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Fast and Furious....

Dar70

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Well I guess it's now considered SciFi/Fantasy. Sure they were always over the top and the action got bigger with each film but now they have officially entered the real of Fantasy that fits with other stuff discussed here.. Hobbs and Shaw the spin-off movie will have a Superpowered villian. I'm very sad at this revelation. The series last two films really pushed it for me. But with the spin-off I can finally say I'm done with the series.
 
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When Dom collapses a parking garage with his foot, jumps between three buildings in a car, jumps across bridges to land on the hood of another car fifty feet away while catching his girlfriend midair with no injury, drags and rolls bank vaults with precision, punches through concrete and steel, plants bombs on helicopters with a car in midair, and jumps out of exploding planes in a car, it's pretty much already a superhero movie, and the addition of Hobbes and Shaw just made it even moreso. Everyone in the movie is capable of making speed and trajectory calculations faster and more accurately than a supercomputer, capable of surviving beat downs with steel pipes and stabbings and bullets and explosions unless you're the designated death of each film, capable of hacking anything anywhere instantaneously, and other stuff that your typical street racer turned secret nuke stopping government asset would know.

Plus, they've already gone scifi-lite with the God's Eye super-surveillance system and the mass car hacking and control system and the super-duper hacker flying around on their own AWACS plane, so this is just embracing the utter insanity of the premise and taking the next step.

My issue is not with the over-the-top ridiculousness of it all, because it's always been thus, and especially for the past four films, it's that they're getting rid of the familia to focus on Hobbes and Shaw alone. I get that there was some friction between the Rock and Vin Diesel, but it's not the same without the whole team there, and I hope they get them back in future installments.

That being said, Idris Elba is always awesome as a good guy or a bad guy, and generally elevates even the most ridiculous stuff he's in, so that's a plus. And with the way the villains go on to become good guys in some cases, regardless of how many police and military personnel they have murdered or that they blew up your house and killed your friend and tried to murder your sister and nephew and best friend/brother-in-law, it's possible that he might turn out to join the extended familia because he has a heartwarming background story.
 
The last FF movie i really watched and enjoyed was FF 5 (the one where they take on a local crimelord and steal his safe), FF6 started with the way over the top action scenes that kind of put me off these movies.

Ok, the movies themselves were never realistic and each one pushed the envelope a bit but they still made you believe that if you were skilled and cool enough you could drift inches away from parking lot walls or spend tens of thousands to soup up standard street cars while only having a mediocre job.

However when they started to battle tanks, jump across highways or across streets from one skyscraper to another i started to lose interest. It was just way too much for me.

Best ones are still the first FF, FF3 - Tokyo Drift and FF Five and still watch them today. The rest i'll watch when i really am in the mood for over the top action.
 
Honestly, Johnson so dominates when he's on screen with Diesel that this is the best possible way forward.

Looking forward to the next installment of F&F, which undoubtably will focus on the family defeating Martians while driving supercharged Camaros.
 
The last FF movie i really watched and enjoyed was FF 5 (the one where they take on a local crimelord and steal his safe), FF6 started with the way over the top action scenes that kind of put me off these movies.

Ok, the movies themselves were never realistic and each one pushed the envelope a bit but they still made you believe that if you were skilled and cool enough you could drift inches away from parking lot walls or spend tens of thousands to soup up standard street cars while only having a mediocre job.

However when they started to battle tanks, jump across highways or across streets from one skyscraper to another i started to lose interest. It was just way too much for me.

Best ones are still the first FF, FF3 - Tokyo Drift and FF Five and still watch them today. The rest i'll watch when i really am in the mood for over the top action.


I agree. Those three are my favorites as well. I did like 6, but 7 is when it was trying to compete with the superhero movies Imo and when I started to lose faith in the franchise....8 was my least favorite. Love the fact that Tokyo Drift is getting lots of love now. It was despised at first because there was only one cameo from the original cast. But bringing Han into the next three really gave TD more recognition.
 
It's still a more probable transition into something that used to not be Sci-Fi than "Baywatch Nights." Or "Family Matters" when Urkel was making robots and time machines and cloning machines.

Jason
 
I agree. Those three are my favorites as well. I did like 6, but 7 is when it was trying to compete with the superhero movies Imo and when I started to lose faith in the franchise....8 was my least favorite. Love the fact that Tokyo Drift is getting lots of love now. It was despised at first because there was only one cameo from the original cast. But bringing Han into the next three really gave TD more recognition.

Han.. too soon :wah:
 
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