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

[DaylightsEnd]

Originally Posted by mikey horror

Sadly these days most people’s attention span can’t manage to surpass the length of a Tictok video.

Sheesh. Kids today. It’s gotten so bad, I’m seeing new Amazon and Netflix reviews being posted of classics like JAWS, where the dolts actually write things like…”This is dumb and boring and the shark is rubber. I fell asleep.” They’re helpless when their Adderall wears off. You just gotta leave em to whatever their “thing” is (Candy Crush on an iPhone? Just riveting)

[Frantic Canadian]

Originally Posted by snipemonkey

When Hollywood started recruiting directors out of advertising and music videos back in the 80s it was the beginning of the ADD Generation of Movies. I still laugh thinking about how critics were so down on people like Tony Scott and Russell Mulcahy back in the day because their stuff looked and was cut like the perfume commercials they cut their teeth on. The critics had ZERO idea that one day they'd have to reckon with the likes of Michael Bay and his progeny. Now everyone in Hollywood is trying to "out-Bay" Michael Bay.

Say what you will about Michael Bay, but he did give us one of the greatest action films of all time in "The Rock".

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by DaylightsEnd

Sheesh. Kids today. It’s gotten so bad, I’m seeing new Amazon and Netflix reviews being posted of classics like JAWS, where the dolts actually write things like…”This is dumb and boring and the shark is rubber. I fell asleep.” They’re helpless when their Adderall wears off. You just gotta leave em to whatever their “thing” is (Candy Crush on an iPhone? Just riveting)

It's a mix of instant gratification, materialism and just a general dumbing down of society via pop culture.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by Frantic Canadian

Say what you will about Michael Bay, but he did give us one of the greatest action films of all time in "The Rock".

The Rock is Bay's best movie, but Ed Harris is the main reason that it has any substance at all. It's 3.5/5 overall.

They should have gave Biehn a bigger role. Hollywood dropped the ball with him after Terminator.

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by Frantic Canadian

Say what you will about Michael Bay, but he did give us one of the greatest action films of all time in "The Rock".

Ugh.

[DaylightsEnd]

Originally Posted by SeanJoyce

I'm pissed off that it's 2022 and I'm still sitting here pining for a snowbound Friday the 13th. I can't believe….nobody thought to change things up a bit by going….for some winter hijinks.

The Norwegians beat us to it, and did a damned fine job of it, with Cold Prey ("Fritt Vilt” Parts 1, 2 and 3. Top-shelf slasher mayhem in the snow. Isolated vacation lodge setting in the woodsy Norwegian mountains. Lunatic slasher in a creepy snow mask, abused and abandoned and left for dead by his parents decades ago as a small child, etc. Close enough for Government work. Plus they’re beautifully filmed. The second installment even riffs heavily off Halloween 2, where the remaining, injured female victim from Part 1 winds up at a local snowed-in hospital…along with frozen-popsicle slasher dude. Use your imagination from there. Winning!!!!

“…Hey Swedes!!???…”
“…They’re NORWEGIAN, Mac….!”

[Frantic Canadian]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

The Rock is Bay's best movie, but Ed Harris is the main reason that it has any substance at all. It's 3.5/5 overall.

Nicholas Cage was awesome in The Rock. Probably my favorite performance of his. He and Connery were great together.

Originally Posted by Jay H.

Ugh.

How can you not like The Rock?

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by Frantic Canadian

Nicholas Cage was awesome in The Rock. Probably my favorite performance of his. He and Connery were great together.



How can you not like The Rock?

If this weren't the F13 thread, I'd talk about how much I abhor Michael Bay's obsession with constantly moving the camera. But it is, so I won't.

Kill her mommy...

[Frantic Canadian]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

If this weren't the F13 thread, I'd talk about how much I abhor Michael Bay's obsession with constantly moving the camera. But it is, so I won't.

Kill her mommy...

Fair enough. To be clear, though, I am by no means a Michael Bay fan. I just happen to love The Rock. It's a great piece of action cinema. Cage is at his best. Great action, great score, great practical effects. It hits all the right buttons.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by RandomMovieFan

Is it just me but i dont really like the original that much i mean its classic but shots go on and on forever and i most of the characters are kinda forgettable.

The voyeuristic aspect is one of the strong points. IMO.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by DaylightsEnd

[Show spoiler]The Norwegians beat us to it, and did a damned fine job of it, with Cold Prey ("Fritt Vilt” Parts 1, 2 and 3. Top-shelf slasher mayhem in the snow. Isolated vacation lodge setting in the woodsy Norwegian mountains. Lunatic slasher in a creepy snow mask, abused and abandoned and left for dead by his parents decades ago as a small child, etc. Close enough for Government work. Plus they’re beautifully filmed. The second installment even riffs heavily off Halloween 2, where the remaining, injured female victim from Part 1 winds up at a local snowed-in hospital…along with frozen-popsicle slasher dude. Use your imagination from there. Winning!!!!

“…Hey Swedes!!???…”
“…They’re NORWEGIAN, Mac….!”

Absolutely love Cold Prey...haven't seen either of the sequels.

Still, I'd love to see our iconic masked boogeyman slashing and dashing his way through hills of snow.

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

The voyeuristic aspect is one of the strong points. IMO.

100%.

The Manfredini score combined with those POV shots in the woods are just....*chef's kiss*

~Matt

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by Frantic Canadian

Nicholas Cage was awesome in The Rock. Probably my favorite performance of his. He and Connery were great together.

The banter is really the only thing Cage and Connery have to work with. They aren't really allowed to do any of the heavy lifting. But it's fine.

Bay movies usually have generic bad guys. Like in the Bad Boys movies. Boring. Luckily, Harris was able to add credibility to the film in a dramatic sense.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by Matt89

100%.

The Manfredini score combined with those POV shots in the woods are just....*chef's kiss*

~Matt

Yeah, it's not the best in the franchise or anything, but I seem to like if for the reasons the detractors dislike it.

[DR Herbert West]

Jason takes Alcatraz

[dylrichard02]

Jason takes Mars

[DaylightsEnd]

I like it. Why not. I say, turn him loose on San Fran AND L.A. Jason takes the I-405….stuck in traffic like never before. Then send him up to Oregon for a fatal showdown…Jason takes the Bigfoot.

[dylrichard02]

Originally Posted by DaylightsEnd

I like it. Why not. I say, turn him loose on San Fran AND L.A. Jason….stuck in traffic like never before. Then send him up to Oregon for a fatal showdown…Jason vs Bigfoot.

Friday the 13th Part IX: West Coast, Best Coast

[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

[dylrichard02]

Biggest let down of the series when I watched them for the first time a couple of years ago. Like you said, the misleading title is really what leads to it being such a let down. I expected more stalking in the streets and maybe down alleyways, but

[Show spoiler]the boat stuff gets so boring that once it actually gets to New York, the entire thing has run out of steam.