![]() ![]() Visually, 'Final Destination' looks pretty good for low budget. Could 'Final Destination' have executed its premise better? Perhaps. The more stale the concept got, the more the novelty wore off and the less effective the film. Perhaps even the best, and the one where the premise feels the freshest. While it is flawed and somewhat of an uneven film, the first 'Final Destination' is still, six years after the fifth film, one of the franchise's better outings. It spawned four sequels with the fifth film being released in 2011. The other being that it was the feature film directing debut of James Wong, best known beforehand as a veteran of 'The X Files'. The first being that it was the introduction of a fascinating and clever premise that is pretty unique for a supernatural horror. Why is this town so odd? Why are very peculiar things happening? Eden Percell, because of her desire to look into everything, begins convincing Erik that the town is full of practicing witchcraft and she even makes the statement "And I think they have gotten dang good at it." Can she convince Erik, and if so, should they risk telling the other 2 drama queens their thoughts.'Final Destination' is most notable for two things mainly. What does it say? Can they trust it? When they enter Marfa, Texas they realize almost immediately that something's off. ![]() ![]() One of them offers them a chance to look into their future by pulling a ticket from his counter top 25 cent token fortune telling machine. What attracted them to do so? Could it be the strange unexplained ghost lights that Marfa is known for? While on a fuel stop they meet two very strange employees of a secluded gas station. While on a road trip from a long weekend at the Terlingua cookoff, four lifelong friends decide to veer off road and venture into a small West Texas town known as Marfa. ![]()
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