Movie Defense Force: Freddy vs. Jason

[uzo]

Hey that was fun too. I like this new stuff Jim. Keep it up.

I presume you're getting a mountain of requests, but I'd like to mention a few (semi-)terrible movies I'm a huge fan of (in that embarrassing kind of way). I've always loved The Craft, but especially the more recent film SKYLINE.

Grossly hammered by critics ... but holy shit what a freakin' cool movie. I remembered watching one reviewer in particular ***** about how the main character has no development in the story and just rrrrrrrrrraging. He goes from 'oh shit, you're pregnant?! I don't think this is gonna work out ...' to becoming Daddy Hulk. That's a pretty big fuckin' development. It's like Hitler starting the movie as a genocidal maniac and ending up running a small orphanage for Jewish children.

 

[Undeadpool]

I absolutely LOVED this movie when I saw it in theaters and I think part of that is that I, and a group of friends, had just gone back and watched a couple of the originals, so there were no rose-tinted lenses and, yeah, agree with Jim absolutely. Came in expecting:

1) Gory, ridiculous kills
2) Freddy and Jason throwing down
3) Some T&A

The movie absolutely delivered 3/3 and more (THANK YOU for acknowledging the plot is ACTUALLY pretty great by series standards! I think that gets lost in the discussion a great deal).

 

[Bradley Stone]

Jim's going to have to do a MDF on how the Friday the 13th movies could possibly be better than the Nightmare on elm st's, it's a claim he made in this piece that both requires backing up and would also make for interesting content.

The Fridays are okay, there's plenty of content and squirm, but frankly the Nightmares are better aligned, more comprehensive and hold better congruence.

Thank god for Jim.

 

[Jimothy Sterling]

To be honest, I like both Freddy VS Jason and the Nightmare series (and Friday the 13th to some smaller extent). I completely agree that FvJ is better than it has any right to be and that it's way to integrate both movies' settings is a lot more clever than could be expected of something like this. The result is a completely enjoyable and fun slasher flick.

I disagree somewhat that VS is better than any Nightmare film, though, but I guess that's a matter of taste.

 

[emeraldrafael]

next week on no right answer, which is worse, Freddy vs Jason or Aliens vs Predator.

but no, seriously, I didnt mind Freddy vs Jason when I saw it. I thought it was pretty decent for what it was.

 

[Richard Norley]

"...but we/all of us have to accept they're almost all universally, dreadfully garbage. Once we do that, we can accept a very simple truth: Freddy versus Jason is better than any single movie installment of either series."

While you do go on to defend your opinion, this statement has me bashing my head into a wall.
No, I am not being a fan boy here. The contrast between those two sentences is just maddening.

 

[likalaruku]

My only disappointments in the movie was that the best kill was in the first 5 minutes, & that the alternative ending where Freddy wins wasn't the default ending.

 

[Diceman]

Been a favourite of mine for quite a while because it's a crossover, the main characters are essentially immortal for reasons no one actually cares about going into enough to screw it up, and honestly? It's entirely aware of how ridiculous it could be, but still plays the funny bits funny, and the gore/deaths 'properly' in that people die, and there's no terrible effects.

 

[Ashley Blalock]

I watched it a $2 theater with some friends who had also seen most of the slasher movies from the Freddy and Jason slasher flick days. We loved it because we remembered just how cheesy the slasher movie period was and we didn't mind laughing about which victims spent lots of money on their boob job.

Given some of the attempts to revive film series Freddy vs Jason is far better than it has any right to be. Without the cheese it would have missed the spirit of the original films, but it also had enough thought put into it that there was a good reason for Freddy and Jason to go slicing and dicing on each other in an over the top undead battle.

 

[wetfart]

I went into FvJ expecting the following:

Freddy
Jason
Some humans that I don't really care about and will ultimately be picked off one by one.

I got everything I expected and wanted from the film and I enjoyed it greatly.

 

[kindredalt]

I loved this movie! Not as much as some of Freddy's solos, but right up there. The movie was FUN, which allot of people forget is sometimes all you want from a movi. Same goes for last week's Waterworld. The first movie I think of though when talking about underrated films is Jim Carry's "Cable Guy" which I found to be a brilliant satire of modern TV culture, hope you'll do one about it (if you liked it, that is).

 

[Aptspire]

And everyone ever forgot the absence of ANY supernatural elements in the first Friday the 13th movie :/
The last 5 minute jump scare is imagined by the girl.
It is the strongest movie of the lot, as long as you ignore *every* sequel
*Raises flame shield
Come at me Jim!

 

[HalfTangible]

....

I wanna see Daleks vs Xenomorphs now. =(

 

[Matthew Abbott]

My problem with the film wasn't so much "this isn't the Freddy vs. Jason I've been waiting for," it was "why, precisely, did this movie need to be made?" I never really thought a matchup between a zombie (who presumably doesn't sleep) and a ghost (who can only kill you when you are asleep) would have been a natural pairing. Still I did enjoy the heck out of the movie when I eventually saw it. However, I do disagree with Jim about it being better than any of the films in either series. Nightmare was pretty lackluster overall, but I think that the 1st film as well as New Nightmare are better than FvJ. And I have a warm place in my heart for the Friday films, and like most of them better than FvJ (although I'm one of those aberrations that liked Part V, so I don't know how much my opinion counts for)