Final Destination 5

Dublindude69

How the hell does a forth sequel to a dead teenager series have a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes? I expect this to change to at least a 10% but seriously, why would something like this get positive reviews? It's a waste of time and 3D.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/final_destination_5/reviews/

Mellor

Dublindude69 wrote: »

How the hell does a forth sequel to a dead teenager series have a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes? I expect this to change to at least a 10% but seriously, why would something like this get positive reviews? It's a waste of time and 3D.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/final_destination_5/reviews/

Because;
a) It's based on only 5 (staff?) reviews, and
b) It isn't actually out yet

Basq

It's 83% now..




.. and the world keeps on turning!

jaykhunter

55% now. How was the 4th FD?

Daemos

jaykhunter wrote: »

55% now. How was the 4th FD?

Dire. Absolutely dire. And I'm a fan of the FD series, but the 4th one was just terrible, even by the fairly low standards of the genre. One or two good moments but besides them, cr4p.

The only plus is that it's the shortest film in the franchise so you don't have to put up with it for long.

Otis Driftwood

I havnt seen the third or fourth however the first two are guilty pleasures of mine.Totally ludicrous but the first one was actually a really clever idea and was well done.The second had one of the best horror movie deaths of the last decade.



No interest in seeing this one though.

fishsticks

Dire. Absolutely dire. And I'm a fan of the FD series, but the 4th one was just terrible, even by the fairly low standards of the genre. One or two good moments but besides them, cr4p.

The only plus is that it's the shortest film in the franchise so you don't have to put up with it for long.

Yea the 4th one was pretty bad, was the first 3D film I went to see in the cinema and was laughing at most of the stuff in it. Won't be seeing the 5th one, I will just watch the first 2 again if i'm pushed on seeing a Final Destination movie.

This time last year the OP was attempting to troll with his thread on FD4 and how it was offensive given how people die in accidents all the time.

F5 is getting great reviews from all the genre sites and those are the reviews that horror fans are going to look at. When the fifth film in a franchise is getting 4 and a half out of 5 from many of the respected sites dedicated to horror then the film is obviously doing something right and for the FD franchise all that needs to be is scene after scene of inventive deaths at which the franchise excels. The fact that the finale is supposed to make you want to go back and revisit the first 4 films is a bonus, obviously they've came up with a twist which makes past events tie in the the new film or it drastically alters what we thought we knew.

At the end of the day it's low budget horror based around outlandish set pieces. It's not trying to redefine the genre or be considered for major awards, it just exits to entertain.

DVD-Lots

Watched FD4 last night and couldn't belive how bad it was. I thought 1 & 3 were okay and 2 was quite good so I thought why not. Unbelievably bad, so I do have high hopes that 5 is at least as good as 3......

JP Liz V1

Like Saw this franchise will keeping going :rolleyes: no interest myself

Sentid

Movie is much bette rthan the fourth and for once, has an actual proper ending. Course they're probably gonna continue, 6th and 7th will be filmed back to back

johnny_ultimate

FD5 - entertaining garbage with what is probably the most brilliantly elaborate death scene in recent cinema. It's junk, but there are enough cheap thrills to make it not entirely worthless. Faint praise where faint praise is due.

crazygeryy

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

FD5 - entertaining garbage with what is probably the most brilliantly elaborate death scene in recent cinema. It's junk, but there are enough cheap thrills to make it not entirely worthless. Faint praise where faint praise is due.

+1

**** movies but the deaths are pretty cool.leave your brain outside the cinema and watch them for what they are.mindless horror movies.

Turtyturd

Agree with the last 2 posts...I was one of the people groaning at movie fest when it started but found that I actually enjoyed it. It knows its audience and that people are only paying to see the death scenes and it does them well. Maybe I enjoyed it more because I had never seen any of the other films...although my gf had seen them and still enjoyed it...especially the little nod to the original.

P.S ...the 3D is quite tacky but actually works really well.

Just saw it in 3D tonight and I have to say that I was very impressed. Following on from the disappointing 4th film expectations were low but the film managed to not only be one of the best uses of 3D in its history but was also a fantastic genre film with some of the most elaborate and fun kills in cinema history.

It's never going to be considered high art or lauded in years to come but for the 5th entry in a low budget horror franchise it certainly impresses, brings a slew of new ideas to the mix and a finale which ranks up there with the greats wtf moments.

The 3D is great, the rods to the face moment early on is perhaps the funnest use of it yet, it literally looked as if it was inches from my face. Nice to see a director who understands how to properly implement the technology, from the positioning of actors and objects to create a real sense of depth to unleashing imaginative deaths which made the best of the tech and weren't always used simply to throw stuff at the audience.

It's not a film which is going to play half as well at home on 2D as from the imaginative opening credits it's a film which has been made to be experienced in 3D and hopefully other films will take note of just how much fun 3D can be when used correctly.

Ben Moore

I watched the first one and at least one of the squeals and thought they were a laugh BUT am I imagining things or was 4 called The Final Destination implying that there were to be no more and then they brought out a fifth?

Ben Moore

Ben Moore wrote: »

I watched the first one and at least one of the squeals and thought they were a laugh BUT am I imagining things or was 4 called The Final Destination implying that there were to be no more and then they brought out a fifth?

If you really want to nit pick with the title of the series then technically there should only be one film as you can't have more than one final destination. It's a series which makes money, the films are relatively cheap to make and are pretty much guaranteed to make money given that horror sells and franchise horror is a literally means to print money with.

I'm shocked by how much fun I had with part 5, in a summer full of disappointment who thought that the fifth entry in a low budget horror franchise would be one of the most imaginative and fun cinema going experiences around.

johnny_ultimate

I can't share the enthusiasm for the 3D (or indeed anything more than cautious, mild enthusiasm for the film itself). It's definitely a graduate of the tacky, novelty school of third dimensions. Barring perhaps the

rotisserie

scene which was amusing, it's just an avalanche of various things poking through the screen, usually with someone impaled on it. Most obnoxious of all were the loud, brash opening 3D credits which wore out its welcome around twenty seconds in and then continued on for what seemed like ten minutes. Who'd have thought stuff blowing up could be so immensely uninteresting?

Tindie

I loved these movies, i was dying to see FD5, I already seen it 4 times , i will see one more times
(Big fan of series, even got the book series as well)

I think FD5 is best in the series, so much better the The Final Destination Crap two years ago) I loved it!, The Bridge scenes was was better then Pile up in FD2 and This movies as one of worst deaths ever, I had to look away!

The ending was really good and the 3D BLEW ME away, the best 3D movies I have ever seen!

10/10

Mitch Connor

Actually quite enjoyed this.

Thought the ending was almost brilliant, but I think they should have cut it short.

IMO they should have cut the ending at the point where he looks at the ticket. I don't think the plane exploding needed to be seen, and I certainly don't think they needed the air hostess to explain exactly what is happening - it should have been left for people who knew the series to understand what was happening, would have been a very good way of ending it.