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When compared to the first films of other iconic horror franchises like Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Scream, I feel like the original Friday the 13th film was always lacking something. And after watching it recently, I’ve realized that’s because of its lack of an interesting main character. Don’t get me wrong, Alice is nice and a pretty likable character we get to follow, but nothing makes her standout particularly from the other cast of characters. That’s why I feel like Annie should’ve been our main protagonist.

I mean, she’s the first character we’re introduced to after the opening credit, and once her journey ends at like the 20-minute mark, the movie feels like a compilation of scenes where the characters are just dicking around rather than there being an actual story. Even after they encounter Crazy Ralph hiding in the pantry, the characters do nothing with his warning, or even try to find info on what he’s talking about.

But imagine how much more engaging it would’ve been if the film followed Annie through until she made it to the camp. She could’ve relayed all the info and warnings she got to the other counselors even though she was skeptical about it herself. But after encountering Ralph for the second time at the camp, she would probably at least start to get curious about what the heck happened at this camp. The other counselors would also start to wanna get answers too, but since Steve was in town, this would cause them to try and look for answers themselves.

Also, Annie just had so much more charisma and spunk to her than Alice did, even with the little screentime she got. I’m not sure if Annie’s death was meant to be reference to ‘Psycho’ with the fakeout main character, but I just think the film would’ve benefited more if we followed her throughout the film. The first Friday the 13th film had somewhat of an element of mystery to it, because we as the audience wanna know what the hell happened at this camp. But the lack of urgency from our characters really undermines it.

I love the original Friday the 13th film and it’s definitely a classic. I just think it was severely lacking in the story department, which they really do improve on with the immediate sequels. Like imagine how much more impactful it would’ve been to have followed Annie throughout the movie, trying to find out as much as possible through newspaper clippings and stuff, and then she starts to put all the pieces together right in time for Ms. Voorhees to make her entrance. You could still have Pamela do her whole exposition dump, but it wouldn’t need to be as tedious since Annie would already have known about the situation but not the specifics.

What I mean specifically is, what if Halloween 3: Season of the Witch wasn’t a standalone movie that was meant to kick off a series of anthology films, and was actually like a regular sequel in the franchise that featured Michael. I know for starters, it wouldn’t be subtitled “Season of the Witch”, so what would the story have been? Would it just have been Halloween 4 but an entry earlier or would it have been something else entirely?

Ik this is technically an ensemble show, but Diana is the declared leader of the team so she does tend to take center stage most of the time. And I think this show does a good bit of focusing on the Wonder Woman mythos. It also doesn’t help that this show has my 2nd favorite animated incarnation of the character after the DCAMU Wonder Woman. But honestly, I really do hope one day we get a show actually called “Wonder Woman The Animated Series” or something along those lines, I’m still holding out hope :/

After watching Superman: Brainiac Attacks for the first time in years, during one of my annual Superman movie binges this time the animated films, I was curious to see if this film was part of the DCAU, but apparently it was just a standalone direct-to-dvd feature meant to market ‘Superman Returns’ which was releasing around this time. And after discovering that, I consider it funny how the animated pg tie-in only created as a promotional ploy was surprisingly more enjoyable and an all around better film than the big budget theatrical blockbuster it was meant to market.

Clark has a legit arc in this movie with him struggling on deciding whether he should tell Lois the truth, and it’s conveyed so well thru his convo with Ma and Pa Kent. Unlike Clark’s arc in Returns, where the intention is to have Clark struggling with the fact that the ppl of the world have moved on without him, and instead of getting any scenes of him discussing how that makes him feel, we just see scenes of him creepily stalking Lois and her new family. But this little film managed to give Clark a well rounded arc, some good drama with him and Lois, and managed to fit some well choreographed action where Superman is actually allowed to throw a punch. And the film also manages to use Lex and Brainiac simultaneously while making them both effective antagonists.

Personally, I’d go with DC. Even without taking into account The PPGs association with DC via publishing, if the girls were in the Marvel universe, they’d either be treated like however the Fantastic Four are usually treated, since they’re technically science experiments brought to life, or I can see them being treated like the average Mutant, and I wouldn’t want the girls to go through that type of scrutiny.

So I was watching Halloween 5 recently, and near like the last 5 min of the movie, I realized that Jamie is technically the last prominent female character in the movie to be standing, thus making her the final girl of this film. Tina, who they had replace Rachel in terms of prominence, sacrifices herself before the third act. In Halloween 4, both Rachel and Jamie make it out alive so they’re both final girls in that movie, but regarding Halloween 5, Jamie is the only final girl to survive and she’s only 9, so does that make her the youngest final girl to ever be in a slasher movie? Most final girls in horror movies are like 16/17 at the youngest.

Ik the remake is bad, but it did have some interesting ideas that if put into a different script could actually work, plus for all the movie’s faults (it’s biggest fault being how generic it is), it had Jackie Earl Haley who at least tried to do with what little he got and bring back Freddy to his scary roots. Freddy’s Dead on the other hand, I really wanna know what the studio was on for thinking this was a respectable send off for Freddy.

EDIT: I’m just now realizing I didn’t include FVJ despite me always saying that film feels more like a NOES film than a F13 film. But if I did include it, I’d rank it in between The Dream Child and the 2010 remake.

Just got done rewatching all the live-action Superman films cause why not, and here’s my ranking. I’m sorry to say that, for who is supposed to be the godfather of the superhero archetype itself and my personal favorite superhero, a lot of his movies are pretty mid.

Just got done rewatching all the films after getting the 7th on digital, and this is how I assorted the films from best to worst based on my personal liking. Thoughts on it?

Just got done rewatching all the films, and what are u guys’ thoughts?