Sure, the film still feels choppy as hell (it is a two-hour story whittled down to a 95-minute movie), and the dialogue is painfully expository. Jason movie, the thing that sticks out is just how overplotted the initial tries were and how painfully underplotted the final product turned out to be. Reading through the bazillion attempts at crafting a Freddy Vs. But watching them both back-to-back only highlights that, to the extent that they fail, they fail for the exact opposite reasons. Sure, Ronny Yu's 2003 smash is still a lousy movie, and Zack Snyder's superhero smackdown is still a noble failure that just barely works in its longer variation. While these activities were not connected (I just finished Dustin McNeill's Slash of the Titans, which recounts the decade-long development process and countless discarded screenplays for the horror movie event), it was an enlightening bit of cinematic rewatch.
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