[Movies] Final Destination series.

[Thallidomaniac]

Just saw the trailer for the upcoming Final Destination 5 movie, and hopefully there's even more messed up deaths compared to the previous 4. Granted this movie series was bad plot-wise (Basic synopsis goes like this: Random person gets vision of an incident of massive deaths, somehow gets a number of people to not get killed in that incident, only to have the survivors die one by one.), but I think people only watched it just for the deaths.

I do wonder how the profits they get from those movies are enough to make another one. Granted I don't Final Destination will have as many sequels compared to say Saw, but it looks like it's getting close to that number. (I forgot how many Saw movies they made, can anyone clarify that to me?)

[Wynnyelle]

Just goes to show that people like to watch people die in really messed up ways.

[blackangel209]

The first one was actually a pretty good movie. The rest were subpar and 4 was just atrocious. 5 actually doesn't look too bad. Depends on how the whole "kill one, save yourself" thing works out.

Saw had a total of 7 movies, but they were all 1 long story. Final Destination is basically just a series of random events(like most modern "horror" movies).

[Thallidomaniac]

The first one was actually a pretty good movie. The rest were subpar and 4 was just atrocious. 5 actually doesn't look too bad. Depends on how the whole "kill one, save yourself" thing works out.

Saw had a total of 7 movies, but they were all 1 long story. Final Destination is basically just a series of random events(like most modern "horror" movies).

I think the first one being the "best" also probably had to do with the plot in general. The others after that just used the exact same plot, the only differences being the deaths and the "kill one, save yourself" part as you mentioned. Not to mention the parts where they refer to previous movies in the series seemed unnecessary.

[Zonas]

I've seen the trailer. All I can say is meh...

The deaths seem like they may be more elaborate and less liky to happen in the real world, but meh some of the ones in the previous were like that as well.

And from what I can tell they actually meet "death" who is in fact played by the Candyman... don't think that will be a good idea.

so yeah while I'm sure it will be good, I won't bring my hopes up for it to be fantastic untill I see it.

[Clockwork Pinkie]

Loved the first 3 (Ok the 3rd one wasn't that great but come on, Mary Elizabeth Winstead). And the 4th one was suppose to be the final one, what happened. This one does take an interesting twist though, kill or be killed, hells yes, just what the series needed. But, I'm getting really sick of the teenage actors that make everything look like Twilight, guess it's the era we're in.

[Nanaboostme]

I do wonder how the profits they get from those movies are enough to make another one. Granted I don't Final Destination will have as many sequels compared to say Saw, but it looks like it's getting close to that number. (I forgot how many Saw movies they made, can anyone clarify that to me?)

Every Final Destination film has made overwhemingly more than it's budget and past the studio's expectation. That's why the studio continues to make it. They'll stop until it makes less than it's budget and expectation (cough) SAW (cough)

[blackangel209]

And from what I can tell they actually meet "death" who is in fact played by the Candyman... don't think that will be a good idea.

Fairly certain death first showed up in the second one as the coroner as well.

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Every Final Destination film has made overwhemingly more than it's budget and past the studio's expectation. That's why the studio continues to make it. They'll stop until it makes less than it's budget and expectation (cough) SAW (cough)

Saw could have easily continued to make money. The last one made 136 million on a budget of 20. Unlike nearly every other franchise ever, they realized that the Jigsaw story was done and finished it in a way that still made sense. Not to mention that it was very clear they were leading up to a deliberate ending with Saw IV.

[Matthewop]

wow really.. never known it.. i love Saw too...

[Airlick]

I loved the 1st and 2nd parts, I don't think I ever watched 3 and 4, but from what I heard about them, I haven't lost anything. I'm sure not going to watch 5th, neither.

[Kisuro]

Final Destination and Saw series are actually quite alike. Both series had a really good first part. With each next part both series became worse and worse plot-wise and became all about showing people dying in more and more gruesome and elaborate ways.

[AetherMcLoud]

The very first installment had a nice premise and plot point. After that the series went downhill fast.

[taekvideo]

The 4th one was good... what's not to like about brutal deaths in 3d.
The 3rd was the best though, especially the tanning bed scene.
Maybe I'm just a sadist, but I'm definitely going to watch the 5th one lol

[dahawk]

looking forward to watching this movie its odd there making a new Final Destination i assumed the fourth movie was the last in the series it was named ^The Final Destination ^ but i will be watching this movie im just happy its rated R and not pg-13

[Thallidomaniac]

looking forward to watching this movie its odd there making a new Final Destination i assumed the fourth movie was the last in the series it was named ^The Final Destination ^ but i will be watching this movie im just happy its rated R and not pg-13

I think all of the Final Destination movies were R-rated to begin with.

[dahawk]

maybe they were..hmm good point ^

[Thallidomaniac]

I've seen the trailer. All I can say is meh...

The deaths seem like they may be more elaborate and less liky to happen in the real world, but meh some of the ones in the previous were like that as well.

And from what I can tell they actually meet "death" who is in fact played by the Candyman... don't think that will be a good idea.

so yeah while I'm sure it will be good, I won't bring my hopes up for it to be fantastic untill I see it.

Most of the deaths in Final Destination were very unlikely to happen in real-life to begin with.

The 4th one was good... what's not to like about brutal deaths in 3d.
The 3rd was the best though, especially the tanning bed scene.
Maybe I'm just a sadist, but I'm definitely going to watch the 5th one lol

I do have to give a bit of props for the directors for trying out the fanservice route when it came to that tanning bed scene. It probably didn't make the 3rd one significantly better, but boobs are always nice.

[Nanaboostme]

Saw could have easily continued to make money. The last one made 136 million on a budget of 20. Unlike nearly every other franchise ever, they realized that the Jigsaw story was done and finished it in a way that still made sense. Not to mention that it was very clear they were leading up to a deliberate ending with Saw IV.

SAW VII only made substantially more than the last couple because it was announced to be the last. [[IE Return of the King, Harry Potter, etc.]] Of course the final one would always make much more. Hollywood doesn't consider the foreign gross as much than domestic gross when deciding to continue a franchise. Let's look down the list:

Saw - Domestic: $55 Million
[[Word of mouth begins]]
Saw II - Domestic: $87 Million
Saw III - Domestic: $80 Million
Saw IV - Domestic: $63 Million
Saw V - Domestic: $56 Million
Saw VI - Domestic: $27 Million
[[Saw VII announced as the last.]]
Saw VII = Domestic $45 Million

Obviously they understood the audience would gradually decline, unlike Final Destination or the Fast and the Furious series.
If they never announced SAW VII as the last in the franchise, it would definitely have not made anything close to that amount.

[Jistu]

I'm surprised that people are willing to pay to see the same horror movie 5 times over 10 years.

[Nanaboostme]

I'm surprised that people are willing to pay to see the same horror movie 5 times over 10 years.

For the Saw Franchise: I think for me, I still had hope for it. I think I stopped watching it at the theatres after the 4th one and still have yet to watch the last one on dvd.

For the FInal Destination series, I think people still continue to watch it because of the scenarios. I'll admit it's pretty fun to watch it on a less serious note