Fast Seven - April 2015

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The "Furious 7" soundtrack reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200, while "See You Again" jumps to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

So it's the number one movie in the country for two weeks, and will probably be for the third week as well , and it also spawned a number one album and a number one single. I imagined this movie being big, but not this big.

Universal is going to be very happy with the movies' performance, so an 8th one is most definitely happening.
 
Justuxful
The "Furious 7" soundtrack reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200, while "See You Again" jumps to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

So it's the number one movie in the country for two weeks, and will probably be for the third week as well , and it also spawned a number one album and a number one single. I imagined this movie being big, but not this big.

Universal is going to be very happy with the movies' performance, so an 8th one is most definitely happening.
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I listened to it all the time :)
 
The problems with Furious 7 have their origins in Fast 5. F5 was really a soft reboot of the franchise, reimagining it as a heist caper. Reyes, the villain, is really representative of all of the villains in the franchise: a corrupt politico-commercial institution with law enforcement connections.

Fast 6 brings about an evolution of this. Rather than having the crew faces off against another drug baron or corrupt politician, they go up against a rival crew; Pearce even comments on the similarities between the two. There is a key scene in F6 that offered the film-makers the opportunity to do the same again, but they didn't take it.

When Toretto meets Shaw at the Battersea Power Station, Shaw comments that his brother taught him to live by a creed, and to Shaw, that creed is precision whereas Toretto's is loyalty to his family. It's a scene designed to highlight Shaw's villainy by making him out to be heartless and diametrically opposed to Toretto, and to foreshadow Deckard's character.

Ideally, F7 would have had Deckard follow the same creed as Toretto - loyalty to his family. He would have recognised that Shaw was evil, but would not have let that excuse Toretto. It would be a similar evolution as having the team face off against a rival crew in F6. But instead, F7 makes Deckard a sub-plot and gets distracted by a MacGuffin in the shape of Jakande and the wonder device.
 
FrzGT
Less drama and inteligence than Birdman. Not Oscar material. 0/10

Lol joking.
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jimipitbull
Problems? I think you are over analysing.
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Not at all. In terms of the narrative, it fails. Now, it being a Hollywood blockbuster, it's not going to have thought-provoking themes; I accept that. But I would expect that any film observes narrative structure.
 
prisonermonkeys
Not at all. In terms of the narrative, it fails. Now, it being a Hollywood blockbuster, it's not going to have thought-provoking themes; I accept that. But I would expect that any film observes narrative structure.
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I believe your previous post was inspired by the thought provoking themes contained in this movie. That indicates the presence of an immersive narrative structure
 
jimipitbull
I believe your previous post was inspired by the thought provoking themes contained in this movie. That indicates the presence of an immersive narrative structure
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No, my post was inspired by the development of narrative concept from F5 (omnipresent, corrupt politico-commercial establishment) to F6 (rival individualised crew presented as figurative evil twins of the heroes), and how that concept could have been further developed in F7 (single individual subverting values of the heroes), as opposed to how it played out (punches and explosions).
 
FrzGT
Fast and Furious Upped to eleven. Kinda enjoyed it, far more than Transformers lol.

Just watched today because hell, the tickets gone sold out rapidly at premiere. At the end, people werent as sad as some claimed but the sniff sad heard across.

Anyone know what car Tej drive on the final scene? Isnt it a Grand National?

Sadly, I just hope that...
.....The Lykkan drop scene never existed. Holy hell its faked as hell, more cringe than #fakebaby on American Sniper

List of cars appeared on F7 you can drive on GT6:

- Plymouth AAR Cuda
- Toyota Supra RZ
- Dodge 440 Charger '70
- Audi R8 V10
- Subaru Impreza Type C '09
- SRT Challenger SRT8
- Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 '69
- Aston Martin DB9
- SLS AMG
- Buick GNX?
- Excluding the cameo cars. Notable I saw the BMW M4 Safety Car.
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Actually, a scientist or something said that that stunt is possible. For it to work the car would need to be doing about 100MPH (I think), which the Lykan could do in that distance. But obviously they didn't actually do the stunt because it is so risky.
 
JASON_ROCKS1998
Actually, a scientist or something said that that stunt is possible. For it to work the car would need to be doing about 100MPH (I think), which the Lykan could do in that distance. But obviously they didn't actually do the stunt because it is so risky.
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That part is okay if not ridiculous in the eye.

The drop to the ground after that, though.
 
FrzGT
That part is okay if not ridiculous in the eye.

The drop to the ground after that, though.
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Well the car could have been going slow enough to be dropping like that, you don't know the exact speed of the Lykan at any moment.
 
I'm just happy that most of the stunts didn't go like that flying Dom in Fast 6,
except for the flying Charger-to-helicopter at the end (though they did launch a charger replica across the sky).
 
GTboyz
Same, i think this is one of the rare rap songs that i really like. I even prefer then one with the rap rather than the full Charlie Puth version.
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I actually prefer the Charlie only version - it's so damn emotional... Although I understand the version with Wiz - it's for it to be a successful single (which it is), since Charlie is relatively unknown.
 
Justuxful
I actually prefer the Charlie only version - it's so damn emotional... Although I understand the version with Wiz - it's for it to be a successful single (which it is), since Charlie is relatively unknown.
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Charlie only version was good but i don't know, i didn't like the way the verse go, it feels like it doesn't match the chorus but maybe i'm just got used to hearing the official version. The official version sounds like a sweet farewell song, it's a mellow but a bit upbeat, while the Charlie only version sounds really, really emotional.
 
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/17/84...ancing-90s-wow

Before Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Before Snatch. Before the Transporter series. Before the Crank series. Before Furious 7... Jason Statham was a scantily-clad go-go dancer. Here, in the video for EDM sensation (because they were obviously a sensation) The Shamen's "Comin' On," Deckard Shaw himself sways to the rhythm of the cosmos. The '90s were great. Have a good day, everybody.
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Dominic Toretto. You don't know me. You're about to.

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I'm not even going to discuss why this movie sucks so much in my opinion. But I will go ahead and say that the first and the third movies are arguably the best in the series, both for basically the same reason: with all their mistakes and errors, they are at least somewhat believeable (particularly the first one). Completely replace the cars in the original movie for less embarrasing cars, and it's definitely the best movie in my opinion.
 
Just saw this tonight, I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it wasn't my favourite out of the series. Sure there was a lot of WTH moments, but all the F&F movies have had these. The ending was great.
 
Just saw it. They skipped the race at the end of Tokyo Drift. :( ... Car crashes are something that we are all fear.

I should also note that I am trained to notice very very small differences in video... I could easily spot every scene that was cgi. :(
 
Just seen it and AS AN ACTION MOVIE it is amazing. But AS AN FNF MOVIE it is quite bad. There are very few scenes that are actually FNF like. I still thoroughly enjoyed it though.
 
I don't now if this is already mentioned but i just realized, in the beach scene at the ending, no one calls each other by characters name, sort of symbolic as the real actors saying goodbye i guess.
 
Terronium-12
Watching this for the first time, and, to put it lightly: 🤬 everything about this movie. :lol:

There's suspending disbelief, and then there's this.
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To be perfectly fair, it's not shy about telling you to leave your brains at the door.
 

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