Friday the 13th on Friday the 13th
Just got back from seeing the first local showing (and the only matinee) of Friday the 13th.
I found it interesting that they were double carding the show. Once at the ticket counter, then a cop was stationed outside the theater. I haven't actually seen anyone carded for a movie since The French Lieutenant's Woman.
I was surprised and delighted to see that Jared got top billing. Yay! Both our boys got top billing in their summer projects. Woo and hoo!
Also? Jared looked really good.
They did a pretty good job massaging the story to work for modern audiences. Everything made sense (inasmuch as such things can), but there wasn't really a mystery involved, so you pretty much knew what was going to happen.
Interesting production note: the first listed producer for this F13 was the director of the original.
Jared's character rode a motorcycle. Now, a couple of you know that I have a thing for motorcycles. Jared, though, has such long legs that the standard sized 'cycle almost looked like a scooter. Not quite that bad, but they guy is huge, I'm tellin' ya.
But did I mention that Jared looked good?
His character was very endearing and just made the jerk in the movie that much jerkier. He had a lot of Sam Winchester going on, but different. Obviously, a lot of it is the way the actor plays the role, and this movie overall was more about the action than the character development, but Clay is extremely likable, I think.
The gal who played Jenna . . . last name Panabaker (Danielle? Amanda?) Anyway, whichever one she is, her sister, the other one, played Rob Morrow's daughter in a TV movie called Custody.
Also, I had forgotten that Richard Burgi (who most recently played opposite Jared as Dad Kincaid in The Christmas Cottage) was going to be in this. Everybody sing! "It's a small world after all . . . "
The Asian-American guy has the best first line in the entire movie. I actually laughed at a lot of this.
I also jumped quite a few times. Whereas MBV telegraphed its kills because of the 3-D effect, this one was a little more subtle in a lot of places.
There were some very graphic sex scenes, so, you know, be aware of that.
And leghold traps are cruel and evil.
At one point, one of the people Clay asks about his sister was working with a wood chipper. As soon as that thing showed up, I knew someone was going to go that way. And toward the end, I feared it would be Jared. It's not cool seeing that lovely face that close to the spinning blades of a wood chipper. Just no.
At one point, I was also very put out when I thought they'd killed Clay. Then I consoled myself with the fact that he hadn't gone horribly and bloodily. Then I heard his voice calling to the girl who was being menaced, and it was good.
Overall, it's not a movie I particularly need to see again. I'm delighted I saw Jared on the big screen (did I mention that he got top billing? *squee*), and it was shot rather prettily (inasmuch as a slasher flick can be called "pretty"). But the murders were really gruesome, I thought, and I didn't watch a lot of them.
Oh! And Nana Visitor played Pam Voorhees.
Oh! And they used Sister Christian in one spot.
And Jared looked good.
So, yeah. Overall it was a fun afternoon. Just, you know, really gory and cringe-inducing.
izhilzha? There are a couple things I think I should warn you about. Remind me the next time we chat.
I found it interesting that they were double carding the show. Once at the ticket counter, then a cop was stationed outside the theater. I haven't actually seen anyone carded for a movie since The French Lieutenant's Woman.
I was surprised and delighted to see that Jared got top billing. Yay! Both our boys got top billing in their summer projects. Woo and hoo!
Also? Jared looked really good.
They did a pretty good job massaging the story to work for modern audiences. Everything made sense (inasmuch as such things can), but there wasn't really a mystery involved, so you pretty much knew what was going to happen.
Interesting production note: the first listed producer for this F13 was the director of the original.
Jared's character rode a motorcycle. Now, a couple of you know that I have a thing for motorcycles. Jared, though, has such long legs that the standard sized 'cycle almost looked like a scooter. Not quite that bad, but they guy is huge, I'm tellin' ya.
But did I mention that Jared looked good?
His character was very endearing and just made the jerk in the movie that much jerkier. He had a lot of Sam Winchester going on, but different. Obviously, a lot of it is the way the actor plays the role, and this movie overall was more about the action than the character development, but Clay is extremely likable, I think.
The gal who played Jenna . . . last name Panabaker (Danielle? Amanda?) Anyway, whichever one she is, her sister, the other one, played Rob Morrow's daughter in a TV movie called Custody.
Also, I had forgotten that Richard Burgi (who most recently played opposite Jared as Dad Kincaid in The Christmas Cottage) was going to be in this. Everybody sing! "It's a small world after all . . . "
The Asian-American guy has the best first line in the entire movie. I actually laughed at a lot of this.
I also jumped quite a few times. Whereas MBV telegraphed its kills because of the 3-D effect, this one was a little more subtle in a lot of places.
There were some very graphic sex scenes, so, you know, be aware of that.
And leghold traps are cruel and evil.
At one point, one of the people Clay asks about his sister was working with a wood chipper. As soon as that thing showed up, I knew someone was going to go that way. And toward the end, I feared it would be Jared. It's not cool seeing that lovely face that close to the spinning blades of a wood chipper. Just no.
At one point, I was also very put out when I thought they'd killed Clay. Then I consoled myself with the fact that he hadn't gone horribly and bloodily. Then I heard his voice calling to the girl who was being menaced, and it was good.
Overall, it's not a movie I particularly need to see again. I'm delighted I saw Jared on the big screen (did I mention that he got top billing? *squee*), and it was shot rather prettily (inasmuch as a slasher flick can be called "pretty"). But the murders were really gruesome, I thought, and I didn't watch a lot of them.
Oh! And Nana Visitor played Pam Voorhees.
Oh! And they used Sister Christian in one spot.
And Jared looked good.
So, yeah. Overall it was a fun afternoon. Just, you know, really gory and cringe-inducing.
izhilzha? There are a couple things I think I should warn you about. Remind me the next time we chat.