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Movie Review: Freddy vs Jason

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15 years ago last week (yeah, I'm a bit late to the game, my personal life, uh, got in the way, so to speak) the movie Freddy vs Jason came to theaters. And I wanted to give it some love. Currently on Rotten Tomatoes , a site I'm not a fan of anyway because it scares and confuses me, it sits at 41% from "critics" and 50% from "fans". Whereas on IMDb , it's got a 5.8 out of 10. People don't seem to like this movie and I'm not sure why. Lemme explain why, for me personally anyway, this movie was a big deal when it finally came out. We need to go back in time to 1991. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was released and everyone involved said this is totally the last Freddy movie, we swear, ignore us crossing our fingers behind our backs. We found a way to kill Freddy and he was dead for sure. It involves a 3-D gimmick that won't hold up but he's dead, you guys. Promise. Flash-forward to 1993 and we get Jason Goes To Hell . This...