Mojo67821
10-15-2002, 12:04 PM
For whatever reason I'm lying in bed the other night and out of the blue I get the urge to watch "Jason Takes Manhattan" again. I can't explain for the life of me why I wanted to see this flick again. Especially since I had just had some relations with my girlfriend and was lying in the afterglow.
I mean who does that and all of a sudden goes "Hey, I want to see the 7th sequel to a slasher flick which everybody pretty much agrees sucks!"
Anyways, after watching it, I decided that this film is a great guilty pleasure.
From "Wayne" the geek, to "JJ" his fake guitar playing rocker chick...to "Julius" the badass boxer. I love them all.
I used to love this movie when I was a kid. Then when I joined the horror loving community online I began to jump on the bandwagon with everybody else who loved to bash this film.
But the other night while watching it I realized that this film is a great guilty pleasure. It's just a fun movie to watch. However, I do have my complaints.
First of all...all the damn TELEPORTING! That is one thing that is very hard to overlook and this is the only film in the series where it is really gutwrenchingly lame. It just takes all the tenseness out of the film.
THE ENDING: It's just stupid. The sewer floods out with Toxic waste every night??? And the final image is just horrible and really makes no sense at all. So the ending is a bummer. Although, I do like the sewer setting, very cool.
But even though it spends most of it's duration on a "love boat" (a term the original box cover actually usues...ha!) They do end up in Manhattan eventually, and I love the time they spent there. Even though it is limited they do have some fun with these scenes. It's great to see people's virtual nonreactions to a decaying corpse with a hockey mask. Good times!
I also love when he throws that chick into the wall on the subway..whohoo! And notice, on the poster that is shown at the back of the car, in the lower left hand corner it says "Jason lives!" in marker.
The music is pure eighties and it always gets the nostalgia flowin' through me. During the end "peaceful" song to let you know everything is alright, my bro came in and started singing these hilarious words to it...it was like...
"and now the soothing 80's synthesizer to let you know the killer's dead...do..do..do...It's okay cause it's daylight now and everything's much more peaceful...do...do...do."
Okay...maybe you had to be there. :)
Anyways, what I wanted to say is that I love this movie. I realize it is bad...cheesy cinema. But in the world of "guilty pleasures" Jason Takes Manhattan will always be my dish of choice.
My favorite line: "Now I say we regroup, and go out and find this mothafucka before he finds us!"
I mean who does that and all of a sudden goes "Hey, I want to see the 7th sequel to a slasher flick which everybody pretty much agrees sucks!"
Anyways, after watching it, I decided that this film is a great guilty pleasure.
From "Wayne" the geek, to "JJ" his fake guitar playing rocker chick...to "Julius" the badass boxer. I love them all.
I used to love this movie when I was a kid. Then when I joined the horror loving community online I began to jump on the bandwagon with everybody else who loved to bash this film.
But the other night while watching it I realized that this film is a great guilty pleasure. It's just a fun movie to watch. However, I do have my complaints.
First of all...all the damn TELEPORTING! That is one thing that is very hard to overlook and this is the only film in the series where it is really gutwrenchingly lame. It just takes all the tenseness out of the film.
THE ENDING: It's just stupid. The sewer floods out with Toxic waste every night??? And the final image is just horrible and really makes no sense at all. So the ending is a bummer. Although, I do like the sewer setting, very cool.
But even though it spends most of it's duration on a "love boat" (a term the original box cover actually usues...ha!) They do end up in Manhattan eventually, and I love the time they spent there. Even though it is limited they do have some fun with these scenes. It's great to see people's virtual nonreactions to a decaying corpse with a hockey mask. Good times!
I also love when he throws that chick into the wall on the subway..whohoo! And notice, on the poster that is shown at the back of the car, in the lower left hand corner it says "Jason lives!" in marker.
The music is pure eighties and it always gets the nostalgia flowin' through me. During the end "peaceful" song to let you know everything is alright, my bro came in and started singing these hilarious words to it...it was like...
"and now the soothing 80's synthesizer to let you know the killer's dead...do..do..do...It's okay cause it's daylight now and everything's much more peaceful...do...do...do."
Okay...maybe you had to be there. :)
Anyways, what I wanted to say is that I love this movie. I realize it is bad...cheesy cinema. But in the world of "guilty pleasures" Jason Takes Manhattan will always be my dish of choice.
My favorite line: "Now I say we regroup, and go out and find this mothafucka before he finds us!"