They didn’t think shit out. The timeline is still fucked haha, what idiots. I was thinking from the thought that Jason had drowned in 1980. WOW!

So the same fucked up timeline applies. Why is Jason a boy in 1980?!?! you idiots!

In a sense though, the fact that you can even try and base an argument around this shows why the remake was such a failure. It followed the same exact path as the other series, but it just told another installment. If you adjusted the dates, this story could fit in somewhere on the original time line. To me, that’s lame.

I really think that if you are going to go back and remake F13th you have to try something different. You need to change the history some how and do it in a major way. The trick is doing in a way that new fans will not be pissed and i can see why it’s dangerous ground to tread.

PD took the safe way out and in return we got a safe movie. They plugged in the formula and played it straight. In the end, it was pretty boring because we expected what we saw. We knew what we were going to see because we’ve seen the exact same thing 11 times before.

They will make the same mistake with their part 2 as well. It’s too bad.

It’s most definitely NOT a sequel; you can make a square peg fit into a round hold by forcing it, however you (still) can not call it round.

When a sequel to the reboot is made, and completely overrides (facts) of the original series then hopefully some people will finally call it a reboot and not a sequel. I just think some fans are too good to admit that t’s a sequel in fear of losing cool points with all of the fans who hate remakes.

A) It’s a re-boot, just like with Texas Chainsaw. Not some cockamamie sequel. Timelines and plot points were finessed.

B) The date on Pamela’s tombstone is obviously a mistake. There was no Friday, June 13th in 1979. There was in 1980. Why everyone would automatically accept a typo in the 4th movie of series as gospel and overwrite the original legend with it is beyond me. (Point in case: if you accept “present day” in the reboot as 2024, then why wouldn’t you accept it as the year in which the original was released?)

C) The reboot opening credit sequence is not told from Jason’s POV. And even if it were, he was a child. In 1980. It’s not rocket science, people.

D) I think if the 2024 movie were a sequel, Jason would have caught on to the child-psychology trick at the end as the same one that Ginny had pulled on him in part 2. (Of course, you’d also have to believe that Jason was about SIXTEEN YEARS OLD in part 2.)

The film is a re-boot. I understand that some people can’t handle the idea of starting a movie series over, but let’s get a grip, kids. The reason they updated the backstory so that Jason was still a child in 1980 was because if they set the film in the 80s, the fashion and hairstyles would have been distractingly funny. It would have become a period piece, like “Adventureland,” except the comedy in this case would have been unintended.

Here’s a simpler hypothesis: the sequels were getting so crappy and shoddily made that they decided to REBOOT the series, abandoning all the demon-possessing, body-jumping, zombie-ambling, teleporting, outer-space bullshit that each subsequently inferior sequel kept unloading. It’s ironic that everyone in this thread is missing the entire point of ANY reboot – to START FRESH. Not to continue what was just getting worse.