That doesn’t mean it’s going to be in 3D, but don’t be so sure the studio will dismiss the idea outright.

i think if they’re gonna go HD, big budget, big actors, etc., then they need to complete it with super graphic hardcore effects, slick transitions, slo-mo shots, or whatever kind of visually captivating tricks they can do to make it EPIC.

if not, they need to go the old school route and make it more low budget and gritty all the way thru…like much of the original series. i would have been very happy with that…because after all, i’m a fan.

instead, we got big budget equipment shooting big actors in a very mediocre film with little to no visual effects.

Same things happened with Mortal Kombat. It was a great series when it first started. Then, once it got popular, fans wanted it to take itself seriously. When they did, the franchise stopped being what it was, lost its charm, and went to hell. I now don’t even play the new Mortal Kombats. They were supposed to be fun, cheesy parodies of old time martial arts movies. But now, there is no fun because they have to ‘be preffesional’ now. I don’t want to loose Friday the 13Th the same way.

Part3 managed in 3D and 2D at home; who not Part13?

As for snow, that was already answered well. Also, to add to everything else already said on the subject; it’s something new we havn’t seen before; a frozen Crystal Lake. It gives us something new, and keeps us at the camp. Plus, filming in the snow is hard to do. It’s a challange to the filmakers.

f13thticket, we are all aware of what came before. but this is the age of big budget reboots and remakes…and this promised to be the ULTIMATE. we have the right to want ours to be up there with the rest of them, being that we’ve put billions of dollars into this franchise just like the trekkies and the bond fans. i like things about the reboot but its a little strange seeing high budget actors and hi-def cameras used to make a very standard, non-epic movie…it’s a bit of a contradiction.

and as for the 3D gimmick, i wouldn’t be so against it if they could bring it to our home theaters…however, the version of “3D” you get for home is completely ineffective. it adds depth to the picture, but anything that is supposed to come out of the screen ends up in a double image. and it’s too dark and makes most people nauseous after about a half hour. therefore you have to watch a 2D movie with a bunch of random objects being shoved in the camera…it kind of loses its charm. sure, it’s great in theaters, but that’s 1, maybe 2 viewings.

Winter feels secluded with less people out, and the weather is another thing that can pose threats in certain situations. Hypothermia, walking on thin ice, and slippery surfaces. With not that many people around to help, you can really feel like your fucked out in the woods in the middle of the winter. So it sounds like a great setting for Jason to prey on his teenagers.

My point, if Friday the 13Th didn’t jump on the band wagon 30 years ago there would be no Friday the 13Th. So, why all of the sudden are some people condomnening it for doing what it does best?

Likewise, My Bloody Valentine 3-D made lots of money, much more than a whole lot of other horror remakes, yet the only thing that set it apart was the format. I can pretty well guarantee that you’re going to start seeing a whole lot more genre films in 3-D. As long as audiences are willing to pay the money to see them, they’ll be making them!

Oh and what the fuck is up with wanting to wait for the 3rd movie to be 3D? Oh look 3 & 3D. . . hmm that my friends is a cheap gimmick.

FvJ does not count as a Friday movie. Never will in my book anyway.

So give us a great and scary (good luck with that since F13 has now become MTV style movie making) 2nd installment of the re-boot and then truly blow us away with a final 13th installment in a few years.

…you’re all doomed…

Critics have leveled these complaints against these movies from May 9Th 1980 to today and now, somehow in this cockeyed universe, fans feel the self-reitiouse indignation to take the seat on the pirch of judgment hill now that genre films themselves are not entirely shat on by the critics now that film studies have to ’stoop to this level’ just to bring any customers to the theaters to see a dying ‘art’ called cinema.

It’s like people going across the ocean for ‘religious freedom’ and then deny it to the next wave of people to cross. Friday has battled the critics back when genre films were seem as the equivalent of mud and now they battle their own fans and genre critics now that genre film has become the ‘in thing.’

Why not have shaky cameras, ‘crappy’ casting, ‘poor writing,’ cookie-cutter characters, cheap gore gimmicks, cheap 3D gimmicks, a story that has been used so many times that it is not a rut in the carpet, a roman numeral tacked onto the name that looks so long that you could spell your name with it, cheesy one liners, and do that one, simple, special thing that Friday the 13Th did so many years ago before their fans cares about all this crap.

Why not throw it all out the window and give us a fun movie?

If I was Directing a Friday the 13Th, like I hope to do someday, all the nay-sayers, whiners, and complainers can show themselves to the door. The ideas I look at are, more sex, more drugs, more gore, 3D… that sounds awesome, give me some of that rock and rap soundtrack, and give me some hot ass cast that looks good naked.

It’s just funny, weird, and sad to me to see fans demanding that Friday the 13Th be something it’s not and has never been, ‘professional.’ While, at the same time, asking for it to somehow mimic the unprofessional movies that put the series on the map.

I’m sorry sir, could you be a little more professionally unprofessional?

These movies are cheap thrill fun house gimmick movies. That’s all they ever were. That’s what makes them innocent, fun, and appealing. I, for one, would hate to see a well written, ‘professionally’ done Friday the 13Th. And the reason is, that’s just not what Friday the 13Th is and that’s not what I go to a Friday the 13Th to experience. That’s what ‘The Shinning’ and ‘The Green Mile’ and stuff like that is for. That’s not what Friday the 13Th is and there is nothing wrong with that.