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Originally Posted by Caligari
There is a problem with your sentiment in regards to the Friday The 13th series of movies.
The first film was truly groundbreaking and shocking (for the time) and truly the grandaddy of the slasher/splatter film as we know it today.
All of the subsequent films were fucking awful, hence at the end some smart person thought "you know, why make just another pile of predictable shit when we can at least be inventive and get a few laughs?"
And so Jason X was born. To hell with keeping a "brilliant" theme going, there was no brilliant theme, it was the only way to end what had long become a crappy series of films.
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I don't think you thoroughly read my post. While I am a fan of the first 9 Friday the 13th films, my sentiment towards the individual movies varies. Nowhere did I say the entire serious of movies was brilliant. In fact, I said the opposite in post, though slightly indirectly:
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Originally Posted by NaughtyVisions
but now we're gonna make a movie that spits your face and calls you a loser for trying to defend the endless chain of sequels that we've been putting out for the past x number of years. Now, not only do your friends think you're a fool for taking our bait for the past x years...
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That whole segment referred to defending the shittiness, yet awesome-ness of the sequels. Yes, I know plot wise the sequels stir the intellect about as well as Robert Pattinson can act in Twilight, but they were made for their splatter. The only thing that I said was brilliant was that the writers of Jason Goes To Hell actually came up with a damn good explanation for why Jason managed to return from the dead 7 times. And they also came up with a final way to kill him permanently. When I saw it in the theater, as sad as I was that Jason would no longer be wreaking havoc, I felt resolve that the series had ended in a fitting and somewhat intelligent manner. When word of Jason X broke, I was actually pissed off that the logic dispensed in Jason Goes To Hell was disregarded just because New Line and Sean Cunninghams' dicks got hard for some more cash.
Ultimately, Jason X was a piece of shit that did more harm to the original series than many of its sequels. Take for example it's reason for being made:
The film was conceived by Todd Farmer and was the only pitch he gave to the studio for the movie, having suggested sending Jason into space as a means to advance the franchise while Freddy vs. Jason was still in development hell.
Jason X wasn't "great" at all. Take for example the films reception:
The film made $13,121,555 domestically, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series. It earned $3,830,243 foreign for a worldwide gross of $16,951,798. Even though it was higher than the budget, this was a box office bomb for that reason alone.[3]
The film was critically panned as well. Roger Ebert wrote a scathing review of the film, quoting the film's line "This sucks on so many levels."
Jason X should have never been made. The only logical and natural progession from Jason Goes To Hell would have been either Jason vs. Freddy, or the complete reboot of the series, as was just recently done.
Source for italicized quotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_X