The Final Destination 3D

[cybereality]

I just got back from seeing 'The Final Destination' in 3D. It was opening night and the theater was pretty packed. Mostly a young ghetto crowd, with lots of talking throughout the film, but that is to be expected for any horror film. Especially with a popcorn-style 3D movie like this it was great to have the whole audience screaming at the same time when stuff was coming out the screen. This is a big difference from the last 3D movie I saw, X-Games 3D, where it was literally just me and my friend in an empty theater.

The movie was standard teen cheesy horror and was about on par with what I was expecting. There were some really gruesome death sequences throughout the film and they spared no expense with the gore. Even so, most of the deaths were still somewhat comedic and weren't as disturbing as some of the stuff in My Bloody Valentine 3D. If you have seen any of the first 3 films you will know what to expect and fans of the series won't be disappointed. It was pretty cheesy, but you know what you are getting into. Some of the scenes were really funny though. One scene in the end had me almost dying on the floor laughing. I won't ruin it for you guys, but its ridiculous (you will know what I am talking about if you see the movie). Other than that its a standard affair, nothing groundbreaking, but entertaining nevertheless.

The 3D effects were pretty cool, I'd say. There was some very nice depth throughout the film although some scenes looked flater than others. There were more than a few "gimmick shots" with sticks or chains coming out of the screen and poking you in the eye. At first if was cool, but they kinda over did it at times. It did get a reaction from the audience though. And about an hour into the film I heard some people complaining their eyes hurt, but I had no problems. Overall I thought the 3D was well done and certainly added to the film. Not to mention, there was some brief nudity, and in 3D you really can't go wrong with that. Although it had nothing on that crazy scene from My Bloody Valentine, lol.

Overall a decent movie to watch in 3D, and finally some live-action R-rated fare. If my theory is correct we will see this film in 3D do 3 to 4 times the revenue of the 2D version. I will revisit this thread in a week or so and see how it does. Hopefully there will be more films like this in the future.

[martinlandau]

Cyber keep the great reviews coming. Just like neils stamp of approval on the games, I am gonna wait for your stamp of approval on the movies. Maybe you need a job as official s3d movie reviewer?!? You guys are gonna help save me a lot of money - thanks dude!

[cybereality]

This is how you do a 3D trailer:
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[Welder]

Me and most of the rest of the iZ3D Staff just got back as well(Me, Warface, Gmolah)

I must say, I found it SUPER awesome... but then again 1,2,3 are totally some of my favorite movies of all time...

I was actually pleasantly surprised at the 3D! I figured that a low(er) budget film would have crappy gimmicks, and poorly done 3D..

But in reality? They did a GREAT job! I don't think they had any headache inducing parts.

There's this one scene with a snake that pops out(Not original... I know) BUT, it was very well done, popped WAY out, and didn't make me go crosseyed!

There were a few artifact scenes where things didn't look quite right(Like the fence at the mechanics)

But all in all, I give this movie very high marks as far as 3D quality, and even higher marks in movie quality

My favorite Final Destination movie so far.

BUT I found that (like all the others...) they always pick a not-too-great actor as the lead role..

I give it:

3D: 8/10
Movie: 8/10



oh, and on a side note, I think I freaked the girls next to me out, because anytime someone died, instead of reacting in horror.. I'd scream "YESS! AWESOME OMG THAT WAS FREAKING GGGREAAAT!"


But I was on edge when I got home... turned my fan on, and it hit the edge of a box, and totally made a horrible noise of fan blade-hitting cardboard.. made me jump 5 feet in the air.

Picture:


From left to right:
Charlie 'Welder' Rosenberg(Me - Web master / Tech Support Specialist)
Aaron 'Warface' Rapp(VP of Marketing)
Mark 'Gmolah' Hewitt(Marketing Support)

[dreamingawake]

going to see it tomorrow night ! kinda excited now

[Welder]

going to see it tomorrow night ! kinda excited now

Great! Let us know what you think!

[cybereality]

The Final Destination scared up $28.3 million for an easy No. 1 berth, according to early estimates from Hollywood.com Box Office. ...Although just over half its 3,121 theaters were screening the flick in 3-D, fully 70 percent of its box office take came from 3-D theaters.

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Ok, so maybe I was a little off with my 3-4 times the take, but these are just early estimates for the first weekend. I'd like to see how it does over its entire run in the theaters.

UPDATE: I think I spoke too soon. I just found this quote in an LA Times article:

The investment it takes to shoot movies in digital 3-D has proved particularly lucrative for horror films. For "The Final Destination," this weekend's No. 1 movie, theaters with at least one 3-D screen earned 3.25 times as much as those that showed the movie in 2-D only, according to distributor Warner Bros.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... -2010.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks like I was right on the money. Yeah baby! 8)

[UndeadD3vi1]

I saw this movie a couple days ago and throughly enjoyed it, simply for the 3D. (It was the first 3D movie i've seen at the cinemea)

The 3D effects were great at times and I found my self blinking several times when stuff was chucked in my face. Although I saw no depth in scenes at all! Its simply pop-out to my eye. I highly recommend it though, and if your psychologically easy to influence I recommend you see it in the cinema for the ending scenes. (Those who've seen it will have noticed the 'deja vu' thing, and the attempts to add psychological impact)

[Welder]

Yea the dejavu was awesome lol

And I do agree, depth was lacking, but most scenes they tended to focus on 1 or 2 people and kinda blur out the back.

BUT I must say, I thought the crowd shots at the start of the movie looked great. Each individual person really stood out, was kinda cool

[cybereality]

BUT I must say, I thought the crowd shots at the start of the movie looked great. Each individual person really stood out, was kinda cool

Yeah, the 3d in the opening shot was amazing (the cars, the crowd, everything). Clearly they went all out for this scene just to start with a bang.

[UndeadD3vi1]

So we all agree the movie was good for the 3D. What if we watched it in 2D? Would your opinions still be positive?

[Welder]

Yea, I'd still like it. But not NEARLY as much as I did in 3D

[UndeadD3vi1]

But you still would have enjoyed the movie right? Its just I'm constantly seeing reviews like this about the movie. Its as if these reviewers have never seen a Final Destination before.

"For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!" Pope, Homer's Odyssey

Many young beauties die in Final Destination, but apparently this franchise itself may not have breathed its last. Or not. At any rate, this iteration continues the fantastic adherence to its horror genre requirements including gore, sex, air-headedness, and inevitability.

In this cycle, young Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo), foreseeing a catastrophe at the race track, saves many lives by getting them to leave the track before the mayhem. But something like the inevitability of death stalks those such as Nick who beat the grim one.

Nick is determined to stop the chain of deaths and therefore stop the deathwatch for himself, his three friends, and others attending the race but escaping. The usual visual tricks pervade as impalements and beheadings occur by seeming chance. The randomness of the universe juxtaposed with the determinism of Death gives the film a bit of an edge on the usual horror-thriller.

Director David R. Ellis carefully shows the chain of random events such as a spilled can of gasoline or a nail gun on the loose that leads to human deaths. He does not ascribe the cause and effect as the workings of Death (the characters do that); rather he shows the chain of events from a casual accident that carries out a mandate from implacable forces.

Unless you spin the theme into some cosmic debate as I have attempted here, you are left with a mediocre horror flick probably no better or worse than the new Halloween II or countless other macabre entries.

I guess I'm fated to review this farcical formula until Death has decided I've suffered enough.

"The fool of fate,—thy manufacture, man." Pope

[Welder]

Yep! I am a huge fan of the Final Destination series. And I really don't think they get the credit they deserve. The writing and directing of the scenese really do rock. And I must say, that the end part with the Dejavu was INGENIOUS!

The acting needed some work though.. but all in all, a really great movie.

[Znith]

This was one of the better 3D movies I've seen. The effects were great, the camera work was done nicely through most of the movie in order to achieve a good 3D popout effect. Acting wasn't one of the better features of the movie but thankfully the action and effects made up for it.

Some people were commenting on the lack of depth. 'In your face' explosions, debris and so forth is pretty much what sells 3D movies to the public. As 3D connoisseurs we look for depth and pop-out and sometimes feel slighted and expect more. Afterall we are the most educated of these types of movies.

[Welder]

I think a good example of a movie with liots of depth but almost no popout would be "Bolt"

And I bet there are a lot less "WOW's!" with audiences with that because of that. Sure, it looked amazing, but you won't wow the standard audience member with nice depth. But you will with bloody spikes coming through the screen!

[cybereality]

You know, for some reason I can't see pop-out effects all that well. I can see stuff come out of the screen a little bit, but if its too much it doesn't work. Like the scene with the CG snake coming out of the screen just looked like a double image to me. I'm sure other people could see it good due to all the ohhs and ahhs of the audience. Seeing depth is no problem for me though.

[Welder]

The snake was awesome to me Usually when movies try to do a large gimmick like that, I get a headache but I thought they did a better job of it

[Jadentheman]

Saw it yesterday and with as much popout they was no double image. Little ghosting on text in the begining but the snake was perfect for more illusion was kept and I didn't get any eyestrain or headache during or after the movie

[UndeadD3vi1]

Snake was also perfect for me, I think those who got double-image were sitting to close to the screen? I was sitting in the dead middle of the cinema

[iondrive]

OK, I'll be the lone dissenter.

Anaglyph issues:
I didn't much care for this movie maybe because I just wasn't in the mood for gore. I saw it in red/cyan anaglyph at home on my DLP projector and have some comments on that. I've said elsewhere that playing anaglyph 3d on my DLP looks better when played from a computer than from my dvd player and I confirmed it with this movie. The 3d from the dvd player seemed fine at times but was bad at other times. If you want to check this for yourself, watch the beginning and pause on the big close yellow sign with the number 6 on it. You'll see it, it's right in your face. Pause there using your dvd player and then with your computer and check the ghosting for each. For me, there was a big big difference in the ghosting and no tweaking of color/brightness/tint/contrast could fix it. Play this with your computer if you're using a DLP projector. Of course, it's possible that other dvd players might work better but somehow I doubt it. The RGB signal from the computer is probably just more pure or something. Anyway, on to movie comments...

I haven't seen the previous "Final Destination"s and don't plan to. It's an interesting predicament the characters are in and I like Twilight-Zoney stories like that but it went over the gore line for me. I'd also like to chime in that the snake was too close but then I was sitting pretty close to the screen/wall. I think the teasing was good and I liked the ending scene with the fire even if it was a little goofy. Yes, there was something weird-looking about the fence, like it was CG or something. I did like the race and crowd scene in the beginning minus the gore but overall, it seemed like there was not much 3d in this movie for me. I think I would have enjoyed it the same in 2d. No, that's not true, I did appreciate some of the 3d effects. Anyway, the previous anaglyph movie I've seen was Coraline and I enjoyed that one more than this and I think it looked better too, 3d-wise that is, even though it was green/magenta instead of red/cyan. IMO fire looks better in red/cyan rather than green/magenta. I think that's all I have to say about this movie. I guess I'll give it a 5 out of 10. It's fine if you want to see a 3d movie and don't mind gore. I'm glad they didn't have too many scenes with extreme popout like in the old 3d movies. Just the snake and that's it really. Other popout scenes were short enough and mild enough to not bother me.

--- iondrive ---

EDIT: I figured out what was missing from this movie. Compare this movie to "The Omen" since some scenes reminded me of that movie. In "The Omen", the character has a mission other than to just survive and there's a real sense of loss/injustice/murder when a "freak accident" kills someone. There's an evil force behind it. In this movie, it's just some people cheating Death and it's just their time to die when it happens so there's not really a sense of injustice or evil. It's just Death doing his job. At least that's the sense that I get while watching this movie. I would also have liked some reason for why some were temporarily spared and the movie doesn't say why the man has the psychic visions. Maybe that's explained in the earlier movies. There were some good things though like the deja vu near the end. By the way, I would have given the last psychic vision near the end of the movie to the girl instead of the guy. N-E-way, C U L8r.

[gamergal8292]

I saw this too in 3d, and I have to say, for a cheesy horror flick, it was a great deal better watching it in 3d! It is probably one of the better 3d films that I have seen in a quite awhile, so I was impressed! I actually jumped a few times myself! I'd love to eventually watch movies on a 3d tv while relaxing in some of my own home theater seats in my house.