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The gymnist

posted 13 years ago by Macka24
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Was her death the most ridiculous death in the entire series? She fell about 6 feet onto a padded mat and yet her spine shattered like glass and somehow had the force to erupt from the body.

In real life she would (at worst) fracture her neck or spine. Most likely should would just get a head knock and a headache.

Suspension of disbelief is all well and good, but it at least has to be somewhat reasonable. Otherwise in the next movie we will have someone cracking their skull open falling out of bed

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[–] Goodbye_from_Fox_In_A_Box 13 years ago

I loved her death!!! It was amazing! Of course it was 100% implausible, but it was still awesome. The one thing that did bother me, though, was that the way her body contorted, it made her torso look longer than it really was. She did not have that long of a back, her butt was bent so her legs could go over her back, and that just looked very unrealistic. They did a good job with the twitchy hand, though.

"I hardly know, which way is up, or which way down" - "I Feel Possessed", Neil Finn

[–] General_Friday 13 years ago

Man, I dunno. There was a lot of ridiculous deaths in this franchise, but hers was up there.

I mean if this could really happen to a person, you would see a lot of deaths happen this way in extreme sports. In fact, extreme sports wouldn't even exist.

- The General has spoken.

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[–] blueree 13 years ago

Agreed, I thought it was the most ridiculous too. I'm not questioning the plausibility of her dying that way, I mean I would have to question all the deaths if that were the case.

But, we knew she was the first one to get it on the bridge and thus would be the first one to get it for real and there was just so much suspense and build-up to that scene, and it was all for that death?

Someone else commented that it looked like she fell from a 20ft building and while I have no idea what that would look like, I do have to agree that it looked like she fell from a much higher distance. But, again I'm really not questioning the plausibility, just thought it was the lamest death in the entire series and I think it's because of the build-up.

That whole scene with the gymnasts, the nail, the cooling unit, etc. was awesome, the build-up that is.

[–] another242 12 years ago

Is everyone forgetting the part where the cops are looking over the scene and have no explanation for how the series of events could possibly have happened? The one guy even says that he ran it over and over and never produced the same results, implying that Death adds a little helping hand.

And it might not just be the fall that killed her, the momentum from her swinging no doubt produced some extra force that contributed to her death. Sometimes people can survive incredible accidents, but there are just as many cases of someone dying by tripping on the sidewalk.

I'm not saying it's realistic, almost every death scene in the franchise is overly complicated, gratuitous, and implausible. Like the kid who got stabbed by all the needles when he was ultimately going to die by a falling Buddha statue, or the workout room scene from FD3.

[–] rookgaroo 12 years ago

Do all of you really not understand that the bizarre deaths are the draw of this franchise? The acting sucks. The scripts are horrible. The story is full of holes but repeated every single time a new FD movie comes out. It's the deaths that people watch this crap for. What are you analyzing, anyway? Do you think it makes you look smart to point out that a small statue would not pulverize a human head? (Some genius actually submitted that one to the "goofs" section.) NONE of the deaths are believable! For a reason! What would happen if the statue gave that kid a slight concussion? Or if the gymnast wrenched her back and had to spend a week in bed? There wouldn't be a franchise. How can you not see that the deaths in these things are deliberately over the top?

[–] sday149 10 years ago

Is everyone forgetting the part where the cops are looking over the scene and have no explanation for how the series of events could possibly have happened? The one guy even says that he ran it over and over and never produced the same results, implying that Death adds a little helping hand.

another242 is correct. I was thinking the same thing the original poster was thinking when I first saw her death, but after the cop mentions it's pretty much impossible to dead the way she did, I knew that was the point. Her death was meant to be impossible.

[–] TreeHuggerKyle 12 years ago

I agree. The gymnast's death was the first one in all five movies that I truly rolled my eyes at, because I don't think she would have died or even been horribly injured.

I know we're supposed to suspend belief when it comes to the events leading up to each person's death, like in FD1 the water following the boy around the bathroom and then sucking back up into the toilet after he dies. But we're supposed to end up saying "Wow it's statistically impossible that all that stuff would go wrong at once, but if it did, then sure enough, that person would die." But in this case, it's not true that she would have died.

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[–] Ma_Vader 12 years ago

Me and my husband are watching this film right now and i clicked on this thread because the scene just happened in the film....i read this out loud to my beloved and we laughed for a continuous 90 seconds...we had to press pause. Thank you @macka24 for making this movie fun.
I'm sure in days...maybe even hours to come your thread will be the only thing we remember from watching FD5.

[–] flipper33 12 years ago

given all the ways death could have killed her, i`m surprised the script writers didn`t come up with something better or at least more believable, for example i would have had that screw not nail bounce off the beam and onto the floor, so instead of landing on it on the beam, she lands on it when she dismounts to the floor clausing the accident, candice survives the accident but is killed when more dripping water connects her to the exposed wiring electrocuting her.

[–] majestic-drake 12 years ago

I've seen all the movies and this death scene shocked me. It shocked me not in a good way like most of the unusual death scenes in the Final Destination movie series do, but because it just seemed so ridiculous and comical. Me and my sister were watching and just laughed, we couldn't really imagine how she managed to do that to herself from what she was doing! It's like what another poster said, 20 ft drop at at least. Who knows it must of been magic death dust that caused it.