Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-04 (Friday)

On 4/6/2025 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 5, 2025 at 12:36:49 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Final Destination 5 (3D blu-ray) 2011 horror movie, and fifth in the
franchise. A bus load of factory workers are on their way to a company
retreat when as they are about to drive over a bridge one of them
(Nicholas D'Agosto) gets a premonition that the bridge will collapse and
kill all of them. We then see the bridge collapse and deaths in
glorious in your face 3D. D'Agosto gets off the bus and several of his
coworkers follow, just in time to watch in horror as the bridge does in
fact collapse, but now "death" is owed some lives and comes collecting.
>
I haven't watched any of these movies since 2011, and except for the
ending, I had no idea what was going to happen. This movie was a wild
ride. First up one of the coworkers happens to be a gymnast and the
slow build up of the woman walking along the uneven bars with a nail
sticking up was a bit much to take. Then there up was a trip to an
acupuncturist. I foolishly left my eyes open during that segment.  And
there up was a trip to a lasik eye surgeon. I had the good sense to
close my eyes and just wait for the screaming to stop. This franchise
is known for it's rubes goldberg machine deaths, any by part 5 they more
than knew what they were doing.

 This is what happens when an entire generation is raised with Netflix instead
of FINAL DESTINATION movies:
  https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1908967153795244032/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/fsdxu8-ftfak4qgp.mp4?tag=12
 

Thanks to Final Destination 2, I along with an entire generation of people, refuse to drive behind any big rigs or trucks with stuff sticking out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvajfn-S3EI