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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-04 (Friday)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 16:31:58 -0700
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On 4/6/2025 1:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2025 at 12:36:49 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> Final Destination 5 (3D blu-ray) 2011 horror movie, and fifth in the
>> franchise. A bus load of factory workers are on their way to a company
>> retreat when as they are about to drive over a bridge one of them
>> (Nicholas D'Agosto) gets a premonition that the bridge will collapse and
>> kill all of them. We then see the bridge collapse and deaths in
>> glorious in your face 3D. D'Agosto gets off the bus and several of his
>> coworkers follow, just in time to watch in horror as the bridge does in
>> fact collapse, but now "death" is owed some lives and comes collecting.
>>
>> I haven't watched any of these movies since 2011, and except for the
>> ending, I had no idea what was going to happen. This movie was a wild
>> ride. First up one of the coworkers happens to be a gymnast and the
>> slow build up of the woman walking along the uneven bars with a nail
>> sticking up was a bit much to take. Then there up was a trip to an
>> acupuncturist. I foolishly left my eyes open during that segment.  And
>> there up was a trip to a lasik eye surgeon. I had the good sense to
>> close my eyes and just wait for the screaming to stop. This franchise
>> is known for it's rubes goldberg machine deaths, any by part 5 they more
>> than knew what they were doing.
> 
> This is what happens when an entire generation is raised with Netflix instead
> of FINAL DESTINATION movies:
> 
> 
> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1908967153795244032/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/fsdxu8-ftfak4qgp.mp4?tag=12
> 
> 

Thanks to Final Destination 2, I along with an entire generation of 
people, refuse to drive behind any big rigs or trucks with stuff 
sticking out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvajfn-S3EI