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The Worst Name Ever

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (24)



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5nal Destination

That’s what the fifth Final Destination movie is going to be called.

5nal Destination

That looks like the way someone would spell “Anal” on their vanity plate request to try to sneak the word past the bureaucrats. 2 Fast 2 Furious was an idiotic name, but at least had a sliver of cleverness to it in the way that “two” is a homophone for “too.” Even ID4 was better since that was not the actual marketed name of the movie so much as a logo. But this? I am going to go out on a limb and say that “5nal” is the low point in the history of the English language.

The other news on the film is that hints of the opening death scene are being leaked to drum up press. There’s a kid, a suspension bridge kills him. Wow, consider the press drummed up. See, the entire draw of the Final Destination franchise is in the utterly innocuous way the characters are systematically slaughtered. Dustin compared the tone of the films to watching a “Gilmore Girls” episode and suddenly seeing Rory get decapitated by a chainsaw. The only draw of the franchise is in that dichotomy, which is completely lost in a hinted description. The key element isn’t the chainsaw, it’s the disconnect between normalcy and the chainsaw.

Also of note? The director of this is Steven Quale, who is being described as a protege of James Cameron after working on Terminator 2, Avatar, True Lies, and The Abyss. I’m pretty sure he’s not actually a protege of James Cameron, the evidence of which is the fact that he is the director of 5nal Destination. With a mentor landing you gigs like that, who needs enemies?

(source: Cinema Blend)









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Comments

I thought the previous installment, The Final Destination was going to be just that -- THE Final Final Destination.

How deep down into the dried-up, cracked well-bed are they gonna dig, fer fuck's sake??

Posted by: Rykker at June 30, 2010 10:10 AM

5nal Destination
cuz bad literacy is kool!!!!

Posted by: madclawmannn at June 30, 2010 10:11 AM

At least it'll be easy to make the knock-off porno version, "Anal Destination". Oh my god, ARE there knock-off porno versions of the "Final Destination" movies?

Foreplay --> Fellatio --> Penetration --> Flattened by a steamroller

Posted by: Paul Southworth at June 30, 2010 10:13 AM

Five-nal is how they want it to be pronounced?

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at June 30, 2010 10:14 AM

Five-nal is how they want it to be pronounced?

That just plays into the "anal" thing again, like some terrible kind of porn. There's just no way around it, this is a terrible, terrible idea. I'm amazed the producers OK'd it.

It does, however, inexplicably make me think of the Patton Oswald bit about The Sad Boy.

"50 dicks in his ass, like the tail of a peacock"

Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at June 30, 2010 10:17 AM

50 dicks in his ass

That's, like, two and a half bags worth.

Posted by: Rykker at June 30, 2010 10:19 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it once rumoured during development that the new Tron movie was to be called TR2N?
If so, I think that's worse. Because at least "five-nal" is something that is pronouncable by the human tongue. But TR2N - how would you even say that? There is no vowel!! Would it be pronounced like ter too in? or treh twan?

Posted by: ninetwenteetoo at June 30, 2010 10:38 AM

I have never been able to make it all the way through one of the Final Destination films in one sitting. I just think they're so boring and pointless. It's an interesting concept that has yet to be executed in an interesting way. I mean, really? A suspension bridge kills a kid? At least crap slashers give me a killer to root for. It's not the same just rooting for death.

So, no, I have no plans to see Fivenal Destination.

Posted by: Robert at June 30, 2010 10:47 AM

By the end of that show, I would have loved to see Rory decapitated with a chain saw. Might have started watching again.

Posted by: dsbs at June 30, 2010 11:06 AM

What happened to the good old days of Blown in 60 Seconds, On Golden Blonde, and Saturday Night Beaver? We now live in a universe where the creative porn titles, like Anal Destination, are being used for non-porn movies and the porn industry is slapping "This Ain't" in front of whatever and calling it whack-off material.
It's to the point that when I watch Gangbangs of New York, I weep not for my own inadequacy but for the decline of an industry we all hold close to our loins.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at June 30, 2010 11:16 AM

...That's the most retarded name I've ever heard. It doesn't even make phonetic sense. 'Five-nal Destination'? Let's not even get into the fact that the so-called final film actually managed to wrap everything up in a nice, bloody little bow.

Posted by: Oracle at June 30, 2010 11:52 AM

Good gravy. On a scale from Austen to Avril, this is down there with Sk8r B0i.

Posted by: esme at June 30, 2010 11:56 AM

Gah. They should just start calling them Dickety Destination for all the sense that 5 horseshit makes. Dickety-One Destination: 3D can be the inevitable next one.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at June 30, 2010 1:10 PM

OK, wow. When you said "Worst Name Ever," I thought: How bad can it be?

Answer: THAT BAD.

Heaven help us. And really, I hate to say it, but it's all Se7en's fault. I mean, that was an awesome movie and all, but messing with the title? Stupid. Unnecessary. Pointless. And... behold what it hath wrought.

Posted by: MM at June 30, 2010 2:10 PM

anal gets a bad rap around here.

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2010 2:35 PM

Just have to chime in here as a Gilmore Girls fan that Lorelei was hugely against the whole Final Destination franchise ("The villians is DEATH!?") and I think the writers (the good ones that is) of the show would have a field day with this title.

Quite ridiculous if you ask me.

Posted by: grace b at June 30, 2010 2:49 PM

My soul dies a little knowing the douche that "created" the word '5nal' is making more money than I am.

For any horror fans that haven't come across the link below, enjoy. It's a few years old, but still a worthy listen. Have your eyes drift to the right side of the page...

http://www.movingimagesource.us/dialogues/all/view/280

Posted by: Barnes78 at June 30, 2010 3:14 PM

About the only way it could be worse is if you made it the slogan for a proctology clinic complete with rubber glove logo.

"The Clinic of Turner, Wright & Kaufman...your 5nal Destination!"

Posted by: bleujayone at June 30, 2010 4:49 PM

Banal Destination

Posted by: idleprimate at June 30, 2010 7:30 PM

5nal Destination

Just cast Lindsay Lohan and it'll automatically be mainstream porn. Best of both worlds.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at June 30, 2010 10:01 PM

TR2N doesn't seem that hard to pronounce. Trtoon. Doesn't really scream Tron 2 to me, but I am undecided on the remake at this juncture anyway. But back to trtoon, it is like tchst. People presume it is unpronounceable until you realize that you can say matchstick. Or I assume you can. Maybe you can't, in which case i apologize profusely for any inadvertent insult.

Posted by: Morgan Lefai at July 1, 2010 12:51 AM

Assumption correct, I can indeed pronounce matchstick. And I can say trtoon, but it doesn't exactly sound like a "thing" does it? Five-nal, as stupid as it is, rather obviously combines that it is the 5th movie and the word Final is in the franchise name. Trtoon, if simply said out loud, doesn't exactly suggest having anything to do with Tron, or a second film. But all this is moot, because they didn't stick with TR2N, anyway. I still think it is more ridiculous than 5nal, if not as intially tounge twisty as I thought.

Posted by: ninetwenteetoo at July 1, 2010 9:32 AM

Well, I also agree that the name "5nal Destination" is utterly ridiculous. I don't quite understand these directors and producers. They must think that it's necessary to make things more difficult than need-be. But why couldn't they have just called it "Final Destination 5"? Oh, I know why. Because they had to be difficult with the fourth film and name it "THE Final Destination." The suspension bridge idea is another big flaw. They need to quit this car shit. The second film's opening premise was a highway pile-up. They do NOT need another car thing. I just hope it does go back to the basics of the first, as the screenplay writer and producers suggested.

Posted by: Cameron at July 9, 2010 12:14 PM

Okay, 5nal?

It looks like internet slang for anal! LOL! But, seriously, what kind of a name is "5nal"? Is the slogan gonna be "they went through the tunnel, to the suspension bridge, buy they did not know that the tunnel was...... 5nal"? WTF man?

Posted by: Brendon at July 13, 2010 4:35 PM


















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