Sorry if this has been asked or discussed to death (I did try using the search bar). But yeah I’d be interested to hear people’s opinions on this. While I think there are better entries I still enjoyed 4. I’m never gonna watch an FD film expecting a cinematic masterpiece. The silliness is the fun of it.
The Visionary has a premonition in which they see everyone dying, with themselves being the last to die → They manage to save some of the people from the premonition → Throughout the story, the Visionary and their friends try to save the other survivors from Death's design → Half of them are saved, while the other half aren't → This puts the Visionary next in line → But the Visionary can't escape Death → The cycle of deaths begins anew → The remaining survivors try to escape Death until the end of the story
One year ago, I created a series where I had you all comment what a Final Destination character’s best quote was and it was quite successful. Id been thinking that there might’ve been a quote from some other character we didn’t go over and I wanted to know what quotes you can think of. We covered every major character who was on Death’s list or killed in the process as well as Isabella Hudson, Brenda Campbell, and Marty Reyes. What quotes can you come up with?
So far, there hasn’t been a ship-based setting yet. Ships have a lot of very dangerous things that could make for interesting death sequences.
Hawsers are especially terrifying. A ship’s engines also involve rotating machinery and extremely high temperatures, with the potential for fires.
Electrical accidents and explosions could also happen quite easily.
I find it funny how they even toned down the “bad” words in Ashly’s original line “I fucked up, I set it too hot in here!” to “I messed up, I set it too warm in here!”
There’s also a few more seconds of Ashlyn’s screaming screen time while burning than the OG IMO
Okay, so I never got around to watching Bloodlines in the cinema, nor did I ever want to pay to rent it off Amazon. And I finally got HBO Max as a payday treat and realised that it was on there. So I watched it over a Sunday afternoon, and I've got to say, I'd give the film a 7.5 out of 10. It was decent for what it was.
I think after an 11-year break, the story couldn't just be about a bunch of characters cheating death again. They needed to take it somewhere new, and I think they did that well. And I particularly liked all of the different connections to William Bloodworth, given that this was Tony Todd's last film role. I like the fact that it was a nice sort of send-off to him and his role in the franchise.
Some of the characters were also fun as well. I particularly enjoyed Richard Harmon's performance, and I was definitely finding myself watching it for him rather than the main character. And I thought it was interesting that we had a family dynamic rather than a group of friends or strangers, as we've seen before. However, this family did get over the deaths pretty quickly of some of their members, which is slightly funny. But again, that's just the fast-paced nature of the film that needs to be adhered to.
I think the only things that let me down were the fact that it felt like they treated Death much more like a physical presence of an antagonist rather than the omnipotent force that the other films seem to have treated him as. It almost got comical, and I am glad that the final sequence wasn't a big chase in the camper van where they were avoiding Death at every turn, as I thought it might have been. And of course the gore. I mean, we've known from the last couple of films, particularly from number four, that the gore has been more reliant on CGI. However, this time was the most egregious. There were several instances of people just being, even if it was somewhat creatively, just smushed into an amorphous CGI blob of dark red blood, and it got old pretty fast. I miss the days of practical effects where, you know, we'd get to see a dummy physically react to what is happening to the character. But alas, I understand why things are moving more in a CGI direction because it is cheaper. But at the same time, I was really taken out of Julia's death, which was a very fun and creative pull the rug out from under you setup, that was only cheapened by the fact that the trash compactor scene, it looked like she was some animated character from a Monster High web series or something. Like, it didn't look like a real human.
But one thing I did appreciate was how even though Final Destination has trained you at this point to expect the unexpected, there were a lot of moments where I felt like I could guess what was going to happen, but at the same time there were also a lot of moments where I didn't expect a certain thing to happen. And it was fun because I've not watched a film in a while where that's been the case, as most films that Netflix churns out these days are very predictable. So it was nice being on the edge of my seat, especially for a film and a franchise I love so much.
I'm going into sort of posting this blind. I've actively tried to avoid anyone talking about this film for over a year now, so I have no idea if people share these opinions or outright hated/loved it. Which is why I've come to Reddit, because I know that putting this in here will allow me to see some of the opinions of people who actually actively enjoy the films, rather than just general reviews of people online.
Thank you so much for reading, and if there's any grammar errors then sorry - I was sort of doing speech to text in a dictator Because I've literally just finished the film and these are my raw thoughts, literally straight after finishing it.
Favourite death - the MRI twofer with Erik and Bobby (I mean the Prince Albert piercing come on 😅)
Least favourite death - Darlene's telephone pole smushing (she just got turned into a dark red CGI blob
What’s everyone’s thoughts on if the ending of FDB turned out to be a premonition? Do people like or hate that idea, and why?
After rewatching FDB this week, I wouldn’t hate the idea of the next movie continuing on from it. The ending of FDB could end up being another dream that Stef has and she realizes that it’s not over for them (so they don’t end up going to Jenny’s house that day). So they then search out Kimberly for help on stopping their heart etc and then FD7 picks up from there.
I feel like it could solve the issue of feeling like Iris’ sacrifice was a waste. Having Charlie and Stef have a bit more time to develop them and do some cooler things with evading death longer. I’d love to see Stef develop her ability more to predict death’s design like an equation.
My game has been Android-only, so iPhone folks have had no way to try it. Until now. There's now a playable demo that runs right in your browser, including Safari on iPhone. Nothing to install.
The game is all about the environment out to get you and your choices helping or hurting you. Hazards combine and chain into each other, you can take action, keep to yourself or even gaslight the visionary, and you're trying to out-think a Design that wants yo ass dead. I'd love to hear any opinions, especially any bugs, since the demo is new.
What you get:
•A premonition: a randomly dealt vision of a disaster, on a random timer, where your goal is reaching the exit room (whether you bother convincing people to leave us up to you)
•What happens in the aftermath
•The whole hospital level, with quick-time events (mashing, memory patterns, typing, timing) and a door-jam, falling-sign, ambulance finale
What to know:
• It's text-based, silent for now, and rated 17+ (graphic death and gore, psychological horror)
• The first load is about 10 MB, since it runs the game itself in your browser
• It's a slice, not the full game. The full thing is in the Android app
• The story is still being written, so you may hit placeholder scenes
Play it: https://dienamic-engine.com/play/
Full game (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dienamicengine.dep\_fdt
Feedback from iPhone and Safari players is most useful right now.
Tl;dr: me make game for you, try demo here: https://dienamic-engine.com/play/