I watched Friday the 13th, excited to see the iconic hockey mask on killer Jason Voorhees. Turns out that Jason isn't the killer in the first one. It's his mother. Yeah, that's right. Jason isn't the killer in the first Friday the 13th.
So I decided to watch the second one. Jason is indeed the killer in the second one, but guess what? He doesn't wear a hockey mask. He wears a sheet over his head.
What the fuck? The hockey mask doesn't show up until the third Friday the 13th movie? How the fuck is it so famous? Everyone knows the hockey mask. I can't believe that it took two entire movies before someone raised their hand and suggested something scarier than an aging woman or a pillowcase with an eyehole.
You'd never get away with that shit nowadays. A movie made nowadays has to have an icon, a takeaway. Every movie has to have it. Our attention spans are so poor that we have to have some image in mind when we go see a film or we have no hope of ever enjoying it.
They were smart for the re-make of the original Friday the 13th. No longer are camp counselors being threatened by a 60 year old insane woman. They got smart and re-wrote it with Jason as the villain.
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Friday the 13th is a timeless classic, and the end is awesome. Friday the 13th Part II has a pretty cool ending too though. I am yet to see Part III, but I stole some 3D glasses from my parent's house and I'm going to get on it pretty soon.
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