Matt Damon and Ben Affleck turn their backs from director, Gus Van Sant dejectedly as they prepare a scene from the sequel to their former collaboration and it's entitled Hunting Season. Gus continues to count the millions of dollars in his possession by the side of the stage.

Ben Affleck(sarcastically): You're a true artist, Gus...

Matt Damon: Just take from it, it's a good course.

Ben: What. You're the director now?

Matt: Hey shove it, Bounce boy. Just remember who talked me into doing this shit in the first place. I mean talking me into Dogma is one thing but...

Ben(interrupting): Hey sorry if I dragged you away from whatever gay serial killer who rides horses and likes to play golf touchy feely picture you're gonna do this week.

Matt: I take it that you haven't seen Forces of Nature.

Ben(chiding): You're like a child. What do I keep telling you? You gotta do the safe picture and then you do the art picture. Then sometimes you gotta do the payback picture cuz your friend says you owe him.

Both actors then stare into the camera pointedly.

Ben: Then sometimes you gotta go back to the well.

Matt: Yeah and sometimes to do your Reindeer Games.

Ben: See...that's just mean.

I can't help but post that up. I find that part from Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back too hilarious! Kevin Smith rockz my dvd collection. Anyhoo, been away for a while now cuz the pace is picking up. I've got less than 2 weeks before I head off to Perth and hence been really busy buying stuff, packing and hanging out with loved ones.

I caught Final Destination 2 with Jo today and it's pretty good. Being a sequel, the death scenes were choreographed more elaborately and there was more gore, all in a bid to outdo its predecessor. Admittedly, they were rivetting and not to mention bold and rather shocking but it scaled the thin line between being astounding and just overdoing it. And that's quite a serious consequence since what I love and appreciate about the first film was its subtlety and sense of mystery; where each and every incident was a lethal coincidence and Death worked behind the curtains so to speak. Death was metaphysical then. In Final Destination 2, the supernatural aspects were being played up.

The movie pretty much keeps the idea from the first film as well as the characters' common objective(to stay a-live! bwahahaha!) but includes a new perspective into Death's Design, how to bend the rules to cheat it again and how and why the characters are involved in this sinister entanglement that started from the tragic demiss of Flight 180(from the previous one). However, I had also hoped that this time around, the movie would explain about the premonitions. Like how and more importantly why Kimberly(the protagonist portrayed by A.J Cook), like Alex(Devon Sawa from the first), was having them. And what enabled her to have access to such visions. It's just a thought of mine...perhaps Kimberly(as well as Alex) was given these clues by an opposite entity, the Fate of Good maybe, to counteract the malevolent forces of Death? After all, the chain of events do stem from the basic process of cause and effect. So it'd be interesting if the film makers had dealt with that for a bit.

Personally, I do prefer the first Final Destination but it didn't stop me from enjoying this installment also. A couple of corny moments mar it a little and the ending(which is kinda corny too) is not as staggering as its predecessor but it's worth well the attention. Well, just my 2 cents worth of attention anyway...