Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection (1980-1989)

[Rich1983]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Ugh, Jason Takes Manhattan was such a wildly missed opportunity. The poster was great, the trailer was awesome. But then you watch the movie and it's just Jason on a boat for over an hour and he finally makes it to Manhattan in the last like 25 mins of the movie. The fact that the title is so misleading makes it even worse. They could've done so much more with it. They wouldn't have even had to fully shoot it in NYC (and they did shoot a lot of it in Vancouver anyway) but you could've expanded a lot of those scenes with Jason in NYC, him going on a rampage in the subways, stalking people on the city streets, maybe have him go apeshit in a nightclub, a strip club, a police station, have him wander around 42nd street with all the sleazy movie theaters, maybe throw a couple people off the top of the Twin Towers (which tbh probably wouldn't have aged very well post-9/11 lol) but it's something. This way it would've at least lived up to its name.

~Matt

This is the reason why I come down really hard on this tired old criticism of Jason Takes Manhattan:

1. You can't judge a movie for what you think it "could have been." If that is the case, then I wouldn't like ANY movie. You have to judge it based on what it was at face value.

2. The tired old criticism of Jason going to Canada instead of Manhattan is only so widely known because of 20 years of DVD extra features. If the BTS have not been exposed by DVD extra features, books, and documentaries; most people would have never even known that about the movie.

3. If you look at your timer on your DVD player, the last 45 minutes of the film took place in NYC, a statistic that absolutely NOBODY gives the film any credit for.

4. Kane was still awesome as Jason, and it was logical for him to take a boat there. Even though Jason was able to teleport in that film, him teleporting from Camp Crystal Lake to New York City would have been too much of a stretch.