Movies

Friday the 13th
I rarely like much about horror movie remakes and this one reminded me why.
Nothing about it matches what made the original picture a thrill show. The acting and effects are technically better in the remake, but FT13 was never about slickness. It was just a gruesome, loony, fun, totally whacked way to spend 90 minutes with your girl or your buds. The remake has no sense of that fun. It's just a by-the-book stalker film.
The Jason mythology is trotted out but any cache it might have with the the audience is quickly wasted as the story becmes a routine one-after-another murder show. And, the killings aren't even that well done or original.
By-the-book drivel.