the final destination

the new final destination movie started showing today, and although i've only seen a couple two minute chunks of it, i am hopelessly in love with it. as far as i can tell, it consists of three twenty-somethings wandering around asking each other if it is really safe to be where they are. the dude assures the two girls that it is and although he is always wrong the girls totally believe him every time. after making his assurances, he is proven incorrect (often immediately) when a passerby gets decapitated by a flying tire or a plane crashes nearby or one of them gets accidentally nailed to a wall near a fire and a spilled can of inflammable fuel.

it's like the director is aware of foreshadowing (at least on a theoretical level) but hasn't quite mastered its practical application. despite this and despite the terrible acting and crappy dialogue and the tediously repetitive nature of the plot, the theater was packed for each showing -

which isn't surprising, of course. if there is one thing i've learned at this job it's that it is impossible to underestimate the public. but still, i am left slightly bemused by this movie's popularity. this one is the fourth or fifth in the series, so presumably the people coming to see it have seen at least one of the others. i am having a really difficult time understanding why someone who has already seen at least one crappy iteration of this not-particularly-interesting plot would not only wish to see another crappy iteration of this not-particularly-interesting plot, but be willing to use money that they had spent time earning to pay for tickets.


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actually, i have just had a thought. maybe they aren't using money they spent time earning to pay for their tickets. maybe everyone who comes to see that movie does so immediately after holding up a bank or knocking over an armored car or mugging the pope.

i mean, a showing of the final destination (which, despite the definite article, will unfortunately probably not be the last one) is the perfect place to hole up after doing some crimes because no person with even a single functioning brain cell would go anywhere near one of those under any circumstances.