Final Destination: Blockbuster

[Crynot]

I went into Blockbuster yesterday to take back The Nineth Gate DVD that I purchased a week ago (Nineth Gate was decent but not worth a purchase). I wanted to see if I could trade it in for something different and low and behold, on the shelf is two copies of FINAL DESTINATION.

The clerk wasn't going to sell it to me because he said that they must have put it out on the shelves by mistake because the release date is 9/26.

Well I bitched and moaned so he let this one slide - So I now have Final Destination on DVD, I have been waiting for this one since the theatre release.

I have yet to watch it though cause I've been too busy but I'm dying to check out (frame by frame) how they did the scene with the girl and the bus.

Crynot

[screamfan]

i think silent bob had the same problem with the final destination DVD all the blockbusters must of put it on the shelves by mistake. all but except mine. /ubb/frown.gif

[Crynot]

That would make sense seeing as how Silent Bob and I live in the same City.

Crynot

[screamfan]

oh right. well crynot your pretty lucky you got it a week early its meant to be packed with extras.

[Brock Landers]

Here is ze extras...

Commentary by director James Wong, co-writer/producer Glen Morgan, editor James Coblentz and co-writer Jeffrey Reddick

Second commentary track by actors Devon Sawa, Kerr Smith, Kristin Cloke and Chad E. Donella

Isolated score and commentary by composer Shirley Walker

Deleted scenes and alternate ending

"Test Screenings" and "Premonitions" documentaries

Trailer
DVD-ROM content...

Now...you and silent bob can quit posting the same topics...

[This message has been edited by Brock Landers (edited 09-22-2000).]

[Crynot]

Holy shiznits! I had no clue that just 4 minutes before I posted this topic, Silent Bob posted the same damn thing!

Crynot

[Silent Bob]

What Blockbuster do you go to crynot? I go to the one on Broadway, just across the street from The Uptown Theater. I HATE YOU! THE GUY SAID I COULDNT HAVE IT OR HE WOULD GET FIRED! FUCK!

[Crynot]

Silent Bob,

You live near Broadway? That's cool. That also sucks that the guy wouldn't let you.

The funniest thing - I got the DVD late last week and on Friday night I told my wife it was a really great movie and we watched it. She is just now starting to talk to me again because early Saturday morning we had to catch a flight to San Diego (which is where I am now) for our vacation. She was totally paronoid the entire flight.

Crynot

[Silent Bob]

OMG THAT WOULD HAVE FREAKED THE HELL OUTTA ME!!!!!!!!! Well anyways, tommorow I am going to Sams to get Final Destination and The Scream Boxed Set, soo..It's all kool now

[The Troll Man]

I watched it a few days before taking a flight, and managed to scare the rest of the family who had seen it by pointing out that our in-flight movie was also Stuart Little - which was the scariest thing about the flight anyway...

[Silent Bob]

OH YEAH I REMEMBER THAT PART! When TODD said "we have to watch stuart fucking little" or something like that when they were about to take off. /ubb/smile.gif

[The Troll Man]

My copy arrived in the mail today /ubb/smile.gif To the others who have copies (sorry Drew!) - do they all have that shiny silvery effect on the box?

My vote for "nice touch" feature - the Death Clock... wonder who I can scare with that one... /ubb/wink.gif

[Brock Landers]

...mine is silvery too...note: anyone who wants to see the deathclock just look it up on the internet (hit search, than enter deathclock)...it's been around for a while...it's fun for about ten seconds...I think I looked at it once when "The Blair witch Project" came out in theaters...

[This message has been edited by Brock Landers (edited 09-26-2000).]

[Silent Bob]

STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!! THOSE WHORES AT BLOCKBUSTER WONT SELL IT TO ANYONE WHO IS UNDER 17 AND I CANT BUY IT CAUSE I'M 13!!!! SHUT UP!!!I WANT THIS MOVIE SOOOOOOO BAD

[Brock Landers]

Try buying it somewhere else...Blockbuster is not the only whore on the street...Blockbuster is however a fascist dictatorship built on a monopolistic foundation of censorship and retraction of personal freedoms and speech...I tore up my membership years ago and believe me, there are plenty of other stores out there...many cheaper and many more leniant on minors...

[Silent Bob]

Well, It's okay now b/c my dad went with me to Blockbuster and we bought it and we watched it together and he thought it blew donkeys for quarters, but whatever. the comentarys are great, the deleted scenes are okay, the documentrys are really cool, but i wish there could have been a third one telling how they did all the special effects b/.c i wonder how terry got run over. was it cgi, or was it a dummy or what? i bet it will tell in the directores commentary.

[doctor drew]

In the director's commentary, James Wong says they built two dummies for it, which ended up costing like a quarter of a million dollars. They filmed the actress walking on the street and another where they throw the dummy in front of the bus. They then "wipe" one scene into the other and voila! She gets splattered all over the bus...

'drew

[Crynot]

Freakin awesome! God I love movies!!!!

But 250,000 just for that split second effect.

Give me 250,000 and I'll make a handfull of movies - okay none that have a chick getting splattered by a bus but I bet I could get a better actor than Kerr Smith who played Carter - sorry but this guy just pissed me off through the whole movie with his bitch sessions.

They should of re-wrote his character in some way.

Crynot

[doctor drew]

Awww. c'mon, in all fairness, he wasn't that bad. I'm so used to seeing him in Dawson's Creek (whoops, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that) as the timid gay guy that has the wacky sister.. It was nice to finally see him play a different role, the asshole jock. I think he played it to perfection.

(*Spoiler*)
Even if you did hate him, its nice how he finally got his in the end with that flying neon sign. "Hee ha ha ha, take that jock boy!" Poetic Justice, indeed.

'drew

[JoBlo]

I gotta go with CryNot on this one. I just didn't "get" that jock-guy character at all! He seemed to have something up his ass the whole movie! This guy saves his life and he's PISSED AT HIM!!?? C'mon...I thought he was just so irrational in his behavior. Always pissed for some reason.

Sorta ruined a bit of the movie for me actually, but on the whole I was able to put him and that whole "supernatural?" Tony Todd scene in the funeral home behind me and concentrate on the funner parts of the film.

Incidentally, was Tony Todd's character supposed to be real in that scene? Or just "death" coming physically to life as a black mortician? Just seemed very scripted ("let's have this dude explain the whole thing to the audience").

[doctor drew]

hmmm, okay, let me try and clarify. The jock guy CLEARLY had something lodged in his ass. That much is true. Speaking from experience, most jocks shun others who aren't in their "circle" of friends, especially outcasts or socially inept people. This seems to explain his overwhelming hatred for Sawa's character. The fact that Sawa effectively saves his life drives him crazy because this outcast now is one up on him. He even reminds him: "I don't owe you nothing". That OR, he's pissed that he didn't die on the plane because now he's subjected to this seemingly never ending torment of being chased by Death. I'd rather be dead than knowing that at any minute, I might die an excruciating death which will happen sooner or later.

As for the whole Tony Todd character, forget the jock, this is the real laugher of the movie. Man, what possessed the writer to put him in is beyond me, completely unnecessary. I think it's just case of creative foreshadowing where a man obviously acquainted with death gives his take on things, which coincidentally happens to match the plot line. He's clearly real and not a figment of their imagination. That's the best defense I could come up with and I'm sticking by it.

'drew

PS: Funniest (read: worst written) line of the movie ----->Mortician: "....And you don't even want to fuck with that Mack Daddy"

What's up with the ghetto slang all of a sudden? Too funny.

[Silent Bob]

What Crynot Said:
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Freakin awesome! God I love movies!!!!
But 250,000 just for that split second effect.

Give me 250,000 and I'll make a handfull of movies - okay none that have a chick getting splattered by a bus


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I think that it was worth it in the end because i dont know a person who didnt jump when she got killed and hopefully someday i can do that to an audience, too. I didnt really care about the KERR Smith charecter. I knew that he would die in SOME way in the end. It is usually the main man and the main woman who live at the end, but that's my oppinion.