FINAL DESTINATION 2
I would guess that more people think about Final Destination 2 than think about any of the other Final Destination movies. I would also guess that they think about Final Destination 2 at a time when they wouldn’t normally think about a movie at all. I would say that most people are thinking about Final Destination 2when they are on a highway and they see a log truck. I would say that if you have seen Final Destination 2 and then you are out in the real world and you see a truck carrying logs that, in fact, all you can think about is Final Destination 2.
There’s a semi-trailer carrying a stack of logs driving down the highway. The chain holding the logs in place breaks. The logs start to fall off the truck. One log bounces on the road and rams straight through the driver’s side windshield of a car, killing the driver. A big red chunk of what is left of the driver is pushed through the back window of that car. I doubt anybody can name a single other thing that happens in Final Destination 2, but those 24 seconds of film had a remarkably huge cultural impact.
The rest of that scene is quite stupid, the CGI has aged very poorly, and a ridiculous number of vehicles get destroyed in increasingly daft ways. The whole thing is a premonition that the main character Kimberly has because this is how the Final Destinations go.
One character has a vision of a huge disaster (1: plane exploding on take off, 2: highway pile up, 3: rollercoaster accident, 4: car accident at a racetrack that causes the grandstand to collapse, 5: bridge collapses sending a bus into the water below) and then they wake up from the premonition and end up saving a handful of lives. The people who are saved aren’t really saved, death is still coming for them and will eventually kill them with a Rube Goldberg machine of everyday objects that combine with a deadly result.
The sad thing about the Final Destination movies is that, outside of the first one which is great, they suck. They should be the most fun movies in the world, but the special effects have aged like milk and the plots become too convoluted for their own good.
Where would I fit into Final Destination 2? One time I was driving on the freeway and in front of me a wheelbarrow fell of the back of a ute and tumbled into the road and I had to swerve into the other lane to miss it. I think of that whenever I think of this movie which is whenever I see a log truck on the highway. I do wonder how my silver Toyota Camry would go getting mixed up in all of this business. In real life just this week my Camry has decided to call it quits, what better send off for the ol’ girl than to write her into Final Destination 2.
IF I WERE IN 'FINAL DESTINATION 2' I WOULD: LIVE BUT BE IN A SHITTY MOOD FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AND I CAN NEVER TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK I’M BEING CALLOUS
