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Summary: Part 3 is not as much fun if you're not watching it in 3-D
Review: I remember that "Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3-D" opened on Friday the 13th, and that I got several vicious elbows in the stomach because I thought the part where Jason squeezes a kid's head until his eyes pop out at the screen to be laughable (for a whole bunch of reasons). Making the film in 3-D did allow a bit more inventiveness for slicing and dicing the next crop of victims up at Crystal Lake, but most of the stuff is predictable. You see that pitchfork and you just know what is going to happen. Even so, not being able to see the film in 3-D takes away some of the fun. Director Steve Miner, back again after "Part 2," has a bit part as the newscaster. Otherwise you can have fun trying looking through the International Movie Data Base at the other films of Richard Brooker, Dana Kimmell and the rest of the cast. For the most part you will recognize some of the films they managed to pop up in, but you will have a hard time remembering the Lady at Grandmother's House in "Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling."
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Summary: Not As Good As The First Or Second
Review: There are a lot of scary scenes in this one, but the film itself is kind of boring. I have all the Friday the 13th films except for Part V and Jason goes to Hell-The Final Friday, and I would agree that Part 3 is the worst of the good ones. If that makes sense.Part 3 is good to rent only for the scares, but it ain't as good as the first 2. It also doesn't make much sense. In Part 2, when Jason jumped through the window he still had the machete in his shoulder. But at the beginning of Part 3, there was an extra clip from Part 2 that shows him pulling the machete out just before attacking Ginny through the window. Also in Part 2 he had long hair and a beard. In Part 3, he was bald, and his whole entire face was messed, and Part 3 only took place a day after Part 2. So it doesn't make much sense. Eventhough it doesn't make much sense, it's still worth watching... If you always wanted to know where Jason got the hockey mask, then this is the one to watch!
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Summary: Voorhees A Jolly Good Maniac, That Nobody Can Deny
Review: First of all, Swatchdog did a good review for this movie. Okay, lets get started on the review. Jason Voorhees gets up off his rear from shortly after number two and gets rid of the bag, that was kind of a lame mask anyway and I think Steve Miner knew that. Steve did an average job on number two, but nothing close to this one. He proved that he can do horror well, and he earned my respect. This is why I went to see the more recent "Lake Placid" which was also by him, but that is a different story. I dont remember which reviewer wrote this, but whoever it was was very smart. He or she said that if you are going to sit and watch a Friday the 13th movie, you must get used to bad acting! I found that hallarious and totally agreed. The characters in part three reffered to as "the wild bunch" are believable and quite hysterical. I dont always like the characters in all of the Friday films, but these ones were classical and a good type of strange. You got your SOB prankster, you got your two lovebirds, you got your two hippie lovebirds, a chick with a terrible past, a country boy, a blind date for the fat*** prankster, two durranged adult lovebirds, a motorcycle gang, and an old man on the road completing the dead or alive Ralph character. My favorite character in this movie seems to change over the years, but recently it is Debbie, Andy's girlfriend and Chuck. I dont know why, she is just special in her own way. She is easy to admire, and not only by looks. Anywho, this one is different from the others, is more conceptive about the creative events and lets you get to know Crystal Lake more. The town is cool. I thought the funniest part in the movie was after Chuck roughed up the bikers bikes and the the black biker, I think Ali, approached him in his car. You will just have to see what happens then. Crystal Lake has nice greenery and woods, bueatiful sparkling lakes( wouldnt swim in them if you know what I mean )and some of the MOST of the people are nice. The art of this film is to turn a pleasant environment with funny people and nice couples to a living homicidal hell that the residents wish that they hadnt entered. Steve Miner did to the wilderness outdoor country what Alfred Hitchcock did to hotels and showers. Although the MPAA chops his movies up a bit sometimes, Steve Miner is a great director. The simplicity of Friday 3 is as simple as everyday life, that is what makes it and the other Friday movies what they are. This was the best one though, it was a classic, and anyone who says that it is an over used, poorly acted suckfest is not looking hard. This is a classic, you will like. Really. This is also the first one where infamous Jason recieves his hockey mask, that certainly makes it a cant miss. The ending is very well done, see the ending of the first Friday and see how the two endings collide. Take my word for it.
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Summary: Voorhees A Jolly Good Maniac, That Nobody Can Deny
Review: .... Jason Voorhees gets up off his rear from shortly after number two and gets rid of the bag, that was kind of a lame mask anyway and I think Steve Miner knew that. Steve did an average job on number two, but nothing close to this one. He proved that he can do horror well, and he earned my respect. .... if you are going to sit and watch a Friday the 13th movie, you must get used to bad acting! I found that hallarious and totally agreed. The characters in part three reffered to as "the wild bunch" are believable and quite hysterical. I dont always like the characters in all of the Friday films, but these ones were classical and a good type of strange. You got your ... prankster, you got your two lovebirds, you got your two hippie lovebirds, a chick with a terrible past, a country boy, a blind date for the fat... prankster, two durranged adult lovebirds, a motorcycle gang, and an old man on the road completing the dead or alive Ralph character. My favorite character in this movie seems to change over the years, but recently it is Debbie, and or Chuck. I dont know why. Anywho, this one is different from the others, is more conceptive about the creative events and lets you get to know Crystal Lake more.... I thought the funniest part in the movie was after Chuck roughed up the bikers bikes and the the black biker, I think Ali, approached him in his car. You will just have to see what happens then. Crystal Lake has nice greenery and woods, bueatiful sparkling lakes( wouldnt swim in them if you know what I mean )and some of the MOST of the people are nice. The art of this film is to turn a pleasant environment with funny people and nice couples to a living homicidal hell that the residents wish that they hadnt entered. Steve Miner did to the wilderness outdoor country what Alfred Hitchcock did to hotels and showers. Although the MPAA chops his movies up a bit sometimes, Steve Miner is a great director. The simplicity of Friday 3 is as simple as everyday life, that is what makes it and the other Friday movies what they are. This was the best one though, it was a classic, and anyone who says that it is an over used, poorly acted ...fest is not looking hard. This is a classic, you will like. Really. This is also the first one where infamous Jason recieves his hockey mask, that certainly makes it a cant miss. The ending is very well done, see the ending of the first Friday and see how the two endings collide. ....
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Summary: Jason adapts his trademark look
Review: this is basically almost the same story as pt. 2, but jason finally dons his infamous hockey mask (would have been better if he did this in pt. 2) still a great film, very suspenseful, with brocker portraying a good Jason
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Summary: This is awful!
Review: Twenty-four hours after the events of "Friday the 13th, Part 2" took place, serial murderer Jason Voorhees goes to a nearby camp called Higgins Haven, to terrorize some campers. Jason finally gets his infamous hockey mask in this installment. However, I was disappointed that the movie never actually showed him putting on the mask; we only see Jason suddenly appear in one scene with the hockey mask already on! The death scenes were not as gruesome as those in part two. One of the things I hated about this movie is that Jason slits the throat of one of his victims offscreen! I think when fans go to watch a "Friday the 13th" movie, they want to see every slice that Jason makes on his victims; the film makers let fans down by letting something happen offscreen. The movie might be awful, but there is some very little entertainment to be gained from it (this is what saved the film from getting one star from me); the entertainment factor was reduced due to the horrible acting by some of the cast. Unless you're a big fan and must watch every film of the franchise, I don't recommend this film.
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Summary: BETTER THEN THE FIRST AND SECOND!
Review: I thought the first was good, and as well as the second (You people say that second should not of been in the seris shame on you! You meet Jason! Fory Crying out loud!)But this one was amazing. Of course he gets the mask and no better way on getting his first death with it on, shooting a harpoon gun right in the chiks eye! AMAZING! This one has the same story as every single one, but it's the killing we want right! We don't care about the story line, even though thier is none. Cheap acting but not a problem here. Get used to the cheap acting in the Friday movies! Anyways the ending match is really the main higlight in this flick. The girl is a smart one using a lot of stuff to get Jason. Right at the end the girl is on the boat (after she thinks she defeated Jason) u see Jason in the barn window with no mask on, with his ugly face. Then all of a sudden the mother comes out of the water and attacks her! That was amazing! This is one of the main reasons why this one was one of my favorigte fridays!
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Summary: Flat as a pancake! Where's the 3-D?!!
Review: Though not without entertainment value, "Friday the 13th Part III" (1982) is a dispensable entry in the long-running series, wholly reliant on its 3-D gimmick to draw a mass audience. It serves no other purpose. Whereas the first two movies established the basic premise (the villain in part 2 takes up where his/her predecessor left off in part 1), "Part III" doesn't advance the scenario at all, merely restages the same plot as before: teens take a weekend trip into the woods and are targeted for destruction by the seemingly unstoppable Jason. The plot is negligible, the characters conform to stereotype, and the constant stream of violent murders seems even more senseless than before. In fact, the indiscriminate nature of Jason's victims allows consistency to fall by the wayside, thereby signalling the film's status as little more than a mindless thrill-machine, the victim of lazy scriptwork by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson. To be fair, however, it's doubtful that a radical change in the basic scenario would have been acceptable to contemporary audiences. In 1982, these simple thrills were more than enough to ring the box-office bell, and woe betide any producer who dared to mess with a winning formula! The best efforts of sophomore director Steve Miner (also responsible for "Friday the 13th Part 2") are compromised by two important factors: First, the cast seems to have been chosen on the basis of looks rather than acting ability, and the only character with a halfway decent plot-thread (the overweight guy whose feeble pranks are a desperate attempt to ingratiate himself with his peers) meets a predictably 'ironic' end long before his genuine emotional distress can be allowed to detract from the orchestrated mayhem. And secondly, the requirements of 3-D photography - in particular, the attention paid to the point of convergence from shot to shot, in order to prevent eyestrain and headaches in the audience - has resulted in visual and dramatic compromises, slowing the movie's rhythm and sapping all vitality from the narrative (this was true of many other 3-D movies which opened the following year). Seen in 3-D, the extra dimension is a genuinely effective novelty which enhances the viewing experience tenfold, from the opening credits (which seem to shoot out of the screen with startling clarity) through to the extended finale when Jason's rampage literally spills into the audience's lap. Viewed flat, for all its bloody violence and exaggerated body count, the film is a lumbering, pointless rehash of the first two entries, with no identity of its own. Unfortunately, it's the flat version which has debuted on DVD. Filmed utilizing the Marks 3-Depix process, part III's extra dimension was achieved by placing the left-eye image above the right-eye image on each individual frame (derived from the Spacevision process developed by Col. Robert Bernier in the 1960s, the basis for virtually all 3-D formats ever since), creating a 2.35:1 frame viewed through polarized glasses. Though the over-under format was also used on "The Bubble" and "Comin' at Ya!" - both available on DVD in 3-D from Rhino Video - Paramount has made no attempt to do the same with "Friday III". Which is ironic, because it was THIS film which fuelled the brief 3-D revival in the 1980s. Worse still, Paramount is aware of a new process created by Xenotech Inc. of Australia which can take any moving image (on film or video) and convert it to high-quality 3-D, viewable through polarized lenses. In fact, the studio was apparently so impressed with it, "Widescreen Review" magazine reported in 1998 that Paramount was seriously considering producing an Imax 3-D version of the next "Star Trek" movie! That idea was eventually dropped, of course, but if the process was so impressive, why couldn't it have been applied to this disc? Not to mention "Robot Monster" (from Image), "Flesh for Frankenstein" (Criterion), "The Creeps" (Full Moon), and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (Universal)... At least the sound and picture quality on the DVD is excellent, even though Gerald Feil's atmospheric cinematography makes little use of the wide frame. The region 1 disc (which runs 95m 1s) is anamorphically encoded, and the Dolby soundtrack is mono. Extras are confined to English captions and a theatrical trailer (anamorphic 1.85:1) which places a depressing emphasis on the theatrical 3-D format ("Jason - you can't fight him! You can't stop him! And now, you can't even keep him on the screen!"). Ultimately, "Friday III" survives primarily as an exercise in dimensional gimmickry. Seen that way, it has much to offer, but this flat DVD presentation reveals nothing but the emptiness at its core. NB. Missing from this print is an intertitle right at the very beginning to announce that the opening sequence (a reprise of the climax from "Part 2") is not in 3-D. And if memory serves me correctly, this brief reprisal played theatrically in a slightly cropped 1.85:1 format, framed by smoke which filled the rest of the 2.35:1 frame (see the opening scene of Anchor Bay's "Dracula Prince of Darkness" DVD for a more extreme example of this effect). Here, the image has been altered to fill the entire screen area, eliminating all traces of a smoke-filled border. And for some reason which eludes me, the opening credits are squeezed and windowboxed, just like the full-screen VHS version!
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Summary: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3
Review: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 was the first film in the whole series where Jason Vorhees picked up the hockey mask that he would wear for the rest of the series (that is of course, after he kills the guy who was wearing it). This installment has a group of teenagers who go to a farmhouse in the country to party for the weekend, and the farmhouse just happens to be located down the road from Camp Crystal Lake, which means that the teenagers will eventually meet there death at the hands of our mutant maniac Jason. A welcome sense of humor helps this third entry in the series.
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Summary: Pretty scary!
Review: I have seen all the friday movies, and I only really like the first four. Imagine if they just made the first four and not the other five. Part three is a good chapter. More gore and blood and violence then part two. Except why does jason look diffrent in parts 2, 3, and 4. Makeup artist couldnt make up there minds? Oh well, this one scared me when I was a kid and still shakes me. See this and the other ones on friday the 13th.
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