Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Why Final Destination 5 is a great movie (Spoilers be in your future) Part 1

The Final Destination series follows this same plot structure:
  • Characters are introduced and given a reason to be in a normal situation where a song plays and this song is IMPORTANT (not really, it's just a cue that someone is going to die soon)
  • Normal situation becomes a disaster and the important characters die in a certain order/are sitting in a certain order (pay attention: this is important)
  • Turns out it was all a vision! Last person to die in the vision ALL WAYS has the vision and shall be dubbed "Main Character." 
  • Main Character immediately FREAKS THE gently caress OUT and forces all important characters to avoid disaster
  • Sometimes Main Character is interrogated for terrorism/murder/"how did you know??"
  • Funeral Scene: Tends to be boring with a few dark jokes thrown in where VOICE OF REASON says "HEY! Death doesn't like to be cheated" and important characters respond with "kthxweirdo"
  • Movie cuts to least characterized important character in a normal situation, and then mini disaster happens and character dies
  • Characters start to die and by death count 3-4 Main Character realizes that important characters die in the SAME ORDER that they were sitting/had died in vision
    • Main Character either pieces this together with BRAIN POWER or with internet articles on previous movie disasters
  • Main Character tries to stop deaths but ends up failing and becomes more suspected of murder OR Main Character tries and succeeds at saving someone at the cost of another person (not part of main disaster)
    • May lead to "Some one dies in your place and you get whatever was left of their life"/"Your death is 'skipped' and death'll get back to you later"
  • When there's 2-3 important characters left, one might go crazy and try to murder people to get life, this ends badly.
  • 1-2 people left they decide "We should be safe now!" and decide to go on trip
  • They meet up 2 weeks- 6 months in the future and SURPRISE disaster, everyone is dead in the end

Now, why is this important? Because Final Destination 5 is different! Why? Because of many reasons! But first let me explain why it's different in a bad way
First of all, when you first start watching it, it seems like an old cheesy movie, like 90s gorefest. 
Second of all, unlike the past few movies there's no "There was a plane crash which was stopped by a kid, and a massive car crash where 8 people survived and died, and a rollercoaster where a bunch of people got off and died, and a racecar track where things died and people survived but died later" But that's all fine because it's justified later (in what may be the best twist in modern history.
That's all I can think of right now so let's go on to why this movie is AMAZING.
The deaths are really cool. I will now go through every. Single. Death. Why? Because I have nothing better to do. Except the vision, it's kinda boring (Seriously FD makers? The pole thing again? we've seen a guy take a TREE to the FACE, we'll need more then that to surprise us)
First person to die is this intern named Candice or something, she's a gymnast. First the A/C vent thing starts leaking onto the mat right where an open cord is laying and you start thinking "Electrocution, oh joy" but then the fan cover for the A/C vent starts jiggling and one screw lands right onto the balance beam. Also, the bar thingy is sqeaky, but I'll get back to that later. Candace starts on the balance beam and keeps jumping around the screw and you're thinking "She's going to land on that and fall and electrocute her face" but she never does. And she's called over to the bar thingy, after cleaning up the water on the cord. She's spinning around this bar and one nut keeps loosening and then BAM! The new lady on the balance beam lands right on the screw, screams and falls, pushing a bowl of powder over (which was only shown ONCE in this whole scene) and the fan blows right into Candace's face, and she let's go of the bar, lands on her face and proceeds to break every bone of her body (What I was saying about the cheesiness comes back here since it was a 8 foot fall, and her vertebrae were sticking out which is nearly impossible)


I'll finish this tomorrow, it's late.

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