They had no idea who/what Jason was as evidenced by them making him a fukking weed farmer and a kidnapper.
That weed crop in the beginning of the movie was well cultivated and not something that just sprung up on it's own so was Jason spending his non-murdering time tending to his weed crops? Making that "Krystal Lake Kush"?
And the fact that he kidnaps Sam from Supernatural's sister and holds her captive for months was ridiculous. The chick looked nothing like Nana Visitor (who played Jason's mom in the opening credits montage) so he couldn't have been keeping her because she resembled his mommy so what was the plan? Was she going to become his bride? Is Jason a pervert who keeps sex slaves on top of all his other faults? That shyt was dumb as hell.
The totally unnecessary need to explain how Jason always seemed to end up in front of people he was chasing by revealing that someone built mining shaft tunnels next to a big ass lake and then built a children's camp on top of it was mind-numbingly stupid. You build mining tunnels next to a lake and all you are doing is creating a network of underground trails for the lake to eventually flood which then would make the entirety of the surrounding area turn into one big sinkhole.
Killing Danielle Panebaker's character "Jenna" in the way they did. I was cool with the movie having the perceived Final Girl have a shocking death but the way they killed the Jenna character was the lamest way possible to do it. I did some research on this one and it turns out they wanted to give her a more epic death but ran out of money so she got killed like she was an unnamed extra. If they would've just killed the Whitney character in the beginning of the film and not have Jason keep her as his concubine then maybe they could've done what they had planned for Jenna's death.
Finally the casting of Jared Padalecki. Dude is the same height as the guy they hired to play Jason and during this time period Jared was on some ridiculous fitness regime where he got all swole because he was auditioning for the leads in the Conan remake and Man of Steel. So you have Jason squaring off with this moose of a human being and it just looked odd to me. Jason's supposed to be physically imposing but next to Padalecki he just looked normal and the movie didn't do much to hide the fact that their monster killer was up against a guy just as big as him. I mean how much would it have cost to grab a box for Jason to stand on when in scenes with Padalecki?
Honestly, my favorite part of the movie was the retelling of the original Friday the 13th flick during the credits. I would've preferred to see them remake that movie with Nana Visitor as Pam Voorhees because I loved glimpse of her I was given there.
All good points
