The new Friday the 13th remake looks dumb.

[Drunken Irishman]

And I was kind of digging it from the earlier trailers.

The problem I have with it is Crystal Lake appears to be abandoned, which means no children and cute camp counselors in very short shorts. I've never taken the series seriously, knowing it's a very tongue in cheek horror movie, but this version actually tries to be serious and I know because of this it will fail.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Oh man. When did the fun go out of the "Monster kills sexay teens" genre?

grr.

[Deja Q]

4. When all the teens were 6 months pregnant? Or at least looked it?

:wow:

[PVnRT]

2. Damn. No wrapping victims around a tree? Folding them in half in their sleeping bags?

Fuck that noise.

[dembotoz]

3. do you imply there was one that was not dumb????

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Yes.

As I said, the Friday series rarely took itself seriously. It was a gore & boob fest and that is exactly what fans wanted.

This version, though, looks serious in tone and that doesn't fly with me. I want cheesy fun with awesome kills.

Like the poster above you said, a kill involving Jason wrapping a girl wrapped in a sleeping bag around a tree. Fucking sweet.

[SoxFan]

6. Right. It lacks the intellectual nuance of the first 426.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Exactly!

How can Friday the 13th series have any credibility after this?

It's just not possible.

:P

[Forkboy]

8. What, as opposed to the original?

;)

[Mike 03]

9. The first "Friday the 13th" was so preposterous and lame that the audience I saw the film with

was cheering the killer. Critics, who were right, said the victims deserved to be killed because they were so damned dumb, and I agree. Why would a remake be better?