You're doing a great job with these, buddy, and I am excited that you've already finished writing all the entries for this. It feels good to be ahead a little for once. And yes, I am commenting nice things about myself on my own piece. No, there's nothing sad about that.
"I like Johnson actor best when he is either spoofing his tough guy image by playing lost and confused fools in outliers like Be Cool, Southland Tales and Pain and Gain or playing the living personification of macho male certainty here. "
Please tell me this means you also like the Jumanji movies he did -- the second of which has him channelling Danny DeVito for the bulk of the proceedings
(Co-star Awkwafina actually does a better DeVito when called upon, but still.)
What impressed me the most about this film was learning that the amazing yet outlandish-seeming chase involving cars dragging a giant safe through the city, was achieved by...having cars drag a giant safe through the city. After this, it seemed like most of the big set-pieces in subsequent entries were achieved digitally. Or maybe it's fair to say that the set-pieces were written in such a way that they could *only* be achieved digitally.
You know, I actually heard a lot of the stuff was done practically. The scene of the zombie cars dropping from the sky in Fast 7 or 8, for example, was achieved by dropping actual cars from the sky. That's what you can do with a 275 million dollar budget. I'm guessing the crashed car budgets on these films are insane.
What i liked about the series up until this point is that they still relied on practical effects and some of the best stunt driving ever put on film. Up to # 8 very little was done using digital effects, and then it was only to erase wires and equipment. It was the final setpiece of #7 where they stopped using practical effects.
So yeah, in the next movie they really do run over 250 moving cars with a tank on a Spanish expressway.
::The Fast and the Furious movies have gotten so out there that if dragons and wizards were introduced as a major element of the franchise nobody would question it. ::
Only if Dom and Hobbes get to ride the dragons as they fly between the Shanghai skyscrapers, roasting bad guys who aren't memorable enough to be brought back as heroes in the next movie.
No, I didn't forget the wizards—that's where Kurt Russell's Mr. Nobody comes in! He vanished from the last movie because he was metamorphosing into Mr. Nobody the White, who of course has a flying white steed because even Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson aren't Kurt Russell on a Flying Horse cool....
You're doing a great job with these, buddy, and I am excited that you've already finished writing all the entries for this. It feels good to be ahead a little for once. And yes, I am commenting nice things about myself on my own piece. No, there's nothing sad about that.
"I like Johnson actor best when he is either spoofing his tough guy image by playing lost and confused fools in outliers like Be Cool, Southland Tales and Pain and Gain or playing the living personification of macho male certainty here. "
Please tell me this means you also like the Jumanji movies he did -- the second of which has him channelling Danny DeVito for the bulk of the proceedings
(Co-star Awkwafina actually does a better DeVito when called upon, but still.)
What impressed me the most about this film was learning that the amazing yet outlandish-seeming chase involving cars dragging a giant safe through the city, was achieved by...having cars drag a giant safe through the city. After this, it seemed like most of the big set-pieces in subsequent entries were achieved digitally. Or maybe it's fair to say that the set-pieces were written in such a way that they could *only* be achieved digitally.
You know, I actually heard a lot of the stuff was done practically. The scene of the zombie cars dropping from the sky in Fast 7 or 8, for example, was achieved by dropping actual cars from the sky. That's what you can do with a 275 million dollar budget. I'm guessing the crashed car budgets on these films are insane.
This one wasn’t believable or realistic.
What i liked about the series up until this point is that they still relied on practical effects and some of the best stunt driving ever put on film. Up to # 8 very little was done using digital effects, and then it was only to erase wires and equipment. It was the final setpiece of #7 where they stopped using practical effects.
So yeah, in the next movie they really do run over 250 moving cars with a tank on a Spanish expressway.
::The Fast and the Furious movies have gotten so out there that if dragons and wizards were introduced as a major element of the franchise nobody would question it. ::
Only if Dom and Hobbes get to ride the dragons as they fly between the Shanghai skyscrapers, roasting bad guys who aren't memorable enough to be brought back as heroes in the next movie.
No, I didn't forget the wizards—that's where Kurt Russell's Mr. Nobody comes in! He vanished from the last movie because he was metamorphosing into Mr. Nobody the White, who of course has a flying white steed because even Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson aren't Kurt Russell on a Flying Horse cool....