| Posted by: Trash Bag Man at August 1, 2002, 11:20 pm | | Topic: Friday the 13th (1980) -----> Rating: 3/10 Forum: JoBlo | Quote: Originally Posted by urbanlegend23:
FRIDAY THE 13TH
RATING: 3/10 Starring: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Laurie Bartram
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Year of Release: 1980
Genre: Horror
Reviewer: urbanlegend23 Ahahahahahahahahaha…phew…woah…okay, I’ll calm down. Sorry, I just got finished watching FRIDAY THE 13TH and I still can’t get over how funny it was. That was just by far the funniest comedy I’ve watched in a long time. Oh…what, you say? It’s meant to be a horror film? Even funnier! As much as I wanted to like this movie, I really just couldn’t bring myself to agree with the 4-star reviews that claim this movie to be “genre defining.” It defines comedy perfectly. But horror, as its intended genre is? No! I’ll just explain the comedy parts now – all of it. This is an endlessly unintentionally funny film, and that’s the only reason it kept me watching. FRIDAY THE 13TH is seriously so bad, corny, contrived, silly and predictable its funny. The part where Marcie is killed is one of the most laughable scenes in the film; her scream is a classic, extremely funny! MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE END OF THE FILM The ending is however, the most laugh inducing, and one of the stupidest finales I’ve ever seen. Betsy Palmer is presented with a very dumb twist. “Kill her Mummy…kill her!” The revenge story is really stupid, and raises many questions. The beheading of the killer is hilarious! I was chuckling about that all night! Although most viewers claim the ending to be “shocking”, “disturbing” and “horrifically scary”, I found it uproariously and unintentionally funny. It also really annoyed me though; it presents a killer we haven’t seen throughout the entire film that totally ruined any element of mystery. Also, what was with the Jason guy grabbing the chick at the end? He’s been underwater for 30-40 years, and suddenly he’s just ALIVE! I know this inspired the killer of the rest of the series, but please, who is stupid enough to buy that? It’s also confusing because at first it appears to be a dream and then turns into reality, it ultimately felt me muddled. END SPOILERS Another horrible thing about the movie was the characters and actors who played them. I hated all the characters and didn’t care at all about their deaths. The only one I really even liked mildly was Brenda, who would’ve been a better heroine than laughable Alice was. The characters are people I didn’t respect and who did such stupid things (oh my gosh, I’ve just found a couple of dead bodies…so now I’ll run into the dark part of the forest, screaming my head off, so the killer can hear me!). The actors are all bad, none of them bring life to their dull characters and none of them give plausible or memorable performances. Betsy Palmer tries to be creepy with her role but just isn’t scary at all. It is mostly due to the terrible script, which gives her some ultra-stupid lines to utter. Adrienne King is the worst of all, the scene where she is trying to block the killer from coming in the house is very badly acted (a smart move by the character though), and she says “oooh” and “no” too many times and is needed to shut the hell up and use some source of communication (I’m sure there’s other things besides phones at camps). She really sucked in her role and I hated her character the most. The rest of the actors are mostly just forgettable. Harry Crosby is over-horny and annoying, Laurie Bartram (looking a lot like Jamie Lee Curtis) is the only actress who managed to be at least average in her role. Mark Nelson isn’t bad but isn’t great. Jeannine Taylor goes way over-the-top. Robbie Morgan (who plays Annie, but look at her first name!) appears to be a very keen actress but like Taylor is over-the-top. Kevin Bacon doesn’t have much to do and like Nelson isn’t bad or great. FRIDAY THE 13TH is a movie that definitely doesn’t live up to its potential. It had plenty of good ideas in here, the “Friday the 13th” setting is never done to justice though. There is but one sentence about it actually being the full-moon 13th it is but the plot could’ve been thickened by the potentially good idea that the Friday the 13th theme is. Crazy Ralph (Walt Gorney) could’ve had some cool plot twists in the story and maybe more involvement but he has 2 scenes and then disappears. There were a couple of good points in the movie. It entertained me because it was so unintentionally funny and if it didn’t try to be a horror movie and was actually a comedy in the first place, it would’ve been a way better film. The movie has some cool creepy music (Chi Chi Chi…Ha Ha Ha Ha…) and a few of the killings are terrific and gory (Kevin Bacon gets it bad in a great death scene). What is lacking though is any likeable characters, good actors, any real style or visual flair and its overall a movie that didn’t live up to the movie it could’ve of been or I heard it was. A big disappointment. As a comedy this would receive like a 9/10 because its just one of the funniest movies ever, but as a horror or a serious film altogether it receives a very poor grade. </font> actually, you want to know what was a horrible movie? urban legend... |
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