The Fast and the Furious franchise films

Suspension of disbelief is odd and subjective.

Was fine enough with the F&F "Russian sub/ice/car chase" scene, but the H&S "we'll wait to shoot until your mesmerizing haka is complete" followed by "linked vehicles dangling from the helicopter while the leading vehicle maintains road traction" scenes were just too much for me.

There's an alternate universe version where the entire Hobbs clan is mown down a la "Raiders of the Lost Ark" while the bad guys giggle.

we’ve been working toward “cars can fly” since that building-to-building jump in... was it dubai?

The last 5 years of my life have been animated by a hope that one or all of them will drive a car in space in F&F10

feel like there’s no way Dom at some pt doesn’t strap himself into the drivers seat of a car being shot up to space via rocket by an Elon musk-style megalomaniac.

Did a full 1 through 8 rewatch over the last week in quarantine with my partner, fantastic isolation viewing. And while I still might vote for 5 pollwise, the whole sequence in 7 with the skydiving cars directly into the mountain car chase and ending with Vin Diesel straight up driving his car off of a 1000ft cliff and emerging without a scratch, that might be my favorite sequence in any of these.

My partner (who had never seen any of these) greatly enjoyed how by #8 the filmmakers had fully given up on the pretense of having the characters hold walkie talkies or anything, and just had them talking to each other in normal tones of voice and being heard in all their different cars, as if by telepathy.

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5 and 6 and 1 basically tied though

tokyo drift on a different level, such a moody, pretty movie

I love the exasperated "YOU'RE the police!" line from Vin towards Walker in the og film

The last 5 years of my life have been animated by a hope that one or all of them will drive a car in space in F&F10

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:24 PM (one year ago)

saw fnine on friday, it's soooooo fun

it threatens to almost not be fun but once the magnets come out ....

i was gonna update the ff vs m:i thread and say i still believe m:i is the better franchise bc almost all of the movies are legitimately good like... structurally sound and well-written, whereas ff is by movie 5 nigh-psychedelic overloads of action nonsense only faintly pinned to the ground by cast chemistry and rote melodrama

but that's also what makes the ff movies unparalleled theater experiences

well put, brad!

realized some time ago that well-structured movies aren’t necessarily good or bad by that rubric alone. MI movies aside, there are a lot of things I’ve seen in the last decade where the good/bad axis isn’t even in play and it’s just a rote, well-constructed money funnel

Yeah the FF movies don’t really work at home but in a packed theater they’re incredible

BN straight orange cassidy-ing the thread ;)

sic i felt like i was right there in that fiero with them :)

i wasnt loving this for the first half, felt like it was coming dangerously close to a franchise about a team of elite hackers who also sometimes drive cars. but once the magnets came out it was all good. did anyone else get serious Frankenstein vibes from vin's big fight scene in the underground lair, the falling rocks and dangling chains and vin's blank affect?

only nitpick that actually bugs me is, i was a bit disappointed with the reveal of how han survived - thought that was a great opportunity for some kind of cool little scene or twist - felt anticlimactic how he just was like "yeah turns out i got out of the car and nobody saw".

Inspired by the FF vs. MI poll, I've been plowing my way through the FF movies the past few days (which I've never seen, barring the first one).

Revisiting the original was good entertainment and made me nostalgic for a particular time and place. Is "Make ya own Goddamn popcorn!" considered a classic line? It should be.

2 Fast 2 Furious was not as terrible as I had been led to believe? There were parts of it that were transparently stupid, like the storage locker scramble, but I was pretty entertained throughout.

I'm pretty skeptical of Tokyo Drift so far. It starts off with the song that turned me off DJ Shadow and the main character hasn't done anything particularly likeable so far. I've got it paused at "Japanese food is like the army: don't ask, don't tell. Name's Twinkie."

[what i imagine fast & furious movies are like, having never seen one]

vin diesel: the president needs us to drive our cars to space

vin diesel’s muscular best friend: easy. when?

vin diesel: a week ago

vin diesel’s muscular best friend: you mean-

both: [together] time cars

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) June 27, 2021

the cgi drug tunnels in fast and fourious are so bad it might as well be sharknado.

you can have any beer you want, as long as it's a corona

Ha yeah the drug tunnels might be the low point of the series for me

i need to catch up on these. i paused midway thru the fifth one and never finished

the worst thing about these movies aren't the movies themselves, it's the people I know that like absolute crap movies who are like "OMG these are such STUPID mooooooovies wow America is DUUUUUMB"

start again on Five without watching any of the first four btw

yeah I was thinking of doing that with my extended weekend coming up

start at 1

i seen the first four already

i said start from 1

(gun emoji)

saw 9 at the theatre last night. first time at the theatre since once upon a time in hollywood, whenver the hell that was released.

had vibrating seats, "d-box" or whatever, was novel, silly.

great movie of course 10/10.

just got through 6. was fun, though not as good as Fast Five.

gonna finish 7 and 8 so I can see 9 in theatres.

I did love the hilarious way they explained away Letty's death, which made no sense but was audacious as hell that I appreciated it.

lol at the Blues Brothers moment in F8 of the Furious

let me guess - Cipher is a cyborg or some shit

so far they have kept cyborg villains to the Presents sideline… as far as we know. it would explain Cypher living imprisoned in a glass cage with leather trousers and no toilet in F9 tho

what Blues Bros moment?

the 900 vehicle pile-up in NYC

vin is never more cyborg-like than in that scene, when hes wearing that evil hockey mask

i really really enjoyed F9

think i'm going tonight. i'm finally caught up!

i didn't really like F8 that much tbh. last half hour felt endless, though it had some awesome over the top moments. Cipher just seemed a waste of Theron, who I loved as Furiosa. kind of a nothing character who got defanged a little too easily.

of the later films, Fast Five is definitely my top, then 6, then 7. though the Paul Walker ending definitely got me emotionally with 7 (imagining moreso had I seen it shortly after he died).

excited for your f9 thoughts.

otm re:cipher being a waste of theron, that character completely puts me to sleep. would be a lot better if they had a character actor in there who might camp it up a little more imo

she has an amazing monologue in f9 but yeah otherwise a waste of a great actor on a poorly-defined villain

the events of these movies disappear from my mind immediately after watching them, and i have seen them all multiple times (except for f8, which i realized i accidentally skipped)

I was also disappointed at the reveal as to how Dom was convinced to go turncoat. i thought maybe he'd done something heinous in his past that was going to get exposed, not...that he had a secret baby.

i don't think much will ever top the scenes in Rio (which I guess was really Puerto Rico made to look like Brazil) though from Fast 5.

i'm finally caught up!

you could see if there’s a supercut of Helen Mirren’s scenes from F&FP:H&S on youtube, but nbd if not

oh forgot Hobbes and Shaw, lol

i think I saw thirty minutes of that at a friend's and then just didn't enjoy it because I barely knew who the characters were at the time.

hobbs & shaw was ok but i liked all of the hobbs & shaw content of f8 more than anything in the actual hobbs & shaw movie. big fan of the bit with statham & the baby on the plane, and whole bit with them in jail together & breaking out