true, altough a good remake indeed:)

lets just hope the remake of A nightmare on elm st is just as good

I'll watch the Elm St remake but I'm not sure if I'll dig it. I just can't see another actor being Freddy.

No, let's hope the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street is actually good.

If you didn't like the F13 remake or other ones why would you bother checking out remakes when your just going to be disappointed?

Was that directed at me? I'll answer it anyhow. I'm not disappointed at remakes, I like The Thing, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, and a few others I can't think of. Just things with Michael Bay's name tend to suck. Maybe Nightmare on Elm Street will be better. I haven't given up on film's he produced, just the one's he directed.

I thought the movie was good. It certainly entertained me and I do hope it gets a sequel.
I thought the ending was pretty predictable, but as a remake I think I would have been disappointed if they hadn't had Jason erupt from the water to attack one of the survivors.
That's one of the best known scenes of the entire series.
Although I think he should have been maskless when he did it.

Very good Friday the 13th movie in my opinion. Some parts kind of unpredictable, Jason was more original in the way he killed, and his new style of running wasn't too bad either. It wasn't my favorite Friday flick, but it def. was not the worst.

I watched about six minutes of it on www.movie6.net and I have to say I hated all six minutes. Which is the reason why I only watched six minutes of it. The "Friday The 13th" series is my favorite horror series of all time. I was introduced to it as a child. I do not approve of the remake.

Okay, overall I did not like this remake. It's too bad because I REALLY liked The Texas Chainsaw remake too. I actually liked the bulky, trotting, brutality of Jason and I liked the look of him. I also liked the different use of weapons and objects to kill people. However, the freaking dialogue was AWEFUL, it was terribly written. I can understand Platinum Dunes was going for the more 80's campy style horror with the dialogue and story but it was just terrible. I couldn't stand the cast nor the acting for the most part. Very disappointed in this movie. Not quite as big of a let down as Halloween remake was but still pretty damn bad.

I watched it last night and i thought that it was good. It was even better to see Jason run through the movie and not Mrs Vorhees like in the original. The final moments were bloody typical though. There were some good moments and kills here.

I think it was ok I wuld give it a c just kinda bland for me and I thought it was a remake but it seems so different than I remember the original I have to watch the original again.

Well its not a remake of the original Friday the 13th since Jason isn't the killer in that film. they show Pamela Voorhees as the killer in the opening sequence then the rest of the film is sort a bits of 2 and 3. He wears the hood for a while like in 2 and then gets the mask for the first time as in 3.

God I have to watch those again I dont remember any of that. Thanks for the insite

aside from the mask change, it didn't really have many elements from 2 or 3. It was an original movie based on the familiar concept, which I liked.

I hated everything about this movie, it did not feel like a Friday 13th movie,
i just did not like to Jason at all.

I Hated this more then The Omen remake

I Went to see Friday the 13th at the cinema.
and now own the dvd. And own the legacy of the original flicks on vhses.
As for a sequel to the remake.. there's now a word up on one.
Check out the scoop and more at http://upcominghorrormovies.com/movie/friday-13th-2

Saw this yesterday. Too literal. The idea didn't move anywhere. Why bother?

I thought it was awesome, especially compared to all the shit sequels past part 4.

Low standards shouldn't be an excuse for mediocrity.

I concur 100%

thought it was a big waste of time.

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i just saw friday the 13th yesterday, and its just ok for me. i thought it would have been better than that. what they should do is have kane hodder come back to play jason.i think this guy who they have to play jason stinks. BRING BACK KANE HODDER:(

I could have sworn there was already a thread about this...
...But yeah, you're correct Ft13th remake blew.

Hodder would not have been able to save that piece of shit movie unless he donned the mask, grabbed a machete and proceeded to chop up the writers involved. I mean, Jason becomes a Vietnamese tunnel rat under Camp Crystal Lake? WTF?

I thought it wasn't bad....

Its not like the francise is a master piece or anything and some of them are just plain bad.

The film was on the cusp of retarded, with one exception; Julianna Guill's cans. That part was nice... but sad to say, perfect tits don't make a slasher... they help, but they don't make the movie.

I didnt think it was that bad either. Id a whole lot rather watch it again than most of the sequals. After part 3 they really started going downhill.

I thought it was ok. Better then what I expected. Liked how they made him some what intelligent instead of just a mindless killing machine.

i saw it a few weeks ago and i have to say it was good. better than the original.

The original was no Kurosawa that's for sure, and hell, the "original" didn't have Kane Hodder as Jason ANYWAY. It was an ok modern slasher, nothing more, nothing less.

I cant compare it to the original because I dont really consider it a remake. Jason wasnt in the original (not counting the infamous lake scene) so I guess you could call this one a re-imagining more then a straight on remake. Both have very little in common IMO and should not be compared like they are the same movie.

I started watching this with high hopes as I enjoyed the remake of 'Halloween'
but ended up being disappointed due to findng it pretty mediocre and predictable.

Me thinks your profile name shows you holds a mild bias... ;)
...a question; Technically, isn't every re-make a re-imagining? I don't think I've ever seen a re-make that was absolutely true and verbatim to the original. If so, what's the point of the re-make?
Ft13th (2k9 edition) sucked and here's why: I want you to imagine a cool $19,000,000.00 sitting in your bank account and the only thing you have planned for the next year is Christmas. A husky voice calls you on the phone and says: "friday13thfan (place name here), did you get that money I wired to your account? The general public has been itching for a Ft13th remake and you, being as massive a fan as you are, are the only man knowledgeable enough in this series to create it. What do you envision the 2009 edition Friday the 13th, being like?"
Would your end result be anything close to what Hollywood has done or would it be a genuinely unique experience that followed in the footsteps of it's predecessor?

...think about it.

Oh I'm not saying it was great or anything or even good. The plot was predictable and the kills not very unique. I like Jason himself more then the movie itself. Also this screenname was picked when i was 13 back in 03 so my taste have changed, though voorhees will always be my fav slasher. Mine would follow more in the steps of the predecessor with lots of studying of all the paramount films but with minor changes to breath new life into the series but not go overboard with it.

Night Of the Living Dead 1990 is almost a verbatim version of the 1968 classic...lol

I thought it was good, and a lot less boring than some of the other Friday films. Everyone seems to complain that the remake had a lack of plot, but what about the old films? Aside from the first movie, there was no real plot. Does anyone watch Jason flicks for quality storyline? =/

Lmao...good point posher, but the idea to have "Jason Voorhees" hold a girl hostage the whole movie, is rediculous in itself. When in history have tou known Jason to not kill anyone he comes in contact with, or surely not grab them and lock him/her in a cage somewhere in the woods for later. and jason took a girl closer her up in a sleeping bag, tied rope around her feet, rigged it to a tree, set up a fire...oh, he koew her boyfriend would be back so he rigged a bear trap in his path and sat back and watched huh?

True, but when has Jason not had good kill luck like that? No one ever gets away from Jason (heroes excluded, obviously), and most of the people walk RIGHT into traps. Bear traps included.

normally he kills with random weapons then display the corpse for some unlucky camper to stumble across. she was burning alive, noone ever gets to see him kill his victims (very rare) but they come across the body(hanging from a tree, nailed to a door,etc.).

Part 6 had a decent enough story, and is by far the best in the series.