Devin on Jason
Apr. 5th, 2007 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerCHUD.com is doing a film-by-film examination retrospective over the entire FRIDAY THE 13TH film series. At the end of the first installment, Devin Faraci wrote:
In a lot of ways Friday the 13th is The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings trilogy of Jason movies that would follow (Parts 2, 3 and 4 all take place over the course of about 24 hours). The first Friday establishes the world and the basic template, but the mythology really starts to grow in the films to follow. Actually, the Friday films most closely follow the Star Trek model – the first one is sort of ponderous and not exactly what you’re hoping for when you watch it now, while the next three are pretty terrific and tell one long story. Then there’s a fifth film that is like a smack in the face, a sixth that’s a return to greatness, and then a bunch of sequels featuring characters and concepts you don’t even recognize anymore. Also, there end up being space ships.
And this is why, even though Devin is an insufferable, smug, condescending, arrogant ass half the time, I keep reading CHUD.com. Even when he's not right, which is often (and his comparison of the Jason movies to the Trek films is not entirely accurate, but not entirely inaccurate either), he's almost always entertaining.
Even when they're totally wrong, I love geek-think when it's on a roll like this.
In a lot of ways Friday the 13th is The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings trilogy of Jason movies that would follow (Parts 2, 3 and 4 all take place over the course of about 24 hours). The first Friday establishes the world and the basic template, but the mythology really starts to grow in the films to follow. Actually, the Friday films most closely follow the Star Trek model – the first one is sort of ponderous and not exactly what you’re hoping for when you watch it now, while the next three are pretty terrific and tell one long story. Then there’s a fifth film that is like a smack in the face, a sixth that’s a return to greatness, and then a bunch of sequels featuring characters and concepts you don’t even recognize anymore. Also, there end up being space ships.
And this is why, even though Devin is an insufferable, smug, condescending, arrogant ass half the time, I keep reading CHUD.com. Even when he's not right, which is often (and his comparison of the Jason movies to the Trek films is not entirely accurate, but not entirely inaccurate either), he's almost always entertaining.
Even when they're totally wrong, I love geek-think when it's on a roll like this.
