Final Destination Movies - which is the best

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Which is the best?

  • Final Destination

    Votos: 7 28.0%

  • Final Destination 2

    Votos: 5 20.0%

  • Final Destination 3

    Votos: 10 40.0%

  • The Final Destination

    Votos: 0 0.0%

  • Final Destination 5

    Votos: 2 8.0%

  • Final Destination: Bloodlines

    Votos: 1 4.0%
  • Total de votantes
    25
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I can't believe they actually made 6 of these, I must be getting old. My memory is a little patchy so I might need to watch them again sometime. The third was my introduction to the series, it was by far the most focused and also entertaining. The first was a disappointment coming in from the third, it didn't really feel like they had established what they were going to do yet. The second is probably my second favorite although it's something of an outlier in the series. The fourth was probably the most stylized, but when the movie actually gets underway felt lackluster. The 3D nonsense got old fast and the only time it was actually that effective was when a random screwdriver flew at the screen. Spoiler: I also feel duped that the most creative kill in the movie and the highlight of the trailer wasn't real. The fifth brought things back around and was probably my third favorite.

I was shocked by the realization that the last one released almost 15 years ago. I really don't get around to watching enough movies these days.
 
Quijibo69 dijo:
Best one is Final Destination 3 and the worst is Final Destination 2.
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OK, this is blasphemy.
2 is the best one, with the best death scenes, the highway scene is just beautiful and it wasn't even in the script, the only thing in the script was "and then everyone dies".
3 and 4 are dogshit, especially 4 but 3 has a really bad looking opening scene (the effects are complete trash) and the whole thing with the photos isn't properly developed and makes no sense.
I did laugh at the 9/11 photo, that was so bad, it became good.
The killer horse is funny too.

Overall:
2 > 1 > 5 > 3 > 4

By the way, as soon as FD6 comes out on home media, I'll be doing a marathon of this franchise on KF Movie Night so get ready for that in a few weeks.
 
I remember freaking myself out watching these movies when I was a kid. Really hated four when it came out, the whole race track opening was the worst in my opinion, and the pool death felt very hilarious to me at the time. For me, I really enjoyed the third and second movies. Don't remember much from fifth besides it was a prequel and the eye surgery death scene. I seem to remember the third the most because of the nail gun death, the tanning beds, and the scene when they were stuck in the drive-thru. Curious to see how this next movie turns out, I'm looking forward to it.
 
Final Destination 1 really is great, as establishing the concept. I felt Final Destination 3 did well by doing the secondary school setting and such, but it did a "teen slasher film". Final Destination 2 introduced a new concept which was much more interesting in that regard. Final Destination 5 did a great twist and I appreciated being set before Final Destination 1 + one of the survivors becoming obssessed with death and wanting to kill other survivors (Peter Friedkin). No word of Final Destination 4, a disappointment.
FD 1 > 3 > 5 > 2 > 4

You guys should check the Black Flame original novels - the best ones are Death of the Senses, End of The Line and Destination Zero (set between 2005 and 1888 - Jack the Ripper), as well as the novelization for the first three films. They are available to read for free on archive.org.

It has been a while, but I also read this person take on the movie ending of Final Destination 3. Pretty good.
 
The one that starts with NASCAR race was absolutely hillarious, especially when the woman gets the China'd.
 
I only saw the first one, but I liked it a lot. The death scenes are all fun, and I loved the ending. I like stories about inescapable fates.
 
3 and 5 are my favorites for sure. I have a soft spot for 3 because Ryan Merriman was in it, and it was after he starred in some Disney Channel movies. And at least he didn't fuck himself as hard (I think), compared to the shit Shia LaBeouf, who also starred in Disney Channel TV shows and movies, did after he became big. And I like how some of the deaths in 5 were unexpected in how they happened, like how you would think Candice would die by either stepping on that fallen screw, electric shock with the frayed fan wire, or even the A/C unit falling down, but then she dies by spin snapping in almost instant fashion. I also had a soft spot for P. J. Byrne in 5 too, since he would also voice Bolin in The Legend of Korra, despite how that show turned out in the end storywise. And 5 toned down the visibility of the death clues back to the previous movies levels, since 4 made them way too in your face with those visions.

By the way, do you prefer the sudden and quick deaths, or the long, drawn out ones? In the first movie, Ms. Lewton's death being so drawn out while Rocky Mountain High was playing is almost to the point of being hilarious.
 
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Outer Space Traveller dijo:
You guys should check the Black Flame original novels - the best ones are Death of the Senses, End of The Line and Destination Zero (set between 2005 and 1888 - Jack the Ripper), as well as the novelization for the first three films. They are available to read for free on archive.org.
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The Jack the Ripper novel has three of the most disturbing deaths i've read:

Guy gets boiled from the inside out, starts hallucinating about his dead parents and demons as he dies.

After inhaling some sort of gas, some guy ends up paralyzed and dissected alive, waking up mid process. This one i actually had to take a break from.

Jack the Ripper's death as he's crushed by some gears iirc.


It was a decent book. Been a long time since i read it but i remember liking it.
 
I go with 2 since I still am shit scared to drive behind log trucks to this very day thanks to this movie. The worst by far is 4.

I will watch Bloodlines next week, I heard a lot of good things about it and I really like the concept.
 
Psyduck dijo:
The Jack the Ripper novel has three of the most disturbing deaths i've read:

Guy gets boiled from the inside out, starts hallucinating about his dead parents and demons as he dies.

After inhaling some sort of gas, some guy ends up paralyzed and dissected alive, waking up mid process. This one i actually had to take a break from.

Jack the Ripper's death as he's crushed by some gears iirc.


It was a decent book. Been a long time since i read it but i remember liking it.
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Matthew Upton
Stewart Tubbs
Bill Sangster

Yep, it was pretty good. I would have rated it much higher if this book had been completely set in 1888's England as opposed to having back and forth with 2005's L.A.
 
Outer Space Traveller dijo:
I would have rated it much higher if this book had been completely set in 1888's England as opposed to having back and forth with 2005's L.A.
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Yeah, i agree, when i think about the book all i remember are parts from the England storyline, the L.A side felt more like an interlude going from a to b before going back to England where the actual interesting plot is going on.

I just remembered how 2's highway accident upset my sister so bad when we watched it for the first time, said it felt so real and that it could actually happen. Iirc a lot of people felt that way about 1's airplane crash.
 
Psyduck dijo:
Yeah, i agree, when i think about the book all i remember are parts from the England storyline, the L.A side felt more like an interlude going from a to b before going back to England where the actual interesting plot is going on.

I just remembered how 2's highway accident upset my sister so bad when we watched it for the first time, said it felt so real and that it could actually happen. Iirc a lot of people felt that way about 1's airplane crash.
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What I liked the most too from Destination Zero was how it showed a different era and a different country. It made me watch a series called Ripper Street, which stars Matthew MacFadyen (Mr. Darcy), alongside Bronn and some other man - pretty good show. Has a "villain of the episode" when it starts, but once it goes along, it has an overarching plot in the background.
Plus, it was the only FD which had historical figures and a different "language" (mannerism and expressions, without the "fucking, dude, cool") - for once it felt like you were almost reading a Bernard Cornwell or Ken Follett novel for a while. The action part with Jim Castle felt more like Tom Clancy or Lee Child (also in 2005), but it would have been fine if it was just in 1888.

The explosions were cool, even if unrealistic in hindsight. The planecrash definitely must have given people a lot of a scare, just a year before 9/11 too!
 
Just saw the six one today. I would rate it high mid tir. From best to least 3,5,6,1,4,2.
 
The greater a'tuin dijo:
I never watched past the first one. They seem repetitive if death always wins and nobody ever escapes its list. Unstoppable abstract horror villains are tiresome, no sense of stakes to get invested in when bleak edginess prevailing is foregone.
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There was exactly one installment with a happy ending. But it's true otherwise, everyone dying every time gets old.

Was disappointed to find out this is the case in Bloodlines too.
 
Yeah, while the appeal of the movies is how creative the deaths can get, it gets old when they pull the "lol you cant cheat death" cop out at the very end after it appears a couple of people will make it.

On the other hand, it'd become too predictable to have every single protagonist drowning or OD'ing themselves to survive, too. There's only so many ways they could portray characters almost killing themselves.

I think FD5 did it best with the whole "steal someone else's lifespan" thing. I can forgive the main two dying at the end because the twist reveal took me by surprise and i loved it.
 
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