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 (five 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 (four years ago) link
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― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:41 (four 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 (four 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 (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, 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
it threatens to almost not be fun but once the magnets come out ....
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 June 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
but that's also what makes the ff movies unparalleled theater experiences
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 June 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 28 June 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
Yeah the FF movies don’t really work at home but in a packed theater they’re incredible
― frogbs, Monday, 28 June 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
BN straight orange cassidy-ing the thread ;)
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 28 June 2021 05:47 (two years ago) link
sic i felt like i was right there in that fiero with them :)
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 28 June 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link
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".
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 28 June 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
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."
― peace, man, Monday, 28 June 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
[what i imagine fast & furious movies are like, having never seen one]vin diesel: the president needs us to drive our cars to spacevin diesel’s muscular best friend: easy. when? vin diesel: a week agovin diesel’s muscular best friend: you mean-both: [together] time cars— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) June 27, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 June 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
the cgi drug tunnels in fast and fourious are so bad it might as well be sharknado.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
you can have any beer you want, as long as it's a corona
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Ha yeah the drug tunnels might be the low point of the series for me
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
i need to catch up on these. i paused midway thru the fifth one and never finished
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
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
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
yeah I was thinking of doing that with my extended weekend coming up
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
start at 1
― ✖, Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
i seen the first four already
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
i said start from 1
― ✖, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
(gun emoji)
― ✖, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
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.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 July 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
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.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
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
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
let me guess - Cipher is a cyborg or some shit
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
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 thowhat Blues Bros moment?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
the 900 vehicle pile-up in NYC
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
vin is never more cyborg-like than in that scene, when hes wearing that evil hockey mask
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
i really really enjoyed F9
― na (NA), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
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).
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
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
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
she has an amazing monologue in f9 but yeah otherwise a waste of a great actor on a poorly-defined villain
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:24 (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