Forget “X-Box One”, all Filmjunk listeners know that if Microsoft wants us to know they mean business, that they’re ready to usher in the next generation of gaming, they would just call the system “The X-Box”.

Oh yeah, and as far as the spoiler reveal at the end of F&F6, IMDB had that actor listed in the top 5 or 6 people on the cast list last week, and while they’ve since changed it, the film’s front page DOES have a description of the scene on it that’s likely longer than the scene itself.

The positivity I’ve heard towards the Fast and the Furious franchise seems to loving the ridiculousness of the franchise. I can’t speak to it, since I haven’t bothered with any of the movies, but some of my buddies almost make it seem like the franchise is fully aware of how ridiculous it is and wears it on it’s sleeve and that’s the enjoyment they seem to get out of it.

Though, whether that makes it much different than other blockbuster franchises and why this one is okay compared to those, doesn’t really make that much sense still

It’s been awhile since my last viewing of any of the Fast and Furious movies, and I haven’t seen the latest one, but I enjoyed the ones I saw largely because of the clean action choreography and clear cause and effect, something missing from most blockbusters.

The row on the walkway is my go-to for movie theatres. Plenty of leg room and in the unlikely event that someone lights up in the row ahead of you at least they’re more than ten feet away. Other than the 3D problem, the only other problem with that spot is that if the theatre gets packed then the people who end up beside you tend to be the worst swamp creatures imaginable.

@9

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not. I mean, I’m not going to slam on your viewpoint or anything, but I genuinely can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic.

@9
Totally serious. The beauty of the F&F franchise is that it started out as a shitty Point Break ripoff, got ironically good (with Part 2 being a hilariously unintentionally homoerotic buddy cop movie), and morphed into being genuinely awesome by Parts 5 and 6.
The series has managed to do a weird thing, where it takes the best pieces of previous movies to improve the future ones, while also ret-conning things from the previous ones to make them retro-actively better.

3 introduces Han, who’s the best character in the series, 4 introduces Giselle, and the weird timeline of the series where 4-6 are prequels to part 3, 5 brings everyone together, and suddenly everyone is more likable than they’ve been in any previous movie, and starts mixing and matching these characters in fun combinations (it’s kinda similar to Star Trev IV in how they’ll pair up and split off on their own mini-adventures as part of a larger mission). 6 continues developing the relationships (Han and Giselle, Tyrese and Han watching each-other’s backs, The Rock and Vin Diesel now respect eachother and fighting side by side) while also upping the action and incorporating the above relationships into the action.

I get that its not everyone’s cup of tea, you kind of have to be on the series’ wavelength, but I think the critical and financial success is indicative of how well the series has managed to evolve and improve over its runtime.

Well, The Vampire Lovers is one of the most important Hammer flicks as its huge success completely changed the direction of Hammer’s Gothic horror films. They became much more erotic and morally loose, initiating battles with the censorship. It was the 70’s, after all.

Most of them aren’t very good, but Vampire Lovers, while hardly a masterpiece, is tastefully erotic, with beautiful cinematography and oozing with atmosphere. That pre-credits scene is a corker. It also has an interesting, morally ambiguous character in its center – Camilla – a supposedly “evil” vampire seductress that is almost as helpless as her victims.

The identity of the man on the hill indeed remains a mystery, making the film more interesting. More of the backstory was fleshed out, though, in the lesser sequels Lust for a Vampire and Twins of Evil.

YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING IDIOTS.

I don’t have the energy to type out all my points, but I’ll start by saying BULLET3 above nails every point makes exactly right. You really need to have followed these characters for the last 12+ years to enjoy them. I finally sort of see what Harry Potter fans like. These are characters we’ve followed for a good chunk of our lives (1/3 for me).

To SEAN’s point about wanting more drama… really? Fucking really!? The point at which Jordana Brewster tells Paul Walker to go ahead with the job is one of the better sequences in the movie because it shows the screen writer/director don’t give a shit about that kind of stuff. I thought she WAS going to come out and there would be a big fight about him going off when he has a son at home. When she came out and said “just go” I breathed a sigh of relief. WHY ON EARTH would you want a five minute argument between these two when A) we know he’s going to go anyway, B) the audience wants to get to the action stuff, C) it makes perfect sense with the theme of the franchise (help family in trouble)… which none of you have seen.

The device they’re going after is not just an insignificant thing that’s worth billions. They mention several times in the movie it has the capability of making a bomb that would kill millions. But don’t bother actually paying attention to the movie.

Opening credits were pretty good I thought. Not as good as Iron Man 3 closing credits, but similar and pretty good.

I’ll say more about why this movie is one of the best of the year on this week’s cinecast.

I wouldn’t say the filler is the best stuff, but I think it’s important and maybe about 40% of what this franchise is supposed to be. The action and hilarious grandstanding are the best stuff. I’m saying some amount of character bonding needs to be there as glue to hold some semblance of a story and motivations together. But adding bickering, soap opera drama just for the sake of, seems counter-productive. Using her as a hostage makes way more sense than just feeling uneasy about a pissed off wife at home throughout the hole movie.

So yeah, some of the schlocky humor and banter between characters is good though. I can see some people thinking that stuff is boring or uninteresting or humorless, but for me it’s like a family bickering and it can be entertaining. Also it just keeps the audience on the awares that these people all have report and love and respect for each other. That each of them is important so everything they do has stakes.

@PlanBFromOuterSpace
“It’s one thing if you haven’t been following them and you’re jumping into the middle of things and you’re not immediately hooked on what’s going on, but it’s another if you never liked them in the first place or if they just lost you along the way.”

If you never liked them in the first place, WHY ON EARTH are you going back for a SIXTH helping? If it’s just for the action, fair enough, but then you might as well just watch Transformers 2 or Transporter or The Raid. Those films don’t care about characters. Fast Furious does.

“hole movie”

Whoops. Haha.

Did anyone wait to see the extra scene after the credits where Nick Fury comes to recruit the Fast 6 team?

according to the prestigious DVDbeaver

“Despite the screen captures parity – I found some minor differences in the image while watching. The Paramount is marginally smoother in motion, a bit brighter and tighter with less in the way of artefacts (or perceived artefacts.) On my system the differences we quite slight – almost imperceptible if not for my standing quite close but I suspect the larger your equipment amplification of the image – the greater one may notice the subtle superiority of the Paramount Blu-ray. The Paramount has the entire film with both commentaries on one dual-layered Blu-ray – relegating the extras to a second Blu-ray disc (single-layered). The Japanese Warner has the feature and all HD extras on one Blu-ray.”

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews39/zodiac_blu-ray.htm

I disagree with Jay about Bradley Cooper not wanting to be in Hangover 3. After both the first and second movies came out, Bradley Cooper was always the person who spoke out the most of his desire to make another movie. It seems as if he enjoys working with those guys in between the more serious roles he now takes

I liked Fast & Furious quite a bit. It’s not paced all that well and can get boring, but I found all the action pretty intense. It’s crazy that The Rock has the most charisma out of all of these actors. This is one of those movies where I can’t really explain why I enjoyed it so much. Against my better judgement, I like these characters. This gets an extra star just for that punch The Rock does in the plane. You know the one I’m talking about.

I don’t see why you guys need to say your ratings on the air at all. I mean, you don’t rate all the What We Watched films on the air but still rate them on Letterboxd.

Frank’s reviews are invalid. His method of watching all the previous films before watching the new one, is not how the films are meant to be seen. Of course, he will get tired of the characters and find fault in their changing mannerisms. It’s like going to Baskin-Robbins to review the strawberry vanilla swirl, but eating 3 gallons of strawberry ice cream before leaving the house.
Frank, how about re-watching the previous films AFTER watching the new one?

Definitely unjustified, considering its coming from the guys who think Prometheus is a 4 star movie. Between that and the new Star Trek, Sean is becoming the lone voice of reason on filmjunk. Keep fighting the good fight mate.

As for the Zodiac bluray, I remember it looking great, don’t remember any ghosting issues. The green screen is really obvious in that one scene with Ruffalo though, I agree with Jay.

I’d be interested in hearing you guys review Now You See Me. It’s a magic themed heist movie with a huge cast of stars, come on! Maybe you could watch it at the drive-in the week after next. Probably better than The Internship.

@ El Ohroy

So you’re saying to watch those AFTER is more logical? That doesn’t make sense either. Marathoning all the movies previous isn’t ideal either, but I’d say that’s more logical than watching the new movie without any sense of where the story is it at all.

Ideally, he would prepare for the new movie by watching all the previous movies spread out over a couple weeks or months before the new movie comes out as to not get franchise fatigue.

That said, I’m kind of doing exactly what he usually does right now with the Fast and Furious franchise. I’ve watched the first three over the last two days, in order to eventually watch part 6 later in the year.

Hopefully 4-6 improve significantly.