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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

I saw the movie too and distinctly remember the logs rolling off the left side right where all those cars are to repeat that scene. I just stay far enough behind them to be able to break safely.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Holy shit I know right where this photo was taken! Corvallis oregon, just about to enter town from I-5. Two massive left turn lanes that get filled up during football games. Even went to Google maps street view to verify

https://maps.app.goo.gl/1ypkwgrqUE4tW5HT7

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Neat, that confirms what I was going to write as a guess:

More like, "everyone in the left lane knows the right lane has to merge just downstream from the turn."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's impressive

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Watched it , and misunderstood the point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's referring to the second one, specifically the first premonition

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

We don't even avoid driving behind logging trucks on the very road that scene was filmed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This lesser known movie came out 43 years ago

Just watch the first two scenes haha.

(Then watch the rest of the movie because Susan Tyrrell rules)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

👈👈🗿

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Then watch the rest of the movie

Co-sign, it was very good.

I noticed many commonalities with other media, which I will lay out non-exhaustively under a spoiler tag below. I welcome any additional such commonalities you or anyone else might be able to point out:

spoiler
Apprentice To Murder – A minor goes on trial for violence they did not instigate then upon release goes on to live in the city with their girlfriend

Nightmare On Elm Street II: Freddy’s Revenge – Anxiety related to and around homosexuality sublimated into threats from bladed instruments

Una Mujer Fantástica – A Queer person has to ignore horrific anti-Queer abuse they are directly subjected to lest they face additional worse abuse

Mommy Dearest – An overbearing mother figure slaps her child

Friday The 13th part 3-D – Red fabric and a rapid frame cut is used to imply blood resulting from a head injury

Empire Record – A person acting slutty and offering sex in an attempt at gaining intimate connection is dismissively instructed to preform fellatio instead

The photography of Eugeny Hramenkov – a person is forced to drink milk

A Clockwork Orange – People add drugs to milk

Clerks II – A person drops a ring on the ground as a way to deride the person in front of them

Misery – A caregiver intentionally keeps their charge infirmed to keep them around

Grandmother’s House – A person faces violence and misinformation about their mother at an initially unfamiliar relative’s house at which they are left

Meet Your Meat – A filthy pig gets shot with a gun

Harold and Maude – An older woman kisses a younger man

Johnny Mnemonic – After a lethal struggle with an adversary seemingly ends, the prior threat subsequently moves while being just garbage

Breakfast Club – A character considers it appropriate to consume things directly out of the carton

Mac and Me – Someone loses control of a wheeled conveyance and plummets off a cliff

Psycho – A killer converses with a dead body

Arsenic and Old Lace – An elderly woman keeps a body she is responsible for the death of in her basement

Revenge of the Nerds – A character coming across a condom is less-than-thrilled about the use to which the person in possession of the condom intends the condom to be put

Juwanna Mann – An aunt disapproves of her nephew playing on a basketball team

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Susan Tyrrell rules

Forbidden Zone is one of my all-time favorite movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha hell yes, what a bonkers film

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Richard Elfman put out a computer colorized version a few years ago- but he made it look like a 1930s Technicolor movie in terms of the color scheme, so it's one of the only colorized movies I've ever seen that actually improved upon the original. He also put out an even newer edition where he digitally replaced the head of the blackface guy at the beginning with a clown. I haven't seen that version. If he just updated the head and not the voice, though, why bother?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen any of the Final Destination movies, but the seeing trailer was still enough to make me stay away from the log trucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

As a schlocky horror series, they're honestly not bad.

2 is the best one. Just watch that and you'll get the general idea of all of them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's how, to this day, I have anxiety performing CPR, even for certification (which is done on a dummy) and pull out the industrial grade draino whenever a drain is even suspected of being clogged.

Watching The Thing and The Blob before you're 10, not the best for your mental health.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

If Draino works for you, great. But in case anyone is reading this and has an experience like mine where Draino never seems to fix clogs for long, especially in showers/bathtubs: try Green Gobbler. It's non-caustic, so easier on your pipes, and it breaks down clogs using enzymes to break up organic material. In my experience it's much more effective than Draino.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Draino is NOT for clearing airways!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I must be forgetting a scene...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think someone in the earlier movies loses their wedding ring down the drain and reaches in to grab it and is relieved of their forearm in a rather gruesome scene. It was like the 2 seconds I saw of the movie as a kid and it instilled a healthy fear of garbage disposals every since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never even seen those movies, but replacing the garbage disposal with a normal P-trap was one of the first things I did when I bought my house. I'm not even particularly scared of them; I just think they're kinda gross.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It just seems like the rubber flaps at the top are often kinda grimy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah they pop out and you clean them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mentioned the movies that gave me those particular movie induced phobia.

The Thing and The Blob

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

The Thing

The Blob

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just watched this with my wife this past October. Her first time seeing it, and yet she still knew "final destination says don't drive behind log trucks"

We didn't get to any of the other movies, or she probably wouldn't want to go to theme parks and she'd never tan in a tanning bed again (I'm okay with this one)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, I've seen enough stuff fall off trucks that I'm convinced it's good to do anyway. Also yeah, tanning beds are one of the more insane things that we've come up with as a species.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I always put extra space between me and anyone hauling things.

I once had to dodge patio furniture boxes on a highway because someone didn't strap everything down correctly. Didn't even realize they were shedding their cargo, it took several miles for people to get them to stop.

I always let these trucks get way ahead, or I speed ahead if they're going a little slower. I've actually seen one tip over, granted that was on a mountain road meant for passenger vehicles only, but still, I was close enough to be thankful we used a rest stop. Scary shit when you could actually get hit by a giant trunk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen enough stuff fall off trucks that I’m convinced it’s good to do anyway.

There are so many mouth breathers driving trucks and throwing stuff in the back without any idea how to properly secure loads that a long commute some days in my town is like Spy Hunter on hard mode. Mattresses, ladders, dollies, random furniture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you see somebody with their foot out the window after you've seen Death Proof.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So many horrific stories of people who basically kick themselves in the face and turn their legs backwards because they had their feet on the dashboard.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-painful-crash-mom-warns-passengers-to-keep-feet-off-of-the-dashboard/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My childhood was the two wolves fighting on if it was worth my arm coming clean off from sticking it out the window of the bus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I came upon a wreck in the back country of northern Arkansas one day where one of these trucks had lost control (probably lost brakes) going down a mountain and had ran off the road and into a bunch of trees. The trees stopped the truck from going off the drop but all of the logs it was carrying went forward and through the cab.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The funniest part for me is I've never seen this movie.

However I did see an entire minivan disappear under logs while sitting in traffic on the freeway.

A log truck got rear ended by a pickup and the chains snapped causing the logs to roll. There was a minivan in the lane next to the truck and it just disappeared.

I've been afraid of anything bigger than a normal pickup ever since.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I've never seen it, but being behind trucks carrying that or big aluminum pipes or (around here) giant limestone boulders... I keep my distance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

everyone in the left lane knows that you don't cross continous lines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I feel bad vibes when driving over a bridge under construction because of Final Destination 5

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile, GenZ: "Let's switch to the right lane." Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

came out before 911. one of the free movies to show a plane blowing up in mid air in a horrifying way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago