July 27, 2012
RE: 4 things i liked about friday the 13th: the final chapter

  1. How well the film handles its unusually large cast; reasonably well-distributed characterization, never getting jumbled. For a while Jason feels almost like a footnote, less a looming dread than a pesky stray plot-thread the writers have to periodically throw a bone (the hitchhiker, for example). I also liked the brief scene of Terri looking bored and uncomfortable as Ted, Doug and Sara crack up at the stag films; it was nice to see a kind of quietly sympathetic note afforded to a minor character, and I really felt it cuz shit, being the outsider stranded amongst a bunch of people who already know each other well/are absorbed in something you aren’t interested in at all is awkward as fuck.
  2. Ted’s death—stabbed by a machete cutting through the screen he was just moments before watching old stag films on. The sex-on-screen/killed-through-screen thing kinda seemed to me as though the writers were having some fun with the usual sex=death formula.
  3. How the vacationing kids, usually the main cast in a Friday The 13th film, are totally disposed of; just when you think Sara’s going for that final girl slot, psych! Axed.
  4. The film’s obsession with jumping/being thrown through windows; Tina’s awesome second-story from-the-outside defenestration->smashing off car death, Gordon’s (suicidal?) leap, Jason tossing Rob’s corpse through the front window, Trish’s escape.

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