Fast and the Furious 9: The Fast Saga

[Kane52630]

 

[Prison Mike]

I will always hold Fast Five close to my heart because it introduced me to Elsa Pataky.

 

[Lencho01]

 

[DarkKnight88]

Wow, love to see Dwayne Johnson's reaction to this.

Basically Diesel is the reason Johnson gave a good performance... according to Diesel LOL

My approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, ‘Okay, we’re going to take Dwayne Johnson, who’s associated with wrestling, and we’re going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard his character as someone that they don’t know.’”

“Hobbs hits you like a ton of bricks. That’s something that I’m proud of, that aesthetic. That took a lot of work. We had to get there and sometimes, at that time, I could give a lot of tough love. Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything I’d have to do in order to get performances in anything I’m producing.”

Vin Diesel Blames 'Tough Love' on His Feud With Dwayne Johnson

 

[samsnee]

Vin needs to get his head out of ass

 

[kguillou]

Wow, love to see Dwayne Johnson's reaction to this.

Basically Diesel is the reason Johnson gave a good performance... according to Diesel LOL






Vin Diesel Blames 'Tough Love' on His Feud With Dwayne Johnson

LMAO. So Diesel is basically saying HE’S The reason Dwayne Johnson is the biggest, highest paid movie star in the world right now.

K then.

 

[Drizzle]

If anything, it's the other way around. Once Johnson was added to the cast the movies started grossing double what they had before worldwide. Vin is being ignorant by not acknowledging the fact that Johnson had been steadily building his acting career for a decade before Fast Five came out.

 

[Closerframe]

Johnson hadn’t been associated with wrestling for many years prior to Fast Five and if anything, he made the series more entertaining. And I’m no marketing guru, but didn’t he and Jason Statham get their own spin-off which would imply their success independently from the large assemble?

Diesel is a clown who only has the Fast series to keep him afloat since he milked Riddick to death and he could easily be replaced as Groot.

 

[DarkKnight]

I mean, if Diesel was indeed a producer (I was not aware of that), to me it just sounds like he was doing his job. I also wouldn't be surprised if the "quote" used in the article was paraphrased or manipulated a bit to sound more two-faced. These outlets love drama, especially when "OMG Vin diesel and The Rock dont like each other and blah blah..."

I'm not defending Vin and this could be true and shady. While Dewayne Johnsons is indeed the better actor between the two; In my opinion, Dewayne is not all that great either. I enjoy them both and have enjoyed them in various films I've watched staring them. But they do what they do and that pretty much sums it up for me. Dewayne has more range, but that's about it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Diesel is the biggest mark for himself lmao

 

[samsnee]

I mean, if Diesel was indeed a producer (I was not aware of that), to me it just sounds like he was doing his job. I also wouldn't be surprised if the "quote" used in the article was paraphrased or manipulated a bit to sound more two-faced. These outlets love drama, especially when "OMG Vin diesel and The Rock dont like each other and blah blah..."

I'm not defending Vin and this could be true and shady. While Dewayne Johnsons is indeed the better actor between the two; In my opinion, Dewayne is not all that great either. I enjoy them both and have enjoyed them in various films I've watched staring them. But they do what they do and that pretty much sums it up for me. Dewayne has more range, but that's about it.

Why do you spell it Dewayne?

 

[Drizzle]

Diesel is a clown who only has the Fast series to keep him afloat since he milked Riddick to death and he could easily be replaced as Groot.

Part of me believes that the only reason why Vin Diesel was chosen to play Groot was because Marvel/Disney was worried GOTG would flop so they wanted that extra star power boost. Same thing with hiring Bradley Cooper as Rocket but that's different since Rocket obviously has more range as a character. Hiring an actor who commands a bigger paycheck like Diesel to essentially say the same line 10-15 times per film just seems like a gimmick. ESPECIALLY since Diesel's voice was modified to sound younger for the majority of that character's appearances. At least they had him dub the character in multiple languages so they kind of got their money's worth I guess.

 

[DarkKnight88]

That all could be true. Although James Gunn must've got a kick out of it having now cast Sylvester Stallone as a one word CGI creature King Shark.

 

[kguillou]

The thing now is…theres literally no reason to continue having Diesel play Groot. After the first movie, Groot was de-aged in all his subsequent appearances so….you’re paying millions and millions of dollars to Diesel to…say “I am groot” and digitally modify his voice after the fact to sound like a baby/teenager? Thats a huge waste of money imo.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I guess they're paying for his Instagram promotion at this point lol

 

[Drizzle]

The thing now is…theres literally no reason to continue having Diesel play Groot. After the first movie, Groot was de-aged in all his subsequent appearances so….you’re paying millions and millions of dollars to Diesel to…say “I am groot” and digitally modify his voice after the fact to sound like a baby/teenager? Thats a huge waste of money imo.

I hope that Groot will be fully grown again the next time we see him. Enough of the baby/teenager gimmick.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I hope that Groot will be fully grown again the next time we see him. Enough of the baby/teenager gimmick.

I guess he would be.

Unless the Groot we saw in the first movie was in his 40s, and we go through 20s and 30s first lol

 

[Kane52630]

I want Groot's quarter life crisis on screen.

 

[DarkKnight]

Why do you spell it Dewayne?

Dewayne is also proper spelling of the name. However, after googling it, I see he spells it as Dwayne.

 

[Drizzle]

Oh heavens, Double Toasted just dropped their 40 minute Fast 9 review. I'm gonna need some popcorn for that one since I'm sure it's better than the actual movie.

 

[Kane52630]

Now we just need HDTGM's pod on it with Adam Scott.

 

[Filmfan93]

Just came back from this and they officially jumped the shark BIG time.

The amount of ridiculous stuff that happens in this film... oh god.

The action in the other ones now looks like normal, grounded stuff compared to this

Lower your expectations, even for a F&F movie. While it was fun, this was just pure comedy.

Great time at the cinema, though!

 

[kguillou]

Just came back from this and they officially jumped the shark BIG time.

The amount of ridiculous stuff that happens in this film... oh god.

The action in the other ones now looks like normal, grounded stuff compared to this

Lower your expectations, even for a F&F movie. While it was fun, this was just pure comedy.

Great time at the cinema, though!

Wow, its THAT crazy huh? Cuz…this series has gone pretty damn crazy before in prior installments.

 

[Joefixit]

Just came back from this and they officially jumped the shark BIG time.

The amount of ridiculous stuff that happens in this film... oh god.

The action in the other ones now looks like normal, grounded stuff compared to this

Lower your expectations, even for a F&F movie. While it was fun, this was just pure comedy.

Great time at the cinema, though!

Yeah, this one literally goes way out there! I was excited for the post credit scene . Enjoyed the film a lot, but it’s way over the top .

 

[StarLord]

Now we just need HDTGM's pod on it with Adam Scott.

The Bloodshot episode they did was more entertaining than the movie.