• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I remember FD2 in my…thirties, I think, and noting that the pile-up started with the flying logs (which seemed to fly like balsa but hit like tamarack) and was the combination of a lot of things going wrong (which was consistent with theme of death as a petty shit that toys with you before finishing you off.) Really, most of the movies felt more like a vindictive gamemaster, unless the players signed up for being teens in a slasher flick.

    On the other hand in the eighties, I remember a 24+ vehicle pile-up on the San Bernadino freeway, my mom investigated as a paralegal. It started as a car stalled in thick fog, and bunches of drivers driving way faster than was safe considering the short visibility. It really showed that the weakest link was, indeed between steering wheel and seat.

    That said, industrial accidents are quite normal thanks to the drive of profits leading companies to try to sue OSHA or lobby the department (or lobby congress to defund OSHA), and yes, a lot of them emerge from companies choosing to not adhere to all the precautional requirements, and then having their infrastructure implode like a Seagate submersible.

    We have a lot more mad engineering than mad science, though there’s a moral hazard when you hire common workers to take the physical risks.

    ETA: Full disclosure, I might be biased in my view of death. In 2011, one of the contestants in an air race in Reno had a malfunction that veered the plane into the grandstands. Bunches of injured. Nine Eleven died, including my cousin, and I had to contend for a long time with the reality that an airplane dropped out of the sky to smack my cousin and kill him. (His son, a boy at the time, and the son’s friend survived because my cousin shielded them with his body.) I write about the incident here, recalling the incident shortly after Alan Rickman and David Bowie had recently died.

    Death is not an antagonist, or an anthropomorphic being one can negotiate with or trick or flee. It’s just a thing that happens when your parts can no longer sustain your vitals. Nothing requires sacrifices of life, even when situations might limit survival (such as the Titanic’s lifeboat accommodation of 1,178 survivors, fully loaded, in contrast to a passenger load of 2,209). Life is a thing, and when it can no longer continue, death happens.

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    Am I the only one that was also traumatized by the person that slips on the toilet water and dies? Like what a stupid fucking way to die but there I was terrified of flushing the toilet.

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    My Dad’s friend in college had this happen, except with a plumbing truck and pipe, and it decapitated his wife and daughter.

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    For some reason I thought that was a really big log on its way to collide with the truck from the side

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    The final destination scene was one thing but do you all remember that real video where it was I think a brick that just obliterates one of the occupants, you don’t see much but you hear the reaction from the other passenger and it fucking haunts you for years.

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        Final Destination? Darn I didn’t know this place had underage people in it.

        Either way though check 1, 2 and 3 out, they’re not high brow masterpieces or anything, but decent 2000s blockbusters, especially if you’re someone that goes on or around planes, rollercoasters and subways a lot and makes regular visits to the dentist.

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          I’m 19. And I don’t watch movies and series at all and am not American, so maybe that’s the reason why I haven’t seen this before.

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            Wild. I’m not American but I don’t think watching movies and shows is an exclusively American thing.

            Well, welcome to the world Gen Alpha, it’s a bit shit.

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              The first two are worth watching if you want a kinda sorta slasher movie. Not ground breaking like Light House or Vitch, but fun.

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                Yeah, these movies are the definition of “high concept”, like it’s an interesting premise like Speed has an interesting premise, it’s not meant to be overly complicated or artsy or sophisticated, but at least it’s just a kind of neat blockbuster, rather than more capeshit content.

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              Oh, I know, I wasn’t trying to be rude. I didn’t want to connect being American an watching movies, I just am not American, and also don’t watch movies (Two independent statements). So that second one especially makes me less likely to have seen the movies.

              Alsoy eyyyy, I’m not gen alpha! I don’t even watch tiktok, I’m just on Lemmy and mastodon…

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    I can absolutely confirm this. Always joked about it until we found ourselves out in the PNW and that joke became very real very quickly.