The Final Destiation

[Trekker4747]

I didn't see a thread for this already so here goes:

The Final Destiantion

Rated: R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality

My Grade: B-

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The Final Destination movies have always been a fairly fun bunch of thriller-style movies featuring young people getting killed in greusome ways. The premise is pretty much the same as all of the others in that a group of people survive a devestating, deadly, event early in the movie and Death tried to "even the score" throughout the rest of the movie by killing the survivors in greusome and cinematicly spectacular ways.

This movie is no different as in the begining four twenty-something are attending a NASCAR-ian race when Nick has a preminition of a large disaster on and around the track and manages to get his friends, and some other spectators (read: cannon fodder to build up to our main characters' deaths), to leave the track just before the accident actualy occurs. The rest of the movie is Death taking out everyone who survived (in the order they would have died) in contrived and spectacular ways (if incredibly impossible) while our main characters try and to find a way to cheat Death.

Really, the plot doesn't matter, what there is beyond that, because the spectacle of this movie is the over-the-top deaths. Seriously, this stuff is so over the top it is just astounding. But it's a lot of fun getting there.

This movie is also available in 3D theaters -I only saw the standard version- so there's plenty of 3D gimmicks of the "things flying at/being stuck into the camera" variety.

3D has never impressed me, it just reminds me of someone playing colorforms on the glasses' lenses, so I saw the standard version.

All and all it's an entertaining movie that's worth watching if you're a fan of the series and into seeing young people killed in the most outlandish ways you can imagine.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^ I was planning on seeing it this weekend with my brother and sister in law, but they're busy now.

Have you actually seen any recent 3D movies as opposed to the old style ones? There are some that work really well, sure there are some ones that are purely gimmick shots.

 

[Trekker4747]

^ I was planning on seeing it this weekend with my brother and sister in law, but they're busy now.

Have you actually seen any recent 3D movies as opposed to the old style ones? There are some that work really well, sure there are some ones that are purely gimmick shots.

I saw Superman Returns' IMAX 3D release. That was the "most recent" one I've seen. Didn't impress me much.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^ I was planning on seeing it this weekend with my brother and sister in law, but they're busy now.

Have you actually seen any recent 3D movies as opposed to the old style ones? There are some that work really well, sure there are some ones that are purely gimmick shots.

I saw Superman Returns' IMAX 3D release. That was the "most recent" one I've seen. Didn't impress me much.

As I recall it wasn't actually entirely filmed in 3D and there were only a couple of scenes properly done for 3D, so it wouldn't look impressive at all.

I may be wrong though.

 

[John Clark]

Saw it yesterday. It was entertaining enough, but I think some of the previous ones were more inventive on the whole

 

[T'Baio]

Destination.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Destination.

Yes, because no one can make typos in your world.

 

[Cky]

I'm planning on seeing it, but I'm partially blinded in my right eye because of a little accident I had a few years back, I'm perfectly fine, and it doesn't show, but it means I can't watch things in 3D (and I get to wear a cool eye patch, through choice, but still ).

I'll watch it in 2D, but is it good enough? I mean, I didn't like the third film, and the second was okay. Is there any references to the last three films? 'Cept for 180 which is seen in all 3 anyway.

 

[Trekker4747]

^ I was planning on seeing it this weekend with my brother and sister in law, but they're busy now.

Have you actually seen any recent 3D movies as opposed to the old style ones? There are some that work really well, sure there are some ones that are purely gimmick shots.

I saw Superman Returns' IMAX 3D release. That was the "most recent" one I've seen. Didn't impress me much.

As I recall it wasn't actually entirely filmed in 3D and there were only a couple of scenes properly done for 3D, so it wouldn't look impressive at all.

I may be wrong though.

Yeah, S:R only had a couple of scenes in 3D (the opening credits, young clark exploring his powers, the scene with the plane and the scene near the end with Clark saving Metropolis/Lois.

But again, 3D doesn't impress me much in its current form. When they develop a way for me to sit in a seat, not have to wear special glasses, and looking at the screen looks like looking through a window THEN I'll be impressed with 3D. Until then, the "put on these glasses and watch as we stick/throw things into the camera" gimmick doesn't impress me.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I saw Superman Returns' IMAX 3D release. That was the "most recent" one I've seen. Didn't impress me much.

As I recall it wasn't actually entirely filmed in 3D and there were only a couple of scenes properly done for 3D, so it wouldn't look impressive at all.

I may be wrong though.

Yeah, S:R only had a couple of scenes in 3D (the opening credits, young clark exploring his powers, the scene with the plane and the scene near the end with Clark saving Metropolis/Lois.

But again, 3D doesn't impress me much in its current form. When they develop a way for me to sit in a seat, not have to wear special glasses, and looking at the screen looks like looking through a window THEN I'll be impressed with 3D. Until then, the "put on these glasses and watch as we stick/throw things into the camera" gimmick doesn't impress me.

There's some 3DTV tech that might impress you then... but with that you have to be sat at certain angles to get the effect which puts it at a disadvantage to the glasses somewhat.

 

[payndz201]

I saw this today; I'd rate it on a par with or slightly above FD3, with FD2 being the best of the series. By this stage, everyone knows the formula, and the filmmakers are fully aware that nobody watching is there because they're interested in the characters - they want to see edge-of-the-seat fakeouts, sudden shocks and incredibly outrageous deaths. And, well, FD4 delivers. IN 3D!

This was actually the first full-length movie I'd seen in 3D (I'd previously seen T2:3D, in which the 3D didn't work for me at all, and Ghosts Of The Abyss, which was basically a documentary with a couple of showy 3D moments) and I thought that, while done for total gimmicky shock value, the 3D worked pretty well. On the other hand, I did think that in the scenes that weren't building up to a death, the movie was very static - literally. In a regular movie, even in a scene of two people talking to each other there'll be some subtle camera movement. In this, the apartment scenes between Main Guy and His Girlfriend (I can't remember their names, but in a movie where major victims are credited as 'Racist' and 'MILF' that's not really surprising) are usually shot with absolutely locked-off cameras, and once I noticed it I couldn't stop.

But it's still trashy, gory fun nevertheless. And I liked all the background references to the previous FD films, and also the weirdness of having a 3D film within a 3D film, which the audience in the movie are seeing in 3D but we see as what we'd see if we were watching without 3D glasses... even though we're wearing them. That probably took some head-scratching to work out.

 

[T'Baio]

Destination.

Yes, because no one can make typos in your world.

Two different typos of the szme word in the sqme post? Sure, but only a moron.

 

[McCoy]

Up! in 3D was impressive, mostly because it didn't seem to be trying to impress. Rather than gimmicky "throw-stuff-at-the-camera" shots it just tried to subtly simulate natural vision.

 

[Dar70]

I saw it today with the Girlfriend. I didnt like it. It had the exact same story as the other films. I knew it would, but I was dragged to it by my GF. Ever since we say Beowoulf ( a great film in 2d and 3d) a couple years ago, she wants to see every frickin movie that comes out in 3d. I tried explaining to her that the plot was going to be exactly the same but she didnt care. 3d is nice but after the first ten minutes its not fun anymore. They could at least have had the kids defeat death this time change it up a little. But alas that was not to be.

 

[Ethros]

Saw it last night.

Fuck me that was shit


I would have thought by the fourth film they could have changed the plot a bit, come up with some twists or something, but instead it's incredibly by the numbers.
The acting and script are appalling, and it didn't fulfill my gore factor at all. All felt very tame, you didn't even see anything most of the time. And considering I spent the whole film begging for these annoying, horrible fuckwit charatcers to die a gruesome death

 

[T J]

Destination.

Yes, because no one can make typos in your world.

Two different typos of the szme word in the sqme post? Sure, but only a moron.

Congratulations! You are officially now better that everyone else. A limo will be pulling up to your place soon with a million dollar cash prize! Throngs of people are cheering in the streets thrilled at your ability to point out spelling errors now realizing how much they love and need someone to point out their mistakes and being called morons. Tomorrow at noon President Obama will be presenting you with the national metal of pointing out other peoples spelling errors. You sir, are a national treasure! Douche bag.

Oh yeah, and the movie, fun deaths!

 

[T'Baio]

Yes, because no one can make typos in your world.

Two different typos of the szme word in the sqme post? Sure, but only a moron.

Congratulations! You are officially now better that everyone else. A limo will be pulling up to your place soon with a million dollar cash prize! Throngs of people are cheering in the streets thrilled at your ability to point out spelling errors now realizing how much they love and need someone to point out their mistakes and being called morons. Tomorrow at noon President Obama will be presenting you with the national metal of pointing out other peoples spelling errors. You sir, are a national treasure! Douche bag.

Oh yeah, and the movie, fun deaths!

That would be "than," not "that." Seriously, if you're going to mock my speling, at least get yours right.

 

[Trekker4747]

That would be "than," not "that." Seriously, if you're going to mock my speling, at least get yours right.

Oh, and what he did wasn't a spelling error. A grammar or syntax error, sure, but not a spelling error.

 

[T'Baio]

If spoken, sure, but it's most likely a typo, not a lack of knowledge regarding syntax...therefore spelling, colloquially.

*facepalm*

It's funny, 'cause you guys didn't notice the errors in my first post.

 

[The Evil Dead]

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