Since the other post is already pushing plat and contains a few spoilers about the series going forward, I thought we should start a new post for tomorrow's midnight release.

Our own bwood has already seen it. His spoiler-free review, from the other post:

"Most ridiculous movie ever. They took the last one and amplified it by 100 to retarted levels. I had fun and niggas is gonna eat this shit up. I sure did. Unfortunately, Universal is gonna fuck us with 7. Instead of waiting for Justin Lin to be ready they get James Wan so we can have 7 by next summer.

Oh, and the rumors are true..."

Anyone else seen it yet?

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...as soon as I have to start believin Paul Walker's a cop & shit...

I'm done

This one "looks" fun but I can wait

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that shit was so good, I'll probably take the kids to see it tomorrow. Take everything from Fast Five and turn it up about 20 notches. Great action flick.....



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this movie is gonna do numbers this weekend, we went to the 9:15am matinee and it was sold out, ended up going to 10:45am instead.....



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Whether you want to or not
Some of us gon' end up holy
Some of us gon' end up hot.....

>Universal is gonna fuck us with 7. Instead of waiting for
>Justin Lin to be ready they get James Wan so we can have 7 by
>next summer.
>

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Instead, it's merely the best so far.

Fastest pace.
Most action.
Plenty of absolutely awesome hand-to-hand combat.
Most one-liners.
Most hilarious barely intelligible grumblings about family.
Perhaps more over-the-top macho posturing than all the other films combined.
Best villain of the bunch too.

While I'm nervous the credits tag might be the equivalent of jumping the shark, perhaps that's just because I'm not sure how the next one can be better. They better find a top-drawer director (though once this flick makes crazy bank, I'm not convinced they won't throw a shitload of money at Lin's feet to bring him back, unless they know they have a superior replacement).

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I just saw it this evening.

It was ridiculous, unintentionally hilarious, totally homoerotic and waaaay over the top.

I don't know how they topped Fast Five, but they totally did.

I hope you're right about 7. Justin Lin seems to know the right formula to make these movies work. I trust him for 7, but I don't know how many other directors could juggle all of that goofy testosterone and make it work.

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The real joy of these films is that Lin has found an editing pace that stays kinetic with fast cuts, but never so fast that we can't tell what's going on. He also knows precisely when to place a longer shot amidst the chaos.

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Is that being done so that the next sequel can get quick turnaround or do they need time to punch up the film for 3D special effects?

6 felt a lot more disjointed to me because of all the movement from set piece to set piece whereas 5 had a more developed arch and location.

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Since, let's be honest, no one is truly deeply invested in the emotions of these characters, Fast Five's more cohesive and streamlined arc isn't as big a positive as it would be in most other series (in fact, the Dom/Letty scene in F6 was maybe the closest thing to emotion I've felt in the series... that and the Han relationship, which has always been nicely underplayed).

Plus, Lin is just so good at shooting action that I'm like that girl in the AT&T ad- "we want more, we want more, we really like it, we want more." F5, while it has the fun Vin/Rock dukefest and the bananas safe sequence, doesn't have remotely the sheer volume of action scenes that F6 has. I loved nearly every action scene here, save for the dark night setting. That henchman beating up Han AND Roman while the girls grappled had me GEEKED.

I definitely hear the arc argument... I just think this series has no real need for a streamlined arc. Make it messier in favor of more kinetic asskicking, menace, and posturing.

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Like you said above...the perfect mix of kinetic and wide shots. You get the intimate action shots yet never lose sense of the scale (you never get that Bourne 'wtf is actually happening' feeling), he has really mastered that ability. I never have a problem seeing more of his set pieces BUT, similar to MI:4, I felt like 6 was simply an exercise in 'how many can we fit in' rather than there being an arch to tie them together. That's where it fell flat in comparison to 5...the pieces, although spectacular in their own right, didn't fit as well together.

6:5 as 2010 UK: 2010 Duke basketball. Sum is greater than the individual parts.

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London was a forgettable locale, especially following Rio.

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..its so ridiculous that i couldn't really say it was good OR bad

its over the top in EVERY aspect

still, its hilarious. no, the script doesn't have a bunch of hilarious punch lines and witty humor. its hilarious because the actors all take themselves seriously, almost as if every line in this film was major.

every move was heavy handed. they might as well use a "wink & nod" after every scene that forecast something down the line.

and the end?

yo, the final action sequence was so completely unbelievable that i found myself ROARIN' with laughter. a team of automobiles bringing down a cargo plane?

without tossin' spoilers, i'll simply say that the twist/reveals for this one make it even funnier.

as much as i wanted to clown this film, i have to admit that as bad as it was, it was STILL fun.


*skatin' the rings of saturn*

..and miles to go before i sleep...

my wife cracked me up because she was like "that has to be the longest runway in the world....."



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Some of us gon' end up hot.....

..but even though its utterly ridiculous, its still fun


*skatin' the rings of saturn*

..and miles to go before i sleep...

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I don't give a fuck if they had The Rock beat up a lion with his bare hands. I'll buy anything they do in the F&F universe.

I choose to believe they could pull allllll that shit off. That level of absurdity is the best thing about it.

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-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

i like the villain idea for the next one - that actor will be a great addition, i thought the Rock was a great addition but this cat being added - ridiculously awesome...lol

Pay Lin whatever he wants to do the next one or takeover for Wan - ASAP...lol
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It's over the top, laughable, impossible, and everything else ridiculous.

And I loved every minute of it.

Stallone better take notes on this for the next Expendables film, b/c the Lin/Vin combo and company are doing everything nerds and action fans love to see in film. This movie has a universe now. The Fast & Furious universe. It's ridiculously great. I kept thinking, how can they do better with the next one, especially when it drops in a year? And they go and add _____? James Wan better now f*ck it up.

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things to do list. But i tink i may have missed something. Didn't realize til now that Fa$t 5 and Fa$t 6 had actually gotten good reviews. Now there is talk of a Fa$t 7. hmmm, might be time to start checking it out again.

Bli$$

4 was pretty damn good, but the greatness of these last two overshadow it in a big way.

Right now it looks more or less like: 6, 5, 4, 1, 2, 3 in that order to the mind of many.

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It would really make him a bastard stepchild of the whole series if they didn't put him in it.

-Sig-

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Just please don't put Bow Bow in this shit...lol
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and obviously Jason Statham wasn't in Tokyo Drift, but i couldn't remember if Lucas Black witnessed the whole thing.

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Highly entertaining movie

Better than Fast Five, but barely, as both contained a climactic Stunt-o-Rama sequence that went on far too long

I also liked that the movie played into the "mythology" of the series

And I was actually hoping that Letty's memory would have come completely back by the end of the movie; that would have just added to the schlocky fun

I also agree that Justin Lin knows how to shoot and cut an action sequence; he's become quite the director (btw, who here knew that the character Han was imported from Lin's first film, the really good Better Luck Tomorrow?)

Also, Lin says that technically this movie is supposed to be called Furious 6... Fast Five... Furious 6...

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Furious 6 with the main charecters for a minute

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>So my first question for you is, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a serious answer about it, is this the same Han as in Better Luck Tomorrow?

Sung Kang: Yes, it is. Justin and I always… He wanted to keep the anthology going. He was always wondering where the characters go after high school. The Daric Loo character actually went into his film Annapolis, and then in Tokyo Drift we have Virgil too from Better Luck Tomorrow as well.

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in Better Luck Tomorrow he's this badass quiet guy but in the Fast/Furious movies he's kind of a goof ball.

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1. He's "the quiet type" in both movies. We definitely see more of his sense of humor in the last two, but he's hardly a badass in BLT. All four guys basically bluffed their way through that shit. When they ran into some real gangsters, they damn near pissed themselves. The only time he was a "badass" was when he was beating on Virgil for doing something stupid.

2. You do realize BLT was Han in HIGH SCHOOL, right? This is years later. Most people undergo some changes after high school... especially guys involved in that kind of shit. The character is different in ways that appear to be a natural growth and us simply seeing him coming out of his shell, not a completely different guy as you've said.

If you're the same guy you were in high school nearly ten years after high school, you're a rarity.

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i didn't try to apply logic to it, it wouldn't make sense to in this series but they don't seem like the same character at all. you don't need to give me a psychological breakdown of why he was the way he was in high school.

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>i didn't try to apply logic to it

Well yeah that would be obvious. It's funny since you clearly made an attempt to poke holes in the logic of the two characters being the same, and then when sound logic comes into play you dismiss it.

it wouldn't make sense to
>in this series

Oh, in other words you don't want to actually think it through. That's called a cop out. Yes, it would make sense in any series. You're complaining about how they don't seem like the same guy

>but they don't seem like the same character at
>all.

Except for the logically sound reasons I gave, sure. You tried to poke holes, but those holes don't hold up.

>you don't need to give me a psychological breakdown of
>why he was the way he was in high school.

First, I gave a break down of who he was in high school, not why he was the way he was.

Second, I gave a break down of how people aren't the same people in their late twenties as they are in high school.

Third, I pointed out how he was nothing close to your assertion of a bad ass.

All of these things are true and correct.

OH BUT I DONT WANT ALL THAT!

lol

Look, you were wrong about Han one hundred percent and there's nothing wrong with that. There's also nothing for me to "settle down" in my response, so I dunno where that came from aside from you simply being grumpy that you really didn't have a valid point.

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Part of me is hoping they jump the shark in part 7 with some reveal that Han is not actually dead.

Then the journey into comic book cheesiness would be complete.

Knew MMA broad was Shaw's insider and that Giselle HAD TO DIE to finally connect to Tokyo Drift

Since Dom goes to race Lucas Black's character @ the end of Drift, he really should be in 7

Hate that Lin isn't directing 7 tho

appreciate it.

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“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

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The second she showed up, I knew she was a mole.

Also, I alrady thought she was a bad guy when she was in the trailer fighting Letty.

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i was getting it in with some tennessee honey whiskey a couple of hours after i watched it and came to post and completely spaced

YOU GET A HARPOON GUN. AND YOU GET A HARPOON GUN. EVERYBODY GETS A MOTHERFUCKING HARPOON GUN!

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They answered the prayers I ain't even know I had.

"I wish this movie had harpoon guns."

Boom. Exponentially improved.

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When it turned out EVERYBODY had one? Sheeiiiiiiiiiit.

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way over the top but thats par for the course with this series. Fun movie! Not as solid as Fast 5 but still enjoyable. And set up Fast 7 perfectly. How can they top this in 7? Take down a Space Shuttle? lol

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go the "Rocky Balboa" route and really scale it back to the roots of the original. Make it more about the cars/racing and less about the over the top super human stunts.

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That's the worst thing they could possibly do.

They need to continue this trajectory exactly as it's been. Going back to the first would be fine in small, subtle ways, but placing any significant emphasis on street racing and getting away from the over the top action and fighting we've seen these last couple of rounds would be a huge step backwards in every way imagineable- up to and including financially.

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I saw a pair of wrecking ball safes in 5. A plane in 6. I want to see them drag a planet in 7.

And Jason Statham is fighting Vin Diesel on the back of a dinosaur. And everybody has laser guns.

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Keep making these impossible white men films for negros, latinos & asians.

We need more!

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I cant wait to see it again. Fam, I was clapping and laughing all lound in the theatre and errythang. Forgot AWL my negro etiquette.

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hell it out comic book'd IM3. This is how you do an action movie!! Tanks going from 0-60 in .8 sec, planes being crashed by Fiats, cats flying across bridges and grabbing folks in mid-air....

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These last two basically nuked the genre with both the "how" and the "what". It was unbelievably well executed in both movies, and they tightened things up considerably in 6.

It's going to be tough to find 10 movies that hit this level of ambition+execution. After that plane scene and the shit with the tank, what the fuck else is there? The two scenes with Letty and the rogue cop were among the best American fight scenes in recent memory, and all of the fight scenes were well done.

In case we all forgot Bryan was a badass in a fight, we were strongly reminded. Dwayne and Vin forming the Road Warriors and putting Brock Lesnar's big brother in the Doomsday Device was a geek out moment like no other. Watching Han and Rome get their ass handed to them was great as well. The last time I had that much fun watching the heroes get fucked up was in Lethal Weapon 4.

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Even in the first, it had it's eye candy but by and large they've always had strong female characters. This one put them on par with their male counterparts. Giselle especially.

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