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Quick note: I've only ever watched up to Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.

I started to watch F8 yesterday. They had a race in a car and there was more CGI than car shown.

Then Jason Statham turned up and I got all giddy and excited at how stupid it was. I was disappointed his character wasn't just called Jason Statham. I'll watch the rest later.

Jason Statham out of Jason Statham.

Amazing films

It's rubbish, and great.

Craster had never watched any of them, so as an experiment we got him to watch the first one, and then the seventh, and try and work out what happened in between.

I'll let him report his findings

Is the answer "Lots of fast and furious driving"?

They're good gawp.

Well, no - think about the first one - they were ripping off trucks for DVD players.

Then think about what happened in the seventh one. They were no longer ripping off trucks.

FAOD, I haven't watched any of them.

Excellent! Watch the first one, watch the eighth one, and report back

Same here. Considering how little I care about cars, I doubt I'd make it through a whole film. I've watched some of the Cinema Sins videos covering them and they just seem like car porn and no-one seems to be at any risk of injury despite the ludicrousness of the car stuff

Real life irony lol

There is no possible sequence of events that could have happened between 1 and 7 to make them end up doing what they were doing.

F8 was fucking amazing. This was my review:

Well Grim... wasn't wrong about F8 bringing the unexpected physics right from the start
Yay Statham!
This film is amazing
I really hope this goes where I think it will
Yaaasssss
Hahaha wtf Statham
That is not how torpedoes work
That is not how submarines work
That was fucking brilliant

5 is the best one.

I might watch 8 tonight.

I like the idea of extrapolating the current progression of the films outwards.
F&F 9 : Aircraft Carriers
...
F&F 12 : On the Moon.
...
F&F 16 : Time travel to fight dinosaurs
...
F&F 19: Transcended physical form to become street racers of pure energy.

Stats and graphs! https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017 ... d-furious/



/ht to Doccy G

Me neither, but I thoroughly approve of this excellent thread.

But there's been mention of at least 8 films!

Love the first one! Really like Tokyo Drift apart from the bit at the beginning that's in the USA.

The others are okay-ish in a daft sort of a way, but I don't feel the need to re-watch them.

Except for 2, which was shite.

8 is brilliant. Like, properly great.

Hmmm... Perhaps I've only seen up to 7, then?

7 was pretty good too.

"Daddy's got to go to work *flexes arm cast into smithereens*"

YEAH!

I would watch all of these. You're right though, the series needs more dinosaurs.

It's also nice to see that the rap video bundunkadunks have found work in this series following the death of the million dollar budgets.

I might go back to 5 from 8 and watch to 7. Which one introduced Jason Statham? I'll watch that one next.

Inexplicably popular dreck.

I think 7 was the first with Statham?

It's not inexplicable at all. Did you not read my review? I was quite clear.

I mean, technically it was 6, if you count the post-credit scene.

Everything you say, I fully agree with. Fully.

I got 25 minutes into the first one this evening, and gave up because it was utter gash*. And I've voluntarily sat through all three Expendables films.

* and suffered from an unforgivable lack of Dwayne Johnson

I've watched another 30 minutes of F8.

So far they've "hacked" all the cars in New York. Helen Mirran showed up (I know, right!?) with the worst mockney accent I've ever heard. Then The Rock literally ran like a sissy girl. Oh and so much hacking, computer screens and computer talk as a mechanism to deliver reams of exposition when they might as well just said "And now we attack a Russian military base. IN RUSSIA."

Is that the one where they use sports cars to tow a fucking massive safe through the streets?

Dwayne is so big and muscly that it looks like he can't move so well at times.

No, that's 5, I think. They're all a bit blurry.

Oh, maybe, I think I saw it a few years ago so that makes sense.

The Transformers films are also a bit like that for me. I know I've seen some (most) of them but can't really remember which is which, after the first one.

That's why 5 is the best one.

I fell asleep part way through 8, but because I was tired, not because it was boring. I do think they've kind of lost their way though.

5 is the Avengers Assemble of the franchise.
4 was tedious, but a necessary prelude to 5.
2 wasn't as bad as I remembered it.
Not seen 8 yet.

2 has Devon Aoki in it, making the difficult transition from modelling to acting with ease

8 was pretty decent but the two nods to Paul walker were somewhat misjudged imo.

Oh, mate. It's Point Break. With shiny cars.

WHY IS JASON STATHAM AND BABY NOT ITS OWN FILM!?

Car Shield Activated!

That was some of the dumbest shit I've seen. It had far too much serious Vin Diesel, Tyrese being the 'hilarious' black guy stereotype, Ludacris looking tired and irrelevant, Game of Hollyoaks doing exposition dumps, the angry Latin woman being angry, lots of face-acting in cars, rubbish CGI and some of the worse dialogue ever muttered "That's 2000 horsepower" "No it's more like 3000 horsepower" *close up face-acting* "MORE LIKE FIVE".

But it was glorious, mainly because Jason Statham doing some of the best Jason Stathaming this side of Jason Statham. I'm still waiting for someone to pitch a film entitled Jason Statham.

Agree entirely

Crank 3.

He has to be near a baby to not die.

Three Stathams and a Baby.

Rosemary's Statham

The HandStatham's Tale

The 51st Statham

Jason Places

The Empire Stathams Back

Statham and Stathability.

Jason Statham's Bucket (With Holes) List