2. Everybody - The Final Destination Series
How to begin describing a joke that outstayed its welcome after its second instalment? For a series with the moniker 'Final Destination,' it certainly took a while to reach it and there's no guarantee that they've actually gotten there yet. Death might have actually been kind to the shamefully-realised characters featured in the series. All in all this is an example of the central idea governing over the elements that build it. Of course characterisation will suffer when you take more time crafting grisly Rube Goldberg Machines to murder them than you do on the characters themselves. You go into these movies automatically not caring about anyone as you know by the end of it all of them will be colourfully executed by furniture anyway so why bother. The series is a literal character vacuum filled with such original ideas as 'the jock', 'the cynic' and 'the dumb blonde'. Every horror cliché you can imagine is in there somewhere it's like a cut and paste master class. A prime example of this can be found in the (by far the best) first film where they have Sean William Scott playing a pseudo-Stifler because they can't write their own characters. Even the protagonists, who we're supposed to root for and empathise with, are only there to have a grisly premonition and be the last one to die. When you sit down to watch something and you're irritably counting the minutes between character deaths, something has gone wrong somewhere. Plot devices may be a compliment to the paper-thin caricatures presented by Final Destination.
