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Fast Five (Fast & Furious 5) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/11
05-02-11, 07:09 AM
#76
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
Do you think there's any chance Universal might be game for giving Hobbs a spin off movie, kind of like they did with Scorpion King? Johnson seems quite popular amongst the critics, and people who have seen the movie like him more than not.
I think a cool idea would be
Of course that would require a pretty fast move into production if they want to get the next installment out in two years like they did with this one.
I think a cool idea would be
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05-02-11, 07:27 AM
#77
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
So, it's obvious with the the new Charger, GT-R and LFA in the movie that this takes place now. So, to me it makes Tokyo Drift look odd with the cars with 2006 technology. So, when the next installment is made and they take the characters to events after TD it would be hard to overlook that all of the sudden the cars are modern again. And if they don't go that route and make another movie with events before TD; it moves the events of TD even further back and put the vehicles totally out of place. To the casual person who isn't into cars it wouldn't be a big deal and most likely not notice the discrepancies, but if you are it might bother you a bit.
at continuity in this series.
05-02-11, 07:32 AM
#78
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
Meh. Just say Han is a twin and their parents gave them both the same name cos they couldn't be bothered to think up different names for them.
Or call the cars in Tokyo Drift "vintage".
Or call the cars in Tokyo Drift "vintage".
05-02-11, 08:48 AM
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05-02-11, 09:04 AM
#80
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
Just got back from seeing this afternoon and I loved it! As some have already said, it's easily the best of the series. So fucking good. I'm amazed how much Justin Lin has grown as a director over the years. There was some insane stunt/driving sequences in this movie. Literally half of downtown Rio was destroyed. Universal absolutely 100% must bring have back to do the 6th installment and it wouldn't surprise me if he becomes an in demand action movie director after the shit he pulled off in this movie.He also directed my favorite episode of Community (Modern Warfare).
05-02-11, 09:16 AM
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And he's set to direct the next Terminator...
05-02-11, 10:39 AM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
Just funny to me that Lin started out by financing his own movie (Better Luck Tomorrow) and is now in charge of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Kind of good to see that, moving forward, we have at least one younger (37) director than can put together quality action scenes.
He also directed my favorite episode of Community (Modern Warfare).
He also directed my favorite episode of Community (Modern Warfare).
which i'm iffy on, not cuz of Lin though. Just...Terminator franchise hasn't had a good story since 2.
Fuck yes...
05-02-11, 10:50 AM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
What I have learned from the franchise though is that Vin Diesel beating the crap out of you will somehow make you his friend, and will even make you throw away your badge to embrace his loving family of carjackers, smugglers and thieves. Fast Five does the same thing. It beats you senseless with its crescent wrench of rampant stupidity to the point where you stop caring about logic, reason and pesky things like physics.
05-02-11, 11:50 AM
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05-02-11, 12:03 PM
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05-02-11, 12:10 PM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
One thing that I didn't get, why didn't Hobbs track Turetto's car the first time he went out racing, to win the blue Porshe(?). It was clear it was in place at that point, but they didn't use the tracker until later when Turetto decided to get caught/buy some time.
05-02-11, 12:24 PM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
One thing that I didn't get, why didn't Hobbs track Turetto's car the first time he went out racing, to win the blue Porshe(?). It was clear it was in place at that point, but they didn't use the tracker until later when Turetto decided to get caught/buy some time.
no honestly...this thing is probably something could fit into the bad script, good movie thread. Cuz..honestly...imagine reading it.
05-02-11, 12:29 PM
#89
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The Onion had it write with their interview with "Chris Morgan" but damn if it wasn't fun.
05-02-11, 06:55 PM
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While I haven't seen Tokyo Drift, from what I have read the logical thing to do would be to have the next one take place after it. That way
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05-02-11, 07:00 PM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
Am I the only one who'd enjoy Hobbs getting Dom's gang and beating the crap out of him and bam they're all locked up...end of the movie and franchise? Granted...logically that'd be hard to write a story like that for this franchise..but...I'd like to see it.
05-02-11, 07:20 PM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
Our characters have to either...
> Die (and in the chronological order of things, some of them have already passed).
OR
> Ride off into the sunset.
Based off the fact that this entry already grossed $167,598,765 internationally within a week (give or take), I don't see Universal ending this franchise in the foreseeable future due to its new found force of life.
For starters, before Fast Five, Fast & Furious had the highest worldwide gross of $353,241,873. Before that? 2 Fast 2 Furious (in 2003) with $236,350,661.
05-02-11, 07:54 PM
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I liked the way it was handled.
05-02-11, 08:15 PM
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05-03-11, 02:17 AM
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05-03-11, 06:33 AM
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Re: Fast Five (Fast & Furious Five) -- The Reviews and Comments Thread -- Opens 4/29/
I really enjoyed it, but it isn't so much a fast and furious movie as it is a heist movie now... Get heist, plan heist, pull off heist, credits.
I loved the movies that do this to see how they pull them off, but some might not like how it has shifted so much in the last 2 movies.
I loved the movies that do this to see how they pull them off, but some might not like how it has shifted so much in the last 2 movies.