reddy vs. Jason has, at times, been described as a cynical film, and that's not entirely wrong. What's notable as we look back on the passage of the last 20 years and FvJ's significance in the relevant trajectories is that it stands wholly apart, so far as to be almost unrecognizable, if you endeavor to compare the type of cynicism it exemplifies to the kind that typifies even the rare "good" movie that is released these days. FvJ could perhaps be derided for its "give the people what they want" approach to creating popular entertainment, but it also marks a clear pinnacle of the artistic attempt to reach and resonate with what amounts to a mainstream audience, though your diehard genre fan will perhaps object to that categorization. In FvJ we see typified the difference between designing a product for your audience and trying to design an audience for your product, and through this dynamic we can begin to better understand why some unshakeable element of dissatisfaction seems to pervade today's American person.
Reddy vs. Jason has, at times, been described as a cynical film, and that's not entirely wrong...
GOAT "versus" movie. Only King Kong vs Godzilla comes close.
It's notable that no other movie with the "vs." format has been so successful in its execution, even though Freddy vs. Jason was in some ways at a disadvantage due to the nature of the genre and the franchises it was combining.
what about the ring vs the grudge? how'd that do?
its a movie they shouldve made in the 90s but made in the early 00s.
>MUH CHILDREN
That's an original likeness/intellectual property issue that should have been settled in court, not in a movie.
Less than three years after the release of Fellowship of the Ring and just months before the release of RotK, Freddy vs. Jason is notable in company with this family of films for being one of the last mainstream American films released that can be said to have a true "sense of place." Interestingly enough, and very much to the film's credit, it manages to achieve this while bringing together two distinct horror (a genre in which atmosphere accounts for so much) franchises and their associated settings. Fair enough, the Springwood and Camp Crystal Lakes of FvJ can be said to have a distinct feel from those previously seen in the now combined universe, but they succeed in being rooted in the world of the film and recognizable to the audience as returns to these settings. Contrast this with what can be described as the more modern approach which sees the audience's own world imported into what is only superficially a fictional setting: the conversations that characters have are no longer conversations with each other but broad recreations of conversations the viewer is meant to recognize as relatable, either because they have had those same overly broad generalized conversations or because this dialog provides surface commentary on relationship dynamics, of course, hidden just enough to provide a sense of reward for anyone watching once there upon picked up. While the sense of place in the LotR series can be applauded in that it, in some ways, aspires to and succeeds with a more elevated form of adaptation and realization, Freddy vs. Jason is noteworthy in that it is one of the last great successes in this vector and manages to achieve what it does while being firmly rooted in the utter fun and ample helpings of sleaze one should rightly expect from its title.
Can you do my homework?
Sure, is your homework a scholarly analysis of Freddy vs. Jason?
what's the deal with jason suddenly being afraid of water?
It's deeply Freudian. And also Jungian.
It’s not water, it’s drowning that he fears. The second he saw water he realized that Freddy could drown him if he wanted, and that fucked his shit up.
Is it even possible for a movie this good to ever be made again?
Freddy vs. Jason paid homage to its genre while successfully closing the door on that era of horror/slasher.
Once you watch it as the unofficial swan song of that era, it becomes a work of art, desu
Exactly. It also marked the peak of the American Empire.
Unironically, nothing ever got better after 2003.
The culture didn't collapse overnight, but it was all downhill after that magical opening weekend.
I didn’t care for the film’s obvious political subtext . Seemed to heavy handed
>no other movie with the "vs." format has been so successful in its execution
I like BvS and think it's aged well and deserves credit for being a weird movie, but I don't think it really succeeds in the Batman vs. Superman aspect. Certainly not to the level that Freddy vs. Jason does.