I'm not saying they're not good movies. I just dont like how the universe started out grounded to they're now fighting superhuman bulletproof Idris elba.
When the first Fast and Furious came out it started this huge drag racing craze
The series has re-invented itself a few times (different actors, settings, continual upping of the stakes), until it found a formula thats been box office gold.
What its done well is combine all that into one coherent universe, not sweeping any one movie or actor under the rug.
This is basically it. You can only do the close-up of someone pressing the NOS button during a drag race so many times before it gets old. They had to expand the franchise or it would have died long ago.
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I wonder if they're going to glaze over the fact that Shaw was literally a mass murdering terrorist who killed people in cold blood, including a member of the original cast.
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Nah, they shared like a Corona or something at the end of the last film, so all is forgiven.
Seriously though, it was implied during the last film that the reason Shaw went rogue was because he got betrayed by his superiors and was used as the fall guy, so decided to turn evil instead. Plus, he did save Dom's kid in the last film, so he's done some good as well. Not saying all is (or should be) forgiven, but the character is clearly more complex than he initially seems.
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Re: Han’s death, i noticed the incongruity of it in Shaw’s joining the team.
I cant recall the movie, but they had the same situation and the friend killer really stepped up, same as Shaw. Cue happy ending, only for one of the characters to kill that guy, in revenge. I was fully expecting the same w. Shaw.
But, it is what it is.
It gets discussed with (and handwaved, imho) Chris Morgan here:
No one on the team should logically be okay w. Shaw.
Thats why i said i felt it was handwaved by Chris Morgan.
I mean lets be honest, if Deckard Shaw had been played by someone as low on the acting totem pole as Luke Evans (no offense to him but Statham has a way bigger following and sells tickets) who played his brother, he likely wouldnt have gotten the backstory he did, and Dom shooting him dead wouldnt have been a swerve, but a fitting end to the guy who killed Han.
Someone else would have been written to save Dom’s kid, maybe Scott Eastwood’s newbie character, stepping up and getting everyone’s respect, possibly stealth filling the recently vacated handsome white guy spot of the late Paul Walker in subsequent movies and we wouldnt be having this conversation.
Also, it might just be deceptively cut, but it actually kind of looks like they have Hobbs rip off Cap's helicopter feat from Civil War at 3:25. Which would be hilariously absurd if it is the case.
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