A marked improvement over the second film, and might I say, as good as or even better then the original. James Wong's style is certainly quite prevalent in the film, and the atmospherics harken back to the original quite well. The acting is decent, the story moves along well, but nothing really special.

The true great parts of the film are the simply amazingly graphic deaths. Easily one of the goriest films in a long while, there is no shortage of rolling heads, burning skin and falling body parts for the horror affecianado. Wong has managed to find a balance between the suspense and atmospherics of the original and the dark humor of the second film and combined them into a n exceptionally enjoyable film.

B+

saw it last week, it was good probably a B. It was good fun.

This was one of my most anticipated movies of the winter and it lived up to the hype.The only that didnt was the rollar coaster.Maybe I was hoping for more blood and guts but it didnt happen. Now the rest of the films deaths helped out with that. I think my favorite death was the tanning beds. I always found it funny how girls love to go tanning and now whenever I have a friend go tanning I can tell her watch out or it may kill ya literally.I do wish there had been some actual deaths in the amusment park itself but I guess the rollar coaster was enough.I didnt like how they knew how the deaths were gonna happen before they did.It kind of ruined the suspence. I mean you could easily figure out the deaths that way.Now yes the end was the best I did not see that coming at all. I am glad the trilogy went out like it came in almost.I have to say though This was the best of the 3 and easily one of the coolest.

A-

better than the 2nd, not as good as the first.

B

The 2 naked chicks dying was the funniest shit.

Now please tell me Jeff why you are so against Hostel if you love a film as gory and as sick as this.

Aren't you contradicting yourself?

I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but I'm assuming it's because Hostel took itself more seriously and wanted you to watch people actively get slowly tortured to death, while FD3's victims all expire in over-the-top, cartoonish, "inventive" Rube Goldberg-ish ways.

I mean, I'm assuming that's the difference. I haven't seen either movie.

I see where your coming from Libs. I've seen FD2 and Hostel, and both are eqaully gruesome. If one has seen Hostel though, they would know it does not take itself seriously in any aspect, it only gives a better effort at scaring or shocking the viewer rather than making death more comical. Both movies are actually mostly lightweight emotionally with not much depth. If anything I'd think FD is worse because here is a movie that just strives to find increasingly gruesome ways to kill people in a 90 minute period, where there is more of a plot to Hostel. (No I'm not saying itwas a brilliant screenplay or a cinematic masterpiece, but you knew that the whole gist of the movie was not finding different ways to kill every character to fill up time.

Libs is exactly right.

I think some of my reasons for not liking Hostel were due to other factors at the time, which often effects the way I see films, as it does anyone else. I just wasn't able to approach it with a clear mind.

But apart from that, there was a certain comical aspect to Final Destination 3 that allowed the deaths to be more interesting and less gruesome at least to me.

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Hostel does kinda take itself seriously. It's still fun, though. Don't understand how someone can hate it as much as Jeff does.

Anyways, this kicked ass. It's not as good as the original, but better than the sequel.

A



Definitely.

I saw Hostel opening night in the US. One of my most anticipated films of the year.

Like I said I don't know why I was so effected by it. I have a feeling it had something to do with some other events going on at the time, and not so much the film. I had a problem with the amount of gore and that it didn't have a point.

Final Destination 2 and 3 are very much dark comedies. The gore is just part of the comedy in a way, and somehow it wasn't as realistic because it had that element of comedy to it.

Hostel was just brutal. It honestly felt like I was watching a snuff film, and that entire idea is just repulsive. I had a friend who watched a snuff film one time not knowing at first what it was, and that is just what Hostel felt like. There was no story, no moral context, social commentary or anything. Saw and Saw II were bearable because they had some sort of social commentary mixed in, with the gore. They didn't take it so far to the extreme either.

Hostel was just unbearably brutal.

IactuallythoughtFD2wasbetterthanthefirst.FD1tookitselffartooseriously.

FD3,though,kickedass.Thetanningbeddeathsceneisworththepriceofadmissionalone.

My favorite sequence was a toss up between the drive-through sequence or the Build-It sequence. Both were so shockingly good.

IlikedallthedeathscenesbutIan'sandtheblackdude's,whateverhisnamewas.Ireallydidn'tseetheemo chick'sdeathcomingwhileIhadguessedalmosteveryotherdeathrightbeforeithappened, ceptforthetruckenginething.Nasty!

It's a great ride, and certainly better than Final Destination 2 which had the two most irritating lead actors of the entire series. The leads in this one are more likeable and relatable, and it helps that the dialogue, while not Oscar-winning by any means, isn't all that unrealistic or laughable and it allows the main characters to have a bit of sense of humor instead of being dreadfully serious all the time. Though the girl gets a bit too weepy at times, but eh how can she not be. This one has a wicked, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor which seems to just get better as the series goes along, it looks great (there was something about Final Destination 2 that gave it this cheap, direct-to-dvd look), and the ending was unexpected and well-executed. Sure there are some plotholes, the most noticeable being

1. Why in the world would the sister not tell Wendy that she was also on the rollercoaster? And how could Wendy not remember her sister being there at all?
2. Why would Ian want to kill Wendy when she's next in line anyway? And if he kills her, doesn't he realize that the next person in line would be him again, as it loops back to the beginning of the list?

but really what can you expect?

It's nice, for once to see a horror franchise not getting worse with each successive sequel. As long as they're as good as this, I hope the studio keeps churning them out. overall I give it a B+, and I rank it around the same as the original and a few notches about the sequel (I gave that a B-).

Oh and I'm sad that Rocky Mountain High by John Denver didn't make an appearance like in the other two films. The music selections were pretty inspired though, as usual.

Ian didn't know that after the last person in the list, "death" goes back for the rest. He assumed that since he survived, he's okay, so he didn't think it mattered if he killed Wendy or not.

Okay, i loved all of the deaths in this film!

But the best had to be the Nail Gun....jesus christ....harsh or what?

Drive-Thru, Weight Lifting and Sign Crushing all come close however.


Fantastic, Fast Paced, awesome.

So unpredictable, and the Coaster scene was terrific.

Brilliant

Lived up to every peice of hype i had inside me!!

Completely agree. The opening death scene in FD3 was actually a letdown because it was difficult to see everything as a result of lackluster editing and obvious usage of special effects. The opening scene in FD2 on the other hand, was unbelievably well done and worth the price of admission alone. I cannot imagine the planning that went into that sequence.

On another note, I liked the way the opening credits were done with FD3. The setting of a carnival fits the series perfectly as it is often like a carnival ride of deaths. I was disappointed though that they too often cut away from the gore too quickly, especially the scene where the guy's head was crushed by the weightlifting machine. I wonder if the cuts were needed to get an R rating as this film had far more overall gore than the other two, not to mention prolonged nudity and language.

Best death scenes ever. Ever! So goooooood.

I really liked this movie; very fun to watch

So what should the opening accident be in the fourth seeing as how they wasted a good possibility with the ending of the third? I really don't see what's left other than a building collapsing. Next time, I'd also like to see them vary the age of those who survive as the first and third had too much of a focus on teen characters. The second mixed it up a little more and was better for it.

I actually talked about this with my buddies. But one I thought would have been nuts, would have been at a ski lodge, If you ever have been in aski lift I think you know where I'm going. Its one of my number one fears. Imagine an entire cable breaking. Think of all the rocks, drops, jagged things to fall on. It could look corny, but it could also be very sweet,

Or a ship, or a giant water accident. Imagine the gore, Some jump off right into paranas or sharks. It would be so rediculous that the series would stay the same.

I saw this on Friday, but my internet's been down...

Anywho, it was pretty decent. It's the worst in the series, but it's still fun. The deaths aren't nearly as inventive/gory as the one's in the second installment, and the characters in this one are the worst by far. All of them are pretty detestable.

Still, Wong has a nice visual style and he has some pretty impressive (and nasty) tricks up his sleeve (I loved the tanning bed to coffin dissolve). The deaths are still fun and fairly unpredictable to an extent, but it does feel like the franchise is on it's last legs.

Overall, FD3 is the fast food of the horror genre. It's fun and tastes good while it's there, but it doesn't leave you with anything after five minutes.

And was I the only one kinda weirded out by all of the 9/11 references? It was... odd.

B-

A ski lift could indeed work as they can have a bunch of people on at the same time allowing for the format to not change. It's actually more creative than a building or bridge collapsing.

On another note, if there is going to be a 4th film, how long until we hear about it?

On yet another note, what do you think about the argument that if you've seen one Final Destination you've seen it all? I heard that on a local radio show.