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I like the Rock too and there is a part of me that likes Jason Statham as well but I really just want the Fast & Furious franchise and any spinoffs to just go away. I watched the first movie in the series and thought it was drivel and haven't been able sit through any of the other movies in the series.
The best Fast and Furious movies in my opinion where the fifth and the sixth ones, and they should have ended it there, cause I don't think it will get that good again.
Only the first Fast and Furious was decent. The rests were too outrageous and fake for me. I like the Rock but I don't like most of his movies.
The first movie (and Tokyo Drift) holds up better, while the rest are action spectacles that aren't for everybody. I would have preferred to see a smaller scale spinoff that focused on the 2000s racing scene, while the main series wins the box office by showing flying cars defeating supervillains.
The first movie (and Tokyo Drift) holds up better, while the rest are action spectacles that aren't for everybody. I would have preferred to see a smaller scale spinoff that focused on the 2000s racing scene, while the main series wins the box office by showing flying cars defeating supervillains.
And thus we have the spin off with super humans chasing each other instead of focusing on the super cars
But I think that's the problem with the first movie and Tokyo Drift, is that they want to be more plausible, but the movies are so cheesy anyway that they might as well own it, and go all out with it, like the other ones do. The first one and Tokyo Drift just don't want to own it.
1 and TD were of course over-the-top, but they were still about the racing scene. Beneath the Hollywood absurdity was some surprising authenticity to them. But the 2000s are a bygone era. It's a missed opportunity to me instead of something I'd want to see them try again.
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And thus we have the spin off with super humans chasing each other instead of focusing on the super cars
They'll find a way to sneak in the post-FF4 tradition of throwing cars out of the sky indiscriminately.
Mainly my problem is the Shaw character. It's never explained why in The Fate of the Furious, he is needed to help the characters as a newly reformed 'good guy'.
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His character transformation is not explained either. They don't need to work with Shaw, at all, and it's completely forced. Plus Shaw is inconsistent with this character now. In last movie, he rescues a baby, and actually cares enough to put ear muffs on the baby, and turn the baby's head away, while killing bad guys. He cares enough about saving the baby, that he actually talks to the baby and wants to cheer him up and all that.
Where as in the previous movie, Furious Seven, he is a complete sociopath, who blows up a hospital full of innocent people, just to make a spiteful point. Completely inconsistent.
So it seems that they only reason they wanted to force him to become a good guy for more movies, is that he is Jason Statham.
Yeah I never understood that about Shaw either...if this guy had blown up an entire hospital (killing God knows how many babies, sick, injured, innocent, etc), he would be HATED and DESPISED like no one else on the planet...just because he mysteriously does something good one time, wouldnt change any of that.
This is basically Fast and Furious 9 imo, there will be fast expensive cars, lots of eye candy, and an enemy that seems impossible to beat, I really wish they would stop trying to add in the little tidbits of comedy thru out these movies too, that has to be the dumbest thing ever.
Mainly my problem is the Shaw character. It's never explained why in The Fate of the Furious, he is needed to help the characters as a newly reformed 'good guy'.
SPOILERS
His character transformation is not explained either. They don't need to work with Shaw, at all, and it's completely forced. Plus Shaw is inconsistent with this character now. In last movie, he rescues a baby, and actually cares enough to put ear muffs on the baby, and turn the baby's head away, while killing bad guys. He cares enough about saving the baby, that he actually talks to the baby and wants to cheer him up and all that.
Where as in the previous movie, Furious Seven, he is a complete sociopath, who blows up a hospital full of innocent people, just to make a spiteful point. Completely inconsistent.
So it seems that they only reason they wanted to force him to become a good guy for more movies, is that he is Jason Statham.
I agree. He should have remained a bad guy along with his brother. I guess they wanted add "star" power with this franchise with the loss of Paul Walker.
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