Hello, all!
FINAL DESTINATION 2 is the reason that I will break whatever highway safety rules are agreed upon whenever I find myself following a truck carrying logs.
Yeah, that’s a big fat cup of nope, thanks.
In the write-up for yesterday’s flick, I mentioned how there was an action sequence in which one of the film’s baddies got killed because of a somewhat Rube Goldberg style series of events. Maybe someone watched that and was inspired to make the FINAL DESTINATION flicks, personifying death as some kind of agent of destruction with its own aenima [not a Tool reference… sorry] and an endlessly imaginative way of seeing it through to fruition. However it came to pass, the tag team of death incarnate and Tony Todd’s character in the film makes for some pretty menacing stuff.
And, frankly, it makes me wonder how many brushes with ye olde angel of death I’ve narrowly avoided, and how much more angrily it might be pursuing me because of it. By this point, I’d say it’s hell-bent on seeing me meet my maker.
Part of the fun of this movie is watching the devices of said formless foe unfold in the oft-intricate ways that they do. In that way, it’s similar to the SAW series, but the antagonist is necessarily more formidable, being, well, completely relentless and unstoppable. With the conceit established in the first film, then, the sequel gets to have a little fun with the luck of the characters who survived the highway pileup running out one by one. That might sound particularly macabre, but why else would anyone watch a movie like this?
If the idea of death inexorably stalking folks until they meet their demise is your cup of tea, then this is definitely the film for you. It doesn’t exactly veer into the sort of boring and gratuitous torture porn fare in flicks like HOSTEL, but instead manages to be fun. Gory, yes, but also fun. Enjoy!
Other films recommended:
[Day 1 - THE DARK KNIGHT; Day 2 - DESPERADO; Day 3 - THE ROAD WARRIOR; Day 4 - X2: X-MEN UNITED; Day 5 - TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY; Day 6 - DAWN OF THE DEAD; Day 7 - DEADPOOL 2; Day 8 - HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX; Day 9 - STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN; Day 10 - THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS; Day 11 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER; Day 12 - ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES; Day 13 - PADDINGTON 2; Day 14 - RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET; Day 15 - LETHAL WEAPON 2]
FINAL DESTINATION 2 is the reason that I will break whatever highway safety rules are agreed upon whenever I find myself following a truck carrying logs.
Yeah, that’s a big fat cup of nope, thanks.
In the write-up for yesterday’s flick, I mentioned how there was an action sequence in which one of the film’s baddies got killed because of a somewhat Rube Goldberg style series of events. Maybe someone watched that and was inspired to make the FINAL DESTINATION flicks, personifying death as some kind of agent of destruction with its own aenima [not a Tool reference… sorry] and an endlessly imaginative way of seeing it through to fruition. However it came to pass, the tag team of death incarnate and Tony Todd’s character in the film makes for some pretty menacing stuff.
And, frankly, it makes me wonder how many brushes with ye olde angel of death I’ve narrowly avoided, and how much more angrily it might be pursuing me because of it. By this point, I’d say it’s hell-bent on seeing me meet my maker.
Part of the fun of this movie is watching the devices of said formless foe unfold in the oft-intricate ways that they do. In that way, it’s similar to the SAW series, but the antagonist is necessarily more formidable, being, well, completely relentless and unstoppable. With the conceit established in the first film, then, the sequel gets to have a little fun with the luck of the characters who survived the highway pileup running out one by one. That might sound particularly macabre, but why else would anyone watch a movie like this?
If the idea of death inexorably stalking folks until they meet their demise is your cup of tea, then this is definitely the film for you. It doesn’t exactly veer into the sort of boring and gratuitous torture porn fare in flicks like HOSTEL, but instead manages to be fun. Gory, yes, but also fun. Enjoy!
Other films recommended:
[Day 1 - THE DARK KNIGHT; Day 2 - DESPERADO; Day 3 - THE ROAD WARRIOR; Day 4 - X2: X-MEN UNITED; Day 5 - TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY; Day 6 - DAWN OF THE DEAD; Day 7 - DEADPOOL 2; Day 8 - HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX; Day 9 - STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN; Day 10 - THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS; Day 11 - CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER; Day 12 - ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES; Day 13 - PADDINGTON 2; Day 14 - RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET; Day 15 - LETHAL WEAPON 2]
