I am watching Final Destination 2 just now and it is really annoying me. Not because of the film itself. It's quite a diverting little horror flick.
No. What is concerning me is the name of the film. Surely the fact that there is a film called Final Destination 2 means that the final destination in Final Destination 1 was not as final a final destination as we were hitherto led to believe. If the filmakers had been honest, they should have called it Penultimate Destination. Or Final Destination For the Moment. Or Not the Final Destination. Or in fact anything except Final Destnation which is just a lie. A damned lie. Damn you makers of Final Destination you have made a fool of me.
And actually, now that I think of it they couldn't have called Final Destination 1 'Penultimate Destination' because now we have Final Destination 3, the latest in a line of increasingly ill-named films.
I have to stop now. I am feeling annoyed.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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Your observation only really holds if the same characters appear in each film as a "Final Destination" for one person or group of people can plainly be different for another group of people.
ReplyDeleteFor example my "Final Destination" today will be my lovely warm bed and yours will be your, I assume, equally lovely and warm bed. In short we could quite happily call my "Final Destination", "Final Destination 1" and your's "Final Destination 2" without any universe ending paradox ensuing.
I see your pedantry and raise you a picky arsehole.
Love,
GC