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Final Destination 3 (2006)
Topic Started: Dec 24 2012, 05:43 PM (767 Views)
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Feb 26 2014, 12:38 AM
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It's good, but I've always found it overrated
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Odd that I see this bumped given that I just rewatched it. I've always found this to be a guilty pleasure, and for some odd reason, I actually prefer it in some ways over the first two. Yeah, there are plot holes. Yeah, most of the supporting cast isn't that great. Yeah, it fails to really build on the mythology. But it's the tone that gets me. Wendy's character arc (which I thought was excellent, making up for the weak supporting cast; she was definitely a better heroine than Kimberly) is probably the darkest in the series, but the film as a whole is also the most comedic up to this point. These two elements shouldn't go together nearly as well as they did, but at least in my opinion, they went together great. It gave the film a twisted, carnival-esque atmosphere, like a really good Halloween Horror Nights maze or one of the Insane Clown Posse's better songs. And in terms of actual scares, I thought this was a scarier film than the second one. As a standalone film, I really enjoyed it.

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Apr 29 2016, 01:17 PM
Odd that I see this bumped given that I just rewatched it.
I kinda figured you'd be getting around to this after 2, so I thought I'd bump it :sistrens: Lemme know when you want 4&5 bumped.

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I've always found this to be a guilty pleasure, and for some odd reason, I actually prefer it in some ways over the first two. Yeah, there are plot holes. Yeah, most of the supporting cast isn't that great. Yeah, it fails to really build on the mythology. But it's the tone that gets me. Wendy's character arc (which I thought was excellent, making up for the weak supporting cast; she was definitely a better heroine than Kimberly) is probably the darkest in the series, but the film as a whole is also the most comedic up to this point. These two elements shouldn't go together nearly as well as they did, but at least in my opinion, they went together great. It gave the film a twisted, carnival-esque atmosphere, like a really good Halloween Horror Nights maze or one of the Insane Clown Posse's better songs. And in terms of actual scares, I thought this was a scarier film than the second one. As a standalone film, I really enjoyed it.

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Outside of MEW (and I'd throw in Ryan Merriman too, I actually prefer Kevin to Wendy, though I'm big on both), I'm not sure I could disagree any more. The mythology thing sucks, but it's not really a huge deal breaker for me. The tone and characters are what I hate most (along with Lewis' death). The movie itself is dark, serious, and has a lot of suspenseful build up... but the IMO wretched supporting characters feel like they're ripped from an awful teen movie parody. If the humor worked (and the characters were more fleshed out than being bad punchlines), I may have been more forgiving, but it really just left me groaning in despair. I'd actually say this had the worst tone of all five. 4's is light and fluffy, but at least it knew what it want to be. 3 just seems confused. I think the deaths are a mixed bag as well. We get Ashes, Erin, and Frankie..... but then we also have Lewis (and Ian's flip off is a bit campy too). I thought the opening premonition was also kinda weak.

Also surprised to see the Lewis praise, I think your the first fan of his I've seen. This movie is kinda the reverse of 2 for me. That had shit leads, but good supporting members. This had AMAZING leads with Wendy and Kevin, but supporting players that made me long for Kim and Burke (the worst of them being Frankie, who's revolting, and Ian, who has some of the most nonsensical and contradictory writing I've ever seen)

As for scares, 1 is really the only one that remotely got under my skin of this series.
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Definitely agree about this being the inverse of the second film in regards to leads versus supporting cast, though I still felt that this film's mixed bag of a supporting cast was better than the outright weak leads of its predecessor. Wendy and Kevin were also some of the best characters this series ever had, which definitely went a long way to making up for any weaknesses. And yeah, fuck Frankie. At least he died early so he wouldn't spend most of the movie getting on my nerves.

Oh, and you can bump the thread for the fourth film.
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For me, I didn't even find the supporting cast to be a mixed bag. If you look at my ten least favorites, basically every major supporting character except the Ashes places. Though definitely with you on Wendy and Kevin being great. That may actually be the best overall lead duo (I go back and forth on Wendy v. Clear), which is also one of the reasons disappoints me. It SHOULD be one of the best... but they really botch it.

Frankie was revolting, second worst character in the franchise behind the racist. And it's a close pair up. I'd put Ian in third. That "character development" of him going insane makes no sense whatsoever, and he's already an annoying asshole beforehand (I do like Kris Lemche as an actor, but)

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