Jason X takes place on a space station or something, but it still has stupid teenagers for Jason fodder, right?
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
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tommyrot - Sep 06, 2004 8:01:40 pm PDT #3657 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2004 8:03:27 pm PDT #3658 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jason X takes place on a space station or something, but it still has stupid teenagers for Jason fodder, right?
Stupid, sex-crazed teenagers, yes. They're on a space ship, and the teens are students...of something. Jason is woken up by, I kid you not, rampant teenage hormones. The sex reaches climax and Jason gets up and is all, "Teenagers are having sex! I MUST KILL THEM!"
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2004 8:05:04 pm PDT #3659 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Or Nightmare on Elm Street or Nightmare on Elm Street 2 or Friday the Thirteenth or Friday the Thirteenth 2. One of the GOOD movies from those franchises.
The only Jason movie I've seen is Friday the Thrirteenth Part III in 3-D. I only remember two scenes: One in which an eyeball pops out straight towards the audience (enhanced by the 3-D effect) and the other in which a joint is passed straight to the audience (people reached for it).
I've never seen any of the Nightmare movies, despite having the same last name as the killer.
Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2004 8:10:35 pm PDT #3660 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Also, the writer can't do math.
The movie is set in 2455.
Characters specifically mention years beyond 2000 as the setting of the prologue. 2010, in fact.
2455 is described as "455 years in the future, to be exact."
ETA: Okay, this "review" is awesome:
So far, the Voorhees Hypothesis has not ventured into wholly unexplainable territory, even for Hollywood. Yet, its sixth installment offers interchangeable teenage variables digging up Voorhees (a completely irrational act, even by the standards of the Craven Theorems). The seventh involves underwater telekinetic powers, which defies the superiority of the rational mind in the real, physical world. And in the eighth, it is proffered that Voorhees can somehow "take" Manhattan, though this seems somewhat plausible, considering that in the ninth, Voorhees supersedes Einstein's fourth dimensional conjecture, thus, he "Goes to Hell."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 06, 2004 8:26:31 pm PDT #3661 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Or Nightmare on Elm Street or Nightmare on Elm Street 2...
Really, I'd say the original and the third installments (the ones with Heather Langencamp) were the good ones in that franchise.
Jason Goes to Hell just depressed me by revealing what Erin Gray had been reduced to doing for work.
Continuing my movie extravaganza, I went with best friend to see Without a Paddle tonight. Not very good, but hey—at least Seth Green was fun and probably made six figures on it.
Scrappy - Sep 07, 2004 2:29:01 am PDT #3662 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The only Jason movie I've seen is Friday the Thrirteenth Part III in 3-D.
A good friend of ours was in this--one of those first acting jobs out of college things. He doesn't act anymore--he's a copyright attorney now, but he is still into it. He just did commentary for the DVD. He feels he is an arbiter of all things horror-movie-related, having been in one, and it's very much fun to wind him up and get him pontificating.
evil jimi - Sep 07, 2004 3:21:53 am PDT #3663 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I've only ever seen Friday the 13th Part II and the only time I jumped was at the beginning ... which was a scene from the first movie.
Lilty Cash - Sep 07, 2004 7:16:03 am PDT #3664 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Given, I'm a Friday the 13th fan in general, I feel the need to defend Jason X.
Is it GOOD? Oh, dear lord, no. But it is entertaining and wonderful in it's badness.
Betsy HP - Sep 07, 2004 7:17:59 am PDT #3665 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
She was fighting to the death, probably as many times as it took.
ita, now I am going to a bad undead wuxia place.
Polter-Cow - Sep 07, 2004 7:24:33 am PDT #3666 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is it GOOD? Oh, dear lord, no. But it is entertaining and wonderful in it's badness.
It didn't go far enough. It almost seemed like they were trying to be so-bad-it's-good, but then so many aspects made it seem like they were trying to be a real movie, it undercut the potential. All the "humor" came off as just inappropriate, out-of-place, and forced, when it could have been funny.