than bloody Friday the 13th remake)..... And, I've still not seen "Benjamin Button" or "The Good, The Band and the Weird" yet.....

Youve got to watch Benjamin Button! Its REALLY good. But like i said do not watch when your feeling down about your life :lol:

You actually think you're being clever when you say this dont you.....? Well, it's not clever, and is merely an inversed version of snobbery.... What you really meant to say is "I think these films are boring because I dont understand them....". Go and actually really watch a film like "Baader Meinfhoff Complex", "The Chaser", "The Wave", "Hunger", "Gomorrah", "Milk", "Doubt", "The Reader", "The Wrestler" or "Revolutionary Road", EVERYTHING happens in those films, absolutely EVERYTHING that's human and powerful and emotional and great about film happens in those examples..... Films like the Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake are depressingly mechanical, manufactured, dehumanising, production-line rubbish, the absolute antithesis of good film-making.....

 

 

Nah, you missed my point. I actually do like many different kind of films, actually really liked the Swedish Let The Right One In and Atonement was one of my favourite films from last year (Yeah, it is a 2007 flick but I only saw it last year). What I meant was that quite often people who consider themselves as "real" movie fans really cannot say they like a film like Friday the 13th and even if they find some highly praised arthouse film boring they cannot say that because they fear they aren't no longer respected (I even have a few friends like that). My point simply was that even if film is considered rubbish by most but I like it I have no problem saying it (and this is not pointed towards you, based on your posts that I have read you seem to be the same way).

There needs to be a healthy balance of artsy indie flicks and mainstream, pure Hollywood films.

 

This movie is not one of them. :P

 

Coraline, The Descent, and The Dark Knight are good example of mainstream movies that actually deserve praise and such.

Coraline, The Descent, and The Dark Knight are good example of mainstream movies that actually deserve praise and such.

 

I agree.... Although, The Descent could be classed as a sort of "indie" film too.... It was pretty low-budget, no real "big names" starring either..... But it was incredibly tightly plotted and very scarily handled, the claustrophobic atmosphere of the caves was just brilliantly realised.... A total contrast to what the director did next - Doomsday.... A loud, noisy, stupid piece of sh!t that tried to rip off "Escape From New York" and "28 Days Later" and not even coming close to matching either of them...... :rolleyes:

 

BUT, dont forget that "mainstream" film-making does not just necessarily mean "Hollywood".... I mean, if you look at Bollywood films, the vast majority of those are totally mainstream examples of film-making, and are incredibly popular, as are most of the Japanese/Korean/Hong Kong/Chinese films that make it to UK cinemas..... Films such as "Don", "Ringu", "Zatoichi", "House of Flying Daggers", "Oldboy" or "Infernal Affairs" are MASSIVELY popular and mainstream in their native territories, it's only because they are foreign language that they're considered "arthouse" in the UK.....

 

If you live anywhere near a cinema that plays the likes of Bollywood films or films like the recently released Korean Action Film/Western "The Good, The Bad and the Weird" you'll see what I mean.... Films like Oldboy, The Chaser and Lady Vengeance are fukkin' amazing, and certainly NOT arthouse.....

quite often people who consider themselves as "real" movie fans really cannot say they like a film like Friday the 13th

 

That isn't strictly true.... Most would actually say they liked the original film, as with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hitcher, Amityville Horror, Halloween, Hills Have Eyes, Pulse, The Ring, The Grudge, Shutter, Rec, etc, etc.... The real hostility comes with rather poor and sub-standard remakes......

 

This is not snobbery, it's a rejection of what is basically a total lack of ideas or imagination..... It's not even as if most of these remakes even do anything interesting with the original ideas (for example, John Carpenter's amazing remake of The Thing, or David Cronenberg's absolutely horrifying "body horror" version of The Fly, both of those remakes actually fitted into the respective directors' styles and ways of putting across themes and ideas, whereas the majority of the current crop of remakes are not being done by directors who have anything to actually say, they have no real style or individuality to them; Rob Zombie is perhaps the one notable exception, well, for the first half of his remake of "Halloween", when he tries to ape Carpenter in the second half, the film just comes crashing down on its arse)....

Anyone watched this?

 

It was really just a generic slasher I thought, you really didn't care about the characters and the first part of the movie that took up about 30 minutes really could've been much more condensed I think ... well either that or just be made into the whole film. It seemed kinda messy to me. It had some good points, some of the deaths were pretty good but other than that it wasn't anything amazing.

I went to see this today, and I (Shock, horror) really enjoyed it :blush:

 

I don't know what it is, but I personally love all these remakes :heehee: (It's in similar vein to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but this was better IMO). Maybe I just love the gore and enjoy watching people being cut in half etc... :lol: but this is one of those films where, you knew something was gonna happen, but you still jumped no matter what :lol:

 

Also, I "think" I enjoyed My Bloody Valentine, but after watching this, I knew that MBV really was "Shit" :lol:

 

But meh, I always like these remakes :(

Yeah it's enjoyable, but did you not think it was kinda messy and generic? :P

I don't mind, sometimes I kinda enjoy these generic slashers tbh, they're just a bit of fun. :lol:

I downloaded this... Messy, stupid, boring. Are words that spring to mind..... I actually found myself thinking "God, even Hostel is better than this junk...." :rolleyes: And, as usual, you just DONT GIVE A SH1T about the characters..... I mean, really, it got to the point where I just wished gruesome, horrid death on the whole lot of them, the more gruesome and horrid the better.....

 

I also downloaded a low-budget French horror called "Inside". Now, if you want something truly shocking, horrific and just plain fukkin' BRUTAL, then this is the film for you..... I can honestly say that "Inside" is one of the best horror films I've seen for a while, it takes the central idea of The Strangers (but, I should stress that Inside was made before The Strangers...), but does something far more horrid, brutal and genuinely frightening with it and as a result, is about a hundred times a better film for it... A heavily pregnant woman basically gets terrorised in her house by an utter psychotic b/itch (played by Beatrice Dalle) who makes Glenn Close from "Fatal Attraction" look the picture of perfectly sane rationality..... Throw in a lot of "disposables" (like a few French cops, the pregnant woman's boss and her mother...) that get dispatched in a variety of really horrific ways, and a seriously fukked up ending, and you have a HORROR film in capitals which just utterly pishes on rubbish like Friday 13th, Hostel, the Saw sequels, etc.....

 

I wouldn't advise watching "Inside" if you dont have a strong stomach, even I found it pretty hard going tbh, and I'm used to this sort of thing....

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I STILL havent seen this, im not so sure if i want to :rofl:

I downloaded this... Messy, stupid, boring. Are words that spring to mind..... I actually found myself thinking "God, even Hostel is better than this junk...." :rolleyes: And, as usual, you just DONT GIVE A SH1T about the characters..... I mean, really, it got to the point where I just wished gruesome, horrid death on the whole lot of them, the more gruesome and horrid the better.....

 

I also downloaded a low-budget French horror called "Inside". Now, if you want something truly shocking, horrific and just plain fukkin' BRUTAL, then this is the film for you..... I can honestly say that "Inside" is one of the best horror films I've seen for a while, it takes the central idea of The Strangers (but, I should stress that Inside was made before The Strangers...), but does something far more horrid, brutal and genuinely frightening with it and as a result, is about a hundred times a better film for it... A heavily pregnant woman basically gets terrorised in her house by an utter psychotic b/itch (played by Beatrice Dalle) who makes Glenn Close from "Fatal Attraction" look the picture of perfectly sane rationality..... Throw in a lot of "disposables" (like a few French cops, the pregnant woman's boss and her mother...) that get dispatched in a variety of really horrific ways, and a seriously fukked up ending, and you have a HORROR film in capitals which just utterly pishes on rubbish like Friday 13th, Hostel, the Saw sequels, etc.....

 

I wouldn't advise watching "Inside" if you dont have a strong stomach, even I found it pretty hard going tbh, and I'm used to this sort of thing....

 

I actually liked Friday The 13th remake more than Inside. I had the same problem with Inside that I had with The Strangers meaning all the characters were total idiots in the film (and it wasn't a teen slasher where they are meant to be so). I mean why doesn't they just leave the house? This whole "There is a killer inside the house so I'll just go walking around the house and certainly not leave the house" plot is so terrible. At least Friday 13th remake doesn't pretend to be anything else than a cheap teen slasher, no surprises but still entertaining. There have been some great French horror films in the past few years such as Martyrs, Haute Tension, and Ils but Inside was quite a disappointment.

What...??? Even worse than "Jason Takes Manhattan", "Freddy vs Jason" and "Jason X"??????... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

For some reason, Jason X actually got really good reviews. I think Empire gave it ****s. IMO, Jason X was an absolute joke, I've never laughed so much in a film - I genuinely nearly pissed myself when they upgraded the robot into some gun totting dominatrix.

I mean why doesn't they just leave the house?

 

Oh come on, unlike The Strangers, Inside at least had the cops coming round to check on her... And, er, maybe you missed the whole thing about there being RIOTS going on in Paris which was alluded to in the plot.... Also, the fact that she was HEAVILY pregnant and therefore not being able to get round much, or very quickly either (not really a problem for Liv Tyler or Scott Speedman...), and with the cops checking on her, her boss and her mother coming round, she probably quite reasonably thought, "hmmm, well maybe I'm safe" yeah, the Cops are pretty thick, but as any Parisian will tell you, the Paris cops ARE pretty stupid in the main.... :lol: Sorry mate, your criticisms are a bit trite, and you cannot deny the fact that as sheer horror Inside beats the living crap out of any mainstream Hollywood film....

 

I wouldn't say the Sara herself is stupid at all, she does the right thing in calling the police, and if you look at it, it could be easy to assume that the psycho woman might be just one of the rioters trying to freak her out....

 

Bottom line, I can forgive low-budget horrors their relatively minor shortcomings far more than I can forgive the sheer dumbness of a big-budget, high profile remake, which has no right to exist unless it is seriously good, or takes the story in a far more interesting direction (eg The Thing or The Fly, or the first hour of Halloween); Inside actually is an original thought, the horror is far more visceral and primal, because it's a lot more plausible that things like this can happen (Home Invasions DO exist, and every pregnant woman lives in sheer dread of their child being taken from them). Mum and Dad is another damn good low budget horror, clearly based around the events that occured at Cromwell Lane in the mid-90s, Fred and Rose West... These "movie psychos" are very real, and the horror itself has at least one foot in reality, and plays on our very real fears....