Friday the 13th
February. 13,2009 RA group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.
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best movie i've ever seen.
Awesome Movie
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
This is a good reboot. This movie brought back the roots of what made Friday the 13th films bloody entertaining except Jason goes to hell and Jason X, erase that outer space bs narrative off. Jason is in his human form slicing, dicing and running after his victims like the early Friday films from the 80s before he became the zombie version in part 6. Now, what gets under my skin is people bashing this movie, really?..really?...like really?..What did you expect from a slasher film titled "FRIDAY THE 13TH"?? About a hockey masked killer murdering high-rolling, horny naive teenagers (Julianna Guill mmmm) in a summer camp, how simple? Duh!! Jason movies arent academy award winning material. They're entertaining b-movie slasher films. Marcus Nispel directed another reboot i enjoyed, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) with Jessica Biel. When I read he was gonna direct this Friday reboot I counted that he'll do a classic job and he did. I was hoping the sequel get made with Nispel directing again but it didnt happen because they were trying to make Jason a "bankable" character, whatever. The only thing I didnt like about this film is Jason kidnapping one of the victims because she looked like his mother. No Jason, kidnapping is not your thing, your motto is "kill kill kill ma ma ma" but I still like this movie. Derek Mears played a good Jason, way better than that Frankenstein, doofy dude from "Freddy vs Jason". Mears Jason is similar to Ted White's from part 4 "The Final Chapter": agile, flexible, fast.
This is pretty much what you'd expect from producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel (whose 2003 "Texas Chainsaw" revamp wasn't bad at all, but there's not much to say for his films since, including the "Conan the Barbarian" remake): It's slick, loud, has a lot of action, no interesting ideas or individual style, and is watchable but just not very good-in short, an acceptable time-waster you probably won't even remember whether you saw in a year or two. It feels more generic than some of the original "Friday" films, even though it's better produced than most were. Here we get a brief prologue of the (restaged) first film's ending, then what seems like the very hasty dispatch of a new set of modern-day victims-but it turns out they comprise just ANOTHER prologue, and the "real" story starts twenty-odd minutes in and six weeks later. Now we've got yet more nubile young campers on the chopping block, this group slightly more differentiated by virtue of being including a black guy, an Asian guy, and a gay guy, plus the usual blonde babes and alpha male jerk rich kid who owns the deluxe country "cabin" where they're spending the weekend. Not traveling with them is the brother of a missing girl whom we know didn't make it past the first reel. We also meet a few of the local rubes, who are mean toward outsiders and thus deserve their own grisly fates. In addition, we briefly see Jason after he loses a hood and before he finds a hockey mask. He is not pretty, but it really seems a bigger deal should be made of his unmasking than this movie bothers with. The script doesn't really replicate the first film's narrative, such as it was, but neither does it come up with any notable updates beyond the news that the woods around old Camp Crystal Lake are now full of illegal marijuana-itself a more recent horror cliche. (Like sex, you covet the weed, you're gonna die.) The deaths are violent, natch, but rather perfunctory, as if Nispel weren't all that interested-but come on, what's the point of making a "Friday the 13th" movie if you're not going to make the deaths spectacular? I guess you could say "To expand upon the mythology/backstory," but this movie doesn't make the least effort in that direction. If anything, Nispel's "Friday" de-mythologizes Jason to no obvious benefit, as we eventually see way too much of him, and have to accept the far-fetched notion that he's simply been living in the abandoned camp for nearly four decades undetected while people frequently disappear forever in the area. Yet as before, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere without ever making a noise, like the semi-supernatural Jason of yore. There's a bit of a "Texas Chainsaw" vibe to the fact that we realize Jason sometimes keeps victims alive for a while in the catacombs beneath a cabin, but no explanation whatsoever why. This being a Michael Bay joint, there is some routine loutish humor and Hooters-level ogling. I'm pretty sure if someone actually came up with a script that exploited T&A but was actually kinda clever about it, he'd say "That's too smart for my audience." (No, you're underestimating your audience.)This movie is well-shot and energetic with OK performances, but I'm pretty sure at some point in the near future I won't even be able to remember whether I saw it, or am simply confusing it with some other horror sequel/reboot.
The 2009 remake, Friday the 13th, is the reaction to weakness being attacked by the reaction to guilt. The target is one kind of transport, and the attacker is another kind of transport. The transport which is committing the assault is a transport which is subject to time and isn't subject to time. The other transport is a transport where afterwards and timelessness have the power to be synonymous.In Friday the 13th (2009), a traveller who is the timelessness of afterwards and the timed nature of timelessness is being made a victim to a traveller who is the nature of just different types of time being identical. The victim traveller is the privilege of timelessness being incorrect and the menace traveller is the burden of order being incorrect.For one traveller, the importance of right and wrong is wrong. For the other traveller, chaos is right to be chaos. For the menace traveller, morality is the rejection of morality. For the victim traveller, immorality is the acceptance of immorality. For the menace traveller, responsibility means to be wicked. For the victim traveller, responsibility means to reject responsibility. So in other words, Friday the 13th (2009) is about inconsistency being a victim and it's about inconsistency being the creation of a victim. Inconsistency is the injury and it's the cause of the injury.An inconsistency is a violation of rules. In light of this, the violation is something which is acting as a victim and as the abuser. The act of betrayal is the act of abusiveness and victimisation.To be abusive, and to be the target of the abuse is in fact the very same behaviour. Abuse is the mandate of history, and so is being a target of abuse. The ensuing logic, therefore, is that it's not possible to be a victim of abuse without having first made an arrangement with the abuser. Because of this, the abuser is forever exempt from criticism due to their misconduct.Subsequently, the abuser must be criticised on the sole basis that their abusiveness isn't why they're being criticised. The abuser can be prevented from committing abuse, however, the source of the obstacle to abusiveness must derive from not wanting to criticise abusiveness itself. Only when peace acts against itself can abusiveness have a chance of being stopped.To prevent wickedness, peace has a responsibility to attack itself.Since peace is the structure of no observation - symmetry is no observation - the very prospect of peace turning on itself is the root theme of Friday the 13th. The lack of observation is equal, and it's the lack of observation which has a responsibility to attack itself. But how?In Friday the 13th (2009), the act of seeing is treated and has the effect of being a source of torment. Being seen by other people is treated by the movie as a source of humiliation - and this applies to all the characters, but not Jason. When people see Jason, the effect is sympathy and subservience. When "normal people" see each other, the effect is embarrassment, satire and shyness.The source of satire and abuse has been made into peace by the satire and abuse being linked to sight, which is what highlights the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th a genius work of art. The script accomplishes its goal, of getting peace to prevent wickedness by attacking peace by realising the truth that sight itself is the wickedness. The basic act of sight is the true source of evil.To Willa Ford, Jared Padalecki, Derek Mears, Julianna Guill, Amanda Righetti, Danielle Panabaker, America Olivo, Aaron Yoo, Ben Feldman, Travis Van Winkle, Jonathan Sadowski and Arlen Escarpeta: you should all be very proud, and very satisfied with the movie that you were part of. The movie that you were part of is a movie which links beauty to the inability to see. The victims of Jason all have an aura of visual beauty about them, or a behaviour of beauty, and the point of this is to symbolise the wickedness of sight. To see is to be abusive, and future evolution ought to mean the inability to observe
Typical horror movie with bunch of idiot teenagers, one smart guy, a killer and a lot of sex scenes but well, it wasn't like i was expecting something else. The only reason why i watched it was Jared Padalecki and really, he was the only good thing about this movie. He at least wasn't the one playing one of these morons who get themselves killed because they 're just too stupid to survive.