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Josh Lyman posted:Tokyo Drift is a god-awful movie with god-awful acting and I don't understand why everyone in CD loves it. During one of the mountain races, they blatantly reuse a reaction shot of the love interest and it's incredibly distracting. It was so bad that I didn't end up seeing Fast 4 until after Fast 6's huge opening weekend. The movie is so ridiculous it's good. All the car driving parts are excellent sans the "night drift" bs. My face:
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Casimir Radon posted:Kurt Russell doesn't die. Special forces medics come flying in on a helicopter. The way they leave him sitting by the side of the road and the way the chopper was not really visibly approaching made me think his "insurance option" wasn't so much his but his bosses', and I thought he knew that and Dom knew that.
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ruby idiot railed posted:The way they leave him sitting by the side of the road and the way the chopper was not really visibly approaching made me think his "insurance option" wasn't so much his but his bosses', and I thought he knew that and Dom knew that. Lol
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Echo Chamber posted:More importantly, while most critics panned the movie for being dumb, Ebert was the big exception. I'll just link to the review so here it is. Ebert helped maintain the franchise's fragile critical credibility when most others were already reducing the films to a punchline.
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He also gives it three stars. He makes fun of it but still recognizes what the point of the movie is. Other reviewers would make fun of it the same way and then give it 1 star because of those reasons.
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ruby idiot railed posted:The way they leave him sitting by the side of the road and the way the chopper was not really visibly approaching made me think his "insurance option" wasn't so much his but his bosses', and I thought he knew that and Dom knew that. He's already been confirmed for 8.
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Also he winked, so he's alive. Or a clone. Or uploaded to an AI. Or a Force Ghost.
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I'll be honest, I was kinda surprised that Kurt Russell DIDN'T betray that at any point. So at this point, how many times has Dom totaled his dad's car? He smashed it into the train in 1 and then loving WEAPONIZED his signature lift-the-front-end-of-his-car-while-accelerating move to trash Shaw's Aston Martin, but later jumped it into the helicopter. Not complaining, because it did lead to what was basically a Shaw-Toretto lightsaber fight with wrenches, complete with the Duel of the Fates-esque soundtrack ninjahedgehog fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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I think some of the better moments was playing with expectations. You'd expect the car to blow up. You'd expect betrayal at couple of points. But instead it goes through fine. I loved the moment Kurt put on his nightvision sunglasses and went to town one shotting baddies. Also the opening to establish Jason Statham's character was loving awesome. You got it right away what he is and what to expect.
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Big Bob Pataki posted:I unironically think the evolution of the Fast franchise is the most interesting movie series progression ever.
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toanoradian posted:Few questions: The first three films are pretty different from what comes after, they're basically a loosely connected trilogy revolving around underground street racing with a side order of crime. The first movie sets up the Dom-Brian relationship. The second film doesn't have Dom at all but introduces Roman and Tej. The third movie is almost entirely unconnected (no Dom or Brian) except for Han, and didn't get sutured back into the series main story until the end of 6. Four (Fast & Furious, no articles) is basically the reboot where Dom and Brian reconnect and the balance of the series starts shifting away from racing and more towards car-based combat action. 5 is the start of the new trilogy where what everyone expects from the series started and they brought back characters from all the previous films to form the Avengers-style superteam that defines the franchise now.
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I'm definitely speaking from a position of having seen almost all the movies (still need to catch Tokyo Drift), but I think it's absolutely worth watching them. They are less ridiculous and can feel dated, but are still totally awesome in their own ways.
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Quasipox posted:I'm definitely speaking from a position of having seen almost all the movies (still need to catch Tokyo Drift), but I think it's absolutely worth watching them. They are less ridiculous and can feel dated, but are still totally awesome in their own ways. You're in for a treat when you watch Tokyo Drift. Try to watch it tonight. As far as I can see, non-US Netflix (at least), has the first 4 films.
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# ? Apr 5, 2015 20:20 |
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Tokyo Drift is awesome because it's the first movie that really established the "we don't give a gently caress and are just giving people exactly what they want, but are going to do it well," tone. The first was just an earnest remake of Point Break, and the second, a cartoonish, weaker retread of that, but the third is where the series first really found a voice of its own.
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40 Proof Listerine posted:Someone pointed this out in the Fast and Furious 6 thread and it's even more true in this film - this whole franchise is a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, but instead of magic swords everyone had magic cars. Here's the original post: This is retarded, please don't post it ever again. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Apr 5, 2015 20:27 |
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Given that Vin is a huge DnD nerd and taught Judi Dench how to play and incorporated elements of that in Chronicles of Riddick...I would not find it strange if there's some of that in this series.
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# ? Apr 5, 2015 20:33 |
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Tokyo Drift is great because there is no good guy. Just one rear end in a top hat vying against another rear end in a top hat to be crowned King of the Assholes while being enabled by a suicidal rear end in a top hat who just seems to want to watch the world burn. No crime to solve, no heist, no drug lord to take down. All the men are assholes and all the women are whores. It's the id of Fast & Furious in its purest form.
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TheScott2K posted:Tokyo Drift is great because there is no good guy. Just one rear end in a top hat vying against another rear end in a top hat to be crowned King of the Assholes while being enabled by a suicidal rear end in a top hat who just seems to want to watch the world burn. No crime to solve, no heist, no drug lord to take down. All the men are assholes and all the women are whores. It's the id of Fast & Furious in its purest form. Han is the most interesting character in the whole series because of Tokyo Drift. It gave them an end point to get to with him, and it was amazing seeing the pretty much normal, happy dude slowly turn into the "I don't give a poo poo about ANYTHING" guy he was in Tokyo Drift.
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# ? Apr 5, 2015 21:30 |
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Looks like there's not gonna be cars in space in Furious 8 guysquote:CB: If the franchise does continue, do you think the it's possible to top the outrageous, crazy stunts we've seen escalating from Fast 5, Fast 6, and Furious 7?
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# ? Apr 5, 2015 21:56 |
Fast and Furious: Marathon
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# ? Apr 5, 2015 22:05 |
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Almost cried when Brian mentioned the tuna sandwich. He couldve gotten a double cheese with fries for 2.95 human being. Edit: Also Hobbs wiping himself down for seemingly no reason was amazing. The SituAsian fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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Saw this yesterday, it was awesome. I've been in crowded movie theaters where everyone's laughing their rear end off over some comedy but I've never seen applause for an action movie scene. Not counting the closing scene for Paul Walker, there were around five moments that the crowd straight up burst into cheers and clapping. This was the most fun I've had in theaters all year and maybe all of last year too. Jason Statham was a loving badass choice for villain. I liked how they never explained how Shaw always knew where to show up, because the answer was obviously "he's a loving badass." I'm glad they didn't kill him off and I hope he shows up again. The Ninth Layer fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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$143 million opening weekend at the box office if this is to be believed
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Mean Bean Machine posted:This is retarded, please don't post it ever again. http://feature.variety.com/vin-diesel-a-furious-mind/ quote:Diesel said he learned storytelling from reading J.R.R. Tolkien and playing the game “Dungeons & Dragons,” with its intricate mythology that later influenced the scripts of Fast & Furious. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Apr 5, 2015 |
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The SituAsian posted:Edit: Also Hobbs wiping himself down for seemingly no reason was amazing. He was constantly dripping wet in Rio in #5, I assume it was a joke reference to that.
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In Mean Bean Machine's defense I kinda cringed when I re-read that post. It is really awkwardly written. But yeah it's still v. obviously at least heavily inspired by D&D. Diesel is a huge outspoken D&D nerd who wrote the foreword for an official book commemorating its 30th anniversary, and Lin convinced him to come back to the franchise by explaining his plan for it in terms of a D&D campaign. Those are kinda just facts and I'm not sure it actually makes anyone cooler to deny them.
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The MSJ posted:http://feature.variety.com/vin-diesel-a-furious-mind/ Wow that's amazing, you're telling me J. R. R. Tolkien and D&D was an influence for an actor, who didn't write or direct any of these movies? You telling me this guy read the motherfucking Lord of the Rings books, like millions of other people? This obviously means Dom Toretto is a friggin level 30 berserker with a +5 Vorpal Holy Avenger Car just pwning those little newbs. Epic. Friggin epic. Listen this is a movie series about fast cars, explosions, swole guys and hot babes, can we maybe talk about that stuff and leave this geeky dumb poo poo to the literally hundreds of threads in these forums specifically related to that stuff? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mean Bean Machine posted:Wow that's amazing, you're telling me J. R. R. Tolkien and D&D was an influence for an actor, who didn't write or direct any of these movies? You telling me this guy read the motherfucking Lord of the Rings books, like millions of other people? This obviously means Dom Toretto is a friggin level 30 berserker with a +5 Vorpal Holy Avenger Car just pwning those little newbs. Epic. Friggin epic. I have no idea what pissed ya off man. quote:But the first script Lin read was “all cars drifting around Buddha statues and geisha girls,” so he passed. Which only made the studio want him more. It's not pure translation or some crap but he used it to explain what he intended to do with the series. Though obviously there are scenes where the hot chicks are parading around for car races are there so they throw a bone. http://variety.com/2013/film/features/justin-lin-1200409626/
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The movie is estimated to have debuted at $384 million globally. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/box-office-furious-7-debuts-to-384-million-globally-1201466599/
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How did it compare to previous two movies?
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The MSJ posted:The movie is estimated to have debuted at $384 million globally. You know, I'm onboard with the Oscar train for this movie. Not that I suppose it'd happen but for me at least the Paul Walker tribute and eulogy had an emotional impact. And I'll second the impressive action work from Walker, he looked like he might actually be able to hang with Tony Jaa for moments.
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toanoradian posted:How did it compare to previous two movies? I thought it was just as good as fast 6. I haven't seen 5.
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toanoradian posted:How did it compare to previous two movies? Its up like 60% opening weekend over F6. Basically, this film is making crazy money, the franchise is a rare one where each subsequent film makes ever increasing more amounts of money, and it has incredibly strong international and minority appeal with markets like Mexico and others loving loving it so expect at minimum F8 and F9.
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Gatts posted:And I'll second the impressive action work from Walker, he looked like he might actually be able to hang with Tony Jaa for moments. This struck me as a cool sort of characterization for Brian, almost, just because the past few movies have established his fighting style as being really well adapted to close-quarters combat. Characters like Dom and Hobbs are great in fights because they're so big and strong that they just cause ridiculous amounts of collateral damage -- pretty much every fight one/both of them are in ends up destroying the entire set. Brian's fights, like the two with Jaa, the one on the flatbed in the Fast Five train chase, or the one in the prison cell in Fast Six, all show that he's really nimble, he takes advantage of his environment, and he can hold his own in a tight space even when he's way outnumbered. It was cool to see that they maintained that consistency in Seven. Also, regarding the second Jaa fight, the door/stairway slide deserves way more attention than it gets, because that kicked rear end. Plus, you knew that Brian was gonna bust out the "too slow" line as a finishing burn, but I love that he himself was so committed to doing it that he hurriedly called it out to the dude to make sure he heard it before falling to his death. He saw his moment, and he wasn't about to let it get away.
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I like the two tonally opposite posters for this movie.
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I loved the whole sequence immediately before that, there's a really cool shot of like, look at all these goddamn stairs, only for them to immediately go back down them.
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tvb posted:This struck me as a cool sort of characterization for Brian, almost, just because the past few movies have established his fighting style as being really well adapted to close-quarters combat. Characters like Dom and Hobbs are great in fights because they're so big and strong that they just cause ridiculous amounts of collateral damage -- pretty much every fight one/both of them are in ends up destroying the entire set. Brian's fights, like the two with Jaa, the one on the flatbed in the Fast Five train chase, or the one in the prison cell in Fast Six, all show that he's really nimble, he takes advantage of his environment, and he can hold his own in a tight space even when he's way outnumbered. It was cool to see that they maintained that consistency in Seven. They reproduce this with the choices in cars too. Brian prefers quick and maneuverable Japanese tuner cars while Dom has always been associated with American muscle. The Rock shows up in his APC, while you know poo poo is going down with Owen Shaw when he comes in with some crazy F1-style poo poo with anti-vehicle gadgets
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# ? Apr 6, 2015 01:39 |
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All I'm seeing in this one is the plane flicking the two cars into the air with its tail, like a whale might to a small boat.
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I also really loved the foreshadowing with the Mrs. Alpha line. It's offhanded enough in the moment that you don't give it a second thought, but it makes the reveal later on so much better.
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duz posted:He was constantly dripping wet in Rio in #5, I assume it was a joke reference to that. Why do I smell baby oil?
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