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first story. any connections to the Final Destination series??




Flight 180. The priest and the kid were on the plane.
Flight 180 in the FD series.
Did the writers of FD ever mention this as a slight inspiration??

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Sounds like they saw it and used Flight 180 as a nod to it.

Otto Skorzeny and ODESSA? What hath they wrought?

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Yup, they ripped this movie off.

"Keep your balls in the air, Reg."
- Rocky (Phantasm III)

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I thought of it as an homage to this film, quite clever too.

The Long Walk stops every year, just once.

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Yes, it is possible that FINAL DESTINATION gave a tip of the hat to ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNKNOWN in regards to Flight 180. I do not consider FINAL DESTINATION to have ripped this off, however. The movie that FINAL DESTINATION does copy a lot from is SOLE SURVIVOR - www.imdb.com/title/tt0181012/

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