Hubby and I really liked the first two Final Destination movies. The gory deaths were always a surprise and the means of death were inventive. I’m not a fan of horror movies, because I’m too squeemish. No one will sit next to me. I jump too much, scream when I’m surprised, I tear people’s arms off, and I have to cover my face and go “What’s happening? What’s happening?” 
I don’t have that problem with the FD movies. I thought they were fun, in a sick kind of way.
Hubby and I didn’t like the last one, which we watched last night. They seemed to miss the whole point of the series — the element of surprise. The foreshadowing was ridiculously heavy. Hubby got up after the rollercoaster crash and didn’t come back until the end of the movie. Then, when it was over, he said, “I knew that was going to be lame as soon as it started. The foreshadowing was over-the-top.”
Yep. 
We loved the first two, as well. Shocking and inventive and pretty entertaining.
We watched the third one about two weeks ago and we were totally disgusted. I don’t know if it was made by different people or not and I couldn’t be bothered to check.
What bothered me the most was the editing. There were places it jumped so badly we kept backtracking the DVD, certain the disc had skipped a scene. What could have been pivotal moments seemed to be totally missing. Especially at the end. We backtracked it twice only to determine it wasn’t the disc or the DVD player—it was just really horrible editing.
And the foreshadowing did ruin the movie. “Look, this is how he’s going to die” and “ho-hum, that’s how he died”. With the first two it was just BAM!—didn’t see THAT coming, did you?
I’m just glad I didn’t buy it.
by Shannon September 25th, 2006 at 9:58 amYou know none of them appealed to me until I read these comments here. I might have to check them out…the first 2 anyway.
by Stacy ~ September 26th, 2006 at 4:29 am