r/FinalDestination

The Final Destination: The People vs. Death

The film opens to a news report of a train derailment that occurred a few days ago. The scene then shifts to a distraught woman crying on a city street. She’s on her cellphone, tearfully talking to her father. She tells her father that Death is after her and that she’s next. She tells her father that she loves him just as a rube-gold berg chain begins. The woman notices and drops the phone and rushes toward a hotel and enters the revolving door. The revolving door malfunctions trapping her inside. She tries to push her way out, but the door catches half of her body, which slowly crushes her as it turns. The hotel guests and staff gasp and scream.

Smash cut: Months later in a court room.

The manufacturing company for the revolving door is being sued by the father of the dead woman. The revolving door company is trying to defend itself that everything about their product was perfectly functional and there's no explanation as to why the revolving door malfunctioned so badly that the woman died. Enter, Benoit Blanc ripoff Benny Blank, a charming, southern corporate defense attorney.

On top of being a world-class corporate lawyer, Benny Blank is something of a supernatural historian who is familiar with the strange premonition phenomenons that have occurred over the years. He got the phone records of the dead woman’s last call with her father and he learned that she said that “Death was after her.” Benny Blank looked into her history and discovered that she had bought tickets to the train that derailed killing everyone aboard, then the scene cuts to the opening disaster of a horrific train derailment. 

Benny Blank and his team of lawyers go to the train station to review security footage of the doomed train’s departure. In the security footage, they see a commotion on the train, and a group of 50 people leaving the train before its departure, including the woman who would later die in the revolving door incident.

Benny Blank and his team identify all of the survivors who left the train before it departed, and they also learn that nine of them have already died in freak accidents. Benny Blank then reasons before the court that the reason the revolving door killed the poor woman was because she was on Death’s List, not because there was anything criminally negligent with the revolving door company. The court is skeptical of Benny Blank’s argument, so Benny’s team of lawyers have to track down all the survivors of the train derailment to serve as witnesses to Benny’s argument to exonerate the revolving door company of any wrongdoing.

Benny Blank and his team of lawyers track down the survivors, but most of them end of dying in freak accidents as they try to escort them to the court room to provide testimony. Benny Blank manages to secure the last 15 survivors, including the visionary, who is a mentally ill homeless man.

Benny Blank moves the survivors to a secure location, assuring them that they will be safe. When in actuality, Benny Blank has them on a livestream to the court room to help his case. Benny Blank’s goal is to livestream the freak accident deaths of the remaining train crash survivors in a verifiably safe and secure facility. By showing that the survivors are guaranteed to die in freak accidents despite how safe and secure they are, Benny Blank will prove that the revolving door company cannot be held at fault for what is an “Act of Nature.”

After three survivors die, the court room is warming up to Benny Blank’s argument in court, however, the remaining train derailment survivors have learned that Benny Blank doesn’t actually intend to save them from Death, he’s just letting things play out on livestream to bolster his argument in court.

When all hope is lost, the remaining survivors learn from Benny Blank’s own historical research of Death’s List, that if they kill someone they can inherit that person’s lifespan. So in a panic of self preservation, the remaining survivors escape their secure facility and go on a rampage throughout the court room. In the rampage they kill Benny Blank’s colleagues, the defendant, the plaintiff, the prosecutor, the judge, the court US Marshall, the court scribe, many others, and finally Benny Blank himself, who is killed by the visionary.

The movie ends with the remaining survivors celebrating their new chance at life only to SMASH CUT all of them are in prison for murder. One by one, the survivors all start shitting on the visionary for not letting them all die in the train derailment. 

THE END!

I have a few examples of why I believe the directors of the final destination movies literally played in the faces of Elizabeth Winstead character Wendy Christensen
Here are a few touch points that some fans mean or may not know:
Example 1: in the auditions for final destination, two for the character Kimberly, Corman Elizabeth Winsteads audition for the role of Kimberly, but was denied her character in favor of AJ Cook’s performance who ultimately got the role of Kimberly Coleman for final destination 2 although she did not get the role of Kimberly, they didn’t completely do away with the actress, instead allowing her to be the next protagonist and the next installment of the movie, which was final destination 3 characters Wendy Christensen which she ultimately did get the role for that movie.

Example 2:The theatrical cut of Final Destination 3 ends the subway premonition on a cut-to-black just before the crash to induce panic and maximize tension. This allowed the franchise to conclude with the bleak theme that Death is inescapable without confirming the exact, gruesome details of how the survivors died
The filmmakers intentionally left Wendy Christensen's ultimate fate up to debate. If the story had to continue, the ending gave directors enough ambiguity to revive her, but if the series ended, it left audiences with the terrifying, unresolved feeling that the characters had met their unavoidable demise thus allowing her character to just be up in the air. additionally, in the choose DVD bonus, which actually had a bit of a humorous twist to it for the characters that actually got to survive tho i personally believe that was not funny for those who were fully invested in the performance that Elizabeth gave for the character Wendy only for her life and fate to be more or less a gag rather than anything relevant or serious again playing in her face and her fans faces.

Example 3: it is a interesting known fact that Kimberly and Wendy was actually supposed to be in the ending of final destination three to have met at the subway station which it was discovered that they were actually cousins, but for whatever reason this was also scrapped due to the inconsistencies or unavailability of the actual actors at the time, had this actually been Cannon Wendy and Kimberly would have been canonically cousins making a deeper connection between final destination 2 and 3 me personally I really wish that this was the case because it would make both their characters much more relatable(no pun intended) for the fans who may have been fans of both characters like myself(at the time) thus giving Wendy’s fans, another slap/ punch to the face.

Example 4: entertainment weekly released a video titled Every 'Final Destination' Death Explained, where franchise producer Craig Perry breaks down the kills, or the movie's official DVD audio commentary.
In that video when it came to Wendy Christiansen‘s character’s death, Perry explains that her death and I quote”Wendy, Kevin, and Julie all explicitly died in the subway derailment at the end of Final Destination 3” noting that despite the theatrical release leaving their deaths ambiguous, he explicitly confirmed that they all died in a very gruesome way this left fans like myself at the time, undoubtably, upset and angry that the fact that Wendy’s character was efficiently and canonically dead meaning that she could not return to the series. The part that hurts deep about this revelation is the fact that Kimberly Corman a character in final destination. 2 had her death confirmed in the newspapers clipping in the” choose your fate” bonus DVD release that Officer Burke and Kimberly were officially dead basically confirming what happened to them for many years fans of those characters like myself took that as official news but in the final destination death, explain video Perry confirmed when talking about final destination six that, that was recon and should not be taken as Canon meaning that for all these years up until that point their deaths were canonically true only to turn back and say that to choose your fate DVD bonus was not Canon in validating all death that may or may not have happened or occurred on the DVD bonus, thus allowing the characters Burke and Kimberly’s fate to be left ambiguous giving this information and knowing what we know now about both Kimberly and Wendy’s deaths, they deliberately decided to kill off Wendy’s character, while deliberately reversing the death for Kimberly, further putting the knife deeper in fans of Wendy who at one point had hoped that she would return to the series on top of this they also had the character mentioned and final destination 6 by the character Williams bludworths saying that there has only been one character, Kimberly, who broke the chain of death, now as a Kimberly fan hearing this revelation that she is still alive made me really happy as a Wendy fan this further upset at me because they literally had similar scenarios were both characters deaths in the original theatrical release was left ambiguous but yet they decided to bring back Kimberly and not Wendy not only reversing Kimberly’s stuff, but cementing that Wendy is indeed dead. The disrespect to Wendy character was on another level at every point in turn they failed this character. They had opportunities to allow Wendy fans to have more from the character, but decided to scrap every ideal and every scenario that could’ve made her character stand out as she was a fan favorite among the whole entire series.

Example 5: Additionally, the actress AJ Cook, who played Kimberly in Final Destination 2, was used to promote Final Destination 6 in various blooper clips, further taunting Wendy fans by reminding them that their favorite character is no longer alive.

Thus concludes my reasoning behind why I believe the directors and producers of the Final Destination movies deliberately disregarded Wendy fans, forever tarnishing that character. In Final Destination 7, we remain unaware of their intentions regarding the character Kimberly. However, I firmly believe they will elevate her status to unprecedented heights compared to previous years of the movie. While I am a devoted Kimberly fan, as an ex-Wendy fan (no longer), I find it difficult to wholeheartedly defend her character. In my mind, the best course of action would be to retire her entirely.

Instant deaths are painless as well it’s instant, painful is for characters like even who suffered pain from the glass he landed on, extremely painful is for characters like Kevin who was dragged along side a wall even briefly

We love a king who loses his job and serves possible jail time because his negligence resulted in someone's death 🫠

(just kidding, it wasn't lawnmower dude's fault)

What are your ideas for future films where someone is being killed by someone who is completely oblivious to the fact that they're killing them?

I had the idea for this post because I'm at work right now. I work for a warehouse, and thought about someone being buried under a pile of pallets and cries out for help, while an unsuspecting worker with headphones on (after he was told time and time again to take them off) unknowingly adds more weight to the pallet until the person chokes on their own blood and is ultimately crushed. An entire tragedy occurred, and the worker wearing headphones is blissfully unaware. Dark, I know... in true Final Destination fashion.

What are your ideas?

A few months ago, I made a post listing Final Destination actors I've seen in some form of kids content and asked if you knew any, I decided to create a follow up with what you all told me and I also took the liberty of scouring the internet to find other works the actors have been in, a couple are voice roles but I'll still count them. If there's a lot more out there I'll consider a part 3 but for now this is what I found.

She's here my custom Final Destination 3 Wendy Christensen Funko Pop

Today marks 58th Anniversary since the Sky View Tower got shut down in 1968.

A common question that I've seen over the years is "Who is giving these people premonitions?" If it's Death giving the visions, why would it give Kimberly visions on how to cheat death through new life? And if it's an alternate life force giving the visions (the opposite of Death), why do people still die after being given the premonitions?

Example: in FD2, Kimberly is talking with Thomas and suddenly has a vision of pigeons flying around her. They race to the dentist office to intervene and Kimberly tries to warn Nora and Tim about the pigeons to which Tim sees the pigeons and runs into them, creating the chain of events that leads to him getting crushed by the glass. Had Kimberly not warned them about the pigeons, they would have walked away (although probably killed elsewhere through different means).

What if a future movie explores the idea of premonitions and the victims have to determine which visions are meant to help them and which are meant to hurt them.

I was wondering, is there an official petition that we the fans can make that will allow the Funko pop company to make all final destination characters series 12345 and six corresponding with their respective movie Funko pops if so, I would like a link to it if not, is there a way we can get this going because I really think the final destination franchise, especially since final destination seven is coming this would Garner a lot of buzz I heard we can do something change.com but I’m not for sure.

https://c.org/qzgYJ6jfnp heres the link to a petition I made maybe we can make this happen if we all pitch in