Holy fu#king shit... this has already made over a billion dollars..
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=furious8.htm
And what's weird is that I haven't heard any buzz about this, no one talking about it, no one even mentioned seeing it..
I watched this last night and I have to admit it's surprisingly entertaining. I hesitate to say "good", but definitely engaging and fun to watch. Not sure how much of it is actually semi-plausible, though. Also not sure the villain's motivations made any sense, but whatevs..
The film seems to totally miss the point of the moral dilemma it sets up and it's an interesting one:
Spoiler:and prevent the deaths of hundreds of other people, or dogmatically fight for one's own family no matter what. I knew it was a foregone conclusion at the start of the movie what was going to happen knowing these films, so to me the film didn't even invite anyone to consider the dilemma. I guess it would be too challenging a thing to bring up in a film series like this, fans wouldn't know what to make of it. But none-the-less a fun film. Might be one of the better films in the series, up there with Fast 5. I didn't particularly care for 6 and I fell asleep during 7, not that it was bad, though, necessarily.
sacrifice one's son to stop a maniac (a son he didn't even realize he had!)
Yeah, I think the more success he has the better for the future of Riddick. I don't know what's up with Twohy, though. He's supposedly busy with some project, but IMDb doesn't have much about it and supposedly they were supposed to even start filming the next Riddick film sometime this year, but it's been very quiet lately... since the odd announcement for "Furia" and the accompanying TV show...
Trouble is: Vin has to go into some isolation for a few months before they film to get into character, so that's probably a big obstacle.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
^ The success of this franchise will allow him to do other riskier projects he wants though. Because studios will be more willing to bank on him.
Yeah that was what Vin was hoping for with the previous Riddick movie...leeway & funding from HollyWood.
From memory, filming stopped 3/4 into production & he had to go overseas to seek funding to complete the project.
Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
This movie was dumb and ridiculous, yet I had a lot of fun with it. Two of the highlights for me wereSpoiler:
the prison breakout scene and the airplane fight where Shaw took on a bunch of bad guys while carrying Dom's baby around.
Haha.. yeah, there is definitely some cheese in the film. That was pretty cringe-worthy. But it was still more fun than them jumping from car to car in Furious 6.. heh, god that was hilarious. 😂
Originally posted by Kazenji
Diesel also wants a Hannibal trilogy (not Hannibal Lector) get made too.
God, is that still happening? I haven't heard anything about it in years... it was probably a decade ago that I heard anything about it..