could this get any stupider?

[mickeym]

Seriously. Matthew's watching some of the "Friday the 13th" marathon that's on AMC...and I'm sorry. With all due respect to people who like that series of movies, this one -- Part III -- is so stupid I'm in danger of hurting myself from rolling my eyes so much.

Is it supposed to be scary? Because I'm not scared. Not even a smidge. Possibly because I'm getting hung up on the overly-dramatic pauses and stupid dialogue?

Okay. Girl is pushing at the door while big strong man stands there. "I can't get this door open." They push the door open and the guy says (while clicking the light switches) "the lights aren't working", and just says it so *serious*.

Guy just says, "I'm going to take a look around outside." So girl says, "wait a minute, I'm coming with you," and grabs a lantern (which was just handy) to go in another room, saying, "are you here?"

HE JUST SAID HE WAS GOING OUTSIDE.

I would go upstairs but I'm comfy on the couch...though I may have to, just to save my braincells that clearly going to atrophy and die.

Comments

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the only one I like as a movie more than as a group event is Jason X, which is actually pretty decent. I don't know if I've seen III or not.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

It looks astonishingly like II, which was on just before this one -- which could be part of my crankiness *g* Of course the 80's hair and clothing styles are also making me all >_< (One of the -- literally -- throw-away characters was a "tough girl" who looked like a cross between a Sheena Easton/Olivia Newton-John wanna-be, except with more leather.)

Also, any time Jason was supposed to be appearing, there was this sibilant whisper of "kill kill kill kill" over and over, until SUDDENLY! THERE HE IS!

It wasn't scary at all (in fact, if, as the audience, you're being warned that the scary guy is coming, it kind of negates the scary effect), and only annoyed me further.

I have now relocated upstairs. Couldn't deal anymore. *g*

[munibunny.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that thing makes me LOL like crazy. That's the fun part, though, right?

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I am such a horror-movie wimp that that would probably scare me, even as I might be rolling my eyes and going, "THIS IS THE DUMBEST EVAR." I think I just didn't get desensitized to them as a kid.

[nopseud]

Girl is pushing at the door while big strong man stands there. "I can't get this door open." They push the door open and the guy says (while clicking the light switches) "the lights aren't working", and just says it so *serious*.

My theory with films like that is that they're aimed primarily at an audience of drunk students. So you can actually watch the film while lying on the floor with your eyes closed and still follow it perfectly well.

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

I think most horror movies that come in a series of five billion are watched for lols. (Then you have Nightmare on Elm Street, where they accidentally make New Nightmare as the 4350850th movie and it's awesome.)

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

...okay now I'm sitting here thinking what a great surprise New Nightmare was and wanting to rent it again. (They did the only thing they could to revisit the mindfuckery of the first one and went DOUBLE META. It was so above the bar of the other six zillion movies!)