User blog comment:Widward/Jeff the Killer rant/@comment-27838637-20180304125800

Widward; it is now evident to me that you have no idea what you are talking about.

Well, it’s been evident for quite some time but I just felt like you should know.

Firstly, let me just say that I am one of the few people who prefers the original Jeff the Killer over the remake. Do I think the remake is a bad story? No. Do I think that the original Jeff the Killer is a good story? Again, No. But remaking Jeff the Killer is like remaking Tommy Wiseau’s movie ‘The Room’. It’s a terrible piece of work, but why not just let it be a terrible piece of work that we can laugh at and enjoy for it’s faults, rather than remake it into something it’s not and frankly never should have been?

I agree that the remake was not entirely necessary, and I can understand why you would dislike it because personally I also dislike it for the reasons listed above.

But, by no means at all does it make it a badly written story.

The remake does everything better – grammar, story, dialogue, realism, pacing etc. Everything is done better because it was written by a far superior writer. Literally nothing you wrote made any sense and as a matter of fact is absolutely retconned by the original piece.

Let me just put this into dot points so you better understand:

- Characters are not at all bland in comparison to the original. Jeff is more than just a troubled kid who can fight; he has a personality.

- Who said Jeff is a likable character? He’s not supposed to be likable, he is supposed to be relatable and his deeper character in this story is supposed to allow you to empathize with him more. That’s why the point of this story is not to make you scared of Jeff, but how anybody can be pushed to be a killer under the right circumstances. You completely missed the point. Even so, what’s wrong with a likable villain?

- Jeffs parents here are lousy excuses for parents and they aren’t supposed to be likable. But, unfortunately, many parents are shit at their job. It’s believable in this case for them to be how they are.

- The house scene did show a lot of depth to Randy. It showed how he could be a two-faced manipulative little shit. The first scene in the remake with Randy showed a deeper character than the entire original did.

- Jeff having no motivation for his killings in the original is exactly why the remake is better?

Yes, this story has plenty of flaws too, but stop bashing on it and carrying on about how the original is better. We are all sick of you bashing on this story please commit to your blogs a little more and put in the effort to back up your opinions.