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Fast 1: "It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile... winning's winning!

Fast 8: "It's time for us to save the whole damn world."

Boy that escalated quickly.

Come a long ways from stealing stereos and dvd players.
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Yeah, I find that series to be one of the funniest cases of straying away from its original premise.
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8 movies is a quick escalation?
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FlashOfLight posted...

Yeah, I find that series to be one of the funniest cases of straying away from its original premise.

To be fair, the original premise was just a ripoff of Point Break with fast cars.

But yeah, the series went completely off the wall around 4. It actually probably saved the series, as 3 was a big letdown and almost killed the series. I enjoy them because they are mindless action movies, but I don't know if I'll keep watching. My wife is a huge fan, but even she thought that 7 was enough. She also pointed out that 7 had the perfect ending and tied up all the loose ends.

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Come a long ways from stealing stereos and dvd players.

Not even. VCR's!!!
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I heard the Rock redirects a missile with his bare hands or some shit
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Dash_Harber posted...

To be fair, the original premise was just a ripoff of Point Break with fast cars.

But yeah, the series went completely off the wall around 4. It actually probably saved the series, as 3 was a big letdown and almost killed the series. I enjoy them because they are mindless action movies, but I don't know if I'll keep watching. My wife is a huge fan, but even she thought that 7 was enough. She also pointed out that 7 had the perfect ending and tied up all the loose ends.

One thing I find fascinating about those movies is how they manage to get such big time top actors in the same film, that's not an easy feat to pull off and to do it repeatedly in not a long period of time.
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RebelElite791 posted...

I heard the Rock redirects a missile with his bare hands or some shit

Right, it was even a thing that was brought up in a topic the other day about whether or not that makes the series officially a super hero movie.
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NES4EVER posted...

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Come a long ways from stealing stereos and dvd players.

Not even. VCR's!!!

Not even worth half the crap they went through with that last truck driver then lol
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Dash_Harber posted...

FlashOfLight posted...

Yeah, I find that series to be one of the funniest cases of straying away from its original premise.

To be fair, the original premise was just a ripoff of Point Break with fast cars.

But yeah, the series went completely off the wall around 4. It actually probably saved the series, as 3 was a big letdown and almost killed the series. I enjoy them because they are mindless action movies, but I don't know if I'll keep watching. My wife is a huge fan, but even she thought that 7 was enough. She also pointed out that 7 had the perfect ending and tied up all the loose ends.

Same for me. I watched the first in theaters along with everyone after that. I loved one and still do, second was good and I love Rome but it wasn't the same. 3 I enjoyed and hated, I loved the story and the drifting but hated not having the core gang from 1.

4 was a good split to bring things back to Dom and Brian. That was where they essentially became mindless action flicks but I still always loved having Dom and Brian together.

7 was the ending. It really should have been. I'll see 8 though because the family has expanded. It's not so much that I love them (even though I like almost all of them), but more that I know it was a huge part of helping Vin cope with losing Paul.

I'll support the movie for that reason alone TBH.
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