First a correction... I was complaining that only "Final Destination
II" showed a bit of female nudity, but I don't know HOW It slipped my
mind., 2 blonds got blond-fried at a blond-fire in a TANNING SALON
SCENE of one of the other "Final Destination" flicks. There was ample
sexploitation in that lengthy scene, in fact, the uncoverage of
breasts was almost redundant, it was like a remake of "The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly", that tanning scene had everything. But it could
never have happened in real life. Not in a million years of trying,
not even by Hollywood blonds.
But this leads me to wonder if any future "Final Destinations" are on
the boards! Who is the next director, the next screenwriter who will
agree to tackle this tricky, thrice-done topic of lurid, teenage
Thanatopsis?
Here are 2 ideas, as they occur to me, of a future "Final Destination
Four (IV)" Or maybe one could be IV, one could be V.(Five).
(1) a "Love Boat"-type cruise ship is leaving for Jamaica or Baja. A
wise brunette, already on board, has a vision of a time-bomb down in
the hold of the ship being set by a devious character. She at first
shrugs it off, then she SEES the guy who was in her vision, going down
the gang-plank, looking back at her with a guilty look. Then the
warning "everyone off who isn't sailing" is stated, exactly as it was
in her vision, and something else happens, a poodle comes up to her
and barks at her, and at the end of the leash is a prune-faced old
lady, just like in her vision. So, she suddenly screams, "THE SHIP IS
GOING TO EXPLODE! LET ME OFF, LET ME OFF!" Her friends are torn
between staying on board, or going down the gangplank to the pier with
her. Three blond chick friends stay aboard and they already have
umbrella drinks, which they're sipping as they grin, as the brunette
leads her friends farther from the ship... The ship starts moving out
into the harbor. Moments later (a bit of time-compression), just as
an obnoxious young lawyer is saying, "I can't believe I wasted two
tickets on that cruise ship, just because your stupid girlfriend..."
At that moment the scene shifts to the actual bomb, and the little red-
on-black digital display going to 00:00:01... and then back to the
angry young lawyer who's ready to fight the girl's boyfriend, when,
KA-BOOM! The cruise ship is practically lifted out of the water by the
blast, the cluster of friends on the dock is hurled off their feet
(they're all okay!), and they witness the broken ship sinking into
the harbor, with no signs or sounds of life. Then, for the next
hour, one by one, the survivors are hunted down by the patented,
usually efficient, "Spirit of Death".
(2) Here is a darker version of a possible "Final Destination IV", it
takes place in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. A platoon of U.S. army
soldiers is on patrol. Everything seems okay, they are in a friendly
part of the city. Just then one of the female soldiers, a wise
brunette, breaks down and slouches over. She's has a vision that, just
around the next corner, rocket propelled grenades are going to come in
from some rooftops and destroy the platoon. "What's the matter with
Jones? Is it her time of month again?" says the insensitive
Sergeant. Four soldiers stay with Jones as the rest continue on,
around the next corner. "No, don't go! Don't... " she pleads. "You
stay here, see what her problem is. We'll be back in 10 minutes."
"No, you won't!" she sighs. They go around the corner, and just then
two guys dressed in black pop up on rooftops at the end of the street
and fire rocket propelled grenades at the platoon. We see the
explosion but do not see the carnage. Two of the army guys who stayed
behind are hunted by the Spirit of Death over the next couple of days.
They don't get killed by Shi'ites or Sunni, they fall victim to an
exploding pressure-cooker and an electric shaver that runs rampant.
Jones and two remaining friends are diagnosed as needing some R&R and
maybe some therapy, and are sent back to Mannheim, Germany in a troop-
transport. The friend is in the 'can' when a horrible accident
disconnects it from the plane, and he flies off into space. In
Mannheim, a German truck driver chokes on a big sausage he's eating
and his beer truck slams into a trolley car, with one of Jones'
friends getting sliced inbetween. From that point on, it is Jones,
struggling to survive against the wicked ways of the Spirit of Death.
Obviously, she survives. But maybe she has to wait until the next time
death comes for her, and throws a terrorist she happens to catch, in
the way, and kill him. Thus, the jerk takes a hit and saves hero
Jones, and the movie ends happily. Or, as happy as a movie about the
Spirit of Death on the loose in modern Iraq, as if it didn't have
enough problems already, can end!
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