Now, please hear me out on this. I grew up watching the Friday the 13th movies, and prefer them over any other slasher title. Having seen every Friday the 13th to date, I can easily say that the first four were the only ones with a real story. Remember, the stories to prt. 2-4 transpired over a total of three days, which is quite realistic, if you really think about some homicidal maniac on the loose in the natural wild of Upstate New York. It would be difficult to track a person effectively, especially when said person knows the area better than anyone else.

The point i’m trying to make is that, despite how excited I am at there being a remake, I feel that a much better story could have been written than the one that we’re going to witness this coming February. There’s a reason why the first four movies were really good – they were four individual films, not one movie that crammed three, possibly four, movie’s worth of stories into 1 hour and 45 min, possibly 2 hours of footage.

If the movie -must- show how Jason acquires the hockey mask, and machete (and any other tool that he may use as a weapon), I at least hope that it’s thought through, and not some half-butt attempt. One of the factors that has made all the Friday the 13th titles enjoyable to me is how Jason is very rarely shown retrieving a weapon, he just appears on screen with it (the brush-saw from prt. 7, anyone?) Seriously, where in the world would he find something like -that-? lol. I digress…

Bottom line is that I hope Bay, and everyone at Platinum Dunes, really goes the extra mile to make this a memorable movie. A little bit of humor never hurt anyone, but what I really want is to be scared like I was when I was a kid and saw one of the movies. If this remake can do that, i’ll be satisfied.