Calling it now...Fast 10 they are going back in time and coming back riding a T Rex to jump a shark to land on an asteroid to save the world from a vampire zombies..
You don't understand. These people have such deep connections to cars, that falling onto a car from any height won't kill them. The cars won't allow it.
Fast 6 : All roads led to this Furious 7 : One last ride F8 of the Furious: One more ride Furious 9: Can't stop the ride FX: Fas 10 your seatbelts the ride won't stop Fast and the Furious 11: ...Please send help
The sad part? This is some of the better stuff Hollywood is putting out right now. That doesn’t mean I want to see it, but it says a lot about Hollywood.
@@iMisanthrope If I was asked to take an intelligence test with one of three people, one of whom had wanted to see this movie, one of whom wanted to see Karen, and one of whom wanted to see the next Captain Marvel movie, my guess for intellect would be the F&F.
@@iMisanthrope Maybe that's the point. People want to turn their brains off for 2-3 hours and not have to think about every little thing... For someone who reviews movies, it is impossible to NOT watch critically
At this point the Fast saga is literally turning into the Superfast parody film that came out years ago when the franchise could still be taken seriously...
Fast 7 is where it should’ve ended. And stay done. Especially giving Paul Walker a final goodbye and the symbolism at the end was a huge tearjerker for me.
@@teddythekingofbears 4 introduced amnesia and made it into a soap opera. 6 is when the physics completely jumped the shark. 8 was mind-bending, in both spectacle and ridiculousness - And that's not to say 7 wasn't, but at least it was a tribute to Paul that could have let the whole thing end on a respectful note.
They should have stopped after Rio. They were now ridiculously wealthy, all of them were happy and living in what I believe was a non extradition country, so they could have left it there.
@@lukeharriss608 I think you are giving these movie way too much credit. Never thought much about them, smth to shut down my brain and not care about anything. Junk food if you will.
I can't wait for Fast and Furious 14 where one of the characters jumps a shark, flies into space, rams Cthulhu into a blackhole, gets spit out and returns to Earth in a crater is like "I think I got a paper cut"
I remember when they were selling stolen DVD players with Ja Rule, then by the time they were duelling with tanks on active highways and chasing rockets it became "We don't need physics; we have family." It's like they leaned so hard into the memes that your suspension of disbelief is spent by the time you accept Ludacris as a scientist. It's like playing a game with God Mode on. Sure it's fun for an hour or two, but the lack of danger robs the entire production of the excitement that comes with narrowly escaping death in a meaningful way.
The writers of this movie took the phrase 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' too literally. Since these guys consistently get into fatal and near-fatal situations they've basically become Gods among men.
It really neuters the stakes of a story when normal characters are written like invincible idiots. I'm all for suspending my disbelief for a while but I quickly lose interest when the characters shrug off wounds or engage in impossible feats for the sake of looking cool. That kind of crap belongs in D grade fanfiction, not canon
*I'm waiting for Fast X, where they go into orbit and race Elon Musk's Tesla to the ISS to prevent it from being used to hit One World Trade Center.* Wait, they already went to space?
They need Jurassic park. Fight Thanos and travel through time like with some tardis from doctor who. Or go all Ricky or morty on us. Oh shot. Forget these ideas.
I feel like either I'm too savvy about Hollywood's stupidity because they are that predictable, or they are doing this to f with us. I legit joked about Predator 5 and not even a week later, it was announced. Good gravy, Jokes Are Real now. Satire is defeated by the absudity of real life time and time again a an exponential climb.
SPOILERS They seriously retconed one of the most tragic death scenes in fast and furious with a fucking hologram. For crying out loud, this franchise should've ended at the 7th movie. They actually went to fucking space.
Hans death being a hologram didn't even make sense because in the 7th film they showed us that Sean found stuff by the crash including Dom's chain so it couldn't have been a hologram.
Funny how in the first movie when Brian asks Dom what his fastest time in the charger was and Dom said he never drove it because the car scared the hell out of him. I guess it doesn't scare him to drive a car out of one building and throught two more or parachute out of a plane in a car and so on.
Also Thorias that joke about them going to space was 8 years ago today and that just shows that Justin Lin is not a good director because he lacks any creative ideas and that has been shown more so in the later films. Well with that being said. Let's just go over F9 shall we. 1: Does the laws of physics matter to you? -Yes. But after since Fast 4 that logic was thrown out of the window and they think that upping the batshit insanity is going to work. Trust me it doesn't. 2: What does family have to do with being a superhuman?! -Everything. You say family long enough you will be as powerful as Superman after saying family a billion times just like Dom does because he seems to be getting more and more superhuman in every film!!!!!!! 3: Roman becomes the voice of the audience? -The best thing ever done because he is the only one with a brain in his head and the rest of just flatout insane at this point. Self awareness is great right?(in this case, No it really isn't) 4: Ramsey finally does something useful and not just there because she was in GOT? -Yes and she says that she doesn'r drive and then after a few mess ups she remembers that in her contract that her character is a Mary Sue and then she is driving like a pro in a matter of minutes! 5: Cardi B is not being a complete moron? -No she is still a moron and she is in this film for a few scenes and that she was just in it because she is a big name in the music industry and her character makes no f'ing sense. Which is good for this type of movie apparently. 6: The superweapon is pretty much the same type of device with the same type of power that was used in the Fast 7 and 8? -Yes. But they added in nuclear control. 7: Is Mr. Nobody Dom's uncle or something? -Because he has been with them for quite awhile now and every time something bad happens he is there and he calls in the team in order to stop it. 8:Space. The Final Race line! -That is all on that one. 9:Dom's ego has reached new levels of nacissism? -Hell Yes. He has to be front and center and be the hero in every confront and he can do feats of superhuman strength that makes him superhuman from the 20 men holdup to pulling down a building then falling a very long way down to your death. but no he survives like it was nothing. 10:Jakob's whole existence was just an idea that the director pulled out of his ass at the last minute in order to move the plot forward and his whole hatred for Dom was all due to a lack of communication? -Yes and he goes from badass assassin to boo whoo whoo cry cry to end of the world. man this family is seriously FUCKED UP! 11/Final:Han has returned from being dead and is basically a dick? -Yes and it is because it was one of Lin's retcons and they were noticeable even back then. Because Han is dead we saw him in the car upside down, bleeding and trapped. So in closing F9 is a FLAKING DISASTER!!!!!!!!!
They honestly should have stopped after Fast and furious 2009. The franchise has just lost What made it special. At this point I don't understand why they just don't go ahead and put this franchise in the DC Extended Universe?
The only one I watched was the first movie, it was a bootleg copy that did not have any music, definitely not the viewing experience that they intended
First three are pretty grounded and are not terrible, four and five are tolerable, after that it turns from bunch of racers, criminals and cops into...I'm not even sure what it's supposed to be at this point
I loved Roman getting into "are we even real? how are we still alive after all this?" I thought it was going to have a 4th wall breaking moment. Tej saying "it's all about physics, numbers don't lie" then they did things that were absolutely not following the laws of physics.
admittedly, as one who enjoyed all previous, this one is...yeahhh, steps in a dodoo (I guess I should have learned by now, that anything can be ruined, no matter how simple)
Yup. Use to be about illegal car racing, cool cars, maybe robbing a few banks and some gang activity, but it was still grounded. Still technically realistic and around human reach. Now, it's just too ridiculous and out of hand, I mean nothing makes sense. Prove me wrong.
I don't consider myself an authority of the Fast & Furious movies as I never saw any of them, but the original, as I see it, drew its inspiration from a manga/anime series called Initial D as well as the Street Racing scene; but as the series dragged on it starting jumping the shark as it started adding spy elements and more over the top action.
People like flashy cars....that's the main reason these movies have been so popular and mint money.... I remember the first one and Gone in Sixty Seconds came out around the same time, but I enjoyed the latter for more.
I was wondering why the hell I was enjoying the flashbacks so much and I realized it the moment you said: Characters expect not to get hurt. But the whole flashback sequence revolves around death, being hurt, beating someone and facing consequences. And to me that was the best part of the movie. The rest was just boring. Even some of the actors looked tired (e.g. Michelle Rodriguez) of this.
I keep going back to the scene where they drive off the cliff and swing across the canyon in their car. Vin and Michelle honestly looked BORED. They barely even reacted to this. Then the car crash lands on the other cliff, flips over like ten times and they're all nonchalant like, "Well, that just happened. Whatever."
i was hoping to see this movie this weekend but honestly at this point i think this franchise has just lost its way, and probably going to wait until this comes out on blu-ray
Thorias is earning sainthood the hard way. Watching and reviewing the worst of current entertainment is sparing others from wasting time, money, and sanity. God bless you sir!
I totally agree, saw F9 today and even if Letty wouldn't have jumped in to save Dom, I would not care at all if he died because after bringing Letty and Han back I know that no one truly dies in this movie. The comedic parts were great but then they went from people like Ludacris who was a car mechanic and he now can fight like he's been training in martial arts for years, it is really dumb, they are no longer street racers they are one step from getting picked by Zordon to become the new Power Rangers. Also, I feel they tried WAAAAAY too hard to try to get people to like this movie with all the nostalgic cameos of past movies.
To me, this franchise was a one and done. Point in case; in 2 they had to introduce Tyrese as a completely new character in a new setting, and paired him with Paul Walker in a movie that had nothing really to do with the base of the first movie. 3 was in Tokyo, and again has F all to do with the "franchise" in general except it's about cars that look good and good-looking women. One of the sadder points for me is Brian. The actual actor dies, they do a beautiful tribute, could have ended there perfectly; and effectively - his CHARACTER is STILL alive. Off-screened permanently, and still listed as "boyfriend" to Mia. Even though they have 2 kids. (let them be married, or let him be dead. He stopped being the boyfriend about the time she can factually call him "Daddy.") Liked the point you brought up about the he should be dead, they reference how are you not dead, and shrugs... then, hey... what if we're invincible? You're not Achilles, and technically speaking, it would be great if they'd go there. Maybe that's what happened to Han's GF? Someone shot her in the ankle, so she went down. As to the Sampson reference, they didn't follow the myth... and I think it's because Vin wants his character's Epic Destiny to be "Demigod." At lvl 20, he'd decide to ascend, become the least of all gods, and "I'm on a new level" - I dislike how often that gets looped in trailers recently, so Snake Eyes can bite me - that's what I think F10 will be. Until someone loops back to hit Alt reality, and F4's me. Then it'll be Bob, and Reboot, to the rescue. * I'm on a new level - dude, it's the origin story. You're basically a minion til you work your way up. Unless they're being literal about the D&D structure, but then my statement still applies. (Looping it 50 times isn't a "genius move" that would show to prove the assertion. It implies you're actually stuck on the same one)
I can't believe I didn't remember this one. That goes to show they have way too many of them. I saw the one they saved Lettie and I think I checked out after that.
The ending of this just really feels sad. You could tell that Thorias really liked this franchise once and is genuinely bummed out by it turning out the way it did. "But for me as tasty as the icing is I miss the cake. And I feel like the cake is long gone now." Sadder words have seldom been spoken on this channel.
5:39 That's why the film *Nobody* was a breath of fresh air. Bob Odenkirk's character "Hutch" is a great fighter, but he still takes punches and gets banged and bloodied realistically. He's not Superman.
Thorias. Of course you are one of just a handful of reviewers that I subscribed to because everyone else sucks. .... Your review on fast 9 and the franchise is absolutely correct. Your metaphor about the cake and icing is right on, but I thought I'd give you some insight into the target audience that have fallen in love with The Fast and the Furious concept. .... It's actually very simple. .... The Fast and Furious franchise is nothing but (live-action Hot Wheels) movies. .... The Fast and the Furious movies showcase live action, action that we as kids used to imagine in our heads doing with our Hot Wheels toys and the like. ..... It absolutely is a turn off your brain, revert to the days when you were five and six and 10 years old playing with your Hot Wheels cars making them do the most absurd outrageous things, and enjoy the spectacle before you. .... Fast and Furious is a live-action Hot Wheels brought to you right out of the 10 year old minds of days past.
They literally fly to space in this movie, with a Pontiac Fiero that has 2 rockets strapped on!! This franchise has become his own parody and they fully embrace it! lel.
Next movie: haunted, killer automobile. Yeah. That will be $100,000,000 payment to me, by the way. I only saw the first three. Maybe the forth movie too.
They became the copy of the TV series G.I. Joe, who I've always hated. Quick poll: has anyone ever died in the TV series G.I. Joe? There were battles with tanks, the United States Air Force, missiles and so on. Not a dead man ...
I wouldn't be surprised that in the next movie the crew will be hired by someone to race up Godzilla's back while he's fighting King Ghidorah to shoot a kriptonian nuke at him.
I’m calling the next movie. The only thing they can do now that’s even more absurd than being in space is to travel back in time and race with dinosaurs
I find it hilarious how GTA Online basically went on this same trajectory. 2015: Robbing stores in sports cars. 2021: Saving the world from mad AI from your nuclear submarine.
With the new writer on F9, that balancing act has been thrown out for the sake of making Vin Diesel head so thick that he knocks out door frames with it while acting like he didn't feel a damn thing.
Well, and we still have two more movies to go (without counting spin offs) So... Idk what are they going to do. What insanity is going to happen next xD (In case someone didnt know, when Paul was alive, they said they wanted to do 10 movies. After he died, they decided they were going to do 10 in his honor. But the 10th movie will be splitted in two. So yeah, two more movies to go)
"We don't need physics and believable moments. We have family."
Even that is a stretch. That sctick can only go so far. I woukd ask 'what family' by now
I absolutely hate vin diesel, he's a god damn walking cringe 😒
Fast X: to hell and back
Dom drives to hell to bring back his father because family...
Hey put spoiler alerts before saying stuff like that! :(
Insert a Hercules cameo and I'll see it.
Dom's father faked his death, too. And Cipher is Dom's mother.
How about Fast X: Race to the past
"Ludicrous plays a character in these movies that very analytical and science based"
That's ludicrous.
Indeed.
Calling it now...Fast 10 they are going back in time and coming back riding a T Rex to jump a shark to land on an asteroid to save the world from a vampire zombies..
Well it's still better than most of Hollywood's garbage. I'd probably watch that lol 😆
Check my comment posted minutes ago, lol you now owe them money lmfao I said fast 10 is self described, but you still pay.....
Geoff T. Also I bet that they call it Fast X to be smart asses when it reality, no-one gives 2 fucks about these movies anymore lol!
Going to space wasn't the shark jump?
Why are you giving them ideas?
You don't understand. These people have such deep connections to cars, that falling onto a car from any height won't kill them. The cars won't allow it.
Fast 6 : All roads led to this
Furious 7 : One last ride
F8 of the Furious: One more ride
Furious 9: Can't stop the ride
FX: Fas 10 your seatbelts the ride won't stop
Fast and the Furious 11: ...Please send help
Fast and the Furious 12: What the fuck is even happening anymore?...
FURIOUS 13 vs SHARKNADO
Maybe the franchise should have ended at F7. Paul Walkers final Fast film.
@@jot8000 Fast and furious 14: Pissed on the seat and hid the keys.
The sad part? This is some of the better stuff Hollywood is putting out right now. That doesn’t mean I want to see it, but it says a lot about Hollywood.
*Pedowood
You spelled It incorrectly, It happens ;)
@@iMisanthrope If I was asked to take an intelligence test with one of three people, one of whom had wanted to see this movie, one of whom wanted to see Karen, and one of whom wanted to see the next Captain Marvel movie, my guess for intellect would be the F&F.
@@iMisanthrope Maybe that's the point. People want to turn their brains off for 2-3 hours and not have to think about every little thing...
For someone who reviews movies, it is impossible to NOT watch critically
The film *Nobody* was great!!
No offence, but watch more movies.
Even with his critics of the F&F franchise, this was a slice of Heaven for Thorias compared to whatever ever the hell Batwoman is.
Imagine writting that's so bad that virtually anything would be a good palette cleanser.
Guy from the Sonic movie: “How are you alive?”
Guy from the F&F Saga: “I have no idea!”
At this point the Fast saga is literally turning into the Superfast parody film that came out years ago when the franchise could still be taken seriously...
U mean lex Luger…… I dunno!!!!!!!
They needed to stop calling them fast an furious movies several films back.
The last Fast and Furious movie that felt like a fast and furious movie was Fast 4.
1&5 were good, 2&3 were entertaining, 7 was a perfectly good stopping point.
What about 4, 6 and 8?
Fast 7 is where it should’ve ended. And stay done. Especially giving Paul Walker a final goodbye and the symbolism at the end was a huge tearjerker for me.
@@teddythekingofbears 4 introduced amnesia and made it into a soap opera. 6 is when the physics completely jumped the shark. 8 was mind-bending, in both spectacle and ridiculousness - And that's not to say 7 wasn't, but at least it was a tribute to Paul that could have let the whole thing end on a respectful note.
They should have stopped after Rio. They were now ridiculously wealthy, all of them were happy and living in what I believe was a non extradition country, so they could have left it there.
@@lukeharriss608
I think you are giving these movie way too much credit. Never thought much about them, smth to shut down my brain and not care about anything. Junk food if you will.
I can't wait for Fast and Furious 14 where one of the characters jumps a shark, flies into space, rams Cthulhu into a blackhole, gets spit out and returns to Earth in a crater is like "I think I got a paper cut"
Bring back the Tokyo Drift cast. The last and arguably the only time in the series that it was about cars and streetraces.
Facts
Last one I watched there was Diesel jumping out a Helicopter catching someone jumping out of a Car.
They have had bones made of Steel for a while now.
If they explained it away as adamantium, it'd still be stupid, but at least it'd be something.
This franchise lost its mind like five or so movies ago. Where have YOU been? lol
I was never a huge fan of this franchise in the first place but after Tokyo drift I stopped paying attention all together
@@bootsthecat6718 honestly tokio drift was like the last one that was on car race, after that all mission impossible shit
@@marcoflorian5182 prepare franchise for Ludacris speed
I stopped watching them. I thought I made that clear. lol
I remember when they were selling stolen DVD players with Ja Rule, then by the time they were duelling with tanks on active highways and chasing rockets it became "We don't need physics; we have family." It's like they leaned so hard into the memes that your suspension of disbelief is spent by the time you accept Ludacris as a scientist. It's like playing a game with God Mode on. Sure it's fun for an hour or two, but the lack of danger robs the entire production of the excitement that comes with narrowly escaping death in a meaningful way.
The writers of this movie took the phrase 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' too literally. Since these guys consistently get into fatal and near-fatal situations they've basically become Gods among men.
It really neuters the stakes of a story when normal characters are written like invincible idiots. I'm all for suspending my disbelief for a while but I quickly lose interest when the characters shrug off wounds or engage in impossible feats for the sake of looking cool.
That kind of crap belongs in D grade fanfiction, not canon
*I'm waiting for Fast X, where they go into orbit and race Elon Musk's Tesla to the ISS to prevent it from being used to hit One World Trade Center.*
Wait, they already went to space?
They need Jurassic park. Fight Thanos and travel through time like with some tardis from doctor who. Or go all Ricky or morty on us. Oh shot. Forget these ideas.
In Fast X, the team is going to Mars. I'm calling it.
Do not try to joke with modern Hollywood, they do not have a sense of humor that they are aware of
I feel like either I'm too savvy about Hollywood's stupidity because they are that predictable, or they are doing this to f with us. I legit joked about Predator 5 and not even a week later, it was announced. Good gravy, Jokes Are Real now. Satire is defeated by the absudity of real life time and time again a an exponential climb.
SPOILERS
They seriously retconed one of the most tragic death scenes in fast and furious with a fucking hologram. For crying out loud, this franchise should've ended at the 7th movie. They actually went to fucking space.
If space is where horror franchises go to die we can only hope that this is a good sign
In space no one can hear you family.
1 to 4 were good, after that they should have stoped
@@marcoflorian5182 7 should've been the ending.
Hans death being a hologram didn't even make sense because in the 7th film they showed us that Sean found stuff by the crash including Dom's chain so it couldn't have been a hologram.
The next movie they're going to space and race Aliens 🤣
Dom: we are going beyond light speed .. with family.
Funny how in the first movie when Brian asks Dom what his fastest time in the charger was and Dom said he never drove it because the car scared the hell out of him. I guess it doesn't scare him to drive a car out of one building and throught two more or parachute out of a plane in a car and so on.
Yeah, back when Dom was an actual character and not just some indestructible juggernaut for Vin Diesel to live vicariously through.
Yeah, back when Dom was an actual character and not just some indestructible juggernaut for Vin Diesel to live vicariously through.
Also Thorias that joke about them going to space was 8 years ago today and that just shows that Justin Lin is not a good director because he lacks any creative ideas and that has been shown more so in the later films.
Well with that being said. Let's just go over F9 shall we.
1: Does the laws of physics matter to you?
-Yes. But after since Fast 4 that logic was thrown out of the window and they think that upping the batshit insanity is going to work. Trust me it doesn't.
2: What does family have to do with being a superhuman?!
-Everything. You say family long enough you will be as powerful as Superman after saying family a billion times just like Dom does because he seems to be getting more and more superhuman in every film!!!!!!!
3: Roman becomes the voice of the audience?
-The best thing ever done because he is the only one with a brain in his head and the rest of just flatout insane at this point. Self awareness is great right?(in this case, No it really isn't)
4: Ramsey finally does something useful and not just there because she was in GOT?
-Yes and she says that she doesn'r drive and then after a few mess ups she remembers that in her contract that her character is a Mary Sue and then she is driving like a pro in a matter of minutes!
5: Cardi B is not being a complete moron?
-No she is still a moron and she is in this film for a few scenes and that she was just in it because she is a big name in the music industry and her character makes no f'ing sense. Which is good for this type of movie apparently.
6: The superweapon is pretty much the same type of device with the same type of power that was used in the Fast 7 and 8?
-Yes. But they added in nuclear control.
7: Is Mr. Nobody Dom's uncle or something?
-Because he has been with them for quite awhile now and every time something bad happens he is there and he calls in the team in order to stop it.
8:Space. The Final Race line!
-That is all on that one.
9:Dom's ego has reached new levels of nacissism?
-Hell Yes. He has to be front and center and be the hero in every confront and he can do feats of superhuman strength that makes him superhuman from the 20 men holdup to pulling down a building then falling a very long way down to your death. but no he survives like it was nothing.
10:Jakob's whole existence was just an idea that the director pulled out of his ass at the last minute in order to move the plot forward and his whole hatred for Dom was all due to a lack of communication?
-Yes and he goes from badass assassin to boo whoo whoo cry cry to end of the world. man this family is seriously FUCKED UP!
11/Final:Han has returned from being dead and is basically a dick?
-Yes and it is because it was one of Lin's retcons and they were noticeable even back then. Because Han is dead we saw him in the car upside down, bleeding and trapped.
So in closing F9 is a FLAKING DISASTER!!!!!!!!!
This has been a straight up superhero franchise since 5. It's been ridiculous for years, I never could take it seriously
Couldn't take it seriously from the first one. So, to me not much has changed.
Someone: Believability is important in movies.
This movie: No not really.
They honestly should have stopped after
Fast and furious 2009.
The franchise has just lost
What made it special.
At this point I don't understand why they just don't go ahead and put this franchise in the
DC Extended Universe?
So proud of myself that I have not seen one .. not one . I never will .
You should do yourself a favor and actually check out the first one.
It's actually quite good.
The only one I watched was the first movie, it was a bootleg copy that did not have any music, definitely not the viewing experience that they intended
@@bootsthecat6718 Gee you think?
First three are pretty grounded and are not terrible, four and five are tolerable, after that it turns from bunch of racers, criminals and cops into...I'm not even sure what it's supposed to be at this point
He says icing isn't a meal like cake alone is, it's a desert!
I loved Roman getting into "are we even real? how are we still alive after all this?" I thought it was going to have a 4th wall breaking moment.
Tej saying "it's all about physics, numbers don't lie" then they did things that were absolutely not following the laws of physics.
That Invincible punchline never gets old. 😅
I laughed when Tyrese said that line in the movie because it meant I was going to be able to use that gag.
You need more subs Thorias, your review's are so good and funny.
Tell it to the algorithm. That big red bastard just won't cut me a break.
admittedly, as one who enjoyed all previous, this one is...yeahhh, steps in a dodoo (I guess I should have learned by now, that anything can be ruined, no matter how simple)
I won’t be surprised if the next two movies cross over with Jurassic world, I wanna see Dom fight a T-Rex 😂
They try something new for fast 10, you self describe the whole movie to yourself, and still have to pay them.
They need to add time travel, dinosaurs & zombies if they ever want to be in my good graces
We might be getting that sooner than you think, Hollywood's in talks about having a F&F crossover with the atrocious Jurassic world movies
Ok that invincible cut in got me. 🤣🤣
Yup. Use to be about illegal car racing, cool cars, maybe robbing a few banks and some gang activity, but it was still grounded. Still technically realistic and around human reach. Now, it's just too ridiculous and out of hand, I mean nothing makes sense. Prove me wrong.
@Eugene Oisten No he's right
The first film was very grounded.
What the hell have you been watching?
I don't consider myself an authority of the Fast & Furious movies as I never saw any of them, but the original, as I see it, drew its inspiration from a manga/anime series called Initial D as well as the Street Racing scene; but as the series dragged on it starting jumping the shark as it started adding spy elements and more over the top action.
I didn't know the movie was out yet. The trailer pretty much shows how invincible they really so you can see that there really are no stakes.
People like flashy cars....that's the main reason these movies have been so popular and mint money....
I remember the first one and Gone in Sixty Seconds came out around the same time, but I enjoyed the latter for more.
From street level drag racers to 007 agents fighting supervillains with submarines, explosions, super weapons and celebrity cameos.
Great review Thorias.
If you have a moment, check out Ryan George pitch meeting on F9, it's entertaining.
In F10, they discover they are in the Matrix. 😁
FnF 10 : they time travel and race around medieval Europe
What they need is a PREQUEL!
Now I’m off to watch the Pitch Meeting.
Great advice on how to go into the theater..That's EXACTLY what I did..And i had real low-brow, stupid fun.
I was wondering why the hell I was enjoying the flashbacks so much and I realized it the moment you said: Characters expect not to get hurt. But the whole flashback sequence revolves around death, being hurt, beating someone and facing consequences. And to me that was the best part of the movie. The rest was just boring. Even some of the actors looked tired (e.g. Michelle Rodriguez) of this.
I keep going back to the scene where they drive off the cliff and swing across the canyon in their car. Vin and Michelle honestly looked BORED. They barely even reacted to this. Then the car crash lands on the other cliff, flips over like ten times and they're all nonchalant like, "Well, that just happened. Whatever."
i was hoping to see this movie this weekend but honestly at this point i think this franchise has just lost its way, and probably going to wait until this comes out on blu-ray
Thorias is earning sainthood the hard way. Watching and reviewing the worst of current entertainment is sparing others from wasting time, money, and sanity. God bless you sir!
That Invincible joke was totally worth it, well played XD
7:04 - That was actually a nice pun on the early name of one of Cena's WWE finishers.
Darth Vader: "You don't know the power of the Dark Side."
Dominic Toretto: I don't fear the Dark Side I got family.
As if that trailer didn’t make it obvious enough 😂
I loved the Invincible bit that was great 👍
I was so happy I could work that in lol.
Thanks TH-cam for suggesting this video 2 days late 😅
I totally agree, saw F9 today and even if Letty wouldn't have jumped in to save Dom, I would not care at all if he died because after bringing Letty and Han back I know that no one truly dies in this movie.
The comedic parts were great but then they went from people like Ludacris who was a car mechanic and he now can fight like he's been training in martial arts for years, it is really dumb, they are no longer street racers they are one step from getting picked by Zordon to become the new Power Rangers.
Also, I feel they tried WAAAAAY too hard to try to get people to like this movie with all the nostalgic cameos of past movies.
To me, this franchise was a one and done. Point in case; in 2 they had to introduce Tyrese as a completely new character in a new setting, and paired him with Paul Walker in a movie that had nothing really to do with the base of the first movie. 3 was in Tokyo, and again has F all to do with the "franchise" in general except it's about cars that look good and good-looking women.
One of the sadder points for me is Brian. The actual actor dies, they do a beautiful tribute, could have ended there perfectly; and effectively - his CHARACTER is STILL alive. Off-screened permanently, and still listed as "boyfriend" to Mia. Even though they have 2 kids. (let them be married, or let him be dead. He stopped being the boyfriend about the time she can factually call him "Daddy.")
Liked the point you brought up about the he should be dead, they reference how are you not dead, and shrugs... then, hey... what if we're invincible? You're not Achilles, and technically speaking, it would be great if they'd go there. Maybe that's what happened to Han's GF? Someone shot her in the ankle, so she went down. As to the Sampson reference, they didn't follow the myth... and I think it's because Vin wants his character's Epic Destiny to be "Demigod." At lvl 20, he'd decide to ascend, become the least of all gods, and "I'm on a new level" - I dislike how often that gets looped in trailers recently, so Snake Eyes can bite me - that's what I think F10 will be. Until someone loops back to hit Alt reality, and F4's me. Then it'll be Bob, and Reboot, to the rescue.
* I'm on a new level - dude, it's the origin story. You're basically a minion til you work your way up. Unless they're being literal about the D&D structure, but then my statement still applies. (Looping it 50 times isn't a "genius move" that would show to prove the assertion. It implies you're actually stuck on the same one)
F10, Heaven forbid, will be the crew fighting aliens led by Woki, like in first Avengers.
Btw, Thorias, I like your background music 👍.
I swear to God I thought you were going to say the cake is a lie I was going to lose. I don't even know if you would know that reference 😂
I can't believe I didn't remember this one. That goes to show they have way too many of them. I saw the one they saved Lettie and I think I checked out after that.
The ending of this just really feels sad. You could tell that Thorias really liked this franchise once and is genuinely bummed out by it turning out the way it did.
"But for me as tasty as the icing is I miss the cake. And I feel like the cake is long gone now." Sadder words have seldom been spoken on this channel.
You can only suspend your disbelief so far before you go "Nah dude, that shit don't make a lick of sense"
You have got to appreciate the hilarious evolution! XD
5:39 That's why the film *Nobody* was a breath of fresh air. Bob Odenkirk's character "Hutch" is a great fighter, but he still takes punches and gets banged and bloodied realistically. He's not Superman.
There was enough property damage at the end for them to count as superheroes.
Fast and furious franchise has now become a part of the matrix series..hmm not a bad idea
Okay.... that cut away near the end of the review was pretty great *grins*
Part of what made the franchise work was Paul. He and diesel were the whole cake.
Thorias.
Of course you are one of just a handful of reviewers that I subscribed to because everyone else sucks.
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Your review on fast 9 and the franchise is absolutely correct.
Your metaphor about the cake and icing is right on,
but I thought I'd give you some insight into the target audience that have fallen in love with The Fast and the Furious concept.
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It's actually very simple.
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The Fast and Furious franchise is nothing but (live-action Hot Wheels) movies.
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The Fast and the Furious movies showcase live action, action that we as kids used to imagine in our heads doing with our Hot Wheels toys and the like.
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It absolutely is a turn off your brain,
revert to the days when you were five and six and 10 years old playing with your Hot Wheels cars making them do the most absurd outrageous things, and enjoy the spectacle before you.
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Fast and Furious is a live-action Hot Wheels brought to you right out of the 10 year old minds of days past.
They literally fly to space in this movie, with a Pontiac Fiero that has 2 rockets strapped on!!
This franchise has become his own parody and they fully embrace it! lel.
Which do you think they will do first, drive to Mars or racing at the center of the Earth?
John cena should quit acting at this point.
Was he in this? I didn't see him
'If we just follow the laws of physics'
Since can we choose to not follow the laws of physics?
Next movie: haunted, killer automobile. Yeah.
That will be $100,000,000 payment to me, by the way.
I only saw the first three. Maybe the forth movie too.
When I watched the trailer and saw the weird woman with the orange bowl cut, I said, "Oh, look, it's Moe Howard."
Actually it’s been confirmed awhile ago that the franchise would end at the 10 or 11 movie
The writers watched A-Team reruns and respond with "hold my beer".
Real talk though I can’t get over his movie review thumbnails they get me everytime
I agree completely. Time for F&F to call it a day.
unless.......The Fast & the Furious 10: The Furious and the Fast
They became the copy of the TV series G.I. Joe, who I've always hated.
Quick poll: has anyone ever died in the TV series G.I. Joe?
There were battles with tanks, the United States Air Force, missiles and so on.
Not a dead man ...
I wouldn't be surprised that in the next movie the crew will be hired by someone to race up Godzilla's back while he's fighting King Ghidorah to shoot a kriptonian nuke at him.
I really.liked them. Bailed after the sub torpedo moment
I’m calling the next movie. The only thing they can do now that’s even more absurd than being in space is to travel back in time and race with dinosaurs
I find it hilarious how GTA Online basically went on this same trajectory. 2015: Robbing stores in sports cars. 2021: Saving the world from mad AI from your nuclear submarine.
Thanks
the audience will love it anyway
When did they go from a bunch of thieves (with zero military training) who liked to street race to performing covert military missions?
This franchise needs to rest. It's dry as all hell. They can't be squeezed anymore.
With the new writer on F9, that balancing act has been thrown out for the sake of making Vin Diesel head so thick that he knocks out door frames with it while acting like he didn't feel a damn thing.
Don't get me started on the door frame thing.
I got enough from the review. I might watch this years from now on TBS or TNT.
It should have ended at F7. At least it was still about most of the core cast and made some sense even with the physics spectacles.
"How do you reintroduce real stakes".....Alien Invasion
A lot of people are thinking they're gonna include dinosaurs in the next movie
This was the first of these movies since like the third one to have a different writer and it sounds like it shows.
It never has
"FAST 9 REVIEW | This Franchise Has Lost Its Mind!"
You're just realizing this?
No, I realized it back when I originally stopped watching them. But now it's lost its mind even more so.
In all fairness, those who saw Hobbs and Shaw knew it all before.
Well, and we still have two more movies to go (without counting spin offs)
So... Idk what are they going to do.
What insanity is going to happen next xD
(In case someone didnt know, when Paul was alive, they said they wanted to do 10 movies.
After he died, they decided they were going to do 10 in his honor.
But the 10th movie will be splitted in two.
So yeah, two more movies to go)
Very sticky pillows.