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christopher575 ([personal profile] christopher575) wrote2011-08-22 09:32 am

I forgot to add in the schmupdate

FINAL DESTINATION 5 IS SO AWESOME OMGGGGG

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I will watch the LASIK segment shown in the trailer with my hands in front of my face. (And yes, someone has already told me how it fully plays out. Ew. EW!)

I had somehow managed to miss the first 4 until last weekend, when I realized that we had used copies of them at work, so I borrowed them, and stayed up all day last Saturday after working an overnight to watch the first 3, and then the 4th this weekend. 1 and 2 are obviously the best, and I really appreciated the time/set-up/multiplicity of the events that led up to a single death, like in the kitchen scenes, rather than a simple "switch pulled/pool drains, coin falls in".

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Do not shield your eyes during the Lasik scene, it's too awesome.

I think part 3 is my favorite.

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
The tanning bed scene in 3 is one of my fave non-opening scene deaths in all of them, along with "teacher in the kitchen" in 1, and "lottery winner in the kitchen" in 2.

[identity profile] salacious-pop.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
the deaths in 4 irritated me because there were so many fakeouts on how the person would actually die (the beauty-salon/lawn-mower death being the prime example). The mouse-trap domino effect set ups are why I see those movies.

the deaths in the first 3 are all great, and 2 had the best opening massacre sequence.
Edited 2011-08-22 20:06 (UTC)

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, right? All those fakeouts in the salon, and it comes back to the most random thing, which was the first one set up? Although it ends up being caused by her kids, as revenge for the tampons in the ears.

Agreement that 2 had the best opening massacre, because we "see" it. 1 was just a "Bam!" in the background, and then the windows blow. 3 could have been better, if it happened in the daytime. It was just too dark to see everything happening. 2, with the "this, then this, then also this, and we didn't forget him", and then, even after she wakes up from the premonition, and some who we assumed would also be safe don't make it? Yes, please.

4 had to have been released in 3D, right? Too lazy to check, and I only saw it on DVD, but it seemed like so many shots were set up for 3D, so I'll just assume that it added something to it. Fave-o was early girl being dispatched by a tire. Twice.

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
4 and 5 were both released in 3D, but I saw 5 in 2D cuz I'm kinda over it.

Death can't predict the future, so I'm glad there's some backup plans in place.

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Please spoil for me as to why Candyman mortuary guy was in 5. Are we back in the general geographic area where 1 and 2 took place, or has he moved/expanded his funeral home business?

[identity profile] salacious-pop.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh this is such a huge spoiler :|

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Clear had a younger sister, and she's in high school, and it revolves around her?

TELL ME!

(Okay, I just read his character bio on IMDB. OMG.)

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG.

OMG!

Well-played, creators of 5nal Destination.

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Back in the general geographic area and that's really all I want to say other than go see it nooowwwwww.

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't go to movies in theatres! The last movie I saw in a theatre might have been An Inconvenient Truth. Maybe Superbad. Because they were so similar, y'know?

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You should make an exception and see a matinee asap.

[identity profile] salacious-pop.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
4 was originally supposed to be direct-to-DVD... But then right at the start of production, they thought if they added 3D to it they could drum it up enough to be a proper theatrical release, so they did. So yep you're absolutely right.

Its kind of why the actors and actresses in it are all unknowns.. it was cast for a DVD release :| I don't recognize anyone in 5 either... The first 3 actually had recognizable people in them.

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
When the credits for 4 started running, I was all, "WHY IS MYKELTI WILLIAMSON IN THIS?"

And the main girl is such a low(er)-rent Mischa Barton.
Edited 2011-08-22 20:25 (UTC)

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know that about part 4.

In 5 I recognize David Koechner because I've had a crush on him forever and I knew I recognized Emma Bell but it turns out she's from The Walking Dead which is another thing full of people you've never heard of.

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*fist-bump for David Koechner love*

We so like the same type.

;-)

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
He and Rob Corddry are my comedy dream threeway.

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, my goodness. Such agreement.

Maybe throw in a little Danny McBride?

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You can have him to yourself. :)

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Fiiiine. Send David over to the next room for me, when you're done with him.

:-Þ

[identity profile] njbearcub1.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
No, wait! Chris Pratt! Chris Pratt has to be involved, too!

[identity profile] salacious-pop.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I LOVE THAT FRANCHISE, I DEFEND THOSE MOVIES ALL THE TIME

imo the only truly mediocre one was 4, and even then I still liked it

I read all the spoilers for 5 on the Final Destination Wikia site and I still want to see it!!!!!!!!!!

[identity profile] christopher575.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You will looooove it, it's so good.