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I just came back from the movie. Loved it. This franchise is like the world's tallest Jenga tower. Like, it started out with a solid foundation of underground street racing and from there they just kept deciding to top it. Brick by brick. At first you didn't notice; the second movie upped the stakes a little, shifted the genre slightly, but it still looked like the same tower-- you could tell they came from the same foundation. By the time you get to 7 and see The Rock rip out a gatling gun from a drone and use it to take down a helicopter you really start to admire the movie not just on those merits but on the sheer tenacity of the entire franchise. Take a step back and that small stakes game of Jenga is all of a sudden the tallest loving wooden tower you've ever seen. It's swaying back and forth with entire genre shifts making it seem like each new film is just topple the franchise under its own weight. But they don't. They keep topping it. The characters are so solid and the movies are so fun that it holds. Justin Lin and now James Wan are so dexterous that they're just showing off how high they go can at this point. When the Diesel starts up the car in the locked vault of the Dubai penthouse you see Wan wiggling the middle block and you think no way, this is gonna be the one but to do it in but by the time the car flies through the second building you see Wan just casually set the piece on top like it's no biggie as he's already eyeing the next piece to make the series go even bigger. Half the reason I love the series is because it's so goddamn preposterous how they got from the first movie to here. Every time Walker scales a falling bus loaded with enough artillery to defeat a land war you have to pause and remember that he started out going undercover to stop some TVs from getting stolen. The sleight of hand these movies make to make these narrative leaps seem so effortless is just astounding. In a world where every multi universe epic series is planned from the start, you just have to admire the roots of this superhero franchise. I want them to get to number 14 just to see how high this Jenga tower can go.
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Yaws posted:Just to be clear, these movies are dumb on purpose right? I think I've only seen the first one but that trailer is loving ridiculous. They're a parody of Torque.
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Apr 3, 2015 03:15
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So what happens to Brian? It's actually funny, the whole movie felt like the Crispin Glover scenes in Hot Tub Time Machine. I thought for sure they were going to kill Brian off and each action scene kept inching closer and closer to his death. By the last scene I thought he was going to get eaten by a shark or something. I'm happy with the ending but I kept expecting something different.
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Apr 3, 2015 03:17
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Echo Chamber posted:I think one factor that helped the franchise's initial success (before Lin's retooling), that isn't brought up too often when people explain the series, was Roger Ebert. That review is amazing: Ebert posted:The races involve cars four abreast at speedway speeds down city streets. This would be difficult in Chicago, but is easy in Los Angeles because, as everybody knows, L.A. has no traffic and no cops. Ebert posted:He works for a unit that has its undercover headquarters in a Hollywood house, and as he enters it his boss says, "Eddie Fisher built this house for Elizabeth Taylor in the 1950s." I am thinking: (1) This is almost certainly true or it would not be said in a movie so stingy with dialogue, and (2) Is this the first time Paul has seen his unit's office?
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Apr 5, 2015 11:01
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Dexo posted:They are about to become a super secret black ops team working on missions that can be handled by no one else. Those missions being handed out by Kurt loving Russel. I could see Fast 10 being like Armageddon but instead of oil drillers it's the rag tag street racing team.
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Apr 5, 2015 11:02
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Now I really want to see Nic Cage (who used to work for the government but went rogue) run an underground shadow version of Kurt Russell's organization and see them fight off in the end after using everything and everyone in their arsenal to destroy the other person.
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Apr 10, 2015 03:28
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At this point this is the improv group of action series. Each new movie just keeps saying "yes, and" while throwing more outrageous stuff into the canon.
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Apr 10, 2015 03:32
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Universal kept bragging that the franchise was their highest grossing at 2.8 billion (after six movies that's an easy statement to make I think) but this movie just made over a third of that by itself.
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Apr 18, 2015 02:22
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