Friday Remake Rant #2

Part 2 0f Friday Remake Rant

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2. Jason runs.

So far we've seen the clips and trailers, and yes, Jason runs. Big deal. Get over it.

Dumb fan: "THIS SUCKS. JASON NEVER RUNS.JASON NEVER EVER FUCKIN RAN. He always has a steady, slow, certain pace. Even if you take a jet and fly around the fuckin world to an Island, he'll be RIGHT THERE waiting to collect your head."

Have you EVEN watched any of the earlier Friday's? I've seen them and he did run time to time. For some reason, over time his character changed into a slow moving zombie who will always catch his prey no matter how fast they would run. This eventually built up to a comical aspect of the film and franchise. All the movie watchers always knew that he always seemed to catch up and kill the running victim. It was a joke. We all knew it. The dumb fan even points that out in their quote.

Lets try to go by NFL standards and logically think this through.

For instance, lets use 40 times. How fast can someone run 40 yards? A slow runner (big ass defensive/offensive lineman) can run like a...let's say 5.67 in a 40 yd dash.

If you watch the "chase" scenes in the movies, you typically see a 10 second run before Jason mysteriously pops out from behind a tree or when the person falls...is right there to hack them up. So a 10 second run is kind of equivalent to running...80 yards. Sure, lets play it safe and tack off another 10 yards because we not all athletes and it's still 70 yards away.

That's pretty damn close to being on the other side of the football field. Now let's compare that to someone walking. Some one walking might not even cover 15 yards in that time. But not Jason, he just magically appears to hack them up. What a joke! We all know he's gonna be there to kill the person even though scientifically it's just not possible.

So Jason "runs" in this one. Big deal. He's done it in the past. It makes his character a little more believable than magically appearing behind the tree up the road. And if you still don't buy that, then it's not like they haven't change his character before. Hair...no hair...hair...no hair. Even the hockey mask changes a little bit each movie. I don't see you bitching about that.

GET OVER IT! He runs a little bit. It's not a life threatening change here.