Fast 8 - Part 1

[dark_b]

some are saying it could be the best or the worst.

 

[STARMAN]

I've never seen any of these films in the theater only on TV. I'm tempted to go to the theater this time.

 

[Wildcard]

I'm very much in the dark on what the reason would be.

Yeah, that is usually a twist they'd go out of the way to keep saved until the actual release of the movie. And strangely enough, them doing so hasn't hurt anything at all.

 

[Drizzle]

some are saying it could be the best or the worst.

As crazy as some of the stuff in the trailers looked, I can't see this being worse than 2 Fast 2 Furious or Tokyo Drift.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

I'm seeing this tomorrow.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

I found out what the twist is re: the reason for Dom's "betrayal". Not gonna say what it is, but surprisingly, it's NOT what I thought it was! NONE of us called it. That's all i can say.

 

[Kane52630]

I've never seen any of these films in the theater only on TV. I'm tempted to go to the theater this time.

I think I've seen 4 through 7 all in theaters.

 

[Bats123]

Just came out of a screening and you know what, i really liked it, it gets so, so dumb but there are some genuinely emotional scenes.
Charlize is a great villian, probably the best villian in the whole franchise and Statham steals the show, he was the best part for me. If i had to rank it well: F5>F8>F7>F6>FF>F4>2F2F>F3

 

[Symbiotic]

Vin and Statham both told MTV that Shaw's father has been discussed. Statham says he knows the names that are being looked at. He adds that new reveals are coming for Deckard and continues to stress the angle that the character is not completely evil. Vin adds that they plan to go back to New York.

 

[Jonwo]

I wouldn't be surprised if Liam Neeson is cast as Shaw senior.

 

[nightwing06]

Just came out of a screening and you know what, i really liked it, it gets so, so dumb but there are some genuinely emotional scenes.
Charlize is a great villian, probably the best villian in the whole franchise and Statham steals the show, he was the best part for me. If i had to rank it well: F5>F8>F7>F6>FF>F4>2F2F>F3

now im really hyped up to see it

 

[harlequinade]

Just came out of a screening and you know what, i really liked it, it gets so, so dumb but there are some genuinely emotional scenes.
Charlize is a great villian, probably the best villian in the whole franchise and Statham steals the show, he was the best part for me. If i had to rank it well: F5>F8>F7>F6>FF>F4>2F2F>F3

Awesome these two are the only reasons I wanna see it, saw the previous ones just for Jason

 

[Gabe99]

From The VIBE Vault:
‘Racer X’

 

[Symbiotic]

RT consensus: "The Fate of the Furious opens a new chapter in the franchise, fueled by the same infectious cast chemistry and over-the-top action fans have come to expect."

 

[Kane52630]

80% on RT

 

[Hunter Rider]

The Eight Best Fast and Furious Action Sequences

 

[BeserkerHilf]

I haven't intentionally clicked on ComingSoon in my bookmarks in at least 2 years.

Nice try, Hunter!

 

[Greens]

Saw it today. A lot of fun, pretty much what you'd expect. The Rock and Statham get a crapload of good action.

My biggest complaint is the amount of obviously fake hacking and technobabble. It annoyed me in 7 and it annoyed me here.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I think we all better be prepared for what's ahead......500 movies starring the Rock over the next five years.

 

[Marvolo]

Original Ending of Furious 7

Chris Morgan, who has written every installment of the franchise since TOKYO DRIFT, recently spoke with Collider about the long-running franchise and revealed how FURIOUS 7 was originally supposed to end.


"Well, the original ending, if I remember correctly, was our guys end up solving the problem and then kind of becoming—again, going more outlaw, it was sort of a happier ending that kind of ends with the insinuation that they were gonna go off onto this heist or this job. But the core issue for Brian, Paul’s character, was this kind of ‘Who am I?’ sort of question. He’s a guy who used to be a cop and in the thick of the action and a racer, and all this stuff, and now he has an amazing wife, a kid and another one on the way. Then he starts to look at his life and it’s not a midlife crisis but to say—we said it in the movie, ‘I miss the bullets, I miss the action’ and the point of the adventure was to show by the end of it that the thing that’s truly important to him is his family and being there. It wouldn’t mean that he has to stop those adventures or those things, but the context is just a little bit different, he has a different understanding of who he is at his core and what’s most important in life."


The original ending isn't really that much of a departure from the one which we got, although O'Conner's decision to focus on his family is obviously a little more permanent. I was quite impressed with how Universal and director James Wan were able to complete Paul Walker's work and give his character a touching send off, but it was a tough decision to make as at one point they were considering scrapping the entire film.

"We had him in a lot of the action stuff and not a lot of the dramatic sequences, and so those were gonna be impossible to get. Then we had the question of like—there was a real moment where not only were we all just emotionally devastated, but there was a real question of is it even possible to finish. There was a beat where we were actually all just thinking about just shutting it down and not going on with it, but we took a little time and everyone had a chance to grieve. Then we all started thinking about it and I started specifically thinking about, ‘How do we build that story? What do we have with Paul?’ and really for me it was about, ‘Can we give the audience a cathartic experience to say goodbye? Can we do something that is worthy of Paul that he would appreciate?’ So it really kind of came down to that last sequence, so I just ended up writing it out and I took it into the studio and I was like, ‘This is what I think the end of the movie is’ and they loved it and the studio loved it. That was the moment when we all agreed, ‘We need to do this.’"

As well as considering scrapping FURIOUS 7 altogether, there was also talk of ending the franchise once FURIOUS 7 was received as well as it was. Chris Morgan said that they were thinking that it might have been appropriate to "go out on a good note and leave it alone," but that the FAST & FURIOUS team "made an agreement to say that we wouldn’t revisit this unless we had a story that did something dramatically different, that was worthy of being done."

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/chris-morgan-reveals-the-original-ending-to-furious-7-361

So glad they took time off and decided not to scrap the entire film. Brian's send off is one of the best Ive seen for a character.

 

[Symbiotic]

Neal Moritz revealed in a podcast interview that Timothy Olyphant was the first person that they offered Dom to. Paul was always their first choice for Brian.

 

[TheVileOne]

I had a good time with the film. I loved Charlize Theron as Cipher, and she's probably my favorite villain of the franchise so far. I mean, the film does have some ridiculous and convoluted elements. And no joke, it's dumb as hell. However, as dumb as it is, it's dumb in a way where you can still have fun and watch and enjoy the ride and the characters and all their chemistry.

Scott Eastwood, just not sold on this guy. Seemed like they were trying to make him the new Brian O'Connor here. Make sure there was still a handsome white dude in the group.

I guess I justify the franchise in it's basically sort of escalated into just an action-adventure series with comic book-style heroics and action. It's gone far beyond what the original movies were the sort of underground street racing, criminal empire world.

To me there is a difference between what the Fast films are and say what a Michael Bay sequel is. I would say the Fast films are more digestible with more interesting characters and slightly better writing. They aren't quite as overshot either.

That said, I'm not sure how realistically they can keep this series going. Obviously, as long as they keep bringing in big money, studio will keep making them and bringing back who they can.

However, they can't keep making all the villains and antagonists heroes either. I like Jason Statham, but seriously. Did he have to become a member of the team this time? I mean the man murdered Han Seoul-oh.

 

[TheVileOne]

Neal Moritz revealed in a podcast interview that Timothy Olyphant was the first person that they offered Dom to. Paul was always their first choice for Brian.

I can kind of see that. Olyphant was probably coming off Scream 2 at the time.

 

[Marvolo]

That would have made for a different Dom. And if the franchise had continued and he stayed in the franchie it may have cost us Justified.

 

[Ivan Drago]

80% on RT

Family pulled through after a shaky start.