Remembering #JamesIsaac (June 5, 1960 - May 6, 2012).🕯
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Movie Review | Jason X (Isaac, 2001)
I put this on hoping for some early 2000s nu metal sheen but instead got something that looked like an underbudgeted Canadian sci-fi TV show from the same era. Or the cutscenes from the Command and Conquer games but without the hammy acting. Or maybe a softcore sci-fi porno. Feels sluggish and totally halfassed, like a bunch of people who only "like" slasher movies to make fun of them. Having watched this so soon after Freddy vs. Jason, I appreciate all the more the baseline of respect with which the other movie treats the material. Also, it should be illegal to have this little nudity in one of these things. I sometimes go easy on stuff like this because I can imagine myself having watched it on the Scream Channel back in high school and then logging onto the Rotten Tomatoes forum to post "7/10 - Fun flick" or something to that effect, but I'm pretty sure I would have hated this back then too. I was not entirely undiscerning as a teenager.
Character development has rarely been a strong point for these movies, but I appreciate when the characters either feel like real people like in the first two or are at least memorable like in a few others. The ones here are simultaneously boring and annoying, and for some reason there's a knockoff Dennis Franz. I hated spending time with all of them. Except maybe the redheaded android girl, but only because she gets a scene where she dresses up like a dominatrix and machine guns Jason, which is the only time the movie achieves the bozo mode energy I was hoping to get from this. And the one kill where he freezes his victim's face is kind of cool. And I chuckled at David Cronenberg's cameo. (One of my biggest regrets is not asking him about it when I attended a Q&A with him.) Three good scenes, countless bad ones. If Howard Hawks were alive, he'd be rolling in his grave.
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'Keep vigilant, Smee. That little spriggan could be right under our noses...'
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Remembering #JamesIsaac
June 5, 1960 - May 6, 2012.🕯
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