{"id":2755,"date":"2004-08-17T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/17\/just-stop-already\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:58:11","slug":"just-stop-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/17\/just-stop-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Just stop already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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04:06:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 20:44:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 08:50:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 08:50:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10386,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ryanwaddell.com\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/17\\\/oh-my-god&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, okay, okay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0780626966\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Nightmare Collection\">Nightmare on Elm Street series<\/a> (conditionally &mdash; films <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00000JQTT\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"A Nightmare on Elm Street\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0780630866\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Dream Warriors\">three<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0780630904\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Wes Craven's New Nightmare\">seven<\/a> are good, the others range from just silly to downright bad).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00001MXXM\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Friday the 13th\">first<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;path=tg\/stores\/series\/-\/92\/dvd\" title=\"Friday the 13th series\">Friday the Thirteenth series<\/a>, and I enjoyed it (though my only jump was <em>right<\/em> at the end).<\/p>\n<p>I was even pleasantly surprised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B0000VCZMK\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Freddy vs. Jason\">Freddy vs. Jason<\/a> crossover film &mdash; it was silly and dumb, but very enjoyably so, and not nearly as bad as I&#8217;d expected it to be.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a big fan of Sam Raimi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;path=tg\/stores\/series\/-\/23\" title=\"The Evil Dead series\">Evil Dead series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But come <em>on<\/em> people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinescape.com\/0\/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&amp;this_cat=Movies&amp;action=page&amp;type_id=&amp;cat_id=&amp;obj_id=42337\" title=\"Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash = Everyone Wins\">Freddy vs. Jason&hellip;vs. Ash<\/a>?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>This is just ridiculous &mdash; and not a good kind of ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>If this actually gets made, I just hope they <em>all<\/em> die. No resurrections. No sequels. There obviously isn&#8217;t anything more that can actually be done with any of the characters that actually involves any amount of creativity, so just let them die already.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanwaddell.com\/archives\/2004\/08\/17\/oh-my-god\/\" title=\"Ryan's Rantin: OH. MY. GOD.\">Ryan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Swim&#8221;  by Spahn Ranch from the album <em>Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna Vol. 1<\/em> (1999, 4:36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this actually gets made, I just hope they all die. No resurrections. No sequels. There obviously isn&#8217;t anything more that can actually be done with any of the characters that actually involves any amount of creativity, so just let them die already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[2568,34,23,3605],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-a-nightmare-on-elm-street","tag-evil-dead","tag-film","tag-friday-the-13th"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}