Vlog 8-12-11 – Final Destination 5

Spoony | Aug 13 2011 | more | 
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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Darren-Wright/29615674 Darren Wright

    i could never get into the Final Destination movies

  • http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com/ SoldierHawk

    Great review Spoony. I hate these kinds of movies as well and can’t sit through ‘em, but I take perverse pleasure in hearing intelligent people discuss them.

    Also, I had to smile: “I’m just gonna ramble for a bit…” Spoony? Ramble in a Vlog? NEVER. ;-)

  • http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com/ SoldierHawk

    Great review Spoony. I hate these kinds of movies as well and can’t sit through ‘em, but I take perverse pleasure in hearing intelligent people discuss them.

    Also, I had to smile: “I’m just gonna ramble for a bit…” Spoony? Ramble in a Vlog? NEVER. ;-)

  • http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com/ SoldierHawk

    Great review Spoony. I hate these kinds of movies as well and can’t sit through ‘em, but I take perverse pleasure in hearing intelligent people discuss them.

    Also, I had to smile: “I’m just gonna ramble for a bit…” Spoony? Ramble in a Vlog? NEVER. ;-)

  • http://profiles.google.com/zfriedcod john henry

    i havent seen hangover 2 , but dr ken… i saw preview on conan …
    he said the lamest shit, and he said holla!! city of squalor! and the damn holla! i just thought of bobby lee from madtv saying holla … …and he wasnt funny on hangover 1 , i wanted to strangle him

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andre-Aberg/677507600 André Åberg

    oh haha funny stuff Spoony ! nice vlog!
    i have only watched final destination 1-2 haha

    http://www.youtube.com/denderfurger

  • http://twitter.com/DefectiveType40 Dylan Roy

    My favorite method of Sim death from way back when was the “couch in front of the fireplace” gag.

    Actually, Sim deaths would really make these movies a lot funnier. Like, someone is in their pool, and all of the ladders have disappeared and they just randomly fall asleep and drown…

    • http://www.facebook.com/zack.thesak.smith Zachary Smith

      Someone got the intestines sucked out by a pool in 3 o(>w<)o

      • dennett316

        That was from part 4…which was a terrible film.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1798310608 Jan Pospíšil

    Spoony, go see the new Plane of the Apes. It’s good.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001359033124 Kalu Shakti Kundalini

      Yeah I really enjoyed it.  I’ll save speaking about it though.

    • http://twitter.com/eareimaj Joseph Hall

      Apes on a Plane? That would be awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1404692795 Michael Eller

    The guy you said looked like Tom Cruise is Miles Fisher and he played Tom Cruise in Super Hero movie. He actually has a few web shows and did an excellent video paying homage to American Psycho. Here is a youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPuaqGZGro

    • http://twitter.com/eareimaj Joseph Hall

      That wasn’t Tom Cruise?

  • Anonymous

     Hurray!  A return to form!  I love these movie v-logs.  Do more.

  • Anonymous

     Hurray!  A return to form!  I love these movie v-logs.  Do more.

  • http://twitter.com/eareimaj Joseph Hall

    “Death does not like to be cheated”

    Paycheck earned. Nice line read Tony Todd.

    I can appreciate the atmosphere of Paranormal Activity. I thought they were just so boring. Maybe in the 3rd they will show some stuff and not just talk about stuff. Boring boring boring fucking boring. Shot number 6.

  • http://www.facebook.com/drinkitman Dugas Máté

    In the fourth movie there is a cop or security guard (I dont remember) who wants to commit suicide and in the third the survivors talk about the disaster survivors of the first and second movie. So this was my useless information for today :D I really hate these movies, but I always watch them because I want to see if its different from the others. But its not, these movies are pointless.

  • http://www.facebook.com/zack.thesak.smith Zachary Smith

    Oh man, the first Final Destination I saw was 2, a bunch of friends & I were looking for something to do so we wandered into the movie theater & decided to go see it cause nothing looked better. It had been out for a week or so & at the beginning of the movie we had maybe 10 other people around us. Now, none of us had seen the previous movie cause it didn’t look too interesting, but after every death in this we would burst out laughing & crack jokes through the entire thing then at the end we looked around us & there was a circle of 5 or 6 rows that were absent of people, it was an awsome night o(>ww<)o
    Chakushin Ari is up to his 3rd One Missed Call now.
    Yeah, from what I can tell, these movies happen because Death is bored, he
    sends the first kid a vision so he can have some fun deaths & then waits for the next movie.
    Awsome review, can't wait for the next one o(^-^)b

    • dennett316

      Tony Todd did a voice over part for the third film, he was the weird demon voice playing outside the demon ride at the start of the film.

  • Anonymous

    the lazer eye thing has prove that we can have lazer gun in the future.
    aka lazer gun of imperial guard’s man from warhammer 40k.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ashley-Browne/100001616866424 Ashley Browne

    “I define ‘horror’ differently than most people.” Yeah, you define horror as something that is actually scary. :P

    As for PA3 … well, the original Blair Witch is what I consider a great horror film and one of the best ‘found footage’ films, and that was recorded on film reels. It was officially set in 1994 (which is hardly the 80s I know) and I’m not sure how much filming can be done on film reels, but they still managed to realistically create the film. Heck, the lower quality of the film would definately work in the film’s favor; with HD and ultra-quality film it’s harder to obscure scary elements, but on older and grainer film? That’d be perfect. (BWP was always kinda grainy and washed out, which really made it seem scarier – imagine it using HD cameras and green IR. Not as scary, huh?)

    So as long as they come up with a good excuse for the film (like their dad being a film producer who gave his girls an extra camera with film reels), it could work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ashley-Browne/100001616866424 Ashley Browne

    “I define ‘horror’ differently than most people.” Yeah, you define horror as something that is actually scary. :P

    As for PA3 … well, the original Blair Witch is what I consider a great horror film and one of the best ‘found footage’ films, and that was recorded on film reels. It was officially set in 1994 (which is hardly the 80s I know) and I’m not sure how much filming can be done on film reels, but they still managed to realistically create the film. Heck, the lower quality of the film would definately work in the film’s favor; with HD and ultra-quality film it’s harder to obscure scary elements, but on older and grainer film? That’d be perfect. (BWP was always kinda grainy and washed out, which really made it seem scarier – imagine it using HD cameras and green IR. Not as scary, huh?)

    So as long as they come up with a good excuse for the film (like their dad being a film producer who gave his girls an extra camera with film reels), it could work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roman-Monaghan/100000507912679 Roman Monaghan

    Funny thing, one of the spin off comics for Final Destination actually comes out with, yeah, Death is intentionally giving these guys the premonitions just to mess with them and amuse itself.

  • Anonymous

    very nice review hope you get final fantasy X-2 review finished soon

  • http://www.facebook.com/kawaiiamethist Samantha Hill

    Spoony, why do your vids load at a snail’s pace? It isn’t an internet speed issue, so is the size of the files or the file host? Please, someone clue me in.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QFYSCA32EI53EW5UJGU7XQ675I Daniel

    I’m shocked that people love watching these movies. It’s kind like saw, you know they are all going to die. The creators just wanna show death scenes, that’s all they care about. Horror movies today really suck.

    • http://www.facebook.com/kawaiiamethist Samantha Hill

      I love the Final Destination and Saw franchises; the fun with these flicks comes from the suspense of the build up. It’s just like a slasher flick, rolling your eyes at the dumb broad who wanders the house, with a killer waiting in the shadows. We know she should get out of there, we know she’s doomed, it’s only a matter of when and what limbs she’ll lose.

      Anyway, the deaths are over very quickly and unless something truly inspired has been done to the flesh (like Spoony’s description of the skin burning away from the man’s hand), there’s little surprises in the way of gore to be had.

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t like Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay?  I thought they finally hit their stride with the 2nd movie.  It took the first movie awhile to get into the swing of things, and the 2nd movie was able to start out firing on all cylinders.  Hell, those movies are two of the few genuinely funny comedies out there.  Most of the comedies are just…not.

  • Anonymous

    So I’m the only one, who is not afraid of all those shitty horror movies like Saw, Paranormal Activity, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Insidious etc., and just laugh out loud, when I watch it in theater? Damn:(

    Oh, and about that laser surgery – it’s weak in the trailers, because when she gets her hand to cover her eye, this thing is turned off and you can’t see it (it should be visible, red, but on her hand or anywhere else, is nothing).

    Rise of the Planet of the Apes is awesome and is second best in the franchise (the first is, of course, the original).

    Why I have feeling that The Smurfes will be the scariest movie of the decade?

  • http://twitter.com/Atko95 Jordan Lee Atkinson

    In one of the films someone does try and commit suicide but it doesn’t work because “death” has to be the one to claime them.

    • http://twitter.com/Tackleman121 Tackleman

       I think it was the 3rd Movie, cause it’s the only one I own *g* He tries to shoot himself in the head, but non of the bullets work. And like you said, he can’t kill himself because death has to be in the correct order or some shit like that.

      • http://www.facebook.com/kawaiiamethist Samantha Hill

        That’s the 4th (Nascar themed), it was the security guard.

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t seen any of these movies and never really cared to.

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t seen any of these movies and never really cared to.

  • http://twitter.com/Callsignsaru Andrew

    Where else would aliens come from other than space you ask Spoony?

    My answer is the space between spaces.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Rees/100000239794052 Luke Rees

    ‘I have Tekken to shoot. I’ve watched it several times already, actually.’ – Some of Mr. Antwiler’s final words before he went over the edge and was committed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Rees/100000239794052 Luke Rees

    ‘I have Tekken to shoot. I’ve watched it several times already, actually.’ – Some of Mr. Antwiler’s final words before he went over the edge and was committed.

  • Anonymous

    in both Final Destination 2 and 4 the lead black guys of both films attempt to kill themselves 2 with a handgun the doesn’t fire and 4 with hanging,pill, and alcohol but doesn’t die.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1380617496 Martin Backman

    I whole-heartedly agree that slasher-flicks do not equal horror at all. I like my horror with a creepy atmosphere that makes me hope for a jump-scare, just so that the tension will be interrupted. One of the best and most disturbing horror-movies I can recommend is the noir-horror “Angel Heart” from 1987 with Mickey Rourke

  • http://procrastinationathon.blogspot.com/ Acg

     I did quite like the original Final Destination film, but it never struck me as the kind of thing that should become a franchise. In the first film the characters don’t know the “rules” so there is a mystery there which they work out as it goes along. After that however, with no antagonist other than just death, all there is to do it sit on watch people get killed off.

    As for Paranormal Activity, I’m still behind on that. All I can ever think when I see the trailers and other various bits of hype for it is “I should really go and buy the DVD of Ghostwatch”.

    The choice of director for PA3 is intersting though, the same guy who made Catfish. I did like that film, but it was just a really weird and slightly unnerving story the film makers fell into by accident, making a documentory of it as they went along. Don’t know how that would translate into an ability to film a scripted period story in a documentory style.

  • http://twitter.com/dreamerhorwitz Noah Howard

    Okay, before I type anything, here’s some of my basic thoughts for modern horror flicks:
    http://mindofwriter.blogspot.com/2011/06/horror-movies-filled-with-al-porn-and.html

    That said, I don’t like the Final Destination series. The creators don’t know their audience, it’s made for gore and porn, and, as Spoony just pointed out, the creators NEVER think the mythology through! The only FD film I saw was part 2 when it aired on TV, and the broadcast version I didn’t like!
    If you ask me, the FD guys need to go back to the golden age of film and watch a couple. At least then, they’ll learn about something called “story.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4BQDFQZXP5KGUZRCZWGZIWDRNQ Revis Dumas

    And now I want to bring my girlfriend to this movie… (Insert evil laugh here)

  • http://www.facebook.com/Xevabis Brent Haworth

    All the deaths from the first 4 movies spliced together.

    http://www.screened.com/heres-what-you-missed-final-destination/128-739/

  • http://twitter.com/AuthorD Paul Evans

    The laser eye thing would probably make me throw up. I usually enjoy these kinds of movies, but I can’t stand stuff being done to eyes. I once saw a little informational documentary on the lasik eye surgery and just the information on how it’s done made me feel ill.

  • http://UnholyFireDragon.com Unholy Fire Dragon

    I never cared about Neil Patrick Harris’ stuff. I found him boring in Doogie Howser MD and I now find him boring AND annoying in “How I met Your Mother”.

    Doogie Howser MD, by the way, I found to be a show with a boring premiss (and I’ve actually seen a few episodes and it was never interesting or memorable to me). He’s basically a doctor who so happens to be young; who cares?

    I’ve also seen episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” and I’ve actually tried to be interested in it, but I just couldn’t do it. I don’t even understand why the hell the show is lasting at all. Hell, it’s a premiss where you KNOW the main character will meet a woman, get to know her and eventually marry her! What the FUCK, man?! :-P

  • http://djcmep.blogspot.com/ DJ CmeP

    You should make a top 10 list of all your favorite horror movies or just a video where you tell us some of your favorite horror movies.

  • http://djcmep.blogspot.com/ DJ CmeP

    You should make a top 10 list of all your favorite horror movies or just a video where you tell us some of your favorite horror movies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Holder/100002187851356 Michelle Holder

    I’m with you on the horror films classification. I hate gory films since it seems like violence and blood is all they have going for them. I don’t like watching them since often they’re disgusting and make me want to vomit. I mean, i don’t want to watch dozens of people get their insides ripped out vividly or whatever. I love horror movies if there’s suspense and an actual decent storyline to them. I feel they’re more intense that way and things become unpredictable. Often in gory films you can be like “Meh, that person will die in such a such way in 3…2…1… I called it!” whereas movies with atmosphere, you’re on the edge of your seat, jumping at every little noise and enjoying the twists and how the plot develops.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Markus-Hilmersson/100001210966576 Markus Hilmersson

    So, do you look away when Oh Dae-su pries that dudes teeth out with the hammer?

  • Anonymous

    Final Destination is what happens when someone who plays The Sims to kill people in ever increasingly bizarre ways gets a hold of a Death Note.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Dear.wHATEver Borislav Elinov

    you know what can make 3d more shitier 3d with subtitles man its so bad the subtitles stand in front of everything and its so annoying    

  • http://www.facebook.com/Dear.wHATEver Borislav Elinov

    you know what can make 3d more shitier 3d with subtitles man its so bad the subtitles stand in front of everything and its so annoying    

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AW3VX7HGVPJFFLYOQGRTPWDVFQ Joseph

    [Mommy, what's "Final Destination?"]
    {That’s easy, son! Just picture it as “Mouse Trap: the Horror Motion Picture!”}

    Seriously? We’re at the 5th movie and we’re no closer to understanding “Death’s” motives to killing all these people than we were with the 1st?! We still have no clue what this force really is and why it’s going around killing people, especially those who try to cheat death?! Is it really that hard to come up some sort of sentient, supernatural grim reaper; or, how about making the Candyman as a powerful psychic whom can manipulate these events, in order to keep himself in business (he is an undertaker in these films.) Hell, have it BE the Undertaker of the “WWE,” who’s going around killing people because they prefer to watch “TNA.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001604953499 Heimski Hannes

    I’ve only seen The Final Destination, and I was disappointed because I thought it would be scary. And I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t watch Horror movies regularly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alexa.w.1 Alexa White

    In these movies Death is like “Fuck you! You should have taken the first death. Now you get my improbable death machines. Hope you like them whore.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/alexa.w.1 Alexa White

    In these movies Death is like “Fuck you! You should have taken the first death. Now you get my improbable death machines. Hope you like them whore.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/alexa.w.1 Alexa White

    In these movies Death is like “Fuck you! You should have taken the first death. Now you get my improbable death machines. Hope you like them whore.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dewboy-Saxon/100000614113892 Dewboy Saxon

    Final Destination is literally a Rube Goldberg machine meets Dead Space 2. You watch it to see the epic death scenes that come about in horrendously complicated fashions. This series sucks anyway, see it for the lulz, then go play Dead Space. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/AspectAsya Jade Dawn Castillo

    *phew* Good thing I already had laser eye surgery. 

    And for the record, it’s not a cutting laser. It is kinda interesting. The laser’s role is to imprint tiny bubbles of air between layers of the eye (I know nothing of biology), which creates a flap which they push away with a sponge. Then another laser quickly changes the layout of how light hits your eye (I completely forget all terminology) and then they push the flap back into place and it heals. I don’t remember any kinda cutting laser, they’re designed for microscopic adjustments. Although I suppose you could still stretch it in a way to have the bubble blow up your eye, I suppose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/imaeatchurface Anthone Jason Licari Lamb

    I don’t like gore movies because I don’t like seeing people die. That kind of shit makes me uneasy for a week. Mostly because if I was actually there to be able to see them die, 9 times out of 10, I could have prevented it. Because I’m not a freaking idiot.

  • http://www.utahraptorz.deviantart.com Petra Michael

    *sees laser eye surgery scene*

    “Ooooooooooooo, naaaaaaaaaaasty!”

    There is no way I could actually watch that laser eye surgery scene. I CAN NOT watch scenes in any movie if an eye is being damaged or torn or blown up or anything. It just makes me cringe. I can’t even watch a normal laser eye surgery, I always have to look away.

    Lol, and I used to always do very screwed up things with my Sims. XD No Sim could survive my devilish plans! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vaughan-MacDonald/100000473507885 Vaughan MacDonald

    Actually, one of the character’s from FD2 did tried to kill himself to save himself from dying horribly. He tried to shoot himself in the head, but I guess death has a sense of humor because all six shots were duds and didn’t kill him.

    Personally I fucking hate these movies. I know the kill scenes are really stupid and impossible, but it still makes me cringe to the point where I just don’t want to see that kind of shit. I watch movies to be entertained, not to be grossed out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Duarte/100000444656764 Justin Duarte

    Actually in The Final Destination, one guy made several attempts at killing himself and death wouldn’t let him.

  • Anonymous

    Seeing something with both eyes and teeth bother me.  I mean I have trouble watching Rocky when Mick had to cut open Rocky’s eyelids so he could see.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ICDHG7TLTN6JVK6JMK3TKQFXKQ Mike Wallace

    Harold and Kumar Get Jobs and Stop Annoying Me, how’s that for a sequel?
    Hell, why can’t we just have Neil Patrick Harris jump on a unicorn and fight in an epic, Yellow Submarine-inspired war, only finding out later that he’s O.D.’ed on magic mushrooms in a Los Angeles YMCA. The sudden dark turn would still be funnier than anything Harold and Kumar could do.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christian-Johansson/575754022 Christian Johansson

    I will try and eat my pizza watching it :)

  • Kipling Carnevale

    um… Ken Jeong isn’t in Harold and Kumar 3. so I guess that’s one ticket stub you through out to hastily. 

    • Anonymous

      Damn someone said this before me. Ya it’s Bobby Lee, not Ken Jeong.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000302647659 Seth Photopoulos

    I heard that 2 was better than 1 and then they all went downhill.

    • Anonymous

      I wonder why people even bother saying they “heard about” some unnamed person’s thoughts. Personally, I’m mildly interested in hearing your opinion; I’m not at all interested in hearing a story about how you’ve “heard” something from some guy. It means so little.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000302647659 Seth Photopoulos

    I heard that 2 was better than 1 and then they all went downhill.

  • joris gositiabois

    So basicly the final destination is like an R-rated version of the boardgame mousetrap?

  • http://twitter.com/RecAsiakoth Ross Cameron

    I couldn’t help but laugh my ass off when you made the statement that this is not a film to bring one’s girl to, seeing as my girlfriend LOVES gore flicks, especially the Final Destination series.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Valerie-Dicaire/100000800421372 Valérie Dicaire

    Yeah the eye surgery scene I probably couldn’t sit through… I am completely horrfied by anything violent happening to eyes and nails. You know that video tape they play in the movie The Ring? There’s one bit you see a finger going through a rusty nail and the fingernail just peels oooOOooO-oh god- *shudders* … off. Just the thought of it just now made me cringe in pain…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Лев-Гринберг/100001901733340 Лев Гринберг

    Dude, you really should watch the second one. It was AWESOME. It had actual characters, and a really good story, that was a direct and really clever sequel of the first. And many of the things you are saying in your video are wrong: in FD2 there are people that survive, and there is a rule about beeing unable to die if it’s not your turn, and it is actually used there.

    So yeah, I really hope you’ll watch it. And make a V-log about it. Every movie in th series was shit with good death scenes, but FD2 actually was a movie and not just a funny gore-fest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Williams/673743600 James Williams

    You watched Tekken a few times? Damn, you have a tough job.

  • http://twitter.com/FizzVsTheWorld Michael Scally

    I’m surprised you haven’t seen the second Final Destination considering you used the legendary “glass plane” death in your Knightmare review

    In all seriousness, FD2 is the best in the series… The instigating pile-up sequence alone is worth the price of admission. And you actually give a damn about these characters too!

    • Tykittaa

      He also looked a hell of a lot like Christian Bale in that American Psycho music video that hit YouTube a couple of years ago.

  • http://twitter.com/Razikii Michael Ledoux

    In FD4, one of the character attempted suicide 3 times, all failed (threw up pills on overdose, gun jams, rope breaks when he tries to hang himself).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/João-Monteiro/100000372094634 João Monteiro

    …so I´ll stick to contact lenses instead! ´tis good…

  • Anonymous

    I considered those exact same questions when I first saw the Final Destination movie!

    In fact, I really wanted to see a sequel where it’s just an investigative reporter discovering all these really weird deaths are related to folks surviving other terrible catastrophes. You could use that person as a framing character to explore the more philosophical bits about the premise.

    Another thing that immediately occurred to me was that the Candyman guy was the one giving out those premonitions. As for his motivations, I thought of one of two things: first, he’s actually some kind of Loki-like entity who is actively trying to irritate Death for the lulz; the people who end up dying in hilarious ways are just a consequence of his fun. The second idea I had was that he was terminally ill himself (maybe a brain tumor which explains his psychic powers?), but realized that if he could keep Death busy cleaning up the constant mistakes to the Grand Plan, he could continue to live.

    I don’t know if either idea is serviceable, but there you are.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TYK3TLRRXHW7GD3FQVVTWXR4AQ Damien_Wolfe

    I’ve actually seen how theyve done it on the discovery…-that- was enough.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Gaia-Safa-Lintschinger/1652762167 Matthew Gaia Safa Lintschinger

    So, is it that easy to go from being a high summoner/white-mage to become a gun touting treasure hunter? its kind of like Gandolf turning into Indiana Jones

  • Anonymous

    Actually Spoony…  In the second one, there were TWO survivors.  JUST TWO.  And it had the only “happy ending” of the entire series.  They permanently cheated death and it was cool.  And in the second one, they also tried to kill themselves, “out of order” and it wouldn’t work.  The gun wouldn’t go off ’cause it wasn’t that one guys turn.

    In my opinion, these should’ve ended at number two.  Good logical endpoint.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-Ellis/100002419726549 Nathan Ellis

    i was impressed with how incredibly professional this review was, i hardly ever see you take yourself out of the equation. I loved how spread out the friday the 13th movies were as far as what the movies actually were, i know final chapter and new blood were the best. but it’s hard not to love the terrible ones like jason takes manhattan and jason goes to hell (where literally a middlie aged black coroner takes a bite of jason’s body and becomes him)
    slasher films are great on halloween when you have some inebriated friends over. but they’re never very good movies. The Evil Dead was incredible though, i think sam raimi is just a god of silly horror films. Drag me to hell was great too.

    Quality review spoony, glad to see you in a good mood and you’re still our favorite movie critic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Mc/100000152293904 Eric Mc

    First, I am disappointed that Dr. Insano didn’t freak out with that landing of the gymnast. Even if she landed like that she would have bounced. Its not as some have said it looked like she fell from 500 feet rather than 5 feet. It was as if a gravity well like a black hole manifested beneath her and caused her to weight 50,000 pounds on impact to cause that. Same thing with the Buddha statue, it would have to weight a metric ton to crush that dude’s head like a grape. And if it didn’t bounce it would have left a crater in the impact point.

  • Max Brungardt

    Actually in the second movie one guy tries to kill himself and the gun doesn’t work when he holds it up to his head

    • Anonymous

      In the 4th one too, the guard from the racetrack tries to commit suicide and fails a number of times.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1758190677 Brian R Dalgetty

    In Final Destination 2 or The Final Destination(I can’t remember which one) they explain that a person can’t actually kill them self even if they try.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stunt-Chan/1814606380 Stunt Chan

    I hated all the Final Destination movies. some items its laugh out loud stupid, and mostly a lot of eye rolls for me.

  • Anonymous

    I watched one of these movies once. I think it was FD3 (my GF at the time wanted to see it.) Talk about a waste of my time…there are no characters to care about or relate to, the deaths are laughably stupid, and worst of all, there is no point to any of it. If they had a plan like “all 5 kids who had premonitions were linked somehow” kind of premise that was leading to anything at all, it might not feel so terribly shallow and meaningless.

    I agree with Spoony’s take on what horror is. IMO the best horror movies create a feeling of dread, suspense, and actual concern for some of the characters, and they don’t rely on in-your-face gore. They barely show anything, because that allows your mind to fill in the blanks with whatever YOU fear the most, which is infinitely more scary than any amount of gore or monster makeup.

    • Anonymous

      Surely there’s a middle ground. Disgusting and scary.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Pierson/1152517641 David Pierson

    To me the scariest movies are the ones that hold back.  Like psycho, the original Halloween, Alien, the original Dracula, the original Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, and The Exorcist.  What do all of these movies have in common?  None of them linger on the blood and gore.  Sure they all have them, but they are all done very tastefully and only add to the terror you feel.  “Horror” movies these days just linger on the gore to a perverse degree.  I just cant stand that kind of crap in my life.  Horror movies have devolved into torture porn, and that is not for me at all.

    To borrow a quote from James Cameron:  “Gore isn’t scary.  Gore is there to gross you out.  Nothing more.”  Also from Alfred Hitchcock: “Its not what you see that scares you.  Its what you think you see.”

  • Anonymous

    I ate pizza when I watched the first or the second movie.

  • Anonymous

    The only Harold & Kumar movie I’ve seen is Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which I believe I really disliked. I – mostly – hate crude juvenile humor. Wasn’t as horrible as Miss March or Stan Helsing, though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-M-Totten/1270078143 Stephen M. Totten

    I stopped watching the Final Destination movies after 2 (the only one that sort of tried to do what you were talking about there Spoony) but I agree with you the more interesting story is who keeps sending the premonitions.  If you liked Paranormal Activity you might like “Lake Mungo” its an australian horror flick in the form of a fake documentary.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Trejo/762770374 Edward Trejo

    I actually saw a bootleg of Atrocious a few days ago.  Though I do understand spanish, the dialect they use was really fast and hard to keep up with.  I’m sure I missed a lot of crucial plot since there were no subs, so I’m not sure what to make of it yet.  I had less of that issue with REC.  There are also a couple of Australian ones I’ve seen: Lake Mungo and The Tunnel.  The latter was very reminiscent of REC, but did have some creepy moments.  Lake Mungo surprised me a lot.  It is presented as a straightforward documentary that is very well acted, and isn’t a “found footage” movie at all.  It’s actually a very compelling mystery that drips with atmosphere and subtle moments of dread.

  • Anonymous

    Spoony that sounds awesome if the media put everything together and try to save someone and then somehow the safehouse ends up killing someone. Also in Final Destination 2 a cop (I think) uses a revolver and tries to blow his brains out but all the bullets he had in the gun all duds. If I was in a world where I was saved and most of my friends die after they were saved. I would find a freaking tall building and jump off it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Juha-Keranen/1004118273 Juha Keränen

    They name sequels like “Fast & Furious” because people are hesitant of seeing sequels. An “original” title sells more tickets.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Juha-Keranen/1004118273 Juha Keränen

    They name sequels like “Fast & Furious” because people are hesitant of seeing sequels. An “original” title sells more tickets.

    • Anonymous

      That’s simply not true.
      Pretty much every sequel made has out performed the first one due to the fact people are more aware of the product in question and know what to expect.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YR2JURI5VX5Z27DX7EH33KVPQ4 Ryan

    Just going to throw this out, go see Final Destination 2, it actually is different then the others, if for no other reason then instead of a cast of idiots who just sit around and hope for the best, we have people who try and redesign death’s plan so they wont die yet. Plus, they’ve got survivors in it, the cast actually have personalities and the story is a logical progression of events from the first movie. Hell, one guy actually tries to kill himself out of order, but since death had an order, all the bullets in the gun he used jammed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/DJArgus Argus Dorn

    I liked this film better than 4, but I still had to put my mind away and yet still found myself looking at the screen during the gymnastics scene and saying, “Someone’s gotta see that screw” or “There’s no way an electrical wire that is frayed so close to the plug would be unseen by the janitor.” Though I am curious, with what you said Spoony, about the gun on the stove when it discharged caused some heavy pots to fall over and kill a character, was that really there (which means you got a different ending than my theater) or maybe you didn’t remember the scene correctly?

    *Spoiler Alert*

    The ending I got was a pretty good twist, granted Spoony’s correct in that no one lives in these films (note: Both the cop and girl that survive at the end, well they both die off screen in a wood chipper accident according to the FD3 DVD extras, similar to the stupid way they killed off Alex’s character in FD2). The film never really told you what year it was and it turns out the twist is that this film is a prequel to the first Final Destination. The last two to survive (if it is another version, my film had it where the gun missed both of them) make the trip to Paris only to be killed in the same plane explosion as was the set up for the first Final Destination film. I liked this twist, granted it did turn into a snuff film after FD2 (though the skeptical Goth boyfriend/girlfriend characters of FD3 made me somewhat enjoy that film), but the twist did make me smile alot and made me happy not to see any reviews before I saw the film. I am not sure if they mentioned it in the first film or others, but I am willing to look back now to see if they ever mentioned a bridge collapsing incident in any way that Bludworth (Tony Todd’s character) or another character may have mentioned as, “this seems similar to that man who had a premonition like this before a bridge collapsed…” Granted this means that since it’s a prequel, Tony Todd’s character already had the answers to death’s design, or was just giving kids stupid advice about killing to save themselves which didn’t work, or maybe death changed the design from film to film, or maybe I am just looking into these ideas more than the writers ever did!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NCLUEUHEUI7YHDHVQDV7ESVEYQ Charles

    actualy in one of the final destination movies(forgot) there’s a dude who tried to kill himself a couple of times

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Omnikus-Schlotter/100000373849732 Omnikus Schlotter

    “You know how people play Sims just to f#*&ing murder people or set their house on fire just to watch ‘em burn or gag to death on their own vomit?”

    No. No, I honestly don’t…

  • http://twitter.com/SirVejeiro Sir Vejeiro

    All that eye talk reminds me Happy Tree Friends x_x

  • http://furlugedepot.com/ Furluge

    I saw the previews for this movie…

    I have a thing about eyes, quite intensely so…

    I also had LASIK eye surgery last year…

    I did not like this trailer…

  • http://furlugedepot.com/ Furluge

    I saw the previews for this movie…

    I have a thing about eyes, quite intensely so…

    I also had LASIK eye surgery last year…

    I did not like this trailer…

  • Princess Stabbity

    …You mentioned One Missed Call. The one that matters. *squee*
    Yeah, that’s all I’m pointing out, because I freaking love that movie.
    You may now carry on with the awesome.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F6DCTUY6RUMWXJKGOICRNIAXCM André Norell

    The Thing is a gory movie. But unlike the gorefests of today, it still managed to be suspenseful, because of good actors conveyeing a real sense of paranoia and fear of their fellow men. The gore wasn’t the focus: the human fear that you MIGHT be surrounded by people who want you dead, was.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gabriela-Mizerija/100000750048199 Gabriela Mizerija

    Damn it, spoony, now I’ll go and rewatch One missed call. That movie was awesome and the american adaptation made me cry T_T

  • Anonymous

    Well… What did you think about Brad and Jillian’s review?

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of gory movies have anyone but me seen the awesome german truck safety video.It remindes alot of these movies and of course the first time i saw it all I could think about was the “forklift song” XD.sorry im rambling on anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo

    //enjoy

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of gory movies have anyone but me seen the awesome german truck safety video.It remindes alot of these movies and of course the first time i saw it all I could think about was the “forklift song” XD.sorry im rambling on anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo

    //enjoy

  • Anonymous

    Warning: May be some movie spoilers up in here.

    I don’t care for gore movies. However, when I saw Final Destination 5- I couldn’t help but to laugh at the laser eye scene. It was absolutely ridiculous. If you wanna be nitpicky… There’s no way the laser could be strong enough to do that kind of damage (even if the spilled water caused a laser megafreak out). The laser is designed to remove cells about the thickness of a human hair with each pulse of the laser. How could it suddenly do that? Also, why is the girl’s head strapped down? I had eye surgery. No one strapped my head down. They just said “Don’t move.” Was the doctor afraid she was going to change her mind? Or did he have something more nefarious in mind. After all, why wasn’t someone else in the room with them. A nurse or an assistant? That would have come in handy when he realized he didn’t have the right information and had to leave her alone to go get it- which, by the way, why didn’t he come back? When the other cast members finally bust up in there to warn her about her be the next in line to die, Dr. McLookingKindofCreepy is just kinda standing around. Why doesn’t he have that file or whatever he’s supposed to have gotten by now? If, in this weird scenario, Dr. McMaybeHeMolestshisPatients likes to get his freak on by immobilizing his patients- why doesn’t he input all the information into the computer/laser first? Laser surgery typically lasts for about thirty seconds per eye. And, obviously, the girl is screaming for a really long time before the Doctor hears it. (Or so he claims). Maybe he’s just used to screaming patients. And a wall full of teddy bears? If you couple that with the screams, you reach all kinds of creepy.

    Here’s another pet peeve. In the bridge scene early in the movie, eyeball girl clearly can’t see to get off the bridge (having lost her glasses ala “velma” style) without help from the others. However, in the laser scene, she donates her glasses and walks perfectly fine into the room without assistance and can even see the teddy bears displayed against the wall. WTF?!!!!

    And one more thing…. was it just me or was Candyman positively gleeful in this movie? I mean, like he couldn’t wait for them to die.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Natalie-Jones/100001438912549 Natalie Jones

    I love brads new thing,

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Natalie-Jones/100001438912549 Natalie Jones

    My thing is feet,anything happens to someones feet,i can’t watch.

  • Anonymous

    Consider me ridiculous but what if there was some kind of Saw/Final Destination cross over like A vs. P? I think it would get some kind of crazy messed up plot going that could actually be pretty awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1217767934 Elizabeth HororPulp

    Was never a fan of the FD movies, as you say they’re all the same – I’d rather spend my time watching a different/better movie. I’ve seen the trailer and this newest film look HILARIOUS!!
    Enjoyed watching this, can’t wait for your next vid! :D

  • Wesley Orias

    The guy who played Pete http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279702/ that looked like Tom Cruise?  He actually played “Tom Cruise” in the parody movie “Superhero Movie”.  He was doing a parody of the Tom Cruise interview in the black turtle neck (after the Oprah thing)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=716862241 Steven Knelsen Millett

    I haven’t watched this entire video yet, but I can’t believe all you people bitching in the comments, trying to insert logic into an extremely fun series where logic should not be a concern at all. I love every movie in this series (except for 4, because the deaths were bland), and I think 5 was the best so far. It was intense, darkly comedic, had a few likable characters (and some that were so awful that watching them die was EXTREMELY satisfying), and it put a great twist on things with the whole “kill someone else to take your place thing”.

    Awesome movie, IMO.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-StJohn/1577010849 Michael StJohn

    Strange that Noah never mentioned the twist, probably the one thing, along with the lasik eye surgery scene (funny that Brad made light of that scene in his review, almost as if he never saw it) that people will remember most about the film. He also mentions wanting to see a character try to off himself but we’ve actually seen that a lot in the series by now, the man planting himself in his seat in the car in front of the train in the first film, the man who tries to shoot himself in the second, the security guard who tries at least three times to kill himself in The Final Destination (overdose with pills, carbon monoxide poisoning via tailpipe, hanging himself) and still fails because like the others he was trying to kill himself out of order. This is easily the most serious of the films since the first, even the second film basically uses its last kill to get a laugh out of the audience. And correct me if I’m wrong, but the main characters survived in parts 1 and 2, didn’t they? They killed off Devon Sawa between films when he decided to not return for the sequel but I believe AJ Cook survived at the end of FD 2 also. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Efrain-Ibarra/100000965334120 Efrain Ibarra

    It sounds more like Rube Goldberg is playing god.

  • Anonymous

    That’s exactly what I was thinking!

    With all these weird deaths, how come there is no media in the movies connecting the dots?
     
    Something like that in real life is guaranteed to draw media attention after the second kill. I could already see a Fox News van pulling into the town to report on it…

  • Anonymous

    That’s exactly what I was thinking!

    With all these weird deaths, how come there is no media in the movies connecting the dots?
     
    Something like that in real life is guaranteed to draw media attention after the second kill. I could already see a Fox News van pulling into the town to report on it…

  • Anonymous

    After seeing the first Final Destination, I wanted to see the next one so they’d explain more about the psychic powers. I felt like there’d be some amazing overarching reason for them; They put the entire plot in motion.

    Final Destination 2: They didn’t.

    Final Destination 3: They didn’t.

    Final Destination 4: I assume they didn’t; couldn’t be suckered into seeing it.

    And oh man. Hahaha. You found the best way ever to describe this sort of movie. An Itchy & Scratchy cartoon. I’m stealing that.

  • http://twitter.com/WrimRimbaug Wrim Rimbaug

    Miles Fisher (the guy who looked like Tom Cruise) actually played Tom Cruise in Superhero Movie from 2008

  • http://www.facebook.com/justin.woodell Justin Woodell

    Dr. Ken isnt in the new H and K movie. You are confusing him with Bobby Lee.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like somebody can’t tell asians apart.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Callum-Hollett/100000736826132 Callum Hollett

    Did you know the first movie was originally written to be an x-files episode! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Grzegorz-Wojtczyk/100000046280578 Grzegorz Wojtczyk

    So how they are going to name the sixth movie ? And the other thing that it is funny is how distributors in my country (Poland) named the fourth movie… just Final Destination 4 (Oszukać przeznaczenie 4). At least here nobody will be chronologically confused about those movies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jd-Clark/1348072804 Jd Clark

    It’s funny that you mention 1000 Ways to Die, cause the Acupuncture death, without the Fire finishing the job, Is actually one of the ways to die they Mention, and it’s actually rather funny. anyway, This kinda Movie still wouldn’t be much for me, as much as I like to see senseless Violence… No More Heroes 2… *Shakes head* Anyway, good review, and can’t wait for the Tekken 2012 review.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jd-Clark/1348072804 Jd Clark

    It’s funny that you mention 1000 Ways to Die, cause the Acupuncture death, without the Fire finishing the job, Is actually one of the ways to die they Mention, and it’s actually rather funny. anyway, This kinda Movie still wouldn’t be much for me, as much as I like to see senseless Violence… No More Heroes 2… *Shakes head* Anyway, good review, and can’t wait for the Tekken 2012 review.

  • doresh

    God, I hate these gory slasher movies where you basically know from the first 5 minutes who’s going to survive (untill the twist ending, of course)…

    And what’s the point about all the deaths in this series? There’s no tension or anything. You KNOW they’ll die in ridiculous ways, without any way of stopping it. There’s not even a real killer. It’s like trying to turn wind into a villain. Oh, wait…

    And you’d think that Death would make these deaths a little bit less suspicious. I mean, there are quite a lot of athletes whose heart just stops. And why try to kill them so quickly if the only important thing is the order they die? Just give them a terminal disease!

    But IMO, the being responsible for these hilarious endings is the ghost of Rube Goldberg.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Doran/100000584164074 Adam Doran

      yeah but the deaths are mostly the only reason why i do watch em since they are just so ridiculous but interesting and sometimes misleading lol

      • doresh

        But in a genre where the audience is supposed to be rooting for the villain, it’s pretty weird to make a movie WITHOUT a villain.

        Personally, I find it impossible to take deaths scenes seriously whose statistical change of occurring is much smaller than throwing all pieces of a puzzle in the air and have them land as the complete picture.
        It’s kinda like the gore-equivalent to George Lucas’ CGI orgies (sometimes known as the prequel trilogy): Just because you can go over the top doesn’t mean you should.

  • http://twitter.com/CasWegkamp Cas Wegkamp

    I’ve seen Final Destination 1, 2 and 3 as my gf is a huge horror fan (personally I don’t care much for horror genre) but here’s what I don’t get: why does Death jump through so many hoops just to get a bunch of kids dead? I mean, it’s DEATH! Ok, so here’s the thing: why doesn’t death just give you them massive heart-attack, the mother of all strokes and a pulmonary embolism of epic proportions all at once. Done. Natural causes. Next. If I were Death then I wouldn’t go out of my way to set up all the extremely elaborate traps, I got more things to end. Think about it: there’s billions of lifeforms on this planet and every day a lot of them are in a serious need of a good workout pushing up daisies. I don’t have time for this crap but no, for some reason it is expected of me (being Death) that I do all these intricate domino-effects. At least in slasher flicks there is a reason for tons of gore, here there isn’t anything that validates it. The Final Destination series is just snuff films. You know how the do cross-overs right, like alien vs predator? Can’t be long before Face of Death meets Final Destination…

    • Anonymous

      As Spoony explained.
      It’s like God playing The Sims.

      If Death just outright killed these kids, Death would not be having “fun”. So there are these elaborate set ups to see if the plan worked or not.

      As you say “intricate domino-effects”. Using this an an example. Why do people set up dominos just to knock them all down?
      It’s not the destination that is fun, but the journey there.

      Death is just “playing” these kids like a game.

    • Anonymous

      As Spoony explained.
      It’s like God playing The Sims.

      If Death just outright killed these kids, Death would not be having “fun”. So there are these elaborate set ups to see if the plan worked or not.

      As you say “intricate domino-effects”. Using this an an example. Why do people set up dominos just to knock them all down?
      It’s not the destination that is fun, but the journey there.

      Death is just “playing” these kids like a game.

    • Anonymous

      As Spoony explained.
      It’s like God playing The Sims.

      If Death just outright killed these kids, Death would not be having “fun”. So there are these elaborate set ups to see if the plan worked or not.

      As you say “intricate domino-effects”. Using this an an example. Why do people set up dominos just to knock them all down?
      It’s not the destination that is fun, but the journey there.

      Death is just “playing” these kids like a game.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Famicom-Wars/100001046150018 Famicom Wars

    One Missed Call makes me think of those horror/mystery movies
    where people die constantly and this person has to figure out why
    or the same people die over and over they need to figure out a way out of this cycle
    can anyone recommend some movies, comics, cartoons likes that

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3AANVH7UOXMLBXY7TOWMLZWCBI The Great Emancipator

    I agree with what you’re saying about the lack of any real plot from these movies.  My question is always: What entity causes the main character to have the vision that initially saves them?  And why does that entity then vanish so that they can be slaughtered horribly?  Is it death doing it to mess with them?  If death is so sadistic, why do some people just pass away in their sleep?  Death could also just gather together all the cholesterol in their body and plug on really important artery, but it’s not gory enough…  I just can’t believe that five movies in and they’ve never felt the slightest inclination to develop the character of death in the slightest.  And each time they’ll establish back story that we already know!  That this has happened before to other people…  For someone who wants story, it’s just deeply dissatisfying.

  • http://thehobbybox.blogspot.com JOSH

    Ah yes, the Final Destination movie. I never knew about 5 until very recently when I saw the commercial trailer on TV. The only FD movies I saw was 1 and 3. These movies doesn’t interest me that much, not to mention that I don’t like gore movies at all.. but I still say FD is a fairly good at the very least…

    Excluding the gore and everything, I like the premise of the story where someone had a premonition and save other people from death but eventually they’re all caught by death again. I kinda like the concept, actually telling that — if you’re going to die, you are really meant to die but if you break that rule and escape death, you’re going to be chase by your death until you finally die. At first that was a cool idea but now FD over exhausted it by repeating the same story… I just wish they made a different story instead.

    And yeah, I like One Missed Call. I actually like Japanese horror movies in general because they’re really scary.

    • http://twitter.com/CasWegkamp Cas Wegkamp

      Well, then they might as well shoot it in a hospital… plenty of weird ways to die there and plenty of people who’s life gets extended beyond natural natural intention.

  • http://twitter.com/DarkEvil87 Bob

    You don’t believe in anything supernatural really from what you said near the end (cool), but you really like these stories, like ghosts and magic. You’re not the only one. I’ll say it, I’m an atheist and most importantly a skeptic and those stories tend to be my favorite.

    I might not be convinced that any supernatural thing people believe in is true, such as ghosts, but they’re just interesting stories from the get go and not believing they’re anywhere near the realm of reality doesn’t remove an ounce of enjoyment from hearing them. I think it just satisfies basic human curiosity and our common interest for things we don’t understand.

    And yeah, just like you (perhaps with slightly, only slightly more enjoyment), Final Destination is usually hard to go through without having all these thoughts in my head, because I don’t demand for things to be realist all the time (that would be boring as a matter of fact), but they at least need to be consistent with their universe. I listen to stupid shit all the time, but the Final Destination universe collapses in a second if you just BEGIN to think. I’m rather interested in that Japanese movie you mentioned now…

  • http://evilpaul.blogspot.com/ evilpaul

    Spoony,

    That terrible looking monster/alien invasion movie with the electricity monsters… That effect they use is basically spaghettification. It’s what happens when something is drawn into a black hole.

    Also, unrelated, but there’s vagasil commercials where they repeatedly flash V-A-G on the screen. Which I find hilarious for reasons not entirely clear to me. Work that into a video somehow.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathanielle-Sean-Crawford/719875916 Nathanielle Sean Crawford

    I view Cloverfield in much the sameway. As much as Abrams wanted Clovie to be the American answer to Godzilla, he missed the mark by a bunch of annoying underwear models and I wind up rooting for the little parasite things.

    Personally, I’ve never seen the Final Destination films, but if I ever get together with my brothers to do our Iriff tracks I think the FD franchise is one that we’ll tackle.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Paynexkiller-Hobbs/100001369657106 Josh Paynexkiller Hobbs

    Yeah, i love Brad.

  • Anonymous

    Okay, this is where I’m going to rant…a lot. I love horror. Horror movies, horror games, horror stories, and really anything creepy/scary/etc. But when it comes to the Final Destination series, I can’t admit it to be horror, even if it is classified as such. To those who aren’t really familiar with horror, I’ll explain a bit in detail my summary of horror.

    ————————————————————

    There’s three very distinct types of scares that are available for making horror what it is:
    1) Jump scares.
    Jump scare is the most basic of all scares that is the easiest to pull
    off and, in my opinion, the weakest of the three. All you need to do is
    have something pop out of nowhere, someone crash through a plate glass
    window or a guy get cut in half in a split second; there’s your jump
    scare.

    2) Survival scares
    Survival can be tricky to pull off because you need to setup a lot of
    things in order for it to work correctly. You need to have the character
    be revealed enough to be established, make sure the audience has stayed
    with the character long enough to get on their good side so that they
    don’t want them to die, and then put them in a situation of
    fight-or-flight against a near-unkillable enemy with limited amount of
    resources.

    3) Psychological scares
    Psychological is perhaps my favorite and probably is the one that everyone remembers. It can be easy or hard to pull off and can range from anywhere from a split second of duration to almost the entire movie/game. It’s all about being one step ahead of the audience and knowing what they think is going to happen and swerve them at the right times, even if you have to be predictable after being unpredictable. More or less, this is the type of scare that people will have nightmares from. To me, THIS scare is the one scare that most modern “Western” horror lacks today.

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    Now that I’ve setup my explanation as to the types of scares for those who aren’t very aware of the horror genre, let’s go back to the Final Destination series and see as to why I cannot conclude it to be horror: It’s too predictable and the characters are too forgettable as well as annoying.

    So right away we’re eliminating the survival scares and most of the psychological scares from our list. What’s left to fill up the movie with? Jump scares. Yeah, you can attribute blood, guts and the gruesome way they die as a psychological part of it, but it’s still predictable that you know it’s going to be gruesome, so you’re pretty much prepared for it if you’ve seen at least two of the movies, so you know that everyone is dying at the end of it and nothing is resolved except a cleaning crew has to clean up the mess afterwards. Candyman’s still “Haha! Don’t you go dying on me, now! Oh, and if you just so happen to cross paths with death tell him the Candyman places 200$ on the black guy dying last. I’m gonna win big one of these times.” In five movies, they haven’t advanced the plot in any way. It’s a group of people that are saved from death, they start dying off, they learn that there maybe a way to break the curse of death and then they die anyway; nothing gets resolved and then the next group lines up for the thresher. At least in movies like Halloween and Scream (most of the western horror movies) there’s a different antagonist or something is revealed about the antagonist in each of these movies. Nothing is revealed about the main antagonist in Final Destination (Death) in any of these fucking movies except for maybe the fact he’s a sadistic fuck who gets jollies at people dying while giving them hope that they might survive.

    If there’s no hope for any of these character’s surviving, then there’s no suspense that they might live or not. It’s like playing mouse trap and every square is to activate the damn trap to kill your mouse; if there’s no hope of winning, then there’s really no reason to watch except for the “mouse-trap deaths” which will probably be put up on youtube anyway later on. So why go and watch the movie if the movie has been seen before?!

    Bottom line: Final Destination is more or less for two types of people: the blood-and-guts lovers and the squeamish (people who have a strong aversion to disturbing imagery). No true fan of the horror genre can truly classify this as a “horror series”. I’m not saying that it ISN’T a horror series, because it is unarguably classified as such, but the quality of the horror is so low that it’s not good enough to amount to being a true horror series. It may have horror moments in it, but that doesn’t make it a good horror series.

    End rant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Drain-Blut/100001687703474 Drain Blut

    This stupid series is still going????
    ???
    It was a stupid beat to death formula by movie 3, and wasn’t very good to start with. It never made any logical sense and the characters never have any chance to survive, so it really is kind of pointless. Spoony put it best when he said the only reason to watch them is to see a bunch of stupid teen IQ characters die in ridiculous ways.

    I give Spoony props though for mentioning the fact that no one thought to research this shit. This is the FIFTH time it’s happened. Why has no one seen a pattern by now? It’s like a reoccuring disaster where every previous version is entirely forgotten instantly simply because they weren’t written into the current script. Least in movie 2 they ackknowledge that this shit happened before. UHH DURRR.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Drain-Blut/100001687703474 Drain Blut

    This stupid series is still going????
    ???
    It was a stupid beat to death formula by movie 3, and wasn’t very good to start with. It never made any logical sense and the characters never have any chance to survive, so it really is kind of pointless. Spoony put it best when he said the only reason to watch them is to see a bunch of stupid teen IQ characters die in ridiculous ways.

    I give Spoony props though for mentioning the fact that no one thought to research this shit. This is the FIFTH time it’s happened. Why has no one seen a pattern by now? It’s like a reoccuring disaster where every previous version is entirely forgotten instantly simply because they weren’t written into the current script. Least in movie 2 they ackknowledge that this shit happened before. UHH DURRR.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the first preview I saw for this movie interested me. Until I got to the title.

    The first preview was basically entirely the bridge scene. It shows… I think the main guy, then it pulls to what I think is the end of the actual collapse, then it reverses and shows people flying back onto the bridge, etc. And then you see the guy himself screaming they have to get off the bridge.

    That was a seriously excellent preview! But… then the title. Final Destination? And the entire theatre pretty much went “auuugh.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000124943776 Heather Kern

    Just recently watched this Vlog and I don’t know if someone’s confirmed the part about the gymnastic spotters; My sister was in gymnastics for five years and they always, always, had a crew that went ahead and made sure everything was ready, and all the equipment was safe to use and no one was allowed to start until the crew chief/equipment manager and the coach gave them the ‘Go.’ Also, there was always at least one spotter around for each person during practice, with the coach circling his/her team and or becoming a spotter if one isn’t available. It takes a special kind of stupid to NOT notice something like a huge ass screw on a balance beam, even for the sake of a movie. It also takes another kind of stupid -and very poor training for the girl- not to use her common sense and stop and get her bearings on the uneven bars, like she’s supposed to, and call someone over to help her down.

    • http://twitter.com/The_Rippy_One The_Rippy_One

      Just to confirm what Heather said, and add that most of the gymnasts I know/knew would check most of the equipment they were going to work with by touch before they actually tried to use it – equipment like the balance beam can become slick for a number of reasons during an extended practice, and it isn’t always obvious, visually. No way that screw would have stayed there.

    • http://twitter.com/The_Rippy_One The_Rippy_One

      Just to confirm what Heather said, and add that most of the gymnasts I know/knew would check most of the equipment they were going to work with by touch before they actually tried to use it – equipment like the balance beam can become slick for a number of reasons during an extended practice, and it isn’t always obvious, visually. No way that screw would have stayed there.

  • Anonymous

    A typical VHS tape would be 180 minutes in SP, Spoony.

  • Anonymous

    Dr. Ken is nails in the eyes.  What does that make January Jones and Jessica Alba?

  • Anonymous

    Wind was really severe and caused the bridge to collapse.  Call Mark Wahlberg for this case.  “Hey Guys!”

  • Anonymous

    I was never a huge fan of the Final Destination movies. My main problem is that the only “horror” they offer is the shock value inherent in the over the top, Rube Goldberg-esque death sequences. The thing is once you’ve been exposed to enough violence, mindless gratuitous violence ceases to have an effect, ergo the “horror” of FD is lost.

    True horror is about  how one goes about the process: buildup, false starts, accelerants, payoff, and denouement. Horror is an art form and a very structured one at that, thus to do it properly requires a disciplined hand and a love for the genre beyond dollars and cents.

  • Clay Baker

    I couldn’t forgive the surprise genitals in Anitchrist to watch it…..good for you…..i think

  • Anonymous

    I actually watched this movie, no I don’t like this movie series at all.  I didn’t expect to enjoy it but some scenes were pretty fun to watch.  I did enjoy the laser eye surgery scene a ton, it freaked me out a bit lol.  Some scenes were just silly as hell, but that was pretty much expected.
    The movie wasn’t bad, but I can’t say it was good either.  I don’t mind gore in movies at all but the CG gore in this looked really goofy. Overall, not a good movie but it’s fun to watch and joke about it.  Just don’t go into this movie expecting something different than the other Final Destination movies.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SDH4LLO7OZ5XZEOCWC56H4BETE Aaron

    You want to see a movie where the entire plot is predicated on absolute bullshit forensics?  Watch Shooter, with Mark Wahlberg.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KQZM4I3JX6F27LT4EM2Y27IFMU Corey

    I fucking hate this series for various reasons for one thing the whole thing where certain characters have visions of there deaths that after 5 movies have not explained why yet, and  basically this is movie just consists of a random guy having a vision, avoiding death, then death gets pissed tries to kill them in horrible ways, and I don’t get why the grim reaper gets pissed about a few people escaping his highly elaborate death traps and why does he have to kill them in such ways such as tanning beds, or fireworks couldn’t he just give them terminal diseases or something is he such an petty asshole that he has to kill these few people in such horrible ways after escaping his deathtrap that kills 80 or 90 people, I know these movies are trying to make the grim reaper a guy you don’t want to cheat but the films just make him look sound like a petty individual who isn’t satisfied until everyone who was supposed to die on those elaborate accidents are dead. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KQZM4I3JX6F27LT4EM2Y27IFMU Corey

    I fucking hate this series for various reasons for one thing the whole thing where certain characters have visions of there deaths that after 5 movies have not explained why yet, and  basically this is movie just consists of a random guy having a vision, avoiding death, then death gets pissed tries to kill them in horrible ways, and I don’t get why the grim reaper gets pissed about a few people escaping his highly elaborate death traps and why does he have to kill them in such ways such as tanning beds, or fireworks couldn’t he just give them terminal diseases or something is he such an petty asshole that he has to kill these few people in such horrible ways after escaping his deathtrap that kills 80 or 90 people, I know these movies are trying to make the grim reaper a guy you don’t want to cheat but the films just make him look sound like a petty individual who isn’t satisfied until everyone who was supposed to die on those elaborate accidents are dead. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Overby/100000746977442 Ray Overby

    In the second final destination two of the characters survive by having the female drown herseld then be revive. That ends the cycle of death

    • Anonymous

      Yes, but at the end of that movie there’s an extra scene that suggests, like the first Final Destination’s extra scene, that death is still after them and that at any point a new cycle of death can appear. Also mind you that the girl from the first movie ultimately had a way to “escape death” too by locking herself in a mental asylum (like the guy from the first movie tried to do by going to some place remote where he couldn’t be killed and thus ending the cycle of death with his isolation, but ended up being attacked by death anyway; this also means that one could argue that death would have found a way to kill the girl in the mental asylum at any point like choking on pills, asphyxiation, earthquake, building collapse, a fire, infected paper cut, electrical malfunction from the lights in her room…I think death has his options available, which pretty much means he’s just fucking with her at this point). But what happened to her? The second movie’s group of people found her and pulled her out, where she died later on during the new cycle of death.

      So already in just TWO movies we’ve established that there’s nothing, I repeat NOTHING, these people could possibly do to survive and that at any point death can just say “well you see: there’s this mosquito you slapped and killed earlier on that carried the west nile virus that ultimately would have killed you all, so you all avoided death that way, time for a new cycle of death! Let the games continue! hahaha ciao!”

      It’s like watching John Rambo (I’m sorry…’Rambo’) and calling THAT
      horror because of all the heads popping and blood spraying everywhere as
      Rambo shoots them full of lead! It’s gross and gruesome to watch, but
      that doesn’t make it a horror series, right? Now imagine if you reversed
      the focus of Rambo to the soldiers who are about to die from Rambo, give them a premonition of Rambo coming to kill them and have them try to avoid Rambo in a movie called ‘Rambo’. Get
      the picture now? That’s Final Destination in a nutshell!

      Bottom line: If in two movies we’ve established there’s no hope these people can survive, then there’s no
      drama or suspense and THAT is a big part of the element of horror. The ONLY reason people will watch these movies now is to see the blood, the carnage, and the gruesome way people die; that’s not horrifying if I already know these characters are inevitably fated to die AND there is not enough setup to make one care about these annoying as hell stereotypical characters. If I WANT the character to die to see that blood and carnage that is a result of them dying then that’s not horror, that’s a comedy.

      Note: Yes, this movie series PISSES ME OFF for being called ‘horror’, but I can look past it and say that the first and second movies were good horror movies because I didn’t know if they could escape death’s clutches: hence, there was drama in that suspense and that made it a horror movie. But now that suspense is gone and the movie series has moved away from horror and more into a black comedy.

      • http://twitter.com/The_Rippy_One The_Rippy_One

        Actually, if memory serves, that post-win death in fd2 is specifically targeting the guy who should have died at the woodlot but didn’t because he was saved by one of fd2′s survivors – in essence, the post movie was Fd2.5, and there was only one survivor to be killed. I don’t think we ever heard, one way or the other, whether those two made it. I’d like to think they did. given what was said about the end of 4, it’s…up in the air still. They’ll die when Death thinks it’s funniest, apparently, and that could be years from now (like how some people save their favorite sweet for last), or already have occurred off screen.

      • http://twitter.com/The_Rippy_One The_Rippy_One

        Actually, if memory serves, that post-win death in fd2 is specifically targeting the guy who should have died at the woodlot but didn’t because he was saved by one of fd2′s survivors – in essence, the post movie was Fd2.5, and there was only one survivor to be killed. I don’t think we ever heard, one way or the other, whether those two made it. I’d like to think they did. given what was said about the end of 4, it’s…up in the air still. They’ll die when Death thinks it’s funniest, apparently, and that could be years from now (like how some people save their favorite sweet for last), or already have occurred off screen.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, but at the end of that movie there’s an extra scene that suggests, like the first Final Destination’s extra scene, that death is still after them and that at any point a new cycle of death can appear. Also mind you that the girl from the first movie ultimately had a way to “escape death” too by locking herself in a mental asylum (like the guy from the first movie tried to do by going to some place remote where he couldn’t be killed and thus ending the cycle of death with his isolation, but ended up being attacked by death anyway; this also means that one could argue that death would have found a way to kill the girl in the mental asylum at any point like choking on pills, asphyxiation, earthquake, building collapse, a fire, infected paper cut, electrical malfunction from the lights in her room…I think death has his options available, which pretty much means he’s just fucking with her at this point). But what happened to her? The second movie’s group of people found her and pulled her out, where she died later on during the new cycle of death.

      So already in just TWO movies we’ve established that there’s nothing, I repeat NOTHING, these people could possibly do to survive and that at any point death can just say “well you see: there’s this mosquito you slapped and killed earlier on that carried the west nile virus that ultimately would have killed you all, so you all avoided death that way, time for a new cycle of death! Let the games continue! hahaha ciao!”

      It’s like watching John Rambo (I’m sorry…’Rambo’) and calling THAT
      horror because of all the heads popping and blood spraying everywhere as
      Rambo shoots them full of lead! It’s gross and gruesome to watch, but
      that doesn’t make it a horror series, right? Now imagine if you reversed
      the focus of Rambo to the soldiers who are about to die from Rambo, give them a premonition of Rambo coming to kill them and have them try to avoid Rambo in a movie called ‘Rambo’. Get
      the picture now? That’s Final Destination in a nutshell!

      Bottom line: If in two movies we’ve established there’s no hope these people can survive, then there’s no
      drama or suspense and THAT is a big part of the element of horror. The ONLY reason people will watch these movies now is to see the blood, the carnage, and the gruesome way people die; that’s not horrifying if I already know these characters are inevitably fated to die AND there is not enough setup to make one care about these annoying as hell stereotypical characters. If I WANT the character to die to see that blood and carnage that is a result of them dying then that’s not horror, that’s a comedy.

      Note: Yes, this movie series PISSES ME OFF for being called ‘horror’, but I can look past it and say that the first and second movies were good horror movies because I didn’t know if they could escape death’s clutches: hence, there was drama in that suspense and that made it a horror movie. But now that suspense is gone and the movie series has moved away from horror and more into a black comedy.

  • Anonymous

    HAHA, my date and I last night considered seeing this movie last night. We decided to go see Captain America instead. PROBABLY a better decision, haha.

  • http://www.facebook.com/calvin.falk Calvin Dürüm Falk

    OOOOO I know exactly what you mean with the teeth thing, that shit freaks me the fuck out 

    • Anonymous

      You should watch The Dentist movies! :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/dominick.critelli Dominick Critelli

    While I haven’t seen 4 or 5 (Due to absolutely despising 3), according to wikipedia, the whole “premonitions” thing was apparently explained at the end of 4 (I refuse to call it “THE Final Destination).

    Ironically it fits even more with your The Sim’s scenario, because according to 4, the whole premonitions thing is actually DEATH, sending the protagonist a red herring so that they’ll be where they are at the end of the film to die.

    Yeah, somewhat of a cop out in my opinion. But again, fits the scenario of Death being an atrocious douchebag, since it means the entire movies literally happen for no reason other then “Death is bored, so he decides to dick with some folk who are about to die.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/JDweilen Jd Mönster

    lol i like to call Final Destination 5 the Starwars effect. it takes place before the first final destination  movie, and yet the tech is current.

  • http://www.facebook.com/fernandochengorehoundHxCgoregrinderandmoviegoer Fernando Chen

    In the series , it is brought up in 2 and 4 that you can’t kill yourself to avoid death unless it is your turn to die in Death’s Design. If memory serves me right , the characters who contemplate suicide are the black characters in FD2 (excluding Tony Todd) and FD4  as well as the pale Emo kid in FD3.

    The concept is there, they just don’t do anything with it. More or less because it won’t fit in continuity of the series nor make any sense since they are all destined to die regardless of being skipped and taking another person’s remaining lifespan. Making this concept completely pointless to bring up or to follow up on.

    One of the many flaws in the Final Destination series and yet I am still eager to sit back and enjoy the carnage as the Gorehound that I am.

  • http://www.facebook.com/fernandochengorehoundHxCgoregrinderandmoviegoer Fernando Chen

    In the series , it is brought up in 2 and 4 that you can’t kill yourself to avoid death unless it is your turn to die in Death’s Design. If memory serves me right , the characters who contemplate suicide are the black characters in FD2 (excluding Tony Todd) and FD4  as well as the pale Emo kid in FD3.

    The concept is there, they just don’t do anything with it. More or less because it won’t fit in continuity of the series nor make any sense since they are all destined to die regardless of being skipped and taking another person’s remaining lifespan. Making this concept completely pointless to bring up or to follow up on.

    One of the many flaws in the Final Destination series and yet I am still eager to sit back and enjoy the carnage as the Gorehound that I am.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know if anyone else has said it already I haven’t read threw the comments yet, but in part 2 actually somebody did try to kill themselves to keep from dying horribly.  One of the uys went crazy and something to the tune of, “Nobody and nothing controles my life I choise when I live or die!” and he grabs a cop’s(one of the other survivors was a highway patrolman) and held it to his head and pulled the trigger like 10 times and whne they looked at the gun all the bullets were duds. So pretty much Death is so sadistic in these movies it won’t let you kill yourself painlessly!

    I will see this new movie someday bt not in theaters! I profer to be confertibly at home when wAtching thos kinds of films!

    • Anonymous

      Well, in 4th movie someone tried to hang himself, but it didn’t work from what I remember.

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely right, Spoony.

    Shallow depth of field and 3D don’t mix!

  • Anonymous

    About 3D in this movie, it almost doesn’t exist. I watched 3/4 of the
    movie and there was NO need for the glasses. Just great. I don’t get it,
    why there are movies in 3D, when in the most part is just pointless?

    Also, I watched it first day and it was crap, as well as stupid deaths.
    Also, they are racist assholes (nobody noticed, that the black guy,
    sorry, I can’t remember his name, that he “just” died, and all of the
    “characters” had at least 30 sec-1 minute?). These death were just stupid and showed how unrealisticly stupid people in these movies are. Insted of running, just laying flat in the room, where is fire. Just WOW.

    In other words, this movie was shit.

  • Anonymous

    Good review, Spoony. I probably should not watch this, as I’m nearsighted in both eyes (my left more than my right, but still), and ever since I’ve learned, I’ve been toying with the idea of Lasik, but…yeesh, just hearing you describe this makes me totally cool with my glasses.

    Final Destination is kind of funny for me, because I actually really liked the first movie. I found it rather suspenseful, even though I knew going in that most of the characters were going to die, and it was pretty scary in a few places (though the bus kill makes me cackle like a stoned hyena every time I see it). But when I heard about a sequel, I just had to ask, “really?” It was just such a transparent cash-in. They were completely willing to throw out any semblance of intelligence or deeper meaning the original might have held in favor of a gore-fest sequel. But, that’s Hollywood for you. Lather, rinse, repeat, pick up the paycheck. Still, I do enjoy the occasional gorehound flick (thanks for that term, BTW), and it’s good to hear that sound ones are still being done.

    Oh, and thanks for the Paranormal Activity plug. I’ve been meaning to check that one out, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Thanks for the reminder!

  • Anonymous

    personally, I have a thing with finger nails and joints (bending over elbows or knees? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg)
    yeah, not gonna watch that movie

  • Anonymous

    personally, I have a thing with finger nails and joints (bending over elbows or knees? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg)
    yeah, not gonna watch that movie

  • Anonymous

    personally, I have a thing with finger nails and joints (bending over elbows or knees? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg)
    yeah, not gonna watch that movie

  • Anonymous

    personally, I have a thing with finger nails and joints (bending over elbows or knees? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg)
    yeah, not gonna watch that movie

  • Max Gutierrez

    dont know if any one else said already but in i think the third the old black guy tried 3 or 4 times to kill himself and the movie pretty much said death will chose your new way to die and it will suck

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Julie-Bogen/10038815 Julie Bogen

    I actually kind of wanted the characters in this movie to live. It was weird. (I still didn’t remember their names though, and I definitely called that one guy Young Tom Cruise). That balance beam scene made me want to die; I like these types of movies and it was still a bit too tense for me.

    Also, are you wearing a Harkins Loyalty T-Shirt? I keep forgetting that you live here :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Parman/100000126290040 Ryan Parman

    Hey Spoony! loved this review. Speaking of Paranormal Activity and Japanese horror films, have you seen Paranormal Activity:Tokyo Night?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gabriela-Mizerija/100000750048199 Gabriela Mizerija

    Searched youtube for all death scenes. Saw the movie. *pokerface*

  • Anonymous

    One thing that I’m going to correct you on here, in final destination 2 and 4 people try to commit sucicide but unless its your turn in the chain you can’t die, they try to shot themselves and every bullet is a blank, they try to take pills and vomit them up, try to kill themselves using exhaust fumes but the car won’t start etc. etc. (makes you wonder what would happen if they jumped of a building?) My question, your willing to kill yourself but can’t because death has a system apparently and isn’t going to put up with you messing it up (really? the grim reaper is that pety?) why not wait until its your turn in the chain, no one tries to comit sucicide then? But yeah I’m probably putting to much thought into this it really is just a gore film, I really am a bit squimish about these films but I find I just can’t stop watching, I only saw it because of my friends (same reason I saw the saw films) I don’t hate them but I do feel fairly uncomfortable though thats not a great word for the feelng.

  • Anonymous

    One thing that I’m going to correct you on here, in final destination 2 and 4 people try to commit sucicide but unless its your turn in the chain you can’t die, they try to shot themselves and every bullet is a blank, they try to take pills and vomit them up, try to kill themselves using exhaust fumes but the car won’t start etc. etc. (makes you wonder what would happen if they jumped of a building?) My question, your willing to kill yourself but can’t because death has a system apparently and isn’t going to put up with you messing it up (really? the grim reaper is that pety?) why not wait until its your turn in the chain, no one tries to comit sucicide then? But yeah I’m probably putting to much thought into this it really is just a gore film, I really am a bit squimish about these films but I find I just can’t stop watching, I only saw it because of my friends (same reason I saw the saw films) I don’t hate them but I do feel fairly uncomfortable though thats not a great word for the feelng.

  • http://twitter.com/The_Rippy_One The_Rippy_One

    Hey there – yeah, I sort of lost interest in this series after I saw the trailer for 3, because it was fairly obvious it wouldn’t advance the arc plot – 1 set the ground rules and established a tie position, 2 set the win condition and clarified a couple of things (do not save a life if Death says you’re on borrowed time – Death will get pissed at both of you). 3…just sort of ignored the 2nd, and didn’t go anywhere. 4 was like 3, except with an unverifiable cop-out at the end, as I understand it. 5 sounds like 3 in that respect.

    I’m mildly interested in the series for the sake of the philosophical question you posed in the video, the bigger what’s and why’s…but, as long as this series is a cash cow, I doubt we will get any answers.

    One thing, about the lack of a personification – I’m fine with it.  It adds to the emotive tension in certain ways. Once the characters understand what’s going on, they are stuck with the realization that a) where ever they are, there is, quite possible, some contrived way to kill them, and b) that there is no where to go where that isn’t the case (unless you create a situation where there are no random occurrence, to the extent that you more or less give up living).

    Imagine waking up, knowing that your bedroom is set up as a death trap, specifically for you, and the only reason you aren’t dead right now is because there’s an even more ingenious death trap waiting elsewhere – somewhere you will, invariably, go to shortly. And if you stay in bed, well, you are still sitting in the middle of a murder machine. Did you just feel a spring in your bed twist a little?

    Part of the tension is also based on the potential of these deaths – that we could run into, well, not the perfect storm that these are, but parts of them – the lasic eye death couldn’t happen, but it is possible to have something go wrong; maybe you’ll be blinded, maybe your eye will get scarred oddly. It isn’t likely, but, you can have just a moment of doubt about them. The scares I favor are the ones that are both ingenious enough not to be obvious and plausible enough that the audience needs to think twice about dismissing them. I liked most of the first death in 2 because of that – it played out as a perfect storm of plausible morning prep screw-ups that spiral out of control (and frankly, I was mildly annoyed about what actually got him due to overly long joke issues).

  • Emily Bricker

    Yeah, it’s talked about more in The Final Destination (which, as you mentioned in the video, is the FOURTH film, confusingly enough): the premonitions are just Death being a douchebag and leading people on. Why does he bother? I…don’t know.

    I personally have a love-hate relationship with these movies. They’re both genuinely tense and freaking HILARIOUS; the deaths are silly as all hell and it takes place in a world where people are made entirely of red plasticine.

  • Anonymous

    on a vhs tape filming on ep you can get 6 hours of film, just so you know

  • Darth_Dinobot

    The friend also played Tom Cruise in superhero movie as a parody, funny as hell :p 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000119202621 Ryan Peiffer

    There’s a scene in Dead Space 2 that will ruin eyes for you more than this movie.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Riku-Himawari/100001113904887 Riku Himawari

      Lol i c wut u did dere.

      I’m actually a pretty tough guy, but I can’t stand being touched around the eyes or close. It’s a pet-peeve, I guess?

      That scene fucked me up. Bad.

  • Senna4ever

    The first FD is great.
    Well written and some interesting deaths and scares. With the exception of Exorcist III, probably the best jump scare in a film in the first FD.

    The sequels were all pretty bad.

    However, I really liked FD5. It’s not great, but it’s the best of the sequels.
    But I do have to bring up how they ruined the twist end themselves in the film.
    A good twist is slowly bled fed to you. See Fight Club for the perfect way to set up and pay off a twist. See The Sixth Sense for a bad way to set up a twist.
    FD5 has a “good” twist ending, but they shoot themselves in the foot by being to heavy handed with the clues. Now there are some great subtle clues to the twist that you may or may not pick up on. Like music being played, phones being used, license plates on cars, etc. Subtle but they are there.
    Then there is one HUGE clue they keep drumming into your head over and over. That “clue” is Paris. The fact they keep mentioning Paris way too many times gave away the ending, too on the nose.

    My suggestion. Watch the first film, then watch this “sequel” directly after. It just works so damn well. You don’t need the others in between.

  • TCBLB

    “You’re familiar with all his friends and the way they think!”

    With all due respect to Brad who I think is great.  His friends all yell, talk over each other and cluster f bomb.  I can’t really get to excited to watch those anymore. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/TopherBlair Topher Glenn

       Couldn’t agree more. They seem like cool people to hang out with, to a certain point, but I just don’t care to hear them all talk over each other.

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