‘I Wasn’t Happy Until My Own Heart Rate Increased While Watching It’
The post ‘I Wasn’t Happy Until My Own Heart Rate Increased While Watching It’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. New Line Cinema’s “Final Destination Bloodlines,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Courtesy of Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures Turns out you can teach Death new tricks! In September of 2022, Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky were selected out of more than 200 hopefuls to direct a sixth installment in New Line’s Final Destination franchise. It had been over a decade since the previous entry — 2011’s Final Destination 5 — which served as a stealth prequel to the original film and seemed to be wrap up the macabre mythology with a neat, blood-soaked bow. Where could Death’s grand design possibly go from here? Like the characters of the iconic film series, Stein and Lipovsky defied the odds and breathed new life into the nearly 30-year-old IP with Final Destination: Bloodlines (now playing in theaters everywhere; click here for tickets) in the same way they subverted the superhero genre with their 2018 breakout feature, Freaks. Boasting a creative arsenal of gnarly kills and a cheeky, self-aware attitude, Bloodlines knows exactly the kind of movie it wants to be. The screenplay written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor is chock full of clever setups, payoffs, hints, and misdirects that not only play with the established canon of previous Final Destination titles, but also build upon them in brilliant fashion. There’s nary a false note across the sequel’s 110-minute runtime. Audiences seem to agree, with Bloodlines setting new milestones — both critically (a near-perfect score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes) and financially (a massive $100 million global weekend debut) — for the gleefully morbid saga. “Something that was interesting, was the unexpected bloodlust of our audiences,” Bloodlines editor Sabrina Ptire admits over Zoom. “There were some shots where we were debating, ‘Is this too far? Is this too much?’ [when] based on some…
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New Line Cinema’s “Final Destination Bloodlines,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Courtesy of Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures Turns out you can teach Death new tricks! In September of 2022, Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky were selected out of more than 200 hopefuls to direct a sixth installment in New Line’s Final Destination franchise. It had been over a decade since the previous entry — 2011’s Final Destination 5 — which served as a stealth prequel to the original film and seemed to be wrap up the macabre mythology with a neat, blood-soaked bow. Where could Death’s grand design possibly go from here? Like the characters of the iconic film series, Stein and Lipovsky defied the odds and breathed new life into the nearly 30-year-old IP with Final Destination: Bloodlines (now playing in theaters everywhere; click here for tickets) in the same way they subverted the superhero genre with their 2018 breakout feature, Freaks. Boasting a creative arsenal of gnarly kills and a cheeky, self-aware attitude, Bloodlines knows exactly the kind of movie it wants to be. The screenplay written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor is chock full of clever setups, payoffs, hints, and misdirects that not only play with the established canon of previous Final Destination titles, but also build upon them in brilliant fashion. There’s nary a false note across the sequel’s 110-minute runtime. Audiences seem to agree, with Bloodlines setting new milestones — both critically (a near-perfect score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes) and financially (a massive $100 million global weekend debut) — for the gleefully morbid saga. “Something that was interesting, was the unexpected bloodlust of our audiences,” Bloodlines editor Sabrina Ptire admits over Zoom. “There were some shots where we were debating, ‘Is this too far? Is this too much?’ [when] based on some…
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