Short plot
summary |
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Slash
bang slice thwack EEEeeeeek zzzzting! Invisible man-type deaths of fit and sexy
teens. Part
1: Plane crash - those who got off plane cheat death, then death comes to find
each of them... ya hargh haaaaaar.... Part
2: Car crash - see above - same plot, a bit slicker... |
What our
panel of critics thought |
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"Sublime
thrills from start to thwack/splicing/boing/thud finish!" "Oh
the humanity! Why oh why oh why, in the second movie, did Rivers leave her comfy
secure padded cell to save the lives of people she does not know? Huh? It's just
Hollywood-humanity gone insane!" "Bravisimo!
A veritable smorgasbord of Tom and Jerryness on the live action big screen." "I
saw Final Destination 1 on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. I screamed and
screamed and screamed! Oh joy of joys!" "No
No No No NO! The first film is fatally flawed. Had those pesky kids gotten off
the flight the plane couldn't have taken off, as their baggage would have been
on the flight, and thus all the bags would have to be unloaded, hence the flight
delayed. Look, here, at my well thumbed copy of The Geneva International In Flight
Baggage Convention 1946-1998, revised for 2001 section 1d F IVV G123543! (That's
my exclamation mark by the way) Huh? Are you listening to me? Hello?" "It's
a nice moment when the plane explodes in the first movie, but would the glass
windows in the airport have exploded like that? If it had done so I doubt very
much the chiseled good looks of our heroes would not have been disfigured with
shards of sharp glass therefore making the rest of the movie populated by bandaged
teen actors? Do I have to think of everything?" "Here's
a thought. Don't tell anyone, this could be worth a fortune: Has anyone ever thought
of doing a Groundhog Day type movie in which the same person keeps on getting
killed over and over just you don't know which way until they can solve the murder
and therefore stop the killing? Huh? Has that been done? Oh I can't be bothered
to pitch it to a studio. Just give me 10% of the box office receipts if you want
it (my paypal e-mail address is below)." |
Please
tell me the ending or plot overview if necessary
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| Death
is a sneaky special effects type biaatch and is determined to make sure anyone
who escapes from an accident will be ended with maximum creativity after a couple
of nice misdirects. |
Justify
this movie's existence in the classic strand from
theVoiceofReason.com's classically trained Veritable Cornucopia |
| At
last, a highly original story plot-line. Hooray, hurrah and Hooray again! Once
in a generation such an idea comes along (the one before this was Nightmare on
Elm Street, the one before that was The Exorcist/The Omen). The
first time one saw the first Final Destination one didn't take to it easily. One
could well have been in a funny mood as one sometimes is and one didn't enjoy
it at all. Looking at it now I am not sure what there is to not like. It's quite
a scary, little effort, and one certainly enjoyed screaming at the top of ones
voice a couple of times. This
is not a traditional 'will death come knocking at one's door', rather it's a 'when
will he do the dirty deed?' One by one we see our heroes die a horrible and sometimes
even hilarious, crunchy, death, sometimes half naked, indeed. It
is certainly much more intelligent than what one remembers the Halloween movies
to be like and this is a franchise that will probably run for as long as the Nightmare
on Elm Street one did. All in all an enjoyable romp. |
Quotable
quotes (real) |
"I
control my life not you.""Shhh
- Don't wake the dead.""In
death there are no accidents." |
What
snack should I eat while watching this movie?
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| Fish
fingers with lots and lots of tomato sauce squirted onto the meal while standing
on a chair at least 6 feet away from the table. |
This could never happen, buddy, could it? |
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Yes
this is perfectly plausible. Deaths of all types happen all the while. Be in the
wrong place at the wrong time and that could very well be it, chum. So, always
make sure you've got clean underwear on. |
Are there any entertaining uses of the f-word in this movie? |
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f-word is used in its normal everyday usage of potty mouthed naughty people, children.
It
is nothing to be proud of, or is it? |
Any ideas of sequels: FD 4 5 6 7 8.... ? |
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4
Final Destination in Europe - French bakery, baguette, patisserie murders. 5
Final Destination - Reality TV - wrong person gets voted off... eeerrrghhh ! 6
Final Destination in Ultimate Fighting Contest, someone is murdered, but it is
the wrong person... 7
In space: On the space station. 8
Set in a pet shop, each of the fishies gets killed in its own little way. |
Other comments
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| Every
twenty years or so there is a new horror idea, this is it for this generation.
Twenty years ago it was Nightmare on Elm Street. A truly scary, very interesting
plot idea... The
second movie is particularly good as we found it more believable than the first
one (there are many more car accidents than plane crashes) and in the second one,
as you probably saw Final Destination One, you know they are gonna die but the
director plays with you with multiple false misdirects, it is really a very very
entertaining movie. We
raise a glass to Final Destination Part 3 which is due out at the time of this
review. |