Final Destination 3 – Top 5 Flops & Final Thoughts.
February 28th 2008 23:48
#5: Stereotypes.
We had the over-dramatic main character, a stupid jock, an arrogant jock, not one but TWO stupid cheerleaders obsessed with the way they look, a gothic couple, a punk chick and a white guy trying to act like a ‘gangstah playa thug’. They didn’t forget about the other races in the world though randomly throwing in an Asian chick (who was killed as quickly as she appeared in the movie) and they even had a random Indian woman in the end.
It just annoys the crap out of me when we’re presented these stupid stereotypical characters that we’ve seen one hundred times in other movies. In my opinion it’s just lazy work on the writer’s part for not developing characters that an audience can click with. In the end we don’t care about these morons, in fact we’re on the edge of our seats encouraging ‘Death’ to kill these morons.
#4: We’re going to die? You’re crazy!
Here is the one thing I do not get about this damn movie. Wendy had a vision what was going to happen on the roller coaster and people got off, and lived. When she comes back to the same people she saved at the carnival telling them about “Death’s Plan” they ALL laughed in her damn face and didn’t believe her. If you believed her the first time she freaked out that an accident was going to happen why the HELL would you not listen to her a second time? Ian, the gothic guy, has his life saved by Wendy and wants to kill her! That’s what I call an ungrateful asshole.
#3: Ridiculous deaths.
I know it’s meant to be a horror but come on I’ve seen more realistic deaths in cartoons like South Park and Drawn Together. The deaths in these movies have got to be the worst deaths that I have ever seen in a movie. They were just so damn bad you weren’t shocked or horrified like you normally are in good horror or thriller movies, you just laughed loudly. Don’t believe me? Here is a video I found on YouTube of all the deaths in the movie.
Watched it? Laughed your ass off? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
#2: Look at photos for clues and find out how you will die!
I don’t remember this happening in the first movie and I don’t know if this happened in the second movie but it was so annoying watching these idiots trying to figure out how they are going to die. In fact it started when Wendy gives Kevin the photo of Abe Lincoln with the line through his head in his photo and said, “HE GOT SHOT IN THE HEAD!” No freakin’ shit Sherlock! What pissed me off even more was the shadow of the plane on one of the WTC Towers. Give me a damn break I mean seriously it was so damn stupid I was going to get on a plane to America and punch whoever wrote this in the face.
So according to this movie you can some how guess how you are going to die just by looking for clues in a picture. Shall we test out the theory? I’m going to try and predict how the people in this photo are going to die:
Alright we’ve got a wolf mascot in the back of the family and they are in the woods so I am guessing… that Dick Cheney is going to accidentally shoot and kill the entire family while he is out in the woods hunting for wolves. What you can’t see it? Isn’t it obvious? Well they managed to guess that poor Erin was going to have her face pumped with full of nails when only her hands appeared in a photo. Just use your imagination and just randomly take a stab at any death possibility cause you’ll most likely be correct just like these idiots.
#1: Same old crap…
There is absolutely nothing different about this movie that makes it unique from the first or the second movie. In fact all three movies are the damn same except the usage of different characters. Every single movie is about some kid who has a vision for a terrible disaster manages to convince or start a fight between people to force them off this disaster which happens. Afterwards, ‘Death’ starts stalking them and begins to pick them off one by one and all they can do it try to avoid it.
The idea was cool for the first movie until it was stretched out twice. You know what the bad thing about this is? There is a FOURTH movie planned and it is going to be in ‘3D’. So we get to see someone have a vision of a disaster happening which either convinces people to not go on this ride/transport or causes people to get into a fight which kicks them off this ride/transport then we get to see them all stalked by Death until they die one by one.
Final Thoughts.
I haven’t seen the second movie but it is safe to assume that this movie was probably the worst out of the bunch. I have seen the first movie before and I thought it was good, it wasn’t great and it wasn’t terrible it was just good. At least the deaths in that movie were slightly realistic though they were pretty stupid as well. Honestly if you were a fan of the first movie and you wanted to watch either the second or the third, just re-watch the first since it’s probably the best of the trilogy and pretty much is the same as the others.
I thought there were a bunch of things so stupid about this movie that it made me want to snap the DVD disc, but I couldn’t since I hired it from a store. I couldn’t stand the acting in this movie it was like watching J’Lo act in Anaconda but instead it was a bunch of young adults running around screaming like idiots shouting “Watch out!” or “Look out!” or “Get down!”. This movie did raise an interesting question though: if you knew you were next in line to die would you just accept death or avoid it knowing it is going to get you soon after?
I always saw these types of movies as like those big chain reaction things people set up for a marble and it travels around all over the place setting off other things that in the end makes a piece of toast or something. You know what I mean? Like that car ad a few years ago where a ball traveled around triggering off a bunch of things to unveil the car at the end? This movie was like that but instead the chain of events with a marble doing something cool it ended up in someone getting killed.
This movie was very annoying to watch. There is nothing special to look forward to in this movie. It had the same plot as the last two movies, annoying characters that fortunately were all killed in the end, and some of the most ridiculous deaths I’ve ever seen in a movie. Well, I guess I should change that to it has the most ridiculous deaths I’ve ever seen in a Western movie. The only movie that I could say has more ridiculous deaths in it is a Japanese movie called Riki-oh: The Story of Ricky.
So that’s all I have to see about this heap of crap known as Final Destination 3. Next week I am going to be looking at a movie that has been voted as the worst movie ever on RottenTomatoes.com. It was slammed by critics all over the world and I couldn’t agree more with everyone. The movie is known as Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and it is not going to be pretty Bucket Heads.
Take care of yourselves and I will see you all next week!
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Comment by Sven Topp
Parent Debate
Deafblind Dad
Budget Flicks
Was pretty horrendous and I think got a few yawns out of me.
Don't think I'd ever go and see number 3.
Comment by Wayne F
Bucket Movies
I haven't seen the second movie yet but a bunch of my friends have said it was pretty bad. I'm afraid to watch it but I think I might suck it up and give it a shot. Who knows it might be worse than the third movie.
Glad I saved you the trouble, and the pain, from watching this movie. Thanks for the comment!