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post #1 of 169
4/19/11 at 6:46pm
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 Just got back from a NYC screening of the movie.

 

 Holy shit, this movie.

 

 I hate to say it, but that was probably one of the best action movies I've seen in a LONG time. It's BY FAR the best of the entire series, to a degree that's just huge. The Rock is fuckin' MASSIVE. He looks like a goddamn minotaur in the flick, and his fight with Diesel is like something out of a Godzilla movie, with them just beating the everloving shit out of each other. Just two giant pieces of bicep trying to kill each other.

 

 It has sap, just like all the other ones, but in terms of action, humor and thrills, this one surpasses them all. As an action movie, very few summers start off this right. Definitely a surprise, and the stunts are INSANE. Way better and way more entertaining than it has any right to be. I think this one's gonna surprise people, honestly.

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post #2 of 169
4/19/11 at 6:50pm

Good to hear. How is de Almeida?

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post #3 of 169
4/19/11 at 6:58pm

I was watching a behind the scenes video the other day, and that fight where Diesel and Rock throw each other through walls looks like a good time.

 

But more importantly, has the giggly WUSSUP BREH chemistry between Walker and Tyrese been preserved??

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post #4 of 169
4/19/11 at 7:04pm

I saw the trailer in front of Hanna a couple of weeks ago.  It actually looks like a lot of fun.  I really enjoy the 3rd movie.  Completely forgot about the 4th.  I'll go see this with some friends!

 

Wait... Tyrese is in this?  I don't think I noticed him in the trailer.

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post #5 of 169
4/19/11 at 7:19pm

Tyrese's role has been cut dramatically to keep the film's length manageable.  As of now he's only in the Paul Walker sex scenes.

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post #6 of 169
4/19/11 at 7:30pm
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti View Post

Good to hear. How is de Almeida?


 Oh, God, you're gonna love him. So sleazy!

 

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Originally Posted by wadew1 View Post

I was watching a behind the scenes video the other day, and that fight where Diesel and Rock throw each other through walls looks like a good time.

 

But more importantly, has the giggly WUSSUP BREH chemistry between Walker and Tyrese been preserved??


 Yeah, Tyerese gravitates more towards Walker's character due to their shared past, so he's always sharing screentime with either him or Ludacris' Tej (whose 2 Fast 2 Furious afro gets a hilarious cameo).

 

 The movie really brings all the previous movies together: you got Diesel and Walker along with Jordana Brewster and Matt Schulze representing the 1st movie, Tyrese and Ludacris reppin' the 2nd, Sung Kang's Han continuing to postpone his eventual demise and representing the 3rd flick, and Don Omar and Tego Calderon as Dominic's two new recruits from the 4th coming back along with Gal Gadot (the bad girl turned good, also from the 4th). Also, Thor (Chris Hemsworth's) wife, Elsa Pataky, is the new foil along with The Rock and his entourage.

 

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I saw the trailer in front of Hanna a couple of weeks ago.  It actually looks like a lot of fun.  I really enjoy the 3rd movie.  Completely forgot about the 4th.  I'll go see this with some friends!

 

Wait... Tyrese is in this?  I don't think I noticed him in the trailer.


 Honestly, I was pulling back on my enthusiasm because this is CHUD and all that, but honestly? The movie's really badass. I liked the fuck out of it. Like I said, above and beyond the best of the entire series. There's more action and insane stunts in the first hour than in all previous 4 movies combined. Hell, add in Diesel's xXx and it still doesn't come close.

 

 Oh, and there's a scene after the credits that made the entire audience go crazy. It's pretty much the equivalent of a Marvel Studios after-credits scene, but for the F&F canon.

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post #7 of 169
4/19/11 at 7:51pm
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Oh, God, you're gonna love him. So sleazy!

 



Hot damn! Been waiting for him to add a new scumbag to his pantheon of Felix Cortez and Bucho.

 

 

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 Oh, and there's a scene after the credits that made the entire audience go crazy. It's pretty much the equivalent of a Marvel Studios after-credits scene, but for the F&F canon.

 

Please let it be Levine and Remar partnering up to go after the gang in FAST SIX.

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post #8 of 169
4/19/11 at 7:59pm

Or could it be....

THE RETURN OF BILKINS** ?????

 

** the black guy who wore hawaiian shirts in 2 Fast 2 Furious

 

I still laugh at the awkward goodbye between him and Walker at the end of the movie.

 

Walker: Thanks a lot Bilkins. 

Bilkins: alright...

Walker: You're alright.

Bilkins: thanks...

Walker: Thanks for lookin out.

Bilkins: .........

 alright...

 

 

 

 

 

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post #9 of 169
4/19/11 at 8:07pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View Post

 Honestly, I was pulling back on my enthusiasm because this is CHUD and all that.

 

Don't you dare hold back.  This is the site that loves 2 Fast 2 Furious and the fiery passion between Walker/Tyrese!
 

 

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post #10 of 169
4/19/11 at 8:10pm

The Fast and the Furious films have long been my guilty cinematic pleasure of choice, so I'm pumped to hear some good advanced word on this. How are the car chases? The snippets in the trailers didn't wow me, but anything has to be better than the 'cars going really fast through tunnels' finale of the last film.

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post #11 of 169
4/19/11 at 8:12pm


 

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Originally Posted by BTSMGL View PostOh, and there's a scene after the credits that made the entire audience go crazy. It's pretty much the equivalent of a Marvel Studios after-credits scene, but for the F&F canon.



I will obsess over this for the next 10 days.

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post #12 of 169
4/19/11 at 8:16pm

As will I! Could it possibly be... LETTY LIVES?

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post #13 of 169
4/19/11 at 8:28pm

Nah, in a surprise twist, Lucas "Sean Boswell" Black shows up to pull a heist with Brian, but conveniently Dominic and Han are out of the room, thus preserving the continuity of the series.

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post #14 of 169
4/19/11 at 8:32pm

How will Lil Bowwow be used in this movie?  And YES.  He will once again be Lil...

 

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post #15 of 169
4/19/11 at 9:15pm

I know the after-credits scene, and I seriously want to see how they're going to make that make a lick of sense in the inevitable Fast Six movie.  I mean, you've GOT to be kidding me. 

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post #16 of 169
4/19/11 at 9:17pm

Found the scene.  Oh boy.

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post #17 of 169
4/19/11 at 9:36pm

Oh boy is right.  I mean, it leaves Faster Sixer Furiouser with somewhere very interesting to go, but seriously, how the hell are they gonna explain that?

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post #18 of 169
4/19/11 at 10:54pm
The trailers make it look like there is less CG than the last one. True? I hope so, as the big real world stunts make these movies bearable.
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post #19 of 169
4/19/11 at 11:22pm

Spoil it for me breh, I don't know if I am going to sit through those credits. If it's Jordana sans clothing, then I might.

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post #20 of 169
4/20/11 at 12:14am

Alright...

 

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

 

So The Rock's character is in his office when Eva Mendes (who was in 2F2F) walks in.  He asks her if she has info on Toretto, and she says no, so he says something to the effect of "Then 'I'm not interested".  She begs to differ, and shows him a police file.  With a picture of Letty pulling a job.  SHE'S ALIVE.

 

 

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post #21 of 169
4/20/11 at 12:23am

Thanks Harley, now it's ruined for me.

 

Either way, I'm looking forward to this. These films had some great stunts.

 

 

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post #22 of 169
4/20/11 at 12:46am
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The trailers make it look like there is less CG than the last one. True? I hope so, as the big real world stunts make these movies bearable.


 Yeah, that's exactly what I loved about the stunts, no CG. They crash shit into shit for real. 90% of the movie was filmed in Puerto Rico last summer before I moved to NYC (last Sept.), so I drove past the set and read about filming in the papers, and all the car stunts are real. I know for a fact the one scene with a bazooka was filmed twice because the director wanted the SUV to flip in the air a few more times than in the first take, so they had to go back to the little town they filmed that scene in. And the bridge at the end (which can be glimpsed in the trailers) was closed off for about a week while they did all the stunts, as were the 4-6 blocks used for the city chase scene. It's funny because it makes it look like they raced through a whole city, but since I lived there I recognize that they basically just raced in circles through the same 6 bocks from different angles, ha!
 

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Spoil it for me breh, I don't know if I am going to sit through those credits. If it's Jordana sans clothing, then I might.


 It's not ALL the credits, just those flashy prelim ones that show off the main cast members with pictures of the characters next to their names. It's, like, 2-3 minutes tops.


 

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The Fast and the Furious films have long been my guilty cinematic pleasure of choice, so I'm pumped to hear some good advanced word on this. How are the car chases? The snippets in the trailers didn't wow me, but anything has to be better than the 'cars going really fast through tunnels' finale of the last film.


 There's like 4 car chases, and they're all pretty great. I like how they keep graduating to different kinds of vehicles in every movie, making it feel like they're becoming more all-encompassing with the "Fast"-moniker, and not referring just to mod cars anymore. Two more sequels, and you probably won't be able to tell the series apart from The A-Team, I figure.
 

 

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post #23 of 169
4/20/11 at 12:51am

I'd like to think that working on Community helped Justin Lin make a better movie!

 

The action footage I saw in the trailer looked pretty real to me.  I'm sure there is SOME form of 'sweetening up' of certain shots in post, but it all looked pretty convincing.  APPEALING!

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post #24 of 169
4/20/11 at 6:55am

I was already sold on this based on the trailers but BTSMGL, you've got me feeling REALLY impatient now.  I've already got plans to go see it with a friend and just finally got to the 4th one a couple months ago, but yeah, it sure does sound like they captured some of the insanity that the trailers hinted at.  Thanks!

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post #25 of 169
4/20/11 at 7:54am

Yeah, the whole series is a guilty pleasure for me too so I have been anticipating this since it was announced. Although I really don't like 2Fast.  

 

I love how they keep pushing back Han's demise. Although I am secretly hoping that they reveal it's not the real Han but his identical twin brother...also named Han.

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post #26 of 169
4/20/11 at 8:47am

I have always enjoyed these movies and I am stoked to go see this. Am I the only one who wants to see Lucas Black again? alright then.

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post #27 of 169
4/20/11 at 9:21am

I'll admit I've not seen any of the FAST films. How enjoyable is FIVE to a newbie to the series? Or do you recommend seeing all four previous films before this one? Only select ones?

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post #28 of 169
4/20/11 at 12:33pm
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Yeah, the whole series is a guilty pleasure for me too so I have been anticipating this since it was announced. Although I really don't like 2Fast.  

 

I love how they keep pushing back Han's demise. Although I am secretly hoping that they reveal it's not the real Han but his identical twin brother...also named Han.



 Han's last line in this film is hilarious in that it demostrates they have no intention of ever catching up with FF: Tokyo Drift.

 

 

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I'll admit I've not seen any of the FAST films. How enjoyable is FIVE to a newbie to the series? Or do you recommend seeing all four previous films before this one? Only select ones?


 Well, a lot of the fun is seeing old characters reuniting and seeing how their chemistry still holds up. There's a lot of inside-jokes and  and andand callbacks to the previous movies, and ALL of them are referenced more than once. Also, not much heavy lifting is done to introduce the returning cast; they all pretty much assume you know who they are. Diesel gives a very brief introduction of them when listing out the attributes that make them essential to the team, but that's about it. You can skip the 3rd one, since technically it takes place chronologically after this one, but then again, it's also the only one that has the Han character front and center, and made him a big fan favorite (thus prompting producers to bring him back for 4 and 5, despite him not surviving the 3rd one). And that's not really a spoiler at this point, honestly, since every movie since then has made not-so-subtle sly winks to his eventual future.

 

 If you have the time? See all four, even though they're of varying degrees of quality, I don't think any of them go so far as to be HORRIBLE. They're sappy and have a lot of car racing action, with some gunfights thrown in. Each one increasingly adds bigger and crazier stunts.

 

 If you don't have the time, ehhh... skip only the 3rd one? I wanna say skip the 4th one too, but the events of that one lead DIRECTLY to the status quo in Fast Five, so... if push comes to shove, you can bail on the 3rd one.

 

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post #29 of 169
4/20/11 at 1:02pm
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 in the inevitable Fast Six movie.


Featuring cameos by Kenny Rogers and Diane Lane!

 

SixPack.jpg

 

Glad to hear part 5 delivers and that Rock is back on the ACTION track with this and FASTER.

 

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post #30 of 169
4/20/11 at 1:09pm

 

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 If you have the time? See all four, even though they're of varying degrees of quality, I don't think any of them go so far as to be HORRIBLE. They're sappy and have a lot of car racing action, with some gunfights thrown in. Each one increasingly adds bigger and crazier stunts.

 

 If you don't have the time, ehhh... skip only the 3rd one? I wanna say skip the 4th one too, but the events of that one lead DIRECTLY to the status quo in Fast Five, so... if push comes to shove, you can bail on the 3rd one.

 


Thanks for the summary. I'd like to see the first four for the very reasons you state - I'm sure that this latest installment will have more heft if I know the entire story going in. I'll have to watch them as available from the library...by which time, this one will be out on Blu, I'll have my new TV and home theater, and I can shake the house's foundations with it.

 

So what you're saying is the actual internal chronology of the films is as follows:

 

1. Fast and Furious

2. 2 Fast 2 Furious

3. Fast & Furious 4

4. Fast Five

5. Tokyo Drift

 

Yes?

 


 

 

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post #31 of 169
4/20/11 at 3:31pm



 

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Thanks for the summary. I'd like to see the first four for the very reasons you state - I'm sure that this latest installment will have more heft if I know the entire story going in. I'll have to watch them as available from the library...by which time, this one will be out on Blu, I'll have my new TV and home theater, and I can shake the house's foundations with it.

 

So what you're saying is the actual internal chronology of the films is as follows:

 

1. Fast and Furious

2. 2 Fast 2 Furious

3. Fast & Furious 4

4. Fast Five

5. Tokyo Drift

 

Yes?

 


 

 

Yes, although they keep pushing Tokyo Drift farther and farther back. Almost as if they are pretending it doesn't exsist. Eventually it's gonna be considered the final film of the series.

 

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post #32 of 169
4/20/11 at 5:45pm
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Yes, although they keep pushing Tokyo Drift farther and farther back. Almost as if they are pretending it doesn't exsist. Eventually it's gonna be considered the final film of the series.

 


 Yeah, and Diesel said a while ago that they intend Fast Five to be the beginning of a new trilogy, which considering the "secret ending" and how bugshit insane this installment is compared to the others, makes sense. Fast & Furious is like the #0, and Fast Five is #1 of a new trilogy.

 

 

 

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post #33 of 169
4/20/11 at 9:18pm

Man, at this rate Tokyo Drift is going to take place in 2035 the way they keep pushing it out.  All because they wanted to keep Han.

 

Oh well, at least they didn't just make it his twin Asian brother.

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post #34 of 169
4/20/11 at 9:26pm

Han's delayed death is an apology to fans for killing him off in Tokyo Drift. 

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post #35 of 169
4/20/11 at 9:35pm

At this rate, Sean Boswell will never get a chance to shine again.

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post #36 of 169
4/20/11 at 9:49pm

 

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At this rate, Sean Boswell will never get a chance to shine again.



Like we need anymore GAH-JEEN in this franchise!  Mwuh huh huh...  (though I actually prefer the guy to Paul Walker in terms of these movies)

 

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Man, at this rate Tokyo Drift is going to take place in 2035 the way they keep pushing it out.  All because they wanted to keep Han.


I can buy those crazy car garages in Tokyo still seeming high-tech in 2035!  Just you wait... we'll find out that the Vin Diesel at the end of Tokyo Drift is actually bionic.

 

IF YOU'RE NOT OUTTA CONTROL, YOU'RE NOT IN CONTROL!!!!

 

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post #37 of 169
4/21/11 at 9:23pm

You know, after reading the "Door-to-Door Magazine Salesman" thread it makes it kinda uncomfortable when you say stuff like this.


Ha ha ha.
 

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Like we need anymore GAH-JEEN in this franchise!  Mwuh huh huh...  (though I actually prefer the guy to Paul Walker in terms of these movies)

 

 

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post #38 of 169
4/21/11 at 10:01pm

My racist meltdown thread is coming real soon!

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post #39 of 169
4/21/11 at 10:46pm

Do we at least get a "ME HUNGRY" from Tyreese?  

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post #40 of 169
4/21/11 at 10:53pm

I thought it was "We huuungry."

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post #41 of 169
4/22/11 at 6:50am

It's actually

WE HONGGREHHHHHH

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post #42 of 169
4/23/11 at 8:01am

I've never seen any of these but all this talk is making is making the series sound pretty fun. I can't help but love the idea of doing something as gleefully silly as turning the series into an endless string of prequels just for the sake of keeping one popular character alive. The apparently rampant homoerotic undertones is just the icing on the cake.

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post #43 of 169
4/23/11 at 8:07am
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I've never seen any of these but all this talk is making is making the series sound pretty fun.


Every one of these movies have been incredibly fun. They all have their crazy qualities that make them worth watching.

 

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post #44 of 169
4/23/11 at 7:43pm
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I read that this one's getting more strong and positive reviews than any of the other films of the franchise, so it looks like I'm not the only one who loved it. I think Fast & Furious just got its Bad Boys II.

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post #45 of 169
4/23/11 at 8:11pm

I bought The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift today at Target since the Blu-rays of all 4 films are $8.99, and that's the only one I don't own and hadn't seen either. I had a lot of fun with Fast And Furious, and I had already guessed that secret scene. No way that character would be left out at all. Especially if they're keeping this character from Tokyo Drift alive in these films.

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post #46 of 169
4/23/11 at 8:50pm

Okay, Netflix chumped me, since I was supposed to get Fast and Furious today in the mail, and am seeing the new film on Monday. So... what happens in that fourth one? I just mainlined the other films in the last week.

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post #47 of 169
4/23/11 at 9:11pm



 

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Okay, Netflix chumped me, since I was supposed to get Fast and Furious today in the mail, and am seeing the new film on Monday. So... what happens in that fourth one? I just mainlined the other films in the last week.


 

Ta-da.
 

 

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post #48 of 169
4/24/11 at 8:19am

The deliriously enjoyable 2 Fast... is still my favourite, but with its gang's-all-here approach, this one was a marked improvement on the po-faced last installment. The scene where the reassembled crew roll up in Rio put me in mind of the credits sequence in Enter The Dragon, and I couldn't help smiling when Walker was reunited with his 2 Fast... pals Luda ("This guy!") and his boy Tyrese. This and the fourth flick have definitely established that the cars aren't the stars of this franchise anymore, which is probably a good thing at this point, but it was good to see Brian and Dom making a quick return to the street racing scene (even though the 'action' ultimately happens off-screen) and the four-way police car race was big dumb fun. Oh, and that end credits coda pissed all over any of Marvel's Avengers teases.

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post #49 of 169
4/25/11 at 8:27pm

2Fast might not be the best of the series but it's easily the most quotable.   Also, contrary to popular belief, Paul Walker never says "Brah" in the movie.   He says "bro" though.   Tyrese takes the cake in bastardizing the word into "Breh"as this clip clearly shows.....

 

Also Paul Walker's use of "cuz" is even funnier than him using "bro" in the film.   At one point he says it like "Kyuu"   Anyway, my favorite of the series I think. (but part three is still the "best" of the series)

 

 

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post #50 of 169
4/25/11 at 9:46pm
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Judging from Twitter, the web fellas on the West Coast just got out of seeing FF at a critics' screening and everyone is high on the movie.

 

Toldja. It's balls-out the best and most insane of the series.

 

Edit: Damon just tweeted "I haven't seen this many across the board positive reactions to a summer action flick in forever. Fast Five truly kicks off the summer." Devin wrote "Holy shit that movie was AMAZING."

Now I wanna see it again...!


Edited by BTSMGL - 4/25/11 at 10:01pm
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