The Reel Rejects - FINAL DESTINATION (2001) IS CRAZY!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:01:24 But it didn't have Devin Sawa on there. I wonder why. Maybe they'll save him for a special. special cameo or maybe in like part four they'll be like we need to call you know the expert who's the expert the only phone call we'll ever make and then we cut to the woods and he's like in a hut and he's got like a huge beard and he's not bathed days and months and years and then they're like we need you for one last final destination he's like no I gave that life up a long time ago and then they're like no but but you have to we're forcing you to and they do a montage where they shave his beard have you seen this franchise before You know, I am just, I'm playing along, you know, I'm just connecting the dots and, you know, having my own little premonitions right here. I know the design. Gang, if you want to talk about design, let's talk about Prepper for a hot second. Thank you guys so much for chopping these highlights down. It is a task, especially with a movie like this, especially with some of the things that happen as well as are discussed in this movie.

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Starting point is 00:02:53 come see what we're up to there gang. We just finalized our destination. We'll start with you because you have the first letter of the alphabet. How did you feel? I mean, you both do, but he's got two A's. He's got the A.N. He does be me there.

Starting point is 00:03:15 I'm all the way back here at Jay. And his last name starts with A as well. Dude, you are. You are the, dude, get that discount. Seriously. Get your time. car serviced on the roadside if you break down i'm insured but just be careful you know you don't want something ominous and crazy to happen you do not want that to happen no no oh god uh i like this

Starting point is 00:03:38 movie i had a good time watching with my boys this movie was definitely a ride to say the least i think it did a really good job of building up the tension i feel like they did a awesome thing with building that up and having the way in which they showcase those deaths to be extremely creative while also building the tension laying it out for you as an audience member where you knew it was going to happen

Starting point is 00:04:03 but you just didn't know exactly how it was going to play out and I got to say kudos well done. Good job to the filmmaker at hand here also great job to all the actors I really believe them in their paranoia and their

Starting point is 00:04:19 dread and their sadness and their guilt I think the elements of comedy that were thrown in there, sparingly, were very appropriate. You know, they didn't go overboard with it, but they did a good job of just towing that line. I thought it felt, I don't know, I wouldn't say of the time. It did feel like a 2000s movie. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I really, I don't think enjoys the right word, but I was very entertained by the movie itself. I think all the little needle drops and for Shadrung was cool.

Starting point is 00:04:53 But yeah, those are my short, brief thoughts before we get into a large conversation. What did you think, Andrewsiff? I enjoyed it as well. Definitely, obviously I knew there was going to be elaborate deaths in the film and which, and they were very creative as well, which I agree with you, Rumi. And yes. So, but I think the most, oh, music editor. or Thomas Milano. That's Alyssa Milano's

Starting point is 00:05:18 father. Very cool. My man. I didn't know he worked on this. So cool. Anyways, what I was getting to and saying is I think the most important thing here is like, especially with horror films. I mean, any films for me, and I think Aaron and probably everyone

Starting point is 00:05:34 else on this channel, is characters. We've got to be invested in them so that when we get in these strenuous and crazy situations, we don't want anything to happen to them, obviously. I like a film with no characters. Yeah. just like a lot of sets I agree with you

Starting point is 00:05:48 I agree with you but no I genuinely genuinely rather I cared about these characters so I'm glad that I think the film at the very beginning really did a good job of pacing and taking their time

Starting point is 00:06:00 like Aaron said really building up the tension and I like the story structure too with the way was just again just showing that he you know showing that you know this whole crazy explosion happened and then you know kind of like

Starting point is 00:06:14 again the edge of tomorrow going back a little bit and then introducing us slowly at all these characters as well i just i like how the film took its time just getting letting us get connected and know these characters i also thought too as well when it came to like someone like carter like initially i really disliked him and then by the end even though there were a couple times like i still dislike a couple things he's saying or doing and there was frustrating moments with him i still generally did not want anything to happen to him yeah so like i think you're kind of happy to see him there after all this yeah yeah for sure, for sure.

Starting point is 00:06:46 And being a bit less of an ass. Yeah. No, for sure. So, I got sucked. Yeah, I think. He sucked a little less at the very end. Yeah, I'll say that.

Starting point is 00:06:56 I'll say that. After being humbled. But the rest of the characters, like I actually, I like the relationship between Devin Sawa and Ali Carter. I thought they had great chemistry. I liked their interactions. I really like that backstory that we got from Ali Larder. I was about say, Ali Carter.

Starting point is 00:07:10 From Ali Larder, I really like that backstory a lot, actually. It got me really emotionally. I was already, like, connected with her just in terms of, like, I like that there was a lot of mystery shrouded with her, but then when we got a little bit more of her backstory, and I thought that was interesting using exposition, and again, very natural conversation in that exposition, because you kind of threw a jab, which I thought was hysterical in the exposition that Chloe Sullivan's father made, or Devonsawa's father, rather, made at the beginning where he's like, hey, 17 kids or whatever, 17-year-old, I'm like, this is not an... natural conversation, but whatever, fine. But not a lot of instances of that actually. I know, but that was just a funny moment. I'm like, yeah. In the first couple minutes, I'll allow it.

Starting point is 00:07:56 It's for us, the audience. So yes, I will allow it as well. But like that type of exposition, that's a natural conversation because they don't really, they're still getting to know each other. And again, usually I'm usually a fan of show, don't tell. But in that instance, I think that was good also for us, the audience, just getting emotionally connected with her. as well.

Starting point is 00:08:15 Sometimes when a character is telling a story that's a good opportunity for the actor to show the emotion. I think that's a good example of that. And I think too, to Aaron, to your point as well, when seeing the characters like grieved and panicked and scared and all this, like, I thought that teacher did such an excellent job of emoting. They all did as well, but she really, I know she wasn't in the film at a ton, but her scene, she was extremely effective. Like, I genuinely felt so bad for her and scared for her character. But, yeah, it's a lot. I mean, again, this film, like, had a different array of emotions for me. It was fun.

Starting point is 00:08:54 It was scary. It was elaborate. It was creative, inventive. I really enjoyed it a lot. And also, too, the romantic connection I felt with these two characters, as well as enjoying the backstory with Alley Larger. I really had a good time with this film, actually. Are you feeling?

Starting point is 00:09:10 I agree. I mean, and I like that their connection. is this sort of weird sort of vibe thing that's partially based on trauma and partially based on like we don't we get to see them in their element at the beginning you know boarding the plane

Starting point is 00:09:25 with their French class but we don't really get to see what their element is just at school normally and so like you get her vibe being the sort of yeah lonely artsy sort of goth kid and you feel like Devin Sawa might not exist too far from that realm anyway so like I like

Starting point is 00:09:43 that their relationship by the movies end wasn't like oh my god they're in love but like you could easily see how a connection a bond has formed and understanding is you know reached between them two specifically and actually i really appreciate that because i'm like yeah these two people are connected i can see them being like together but it doesn't really have to be like an explicit like plot line of the movie so much um you know yeah like this movie is full of like those kinds of flourishes because like this is very much of its time in a way like when you start started off. And I think, you know, this was a fun viewing experience because at the beginning, just in our demeanors, I feel like, you know, we were a bit bantery and sort of in the spirit of the kids getting on the plane. And then once you really get to that first big set piece, like the movie kind of rejiggers how you're looking at this and goes like, oh, no, it's about to get real. And so, like, I like that we kind of meet them in a way that feels like you're in sort of a goofy teen comedy from the early 2000s, that then transitions into a movie that does actually care about its characters and smartly uses, like, I think this is really clever

Starting point is 00:10:48 because obviously the gimmick, if you want to call it, that is that, you know, they're making a slasher movie where instead of having some guy in an iconic mask or whatever, you're just going straight for death itself. And like that, I can absolutely see how someone would be like, what a great, fresh, you know, spin on a trident true genre. And so, yeah, I like the way that they personified death. I assume Tony Todd becomes a bigger figure across the series, but as of this, I really liked that he only has that one scene

Starting point is 00:11:20 to make a big impression and to be this sort of like in between figure. He's the mortician, so his job is to like help people along their last parts of the human earth journey on the road to death. And so like for him to be the ambassador of death in that moment,

Starting point is 00:11:40 and have this vibe where you're like, I don't know if this guy like knows what he's talking about or is just being like philosophical. I get the sense he must know because it's a movie. But like, yeah, the way that whole scene played out, I thought was really fun. And the way that you go for death as the villain as this chain reaction of unstoppable force.

Starting point is 00:12:00 And then you also compliment that with. And then, you know, this isn't like the deepest dramatic movie. But I liked that, yeah, like part of the point became everyone dealing with death mourning the deaths of others feeling strange for not having died when so many others had died and all the little thin and tenuous choices and threads that either put you in or keep you out of harm's way and the sort of mystery of like okay what was supposed to happen how was that supposed to affect all of us what is the order now like all that stuff is really engrossing and this is a movie that i feel like could easily have been less inspired like this

Starting point is 00:12:37 in a lot of ways like is presented as you know kind of a classically flavored sort of slasher style movie but I see as of this first one how this would have clinched that cult love and how it would have spawned a franchise because A again this the game of the idea

Starting point is 00:12:56 is so strong and there are a million things that you can do with these yet chain reactions of death and I think that the way that they it's like you have this fun cast of you know young folks and it has that sort of movie vibe, but then the movie, I would love to know what this cost because

Starting point is 00:13:13 it felt like they were working above whatever their budget, I assume must have been unless they just had all the money because like the set pieces, yeah, the set pieces and the death scenes and the elaborate chain reactions and like the weird

Starting point is 00:13:30 little flourishes. Like I'm excited to see how the franchise grows and I think the first installment of any franchise is interesting. because you get to see it in its sort of like less streamlined form. And I thought like all the, there were all these like great little thumbprints

Starting point is 00:13:48 on just like the way each little death montage played out and they had such like punch in terms of how they were captured and orchestrated on set. And that's one of the things that has to be kicking for, you know, your franchise to pop off is you want like really distinct death scenes. And like this was, yeah, like intense and freaky. Like it starts off in a way

Starting point is 00:14:07 like you're having fun and it is fun but like there's a lot of like really nasty squirmy, icky stuff and what was your favorite death? Oh, that's a good question. Before I answer that I also do love that this film didn't rely on jump scares. It is not a jump scare.

Starting point is 00:14:24 I mean there were a couple times I'm like from the thunder or like or the knife coming through the door that almost got Devin Sawwab like a couple times but other than that I like when movies are like there's a couple times where it happens but I like when movies rely on good characters, good horror scenes, and not jump scares.

Starting point is 00:14:41 Those are my favorite type of horror films, personally, for me. They embrace that inevitability of like, you know, and it's more about the fun games of watching people try and stop it and be like, oh, it's going to be that. No, no, it's not. It's going to be this. Oh, no, it's not. It's going to be that. Like, in terms of best death, ooh, I think I might have to go with Sean Williams, Scott.

Starting point is 00:15:00 Best, like, Iggy-looking kill. Wild, yeah. The kill gap, like, not the best maybe, like, concept of what happened. Not the most interesting concept of what happened, but like the physical repercussion of that

Starting point is 00:15:15 was definitely the most striking. I mean, the Miss Luton scene was my, perhaps my faith. I mean, the plane crash was great. And the plane crash

Starting point is 00:15:24 looked really good. The fire came on. Devon, they melted him and the way they had the like rows of chairs flying out the window. Like that was intense.

Starting point is 00:15:32 Yeah, it's such that you can definitely tell that like, okay, they must have like a They're doing some level of green screening, but like the way all the different effects were married together, even if you can tell effects are happening still coalesced into movie magic for me and I was still impressed by the plane sequence. And it's cool when a movie from an earlier era than we are in now, you know, can still convince you with, it's an interesting thing. Effects, especially in horror movie are interesting because like sometimes you can see stuff is there and it takes you out of the moment. Sometimes you can see stuff is there and you go, wow. it's really impressive how they made this all work so well together. And this had way more of that, I think.

Starting point is 00:16:13 Yeah, I think mine was also the Miss Luton, Dev, because they telegraph these different things that could happen and it never plays out exactly the way you think it's going to happen. That's a good point. And then you realize, oh, it's all of those things, not just one of them, it's all of them in tandem together. Which really was the most entertaining. It's a Rube Goldberg machine.

Starting point is 00:16:33 Yeah, because if you remember, I said, and I'm sure you guys were thinking to him like, is what I think, to happen like every time i was thinking that too in my head i'm like i love how like you get subversion of expectations plus what you think is going to happen yeah i like that they were playing around with that that was good plus it end on the crescendo of the house exploding i was like what a way to just cherry on top on that yeah reject nation you ever look back and realize how little you actually learned about money growing up for me like many of you was always start investing when you're young

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Starting point is 00:20:25 Minimum $75 purchase. Skip the stress, not the nutrition. Try Huel today for complete nutrition bottled. Then at the end with Allie Larger's character, I'm like, oh my. my God, so many different things. Like, I can't even keep up anymore. I did find, yeah, I did find it so fascinating, too, at the very beginning, how we see the explosion from inside the airplane.

Starting point is 00:20:44 Yeah. And then you get to experience it from in the airport. That was a great opening. That was so, that was so fascinating to watch the two different POVs. Yeah. And it's like, I'm excited for the funning games that I'm sure the franchise will build in terms of like, this is a movie designed to play with you. And it's a concept designed to make you walk outside, notice every.

Starting point is 00:21:03 detail and imagine how you might die horribly. And I like to that this is like an example of one of those. I don't know what to call the genre. But it is like a the ring or and it follows without feeling like that because it is like about people subjected to a curse

Starting point is 00:21:19 and it's like impossible to explain it to anybody who's not involved with the curse. I like how they handle the FBI guys and that stuff and this had all that but it felt way more like an actual slasher movie and it's like I can only imagine that And the next several of these, the kills will get crazier.

Starting point is 00:21:37 The camera work will probably get way more elaborate. They'll probably streamline this. It's like when you watch the first saw and then you watch the rest of the saws. And it's like they all kind of come out of that. But there's something different about the first one. And I like the way that in the kills especially, like it was streamlined and there was a lot of creative motion. But it's not like it's not so bombastic that it feels natural. And it feels like somebody was actually just there shooting it.

Starting point is 00:22:01 Right. And yeah, I think that. that actress who played Ms. Luton was probably like, I thought everyone was great in this, and I really like Devin Sawa. I really liked Ali Larder especially. But I thought, yeah, she was maybe the strongest just like out and out performer.

Starting point is 00:22:14 Right, right. And for her to have like a pretty much solo sequence there was really nice. That was impressive for sure when you think about that, that she was on her own in that entire scene. Because that's, I mean, acting is tough in general, but just when you're, you put the fact that she is completely alone,

Starting point is 00:22:29 like, doing that scene, for sure. And it does have a little bit of that nightmare and home street quality too yeah where it's like a bunch of kids and we're all again stuck in this nightmare together that like only we can see and uh and and and yeah i'm very excited to see i don't know why but when i look at this poster final destination too it kind of reminds me of like looking at a scream poster yeah oh yeah it's on the edge of the screen you can see a scream it's it's definitely from that era of like scream i know what you did last summer like let's get everybody lined up in a cool pose you know let's get like the the swath of our cast here

Starting point is 00:23:00 Where did they film? They filmed in VZ in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I've watched enough Smallville and enough of Freddy versus Jason to know those locations very well. My brain would just know those locations. Also, as we have this screen in front of us, I think it's interesting. They come out every three years except for the four, which is called the final destination. And then between four and five, it's only a two-year gap. We're just going to call it five.

Starting point is 00:23:28 They thought they were cool with the final destination. Is it like scream five, just scream, right? Five cream. Or scream, 20, 22, right? Well, it's a, it's a fine horror slasher tradition. You got to, like, definitively title one of your things to make it seem like it's ending, only to come back and be like, nope, just kidding. Well, no, it's different.

Starting point is 00:23:48 It's different. They added the the, the. Yeah. That's what you do. If you want to fake people out, you're like, no, no, no, this is the last one. This is like when they made Friday the 13th, the final chapter. And then the very next year made Friday the third. 13th, a new beginning.

Starting point is 00:24:02 Oh, my God. Like, gang. One day will be the new beginning. And I do think it is kind of funny and ironic that the shortest gap is between the one that is titled as if it is the final last installment. Like, and it makes me wonder if they intended to end there for now or if they were having a laugh about that. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:23 Because, you know, because that is, like, adding the the, is like a bold move. It's a bold statement, you know. Really quick points that I want to get to. Do you guys have final thoughts? No. What do you got? What do you got? So really quick,

Starting point is 00:24:35 and then we'll get to the Rotten Tomatoes and all that other fun stuff. You got four seconds. I got four seconds. So the actress who played is it Miss Van, what was her name again? Ms. Luton? Ms. Luton?

Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah. She's married to the writer of the movie, Glenn, whatever his name is. And the director, James Wong, he directed your favorite movie of all time, Dragon Ball Evolution. And he also...

Starting point is 00:24:52 There it is. It's a bunch of American horror story. And he also directed... He didn't do Final Destination 2, but he did Final Destination 3. Interesting. interesting how he skipped over, but I guess because while they were doing Final Destination 2, he was working

Starting point is 00:25:04 on the Jet Lee movie, The 1? The 1! I've never seen the 1. He used to be obsessed with the 1 back in the day. I've never seen it either. Maybe we'll react to one. That movie is ridiculous. Yeah. That is a true 2000s,

Starting point is 00:25:20 I think it was 2001. That's a true early 2000s action movie. Like it's like all sci-fied out and they got the weird like Matrix slow-mo action. There's like multiple Jet Lees. and there's like a whole supporting cast of crazy actors. Like that movie is nuts and the needle drops are insane. Anyway, I'm down to do it sometime.

Starting point is 00:25:40 Also, not a fan of the poster for the final one. His face is too close. I feel like it's too intimate. This is an iconic poster, though. And this is that sort of like scream vibe again. Everyone's just like lined up looking at you, urban legend. It's all in that era. He's his mouth open.

Starting point is 00:25:55 Maybe that's what it is. I like that. I like the lighting. I like the half shadow, though. That's a very interesting Sean William Scott in this movie. That is, wait, one more thing. She's a prototype,

Starting point is 00:26:08 Amanda Seifred. I can see that, yeah. Go ahead by the bus. Yep. So, let's do one at a time, each of you. We'll start with the critics score. What do you guys think? You always got a handicap horror.

Starting point is 00:26:21 Just critics. Don't do audience yet. I'm going to go 62. 54. 40. Oh. I was worried about that. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:30 But you got a handicapped. 40 is not bad for a horror movie, actually. I feel like you always got a doubles. So 40 gives you a B for an 80. My inclination before I looked at it, I was like in the 48 range. But just not because of what I thought it deserved, just because how critics are with horror films in general. Especially back then.

Starting point is 00:26:48 Yeah. And this genre. Audience. Audience. What do you guys got? You went first last time. You first. Yeah, you go first.

Starting point is 00:26:54 88. 75. 68. What? People didn't like this as much as I thought they did. Well, I mean, not that everybody got on and rated it, but, you know. All right. And let's do.

Starting point is 00:27:07 I was surprised for how like this is now. You said 75, I believe, right? You got closer than me. Okay, so final destination for the box office. Let's do worldwide. We are combining domestic and international. You can go first this time, Roomy. $90 million.

Starting point is 00:27:24 $130 million. $130 million. $12,880,2994. So, like, we're both right on the sort of like equal distant from each other. I was going to say that time like great close. We're within numbers of each other, yeah. Budget. Ooh, that's a toughie.

Starting point is 00:27:44 I mean, like I. This one I struggled with. I would imagine it's not that high, but I don't know, like $30 million. We go 40 mil. 23 mil. Okay. Okay. You guys are both.

Starting point is 00:27:54 Because yeah, it's like there's not a ton, but like every set piece is like really fleshed out. And, like, yeah, you do get to breathe. I could see how that could be. I'm not going to read spoilers in case there's any, obviously, for the future sequel, so I'll just keep it on the non-spoiler stuff. The story was originally going to be the concept for an episode of The X-Files, which was inspired by Soul Survivor in 1984.

Starting point is 00:28:20 In this movie, a woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash, starts to be haunted by dead people that death uses temporarily as vessels trying to kill her to correct its plan and killing everyone who suspects it. Wow. Interesting. Smat. The exterior of Ms. Luton's house

Starting point is 00:28:36 was built in five days. The residents of Vancouver didn't want the filmmakers to blow it up as they thought it was a nice house. Ah, that's funny. You better rebuild that. Please. At around four minutes in the opening scene,

Starting point is 00:28:50 Devin Sawa, Alex, was supposed to pretend to be asleep. He actually fell asleep for four hours. Wow. Oh, sheesh. Not bad. And they let it roll that whole time. I guess it was probably after they filmed that other scene where he was sleep deprived.

Starting point is 00:29:04 And then they probably went immediately into filming that. So he was like, I actually am tired. At around four minutes again, the shot of Alex's bedside clock, which fades in from 1 a.m. to 180. It took five days to get correct. Wow. That's insane. Dedication. You love to see it. That was a good transition.

Starting point is 00:29:23 Much of the news footage shown is actual footage from the July 1996. Explosion and Crash of TWA Flight 800 off East Moritz, Long Island, New York. Wowie. That's wild. At around the 17-minute mark, Ms. Ludin's conversation with the co-pilot to let the teachers back on the plane was completely improvised. Let's go. She was good, man.

Starting point is 00:29:49 She had a lot of fire in that opening scene. The numerous appearances of 180 in the film refer to the film's original title of Flight 180. New Line decided to rename the film to Final Destination through fear of confusion of other films like Air Force One or Conair. You know, as bad of Arapas Studios often get, I think that was a solid note. And I think Final Destination is a much punnier, more loaded title in a good way. Because it still plays off the plane thing, but also death, perfect. Do you imagine the sequels, Flight 181, Flight 182? Endless prequel

Starting point is 00:30:27 opportunities. This one's Flight 17. It takes place 100 installments before Flight 118. Not only does this film borrow footage of the crash of TWA Flight 800

Starting point is 00:30:40 and borrows other things as well. The July 17, 1996 flight was carrying a high school French club. It exploded suddenly and was investigated for a possible deliberate act causing the accident. First a bomb,

Starting point is 00:30:52 then a surface to air missile. As with the film it was ultimately decided that the crash was a result of a mechanical failure explosion in the central fuel tank. Dan, that makes me want to get on a freaking airplane again. Jesus. Real bad. These days

Starting point is 00:31:06 especially, God, with everything that's happened with Boeing and at around one hour and nine minute mark, the scene where Carter elbows Billy in the car was added in because on the day of shooting the scene, Sean William Scott had a sore lip

Starting point is 00:31:22 to hide it. The makeup team added blood and the end result was Carter elbowing Billy. okay practical good choice last two good problem solving in the first draft of the script

Starting point is 00:31:33 the survivors that get off the plane were seven strangers due to teen slasher's popularity at the time the survivors were changed to a high school class smart

Starting point is 00:31:41 also probably key makes sense because yeah this would be a I bet this would be a different flavor if they were all unconnected

Starting point is 00:31:50 this would probably feel more like an art house movie or something if they're all connected unconnected yeah for sure last two for sure, I promise.

Starting point is 00:31:57 The music played throughout the film was by John Denver, a musician who died in a plane crash three years before the film was made. Wow. John Denver. Yeah, it was in 97. Oh, 97, yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:08 Okay. Last one, this is an interesting one. I actually really like this movie. I know a lot of people didn't. Claire's cabin is the same cabin scene in the 1999 film one year before this, known as Lake Placid. I gotta see that.

Starting point is 00:32:21 There's some love out there for Lake Placid. It's Jaws with Moran. But I enjoy it. Moranics. That's how Bill Pullman always describes it. I don't know what that means, but I'll go with his description. All right. I still enjoy that.

Starting point is 00:32:36 It's fun. It's fun. He's his best friend and the teacher, not on the cover. That's messed up. Yeah, but the death goes one, two, three. Right. Because it's seven survivors, but they only have the main five here. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:48 But she goes out pretty quickly. It's okay. She had at least a good moment to be like, hey, you're both out of life. I'm sure they told Sean William Scott after he was cast you're going to be on a bike a lot in this movie. You're going to get hit by a car. Well, gang, how do you feel

Starting point is 00:33:02 about the final destination? What's your fate? No, no, no, no. Sorry, final destination. The final destination is a different movie. How do you feel about this movie? What's your favorite kill death sequence? And should we continue on to the rest?

Starting point is 00:33:16 I surely hope so because there's a new one coming. Let's do it. Leave us all your thoughts. No spoilers, please. And we will catch you on the next one. Thank you for joining us. Hug your loved ones and, you know, break that cycle. Break it.

Starting point is 00:33:28 Break it. Pieces. Peace.

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