Yeah, there’s a Lisa Loeb reference in the movie, and one of the characters has a truly shitty clamshell cell phone, but these felt like weird character details as opposed to period details. Now, I’d have to go back and really scrutinize the film to see if they were cheating on the period details, if a particular modern make of car is snuck into the film, but on first viewing I was totally gobsmacked by the reveal. The twist is that this whole film is a prequel to the first movie! They’re going away to Paris to begin again, but when they board their flight we suddenly realize they’re on Flight 180, the original disaster from the first Final Destination. What follows from here are major spoilers for the end of Final Destination 5, so tread carefully.Īt the end of Final Destination 5 our heroes escape Death’s clutches and begin a new life. But then I saw Final Destination 5 and suddenly I was completely convinced that I was totally correct. Looking at fashions from that time will help you understand why Coco Chanel, for instance, is such a titan of our culture - she really changed the basic, fundamental ways that people dressed.Īnyway, I had begun to think that this vision of a stagnated culture was a result of me being old and being unable to really get into the new stuff. There were, obviously, some changes that would be highly noticeable to those deeply entrenched in fashion, but in a general sense it’s tough to tell if a picture shows a woman in 1895 or 1905 or 1885. In a lot of ways I’ve felt the 2000s were like the 1890s or the 1900s, which are mostly indistinguishable from the fashions of the decades before. Even the cars of the last decade or so have been so boringly samey looking. The fashions of today seem mostly indistinguishable from fashions of a few years ago, except when they are simply direct lifts of the fashions from twenty years ago. I listen to the hip new bands and they sound pretty much exactly like the hip new bands of ten or twenty years ago. Fashion, music and youth trends no longer feel new everything seems to be a recycled version of something that has come before. By the time he gets to the fire escape you’re not really entirely sure how the spaghetti will provide the nail in his coffin, but then it does when he slips on it and winds up getting a ladder to the eyeball.ĭo you agree with our rankings, or do you have your own opinions about your favorite deaths in the Final Destination franchise? Hit the comments section with all of your thoughts and feelings, and do yourself a favor by revisiting these awesome films in celebration of the series’ 20th anniversary.For the last few years I have looked at our popular culture and been concerned that it has, for all intents and purposes, stopped evolving. What makes his death sequence so incredible, though, is just how much it throws at you leading up to that point – with the magnet in the Chinese food destroying the microwave, his watch getting his wrist stuck in the garbage disposal, the burning mozzarella sticks, and the magically slamming windows.
When lottery winner Evan Lewis enters his apartment in Final Destination 2, one of the first things he does is toss a skillet filled with old spaghetti out the window… and you immediately know that’s the action that is going to cost him his life.
Final Destination 2: Evan Lewis – Impaled through the head by fire escape ladder