^^^
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
fast five is legit a masterpiece fuiud
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
I've been meaning to dip my toe back into this franchise because I guess they went through a resurgence or something? Only saw the first one way back when though. Not sure where to begin.Fast Five
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
it's fast five. tokyo drift significantly hampered by the total charisma black hole of the lead actor
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
In 2015, Black returned to play Sean Boswell in Furious 7 making a cameo, his participation was somewhat disappointing as fans of the saga waited for Black to have a more important role in the seventh installment.
citation needed
― omar little, Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
four or two is the worst i think. four is great as course-correction and sets in motion all of the cool things that happen over the following three movies but it's p dour and joyless otherwise
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 19 April 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Fast Five closely followed by Fast & Furious 6. Also, hard disagree on Charlize hate upthread. She was legitimately great in Fury Road and Atomic Blonde was dope as hell, too.
― methanietanner, Thursday, 19 April 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
it's the poll that had to be made
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 20 April 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
if this isn’t a landslide for fast five i’m ragequitting ilx
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 April 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
i'm rewatching these now. just saw the first one, which my wife loved. i remembered it being kinda stupid but actually it's a pretty sharply plotted film, with acting that ranges from pretty good to extremely good.
It's hard to sell some of the dialogue, and it's funny to watch Ja Rule betting a lot of money on a long shot and losing it all and then vanishing from the scene after the first act, and it's ***extremely weird*** to watch Vin Diesel relate the story of how his dad died when he was a kid in a fiery car crash while a conflicted Paul Walker listens sympathetically. yeesh. But the pacing of the movie is great, and it doesn't look like a cheap film, it looks amazing.
― omar little, Friday, 20 April 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 20 April 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
i remembered it being kinda stupid but actually it's a pretty sharply plotted filmand that sharply-plotted film is called point break
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 April 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
i think the F&F series is maybe the only one w/retconning that actually works? i was trying to explain it last night and i got lost but it does make sense iirc.
― omar little, Friday, 20 April 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
when jesse dies in the drive-by... i felt that
― 龜, Friday, 20 April 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, April 20, 2018 9:37 PM (yesterday)
the suspense is killing me
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lxu75r3-kI
― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
lmao
I will probably see this
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
love it
the memory of Han Seoul-Oh receding quickly into the past
― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
100% here for this.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 1 February 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
F&F has gone fully science fiction now
― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
Han was/is their coolest character. Can't forgive Shaw for that, even with Statham giving exactly the muggable performance you'd want from him. The offshoot I'd like to have seen would have paired Han & Gisele, plus Roman & Tej and/or Tego & Rico.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 1 February 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
"I'm here to save the world...it'll be my 4th time" c'mon folks that's funny
fully on board for F&F turning sci-fi. why the hell not
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
i have zero complaints about that trailer or this franchise turning even more absurd
― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
fuck yes
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
looking forward to Dom Toretto driving a souped-up street racer through the wall of an exploding ISS and into the open hatch of a nearby space shuttle piloted by Michelle Rodriguez.
― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
so psyched for the vital baldness representation breakthrough that hobbs and shaw represents after decades of shameful hollywood baldshaming
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
they're trying to force Idris into it
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
jealous of his silver fox snowy peaks
"You either die a villain, or live long enough to see yourself become the hero."
― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
apparently there's a second spin-off movie planned following the women of F&F
― mh, Friday, 1 February 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
two hours of seven women taking turns to look at a framed photo of Vin Diesel, and shift their weight from one hip to the other
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
I smoked a joint. Started on f&f 7 but nah cldnt finish it. Just wasn't stoned enough, I guess. Also been reading how PW liked his girlfriends young (16 / 17). :-(
― nathom, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
oh nm this is actually a low-key film about the importance family loyalty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYM7Y_mrq9M
― omar little, Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
This was fucking great, for the record (though watching the trailer there I'm struck by how a few things from it never made it to the finished film - there's one obvious story scar)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
hobbs and shaw is the best film of the 21st century
don’t @ me
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 12 September 2019 06:58 (four years ago) link
While the MCU thread is bewailing large franchises, from an IGN article on Keanu Reeves joining the F&F franchise
Other than that, Fast & Furious 10 has been announced alongside three spinoff movies. According to Diesel in an Instagram post from January: one spinoff will feature the franchise's first female lead role, and the other has yet to be announced. Hobbs & Shaw was released in August, which is believed to be one of the spinoffs Diesel referred to.
Morgan spoke to Entertainment Weekly over the summer and said an idea for a spinoff featuring Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson's characters has been around for years.
The Ludacris/Tyrese spinoff seems like a no-brainer. My two favorite characters of the series, now that Han's out of the current timeline.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyw6LC5pnE
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
we’re living in a post-hobbs & shaw world now, your petty vin dieselses mean little to me
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
we’ve been working toward “cars can fly” since that building-to-building jump in... was it dubai?
― caucus fricked iowa account (mh), Thursday, 6 February 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
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, 6 February 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Thursday, 6 February 2020 04:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
35164278
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
5 and 6 and 1 basically tied though
tokyo drift on a different level, such a moody, pretty movie
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
I love the exasperated "YOU'RE the police!" line from Vin towards Walker in the og film
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
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)
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, February 6, 2020 2:24 PM (one year ago)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 27 June 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
saw fnine on friday, it's soooooo fun
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 June 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
or like a ghost car with a cloaking device.... i'm not picky
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
and i'm in the same boat insofar as i also no longer care about the characters or their relationships. but i'm sure i would dig the movies more if i did, and i think it's mostly the movies' fault that i don't.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
yeah tbf i guess its a chicken and egg thing, i stopped seeking it bc the movies stopped providing it
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
upload their consciousnesses into the cars and have it be human-free.
omg this would rule
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Hobbs & Shaw sucks bcz The Rock has control over the script to such a degree that his character cannot face a setback and then overcome it, only fist-fight to a draw (against killer robots) repeatedly until he can finally chain enough trucks together - through the power of fambly - to punch a helicopter out of the sky. And 98% of his dialogue is ~witty banter~ about how big and tough and smart and accomplished and unstoppable he is.Jason Statham, a man who has starred in the first two Transporters and the Cranks and Safe and The Bank Job and Spy, knows that audiences enjoy seeing a protagonist show vulnerability, or struggle and overcome obstacles, or be clowned on for a ludicrously overblown self-image, or to actually engage in clearly-filmed fight choreography. But he can’t do any of those against this version of The Rock, so his best value is rolling his eyes and making wanker / jerkoff hand motions in response to Rock braggadocio.(nb: he is very funny doing this, but weighed against the “jokes” that don’t land…)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
And 98% of his dialogue is ~witty banter~ about how big and tough and smart and accomplished and unstoppable he is.
so desiring an F&F film without braggadocio?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
(I kid....but honestly I'm less interested in this movie anyway because I don't know that I need F&F side stories)
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
tbf there is an ideal amount of Mr Nobody in #9. if they made a film every 13 months then rostering characters in and out like that would give more room for everyone to breathe (and Luda to interact with more non-Tyrese ppl)obv they do a lot of rostering already, just that the rep company gets bigger every flick anyway
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
tbh if Mr Nobody is a cipher in the film he's kind of lived up to his character iirc
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
I've never seen these. If I want to skip through the dross and the almost-good-ones, I should watch Five first, right?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
yes
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
Hobbs and Shaw was worth if only for this incredible line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GItw0IcfHHg
― DJI, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
Worth IT
― DJI, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL this movie omg
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
thoughts: I liked it better than 8. it was dumber than usual. brother feeling snubbed so he becomes a super terrorist felt false as hell, absolutely zero reason for Cipher to be back, and the space thing was completely cornball. and the hamhanded family shit started to get really annoying, esp with Dom's life passing before his eyes as he was about to drown.
but it was still enjoyable, mostly due to:
-magnets (the gift that kept on giving)-Otto being pathetic-the opening car chase/introduction to Jacob-Ramsey's destructive drive through Edinburgh-Tyrese actually getting to be a badass a few times rather than just being comic relief-every scene where Elle got to kick ass-Michael Rooker!-Cena's 'break out of prison' scene
really wish they'd go back to something a tiny bit less ridiculous like Fast 5 though, where the shit's still over the top but it's like, ya know,something simpler like robbing a drug lord, not SAVING THE WORLD lol
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:51 (two years ago) link
also mad props that they are still keeping Brian alive while knowing they can't ever show him on screen again
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
can I also say the Han plot point is hilarious for how convoluted it makes what was originally a straightforward death after the second retcon.
it goes from
dude is being chased by Yakuza guy he stole from, and in the chase, gets t-boned by a random vehicle, resulting in his death
TO
dude is being chased by Yakuza guy he stole from, and temporarily escapes, only to coincidentally be murdered moments later by Deckard Shaw, who was ALSO pursuing him as revenge for his brother
dude is being chased by Yakuza guy he stole from, and temporarily escapes, only to t-boned by Deckard Shaw, who is trying to murder him as revenge for his brother, and despite the fact that you see Deckard igniting the fire, apparently this was orchestrated by Mr Nobody, who pulled Han out seconds later and...idk, pulled Han out of the car, with nobody seeing it happen despite everybody watching?
like it's so ridiculous it's hilarious and I accept it.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
^ gets it
join us Chuck
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 05:44 (two years ago) link
giving ramsey something to to other than speed-read exposition was a good move.
i love the fact that there is literally zero explanation for how john cena went about becoming an elite international supervillain, and no one is even curious about it. in the world of F&F that is just a completely normal life path.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
i understand where each of doc casino's notes upthread are coming from, but the han retcon is totally in keeping with the ridiculous and pointless ff house style and i loved it
it does make tokyo drift a more worthless movie, which i'm also cool with
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
my beef with the Han retcon was that it was just kinda boring and generic as-presented. like okay he adopts a kid.... idk, felt like maybe those flashbacks originally had more charming Han energy and got cut for time.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
also re: the magnet-car stuff: this was often fun, but --- this maybe says more about where i'm at than the movies --- i'm also really really distracted these days by sequences where it seems patently obvious that dozens of bystanders are being killed amidst the mayhem, and in order to keep the tone light this is just never ever mentioned. feel like it's been a problem since the series ramped up to Mission Impossible level setpieces, but really stood out to me in the magnet-car street chases, where the people dying (or having their stores destroyed, etc.) aren't yknow paramilitary mercenaries actively trying to kill the heroes, as in the wilderness chase sequence. like at the LEAST, give me a quick "before" moment where the store owner is really snotty to someone, and then an "after" shot where we see them alive and well but looking! at their ruined store and it's like, that's what you get you snob!!!
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
oh i totally think of that any time I see these movies, actually. like your little reckless escapade probably paralyzed or killed a buncha people who were smashed into by a military vehicle but HEY YOU PRESERVED YOUR FAMILY.
I was thinking of it last night and it seemed my brain wasn't going to let it go so I just pretended not to notice. like they turn the magnet on and a bunch of cars parked on side road are basically crushed into the side of the military car and I'm like....I mean, isn't it possible that some of them were occupied with people who just parked, or were getting ready to leave? you can't just ASSUME THEY'RE ALL EMPTY because they're parked!
same thing in the Black Widow movie, where they basically lead the villain on a car chase that probably iced at least 20 civilians
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
my brother gave the best review of Batman Begins, which at the very end, he shouted in the movie theatre "Thanks, Batman, for saving Gotham by destroying it!"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
innocent bystanders never die in the F+F movie universe, they come close and walk away unscathed with an interesting story to tell about Our Heroesexcept in fast 6 when the bad guy was running over civilian cars with his tank, which was the only time a bad guy seemed truly irredeemable (except he sort of gets redeemed, of course)
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.― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 20, 2021 11:26 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 20, 2021 11:26 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
nah i loved this - what's the one thing that could get dom to turn on his family? a second, secret family
― ✖, Friday, 23 July 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
my complaints about every movie:
1. they didn't do enough races
2. the races in these movies are fucking terrible, it's the same thing every time, the loser presses the button to make their car go fast, dom smirks and says "too soon" and then presses the button that makes his car go fast right before the finish line. sometimes, there's a second button that makes the car go fast a second time. apparently the only factor that separates bad racers from good racers is when they decide to press the button that makes their car go fast.
3. they didn't do enough races. these are movies about racecar drivers!! they should race!!!!!
― ✖, Friday, 23 July 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
TOO SOON
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 04:29 (two years ago) link
1. they didn't do enough races1. they didn't do enough races1. they didn't do enough races1. they didn't do enough races1. they didn't do enough races1. they didn't do enough races
― calstars, Friday, 23 July 2021 06:47 (two years ago) link
― ✖, Thursday, July 22, 2021 11:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Don't hate the racer, hate the race.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
that's racist
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
No Fast and Furious (1927); no credibility.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 26 July 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
Just started the first one. Keep getting the Room vibes from the dialog and delivery
― calstars, Monday, 7 March 2022 04:00 (two years ago) link
Paul Walker as MarkVin Diesel as Johnny
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
2fast 2furious seems underwhelming
― calstars, Sunday, 13 March 2022 02:58 (two years ago) link
it's one of the worst, a kind of parallel universe easy breezy sequel that's easy to conceptualize if the other 50 movies never happened.
and then tokyo drift is basically a spinoff but also my favorite
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
Yeah 2 fast 2 furious is awful. Tokyo drift is a fan favourite
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:15 (two years ago) link