Why does just about everyone hate this movie? - Jason X (2002) Discussion

[–] MartianMan 10 years ago

Having just finished watching it, I believe I can give you an answer...

Because it's utter crap!

I have to wonder what the people who made it might think to themselves if they were sit through it today. I realise it's not supposed to be taken seriously but there wasn't any bit of that worked. Well, I laughed at the bit where Cyber Jason kills the two camper girls near the end but that was all I got out of the whole 90 minutes. 2/10

I guess this was aimed at a younger audience than me, though. So, maybe it's an age thing?

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[–] HEYitzED 10 years ago

Because it sucks on so many levels.

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[–] Panthro44 8 years ago

Because it sucks on so many levels.

This is very hilarious. I actually laughed out loud reading this.

I think people hate this movie because of the level of stupidity involved in it.

Bringing Jason abroad a spaceship is BY FAR, AND AWAY....FAR, FAR, FAR AND AWAY, the ABSOLUTE most dumbest thing possible, in all space and time continuums. This level of stupidity spans all life in the universe. There was no UPSIDE to bringing Jason aboard. None. He was literally found with a machete in his hand, and a VICTIM...and a HISTORY of being a killer.

The only reason he was brought aboard was to forward this dumb movie...which brings us back to square one.

If that guy who brought him aboard lived to make it back to Earth 2, he should've been executed on the spot. His judgment was so bad, that, he was a detriment to the rest of society.

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When we're thinking about our own brain, would that be a mental paradox??

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[–] milamontagne 10 years ago

I'm another one of those F13 fans, not the hate spewing vocal majority, that
found this film extremely enjoyable, dare i say it, on par with the other great
ones of this series. I'm also a pretty big Sci-Fi fan, so seeing my favorite slasher franchise rebooted IN SPACE was what "did" it for me.

As I've said before, this is a slasher movie, so you turn your brain to the "OFF" position even before you press "PLAY"

Even with all that, this movie gets hated even more then the horrid JGTH abomination. IMHO, thats the one thats deserving of the hatred, not this.

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[–] zwixxx 10 years ago

I think many see it is set in space and immediately jump to the BS opinion, whereas if they'd just give it a chance they'd see the Jason we get in the movie lines up very well the Jason in the movie previous and one before that. ie. Jason doesn't do anything non-Jasonie in Jason X.

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[–] lebowskithedude 10 years ago

It's ten minutes of expositional mumbo-jumbo with forced dialogue being uttered by talentless actors and actresses.

Then it's 15 minutes or so establishing the paper thin young characters - defining them as slut, smart girl, jocky guy, nerdy guy, etc. These actors never had a chance, you realize - they were never given characters to play, just dialogue parrots who get stabbed and gutted and decapitated. They exist only for the violence to come, who cares if the violence is suspenseful or well-executed, as long as we get our blood fix!

The next 65 minutes of this dreck are just 20-somethings being chased around in the same way you've seen in other horror films, but this one doesn't even seem to take the horror angle straight. Then you realize the director never had a chance - he was given a $2 budget to make a space action movie - as a result, the sets are low-budget, like student film level, the effects were clearly done on a 1989 Macintosh, and the actors have all the sophistication of those 1989 Macintoshes.

Originally, I gave the movie a 3/10. Then I had to add an extra star for the one redeeming moment, the frozen face death, easily one of the coolest death scenes in horror movies. Then I had to add an extra star for all the times I laughed - but at the end of the day that's pathetic for a horror movie to make me laugh more than most intentional comedies.

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[–] VVolfySnackrib 10 years ago

It's ten minutes of expositional mumbo-jumbo with forced dialogue being uttered by talentless actors and actresses.

You do realize that the guy playing the government official in the opening scene is none other than David Cronenberg himself? You might be familiar with some of the movies he has directed, The Fly, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Scanners, Videodrome, eXistenZ to name a few.
You're calling the people in the opening scene terrible actors. They're no worse than most of the actors in F13 installments, not to mention we got a fun Cronenberg cameo, and Cronenberg is perfectly alright as an actor. He holds his own. You seem very dead set on hating the movie, not for objective reasoning powers on analyzing a movies qualities. You're just subjectively pissed off.

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[–] everlone_2000 9 years ago

but at the end of the day that's pathetic for a horror movie to make me laugh more than most intentional comedies.

I would argue that Jason X absolutely is an intentional comedy.

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[–] lebowskithedude 9 years ago

Arguably it is. I just don't see it as that.

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[–] ShallowAl69 9 years ago

I love this movie

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[–] ScorpionTDC 9 years ago

I think a lot of people are under the impression it's meant to be taken part seriously and write it off as stupid vs. realize that it's intentionally comedic

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[–] T-eschberger 9 years ago

The fans that hate it are the ones that take the franchise WAY too seriously. If they realize the series was never genuinely good in the first place, they may have a better time. At least Jason X knows it's silly...something some of the more serious and boring entries dont (cough cough theoverratedFinalChapter cough cough). And some people just don't dig on camp and humor in horror, even when they know it's intentional.

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