#david r. ellis | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

sonjackcarl · 7 months

Text

#Final Destination #horror #Final Destination 2 #David R. Ellis #film

56 notes · View notes

filmap · 1 year

Photo

Final Destination 2 David R. Ellis. 2003

Entrance Ramp Willis Rd, Campbell River, BC, Canada See in map

See in imdb

31 notes · View notes

thegirlsread · 8 months

Text

going through the final destination franchise and the fourth installation was such a disappointment coming after the absolute masterpiece that is final destination 3

#okay maybe not an absolute masterpiece but it’s truly great for a horror sequel #the fifth movie isn’t looking too good but I’m only half an hour in #final destination #final destination 3 #james wong #david r. ellis

18 notes · View notes

moviemosaics · 1 year

Photo

The Final Destination

directed by David R. Ellis, 2009

#The Final Destination #Final Destination 4 #David R. Ellis #movie mosaics #Bobby Campo #Shantel VanSanten #Haley Webb #Mykelti Williamson #Nick Zano #Krista Allen #Jackson Walker #Stephanie Honoré

13 notes · View notes

90smovies · 1 year

Photo

#Homeward Bound II Lost in San Francisco #David R. Ellis #Chris Hauty #Julie Hickson #Sheila Burnford #VHS #90s

15 notes · View notes

schlock-luster-video · 2 years

Text

On August 30, 2006 Snakes on a Plane debuted in Belgium.

5 notes · View notes

watching-pictures-move · 7 months

Text

Movie Review | Final Destination 2 (Ellis, 2006)

When viewed against the time it was made, it’s tempting to read the movie as a metaphor for the persecution complex of the evangelic right. Death is discussed almost as a deity to devote oneself to. Characters wield their belief over others as the route to survival, or one could say salvation. And a character violently embraces belief after a traumatic experience. Of course, seeing it now, it can be read as a COVID metaphor, characters alternately paralyzed in fear of or refusing to believe in an intangible and now contagious threat.

I don’t know the last time I saw a case of sequelitis this aggressive. This one is transparently a clothesline for the death scenes, which are even more elaborate, even more expansive, even more violent. The fabric in between is entirely perfunctory, like the dialogue scenes in a post-golden-age porno. Whatever contemplation the first film offered around the subject of mortality has been totally shed, and the killing off of a survivor the original offscreen feels like a cruel joke. The movie lampshades its devolution with the return of another character, who is now reduced entirely to paranoid survival reflexes, a grotesque parody of how she and the series once was.

Ali Larter probably isn’t a great actress, but she does bear a resemblance to Bridget Fonda, who I quite like, so I suspect that’s playing a role in me liking Larter as well. I have a theory that Hollywood sometimes tries to pass off actors and actresses of similar appearance to an unsuspecting public. The only successful recent case has been Samara Weaving as B-movie Margot Robbie, in part because both happen to be quite talented.

I must concede that some of the death scenes are quite well directed, especially the catastrophic traffic accident that opens the movie. The original’s death scenes brought to mind the “Chow-dare” guy from The Simpsons. The ones here are generally less accidental, but there is a case here where a guy’s hand is “stuck” in the sink because he’s actually been holding on the whole time, like a wise man once did with a vending machine.

#film #movie review #final destination 2 #david r. ellis

1 note · View note

60minutesin · 2 years

Photo

The Final Destination (David R. Ellis, 2009)

#final destination 4 #the final destination #film #cinema #2009 #00s #David R. Ellis #horror

0 notes

haveyouseenthismovie-poll · 2 months

Text

#movies #polls #homeward bound ii: lost in san francisco #homeward bound ii lost in san francisco #homeward bound ii #homeward bound 2 #lost in san francisco #90s movies #david r ellis #michael j fox #sally field #ralph waite #requested #have you seen this movie poll

80 notes · View notes

oldschoolteenflicks · 2 years

Photo

Ali Larter as Clear Rivers in Final Destination 2 (2003) dir. by David R. Ellis - for @13goingon30

#ali larter #clear rivers #final destination 2 #horroredit #movieedit #filmedit #00s #david r ellis #*#nati

695 notes · View notes

filmjunky-99 · 6 months

Text

c o n t a c t, 1997 🎬 dir. robert zemeckis

10 notes · View notes

sonjackcarl · 6 months

Text

#Final Destination #horror #The Final Destination #gif #David R. Ellis #film

37 notes · View notes

toomuchlovereviews · 9 months

Text

Final Destination 2 (2003)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ .5

I’m aware I am watching these films out of order, I still can’t find the first one on Criterion on Demand, but c’est la vie.

Maybe it’s because I always believe my friends, but I would never have let my friend drive onto the highway after hearing her vision. Wack. Her friends were not there for her.

I can’t help but feel like this whole series is like that text post about Apollo gifting people with Sight.

(Edit: THIS ONE!)

Also very wild to say “have you noticed anything ironic?” to a person that believes they’re going to die. That’s pretty twisted.

Also, sometimes, it’s not fate coming to get you, it’s a lack of kitchen safety and WHIMS knowledge. It all gets us in the end. Regardless, the tension in each death scene is so worth it.

I think that this twist on the original narrative was compelling but sometimes the actors couldn’t sell it. See: “See what? 😐 Pigeons? 🤨” and “😃 Tim! 😐” Other actors were putting their whole pussy into their performance to the point of near camp. But I think that horror movies like this make a person like myself easier to digest the horror.

You should watch this film for:

The yearly reminder that WHIMIS safety is indeed important

Edging. You get it if you have seen a single movie in this franchise.

The mid 00s dialogue, with gems like “Suck my junk, biatch!”

Similar titles:

The rest of the Final Destination Franchise (ig)

Escape Room (2019) (deals with a lot of planned horror, and asks the question ‘who will make it out alive?’)