Final Destination 3

[Jo269976]

Im suprised there ain't been a thread about this great movie already

But oh well

what did you guys think of it?

I thought the Roller Coaster crash was so cool (coming from the only guy that was cheering while everyone was screaming lol) and the sunbed was just gross

Plus i have a pressie!

the Roller Coaster disaster in all it's Gorey!

Link

[DrSpengler]

Here's the review I wrote for www.filmsy.com

Final Destination 3


If there is any horror franchise that could conceivably continue onward into the distant future, it is Final Destination. The concept is fresh, unchallenged by knock-offs (so far, anyway) and so long as the sequels fulfill the requirements of the franchise, you’re guaranteed an intensely entertaining horror film. Maybe nothing that will ever escalate to “classic”-status, but something fun, gory, surprising, intriguing and satisfying all the way around.

The concept of the Final Destination franchise is constant through-out all the films; a group of people survive a horrible demise because one of the would-be corpses foresees the event, freaks out, and accidentally saves them all. However, you can’t cheat death no matter how hard you try, and one-by-one the survivors perish in gruesome, ironic “accidents” in the exact order in which they would have died earlier. And in the case of Final Destination 3, a group of annoying teenagers survive a nightmarish rollercoaster fiasco only to fall prey to Death-itself shortly afterward.

The concept is interesting enough, but that’s not what makes these movies so entertaining. It’s the WAY these people die that either shocks the crap out of you or leaves you in stitches. The deaths rely on a series of coincidences to cause more coincidences which eventually end with the designated teenager meeting a spectacularly painful demise. The coincidences build-up and build-up, for minutes at a time, leaving you hooked to see how one affects the other. The only comparison that can be made is to a Rube Goldberg Device. You know, like when a bowling ball falls onto a scale, the scale tips and the elevating tray taps the tail of one of those drinking toy birds, the bird dips into a bowl of water, the ripple causes a tiny toy sailboat to float to the end of the bowl and bump into a piece of cheese that was sitting on the table, the cheese falls to the floor where it intrigues a mouse, the mouse goes to the cheese but also has rabies and bites you in the leg on its way toward the cheese. Then on your way to the doctor you get hit by a semi.

Something like that only way cooler with ten times the gore and violence.

And Final Destination 3 provides lots of gore. I don’t want to ruin too much for you, but the brutality of the deaths surpass those in the first two films. Particularly what happens to the roid-raging black dude. In your FACE!

As far as a grade is concerned, on The Relative Grading Scale of Inappropriate Cartoon Snowmen, a BAD grade would be…ohhh…”Slushy the Slush-Packer”. However, since this was a GOOD movie, it rates a “Frosty the Pedophile”.

So if you want to see a horror movie that fits all the criteria to be entertaining, but isn’t anything that’ll make the history books, then check this movie out. It’s original (or as original as a sequel can get), gory and very fun to watch.

[VaughnMichael]

I don't like these movies...and I'm a huge horror fan..I don't like there killing people for just the thrill of killing people attitude...it's not a good story to me.

[malignant]

I thought it was an okay movie..but the CGI was terribly done. Just looked crappy...

It was entertaining though. No kind of movie to be remembered though.

[KROW]

Originally Posted by Putrescent

I don't like these movies...and I'm a huge horror fan..I don't like there killing people for just the thrill of killing people attitude...it's not a good story to me.

Okay. So why do you have zombies in your signature?

[Mobius One]

I know what he means about the random killing of people...alot of the time, its just stupid. I saw The Devils Rejects, and it was just awful. Thats all it was, random killing of people, and it sucked. Also, there was very little of a storyline. But anyways, with these movies, the thing I don't like about them (which is actually probably the reason why a lot of people like them) is how the deaths are so stupid and would never happen, ever. Some of them are just so ridiculous, that I can't watch the movie.

[KROW]

I know what he means, too. I just don't understand it coming from him.

Usually killing people just for the sake of killing is the milieu for serial killers like Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, and the random undead ghoul. This film series targets the spirit of the grim reaper himself, who plays catch-up with those who escape him in a brutal and evil fashion. Though I will admit that a few of the deaths in the series are absurd and have that supernatural essence to them.

[Jo269976]

I think it's a god story and im pretty sure everyone has cheated deaths once on this Forum and it makes you think about if it'll come back at you!

[IceFlash78]

I used the link to watch the roller coaster premonition, and I have to admit...

as a fan of roller coasters, I was slightly freaked out that this kind of thing COULD possibly somehow occur.

I haven't seen Final Destination (any of the three movies) but I think I would probably enjoy it for the rune goldberg concept.

[Jo269976]

Kinda puts you off Roller Coasters don't it?

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by KROW

Okay. So why do you have zombies in your signature?

cause there not people there zombies duh!

[KROW]

Originally Posted by Putrescent

cause there not people there zombies duh!

Riiight.

I could argue that point but... well... I have a sock drawer to rearrange.