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I noticed this the first time I watched the trailer but I didn’t say anything for some reason, and now a bunch of other sites have beaten me to the punch. Anyway, the “controversy” is that there’s a scene in The Final Destination in which one of the characters has his intestines sucked out of his butthole by a pool drain. Which, depending on how you look at it, is a ripoff of Chuck Palahniuk’s short story “Guts” which appears in Haunted and was published in Playboy and other places. Is it a ripoff? Is it an homage? Does it even matter, since Palahniuk’s story was itself based on a fairly well-known urban legend (update: okay, I guess it’s not a legend since it’s actually happened a few times)?
There’s also a scene in the movie in which they zoom in really fast on a character’s eyeball to show that he’s psychic, one of my favorite movie clichés. I’d like to see a quick-eyeball-zoom on Gary Busey, except it just fades into a family of squirrels playing beach volleyball. I digress, but join me after the jump, where I’ll spoil both the ending of the Palahniuk story and the pool scene in the movie. But if you honestly care about me spoiling The Final Destination, I hate you and I hope you die.
In Palahniuk’s “Guts,” the protagonist eventually has to gnaw through his own poop-filled innards in order to free himself from the drain and keep from drowning. In TFD, as per Wikipedia: “[character name] Hunt Wynorski: friend with Nick, Lori and previously dated with Janet. He is somewhat insensitive and loves violence. He follows Nick out the stadium to yell at him for ruining his game. His intestines are violently sucked out of his bottom by a pool drainage system. He is the sixth one to die.”
So they end differently. But I don’t doubt for a second The Final Destination writers got their idea from Palahniuk, though I doubt they were trying to be secretive about it. The best part is that they basically stole the joke and left out the punchline. I guess you could say The Final Destination is like a Chuck Palahniuk story with the guts sucked out. *softshoes off stage twirling hands in circles*
[see also: Vulture, ChuckPalahniuk.net]
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The difference between Chuck Palahniuk and the guys behind ‘Final Destination’ is the difference between Jackson Pollock and that stain you left on the wall with projectile vomit.
Damn it! Now I know Hunt Wynorski is the sixth to die.
Final DeIntestination.
Pool drains suck.
Is that how you dry a pink sock?
The Mighty Feklahr sincerely doubts “Hunt” was pearl diving in there. Hunt only jacks off where his frat brothers can “accidentally” catch him in the act.
I know they’re trying to be “extra scary” by making everyday objects deadly, but it just comes out looking like they’re out of ideas. If I’m going to die at a community pool, it’s going to be because I stepped on some broken glass and got AIDS. If an escalator or a car wash finishes me off, that’s just natural selection telling me humanity is better off without my seed.
Pool Party at Gene’s this weekend. BYOPFI. (Bring your own poop filled innards).
These pool drains sound like death traps. Has Health & Safety* been informed?
*as in Health and Safety Executive, not Health and Safety – the world’s most boring, but well matched, buddy cops.
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Didn’t this actually happen to a little girl? John Edwards represented the family when they sued the maker of the pool drain.
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Not as fun when the pipe sucks you, is it?
The whole scene is a metaphor for how this movie sucks ass.
We should just be thankful that they decided to rip off ‘Guts’ and didn’t include an Aggro-Crag.
I am so going to paint a van with an homage to that scene.
I am going to call it Devan Justice.
Great. First they take the diving boards because a special kid split his head open, now we can’t have drains. I’m calling the HOA.
This is no accident, dude just really hates fiber.
He was obviously a minnow. Sharks are fucking survivors, man.
I agree, Miz. Fucking minnows.
That was no 3 hour tour.
That drain could referred to as a “Douche Douche”
That quarter just doesn’t seem worth it now does it, Jew?
More rice cakes and juice boxes for everyone now!
Okay, so I guess my childhood at the neighborhood pool has been played out now. So um, shall we move onto the early teen years? Pre-masturbation or post?
nePoo! Can He bring His own pearl diving goggles? (Beer goggles!)
They stole the eyeball-zoom from That’s So Raven. In other news, Daddy needs this tumbler filled, and this time go easy on the goddamned ice.
Oski – I’m not googling this because I don’t care that much, but I think in the John Edwards case it was the girl’s hair that got caught. Could be wrong.
No no no, he was having a love child with his Persian mistress and he choke slapped her.
@Vince: That was my recollection too, a young girls hair got caught in a hot tub jet.
Fek- Pearl diving goggles, yes. Speedo, no.
PARDON ME, I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.
It’s the real thing…
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Vince, as much as I had a guilty pleasure in having fun with this movie, and as big a fan of Chuck as I am, FD did not rip it off. I have heard these stories for years. I think it was Dateline where a girl lives a normal life in the day, but at night she has to be fed through a feeding tube because half of her intestinal tract was gone. This was always a childhood fear of mine.
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That one is more recent.
Why do I always need to make a new account? Never lets me stay logged in.
Anyone seen that used video, blood on my hands? kind of reminds me of the movie in a bloody, gory kind of way hahaha. check it out on their myspace: [vids.myspace.com]
JESUS CHRIST :(
2006: Erika Tomanu, A seven-year-old girl in Saitama, Japan, died when she was sucked down the intake pipe of a current pool at a water park. The grille that was meant to cover the inlet came off, yet lifeguards at the pool at the time deemed it safe enough to allow swimmers to stay in the water as they had issued a verbal warning of the situation. She was sucked head first more than 10 metres down the pipe by the powerful pump and it took rescuers more than 6 hours to remove her by digging through concrete to access the pipe. [141]
Thats without a doubt the most embarassing death ever: getting your salad tossed by a pool drain.