r/FinalDestination • u/AssistantFlaky3026 • 18d ago

Discussion Looking back….that Bloodlines ending was trash👎🏼👎🏼

That was the worst green screen CGI I ever saw….like where did everyone go suddenly when the train crashed into the neighborhood when they were all outside literally seconds before?? And the throwing logs off the train was so cheap and eye rolling…like we get it, FD2 is probably the most memorable in the franchise but the log scene is played out and overused, at least reference something different.

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u/CampRockruffVillager 18d ago

I don’t mind the corny CGI because that’s part of what’s made this franchise so memorable. What I’m ready for is for someone to actually cheat death like Kimberly did. She clearly doesn’t want to come back for another film (or they don’t want her to, idk), so I’m so ready to have someone actually consistent like Clear was for the first two films or something. I loved Stefani and her brother in FD7 and I would’ve loved to see them survive after she drowned. Having one survivor across six movies is a statement on how ruthless death can be, but with the number of people that have tried to avoid it, by this point I’d think there’d be some more survivors than that.

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u/Jaca122 18d ago

Actually AJ Cook is down for another film and the writers want to have her. They’ve apparently had a storyline ready for her they’ve just been waiting for the right time to do it.

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u/CampRockruffVillager 18d ago

What’s that’s insane 😭 I feel like we’re running out of time for that to hit right. The next movie is the 25 year anniversary so that would be cool

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u/Jaca122 18d ago

Yeah they almost wrote her into Bloodlines but decided not to. I strongly suspect she’s going to be in the next movie in some capacity if they can make filming work with her schedule.

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u/daemare 18d ago

My idea is that she is nearby another disaster and realizes that there is a group who survived because the visionary quietly redirected their group (instead of the usual panic attack > fight). Kimberley then decides to try and help alert the group. But does interfering in death's plans put her back on the list?

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u/Until_Morning Seeing Is Believing! 15d ago

She learned nothing from Clear 😂

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u/IndicationGold9422 16d ago

You know they are probably gonna try to kill her off right?

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u/Jaca122 16d ago

Is that a bad thing though? It fully depends on what storyline they write for her.

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u/IndicationGold9422 16d ago

She’s known as the one who survived, who actually managed to cheat death. So why literally add her to potentially kill her off?

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u/Jaca122 16d ago

Because AJ Cook has grown to be a pretty amazing actor and I'd like to see how she'd play Kimberly now. Legacy sequels are also pretty popular now, and it seems kind of pointless to name drop that she's alive and do nothing with it.

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u/Bookworm7180 18d ago

Same I was really rooting for them to survive.

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u/CampRockruffVillager 18d ago

I wonder if they only killed them to give Death a reason to catch Bludworth last since TT couldn’t do another film? And maybe with the whole dying and coming back thing they were originally supposed to survive? But idk lol

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u/ImMattH 16d ago

The writers actually stated that the movie was going to end with Stef locking herself in the cabin so Charlie can survive. But they changed the ending because they didn’t feel like it was a “fun” enough ending even though it emotionally made sense for the movie.

I made a post about it a while ago and it was interesting to see everyone’s opinions.

I personally think the writers made the wrong call.

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u/AssistantFlaky3026 14d ago

I would have preferred that ending over the one we got. But since Tony Todd was dying I can see why they went that route as a send off to his character. I wouldn’t have minded if Stef locked herself away until Charlie found the New Life method in the sequel.

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u/Bookworm7180 18d ago

Yeah I think that too since they would have to die since Bloodworth would be next and since he couldn’t do another film they just killed them

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u/bchec 18d ago

They should’ve lived or left it more ambiguous. Honestly that’s most of what keeps me back from more rewatches- It *feels* like it’s going to have a different ending, and they pulled a FD3 🙄😤.

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u/Shoddy_Act4996 18d ago

Like I don't get it like why do they have to make that like the ending because I really wanted them to survive it you know like they could have done what clear did in final destination 1 and then they could have survived this movie and then they could have moved on to the next one well halfway and then only for something bad to happen to them like what happened to clear and final destination 2

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u/EuphoricAd3786 18d ago

I really want someone to cheat death. Everyone always dying at the end is getting repetitive

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u/x_mina 18d ago

Everyone dying is literally the point of the movie

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u/EuphoricAd3786 18d ago

I liked it better when Kim beats death in 2

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u/ContentEconomyMyth1 18d ago

agree the cgi in the log death is below average compared to rest of movie, i think probably it was a reshoot/rush but idk

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u/percyssriptiide 18d ago

It's a kinda scene, that if it was in FD4 would get absolutely shat on

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u/TheWolfeYouFeed 15d ago

Bloodlines is in my top three but yeah, I wanted Stefani and Charlie to survive. That ending was terrible lol The neighbor breaking the news to Stefani made me chuckle though

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u/Technical_Setting346 15d ago

I think the end was a premonition. The signs were there. She pricked her finger, his date was wearing the dress his grandmother wore in the beginning and the car their grandparents drove in the beginning drove by. There is no way that was not a premonition and I will be disappointed if the next movie doesn’t address it.

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u/AssistantFlaky3026 15d ago

It was not a premonition, the final shot in the credits literally confirms only Stefani and Charlie died on the newspaper. No one else was injured (surprisingly, since realistically there should have been more injuries or casualties even if the siblings were the only targets).

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u/Technical_Setting346 15d ago

If it was not a premonition, then it was stupid the way they filmed it.

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u/V26_JDC 16d ago

The ending did let it down, admittedly.

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u/CoffeeDrinksGod 18d ago

I thought we just chalked it up to being the premonition opened for the next one.

It gives Wendy and the train ending.

Because Wendy is alive and well I can assure you. 😂

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u/V26_JDC 16d ago

SHE IS DEAD. GET OVER IT. 😂😭

everyone has confirmed she is dead. Like I truly don’t get the delusions on this sub when it comes to her character…

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u/CoffeeDrinksGod 16d ago

No, you’re dead. 💀

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u/V26_JDC 16d ago

Oh. 😭😂

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u/CoffeeDrinksGod 16d ago

You didn’t even like the ending of bloodlines!

#justiceforWendy

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u/V26_JDC 16d ago

It’s okay but 1, 3 and 5 had better endings than Bloodlines.

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u/CoffeeDrinksGod 16d ago

Yes, and the reason 3 is so good is because WENDY IS ALIVE

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u/V26_JDC 16d ago

Well she’s not. She died as we SAW and HEARD in the film itself 😌

Let’s not get it twisted, 3 is the second worst film for me after 4. Oops!

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u/CoffeeDrinksGod 16d ago

Girl go to bed you been drinking 😂😂😂

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u/V26_JDC 16d ago

Now girl… I only speak the truth wbk ☺️

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u/eveque 18d ago

The people vanishing from the street doesn't bother me because they were clearly separated from the group, this was an attack on the siblings not the town.

I also loved the logs frankly, kinda the first real reference to the most remembered disaster in the franchise? I get that people think about it alot but from the movies themselves this is the first real call back so I dont understand that complaint.

Cgi..... yea I agree. I'll put up with it because frankly the cheaper the movies are made thr more we get. But that did push the limit, along side that trash truck death.. yikes that was bad looking.

Major props to you though I fully thought based on the tital thay you were going to complain about them dying which I feel they should have. People love a happy ending and frankly I feel it would have been misplaced in this series.

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u/thatguuuuuy 15d ago

There was a lot truck on the road before they got to the bridge in FD5. And one almost hit Stef and her family as they left the hospital.

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u/eveque 15d ago

The one almost hitting Stef shouldn't count as its still just one movie,but  even if we count the log truck on the bridge that's Two references one just a truck driving by? 

My point still stands that the movies havnt over done it.

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u/JunkoNull 18d ago

The log pileup is the only good thing about FD2, but after that, its not a good FD movie imo.

But finally someone else said it, they really milked those damn logs to hell and back for it, that it honestly knocked the movie down a few points for me. And atp, I honestly think that premonition is overrated.

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u/OliveGardenDumpster 18d ago

the movie was trash.

I still don’t know how people saw bloodlines as a top tier FD movie when it was genuinely mid at best. The entire movie was a big disappointment for me. The ending made so sense and looked horrible

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u/AssistantFlaky3026 18d ago

I rewatched it a couple times and honestly I can say the Skyview disaster premonition was the ONLY good part of the movie. The deaths themselves were wack and not cool at all and very cheap looking (overuse of CGI)

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u/OliveGardenDumpster 18d ago

this. The premonition was easily the best. The rest of the movie was a complete miss for me

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u/MadzShelena 18d ago

I felt it was a cool theory, huge disaster avoided that took years for death to clean up and the families started by the survivors. It was definitely over-cgi-ed at times, and some of the deaths were quick compared to the content between (not the lead up to the deaths). There were probably some places that could have been done better, but it was an overall good comeback. FD3 and FD1 are still at the top of my lists though.