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Hey guys, Jeremy here, Mark's back, and now we are starting the second part of our Reviews, and we've finished the entire Nightmare on Animal Street series, and now we're doing the Friday the 13th series All of which I have never seen except for Jason X It's just the like worst one you can possibly watch So we're watching the first movie the Friday the 13th one the one that everyone Always loves a reference how oh Jason wasn't in that one Which I I don't think I think scream taught me that too when I was like I mean scream come out when I was like 12 And I definitely seen the majority of the Friday the 13th by then But I guess I forgot because I sure just like Drew Barrymore said Jason Bordes and oddly enough While watching this movie you would have no fucking clue It's her up until she literally appears there's two things I will definitely say I had issues with about this movie is the first is you don't give a shit really up Until about like the last half hour when there's only one girl left and that is because of how Terribly paced this movie is there are several Scenes in which the camera just focuses on something and then waits until it's completely gone Either jeep driving in when they first get the When they first show up at Camp Crystal Lake you like fall the thing radicals like out of frame and then comes back in and keeps driving I think at the end of the girl's running with the lantern or whatever like she's running And you're like I can't or Ralph on his bike, which they do cut away from briefly, but then they go back I made the joke. I was like I don't wonder. Oh, hey, they cut on that. I wonder why I thought they were gonna hold on him Oh, no way. They're going back. Okay. This is really awkward five minutes of unnecessary footage People and items and things just even in the end of like the long take of her building the barricade where she's like just a Camera just following her. She's going through the room and then one point the chair falls down Yeah, so so I try to put it back up again. It's like there's so much Stuff in this movie. I was like, yeah, man was anyone there to just like cut it cut it It is like a dead teenager movie to quote Ebert There's no character development Kevin Bacon's Literally just Kevin Bacon because he's just like he gets Great death though. Oh, yeah Some of that's a great even though the girl he's banging in that scene like you don't see it right away But you get the aftermath with her face. Oh, oh, you mean the Yeah, it's great. She just lets herself Kevin Bacon would approve Bacon bacon bits Get the axe in the face. You get a few cool ones I actually like some of the stupid ones like when the the guy Christie Steve Christie runs the camp out through He's like, oh, hey, what are you doing out here at the camera? Like it looks like it's almost supposed to be like like there's a 3d gag They missed there on the other side of it when the kills happen. They're interesting They're not sloppily done except for the one in my opinion, but What I found was weird is this film felt like a student film The first two-thirds of the film is literally like a student film. It's just the same Very sloppy very long takes sort of stuff Really bad There's no sticks. There's nothing sitting. It's these really long awkward Slightly he caught the camera actually bumps in the very first shot. Yeah the first shot They're trying to do it. You know the camera's coming down. Yeah coming down And then it's like holding on the camp it says crystal lake camp 958 I don't think they mentioned that it's a Friday, but apparently it is a Friday like I guess maybe they do The film says like there's no point in this movie being Friday the 13th other than like the tagged on and today was his birthday um, oh I didn't see it. I totally didn't see hear that. That's the only reason it's there and as far as I'm pretty sure no other movie references the whole Friday the 13th thing they just keep the name because Cunningham here's a tidbit for you Cunningham before this movie had a script before it and I think he thought to himself I can sell a movie called Friday the 13th and took an ad out in Variety magazine Promoting this film. He didn't have anything more to try to get people involved to get money for it and it worked So I guess props to Sean Cunningham Definitely, but Yeah, that it that they just picked a name that could work They're ripping off Halloween, which is really successful. They like the slasher. They wanted to go with that sort of thing and I mean it obviously this it worked this movie made a ton of money and it made It was a 11 sequels if you count pretty much Jason and a remake and another reboot apparently coming down the line Oh, it's not an awful movie But in terms of having started with Nightmare the thing that I was saying when we were watching Nightmare and the same thing was that this movie is we know what the twist is So we're just kind of waiting for the film to catch up to it whereas with Nightmare was interesting to see how No one you didn't know what was Freddy's past really. It was very very lightly Touched upon and hell. He didn't even have any dialogue barely had any dialogue this one. It just feels like it's just poorly made well, they I mean as far as the killer thing they apparently apparently there's a version of the script that had like a Bunch of little clues Stacked in throughout the movie and they for budgetary reason for time reasons and for just Sean Cunningham deciding he didn't really want to they decided to really go out of the way to make it be Nobody until the end of the movie which I kind of like because I didn't other than the fact they use the same jeep Which is a bit of a giveaway, but they use the same jeep for like every car in the whole yeah, but I wonder if back in 1980 people believed that Mrs. Voorhees was innocent until it started going because she plays it great. I mean oh when she appears No, like that whole thing that whole but she's great. I really like her like the whole like killer mommy Which is where It's not which everyone assumes it is it's actually Kill kill kill mom mom mom He the Harry Manfredini the guy did the music took the key from kill and them from mine. It's actually Which when I do it doesn't sound right, but when you hear Harry Manfredini do it who did it in the It's dead on like that comes from him watching the composer watch that scene where he said That's where you got the idea to do that It's definitely more interesting tidbits of this for sure than I would have originally thought but Like I said just from how the movie starts. I only really clued in until like the last half hour I was like oh It's the movie does not did not age well. Well, I mean that's the big thing It's a dead teenager movie and it's all gags that we've seen and it's made off of her done better Yeah, we've seen the gags done better since we've seen the same type of stories told a billion times It it only ages well because everyone knows it. Yeah, it's got that nostalgic value It's got some cool moments. You know other than animal house. It's like the first big role for Kevin Bacon Yeah, and I had watched this earlier if I had watched this when I was younger it probably would have been better for me but I don't know just as an introduction film into this series if I wasn't already committed to watching the rest of this I Don't must be like I don't must be ready to put my foot on the break right now Don't keep too much your faith up for the rest of this. I know I know But that's the thing like for an opener like Nightmare had me because of the visual effects like just yeah The visual like the special effects label how they were able to make all the kills interesting That was what kept me coming back throughout all the ones was the practical effects This one doesn't have really anything The funny thing is is this one like it's Tom Savini who's a god and special makeup like a year earlier He just did dawn of the dead Which was like him doing like the gore effects and that were unheard of like he was doing stuff that no one else is Until guys that came on with nightmare like the KNB guys and all those guys that came a little bit later Like Tom Savini was the guy who you wanted to do that But again, I think that just comes from the age that he was doing all this stuff that even he himself Has done infinitely better in the intervening years like The the nice thing about nightmare was they did a lot of really cool stuff that Spending room and the dream they had a lot more to play with whereas this is just killing stuff and violence and gore in that Regard and you can do that better as technology's gotten so has any movie can do that That was the thing that was the creative spin on the nightmare movies was the fact that they were killing them with dream aspects So this one will definitely be a bit of a more of a push for me It can say there's more movies of this too, which is ten movies in there I don't understand how there's more Friday movies than there are nightmare They started earlier. I'll give you like the and they came out the same way, right? Like I think each year the next one comes out in 82 and then it's 83 for the third one So like it's pretty quick. That's one nice thing Well, the theory is Sean is cutting him kind of stayed involved as a producer. He's like a James Well, yeah, he kind of stayed around whereas like West Graven pretty much by the end But after the third movie had nothing to do with and he didn't have anything to do the second movie It's his first three and seven for West Graven for the greater Another bit cool tidbit Sean is cutting him and West Graven work together on last house on the left. Oh Sean is cutting him produce that. Oh So there was some relatability there Anyway, we're between the two series beyond just you know things like Freddy versus Jason I I don't know like this movie if I were happy to choice definitely so far I would watch nightmare one over this one for sure That's I think it's just because of how generic it is it to me until the end because again Yeah, we're rocking it which almost like Very real kind of brawl I guess it probably doesn't give you a whole lot of faith since now it becomes a Helping dude after this. Well, that's what I mean like now It's gonna be a different movie like the second one will be a different movie compared to this So that's what I'm kind of So for ratings, I'm gonna be a bit harsh and this is this gets a three Because it's like there's zero rewatch ability for this Yeah, you like I mean rewatch ability in whole like you can look up clips on the internet But watching this movie from beginning the end again fucking shoot me if we actually had to do that It's probably 10th time. I've seen this movie start to finish I can watch these I agree though. I think I'd throw a three out there as well. I mean even compared to its Contemporaries like I don't think this movie is as interesting as the original Halloween I don't think it's as interesting as other horror movies that came out that year I think I read a stat that it was like 18th For box office for horror movies, but I mean granted things like the shining came out this year You know so yeah, but I mean it's not it's not a great movie I like the ending a lot once Betsy Palmer shows up and plays Mrs. Borey's like I think that movie at that from that point I was really cool, but overall it's it's generic and it might it might be an archetype It might be an archetype, so I'm not gonna take away from it, but I hate Citizen Kane, too So I mean Doesn't matter how Revolutionary and knew you can be you can still suck 20 years later 30 years later All right guys, so that's our first review for the first Friday the 13th movie The second one will be in Jason appears and hopefully There's not as many long tellings to Jason cuz I could just like you know if I'm gonna make a march to this I'm literally just gonna walk away from the camera right now, and that's how we'll end it Yeah, you gotta get back into frame though