The first Final Destination was alright, but the rest after that were stupid. The deaths were so predictable and rediculous and this new one looks ever sillier. How do you die in a car wash? :pinch:
Final Destination 3
Written by Film Brain Thursday, 03 September 2009 19:38
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09.03.2009 - 15:50 | The Hardcore Kid
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09.03.2009 - 16:35 | TragicGuineaPig
You could take footage of any of the Final Destination movies and play the
"Mouse Trap" theme song over it.
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03.24.2010 - 10:43 | QuestionTheMajority
*laughs* My brother said the exact same thing after being dragged along to watch Final Destination 4
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08.02.2010 - 20:13 | Haon
Mouse Trap is a WAY better movie than the Final Destination sequels!
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03.30.2012 - 12:02 | ReiMeiohVery much like Death having a fetish for using Rube Goldberg-like mechanics.
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09.12.2009 - 16:34 | DarkLord500random explosion?
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I think the Final Destination series could make some decent video games. For example, the main character would use photographs to figure out how the people in the photos would die. Then, he would try to stop the deaths from happening. It's just an idea.
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09.03.2009 - 15:54 | Cferra
Good episode, Buck. I'm not a fan of the FD series at all. However, I know some people like them for reasons that are really weird. I guess they like gross stuff. I don't know. The movie's not my style. Good review, my friend!
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09.03.2009 - 16:16 | Fox_Silent-K
Jeez, you awesome opening blows me away every time. You make it yourself or did someone else do it, a fan perhaps?
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09.03.2009 - 16:19 | CferraWelshy made it. It's mentioned in the intro and in the end credits.
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09.03.2009 - 16:23 | pronemortalformI'll admit, implausible as they are, the Rube-Goldberg death scenes in this are creative, better than the usual ones in slashers.
But you're right about the foreshadowing, what's the point in making them up if we know what's going to happen? That and all the characters in this movie are completely unlikable. Spoony was right in in his Halloween 2 review: It's not horror if you want the characters to get killed off.
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i saw it with some friends and it was so bad i walked out of the theater got my money back and waited for it to be free online then after i watched it i cried at the crap i had just saw
worst ending ever
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09.03.2009 - 16:28 | ThatGuyInTheHeadband
Nice review Brain. Was the first one any good? The plot does sound intresting and I'd like to see it in a way that isn't done ham-handed.
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09.03.2009 - 17:26 | empathy121Actually, I thought it was pretty good it was original and it wasn't ham-handed...as much.
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09.03.2009 - 23:52 | Film Brain
I did quite enjoy the first one. The characters are more likable and the deaths are more convincing and thus more scary.
2 also has the distinction of being better than the first to some people.
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[quote=Film Brain]I did quite enjoy the first one. The characters are more likable and the deaths are more convincing and thus more scary.
2 also has the distinction of being better than first to some people.[/quote]
No,no,no,I need to take that back.Final Destination 1 was the best period.The sequel was pretty mediocre! But the third addition....don't get me f--king started on that.
Oh yeah,farewell to the characters we don't have a clue of who they really are!
And....CAR WASH OF DEATH!!!
SYMBOLISM!!111!!one1one!
OMGWTFBBQGENIUS!
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09.03.2009 - 16:30 | Giboauja
I don't really watch horror movies, but I thought the first FD was a neat concept, but following these types movies logic if it makes money keep on making them. When it breaks even go direct to video. When that starts loosing money... reboot franchise.
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[quote=Headbanger18]The first Final Destination was alright, but the rest after that were stupid. The deaths were so predictable and rediculous and this new one looks ever sillier. How do you die in a car wash? :pinch:[/quote]
Indeed since this was actually proven to not work on Mythbusters, it's quite possible the stupidest death yet.
That or the Escalator of death, which quite obviously doesn't resemble a real escalator in any way, shape, or form.
The movies are all doomed to fail after he first one, because the first one clearly established, YOU CANNOT CHEAT DEATH, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BE KILLED.
That means the best possible ending for any of the characters is to just die of old age after dodging death for the rest of their lives.
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09.12.2009 - 08:05 | Monado
Actually if you ever saw the movie "Skeleton Crew", they show a stupider death where they're saying the standard film set light can burn you to death in a matter of seconds.
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10.03.2009 - 17:56 | Gunmun[quote=CosmicKirby]
The movies are all doomed to fail after he first one, because the first one clearly established, YOU CANNOT CHEAT DEATH, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BE KILLED.
That means the best possible ending for any of the characters is to just die of old age after dodging death for the rest of their lives.[/quote]
actually, FD2 hinted that if one of the survivors gets or gets someone knockrd up the cycle will be broken.
I don't know if this means the second sperm joins egg, or if its the whole 9 months.
Leave it to hollywood to find someway to put sex in a movie about the impossibleity cheating death
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09.03.2009 - 16:46 | Cyborcat
Most of these deaths remind me of the the episode of Tom & Jerry where Tom attempts to build "the better mousetrap":
[url]http:// www.youtube.com/watch? v=0iP8WjXE3FU[/url]
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Bad Movie Beatdown is my new favorite channel on TGWTG! I was thinking, have you ever considered doing a review of Red Planet or Event Horizon? I could see you doing great things with those films. Keep up the great work!
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09.03.2009 - 17:07 | sombrafox
After this review I am convinced James Wong will get the nickname James Wrong.
BTW did you change the end credits, if so good job.
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09.03.2009 - 16:43 | ToferBoobooIt is really dumb to try and expect something from Final D after watching the second movie. Going into the movie and expecting it to be better or good is completely stupid.
They should have just stopped after the second one bombed.
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09.03.2009 - 16:45 | the kurd
ya i never wahted the film
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09.03.2009 - 16:51 | Spoonernice episode.
I only saw the first one on TV, so I didn't know this movie.
but you're absolutely right, the deathscenes are only scary if they could happen in reality. which they obviously don't in the third movie.
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09.03.2009 - 16:53 | Westleygood god, foreshadowing threw up all over this movie :pinch: alternate endings were crappily put together imo.
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09.03.2009 - 17:25 | blackrain88I just wanted to point something out. Final Destination 3 wasn't meant to be scary. It was meant to be funny. The ridiculousness of it all was supposed to make the audience laugh. As the last movie, it was kind of a parody of the previous ones. Some moments that you called "not scary" were actually jokes. For example, the tanning beds turning into coffins. That was an abstract joke... I didn't mind the movie and actually thought it was a great end to the FDs... It was ridiculous, but at least they weren't going to make anymore...
Therefore, I was horrified to find out about the 4rth movie. That's going to HURT to watch. Seriously... making a fourth movie is like... an insult to the FD movies...
Oh, and you didn't include the song ref "There is some one... walking behind you" and how ridiculous it was
Again, the main flaw in the review is that you're reviewing it as a horror movie. While it's gory, it's really more of a gorey black comedy then a horror movie. It wasn't intended to be scary
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09.03.2009 - 18:22 | The Toon Geekette
Are you sure? I remember it being marketed as a straight horror movie.
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09.03.2009 - 22:50 | Film BrainIt does have a tongue-in-cheek vibe, but its not as well done as it was in 2 and the film, for the most part, is played surprisingly straight (like the first).
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09.05.2009 - 07:09 | MichaelangeloI think it was, but since when does marketing define what a movie is really all about?
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09.05.2009 - 13:06 | blackrain88It was marketed that way because that was the easiest way to market it and the biggest way to sell it. It's hard to fit such ideas in a comercial.
Besides, things aren't always marketed for what they actually are.
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Show me quotes from the actors/director anyone in the movie that could have possibly gave you the ridiculous idea of it being a parody or comedy when it clearly says HORROR as the genre.
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09.03.2009 - 16:58 | ABProductionsThe first film was the best, then it went downhill from there. They're still entertaining movies, sure, but the difference between the first film and it's sequels was that the first film was suspenseful and unexpected. The sequels that followed....were not.
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09.03.2009 - 17:00 | Fiendly
i seem to recall Final Destination 2 being even worse than 3. the ill-defined "death" antagonist literally moves shit around so as to have it fulfill its role in yet another Rube Goldberg death scene, which never happened before or since (actually, it happens in the first death in Final Destination 1, but it was completely pointless so i don't count it. it may also happen in the new one, but i haven't seen that).
i would argue that the best death in the series was that of the teacher in the first movie, which was ludicrously elaborate, but would agree that the absurd deaths in this movie were just laughable. i worked at a movie theatre when this movie came out and while on break, i'd sit in the projection booth watching this movie with no sound, playing circus music in my head as the death ball got rolling. made the scenes infinitely better
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09.03.2009 - 17:02 | ThatScottishGuy
I'm Usually Scared Shitless during stuff like this but this one...I Laughed
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09.03.2009 - 17:04 | GiboaujaAt the very least, better rampant foreshadowing than rampant SYMBOLISM OMFG. Seriously rampant symbolism insults my intelligence. Subtly is always the way to go.
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I'll give credit that the filmakers have talent in devising such stupid ways to die. I certainly couldn't imagine all that up if I tried. Needless to say, I can't believe how stupid that movie is!
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09.03.2009 - 17:06 | Mark Ross
That's it: BMB is a must see at TGWTG. Another great job, dude! Keep the good work
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09.03.2009 - 17:07 | Booze Zombie
Wow, I've never watched a horror movie that failed to horrify me... until this one!
Nailgun whilst she stares and screams?
Middle finger whislt dead?
You fucking moron, Mr. Director.
You fucking moron.
Good video, FB.
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09.03.2009 - 17:07 | DaxStrife
So when did Rube Goldberg take over as Death?
Never saw these movies, and with the exception of the first I never want to, and your review helped cement my reasons why. Fantastic job once again, sir. *Salute*
And really, "Love Train" at the end? That's just tasteless; whoever did the music picks for this movie should have been sacked.
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09.03.2009 - 17:11 | LauraRiddle
Oh God, the FD franchise is almost as worse as the Saw franchise.
And you've pointed out a brilliant point why most horror movies bore me: the characters are too stupid and underdeveloped for me to care.
Great vid, BTW.
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09.03.2009 - 17:17 | twilightgamer92I only saw the movie like two times, so I never really noticed the plot holes. I also saw the alternate takes before seeing the movie (yeah, I'm weird), so I didn't really notice any plot holes there, either. But, I have to say, it's the cheesy, mouse trap deaths that I like about this psuedo franchise.
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09.03.2009 - 17:20 | joneau261
Man, you really can't get these reviews out in time for their new movie, can't you? :-P
As always, great review. I actually considered going to see "Final Destination 4" (yeah, screw "The", it's just stupid) to have something crappy to rant at. Thanks to you, I'm glad I didn't
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09.03.2009 - 22:52 | Film BrainNo, that marks failed attempt no. 3... :D
One of these days I'll nail it. I hope.
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09.04.2009 - 02:42 | CyborcatYou haven't truly failed until your Halloween episode comes out in March of the following year (especially if you insist on still calling it a Halloween episode)--still kicking myself for that one =P
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09.03.2009 - 17:32 | NightStarXThank you for this.
These Final Destination movies are some of the biggest, loudest, most obnoxious, braindead cinematic trash ever conceived for the cinema.
But of course, these movies are the brainchild of James Wong. DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION'S James Wong.
That almost speaks more for itself than any review actually ever could, to be quite honest. But seeing as that talentless hack "directed" (and I use the term VERY loosely) the first and third installment of these godawful films, it really just understates that it's going to be BAD.
But in all honesty, this franchise has never been good and it has always been bottom barrel trash, and James Wong himself has never contributed a worthwhile or decent idea to the industry of film in his career or life. So, given this, it's odd that you'd start with the third film, instead of working your way from 1 and go onwards, but whatever.
Maybe this is the worst film out of the worst franchise ever, and in that case, probably a better place to start, I guess.
Anyway, I love Bad Movie Beatdown, because it seems to have been so far, just relentlessly bashing films that personally infuriate me as well. Great job, keep 'em coming.
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09.03.2009 - 17:34 | EarthboundXE
God I love you Film Brain, I have nothing to do, then one of you new videos pops up, god bless you.
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