| | Today was alright...But I can't wait until the weekend, hopefully I'll be playing GTA: SA by then, making my character as obese and violent as possible. Eehehe....
Sanbud's Daily Movie Review:

Final Destination (R - Thriller - 2000)
Alex Browning (Ali Larter), is embarking on a trip to Paris with his high school French class. In the plane's cabin, buckled-in and ready for take-off, Alex experiences a powerful premonition. He sees the plane explode in a fiery blaze moments after leaving the ground. Alex panics and insists that everyone get off the plane. In the melee than ensues, seven people including Alex, are forced to disembark the ill-fated aircraft. Back in the departure lounge, Alex and his friends Billy (Seann William Scott) and Tod; Clear a young woman who instinctively heeded Alex's warning; Carter, whose derision of Alex's paranoia had him and his girlfriend Terry thrown off the plane; and Ms. Lewton, the teacher who volunteers to stay with the disembarking students, all watch as Alex's horrific premonition proves tragically accurate when the plane explodes in a catastrophic fireball. Ironically, even though Alex's intuition saves lives, after the crash he is plagued by both guilt and suspicion. Ominous portents of doom as well as the FBI, dog his every step. Alex comes to believe that somehow, he and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long. Clear befriends Alex, but no one, not even she, really believes his macabre theory -- not even as one by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
I was at first skeptical at the quality of this film, since it just seemed to me, to just be another "random people get picked off one by one, specifically, hip teenagers" film like Scream and all that crap, except with a twist. In actuality, it turned out to be a little more, an actually satisfying film, that I enjoyed a lot.
It starts off with the regular bunch of teenagers in a high school class, geeks, wierdos, assholes, jocks, loners, etc, including Seann William Scott from the American Pie films. The class is preparing to board a plane to France, but the main character, played by Ali Larter, has a premonition of the plane exploding and everyone inside dying. He panics and leaves the plane, six people leave with him, including their teacher, a jock and his girlfriend, a random girl, and Alex's two friends. Shortly after, the plane leaves without them and explodes, Alex's prediction coming true. Those seven have cheated death, and for the entire movie from then on, death pursues them and they one by one suffer gruesome deaths.
The way they make these deaths occurr are actually quite interesting and surprising at times, especially the gruesome death of the teacher, which involves, among other things, an exploding computer, and a rack of knives with a towel underneath. Let's just say it's pretty gory, she dies listening to John Denver...The film keeps on coming up with more and more action packed ways for the characters to die as death follows a predestined path of vengeance. Meanwhile, no one believes Alex's predictions, and instead, rightfully so, think he's a kook who probably makes the "predictions" come true himself, and the F.B.I trail him everywhere.
The films conclusion is very satisfying, and a sort of surprise ending in a way that I found quite entertaining...Death can never be defeated...
This is an alright teen thriller, certainly better than the majority of teen and horror movies, and I recommend it for at least a rental...
In the end, I give this Three Meatwads out of Five
  
DMX's Verdict-

"Damn nigga, this movie didn't even have one nigga! Not one! ARF ARF! STOP! DROP! SHUT 'EM DOWN OPEN UP SHOP! WHERE MAH MOTHERFUCKIN' DOGS BE AT! Peace..."
Sanbud's Quote of the Day:
"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Sanbud's Hate of the Day:
I really hate conservative pundits like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly...At least people like Tucker Carlson are halfway sane and intelligent, sometimes it seems like O'Reilly, Hannity, and most of all, Coulter, are in a retarded alternate dimension where Bush is the greatest president ever and the war in Iraq is going great. Especially Ann Coulter, she's really an idiot...I mean, seriously, she's not smart. There are plenty of intelligent conservatives and Republicans, and I won't say anyone is really dumb for just having a different view from me, but Ann Coulter is just...completely and utterly ignorant at times.
Sanbud's Quiz of the Day
Is Sanbud going to Heaven or Hell?

You are quite capable of evil. If you don't change your ways, you're going to Hell... but it's not too late to change your final destination!
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