The "VS" Phenomenon

[Chainsawmidget]

While we're talking about vs movies, there's one thing I want to bring up. 

The title of these movies is basically them just coming right out and saying,"yeah, this movie is about this character fighting that character."  You're excited because you know the characters.  Whether it's Freddy vs Jason, Aliens vs Predator, King Kong vs Godzilla, Zombie vs Ninja, or Joe vs the Volcano, everything you need to know is right there in the title. 

So, what I want to know is who had the bright idea to call a movie Ecks vs Sever, when nobody knows or gives a damn who Ecks and Sever even are? 

[FatFreddysCat]

I so want to see "Alien vs. Ninja," just so I can gaze longingly at that ninja chick with the armored boobs. 

[Jim H]

The problem with so many of the "VS" movies is that they have the cop-out ending: neither titular foe wins.  The people in charge of each franchise don't want their particular monster/hero/whatever to come out on the losing end, so the big battle is either inconclusive, interrupted, or both foes are defeated by an outside force.  Freddy vs. Jason is a good example.  Both end up dead (or do they) by movie's end, but Jason only died (or did he) because of some arbitrary new rule where he dies temporarily if he gets dunked in Crystal Lake, and Freddy was defeated (or was he) by the stupid teenagers.  ***SPOILER***Then the twist ending suggested they both decided to team up.***SPOILER***

It wasn't too bad...

**SPOILER**

Jason won, really.  It looked to me like he just deliberately gave himself up to going into the lake at the end after his victory, not that that was inevitable.  Taking a rest, as it were.

**END**

[akiratubo]

It wasn't too bad...

**SPOILER**

Jason won, really.  It looked to me like he just deliberately gave himself up to going into the lake at the end after his victory, not that that was inevitable.  Taking a rest, as it were.

**END**

Jason and Freddy themselves were all right.  But, oh man, those kids!  They were some of the most annoying, annoying teenage victims, ever.  Mission accomplished, I guess, but the blonde girl getting the last lick in on Freddy really cheesed me off.  (And what was with the shot of his body falling into the water looking like it was filmed on a cheap VHS camera?)