Jason - no question.
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Leatherface - 1 & 2 are awesome, 3 is decent-but-flawed, and 4 is retarded ... the remake is decent, and the remake-prequel is pointless.
Freddy - I don't enjoy the jokester angle much, it's like the cheesiest James Bond ever got mixed with serial murder ... plus he's a child-raping-kiddy-killer ... gee, that got forgotten about pretty quickly ... and it's odd how he's a child killer in conversation, or in the Freddy VS Jason flashback, but the movies themselves feature 'all grown up' teenagers (played by full-on adults of course), so while it should be that way, it's also really weird.
1 and 3 were awesome, 2 was daft, 4,5,6 were total gash that I've only suffered through once, and 7 was interesting, but nothing special, and I've only seen that once too.
Michael Myers - 1 was awesome, 2 was rather good, 3 didn't feature him at all (so it doesn't really count, but was surprisingly good as a movie), 4,5,6 were lame - the masks were rubbish, The Shape wasn't scary anymore, the films sucked ... 7 was better, but felt too "Scream-ish", and 8 is commonly "forgotten" by the franchise fans because it was so franchise-rapingly bad ... ... RZ's Halloween was good, despite having the odd flaw, and importantly it made Myers fucking scary again - roll on RZ's H2.
Jason Voorhees - wasn't in 1, but 1 was kick ass ... 2 was awesome, 3 was flawed but all the Jason stuff rocks, 4 was fucking great, 5 didn't feature the real Jason but it has some moments while being generally naff ... there's two WELL FIT ladies in it though ... 6 was awesome, 7 had the best 'zombie' Jason EVER, 8 was far better the 2nd time round for me and despite the ludicrous elements in the ending (Jason's kid voice, vomming-up water for no good reason, being turned into his child-self by nuclear waste) it's a really enjoyable Jason flick (Jason is awesome through, especially in Manhattan - him hoofing that ghetto blaster is pure class, for instance, as is Jason-on-the-subway etc) ... 9 was fucking horrible though whenever Kane Hodder isn't on screen, 10 isn't as fun as I remember but you can at least admire what they tried to do, Freddy VS Jason was turd, and Friday 13th 2009 was disappointing in general and felt too much like TCM2003 ... ... although Derek Mears rocked the shit out of Jason I thought.
Which is an interesting thing, the dudes who play Jason have pretty much all done a kick ass job - although Gilette is a scheister now that I've discovered he played Jason in about 2 or 3 scenes, and Steve Daskowitz played him the rest of #2 ... ... Brooker rocked in 3, White rocked in 4, Morga didn't get much to "do" as Jason (pretty much stand in sight of mirrors etc), Graham was a lot of fun to watch in 6, Kane Hodder kicked every single ass in 7 and 8, then whenever Hodder was on-screen in 9 the film went from "bullshit" to "woo!", and again in 10 Hodder made for a lot of fun when watching the movie ... ... then Kirzinger (who got thrown against a mirror in the diner in #8) did a decent job, but because of the material didn't get to really rock the mike ... ... then Derek Mears did a spiffing job in the remake I thought.
Oh and Lehman, while only briefly seen as Jason, certainly made for a kick ass ending to the first movie.
Having watched "His Name Was Jason" a couple of times now (and having barged all the movies again - well, still got 1 and 9 to do technically), all the dudes seem like really nice guys and you can respect them all (well, Gilette went right down in my estimations after hearing Steve Dash's side of things), and they were all entertaining to listen to in the doc - especially Hodder and Mears, who you can tell really love the character.
*gasps*
Sufficient enough answer? 
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Originally Posted by AcesandEights
Thanks for that...
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