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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-05 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 16:39:04 -0700
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On 4/6/2025 1:49 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2025 at 12:25:45 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> Final Destination 2 (blu-ray) 2003 sequel which finds death minding its'
>> own business when suddenly a group of people selfishly refuse to die
>> during a highway pileup accident thanks to someone having a premonition
>> beforehand.
> 
> This one has the best (and most horrific) opening tragedy of them all.
> 
> On my last drive to Texas, I kept finding myself behind a truck hauling
> unprocessed tree trunks. I'd pass it, then stop for gas sometime down the
> road, and inevitably find myself behind it again. This happened like four
> times over the course of a day. I started flashing to this movie and thinking
> Death was coming for me in the form of loose trees tumbling across the
> freeway.
> 
> And now we have the upcoming FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES, which seems to
> answer the question, "What if an escapee of Death's plans manages to survive
> long enough to have kids?" With Tony Todd as a coroner who seems to know a
> little too much about what's going on.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWMzKXsY9A4
> 
> 


On the commentary track for the first movie they said a plot line they 
originally intended was for one of the characters to get pregnant in 
order to force death to skip them.  But they dropped that plotline.  I 
think they said after test audiences hated the idea.  But that plotline 
came back in Final Destination 2 where they got the idea of a pregnant 
woman giving birth in order to defeat death.  How exactly a woman who 
was already pregnant the first time around giving birth to the kid 
defeats death doesn't make any sense to me.  I guess in 6 they will 
firmly establish it doesn't actually work that way.