When the going gets lazy.

The Movie: Final Destination, directed by James Morgan
Recommendation: It's Trilogy Week!
Reason: This week I'm trying to push to catch up by watching trilogies! Starting with Final Destination, I'm going to try to get through Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Star Wars and a couple more. Woofun!

You can't get much more lazy than deciding that death is the villain of your horror movie. What a shock, really. It gets creative when you build a franchise around weird, wacky death scenes with shred of a plot holding them together. Though I've only ever seen Final Destination in theaters, I've always ended up eventually renting the sequels. Why's that? Like I said, the death scenes. The idea of death just getting really pissed off and deciding that all the jerks who've avoided deaths' ultimate plan are going to get _really_ dead for doing so is just a little funny.

Originally this was to be an X-Files episode. I'm glad that they didn't do it, since the movie is so original and interesting. The whole franchise is a real boon to the horror movie genre, since it was a fresh, creative idea when it first hit the screen. Aside from what is probably the most...inventive name for a romantic interest in a horror movie (Clear Rivers. Seriously.), the movie's packed with references to strange and unusual deaths. It makes a spectacle out of foreshadowing.

For turning the death clock up to eleven and having some pretty cool promotional items (tarot cards with the plane crash artistically represented on them), Final Destination is really a good movie. It's not an artistic movie, it doesn't have a lot to say, it's just a fun diversion for those of us who are entertained by Rube Goldbergesque death scenes.

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