Reply With QuoteI thought you said on Twitter that in the FD movies, God IS the serial killer? I thought that was an apt description.
I can't help it, I know there's a formula, but I LIKE the formula, huge crazy disaster sequence that pops your eye out, and then the HAND OF GOD killing every survivor. I just find it riotously appealing in ways most teen death movies aren't.
I enjoyed the first three, the fourth was not as strong and added little. Just saw the fifth, which added some interesting twists including one I did NOT see coming that was quite clever.
I also admire the quiet way they have built mythology...most of these kinds of movies, you see constant stuff to ratchet up the suspense. In these, a breeze signals bad news, a tack on the floor hints at disaster, and the killer is never seen at all.
Numbers are shown to be prophetic. I admire it.
This last one, the two leads are not good, but there's a best friend who is extremely charismatic and entertaining, and the opening setpiece is absolutely terrifying.
I like 'em. Sick of serial killer movies, kinda hooked on FD.
I thought you said on Twitter that in the FD movies, God IS the serial killer? I thought that was an apt description.
Loved the first one, didn't like the second, liked the third, have had the 4th one on DVD for nearly a year without watching it... Didn't go see the new one.
I think Ebert pointed out that is was basically "God" killing the teens way back in his original review of the first movie, although I prefer to think of it as simply "fate."
Then again, I am not the best judge of quality for these kinds of things. I own a good 50+ "slasher" films on dvd or blu-ray. Love the whole ridiculous, misogynistic, violent, worthless genre, despite being about as much of a feminist as a straight white male can possibly be, and mostly a pacifist. There's just something about watching pretty teenagers get murdered brutally that entertains the hell out of me. I'm a horrible person.
couldn't get past the physics fails in the first one.
What physics?
Eh, once some mysterious "force" is causing things to move on their own in order to set-up absurd, Rube Goldberg-esque death traps... I stop worrying about things like "the laws of physics."Originally Posted by jhota
They're pretty entertaining. It's like Looney Tunes for the Marquis DeSade.
Thought of a good analogy just now.
Movies like Final Destination and SAW and all that crap are the Dreamworks to classic and good horror's Pixar.
Saw the first one in a group years ago, it was a laugh. Mainly cos we could amuse ourselves by guessing what random bit of scenery was going to kill the characters next.
And because a girl told a guy she'd "felt you". Huh huh huh.
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