Comments on: THE FINAL DESTINATION http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/09/28/the-final-destination/ What we're watching and how it measures up in Contour Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Windy Cowden http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/09/28/the-final-destination/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Windy Cowden Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:51:36 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1701#comment-781 Extraordinary post you have induced here! The internet is overflowing of horrid authorship and I was grabbed by your lucidity. Your endings are accurate and I will immediately subscribe to your rss feed to remain up to date with your up future postings. Yes! I acknowledge it, your committal to writing style is fantastic and i will now work harder on improving mine. Extraordinary post you have induced here! The internet is overflowing of horrid authorship and I was grabbed by your lucidity. Your endings are accurate and I will immediately subscribe to your rss feed to remain up to date with your up future postings. Yes! I acknowledge it, your committal to writing style is fantastic and i will now work harder on improving mine.

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]]> By: David Goulet http://contour-at-the-movies.com/2009/09/28/the-final-destination/comment-page-1/#comment-407 David Goulet Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:05:37 +0000 http://contour-at-the-movies.com/?p=1701#comment-407 I think you've hit a nail on the head here, Dan. These dead teenager flicks (to use Roger Ebert's genre label) get away with their otherwise cruel violence by attempting to turn them into pseudo-morality plays. As long as the teens are engaged in behaviour that makes them 'deserving of punishment' then we don't have to feel guilty when we thrill to their demise. It's not a new device. Chuck Norris films were notorious for setting up his foes as absolute scumbags, so when he did turn the flamethrower on them -- you didn't question the excessive violence at all. Funny thing was that Chuck often didn't get as riled up when you just knocked off his friends and family -- it was when you killed his dog...look out! If you want read the original 'they got what they deserved' mega-violence story, check out Poe's short story - - Hopfrog. I think you’ve hit a nail on the head here, Dan. These dead teenager flicks (to use Roger Ebert’s genre label) get away with their otherwise cruel violence by attempting to turn them into pseudo-morality plays. As long as the teens are engaged in behaviour that makes them ‘deserving of punishment’ then we don’t have to feel guilty when we thrill to their demise.

It’s not a new device. Chuck Norris films were notorious for setting up his foes as absolute scumbags, so when he did turn the flamethrower on them — you didn’t question the excessive violence at all. Funny thing was that Chuck often didn’t get as riled up when you just knocked off his friends and family — it was when you killed his dog…look out!

If you want read the original ‘they got what they deserved’ mega-violence story, check out Poe’s short story – - Hopfrog.

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