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Piranha 3DD (2012) Directed by John Gulager

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 11:26 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , ,



At least he creators of the first movie knew what they were doing. The makers of this film absolutely had no idea how to turn this into a good and fun genre movie to watch.

It should tell you enough already that main cast and crew members of the first movie are no part of this film. I like to believe that they were smart enough to stay away as far as possible from this obvious inferior sequel.

From a sequel to a movie like "Piranha", you would expect them to go even more overboard with things, this time around. But instead of more gore, more nudity and more fun, there is less of everything. Especially the fact that there isn't really any good gore present is very disappointing. And the gore that is present in the movie is just far too fake looking for my liking. It prefers to use computer effects over practical effects, which was a really poor pick, in my opinion.

But what makes the movie just bad to watch is the fact that the story is all over the place. It doesn't really follow a good a clear main plot line and none of the characters is fun or even likable enough to care for.

This movie really has some bad and lazy writing in it. This shouldn't always be a problem for a movie of this sort though. I mean, the first "Piranha" movie sure had lots of big plot holes in it as well but the fun of the whole movie compensated a lot. It actually was a part of what made the movie so fun to watch. It made it a spoof of the genre, by making fun of all the clichés and weaknesses, including lots of nonsensical stuff and big plot holes. So really, deliberate bad written can be fun but I feel that in this case it wasn't deliberate at all. It's just incompetence and that's also what makes it bad and annoying to follow all.

When the end comes, you suddenly also start to realize that everything that happened before really didn't mattered and totally wasn't being relevant for the movie at all. You could say that the movie only builds up to its last 30 minutes or so, which isn't even being a good movie finale. It was supposed to be one big bloodbath and orgy or gore but let me tell you that compared to the first movie, this one felt like a kids film.

Really, it all could had been saved with some good humor but that is also incredibly lacking in this movie as well. They had no idea how to make things fun and even when the movie is going over-the-top, it just isn't being all that funny to watch.

It's just incredibly bad all and not in a good or fun way at all. Skip it please! Or else they might make another one...

3/10

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Friday the 13th (2009) Directed by Marcus Nispel

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 12:03 PM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , , ,





(Review originally written at 16 February 2009)

Well, first of all I've never fully seen the 1980 original, only it's last 45 minutes or so and that was quite some time ago. Therefore I can't really comment on how this movie compares to the original and how faithful it is to it, though from what I can judge this movie pretty much is a movie on its own, with a different approach of the story and the character of Jason Voorhees.

More and more classic horror movie are getting a remake these days. Only a handful did this successfully, while most of them remain too much of the same. "Friday the 13th" is also more of the same. It's a generic modern horror flick/slasher, that features a bunch of teenagers who love to have sex, drink alcohol and take drugs and a manic killer that is on a killing spree.

Most disappointing thing about this movie is not necessarily the fact that it's being so generic, it's more that it has almost no story present in it. The movie is basically the one killing after the other but without ever becoming tense or surprising. You basically know in advance who is going to die when and who will be the next one. With a little bit more (background) story the movie would had been at least a more interesting one to watch and it would perhaps also had helped to make the characters more interesting. The movie seems too random. People are getting killed for no apparent reason and you are just waiting for the next one to die, since there is not much else to this movie. You know that the only reason why this movie has so many characters is because it allows the movie to have as much gruesome killings as possible in it.

It's not really a movie that is being effective with its scare moments, also because of the reason that it's all quite predictable and formulaic. It tries to compensate this with its gore but the most hardened horror fan shall not be too impressed by it all. As a modern horror movie it really isn't the best the genre has to offer.

The movie shows far too much of Jason Voorhees. Because of this his character also doesn't ever get scary enough, despite a good beginning. He's shown fully in far too many sequences and after a while the character won't do a lot to you anymore. It's also part of the reason why the movie isn't being too effective with its horror and scare moments. Sure, it has a good atmosphere still, provided by director Marcus Nispel, who already showed with his previous projects that he could handle dark themes but style over substance is never a good thing when it comes down to movie making.

It's definitely not the worst modern genre movie or remake but I wish it had a bit more story and originality to it. It will probably still spawn a couple of more sequels though, also considering the huge success this movie is already currently being in it's opening week at the box office. Let's hope they will learn from the mistakes of this movie when they come up with a sequel in the upcoming years.

6/10

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