r/FinalDestination

I genuinely think I enjoyed this one even more than the first two. The suspense was ridiculous, and the movie had me suspicious of literally EVERYTHING on screen.

That rollercoaster opening had me stressed as hell. The blood dripping, Frankie dropping the camera, the coaster going way too fast, the tracks collapsing... and then Wendy's vision actually starts happening. Nope. I'm never going on a rollercoaster after that scene. 😭

Then there's the tanning bed scene. I already knew people were scared of this one, but actually watching it was something else. The heat getting higher, everything malfunctioning, the girls being trapped... and that damn ringtone playing in the background made it so much creepier. That scene was brutal.

And Louis at the gym?? I was NOT ready for that. The swords fall, the equipment gets damaged, and then the machine basically crushes his head. That genuinely made me jump.

Frankie's death with the self driving truck caught me completely off guard too. I knew the movie was going to kill people in ridiculous ways, but even then I wasn't expecting that.

The fireworks sequence was insane as well. Julie getting caught by the horse, McKinley getting hit by the sign... Death was working overtime in this movie. 💀

And that final train sequence was just psychological warfare. A chocolate bar gets dropped, a mouse starts chewing on it, and the tracks malfunction which causes the train to crash, killing the remaining survivors!

I absolutely love how these movies turn completely normal situations into elaborate death traps. Apparently FD4 is the worst one in the series. Should I give it a go or skip it?

He technically had last appeared in the franchise in the previous movie but the previous movie was actually a prequel to the 1st movie. I did know for a while FD5 was a prequel but I had this realization just today

Just finished Final Destination 2 on Netflix UK and WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL 😭

I thought the first movie was brutal, but this one somehow managed to make me suspicious of literally everything.

The highway opening with the logs?? EXCUSE ME?! I am officially keeping my distance from logging trucks forever. 💀

Then Evan gets killed by a freaking ladder, Nora gets caught in an elevator, Tim has the most stressful dentist visit imaginable, the airbag kills that poor woman, and the hospital scene had me watching every single object in the room like:

"Okay... which one of you is about to kill somebody?" 👀

But that elevator scene especially messed with me. The doors closing while Nora's hair is caught, the blood, the whole thing... nope. 😭

I swear if I ever miss an elevator and the doors close in front of me, I'm just going to stand there and wait for the next one.

And Kimberly thinking she had to literally die and come back to break Death's design?? I was genuinely convinced she was about to sacrifice herself.

The best thing about these movies is still Death itself being the villain. There's no person to fight. No monster to shoot. No villain hiding somewhere.

It's just:

Death: “🙂”

Everyone: “PLEASE STOP.”

And Death just keeps finding increasingly ridiculous ways to get you.

I'm only two movies in and this franchise has already made me suspicious of:

- bathrooms

- computers

- logs

- elevators

- microwaves

- ladders

- airbags

- dental equipment

- electrical wires

Oh, I completely forgot about Brian at the end 😭. I genuinely thought the movie was finished and everyone was finally safe, then this dude casually goes over to check the barbecue and BOOM—Death really said, “Oh, you thought we were done?” 💀 That scene was such a ridiculous final gut punch because it came completely out of nowhere. I’m now adding barbecues to my growing list of things I absolutely do not trust. 😂

At this point I'm expecting Final Destination 3 to make me afraid of breathing. 😂

What the freaking heck. I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE. 💀

On the suggestion of my 17 year old son, I have been rewatching the movies. I've seen 1,2 and 3 in quick succession and I have noticed some things that seem to be true of the Final Destination Universe:

- Humans are very squishy

- All flying objects are sharper than a double-edged sword

- Vehicles have no brakes

- If it can explode, it will

- Even if it can't explode, it probably will

- Water + an electrical appliance does not equal shorting and a ruined appliance, it equals the appliance behaving it whatever way will lead to your death

Would you add any more?

The only clue I noticed it was a prequel is that the events of the 4 previous movies were never mentioned. Maybe people who watched the movie when it came out who did notice that initially assumed they just didn't feel like referencing the 4 movies (by the way I actually knew for about 14 years the movie was a prequel and I recently watched it for the 1st time. I was introduced to the franchise because of FD5 about 1 year after it was released due to HBO promo in Latin America)

EDIT: If you noticed more clues it was a prequel you're welcome to share them

i genuinely think final destination has nothing to do with death. obviously death is literally what happens in the movies, but i think death is more of a metaphor for failure, and the whole franchise is basically about what happens when you become so desperate to succeed that you forget to actually live.

the “final destination” can be seen as whatever constant goal you’re chasing. you keep thinking that once you reach it, everything will finally be okay. but there’s always another goal, another problem, another thing you have to accomplish. you become so focused on getting to this imaginary point in the future that you waste your actual life trying to reach it.
and this is where i think the whole idea of hedonism comes in. death is inevitable, and you can temporarily avoid it, but you can’t permanently escape it.

so the rational response isn’t to spend your entire existence hiding from it or obsessing over safety. it’s to actually live while you’re here. not necessarily in the “haha drugs and fast food”stereotypical hedonism way, but more like pursue what ACTUALLY matters, because death is inevitable

the characters who isolate themselves, obsess over avoiding death, or spend all their time trying to control what happens next are basically sacrificing their present for the possibility of a future that will never exist. meanwhile, the actual message is almost existential..meaning isn’t just handed to you. you have to seize it yourself.

so “death” becomes more than just death. it can be failure/uncertainty. and the fact that you cant control everything. you can postpone it, run from it, and convince yourself you’ve escaped it, but eventually, something will go wrong. and if you spend your entire life trying to make sure nothing ever goes wrong, you’ve already wasted the limited time you were given.

I feel like Tony Todd’s speech in his last scene really brings this all together. “Enjoy every single second, you never know when.”

TLDR; I think final destination’s message is to spend your life doing what you love, rather than chasing a big goal.

I genuinely didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. The suspense was basically nonstop, and the kills were WAY more creative than I expected.

The whole idea of Death being the "killer" rather than an actual person made it so much creepier. Alex basically became a psychic detective trying to figure out Death's pattern before it came for everyone. 😭

The plane crash was insane. The way the plane started moving weirdly, Alex could literally see the ground, everything started spinning, and then... BOOM. 💀

But that house death? That one gave me chills. The mug cracks, water starts leaking into the computer, the computer explodes, she's bleeding, reaches for the towel, and then the knife lands on her chest. Then the fire starts spreading through the house.

The bathroom scene also genuinely made me jump. Todd sees the toilet overflowing, the floor gets soaked, he slips and gets stuck by the neck. 😭

And then Billy getting his head chopped off by the train after Alex saves Carter?! I actually went "OH COME ON" 😂

The ending was bonkers too. I thought Alex and Claire had finally escaped Death's design, only for Carter to get taken out by that falling sign at the end.

Honestly, I loved how mysterious the whole thing was. There's no villain you can fight. It's literally just Death, and nobody knows exactly how it works.

Also, I watched The Mentalist before this and somehow Death gave me Red John vibes. 💀 Same creepy "I'm always one step ahead and you don't even know where I am" energy.

Just a fun film all around. Really excited to continue the series. But I'm absolutely going in blind. 😭

So I watched alot of final destinations but i've one question: Is their death in different planets or is their only one death.

I MEAN, IF THEIR IS ANY LIFE IN DIFFERENT PLANETS AND IF DEATH IS CHARACTERIZED AS A BEING IN MY OPINION, IS THEIR MORE DEATHS(grimripper im calling them) OR IS THEIR ONLY ONE?

Just for fun a headcanon.

Nick was at the tricentennial but was in the parking lot. He was gonna be attacked by a rottweiler but the evacuating crowd scared it away after they began freaking out from a girl killed by a flagpole.

Lori had to attend a funeral for her cousin Erin (on the Irish side of her family, hence them both having red hair) But the study where she did her coursework for college and routinely napped in at the same time each day caught fire.

Janet was delayed on the McKinley subway due to a crash. She later found out a stalker was a victim on that crash. A stalker she kept receiving death threats from.

Nadia's aunt and uncle called her and asked if she wanted anything to eat and she said she wanted Andy's drive thru. But they never got her order. The two teens in front of them screamed at them to back up due to a runaway truck. Investigators not only found drive thru hazards, but inspection of the inventory revealed to be foodborne illness that wouldve given her sepsis and dysentery.

Samantha's husband called her and said their son needed to be picked up from a field trip to a university that got cut short due to a gym accident where an athlete died. During her lunch break, she would've been electrocuted while doing her dishes in the employee breakroom, as coworkers the next day said it the coffee maker fell off the shelf into the water.

Andy was pubicly drunk and fell off the platform at the subway. He was found unconscious on the tracks. Train 081 wouldve run him over. But it never made it.

Carter's brakes to his truck failed. He wouldve been on the freeway when he noticed it. But he was passing by Phoenix tan salon as they were taking out Ashlyn's remains and was rubbernecking slowly past it because he was racist against Yuri and liked seeing his business fail, causing him to realize his brakes failed sooner.

Hunt gave his neighbors, the Freund Family, a gift basket since he used to date Ashley's older sister. He promised to help his dad with cleaning the gutters once he got back. The ladder his dad set up for him ended up breaking and he would've been impaled by a weathervane.

Jonathan's family leased some aerial lifts to the McKinley tricentennial. When Ian got crushed, he had to go assess the situation with his company's lawyers and see if his family were culpable. He otherwise would've been bitten by a snake on his family's rural farm with no one around.

George was the third person affected by the train crash. A young woman blocked his way onto the train because she was too busy talking to her sister in the threshold. He missed the train. If he got onboard and it didnt crash, then after the next stop he wouldve slipped off ice on the sidewalk and got his head squashed by a taxi.

A group of interns or doctors. I go to hospitals frequently, and the kind of scenarios I see are just scary af

How come there is still no phlebotomy death scene? that procedure is so common and required.

So many machines in the laboratory that could malfunction. Crazy patient encounters.

They always visit hospitals in these movies, but we need one where the main setting IS the hospital. The scenes we have right now dont give justice to how scary it truly is.

My question is, if I were to kill someone who only has 10 more years to live, I will get the 10 years, cool and all, but what if I kill multiple people? Let's say I kill the first guy, get 10 years, and after 1 year, I kill someone else who was going to live 50 years, does that add 59 years to me ?

Do I have to wait for the first 10 years to expire in order to kill someone else ? Also how does it work aging wise ?

Let's say I'm 25 years old, when I survived the bridge collapse let's say. And I kill two babies who, just for this hypothetical, were both going to live until they turned 100 years old, so would I be 225 years old ?

Would I naturally die at let's say 85 ? Would I stay 25 years old until I died at 225 ? Would I ever die if I kept killing people ? And if I were to not kill anyone else other than the two babies, how would I age up to 225 ?

Let's say there's a hypothetical FD movie where the protag is some high ranking military officer. He has a premonition that someone accidentally triggers world wide nuclear war. What do you think the rules would be if he stopped that accident from happening? 🤔