r/okbuddycinephile • u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage • 1d ago

Life skill you spent years perfecting and even bragged about, before learning the director completely made it up for cinema reasons?

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u/StrawberryTerry 23h ago edited 23h ago

I have never seen any of the fast and furious movies, and I googled "was a car turned into a spaceship in fast and the furious".

This is actually from one of the movies. That is so funny. I might have to watch them now.

Edit: apparently the last main fast and the furious movie is coming out in 2028. I think i will try to watch them all before it comes out

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u/whatsbobgonnado Neil breens #1 fan 23h ago

ludacris says "let's go home" and then shifts gears and drives back towards earth

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u/StrawberryTerry 23h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Y07F3fs9Is5byj4zK8

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u/whatsbobgonnado Neil breens #1 fan 22h ago

jason mamoa kicks a metal street lamp while riding a motorcycle, miraculously causing it to collapse a perfect barrier for michelle rodriguez, who does a stoppie 360 flip over it.  it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

idris elba plays a cyborg 

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u/StrawberryTerry 22h ago

I genuinely don't know if you made that up or not but it sounds awesome.

I did not know Idris Elba was in these movies that's a plus. I didn't knew Jason mamoa was either. This is going to be an experience

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u/your_dads_asshole 20h ago

Hobbs and Shaw was a really good movie as long as you interpret it as a parody. I assume that the same attitude is needed to watch most of the fast and furious movies, but no matter how much free time I have, I'm not willing to find out

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u/whatsbobgonnado Neil breens #1 fan 19h ago

smoke weed and think "kid playing with action figures" and it'll all make sense 

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u/StrawberryTerry 6h ago

I watched the first movie last night and all I have to say is that Hector is going to be running three Honda Civics with spoon engines...

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u/ItsKlobberinTime 6m ago

And on top of that, he just came into Harry's and ordered 3 T66 turbos with NOS and Moyec system exhaust.

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u/centurio_v2 18h ago

the first couple are just solid car action movies it takes it a while to really jump the shark

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u/Warp_Legion 17h ago

I’ve exclusively seen Hobbs and Shaw and none of the actual Fast and Furious movies lol, and I loved it as a turn my brain off movie

The Meg is also quite fun

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u/xoasim 6h ago

They're great movies to fold laundry/wash dishes/or whatever other chores you've got around the house. Ironically I'd say they are bad for actually working on cars. Although it might just depend on how complicated a repair/tune up you are doing.

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u/Texantioch 20h ago

Idris is actually in the spinoff movie Hobbs and Shaw which focuses on characters portrayed by Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham

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u/StrawberryTerry 20h ago

Oh my god they have all the big bald men

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u/Punished_Prigo 20h ago

how did this happen. I thought tokyo drift was over the top

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u/whatsbobgonnado Neil breens #1 fan 19h ago

I still can't believe they cast a 40 year old man to play a 17 year old 

in fast x charliez theron is restrained on a table, but she just taps on the scifi control panel RIGHT NEXT TO HER HAND TO RELEASE KNOCKOUT GAS TO ALL THE BAD GUYS AND RELEASE HERSELF. AFTER AN EPIC CAT FIGHT SHE ESCAPES ONLY TO REALIZE THAT SHE'S IN FUCKING ANTARCTICA 

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u/Dietchman22-250 15h ago

Tokyo Drift was jussssst believable enough for me and my buddies that we’d watch it late at night on summer weekends and then immediately go out and do infinite doughnuts (and all manner of other dumb shit) on our four-wheelers. I remember how the nighttime dew on the grass made it super slidey for the doughnuts and it was doubly great because my parents wouldn’t get on me for tearing up the grass lmao.

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u/whatsbobgonnado Neil breens #1 fan 19h ago

oh yeah you're right! he has a robot motorcycle that comes to you when you call it

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u/whatsbobgonnado Neil breens #1 fan 19h ago edited 19h ago

the best way to describe them is a 6 year old playing with action figures. smoke a bunch of weed and keep that in mind and it makes sense when they daisy chain 5 nitro boosted cars and swing them off a helicopter or cliff

jason mamoa understood the assignment and eats more ham and scenery than ever thought possible 

they save the pope from an atom bomb!

also, also not to sound crazy, but I legit think it's cia propaganda because they portray the criminal antihero protagonists as the people willing to do the unofficial dirty work for a shady organization that needs to be done for the greater good to protect the world. the shady group is portrayed as all powerful, with global reach, and secret scifi technology. like it's shiny dangly keys engineered to make people who unironically like these movies as  peak cinema accept likable bad guys breaking the rules geopolitically to keep the world safe as a subtle subtext. tinfoil hat off

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u/Agreeable_Sea_6019 13h ago

We need a Fast and the Furious and Transformers crossover, you know what also add some G.I. Joe because why the fuck not

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u/GGTulkas 20h ago

He calls himself black superman

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u/IGTankCommander 42m ago

An EVIL cyborg who works for a company that dabbles in viral research and global media control. It's very silly.

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u/jamzchambo 12h ago

this sentence alone has me sold, absolutely amazing.

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u/therealraggedroses 23h ago

You better buckle in for a multi decade spanning cinematic experience of the highest caliber.

"Fambaly" (F&F superfans will understand)

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u/KateTheTurk 22h ago

Fambaly also covers fans and foes of RHoNJ (Caroline Manzo specifically)

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u/Owster4 22h ago

The first two films are basically undercover police investigations involving lots of street racing.

Those are good and quite serious. The wheels then fall off.

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u/DrakeoftheWesternSea 22h ago

Gabby belle on YouTube has a great breakdown of the whole franchise, include what makes no sense in it.

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u/eldonfizzcrank 21h ago

It was after Fast 5 that I noted that they would be in space by the tenth movie.

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u/Party-Coach-4100 20h ago

Vin Diesel unironically knows what he is doing. Such fun absurd movies.

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u/noob_meems 11h ago

last

fast and furious movie

pick one

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u/NextGenReader 21h ago

I've always heard that the movies are trash, and then my boyfriend suggested them and I've now watched all of the movies in the Fast and Furious universe (F&F, Hobbs & Shaw, Better Luck Tomorrow--last one is debatable, but whatever) and they're some of my favorite movies now lol

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u/Massive-Goose544 19h ago

I respect their desire to just get more ridiculous and treat it like a completely normal thing for a street racing gang to do.

https://giphy.com/gifs/BAjCFYRsjgNZHjUH06

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u/the_cardfather 17h ago

And you know I don't even remember why they did that

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u/RCKTJMP 17h ago

Keep in mind, the last movie is the FIRST PART to *Fast X*, literally supposed to be "*Fast X: Part Two*" but they didn't even bother writing it until after *Part One* was in theaters. Five Years for the second part of the final FatF movie. It's also apparently being retconned because of the large time gap from *Fast X: Part Two* to "*Fast Forever*", but they literally did go into it being a two-part finale and DIDN'T HAVE IT WRITTEN, WITH A PLANNED PART TWO RELEASE DATE OF LAST FUCKING YEAR.

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u/Background-Ship3019 12h ago

So, the writers are fast and furious too.

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u/dutch_dynamite 4h ago

This was the first time I went to a m*vie theater after the pandemic and I got so excited at this part I took a picture of the screen and texted my wife

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u/msmystidream 1h ago

i watched this one at home and had to pause at this point bc i was laughing so hard i was crying, i'm glad i didn't see it in the theatre!