On this installment of my 100 Movies Bucket List Challenge, I watched a handful of films that were evenly split between those I had never seen and some that were re-visits for me. For the most part, nothing in this batch really stood out to me as being particularly awful, but a couple whose reputations preceded them certainly fell a bit short of expectations. Surprisingly all of the films that were re-watches more or less held up for me or exceeded my initial impressions. This list includes films watched between the beginning of March and halfway through April, bringing the […]Read more »
Now that I’ve finally clawed my way out of the mainline Friday the 13th franchise and survived ten consecutive encounters with Jason (and Pamela) Voorhees, the time has finally come to experience New Line Cinema’s early attempt at experimenting with a cross-franchise shared universe film. While this is technically still part of my self-issued challenge to watch every Friday the 13th film, Freddy vs Jason is also technically a crossover with Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, a series that I also am interested in exploring in totality. Unfortunately, I don’t think this particular film serves as a good […]Read more »
I think we can all generally agree that when it comes to new movie releases, 2020 is going to be looked back upon like some kind of cultural blind spot. We only got a couple months to actually visit theaters before everything was put on lockdown. January and February, typically the months where bad movies go to die, ended up being most peoples’ only window to see something on the big screen. The few movies that weren’t postponed to the other side of the apocalypse are going to find most of their audiences in years to come as sociological archaeologists […]Read more »
Our second month of attempting to tackle the 100 (more or less) films on my 100 Movies Bucket List poster yielded some pretty high highs and some very low lows. Specifically, this batch contains both the first perfect five-out-of-five and the lowest score I am willing to give to a movie. Just over half of the movies were new watches for me, while four of them I had seen before, despite not having very memorable thoughts about them. As of the end of February, 18 movies have been checked off the list. Click here to see the Letterboxd list of […]Read more »
It was either while I was in high school, or just after, when I saw first saw Jason X. It was my introduction to Friday the 13th and at the time my entire perception of the franchise was formed by this over-the-top cheesefest. Word on the street was that this was one of the the worst movies in the series and I certainly did get the impression that it was cheaply made. I wouldn’t be able to comment until now, over a decade later, on whether or not it fits in to the Friday the 13th canon in a meaningful […]Read more »
Following a brief prologue where an FBI sting operation culminates in him being obliterated with a coordinated artillery strike, Jason is once again dead, reduced to only his still-beating heart. Through some sort of magic nonsense, the coroner examining his remains is enticed into eating Jason’s heart, thus taking his soul into his body. This begins the bonkers body-swap massacre that is The Final Friday. While Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday may not be what I consider one of the definitive Friday the 13th movies, I think it might be one of the more interesting and entertaining chapters. […]Read more »