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Final Destination Film Series Ranking · The K.B. Radio Network

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  Hello everyone and welcome to Movie
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  Goodness where we examine life through cinema here on the KB Radio Network.
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  I am your host Kevin Reed.
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  Thank you all for checking out the show.
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  This is the final destination edition of Movie Goodness.
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  Today we are celebrating this film franchise which is entering its sixth film into this franchise.
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  with the release of Final Destination Bloodlines which is scheduled for release on May 16th 2025 and this franchise is sneakily one of my favorite horror franchises.
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  I don't know what it is,
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  I guess this falls under the guilty pleasure category but
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  I love this franchise.
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  I just love the whole concept of Final Destination.
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  The whole thing of a premonition happens before this major tragic event and the survivors of that or those who avoid the tragedy are hunted down one by one by death itself.
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  And all for that premise.
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  I mean you can make a million Final Destination films,
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  you know,
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  and we've got six so we're well on our way.
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  But at this point,
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  I thought there would be more.
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  I thought there would be more of these films.
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  And I understand,
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  like,
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  you know,
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  once you get to a certain point,
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  it gets kind of stale.
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  So you got to step away for a while.
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  And this franchise definitely did step away for a while.
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  For what,
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  14 years since the Final Destination 5 came out?
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  And man,
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  when you say that out loud,
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  it's like,
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  my God,
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  it's been 14 years.
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  I remember going to the...
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  going to see that with my with my boy and uh us sitting in there laughing at the movie but we was enjoying we were laughing because we was enjoying it and uh it's like wow 14 years but
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  that's besides the point this has been an entertaining franchise uh there's been a miss but nothing that i'll be like oh man that is dead now you know it's just
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  Okay,
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  we move on to the next one.
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  It's kind of like other franchises that came out in the early
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  2000s, you know,
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  which are
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  Paranormal Activities and
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  Saws, you know.
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  You get a movie almost every year or every other year from those franchises.
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  And they were moneymakers.
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  The studio looked at them as moneymakers,
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  so why stop?
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  And,
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  hey,
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  I get it.
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  It was cool to see them come up with a different...
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  tragedy or a different accident every movie you know how are we gonna up to annie from the next from the last movie i should say and you know they tried they did and in some worked a couple of them didn't but needless
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  to say they were all entertaining in their own right and so this show um in celebration i guess you could say of the release of final destination bloodlines which i I'm super excited for.
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  Aside from the fact that I like this franchise,
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  that trailer and the premise to that film actually looks really,
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  really good.
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  It has the potential of being probably one of the best in the franchise.
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  You know,
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  I'm going to go ahead and throw that out there now.
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  I'm probably going to go see the film and be let down with standards set that high.
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  But it really looks good.
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  I love the concept because they're kind of twisting the whole
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  the core of the uh final destination lore but still staying true to it at the same time it's it's a little crazy to try to explain but it made sense when i was watching the trailer it got me really
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  really hyped up and i'm excited for it so in celebration of the release of that film we're gonna rank the previous five films the the released ones in this franchise
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  from worst to best and this is my personal list if if you see it differently if you feel this one should be number one or that one should be the worst or this one should be more like the third one that's your list and i'm not going to argue with you you know it it hits differently it's all subjective everybody
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  has their own opinion but for somebody who really loves horror movies you know
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  I really took...
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  my time on this.
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  I went sat down one weekend about,
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  I would say about two maybe three weeks ago and I went through all five of these movies back to back to back to back to back and it was a good sit down because I started
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  I started around
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  maybe three o'clock on a
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  Friday afternoon and it was just it was just random I wasn't even planning on doing a show on it but I had like seen the trailer for Bloodlines and I kind of you know got got a little excited so
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  I was like man let me go back and watch the first one and I was just gonna watch the first one so uh they're all on max at least they
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  or at the time of this recording uh i went back watched it and i enjoyed it so much and you know when they when the movie finishes and he'll say oh next up you can watch if
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  you like this you can uh watch the next one you know uh final destination too so i went ahead and watched that one too and once that one was over because i'm vaguely remembered too
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  And so once that one was over,
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  I went ahead and said,
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  you know what?
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  I'm in it now.
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  I didn't watch two of them.
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  I might as well go through the other three,
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  you know,
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  because I haven't seen them in a while.
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  And so I just watched them all that night.
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  And I forgot what time I finished at the end of five.
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  I want to say it was probably it was probably around one or two o'clock that evening.
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  I just watched them all.
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  you know no interruptions and i had a good time that night i really did i i loved this it made me reappreciate this franchise and while i was sitting there watching them i was like man which one i liked better which
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  one didn't really hit i said you know what
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  that will make a good show and so here we are here we are i'm gonna rank all five of these films in anticipation for the new edition and have some fun with it you know uh this isn't a review i'm not gonna review all five films we'll be here this will be the longest show i ever did so i don't have time for that and
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  i know you don't have time for that so i'm just gonna rank them and I will touch in on them.
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  discuss why i have it ranked where i have it ranked at you know but not a thorough breakdown of each and every film like we normally do uh when we review a film here on the kb radio network but uh
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  we're gonna have some fun with it but but before we get into the ranking let's let's discuss how this franchise came to be and what this franchise is all about uh it's a
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  horror franchise of course and it consists of five you might as well say six films now uh two novels and two comic books that are based on this franchise it was based on an unpublished or unproduced spec script from jeffrey
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  reddick and it was originally written for an x-files television show this this was going to be an episode of the x-files believe it or not
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  And
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  I think X-Files,
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  the producers rejected it.
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  And next thing you know,
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  they produced it and made it into a movie.
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  And the rest,
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  as we say,
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  is history.
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  But all of his films is set around the premise of a small group of people who escape impending death after one individual has a sudden premonition and warns them about a major disaster that is about to occur.
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  After avoiding their foretold death seen in these visions,
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  the survivors are later killed one by one in bizarre accidents caused by an unseen force by creating complicated chains of cause and effect.
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  As I said before,
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  this was written by,
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  at least the first film,
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  was written by
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  Jeffrey Reddick.
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  And he came up with this premise after he read a story about a woman.
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  who was on vacation and her mom called her and said don't take the flight tomorrow uh she was about to come back home and her mom called her and was like don't take the flight tomorrow i have a bad feeling about it so the woman switched flights she listened to her mama like a good child should and
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  she switched flights and the plane was that she was originally supposed to be on crashed so he was he was in intrigued by that story and that was a true story
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  And so I guess you could say technically the Final Destination film franchise is based on a true story.
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  And so originally,
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  having written the script for an episode of The X-Files,
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  Reddick decided to turn the script into a feature film at the behest of one of
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  New Line Cinema's colleagues.
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  After developing the feature idea.
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  New Line Cinema hired Riddick to write a screenplay.
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  James Wan and
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  Glenn Morgan were later brought on board to write the shooting script and make alterations to comply with their standards.
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  And Jeffrey Riddick has sole story credit and shares screenplay credit with
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  James Wan and
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  Glenn Morgan.
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  And those two gentlemen.
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  have collaborated on a lot of projects and some successful ones as well.
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  They have teamed up with The One.
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  You remember that film with Jet Li?
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  They worked together on that.
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  Willard,
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  that remake,
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  they worked together on that.
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  Along with Final Destination,
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  they also came back to do Final Destination 3,
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  Black Christmas,
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  and that.
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  Probably one of the worst films ever made.
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  And
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  I mean,
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  I'm not even throwing it out there just to be controversial or to say anything out of turn.
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  I think everybody can agree.
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  Dragon Ball Evolution.
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  Even if you're not a Dragon Ball fan,
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  if you never watched the anime or nothing like that,
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  you can agree that that was the worst movie ever.
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  Ever.
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  aside from feature films they also worked on television they worked on um uh the x files which i'm assuming that's where they met uh jeffrey reddick and uh a number of other shows you know 21 jump street uh the commish uh a
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  lot a lot more but but um they are uh kind of kind of mainstays in hollywood yeah i haven't seen much from them in a while
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  actually since dragon ball evolution which i can understand why i haven't seen much much from them in a while but they uh they at that time at that time in 2000 yeah they were the ones to get in uh james wan directed and glenn morgan he uh helped write the screenplay and whatnot and
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  this got the ball rolling on i'm pretty sure nobody imagined
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  a film franchise that has lasted for 25 years and without further ado let's jump in to this list to this list uh five to one we're counting it down the
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  final destination film rankings let's start with number five and number five is is disappointing you know it's disappointing on a lot of fronts because
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  this film this this addition to the franchise was filmed here in new orleans and so i had a lot of hopes for it and you know whenever a movie is filmed in or around the new orleans area i get excited for and i cheer for because i wanted to succeed so more films can come and film down here you know i know that's not a factor into
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  that but in my mind in my little crazy mind uh it does so
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  That's what I was hoping for.
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  And this one was in 3D as well.
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  This film came out in 2009.
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  And it is the final destination.
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  And the reason it was named the final destination.
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  This was meant to be the last addition to this franchise.
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  In the final destination.
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  It follows a group of people after they escape a deadly accident during a stock car race.
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  with
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  death stalking and killing them one by one this addition to the franchise is directed by david r ellis it is like i said a
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  3d horror film and you know around that time uh 2009 or you know 2010 you know around that little era uh 3d was the crave everything was in 3d everything was in
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  3d
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  But a lot of them were being converted after production.
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  But this film was actually shot in 3D.
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  And so that was exciting,
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  you know,
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  to see the accident and stuff like that.
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  This was the worst.
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  This was the worst of the franchise.
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  It really,
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  really did not hit.
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  It didn't hit.
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  The main thing was,
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  the main thing that took me out of it.
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  was the accident,
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  was the life-changing thing,
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  you know,
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  with this car wreck.
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  at this racetrack and the wreck caused the stadium to crumble and all this it it was silly it was so silly i know they were trying to do something different but it was it it was just so unbelievable and i know saying
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  that about this particular franchise is is is ridiculous but it's it's the truth it even with a ridiculous franchise it still was even more ridiculous
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  And this was probably the only one that I can think of that is kind of standalone in the franchise.
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  The other ones are kind of connected to one another in some shape,
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  form or other.
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  You know,
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  it's not directly,
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  but they're connected.
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  This one was not connected with the other films at all.
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  And that's another reason why it kind of didn't work.
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  But,
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  you know,
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  the kills in it.
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  is you'll never hear me complain about the kills in all of these movies because there are innovative ways and stuff like that but like i said this one was more silly and goofy in the way in the matters of the way people were taken out and
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  it just didn't flow you know we're going to get into it when we go through the other films how they flow with the devs you know how def works you know he'll calls the water in the sink.
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  to overflow and make the floor wet to whereas you're slip and hit the table and cause a knife on the table to flip in the air and fall in your chest and then a bookcase falls and it hits you and it causes the knife to go further through your heart it's something something silly like that but it all works together and it flows it just it's cool the way it happened i know that it
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  sounds uh horrible horrible
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  for me to be celebrating that but it's i'm in the context of a film not in real life in the film it was cool but i just i just did not enjoy this film but ironically enough this was the most financially successful this this one made the most money out of all five of the final destination films it grossed 186 million dollars worldwide and
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  that's mind-boggling how the worst one in my opinion made the most money but hey you know like i said it's all subjective but that's my that's my placement for the final destination which came out in 2009 it lands at number five coming
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  in at number four on the list
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  is the second film in the franchise and it is Final Destination 2 which came out in 2003.
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  This film is once again directed by David
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  R. Ellis and it's kind of odd that both of my bottom movies were directed by David R.
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  Ellis.
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  He didn't direct any other ones in the franchise but the two that he did direct landed at the bottom of my list.
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  And that's not a testament to
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  David R.
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  Ellis,
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  who passed away a few years ago.
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  He directed Snakes on a Plane as well.
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  And I love
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  Snakes on a Plane.
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  But these two films in this franchise,
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  not so much.
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  And like I said,
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  I don't hate these.
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  They're just ranked low.
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  I don't hate them.
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  I love the entire franchise.
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  But putting them in order.
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  This is the order they go in.
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  And this one was a direct sequel,
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  of course,
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  to the original,
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  to the first film,
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  Final Destination from 2000.
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  And in this film,
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  a woman who cheats death after having a premonition of herself and other travelers on a highway pile up and used it by saving herself and a handful of people,
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  but is stalked by death afterwards by means of.
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  claiming back their lives which should have been lost on the highway it also resolves the cliffhanger of the previous film by revealing the fates of our previous survivors uh this in in final destination 2 this is the one where everybody who's
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  seen this movie and you're driving on a highway or freeway or interstate and you see that truck with the logs on the back of it
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  Your mind immediately goes to Final Destination 2 because that's what caused all of that pile up in death on that highway when that the chains broke on the truck that was hauling the logs
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  and
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  It was cool.
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  That was cool
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  like i said i loved the out of all these films with the exception of the final destination all of the others the other four that set up the event that caused death to come after him i loved that i loved the
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  setup you know this was really cool and uh i really really liked part two and part two would have been ranked higher
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  if it was kind of i would say towards the end the end betrayed this movie it was really telling a good story i was intrigued it felt like it was connected to the original but
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  it was its own film standing on his own but then they started to rely on the first film more than it had to it really didn't need to lean on it you know you brought back ali uh later
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  who was in the first film,
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  who played Claire Rivers.
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  And she,
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  along with Tony Todd,
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  were the only two characters to cross over to other films.
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  And,
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  you know,
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  because,
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  you know,
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  death.
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  He kills them.
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  But Tony Todd,
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  he survived.
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  Tony Todd is going to be in Bloodlines.
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  That was his last performance before he passed away last year.
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  Yeah,
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  she came back to connect it to the other film.
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  We find out that our main character from
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  Final Destination in
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  2000, the first film,
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  he died,
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  but he died off screen.
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  So we didn't know what happened to him.
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  We know what happened to the other ones.
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  We saw that,
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  but we didn't see what happened to our main protagonist from the first film.
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  So that was upsetting.
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  the end result as even though they kind of made up for it at the very very end you know in that final scene it still didn't work it still didn't work because you had survivors you had survivors in this movie and
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  that just pooh-poohs on the whole lore of final destination you know there were no survivors in any other film other than this one and at least
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  At least to the point whereas it's left open-ended.
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  To this point,
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  they survived.
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  They lived on happily ever after.
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  As opposed to other films where that didn't happen.
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  Even when they lived at the end of that film,
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  we find out in the next film,
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  no,
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  they didn't.
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  Death did catch up to them.
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  Death is going to catch up to you.
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  That's the part that kind of upset me to the point where it just didn't work.
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  And the way that they beat Def or cheated Def,
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  I should say,
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  was just...
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  I just couldn't get with it,
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  you know?
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  It was a cheap way to win over Def.
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  Because,
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  come on,
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  think about it.
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  It's Def.
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  They're not running from Kevin Reed.
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  They're running from
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  Def. You can't run from Def and you can't cheat Def.
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  in that sense to whereas you i don't know it was just so convoluted at the end but the movie was working it was actually working um another thing that kind of bumped it down was the fact you had a i
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  think the dude was like 19 maybe even in his
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  20s and in the movie they had him playing like he was
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  12 or 13 and that's how it was written in the script and i read somewhere
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  I read somewhere that they didn't change the age of the character,
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  even though they cast this guy who was much,
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  much,
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  much older.
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  It was written for a 12 year old,
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  but they cast the guy that was basically in his
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  20s and they didn't change it.
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  So he had to act like he was 12,
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  but he came off as being slow,
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  you know,
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  special.
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  and it
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  it really threw you off at least it threw me off and i just could not get with that you know it was just sad when death called him even though that was probably the most innovative funny way to uh kill somebody in that moment but
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  that character just was not working and you didn't feel any sympathy but laughter that's the only emotion that you could you couldn't display at that moment but
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  Yeah,
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  that's why this one ranks as low as it does.
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  But aside from that,
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  I mean,
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  the story was working every time.
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  for the most part you know pros and cons there's more pros than cons but uh it was just some the cons were big do you know and it took away from this one at number four it is final destination two which came out in 2003 this film grossed
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  90 million dollars worldwide and as of today it is the lowest grossing film in the franchise.
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  We'll see.
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  if uh final destination bloodlines is able to beat it but yes but our next film at number three if you if i would have made this list before i re-watched all of them a
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  couple of weeks ago this one probably would have been at number one this how much i held it in high esteem i love this addition to the franchise but once i re-watched them all it kind of fell behind but it's
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  still didn't take away from my love and respect that i had for this film it is final destination three which comes in at number three on my list this film came out in 2006 this
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  film had a returning james wan directing who directed the first film in the franchise and this one is also kind of a standalone in the sense of
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  it's not really connected to the first film all of the other ones um connect to the first film in an in a a kind of a offshoot way but in this addition to the franchise final destination three it takes place five years after the first film and
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  a college or should i say a high school graduate who has a premonition that a roller coaster she and her classmates are riding on
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  Will Durrell.
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  Although she saves some of them,
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  death begins hunting the survivors.
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  She realizes photographs that she took at that amusement park contains clues about her classmates'
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  death.
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  This was the most innovative way out of all five films that death took out.
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  and left clues left little easter eggs you know the premonition wasn't just a vision it actually lingered throughout the whole time they were at that uh amusement park you know with her pictures and when you look at the pictures it showed it didn't show how they would die but there were subtle clues in every photo that
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  showed how they were gonna die and so her and this other guy um they uh who survived
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  They're trying to get death to skip.
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  If they were able to stop it,
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  death would skip over them.
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  And so they're trying to stop that person by studying the pictures and seeing,
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  oh,
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  there's a fan in the background or there's a knife in this background or whatever the case may be.
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  Or they have their head,
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  you know,
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  exposed in this kind of way.
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  It was it was so cool the way they did it here.
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  and the the uh accident the
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  the derailing of that roller coaster the way that was shot was also awesome uh i love that um um uh who's the actress here she's uh uh mary elizabeth wants winstead she she she's the main star here uh she
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  did cool she was a cool cool final girl um in this horror film i liked her in here uh what makes this film stand out
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  a lot more than the other ones you felt death's presence in this movie as opposed to just happy accidents or unhappy accidents in the other films that took out everybody you felt the presence of death like putting things in order you
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  know like they did in the first film you know you felt the presence of death in the first film you felt the presence of death
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  and uh a couple other ones but here you really felt them you know it was like a hand like an invisible hand you know the way the camera moved and stuff would move into place you know uh putting things in order so you
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  can trip over this and cause this chain reaction to cause this to cause this to ultimately you falling and choking on a chicken wing or something you know it was so
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  innovative and cool that's why i enjoyed this one a lot lot more than i did a lot of them but once like i said once i re-watched them all i grew a greater appreciation uh for a couple of more uh that i
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  just had to put in front of it but this was one of the best of this franchise destination three comes in at number three on this list it grossed 108
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  million dollars worldwide and this is the one i probably re-watched more than any other ones i think i've seen this one maybe five five to six more times than i did the other ones combined so uh i
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  have a special place in my heart for final destination three but it still lands at number three and so we move on to number two the runner-up in the final destination film rankings
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  And it's the one that started it all.
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  Final Destination,
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  which came out in the year 2000,
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  directed by James Wan.
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  This film is so good.
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  And like I said,
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  if I wouldn't have rewatched these movies,
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  I probably would have had it lower because I vaguely remembered it.
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  So when I rewatched it,
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  I was like,
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  man,
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  this movie is better.
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  then it's supposed to be and it's surely better than i remember it being this one this movie is really now i'm not saying oh it was robbed of an oscar that year i'm not going that far i'm just saying it was so good it
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  was so good in this film a teenager who cheats death after having a premonition of a catastrophic plane explosion he and several of his classmates leave the plane before the explosion occurs.
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  But death later takes the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane.
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  As I said to start off the show,
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  this is where the premise of this entire franchise,
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  or I should say just this film,
• 32:30
  came to be.
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  When the writer,
• 32:34
  Jeffrey Reddick,
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  read a story about a mother who called her daughter who was on vacation and said,
• 32:41
  don't get on the plane tomorrow.
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  Don't get on that plane.
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  So she switched planes and the one she was supposed to get on crashed.
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  And so it was a I don't know if anybody looked into that with with the mom.
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  Like,
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  what's going on?
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  You know,
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  but yeah.
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  So he wrote the film around that premise.
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  And this was this was so cool because,
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  you know,
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  this was new,
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  you know,
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  around his era.
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  We're getting slasher movies.
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  We're getting the mass killers coming after teenagers on prom night and stuff like that.
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  You know,
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  your typical teenage horror movies.
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  And they have their place.
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  I enjoy them for what they are.
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  But that was the norm.
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  And so we have this supernatural horror film with teenagers and with death coming at them.
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  You don't have a mass killer.
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  You don't have...
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  a serial killer or a zombie or a vampire or a werewolf or none of these other things you have death this invisible force you know or this spiritual force or what however you want to call it coming after you that you can't fight you can't you know shoot you can't blow up in the building or run away from you know what i'm saying this is this
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  is something that is real because like it or not people death
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  comes for us all.
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  At one point,
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  we're all going to leave this earth in one way or another.
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  Hopefully,
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  it's peacefully in our beds,
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  but in this case,
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  when it comes to these horror films,
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  not so much.
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  And,
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  you know,
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  it really hit with me a lot because
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  I have a fear of flying.
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  I've only been on a plane once,
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  well,
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  technically twice,
• 34:38
  to get to
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  Las Vegas and to get back home.
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  But those are only two times I've been on a plane and that was recently I have never flown
• 34:48
  Scared to death dude,
• 34:50
  I'm scared to death of fine.
• 34:51
  And so you had his movie
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  you got this movie where the plane explodes and all this it's like no man count me out of it count me out of it um that alone uh frightens me uh but the way that death takes out the survivors of that plane was
• 35:13
  oh my god it was so cool you you're seeing decapitations in weird ways and it's freak accidents it's not like
• 35:22
  these convoluted things that you know you cook up in a a visual effects lab or something like that these are things that technically can happen you know uh uh just home accidents or you know what i'm saying uh uh getting
• 35:42
  hit by a train or getting hit by a bus walking out on the street and the bus come and hit you and stuff like that it's just simple little things but there's the way it was shot
• 35:52
  the way it was filmed made it frightening uh that's what kills me no pun intended about this franchise it's normal everyday things that can take you out what's more frightening than that you
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  know what i'm saying and so yes that's why this film ranks so high on the list and it was it's the original if it wasn't for this one if this one didn't work
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  we wouldn't be getting final destination bloodlines in a couple of days here and so it's it's you know this had to work and it definitely did work uh really enjoyed it and when i re-watched it i was blown away because i it was like watching it for the first time like man i don't remember this being this good i really did and it felt good watching it then like i said to start off i said i was just gonna watch the first one but the first one
• 36:49
  when I rewatched it I was like man this was good it made me want to watch the rest which I did and and uh yeah this this was a gem this was a real gem
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  Final Destination uh which came out in the year 2000 comes in at number two it grossed 112 million dollars worldwide it it was the only one in a franchise that I would really consider horror.
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  It's the one I would consider a scary movie.
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  You know,
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  not frightening whereas you hide under the bed,
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  you know,
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  from the boogeyman.
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  But
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  I would say that it's the only one that will make you jump.
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  You know,
• 37:30
  it actually had legitimate jump scares in this film.
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  And so that leads us to our number one film in the Final Destination film franchise,
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  which probably if you're a big
• 37:43
  Final Destination hit,
• 37:45
  you're probably going to be
• 37:47
  mad with it but i i mean i don't know what it is and trust me i get it but for some strange reason i love this movie more than the other four movies in the franchise and it is final destination 5 which came out in
• 38:04
  2011 this was directed by stephen quayle and in this one a young man has a premonition and saves a group of people from death when a suspect
• 38:16
  suspension bridge begins to collapse however they soon learn that they cannot escape death's plan i um this one came out after the final destination which was supposed to be the last one but
• 38:33
  they threw this one in after you know especially after it made so much money the final destination made a lot of money because it was supposed to be the last one and so i guess a lot of people
• 38:45
  treated it as an event and so they went out to go see it and it made so much money the studio said well we can't stop there we gotta keep going and they came up with this one i and i'm not mad at it we're better off for it i i
• 39:02
  really love this movie i just love everything about this movie i don't know why i don't know why it's my favorite and i know this is odd and i know this isn't your conventional
• 39:15
  uh,
• 39:15
  ranking talk,
• 39:17
  you know,
• 39:17
  you're supposed to have a thorough thought out explanation as to why it's number one.
• 39:24
  I honestly can't give it to you.
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  I tried to re,
• 39:27
  uh,
• 39:28
  realign this list and put it somewhere else.
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  I just couldn't,
• 39:32
  if I would have did that,
• 39:33
  I would have been untruthful to me,
• 39:35
  which in turn would have been untruthful to you.
• 39:38
  And
• 39:39
  I made it a point.
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  I'm,
• 39:41
  I'm dedicated this show to tell you nothing but
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  the truth and the truth is this is my favorite final destination film
• 39:51
  Can't put my finger on it.
• 39:53
  I loved the sequence with the bridge collapsing.
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  Absolutely loved it.
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  I loved all the deaths.
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  You know,
• 40:02
  they were funny.
• 40:04
  They were innovative.
• 40:06
  They were cool,
• 40:07
  you know?
• 40:08
  And what really put it over the edge.
• 40:12
  When I sat in the theater and watched this in 2011,
• 40:16
  I sat there just thinking it was going to be a random final destination.
• 40:20
  film and i know this was uh this is a cheap pop in a way this is a cheap reason for me putting it at number one but it's my reason nonetheless i sat there in the theater i sat there in the theater and as somebody who has been watching movies their whole life have
• 40:38
  been going to the movies their whole life who have dreamed of making movies their whole life and just just engulfing themselves into movies and films and TV shows.
• 40:50
  his whole life.
• 40:53
  I'd like to protest that I've seen it all,
• 40:56
  I've heard it all,
• 40:57
  and you can't get one over on me.
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  This movie got one over on me.
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  I sat in that theater and did not realize for the entire runtime of this movie until the very last shot of the film,
• 41:15
  I did not know that this was a prequel.
• 41:20
  to final destination from 2000 did not connect the dots now when you go back and watch it now you see all the pieces you see the flip phones you see that uh the cars the style the the stuff they were listening to on the radio and
• 41:40
  things like that they hinted to it they never said it in the movie they never uh uh just
• 41:47
  spilled out that this was 1999 or whatever they never said none of that they let you figure it out yourself and me being an idiot i did not know now i know i'm saying this and i know there are people who are screaming into their phones their tvs or wherever you're listening to this show which i appreciate by the way you're
• 42:10
  an idiot kevin how you didn't know that i picked up on it the first scene.
• 42:15
  oh i saw it when they was in in the in the van or on the bus or whatever hey good on you you're a smarter person than me i didn't get it it it went completely over my head the first time i watched it i
• 42:30
  just couldn't believe it and in that final scene when our protagonist gets on that plane and it still didn't dawn on me and i knew the movie wasn't over but
• 42:42
  I'm like,
• 42:43
  okay,
• 42:43
  so they're going to do the plane crash thing,
• 42:45
  you know,
• 42:46
  to kind of book in this franchise.
• 42:50
  And all of a sudden,
• 42:51
  you see the characters from the first movie getting drug off of that plane.
• 42:57
  And all of a sudden,
• 42:59
  it clicked.
• 43:01
  This was the prequel.
• 43:04
  I'm sitting in there,
• 43:06
  and I'm like,
• 43:07
  you've got to be kidding me.
• 43:08
  And I didn't say kidding.
• 43:10
  I'm like,
• 43:10
  you've got to be kidding me.
• 43:11
  you gotta be kidding me you are you serious and all of a sudden the plane explodes with our main character of this film still on the plane as our uh protagonists from the first film are safely on the ground and it's like wow good
• 43:28
  job that's that's good writing i don't care i know this is a cheap throwaway franchise but that's good writing man you gotta hand it off to them,
• 43:38
  the director and the writers of this film.
• 43:42
  They did a good job of hiding that even if they didn't hide it.
• 43:46
  Like I said,
• 43:48
  on rewatch,
• 43:49
  I knew it because I've seen it.
• 43:51
  Even on rewatch,
• 43:52
  I still had a good time watching it and appreciating what was to come in how we got to that point.
• 44:01
  Everything was earned.
• 44:02
  You know,
• 44:03
  it's such a good move.
• 44:05
  Look,
• 44:07
  I know that this is a subjective list.
• 44:11
  And I know a lot of people are going to have a different list if you're a fan of this franchise or a reordered list.
• 44:17
  But to be honest with you,
• 44:19
  you can't go wrong.
• 44:20
  Other than the
• 44:22
  Final Destination,
• 44:22
  that's got to be everybody's number five.
• 44:24
  I really can't.
• 44:27
  If your list doesn't start off with that,
• 44:29
  I don't want to talk.
• 44:30
  But I'm just joking.
• 44:34
  But it is a really good franchise and my number one.
• 44:38
  is final destination 5 which came out in 2011 this film grossed 157 million dollars it's the second highest grossing film in the franchise and
• 44:51
  it's it's worth every penny it deserved every penny it was really really that good and kudos to them and kudos to this franchise man this is a fun franchise a real fun this isn't you know a
• 45:06
  deep philosophical you know deep thinking franchise that's going to make you go home and reevaluate your life decisions you know it's not that it's really just a fun horror franchise
• 45:21
  And that's what got me hyped up for this new addition into this franchise.
• 45:26
  I will love.
• 45:27
  I can't wait to see it because I would love to see where I'm going to put that one on this list.
• 45:33
  You know,
• 45:33
  now that it is has expanded to six.
• 45:37
  But for now,
• 45:39
  the five goals,
• 45:40
  number five,
• 45:41
  the final destination,
• 45:43
  number four,
• 45:44
  final destination,
• 45:45
  two and number three,
• 45:47
  final destination,
• 45:48
  three and number two.
• 45:50
  Final Destination and at number one,
• 45:53
  Final Destination
• 45:55
  5. That's my list.
• 45:58
  I would love to know your list.
• 46:00
  What is your favorite Final Destination film in this franchise?
• 46:04
  Are you excited for Final Destination Bloodlines,
• 46:08
  which comes out in theaters on May the
• 46:11
  16th? Let me know by email,
• 46:14
  kbradiopodcasts at gmail.com.
• 46:16
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  Network. Everybody.
• 46:47
  thank you for joining me for this edition of movie goodness where we ranked all five of the final destination films want you all to know that i love you continue to love everyone and until we speak again you
• 47:05
  all be blessed