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The real problem with this remake...

posted 9 years ago by darthdoctor1
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None of the Friday The 13th movies are good. No matter how much to try to justify it, even the first one was pretty bad. But the original franchise had nonsensical BIZARRE set ups that made them enjoyable and kept drawing fans back to the franchise. This movie had none of that, and it took the fun, nonsensical rubbish out of it.

Now Friday The 13th, when you really look at the story, could actually be quite moving as it is scary. You could get a good... trilogy out of it maybe. Maybe get someone who understands its potential to direct a remake. OR, if you want to please the old school fans, do something bizarre and corny to draw us back. Jason Vs Wolfman or something.

Don't take the simple story and draw all the fun out of it, because then all you're left with are dull cliches and dull characters.

[–] tHeHaNdThAtMoCkeD 9 years ago

I always had an idea that the next Friday the 13th should be told as an anthology.

My argument for it is that you can establish several story lines and characters over a given period of time, and create a lore for some sort of a curse on Crystal Lake, then build your anthology around said curse.

IIRC there's a comic book called Friday the 13th Bad Land, which explains the curse on Crystal Lake involving a group of outlaws and a Native American family. Lotsa bloodshed. http://fridaythe13th.wikia.com/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_Bad_Land

Use that as a brief opening, then follow three story lines: Jason's mother as the killer. Jason as the killer. Fake Jason as the killer (copycat killer.) All told as campfire stories in the present by a bunch of teenage counselors.

The final story involves these campers themselves.

But of course it really doesn't matter much in the long run as I am not apart of the production crew. This is merely my wild imagination.

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