Just Some Stuff From Films That Bothers Me

 Just watched the 'Final Destination' films. While I did enjoy the mindless, brutal crazed methods of death in them, they used two concepts that truly bug me in films.

The first one is the rules that there is no logical way for anyone to know. I think the worst example of this I have ever seen is from the movie 'Cool World', where somehow everyone knows these rules regarding the cartoons' interaction with the 'real' world characters. There is no logic at all as to where they world have learned those rules, since there has been almost no interaction between the two worlds. In the 'Final Destination' films, most of the rules we are given are 100% pure speculation from the characters. Pure assumption, but we are supposed to believe these are the real, solid rules. The suicide or killing someone to take you place in death have no evidence at all they would work.
The second issue I have is how no one seems to be affected by the horrors they witness. We do time jumps at the end of several of the films and there is no sign of any level of PTSD going on, as they are all stable, happy normal people just getting on with their lives with no sense of any mental damage from watching their friends die in truly horrific fashions. In the first film they have no issues at all about getting back on a plane when the main event that started it all was a plane explosion that cost the lives of their friends. Yet each one of them should have serious issues with the idea of flying and avoid it for the rest of their lives. With all they have seen and suffered through, the idea that they could even comfortably walk down the street without high anxiety makes no sense to me. They should be expecting death around every corner, freezing up at the idea of leaving their homes, which should be almost empty and overly 'child proofed'. Yet the moment they decide that threat is over, they go right back to their old selves.
So that's my two cents on it.

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