The Fast and the Furious franchise films

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.

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.

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

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.

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!!!

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

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!"

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 Heroes
except 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

nah i loved this - what's the one thing that could get dom to turn on his family? a second, secret family

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!!!!!

TOO SOON

1. they didn't do enough races

1. they didn't do enough races

1. they didn't do enough races

1. they didn't do enough races

1. they didn't do enough races

1. they didn't do enough races

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!!!!!

― ✖, Thursday, July 22, 2021 11:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Don't hate the racer, hate the race.

that's racist

No Fast and Furious (1927); no credibility.

Just started the first one. Keep getting the Room vibes from the dialog and delivery

Paul Walker as Mark
Vin Diesel as Johnny

2fast 2furious seems underwhelming

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

Yeah 2 fast 2 furious is awful. Tokyo drift is a fan favourite