Its a bit of a late one this week, not that you missed much, the Waffleon Football Team lost 4-3 to the top of the league side, Spurs lost in the carling cup final, England lost in the Rugby and i'm sure a few other people lost out too this weekend. But for every loser there is a winner and today its you guys with a BROTHERTON review of Friday the 13th. There's one coming up in March too so ya know, its all relative and stuff.

Friday the 13th

Good news for horror fans; The new Friday the 13th remake is the best looking, well produced Friday the 13th flick made yet. Bad news is; its still just another cruddy Friday the 13th flick.

After having Jason Vorhees drowned, chopped up, struck by lightning, battle psychics, sent to Hell, shot into space and duked out with Freddy Krueger, Michael Bay and his production company Platinum Dunes has decided to start from scratch in this 're-imagining' of the first three films combined. Problem is, this is a franchise that has pretty much devoid of any actual imagination to begin with.
Friday the 13th was just one of several generic slasher flicks that came out in the late 70's and early 80's that tried to cash in on the success of Halloween by following the repetitive formula of gratuitously slaughtered teens, a masked killer and a title based after a specific date - See My Bloody Valentine, Silent Night Deadly Night, Prom Night etc. In fact, its really mainly down to the box office success of the original 1980 film which as to date, managed to create an ongoing franchise that had spawned nine dismal sequels and the crossover cheesefest that was Freddy vs Jason.

Not that this will deter any fans of the franchise itself. Like the current Saw franchise, it has built up a loyal fanbase since its inception who's primary kick was the inventive ways Jason would snuff out his victims each time, and this new film follows no exception.
While director Marcus Nispel achieves the same gritty, morbid look he pulled off previously in the decent but needless Texas Chainsaw remake, there is nothing new achieved here at all. Every camper present on the screen spend their whole screen time smoking weed, having sex and talking garbage when they're not being hacked up by Jason, which is at times both gruesome and unintentionally funny.
So when you're finished cheering Jason on killing these cretinous youths, you'll most likely be regularly checking your watch hoping Jason will finish up quickly so you can leave sooner.

Then again, the film's sheer mediocrity won't affect the reputation of the franchise, the original is far from being a classic despite what some horror fans might argue, and Friday fans here will get their money's worth; you want Jason slaughtering campers again, you've got it. But for everyone else. You'll wish the film ended when the title first appeared.
And seeing as Platinum Dunes has picked up the rights to remake both Nightmare on Elm Street and The Birds: by paying to see this film, you're funding Michael Bay to go ahead to butcher genuine classics. Keep that in mind.

Rating: 1.5 out of 5

So plenty of sport going on this past weekend, Waffleon FC actually got to play a game in the league and recorded a good win 3-2 against Zantos - puts us up to third in the league with a game in hand or something. Will be a good finish for us to come 3rd this season, as we come together as a team, a good run in should secure that!

ALSO the Waffleon Netball team have been doing pretty well recently, and have managed to get themselves into the English Netball Magazine (must be a fascinating read that!!) anyway, they've been sponsored by a cheesecake shop, which i suppose is like the footy team being sponsored by Bacon Rolls or something, but yeah its a good achievement and they've been doing well this year wining lots and beating up the smaller kids they play against.

Here's the pic

So thats about it for Monday, we've got some more reviews this week, and i'll see if we can get something from Andyboy on the Oscars, follow all the action in the forums, its always a good debate.

So yeah we lost against top of the table "The Albion" 3-1 on sunday. Certainlty not outclassed we conceeded 2 very lucky goals in quick succession and a 3rd we could have stopped to be 3-0 down at half time. We gave a solid second half perfomance with Luke slotting home another penalty late on but it was a defeat for us in the end. Next week is the derby game with Jalaini and we're still 3rd in the table (i think) so 3 points at home should do us very nicely!

Will update this with the latest league table when its online tomorrow.