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Post by janntosh on Aug 15, 2023 12:21:24 GMT
the much-awaited crossover film between the two horror icons. Bland characters and performances prevent this from being as memorable as it should be but the film at least delivers the Freddy and Jason action that we want. Much better than the following year's crossover Alien vs. Predator. Robert Englund is also a blast in his in final performance as the character. Surprisingly there was no follow up.  |
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Aug 15, 2023 13:56:56 GMT
So who won? Some say Jason, others Freddy.
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Post by James on Aug 15, 2023 15:07:56 GMT
Always enjoyed it, flawed as it may be.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Aug 15, 2023 17:19:11 GMT
It’s a no from me.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 15, 2023 18:09:26 GMT
Like Alien vs Predator, it should have been done 10-15 years earlier.
I think they should do a Scream vs Saw crossover.
I can almost picture how they could do it with Tobin Bell setting traps for Ghostface and the voice
reacting to them.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 15, 2023 20:27:30 GMT
When you read about some of the bizarre concepts they floated for this movie, like setting it in the New Nightmare universe where Jason is on trial like OJ, it makes you appreciate the simple and straightforward approach they took. It's simply Freddy fighting Jason...albeit for about 20 minutes at the very end.
The way it combines the two characters is clever, and there are some great individual moments before the finale (like Jason killing someone in the real world while Freddy is terrorizing them in the dream world), but it just takes way too long to get there, and it doesn't help that that first hour is spent on characters who are thinly drawn and uninteresting even by the standards of a Friday the 13th movie.
It also bothered me that this was the first genuine Elm Street movie in 12 years and they hired two guys who clearly had no idea or interest in using Freddy creatively. The dream sequences are dull as sin, and Freddy gets a whopping one kill in the entire movie and a lame one at that.
But those last 20 minutes were pretty epic, especially seeing it opening weekend with a crowded theater
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 16, 2023 5:32:24 GMT
I like it now but hated it when I first saw it. One of the first R rated films I seen in a theater.
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