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[–] 24 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Watched it , and misunderstood the point.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (6 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)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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:

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    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Susan Tyrrell rules

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha hell yes, what a bonkers film

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (10 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I must be forgetting a scene...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 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.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 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)

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (3 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.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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