Originally Posted by Rick (Post 425005)

but they made good use of the lake in 4 at least.

Originally Posted by Rich (Post 413969)

I like it exactly the way it is, because I can remember how shocked I was the first time I saw the movie and they revealed that it was a 50 year old woman as the killer.

Originally Posted by sCabbOy (Post 414653)

I think it would have worked that way, but it was just as effective as it is.

Originally Posted by Rich (Post 414656)

I'm with Scabboy. I think it was more shocking the way they actually did it. I mean, you have a double shock going on: A. where the hell did a 50 year old woman come from and B. HOLY SHIT, SHE'S THE KILLER!.

Originally Posted by sCabbOy (Post 414887)

Exactly because the way the movie was done is that you would expect someone that was introduced prior to be the killer. Ralph, Steve, some of the campers, and really even Enos.

Originally Posted by God of Thunder (Post 422313)

Jason Lives is very easily the best of the Fridays in my opinion. The atmosphere, the soundtrack, the kills, the most likeable version of Tommy, the best performance of Jason, the Alice Cooper songs. It fucking ruled.

Originally Posted by DiMidio (Post 423245)

NICE! Got the Friday font in the shit color and all!

Originally Posted by Dread Central

Since today is a such special day, here we go again.

Yes, today’s discussion is solely focused on Jason’s ability to recover from wounds suffered in Friday 3D and his appearance in The Final Chapter. Though many cite The Final Chapter as their favorite entry in the series, others express confusion over Jason’s survival and appearance. Clearly, these viewers haven’t paid enough attention to the film’s more subtle nuances.

Let’s do a little inventory of The Final Chapter’s opening:

1. Jason has suffered a crushing axe wound to the noggin and is temporarily defeated.

2. Jason is escorted to the Essex County Hospital, where he is placed into one of the hospital’s “cold room” drawers to presumably await an autopsy.

3. Jason awakens and trashes a horny doctor watching naughty aerobics in the "cold room", then murders an imbalanced nurse in a pharmacy while she’s taking inventory.

Now let’s discuss the trouble with that particular resurrection. In Friday 3D he takes a couple of deep stabs wounds and head traumas – including a whack to the forehead with an axe. By the way, I probably prefer “axe” over “ax” due to growing up looking at this in finer video stores near me:

I’m tired of answering the following questions: HOW can Jason just get up and continue to kill, and WHY doesn’t he seem to feel any pain throughout The Final Chapter?

You people are so naive sometimes that it’s cute ...

Jason was obviously woken up from his axe-induced slumber by the cold of the hospital’s morgue drawer they shoved him in. Why does he continue to kill? I’ve dealt with pretty bitchy migraines before, and if I had woken up in a freezing dark shoebox like Voorhees did with that honey of a cut on my dome, I would’ve torn the first person I saw to pieces as well. And that’s exactly what Jason did to Fackler, I mean Axel.

Then I’d head towards the hospital’s pharmacy – wouldn’t you? And why kill the weird, hot nurse who was checking on the hospital’s druggy supplies? To GET to the supplies. As such, here’s your final answer from that two-parter I addressed earlier. Jason dealt half-pleasurably with the nurse before stocking up on Prednisone and Dilaudid. This combination of painkillers and steroids can explain the following:

A.) Jason could cope with the pain of that extravagant axe gash in his head.

B.) Jason could not give a shit about stitching up said gash due to an incorrigible yearn to once again maim.

C.) Jason could muster both the humor and wherewithal to perform such tricks as tampering with phones, hanging bodies near convenient escape routes, and tossing victims through windows to scare the hell out of survivors – not to mention nailing people with items they just asked out loud for (“Where the hell’s the corkscrew?!”). Shit ... Red Skeleton would attest to that kind of comedic timing.

Oh, and as for Jason’s appearance? Yeah. He was tan and appeared much less deformed in Friday 3D, didn’t he?

Is he a tad paler? Of course he is, dammit! After losing that much blood and taking that many steroids, you’d be in sad shape too. Everyone knows what steroids can do to the muscular structure of the face, and I always look like Nosferatu after giving the teensiest bit of blood. Do your homework, people – steroids can do THAT to you.

So there are your answers, ya goofballs. Rest easy knowing the truth, and enjoy your Friday!