{"id":14525,"date":"2021-10-21T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:00:12","slug":"final-destination-2000-james-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14525","title":{"rendered":"Final Destination (2000, James Wong)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember why I avoided these movies for so long, but they’ve been buzzing around the internet long enough that it’s time I check them out. The first dialogue scene is a 90’s version of Doris Wishman<\/a>, this ain’t good. I decided which teens I’m rooting for based on the posters hanging in their room – Alex (Devon Sawa of Idle Hands<\/em>) has Pecker<\/em> and the Goo Goo Dolls, but Claire (Resident Evil<\/a><\/em> regular Ali Larter) has Cub and Mule Variations<\/em>, so she wins.<\/p>\n

Devon, Ali, Sidemouth Todd:<\/em>
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Big school trip, but Alex gets all upset after dreaming the plane falling apart, and also has a bad haircut, so six get kicked off the plane, which does fall apart, and since they cheated death, death comes for them one by one. Sidemouth Todd (Chad Donella of a Saw<\/em> movie) dies first, clotheslined in the tub. The teacher (Kristen Cloke of Black Christmas Remake<\/em>) is taken out by everything in her house in a coordinated attack, and two kids (curly girl must’ve been Amanda Detmer of Saving Silverman<\/em>, and Seann William Scott six months before Dude Where’s My Car<\/em>) die in vehicular accidents, unexceptional but for their shock timing. Despite the Goo Goo Dolls poster, Devon grew on me, and his escaping the FBI in a rowboat is really good. He and Claire are both alive at the end, but I only see her in the cast of part two. Very excited to see Tony Todd as a mortician, hoping he’d be Death Incarnate, but just a mortician… he’s in the cast of future Final Destinations<\/em>, so hopefully this will still play out.<\/p>\n

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There’s talk of alternate realities. It’s fun that the characters are named after classic horror people – sometimes it pays off, as with teacher Val(erie) Lewton, and sometimes it’s just weird… I’m sure naming the FBI guys after the Caligari<\/em> director and Nosferatu<\/em> actor looked cool on the page, but when they introduce themselves as “Agents Ween and Shrek” it sounds ridiculous. Director James Wong was a major X-Files<\/em> contributor, and named the asshole teen Carter, hmmm. Wong followed up with forgettable Jet Li film The One<\/em>, and somehow made a live-action Dragonball<\/em> movie I’ve never heard of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember why I avoided these movies for so long, but they’ve been buzzing around the internet long enough that it’s time I check them out. The first dialogue scene is a 90’s version of Doris Wishman, this ain’t good. I decided which teens I’m rooting for based on the posters hanging in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,54,2935,2809,1889,2936],"class_list":["post-14525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-horror","tag-james-wong","tag-near-death-experience","tag-plane-crash","tag-tony-todd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14566,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions\/14566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}