The Fast Thread

The part where Dom catches the car

I just

I can't

And to think this used to be a relatively grounded movie series about street racing.

Where did it completely lose its mind?

To think it all started over a guy asking a girl about her tuna.

Remember when a trucker with a shotgun was the biggest threat to Dom?

To be clear the franchise progression goes thus:

• The Fast and the Furious (2001) and 2 Fast 2 Furious : Relatively low-key car-themed crime films focused on Paul Walker's character.
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift : Attempts to basically do the same but The Sequel Goes Foreign.
• Fast & Furious : The transitional film between the earlier car-themed crime dramas and the future insanity in the middle of the road.
• Fast Five : The insanity begins.
• Fast & Furious 6 , Furious 7 , The Fate of the Furious : The insanity intensifies.
• Hobbs & Shaw: The so far peak of the insanity and most recent installment as the main villain is a explicitly super-human sci-fi supersoldier and the franchise takes a flying to leap to the realms of madness.

There's something crazy during the scene where the boss lady is telling Dom's brother how he's been trying to surpass Dom his entire life, becoming a superspy assassin performance driver and then you remember Fast 1 where he is just your average street racer car enthusiast.

Like even as a thief sure he was above-average in the coordination and planning but he immediately got backed into a corner and almost died just because one of their targets happened to have brought protection.

It doesn't make sense at all.

Edited by slimcoder on Feb 12th 2021 at 9:00:21 AM

I see this franchise the same way I see the story of Resident Evil. A somewhat serious story at the beginning that gradually goes off rails as it goes on.

Dom and Brian do kind of remind me of Chris and Leon.

Of course, Dom hasn't punched out a boulder. Yet.

Dom would drive his car into the boulder. This will somehow result in the boulder being pulverized while the car is completely undamaged.

Hobbs is the boulder puncher.

Edited by Guy01 on Feb 16th 2021 at 2:52:18 AM

I'm completely serious when I say this:

Where the laws of physics is concerned, I'd say the Fast and the Furious saga is less realistic than Resident Evil.

Yes. Really.

It’s coming on June 25th. And oh shit they really are going to space.

F&F's tonal shift was somewhat gradual. Basically, the key thing is that the movie was initially primarily about racing, but as it went on became increasingly more of a heist series.

Similarly, as the series went on, stakes started escalating quite a bit more. At first, they're street racers dealing with relatively mundane threats like street gangs. As they "level up" they keep running into increasingly more dangerous bad dudes until they're dealing with James Bond-esque supervillains. In a sense, it sort of Jumped the Shark at that point (in the sense that it sort of gave up being grounded at all, arguably though this improved the quality).

Actually, for what it's worth, there's a meme of sorts you'll see on D&D groups that basically postulates what a Tabletop RPG about real life would look like. I'd actually argue Fast and Furious is actually what a tabletop RPG campaign set in "the real world" would look like. It's the sort of story you'd expect to be created by players good-naturedly teasing one another while the DM laughs and facepalms at it all.

Edited by Protagonist506 on Apr 14th 2021 at 10:16:30 AM

Holy shit. Space Racing. Fucking Finally!

I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Fast and Furious 9 drops a new trailer ahead of June 25 release: First flying cars. Then an endless runway. Then a submarine. Now magnets.

Does this series have a general thread?

I also still have to see the first 8 movies, I guess. I got the DVD box, but annoyingly, they didn't bother to put the movie names on the disks. A rather glaring oversight if you ask me.

I wonder if any of the movies are fine to skip. Probably just Hobbs and Shaw, right?

The third film I think is okay to skip since its more loosely connected to the rest which are a continuing saga.

But that's where Han debuted and died.

He seems fine now though

I watched the second movie, it was pretty fun. I'm surprised it got such a poor reception, I didn't think it was all that bad.

I'm also confused the DVD menu and end credits put so much focus on Suki, when she's got such a minor role. She definitely made more of an impression in 10 minutes than Monica in the entire movie, though. Would have been nice if she was a recurring character.

What I learned about cars watching all 8 Fast & Furious movies in 4 days: Revisiting our 2019 marathon of vehicular wisdom, thanks to new theatrical promotion.

The real news here is that Universal will be running the entire franchise in theatres, one week for each entry, until the release of F9.

That's honestly a good way to catch up on the lore. I'm guessing Hobbes and Shaw is included?