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Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
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THE horror franchise of your late youth
Man I don't think Final Destination is THE horror franchise of anyone's youth
I was near the prime age range for the movies (6th grade for the first and the last one came out my senior year of college) and certainly don't consider it the defining horror franchise. I view them like the Saw movies, the concept was cool in the first one...I bought a ticket for the the rest to see how creative they could get with killing highly attractive college kids.
To be honest, most horror franchises are completely silly and stupid after the first couple. I can't think of one that doesn't fit that mold, actually. Halloween/Elm/Friday all have duds. TCM has mostly duds. Jaws, Evil Dead, Ring plenty of duds across those. I thought all the Paranormal Activity movies sucked arse. Exorcist has duds. Maybe Scream...although they really jumped the shark with the last one.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:17 pm to Boring
Scream and Scream 2 are really good
Posted on 4/22/20 at 1:38 am to WestCoastAg
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Most of them die instantly in darkly humorous ways. Except for the two girls that died in the tanning beds. Easily the worst death of the franchise
Yeah but nice breasts though. Also lasick eye girl in part 5 was disturbing to me but that might just be my not liking any eye scene in movies.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 2:06 am to SlowFlowPro
I enjoyed the first 2 as a 10-13 year old
Posted on 4/22/20 at 8:43 am to WestCoastAg
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Except for the two girls that died in the tanning beds
Final Destination 3 is the peak of the franchise (for the record not a very good franchise) - they quit all pretense of the movies being serious and made it comedy start to finish but it was also early enough that the outlandish gore scenes felt somewhat original and the formula wasn't stale.
Roller coaster crash
Tanning beds
Weights
Semi engine
Nail gun
Flagpole
Cherry picker
It was directed by James Wong, who topped all these gruesome deaths with the brutal murder of his own career after he wrote and directed Dragonball Evolution.
This post was edited on 4/22/20 at 8:44 am
Posted on 4/22/20 at 8:47 am to SlowFlowPro
It certainly wasn’t meant to be a real serious thing
Posted on 4/22/20 at 8:52 am to wildtigercat93
Honestly the “horror” of the movie is the most effective than most because it comes after you see the film and run into these run of the mill situations and freak out thinking that thing is gonna happen from the FD movie
I still won’t drive anywhere near a lumber truck
I still won’t drive anywhere near a lumber truck
Posted on 4/22/20 at 9:53 am to Tigerfan56
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Call it a comedy if you want but you won’t ever catch me riding behind a truck carrying logs on the highway
To this day. I refusr to sit behind them. I will drive 95 to pass one up I don't care. That might be irrational but I dont care
Posted on 4/22/20 at 9:56 am to ClampClampington
This scene also paranoid me. In my house growing up we had a knife container like that. I made sure to never place a rag on top of the knives, and I always checked to make sure they were as far away from the edge as possible.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 10:02 am to SlowFlowPro
the scene where the airbag drove the chick's head into the sharp pipe was pretty funny.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 10:05 am to Muthsera
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Final Destination 3 is the peak
Agree, 2 and 3 for me had the best kills.
From 2: log truck, airbag, and the entire lead up to the ladder in the eyesocket kill with like 10 different red herrings
From 3: tanning beds, weights
And as someone rightly pointed out, the real horror is when you find yourself in one of those situations in every day life. I think about those movies whenever I'm at a tanning salon or at the gym like, "this is a real Final Destination situation I'm in right now..."
Posted on 4/22/20 at 10:23 am to Muthsera
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It was directed by James Wong, who topped all these gruesome deaths with the brutal murder of his own career after he wrote and directed Dragonball Evolution
Posted on 4/22/20 at 10:24 am to Boring
I always got a laugh from the neo-Nazi's death in the 3D version:
Why Can't We Be Friends
That was well after it became comedy.
Why Can't We Be Friends
That was well after it became comedy.
Posted on 4/22/20 at 4:16 pm to biglego
How can y'all leave out the explosion in 2 that sent the barb wire fence flying to cut the guy into 3 pieces that slid off each other in different directions?
This post was edited on 4/22/20 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 4/22/20 at 4:27 pm to ipodking
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After the first film, the franchise is just a way to see people killed in creative ways.
Yea. Seems like Death became the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine builder.
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