Fast & Furious 7 - Part 2

[dude stannis]

I don't think this should surprise anybody but Guardians of the Galaxy Director James Gunn said on Twitter that he was at the premiere of Fast 7.

Gunn's Furious 8 would be glorious.

 

[antsman41]

Gunn's Furious 8 would be glorious.

Gunn go do FUR10US, when they go into space...

 

[dude stannis]

Fast Furyian?

 

[Black Narcissus]

This was ****ing great, but it did not top Fast Five for me.

Also, I got the new Mad Max trailer on my screening and the crowd loved the **** out of it.


Overall this is a a solid 7. Great fun.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Really enjoyed the flick. Hope Furious 8 tones it down a little bit though. There were moments towards the end I felt they were overdoing it. Still, great installment in the franchise.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Also, is this one of the rare franchises that breaks the third film curse?

5-7 are all great fun.

Critical approval. Check.

Fan approval. Check.

Money in the bank. Check.

 

[TheVileOne]

No it's not. Tokyo Drift was awful.

 

[Black Narcissus]

No it's not. Tokyo Drift was awful.

I'm only counting 5-7.

We can also go from 4-7.

I only count when Vin came back.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'm only counting 5-7.

We can also go from 4-7.

I only count when Vin came back.

That's not how this works man. It didn't break the third movie curse at all. Tokyo Drift was an abomination. The only good thing about it was that it got Diesel back into the franchise.

 

[Black Narcissus]

That's not how this works man. It didn't break the third movie curse at all. Tokyo Drift was an abomination. The only good thing about it was that it got Diesel back into the franchise.

Well, I'm only going to count 5-7.

That will work for me.

 

[LostSon88]

This movie essentially turned them into Superheroes. And I'm okay with that.

It was good, just a completely different beast from the other films. They officially "jumped the shark" with this one. Multiple times. But there just comes a point where you just throw your hands up and say "***k it, I'M IN."

But if I were to rank it amongst the most recent films, it'd be 3rd. I just enjoyed Fast Five and Six just a tad more simply on the grounds that they at least tried to balance the ridiculousness with story.

This was simply a balls to the wall, over the top, superhero movie. And for the record, I mean that in an endearing way...it just wasn't exactly what I expected. I mean hell, I know I'm not the only one who noticed the hero-eske theme that played moments before Dom and Shaw threw down, haha.

Oh and yes, I could hear people sniffling at the end.

 

[Matt Mortem]

James Wan favorited a tweet I sent him about me liking both the movie and the fact that he snuck a Deftones song into the flick.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

God damn it the last few minutes made me well up with tears.

Never thought I'd say that about a Fast and Furious film.

 

[Zantera]

It was a good movie and I'm happy with the ending, RIP Paul. Would have loved to see Sean from Tokyo Drift get a slightly bigger role. If there's anything the franchise has been doing great it is honoring the movies of the franchise. When the original crew returned to make the movies, they still added Roman and Tej, characters they could have skipped. They added Han, and I remember that Eva Mendes appeared in one of the post-credit scenes. The Tokyo Drift part of Furious 7 was only short, but I loved it. Now that Brian is sadly gone, I hope Sean becomes a part of the team. He won't "replace" Paul Walker, but I would still love to see them do it, and it would IMO be a fitting continuation of the franchise. I would assume if Statham returns, Sean would also want revenge for Han.

 

[Marvolo]

That's not how this works man. It didn't break the third movie curse at all. Tokyo Drift was an abomination. The only good thing about it was that it got Diesel back into the franchise.

For Tokyo Drift to qualify for the third movie curse the first two films would actually have to be good and it would need to be the denouement of a trilogy which it isnt. The Fast and Furious is an enjoyable Point Break with cars, but it isn't some revelation or classic. And 2 Fast 2 Furious is juvenile ****. So Tokyo Drift didn't exactly sink a rising franchise. If anything it performed exactly as well as anyone could have hoped given the fact that neither Vin nor Paul were in that one. Diesels cameo doesn't count. Plus drifting is a lot more palatable than Roman "I'm Hongry, Cuz" Pearce and Ebonics Brian.

Now, seeing as Fast Five is considered a soft reboot of the franchise and the one that rejuvenated the franchise, and considering that Furious 7 wraps up the main character of the franchise and considering that the box office of Furious 6 was better than Fast Five and that Furios 7 is on track to have a better box office than Fast Five and Furious 6 I would say that it more than qualifies for the honor of breaking the third film curse.

Just my 2¢.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

I honestly can't think of another film that has done such a tribute as an ending before where it addresses a cast member's death so directly, can anyone else?

 

[Greens]

Any crowd reports? Audience reactions and trailers shown before the film?

Big applause when the movie was over.

Was there a post credit stinger?

No, probably out of respect to Paul Walker. The movie ends on his send-off and it's very emotional, so a post-credit scene would have felt out of place. The scene that WOULD have been the post-credits scene is right at the end, so everything is wrapped up.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

It's funny that people dislike Toyko Drift now. Back when Fast Five was getting ready to come out, I mentioned how Toyko drift wasn't very good and people jumped on me here lol. Basically saying it was the only one with racing in it. Then fast five came out and peole weren't so quick to defend Tokyo drift anymore ha.

 

[Lord]

I'm glad they went with that, made this feel more like a finale. Post-Credit scenes are fine, but at some point it start feeling like you can't look at some set of films as the end of an era or a story, because they constantly hype up that something's gonna happen next. For example, Fast Five gave the characters a nice end, they all get rich and move on, but the post-credits scene suddenly opens yet another door that can't let the story end there.

Also, last time they announced the 7th film right before the 6th one premiered, there's still no date for Fast & Furious 8, or for those spin-offs they've been talking about.

 

[Greens]

Yeah, the future of the franchise is unclear, and I kind of like it that way. I would be content if they stopped after this movie, but I'm open to more. We'll see.

Universal probably wants the franchise to continue, since it's their biggest moneymaker.

 

[DarkKnight88]

So does Vin Diesel I'm sure since it's the only thing that he's got going for him that makes money (other than a voice with one line of dialogue in GotG).

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

At this point, Vin Diesel has been type-cast as Dom (and in a smaller way as Riddick).

 

[Verbal21]

Big applause when the movie was over.

No, probably out of respect to Paul Walker. The movie ends on his send-off and it's very emotional, so a post-credit scene would have felt out of place. The scene that WOULD have been the post-credits scene is right at the end, so everything is wrapped up.

That actually would've been perfect as a mid-credit scene.

 

[Verbal21]

It's funny that people dislike Toyko Drift now. Back when Fast Five was getting ready to come out, I mentioned how Toyko drift wasn't very good and people jumped on me here lol. Basically saying it was the only one with racing in it. Then fast five came out and peole weren't so quick to defend Tokyo drift anymore ha.

Or people were just tired of defending a movie that came out 5 years earlier? t:

 

[antsman41]

F&F, if not Fast 5 started the superhero aspect. Furious 6 and 7 only expanded on that...

Dom's crew family is basically this universe's Justice League/Avengers, and I love it.