I found them to be anti-stereotypes myself (i.e characters who start of seaming like their going to be a stereotype, but then distancing themselves from it) and I took them seriously, because I have seen far worst acting, (if that's what you mean by them being "over the top).
I do agree to some extent about the characters not realizing that Wendy was right, but in the films defence she had no direct back up for it - how can you directly prove that Death is "alive" (in a sense) and making sure that those who should be dead die, without sounding like a complete mental patient? In FD Alex found himself in trouble with the police on a few occasions, in FD2 it wasn't an issue because Clear backed up the story and one of the survivors was a cop. Had Wendy pressed the issue, she probably would have either been seen as mad, or as if she somehow engineered the deaths her self (unlikely, but the filmm could have found away) To be honest the way this film jumped from deaath to death with any direct "feed back" from anyone other than the main cast (and one character when another died) was one of the few things I felt this film got wrong.
Anyway, like I said, people are entitled to their own opinion ,and this is mine.
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rockmusicgoer
15 years ago
i hated the second one. but i liked 1 and 3.
ville valo is sexy.jake epstein is good looking. and cassie steele is hot.
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Bye_Bye
15 years ago
I respect your opinion, but the characters were clearly stereotypes. It just goes beyond opinion into fact. The tanning girls were a couple of bimbos, Frankie was a perv with a video camera, Lewis was an arrogant jock + token black guy, Ian and Erin were cynical goths. These are all lame stereotypes. What I meant by OTT is that they are also exaggerated to the point of campiness. For example, Lewis is "the arrogant jock" so he must lift weights while saying things like "I always win, Death is afraid of me" (who says that??). Since he is also black, he also has to say "Dat's what I'm talkin bout".
Anyone with common sense would be able to piece together that something was going on. Four people that the characters all know have died in ridiculous ways in just a couple of days in the order they would have died if they all stayed on a roller coaster that ended up crashing which one of them predicted would happen which is the exact same scenario that happened a few years earlier only with a plane, complete with pictures that clearly foreshadow the previous deaths. The people still questioning it after Frankie's death were retarded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmfcH5bw0s&feature=channel_page
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Nick_Jones
15 years ago
You're exactly right about the characters - stereotypical, and paper-thin, no depth to them at all. But what's even worse, most of the deaths were either predictable or just not that horrific, even the first premonition. The Token Black Guy's death was cleverly done, and the final scenes in the subway had all the horror and intensity that was missing from the rest of the movie.
When there is no more room in Hell, The Devil will reapply to the Zoning Commission.
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