Friday, February 10, 2006

Whadya know, Roger Ebert Can Be Funny.

Roger Ebert - Final Destination 3

As a lover of the morbid and macabre, I took a grim appreciation of the first two FD movies, as they were just essentially movies about unpleasant ways to die. They primarily consisted of improbable Rube Goldberg devices that ended in someone's death. For instance, in one of the movies (I think the first one) a woman pours coffee into her mug which, unbeknownst to her, cracks and begins to leak. She then walks from the kitchen to the den, where she places the mug on top of her computer monitor. A few minutes later, she comes back and turns on the computer when the monitor, which has been short-circuited by dripping coffee, explodes, sending shards of glass flying into her neck, which begins to squirt blood everywhere, and starts a fire. She then proceeds to run around the house, blood spurting everywhere, things catching on fire as if her entire house had been built out of Kingston Quick-Lighting Charcoal. She runs in to the kitchen to get the phone, but slips on a coffee spill and lands on the floor next to the counter. She can still barely reach a towel which is dangling off the counter and as she pulls it from the counter, a knife, which had been sitting on top of the towel, falls and impales her, killing her.

Cinema at its finest.

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