2003 Film List - Page 17

Added In America - at times painfully emotional, at times magical and heartwarming but at others is surprisingly flat and could have used stronger and more judicious editing. I enjoyed it, and shed a tear or two, but it falls short of being a movie I can completely embrace. B+

Next Up: Barbarian Invasions, Morvern Callar, and perhaps someday, ROTK.

American Wedding - Aside from the opening scene and the 4-5m of quality Eugene Levy humor, this was a complete waste of my time. I regreted the very energy wasted on my finger clicking the mouse to add this to my Netflix queue. I began to question why I even watch movies as my lifeforce continued to slowly ebb away as the seconds ever so slowly clicked off the runtime counter. Da Vinci probably invented tanks or flying machines, Mozart probably composed concertos in the time I spent watching American Wedding. And did I mention this director couldn't shoot a scene with John Ford standing on his neck and it looks as if it was lit by a guy who won a contest?D

The Barbarian Invasions is one of the finest films of the year. A tribute to the cycle of life and parenthood, it is funny, intelligent, and emotional. It is both the story of a man dying from cancer coming to terms with his life, finding value in it and reconciling with family and friends. And it is also the story of a son learning the value of relationships over career ambitions and learning to care for his father, maybe in a way his father was never quite able to care for him. And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love...you make A

Next up: I Capture The Castle and hopefully something in theaters

No you're not. :b

BTW, I Capture the Capture is a fine movie with a terrific performance by Romola Garai - I look forward to seeing her again (just not in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights).

Jim Sheridan's In America


At Bat: Big Fish

~Edwin

Tim Burton's Big Fish


At Bat: Mondays In The Sun

~Edwin

Ordered list of 2003 films seen:

A ratings

1) In America
2) Lilya 4-Ever
3) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4) Finding Nemo
5) Elephant

A- ratings

6) City of God
7) Together
8) American Splendor
9) Lost In Translation
10) Capturing the Friedmans
11) Winged Migration

B+ ratings

12) Big Fish
13) Kill Bill - Volume 1
14) Intolerable Cruelty
15) Tupac: Resurrection
16) The Animatrix
17) Looney Tunes: Back in Action
18) Standing in the Shadows of Motown
19) The Matrix Reloaded
20) The Hunted
21) Stuck On You

B ratings

22) Spellbound
23) Peter Pan
24) Better Luck Tomorrow
25) Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
26) The Station Agent
27) The Matrix Revolutions
28) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
29) Wrong Turn
30) Matchstick Men
31) Open Range
32) Once Upon a Time in Mexico
33) Dark Blue
34) Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
35) House of Sand and Fog
36) 21 Grams
37) Brother Bear
38) 28 Days Later
39) All the Real Girls
40) Blue Car
41) The Missing
42) Out of Time
43) Holes
44) Lost in La Mancha
45) Anything Else

B- ratings

46) Bend It Like Beckham
47) The Barbarian Invasions
48) Gigli
49) Jeepers Creepers 2
50) The Good Thief
51) Whale Rider
52) Elf
53) Cold Mountain
54) Russian Ark
55) Millennium Actress
56) Ghosts of the Abyss
57) Freddy Vs. Jason
58) The Human Stain
59) Luck
60) Dirty Pretty Things
61) The Rundown
62) Old School
63) Cradle 2 the Grave
64) Narc
65) The Event
66) House of 1000 Corpses
67) The Young Black Stallion
68) It Runs In the Family

C+ ratings

69) The Last Samurai
70) The Magdalene Sisters
71) Mystic River
72) X2: X-Men United
73) Seabiscuit
74) Monster
75) Willard
76) A Mighty Wind
77) Cowboy Bebop The Movie
78) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
79) School of Rock
80) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
81) Irreversible
82) Swimming Pool
83) Gothika
84) Bad Santa
85) The Real Cancun
86) Hollywood Homicide
87) May
88) Marion Bridge
89) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
90) Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
91) Cheaper By the Dozen
92) Phone Booth
93) Something’s Gotta Give
94) Alex and Emma

C ratings

95) The Statement
96) Daredevil
97) The Italian Job
98) American Wedding
99) Laurel Canyon
100) Love Don’t Cost a Thing
101) Pure
102) Thirteen
103) Hulk
104) SWAT
105) Shanghai Knights
106) Dreamcatcher
107) Basic
108) The Shape of Things
109) Cabin Fever
110) Down With Love
111) How to Deal
112) Bruce Almighty
113) Sylvia
114) The Recruit
115) Johnny English
116) Beyond Borders
117) Scary Movie 3
118) In the Cut
119) Foolproof
120) Timeline
121) The Medallion
122) The Order
123) Malibu’s Most Wanted
124) The Core
125) A Guy Thing
126) Darkness Falls

C- ratings

127) Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
128) Identity
129) Paycheck
130) Love Actually
131) Underworld
132) Spliced
133) The Haunted Mansion
134) Bringing Down the House
135) The Jungle Book 2

D+ ratings

136) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
137) The Life of David Gale
138) Pray for Rock ‘N’ Roll
139) The Cat in the Hat
140) 2 Fast 2 Furious
141) A Man Apart
142) Boat Trip

D ratings

143) Daddy Day Care
144) Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
145) Honey
146) House of the Dead

D- ratings

147) Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
148) Final Destination 2
149) Spun
150) My Boss’s Daughter

F ratings

151) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
152) Bad Boys II

Finally saw Return of the King and have to say it was a bit of a let down. Jackson gets some things so perfectly right (Faramir, Eowyn, Ride of the Rohirrim, humans bowing before the hobbits) but at other times he doesn't (I know why, but it wouldn't hurt to explain why Denethor is a callous, murderous, sloppy-eating, savage and other things that I would have to spoiler tag and don't feel like doing so)and, while maybe its expecting too much, its frustrating when certain scenes don't come off as well as they should. I also didn't care for some of the cuts and again after watching the improvements the Extended Version makes in The Two Towers, its irksome to know that a better version of this movie exists that we aren't allowed to see yet because of business considerations. A- (maybe too high, but when this movie is right, its REALLY right)

Two Towers Extended Cut: Still doesn't make up for the two terrible additions (Aragorn's fake death, Frodo revealing the ring to a Nazgul) but the Faramir scenes alone are a big improvement. A-

Fellowship Extended Cut is my favorite of the 3 by a pretty wide margin.

Next Up: I Capture The Castle

I Capture The Castle is a well-crafted romantic film set in the 1930's about a quirky family struggling to survive financial hardships, the father trying to overcome old demons and the daughters learning about love. Using equal helpings of humor and pathos it moves in ways both familiar and unexpected. And as Steve previously mentioned, a very fine performance by the very attractive Romola Garai. B+

Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World Wonderfully realized war film that captures the thrills of the sea and the camaraderie of men who must rely on each other for survival. Impressive period detail and language enhances the experience. And an intelligently written script and multiple winning performances make this one of the better films of the year. It is only marred by the rather tiresome and drawn out "naturalism" subplot. A-

Next Up: Anything Else

Updated my list with another batch of absolutely terrific movies:



Big Fish (**** / ****)
Despite it's flaws, I came away absolutely loving Tim Burton's latest. Just a fantastic film that I can't wait to see a second viewing of.

Bend it Like Beckham (***1/2 / ****)

Better Luck Tomorrow (***1/2 / ****)

Whale Rider (***1/2 / ****)

I also added the very disappointing (considering how much some people loved it),

Spider (** / ****)

Now to wade through the Jan/Feb theatrical wasteland and hope that we get some pleasant surprises in there somewhere.

Lowell

I'm finally getting back in the swing around here. While I was out I was able to view:

Whale Rider
9 of 10
A terrific coming of age film/cultural appreciation film. Very nice direction especially, though writing and acting were also solid. Perhaps only the semi-limited scope kept it from being a 10 in my book, but I sure wouldn't blame someone else for making it their top film of the year.

Big Fish
8.5 of 10
There are parts of this film that I think are just perfect, specifically anything with Ewan in it, all the fantasy sequences. I love both Finney and Crudup but here they are struggling to make the weaker aspects of the script stand-up. It feels like the father-son relationship, Crudup coming to understand his father's love of tall tales, is just bonded onto the film in a rather unnatural way. I understood what the story was trying to be and say, I just didn't think it was well-constructed in that regard. Perhaps Burton simply was spending too much time in the fantasy sequences because they were so fun. One other thing, this is by far the funniest Burton film I can remember, a lot more warm wit rather than dark satire.

Bubba Ho-Tep
8 of 10
This is a script that is often outstanding. It's funny and it has a very fun yet introspective take on the pop culture mythology of Elvis and JFK. It's only flaw is a simple lack of content. It has that emptiness at times that often shows up when a short story or even just a concept are stretched into a feature length film. But it's well crafted overall and has direction that is surprisingly good for a small film. Bruce Campbell and Ozzie Davis both shine and Ella Joyce of Roc fame is also fun in her role. It's worth seeing the film just to see them in these characters.

I think I already mentioned Lost in Translation which I gave a 8.5 to.


I have Confidence on DVD and 21 Grams on tap tonight at the theater. They pulled Mystic River while I was out of town with my father's death, so I have to wait on a nomination rerelease (cross fingers). I plan on doing a massive catch-up over the weekend.

BTW, Go Colts!

Fernando León de Aranoa's Los Lunes Al Sol (Mondays In The Sun) - Smart, thought provoking, very realistic and highly observant.


At Bat: House Of Sand And Fog

~Edwin

Anything Else once you get past the past the Jason Biggs factor, is vintage Woody Allen. The Allen that has been almost completely absent from his last 3 films. This is wall-to-wall conversation, kvetching, foibles, paranoia, romance, great jazz, and captures several truisms about life and relationships, in other words, many of the things I love about his films. You just have to buy into the conceit of Jason Biggs playing Woody Allen and Jason Biggs as an urbane, intellectual comedy writer. Now I was skeptical going in, and had problems at first; but after 15-20 minutes or so there is a flashback to when Biggs and Christina Ricci meet and have dinner with their love interests at the time. And Ricci is just so incredibly alluring and enchanting and Biggs so earnest and fumbling; just such a romantic and joyful scene. I was completely immersed in the film from that point on.

Biggs and Allen play off each other surprisingly well. Ricci is lights out. Danny Devito has a humourous role as Biggs agent. Stockard Channing doesn't come off as well, but she doesn't have much of a part. The two problems I see with the film are that its a little too diffuse. Giving Biggs two subplots, the Devito agent character and an analyst who only speaks in questions, on top of the Ricci relationship and the Woody Allen relationship is perhaps too much. I was really wanting more scenes with Biggs and Ricci since that was what hooked me into the film in the first place. The second problem is Darius Khondji's cinematography. Its mitigated somewhat by the "Allen Look" and the set designs, but as with virtually all of Khondji's films, this one is underlit and sterile. It doesn't have that glow that the best Allen films have. Still, a welcome return; this is the kind of Allen film I want to see. B+

Next Up: Bruce Almighty and maybe something in the theater like House of Sand and Fog or The Company.

Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog


At Bat: Monster

~Edwin

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Thanks Arman, I'll keep going, I still have plenty of 2003 movies I missed in theaters on my Netflix list. Bruce Almighty should have arrived today and I have Blue Car on the way too. I'm pretty much mixing 2003 films with 2003 Criterions on my Netflix list right now. If you see anything else on my "Last 10 films watched list" its a disc I own but hadn't watched yet. (like My Darling Clementine, The Firemen's Ball, and What Time Is It There?)

RE: Allen, I liked the first half of Small Time Crooks, but by the end its much too slapstick/wacky for me. I actually kind of liked Curse of the Jade Scorpion though it definitely had its too silly moments as well. Hollywood Ending was pretty bad. But AE is a throwback to the kind of Allen that I love. I'm not a fan of his first 6-7 except for Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex. Too frenetic/wacky/silly for me. Each of them has a few laughs here and there, but they never hold together as movies for me. These aren't movies about relationships, they're just about Allen in some sort of silly, absurd event. But from Annie Hall through Sweet And Lowdown he's pretty much gold. There's only one or two pictures in that whole run that I don't like (September primarily).

Blue Car is a film about a damaged family, and a young, high school aged girl who is abused by anyone she depends on or trusts. At times it reaches the emotional honesty and appalling uncomfortableness and horror of the superior Lilja 4-Ever (I was much more uncomfortable during a scene with David Straithairn and the girl than I was in any part of Irreversible) but at other times it is disappointingly contrived and trite; building its situations and obstacles as scripted constructs rather than something honestly arrived at or achieved. B-

Next Up: Bruce Almighty (arrived, wife just didnt' feel like watching a movie tonight), Winged Migration

Bruce Almighty has its heart in the right place, and even has a handful of insightful and provocative ideas, but is far to bound in Hollywood conventionality and blandness to express them in meaningful ways. Carrey is approaching 90's Robin Williams territory here - an occassionally funny, inoffensive comedy that allows him to fall back on schtick, instead of good writing, whenever possible. C+

Next Up: Winged Migration

Big Fish A disappointment that never captures the magic of previous Burton films in its fantasy elements and is underwritten in its "reality" segments. Virtually none of the fantasy sequences impressed, they all looked fake and too digital, never a part of the world of the film as in Edward Scissorhands. There are sequences that work well carried by Billy Crudup and Albert Finney's acting, but it never touched me. I was continually reminded of how The Barbarian Invasions is a far superior treatment of similar subject matter. And though I've avoided Planet of the Apes, this has to be at best the 2nd worst score associated with a Burton film. B-

Winged Migration: This extremely nice looking documentary on birds is undermined both by its lack of detail - we generally see a few minutes of a bird species at the beginning and end of its migration and then switch to another species; and by its utter manipulation. It uses trained birds or birds that have been captured, caged, and transported to locations meanwhile the filmmakers include several manipulative sequences of the sorrows of caged birds in their film. And they should have jettisoned the New Age score and just used natural sound. C

L'Auberge Espagnole Starts off well enough as the story of a young man who travels to Spain to improve his job prospects. He's a likeable enough character as we follow his tribulations in acclimating to the language and culture of Spain and finding an apartment with a pan-European array of other young adults. But about half way through the movie becomes insufferable quickly followed by annoying and awful. A stereotypically racist lout character is introduced who annoyed this viewer far more than he annoyed the onscreen characters. There are multiple pointless technical flourishes such as montages, frame manipulation, split screens, distortion, etc to distract us from the poor writing and editing. The film introduces multiple subplots and story elements that are never followed up on or even mentioned again. I shudder to think how long the original cut of this film was, already overlong at a shade over 2 hours. And the film fails to earn its ending by underwriting most of the apartment inhabitants and giving them little to do.

After the first hour, the only positive thing I could get out of the film is the 5.1 soundtrack which was extremely impressive. Complexly layered and more directional than many action films but I would no sooner buy it for this reason than I would Armageddon. D+

Next Up: Capturing The Friedman's, The Secret Lives Of Dentists

Patty Jenkins' Monster


At Bat: Out Of Time

~Edwin

Out of Time? What happened to quality over quantity Edwin?

Capturing The Friedman's: a real-life Rashomon concerning the uncomfortable-to-watch disintegration of a family after two members are charged with sexual assault. Its power lies in the extensive video and 8mm movie footage the family took of themselves in even their most vulnerable situations. This footage speaks for itself which is good since the director's attempts at linking and filming "slice of life" scenes are more akin to an A&E Biography than a feature doc by a true professional documentarian. The director's attempts at objectivity are also rather disingenious. The film is clearly sympathetic to the defense in the information it provides, though that really isn't a mark against it. Documentaries should have a point of view and I have no problem with agenda filmmaking (as evidenced by Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion in my top 10). The best scenes are those akin to Rashomon, where we clearly see that truth is in the eye of the beholder and an objective truth is impossible to achieve as so often individuals have very different accounts of key events. Continues what has been a great year for documentaries, though in my mind, this does not quite rank with the year's best like Stevie, Tibet, and The Weather Underground.
B+

Next Up: The Secret Lives Of Dentists

80% Cream of the Crop over at Rotten Tomatoes! Are you telling me all those critics are wrong?

~Edwin

My 2003 Films Seen List

Last update: January 14, 2003 (after seeing Mystic River)

Current Total Films Seen from 2003 (using US/Canada release date criteria): 50

01. Lost in Translation
(United States, 102min, d. Sofia Coppola)
02. 21 Grams
(United States, 125min, d. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
03. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
(United States, 111min, d. Quentin Tarantino)
04. Spider
(Canada, 98min, d. David Cronenberg)
05. Elephant
(United States, 81min, d. Gus Van Sant)
06. Irréversible
(France, 95min, d. Gaspar Noé)
07. All the Real Girls
(United States, 108min, d. David Gordon Green)
08. Gerry
(United States, 103min, d. Gus Van Sant)
09. Mystic River
(United States, 137min, d. Clint Eastwood)
10. City of God [Cidade de Deus]
(Brazil, 130min, d. Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles)

10 Runners-up:
11. Capturing the Friedmans
12. Morvern Callar
13. American Splendor
14. Masked and Anonymous
15. Swimming Pool
16. May
17. The Shape of Things
18. The Good Thief
19. The Matrix Reloaded
20. Better Luck Tomorrow

Films I Really Liked and Would See Again:
21. 28 Days Later
22. Owning Mahowny
23. Raising Victor Vargas
24. The School of Rock
25. Elf
26. The Wild Dogs
27. Spun
28. Love Actually
29. Charlie’s Angles 2: Full Throttle
30. Stuck on You
31. Daredevil
31. American Wedding
32. Spellbound

Films I Liked but Didn't Love Enough to See Again:
33. Sweet Sixteen
34. Winged Migration
35. Run Ronnie Run!
36. Old School
37. The Recruit
38. Phone Booth

Didn't Like in 2003 (from least worst to most horribly horrible)
39. Intolerable Cruelty (the first Coens movie I haven't completely loved. How sad.)
40. In the Cut
41. Duplex
42. Bruce Almighty
43. Something's Gotta Give
44. Scary Movie 3
45. Anger Management
46. View From the Top
47. A Guy Thing
48. Bringing Down the House
49. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
50. Just Married

Best guilty pleasure:
- Charlie’s Angles 2: Full Throttle

Biggest disappointments:
- Intolerable Cruelty
- Bruce Almighty
- In the Cut

Films I still need to see, or sadly missed... and want to see:
in alphabetical order
21 Grams
Anything Else
Bad Santa
The Barbarian Invasions
Bend it Like Beckham
Big Fish
Blue Car
Born Rich
Bus 174
Cabin Fever
Camp
Casa De Los Babys
Charlotte Sometimes
Cold Mountain
The Company
Confidence
The Cooler
The Dancer Upstairs
A Decade Under the Influence
Demonlover
Dirty Pretty Things
Le Divorce
Down With Love
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
The Eye
Fear X
Finding Nemo
Freddy vs Jason
Garage Days
Girl With a Pearl Earing
The Hulk
House of 1000 Corpses
House of Sand and Fog
The Human Stain
In America
In My Skin
Identity
I Love Your Work
In America
The Last Samurai
Laurel Canyon
Levity
Lilya 4-Ever
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lost in La Mancha
Love and Diane
The Man on the Train
The Man Without a Past
Matchstick Men
The Matrix Revolutions
A Mighty Wind
Mona Lisa Smile
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Out of Time
Party Monster
Pieces of April
Poolhall Junkies
Ripley’s Game
Seabiscuit
Shattered Glass
The Singing Detective
The Station Agent
Step Into Liquid
Stevie
Thirteen
Wonderland
X2

Finally updated my list with all the November December and January 2003 films I've seen.

Haven't opened this thread in months since the "not enough films seen to date" Nazis deleted my original post last spring. Now the rules seem to be "no rules." Whatever...

Anyway, since Dana is using data from this thread for his analysis in the throw-down thread, I'll re-post my list (and hope it stays this time):

Last update: 07/05/2004
Criterion used: Oscar Eligibility
No. of films seen so far: 46

The top ten (so far):
1. City of God
2. Whale Rider
3. Thirteen
4. Lost in Translation
5. Mystic River
6. 21 Grams
7. Seabiscuit
8. In America
9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
10. The Fog of War

The best of the rest:
11. Bend It Like Beckham
12. Finding Nemo
13. Girl With a Pearl Earring
14. Cold Mountain
15. House of Sand and Fog
16. Monster
17. American Splendor
18. Swimming Pool
19. Matchstick Men
20. Dirty Pretty Things
21. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
22. The Last Samurai
23. Something's Gotta Give
24. Love Actually
25. The Cooler
26. Owning Mahowny
27. Bad Santa
28. Calendar Girls
29. Pieces of April
30. Raising Victor Vargas
31. The Matrix Reloaded
32. Phone Booth
33. Intolerable Cruelty
34. Better Luck Tomorrow
35. The Italian Job
36. Freaky Friday
37. Elephant
38. Normal
39. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
40. XX/XY
41. The Matrix Revolutions
42. The Haunted Mansion
43. The Hulk
44. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
45. May
46. Legally Blonde 2

Rob

Did the end-of-year reordering and added a few more movies in. See if you can identify them!

Midgets vs. Jewelry 3: It's Finally Over - ¼
The Middle Brother Had The Right Idea About Being Part of this Documentary -
Minority Report Lite -
The One Sean Penn Didn't Get Nominated For -

The Secret Lives Of Dentists - An insult to the intelligence of most any viewer and a monstrously failed attempt to emulate the work of much, MUCH more talented directors and screenwriters. What could have been a decent, if safe and conventional movie about a married couple in crisis, is flushed down the toilet by some of the most ridiculous, inept and pointless fantasy sequences I've had the misfortune to witness. Maybe in years to come this can be seen as some sort of glorious failure/drinking game/MST3K fest, but for now, I declare it THE WORST MOVIE OF 2003 D-

(It avoids the F by having better than Troma production values and as much as I think it was a terrible film, it didn't make me HATE it, like say, Tadpole.

Up Next: A much better movie (I hope). Should be something at the theater, I have no Netflix on tap until the Feb. 10th releases of Sylvia and Wonderland.

Monster
9.5 of 10
I took the time to read some reviews in detail after seeing the film and I guess I must stand alone a bit in rating the film so high. Generally most people seem to be saying "Theron is great, the rest is blah" but I disagree. I thought the film had a great power and a terrific script. It manages to maintain both a sense of why the characters continue down the path they do, yet it also shows how hopeless for them the whole process is so that you don't question why things didn't turn out different.

The film gives REASONS for why she killed, but it doesn't excuse them. Everyone has a reason for their actions, and that is what great films are about, showing consistent thought patterns and motivations for its characters in an attempt to emulate life. For me Monster did this.

Also I thought Ricci was extremely overlooked as a supporting actress though some reviews slammed her too. I don't get that as I totally believed her character's motivations and emotions too. The need these two character's had for each other had a real truth to it. And the Journey sequence was beautiful, touching romance from a very unique and unexpected angle.

The Girl with One Pearl Earring
7 of 10
This is a "you are there" slice of life film examining the creation of a great painting. But as unfortunately many films about painters become, the film runs a bit dull. It lacks any serious drama, perhaps because it stays true to what would be scandal in that time period. Scarlett is only moderate here compared to Lost in Translation, though Wilkenson and Firth are very good with their roles.

The film simply pales in comparison to a film like Frida covering a similar subject, or even another "art come to life" piece like the Van Gogh sequence in Kurosawa's Dreams.

Freddie vs. Jason
3 of 10
The premise is a great idea, supervillan against supervillan, each showing off their own style and strength. Following that is the basic concept for why these two characters would come head to head. Also a great idea.

After that the project became crap. The actual screenplay is a terrible example of what might normally be considered a rough draft first pass at it. The script often requires that characters understand plot points that they simply should and could not, like supernatural things that are occuring or things within someone else's dream. And what makes this a problem is that without those understandings the script would have painted itself into a corner unable to get to the next sequence since the characters would not be able to act in the way the film needs them to, unable to take the necessary action to forward the plot.

This horrible "jumping to conclusions" habit is made doublely worse when at other times we find characters totally ignoring the seriousness of situations. A machette-wielding Jason lit on fire comes marching into a party and slaughters people. So how do the escaping characters react, do they go for help? Nope. Do they band together on the run or hiding out? Nope. They all say "just drop me off back home". WHAT!?! None of them goes Bill Paxton on us at least, none freak out about needing help. No, just a good nights rest will make it all go away.

Yeesh.

"Well maybe Freddy didn't have enough power so he resurrected Jason to spread the fear and everyone would think it was him".

That was easily the sloppiest piece of script writing this year. I still had enough fun with the flick in order to rate it 3 stars.