Final Destination 3

[kybearfuzz]

Friday couldn't have gotten here fast enough in my opinion. I will be sleeping so sound tomorrow, just taking my sweet time getting out of bed. As what has become something of a habit, I went to the movies today, deciding to see Final Destination 3.



The roller coaster to oblivion in Final Destination 3

The movie was okay, if you have fairly low expectations. I knew it was going to be the basic gory, horror flick. The story of a girl who has a vision of the death of herself and her classmates on a roller coaster accident causes her to get off the ride with some of her friends before the catastrophe. However, in cheating death the first time, death comes back for each of them in bizarre ways.

The plot is not original (it's the third in the series), but I did enjoy watching the original Rube Goldbergian methods of cause-and-effect, resulting in death for each of these annoying teenagers. Most of the characters in the movie are so shallow that you don't feel bad about their eventual demise. With the movie's R-rating, there is a lot of blood and guts, some of which are actually done with great special effects, and some female nudity (yes, there are two semi-nude tanning bed incidents with giggling boobies).

I have another reason for watching the movie. The original was written by a Berea College alumnus Jeffrey Reddick. I went to school with Jeff during my years at Berea. While we weren't really friends (more like we had common friends), I do remember talking to him during my days working at the Circulation Desk of the college library and he was a nice guy. He's also family. He's working on some other horror flicks I'm looking forward to seeing.

After the movie, I went and purchased a 19" LCD flatscreen monitor for my desktop computer. My old one was dying slowly and I received my federal tax return today. It seemed like a good time to get the new one. I am loving the extra desk space I have now and the bigger screen for the dirty pictures. :)

Comments

LCD monitors

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

You'll love the flatscreen montitor. I have the NEC multi-sync 17" model that I bought 2 years ago and love it.

It does pics and video pretty well too.

sorry for the double posting, I had forgotten I was not logged in. :-)

Re: LCD monitors

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Hey John! I'm growing very addicted to all of the space a 19" monitor has to offer. :)

Re: LCD monitors

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I bet! After having a 17",I won't go back to a 15 incher, nor a CRT if I can help it. ;-)

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

An acquaintance of mine here in NY is a good friend of Jeffrey Reddick's apparently. That's the only reason I've seen FD 2 (haven't seen 1 or 3)...was at a small party at the acquaintance's place and he put the movie on for us to watch. Apparently Reddick had no original intention of sequels, but the studio or something asked him to write 2.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit surprised that they didn't ask Jeff to help with the third one. He also wrote the soon to be released Tamara, that I'm looking forward to seeing.

[anziulewicz.livejournal.com]

Well, I enjoyed the first movie when I saw it on DVD ... especially the BIG BUS SCENE, which made me yell out loud! And my ex and I went to see the second movie in the theater, and we LAUGHED and LAUGHED and LAUGHED. It's tremendously entertaining to see a bunch of attractive, self-absorbed, brainless young people get snuffed in a variety of imaginative ways.

That having been said, do you think I will enjoy "Final Destination 3?" I'm not looking for HIGH ART here.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I'm sure you will enjoy it. The movie has some very graphic deaths of some very vapid teenage bimbos. All of the stereotypes you hated in high school are there for the picking :)

[cincy-dave.livejournal.com]

We are fans of the Final Destination franchise and are looking forward to seeing this one. We loved the first one. The second one was good, but made us laugh more that made us jump.

Did you notice in the second one when the magnet fell off the refrigerator, the rest of them spelled "Eye". It foreshadowed the guys death after he fell of the fire escape.

We are looking forward to #3. But we will probably wait til it comes out on DVD. Hate seeing horror films in the theater. Full of teens on their cell phones!

[anziulewicz.livejournal.com]

Teens on cell phones? Do what I do: RIP THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I went to a matinee where there were almost no teenagers in the theater, it's good to get off work before some schools let out :)

[rixtur.livejournal.com]

FD 3 was just as much popcorn fun as the predecessors. Wacky chain reactions resulting in the survivors deaths. Plus a complete set up for another sequell which im sure Ill see that too.