Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-05 (Saturday)

On 4/6/2025 1:49 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 6, 2025 at 12:25:45 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

Final Destination 2 (blu-ray) 2003 sequel which finds death minding its'
own business when suddenly a group of people selfishly refuse to die
during a highway pileup accident thanks to someone having a premonition
beforehand.

 This one has the best (and most horrific) opening tragedy of them all.
 On my last drive to Texas, I kept finding myself behind a truck hauling
unprocessed tree trunks. I'd pass it, then stop for gas sometime down the
road, and inevitably find myself behind it again. This happened like four
times over the course of a day. I started flashing to this movie and thinking
Death was coming for me in the form of loose trees tumbling across the
freeway.
 And now we have the upcoming FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES, which seems to
answer the question, "What if an escapee of Death's plans manages to survive
long enough to have kids?" With Tony Todd as a coroner who seems to know a
little too much about what's going on.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWMzKXsY9A4
 

On the commentary track for the first movie they said a plot line they originally intended was for one of the characters to get pregnant in order to force death to skip them.  But they dropped that plotline.  I think they said after test audiences hated the idea.  But that plotline came back in Final Destination 2 where they got the idea of a pregnant woman giving birth in order to defeat death.  How exactly a woman who was already pregnant the first time around giving birth to the kid defeats death doesn't make any sense to me.  I guess in 6 they will firmly establish it doesn't actually work that way.