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Fast & Furious 7

  • 22-05-2013 1:05pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,515 ✭✭✭


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/?ref_=sr_6


    Not sure if there is a thread already for this (I did search and could not find one) but since it is coming out next summer l said why not start a thread :D


    One the + side its pretty well set up from 6, but on the negative side James Wan is directing!!! Huge SaW fan, but I don't know how he will do coming from Horror to Action...... :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,248 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I thought Justin Lin would be directing this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,515 ✭✭✭tupac_healy


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    I thought Justin Lin would be directing this

    Even further to that, I though the studio would be putting major pressure on him considering how much of a money maker the series has become for them :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 26 victorpaul1


    I have watched it's all earlier version and happy to hear that Fast & Furious 7 is also ready to released in 2014. I'm really excited from now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    Are they not all getting a bit old for the boy racer thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Goldstein wrote: »
    Are they not all getting a bit old for the boy racer thing?

    It moved away from the boy racer culture a few movies back now its more about straight action and heists involving cars, and it's all the better for it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Each Fast and Furious sequel is another nail in the coffin of quality cinema.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,477 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Even further to that, I though the studio would be putting major pressure on him considering how much of a money maker the series has become for them :confused:

    I'd say that if anything, that's why he left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Each Fast and Furious sequel is another nail in the coffin of quality cinema.

    Not really, they've gotten better instead of worse, its a fun franchise, the only bad one is the 2nd. total guilty pleasure movies, popcorn entertainment and knows exactly what it is.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    krudler wrote: »
    Not really, they've gotten better instead of worse, its a fun franchise, the only bad one is the 2nd. total guilty pleasure movies, popcorn entertainment and knows exactly what it is.

    They're all awful. Admittedly the sixth one wasnt as bad as the fifth one but that's like saying you'd prefer one kick in the balls instead of two.
    When studios see how much this crap makes it leaves them more inclined to keep commissioning identikit sequels and spin offs rather than taking a risk with new or original ideas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    They're all awful. Admittedly the sixth one wasnt as bad as the fifth one but that's like saying you'd prefer one kick in the balls instead of two.
    When studios see how much this crap makes it leaves them more inclined to keep commissioning identikit sequels and spin offs rather than taking a risk with new or original ideas.

    they're all awful but you still watched the six of them? ok then.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    krudler wrote: »
    they're all awful but you still watched the six of them? ok then.

    I review films as part of my job. I have seen a lot of things I wish I could unsee. Twilight, Fast Girls and New Year's Eve all come to mind. Fast and Furious is right up there with them.
    Plus, I love cinema. I'd probably go see them anyway. I'd never judge a film without seeing it. I dont work for The Sun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,248 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    They're all awful. Admittedly the sixth one wasnt as bad as the fifth one but that's like saying you'd prefer one kick in the balls instead of two.
    When studios see how much this crap makes it leaves them more inclined to keep commissioning identikit sequels and spin offs rather than taking a risk with new or original ideas.

    Fast & Furious 6 has been the best blockbuster of the year for me so far, it has been a run(a)way success :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Fast & Furious 6 has been the best blockbuster of the year for me so far, it has been a run(a)way success :P

    Hell of a long runway too. if I recall correctly that scene went on for about 15 minutes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭SirDelboy18


    Majority of them were pretty dire, but 5 and 6 were pretty good surprisingly enough (for what they were).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭NUTZZ


    Hell of a long runway too. if I recall correctly that scene went on for about 15 minutes.

    Yeh I think they worked it out at around 28 miles...why stop there though? Why not talk about Toretto jumping out of a moving car, over the gap in a bridge, grabbing Letty mid air and saving her from her death? Of course these are ridiculous scenarios, but that's what this series has been about.

    Fast & Furious has never been about realism. It's a turbo-charged action movie with over the top stunts and sequences, something it has done very well in this latest installment. I read a review online and I think this line sums it up nicely;
    Ludicrous, but undeniably fun and surprisingly affectionate, this is really all you could ask of a car crash movie, and more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    NUTZZ wrote: »
    Yeh I think they worked it out at around 28 miles...why stop there though? Why not talk about Toretto jumping out of a moving car, over the gap in a bridge, grabbing Letty mid air and saving her from her death? Of course these are ridiculous scenarios, but that's what this series has been about.

    Fast & Furious has never been about realism. It's a turbo-charged action movie with over the top stunts and sequences, something it has done very well in this latest installment. I read a review online and I think this line sums it up nicely;

    That's why I like the series, its unashamedly silly and isnt po-faced about how ludicrous the scenarios and action scenes are, production wise they have a good mix of real world action and CGI enhanceded stunts where necessary so long as the old school approach to stunts remains I'll keep watching them. They've done a good job of tying every movie into each other as well even the nothing-to-do-with-the-others third movie, how many other franchises heading into the 7th film can say the same?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,515 ✭✭✭tupac_healy


    krudler wrote: »
    That's why I like the series, its unashamedly silly and isnt po-faced about how ludicrous the scenarios and action scenes are, production wise they have a good mix of real world action and CGI enhanceded stunts where necessary so long as the old school approach to stunts remains I'll keep watching them. They've done a good job of tying every movie into each other as well even the nothing-to-do-with-the-others third movie, how many other franchises heading into the 7th film can say the same?

    The saw series tied each movie together nicely, even though there were only 6 of them, still you make a good point, F&F do a good job of tieing each film together ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Petrol_Head


    Can't stand people saying the whole 28 mile runway is fake..as if starwars, twilight, toy story and micheal collins are real.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    Can't stand people saying the whole 28 mile runway is fake..as if starwars, twilight, toy story and micheal collins are real.

    At the risk of going off topic there is a world of a difference between Michael Collins skewed version of events and the 28mile scene. The former is at least possible.

    I'll give you twilight and Toy story.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Can't stand people saying the whole 28 mile runway is fake..as if starwars, twilight, toy story and micheal collins are real.

    Youre totally missing the point. a film has to make sense within the world in which it is set. so poncy vampires and living toys exist within the worlds of those films. take man of steel for example, an invincible, flying alien works in its world but if a living toy showed up youd be baffled.
    The fast and furious films are sh!t because theyre so po faced and up their own arse. theyre played out with this joyless seriousness but then they just disregard the most basic laws of physics. and i dont mean big explosions or the usual action fare, i love big dumb action movies, theyre just riddled with so much stuff thay doesnt make sense within the world in which they are set. theyre also badly written, badly acted and generally just boring


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,248 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Kurt Russell in negotiations to join now :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,811 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Kurt Russell in negotiations to join now :cool:

    Dear God I hope he ends up in this film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,515 ✭✭✭tupac_healy


    Youre totally missing the point. a film has to make sense within the world in which it is set. so poncy vampires and living toys exist within the worlds of those films. take man of steel for example, an invincible, flying alien works in its world but if a living toy showed up youd be baffled.
    The fast and furious films are sh!t because theyre so po faced and up their own arse. theyre played out with this joyless seriousness but then they just disregard the most basic laws of physics. and i dont mean big explosions or the usual action fare, i love big dumb action movies, theyre just riddled with so much stuff thay doesnt make sense within the world in which they are set. theyre also badly written, badly acted and generally just boring

    I totally agree with you....


    But...


    That runway!!!!!! Come on!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,515 ✭✭✭tupac_healy


    Anyone hear the roomers of Tony Jaa so signed up to this?


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So it seems that Kurt Russell has not just signed on but is filming scenes atm.

    Here's what James Wan posted online earlier
    INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2 opens tonight (double feature with the first one), and the whole day I've been directing a living legend - Kurt Russell. Pretty damn cool day!

    ....Go check out Insidious2!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,583 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    When are they going to sign Lucas Black up for this? Surely they can't do it without him!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    krudler wrote: »
    Not really, they've gotten better instead of worse, its a fun franchise, the only bad one is the 2nd. total guilty pleasure movies, popcorn entertainment and knows exactly what it is.

    Nah they have gotten a lot worse. The problem is cinema has gotten a lot worse in that period of time, and our brains are expecting less and less each time they walk through the doors of a big budget movie. All it takes now to get a good review is some shiny colours coming out of a computer. Case in point is this franchise. The great dumbing down is in full swing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,583 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    Nah they have gotten a lot worse. The problem is cinema has gotten a lot worse in that period of time, and our brains are expecting less and less each time they walk through the doors of a big budget movie. All it takes now to get a good review is some shiny colours coming out of a computer. Case in point is this franchise. The great dumbing down is in full swing.

    You think Fast Five is worse than 2, Tokyo Drift and the 4th one? REALLY?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You think Fast Five is worse than 2, Tokyo Drift and the 4th one? REALLY?

    I cant remember 4 and 5 to be honest. I can remember 1,2 and 6, and six only for its 0/10 on the quality scale.
    I dont get this 'its so bad that it can laugh at itself with flying scenes' and so on. Its not like its in the Scary Movie vein of movies.

    Is it a comedy franchise? It seems to have turned into that now, as the people who like it seem to like it for the reason krudler is giving above. This is what happens to franchises when they get tired and crap. They turn into parodies of themselves, which is just nonsense. I fear that by the time 7 comes out they may have got to me too....:eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,583 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    I cant remember 4 and 5 to be honest. I can remember 1,2 and 6, and six only for its 0/10 on the quality scale.
    I dont get this 'its so bad that it can laugh at itself with flying scenes' and so on. Its not like its in the Scary Movie vein of movies.

    Is it a comedy franchise? It seems to have turned into that now, as the people who like it seem to like it for the reason krudler is giving above. This is what happens to franchises when they get tired and crap. They turn into parodies of themselves, which is just nonsense. I fear that by the time 7 comes out they may have got to me too....:eek:

    For me - and I am a fan of the franchise - I'd rate them: 5, 6, 1, 4, 3, 2.

    I do think the set pieces in 6 were way over the top - the bridge jump/catch and the runway being particularly OTT, but overall I find them enjoyable. The length of the runway didn't occur to me during the movie, to be honest. I did have a laugh at the catch though.

    I would certainly argue that the franchise has improve a lot since the 2nd movie, which was a stinker imo, with the 5th being a genuinely very good action/heist movie, imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,017 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Once again the problem here is people going into a film (franchise) like this expecting "War and Peace" or something.

    I think the producers have done extremely well weaving them all together - particularly the last 2/3. Yes the focus has changed from street racing but it's all the better for it IMO.

    So what if there's a ridiculous amount of gear changes, or crazy stunts - I for one am sick of these "ultra realistic" gritty films with emotionally broken/damaged characters that stuff like BSG 2003 made so popular.
    I'm not saying these type of films don't have their place, and I enjoy them as well, but it's like "prequels" a few years ago and now "reboots".. enough is enough!

    The Fast and Furious series deliver exactly what they promise IMO. 2 hours of action, comedy and cars - but they've also woven in a really nice thread of family and loyalty that today's movie cynic no doubt considers "lame" but which I personally think is a nice throwback to an earlier era of cinema.

    So with that in mind, roll on #7 :)

    (Oh and #2 isn't that bad! :))


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Kaiser2000 wrote: »


    (Oh and #2 isn't that bad! :))

    It really is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    It really is

    Yeah it's the worst one tbh, I even liked Tokyo Drift but that was more to do with the setting than anything else. I can barely remember the 4th one, 5 is the best imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,583 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    Finally Lucas Black has signed on for 7 - and 8 and 9!

    Happy days - 7 would have been missing something without him, imo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭bellinter


    8 +9 = YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,248 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    When are they going to sign Lucas Black up for this? Surely they can't do it without him!

    http://www.slashfilm.com/tokyo-drift-star-lucas-black-returns-for-fast-and-furious-films-7-8-and-9/

    Lucas Black, the actor who played the lead character Sean in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, will reprise his role in James Wan‘s Fast and Furious 7. But that’s not all. His contract installs him as a new series regular and he’ll be back for not only the 2014 installment, but at least two more after that.

    :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,248 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    GOT and Hollyoaks actress joins

    She will be sharing scenes with Vin Diesel, Chris Bridges, Tyrese Gibson and Michelle Rodriguez


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,515 ✭✭✭tupac_healy


    Im really looking forward to seeing how they use Jaa in this....

    Personally id prefer to see him as a new part of Sean's crew so the could set up a Statham/Jaa fight rather than him being another goon.....


    Obviously they will want to showcase his abilities and I dont think say vs Rock would be as good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,248 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Is this at the midway filming stage?

    I assume with Paul Walker's death (RIP) Brian will be a victim of Statham's character


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Is this at the midway filming stage?

    I assume with Paul Walker's death (RIP) Brian will be a victim of Statham's character

    Hopefully they've most of it shot at this stage.
    Horrible to see him go. I've grown up with the franchise!:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Is this at the midway filming stage?

    I assume with Paul Walker's death (RIP) Brian will be a victim of Statham's character

    One of the stories I read today said they were only halfway through filming alright.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Is this at the midway filming stage?

    I assume with Paul Walker's death (RIP) Brian will be a victim of Statham's character

    Han, already is, as it takes up from Tokyo Drift.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭NUTZZ


    Paul Walker: Fast and Furious 7 to continue without star
    Following the death of Paul Walker in a car accident, production will continue on the film he was starring in, Fast and Furious 7

    Walker was due to return to the film set in Atlanta, with fellow cast members Vin Deisel and Dwayne Johnson, the next day to resume shooting. However, James Wan, the film's director and executives from Universal Studios held a conference call on Sunday morning to discuss how they would continue with Fast and Furious 7 in a way which would be respectful to Walker's death. According to The Hollywood Reporter, filming may begin again on Monday or Tuesday.

    Walker was playing Brian O'Conner, a former criminal-turned-policeman, in Fast and Furious 7, a character he had portrayed in the previous six Fast and Furious films. Although most of the filming had taken place for the film, the cast and crew were set to finish off shooting in Abu Dhabi in January.

    Full article


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    I can see them having his character killed off in the movie and then have Lucas Black step up to be Vin's right hand man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Han, already is, as it takes up from Tokyo Drift.

    I forgot about that, they've done a good job of trying everything in chronologically. I guess Diesel goes off to Tokyo to get revenge for Han as he's shown in the end of Tokyo Drift and Walker was off doing something else.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    krudler wrote: »
    I forgot about that, they've done a good job of trying everything in chronologically. I guess Diesel goes off to Tokyo to get revenge for Han as he's shown in the end of Tokyo Drift and Walker was off doing something else.

    Yeah, the third'un did seem very loose in the series, with someone who was meant to be dead, being the only character to continue on from it. (Other than Toretto's cameo). Wouldn't mind seeing how that young fella is to progress in the series, expect him to take on a bigger role in the squad now, as his character has always had something to prove, this'll undoubtly leave room for him to step up further.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭budgemook


    Yeah, the third'un did seem very loose in the series, with someone who was meant to be dead, being the only character to continue on from it. (Other than Toretto's cameo). Wouldn't mind seeing how that young fella is to progress in the series, expect him to take on a bigger role in the squad now, as his character has always had something to prove, this'll undoubtly leave room for him to step up further.

    The actor playing the young fella just turned 31. But yeah, 18 in the movie I think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,061 ✭✭✭✭cena


    There stopping production indefinitely according to sky news


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    I've read that 2/3rds of the film has been shot mainly the middle and end sections and not the beginning parts putting the film in a position were it could be scrapped and another film made if its not too costly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,583 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    In the telegraph article...

    "Walker was playing Brian O'Conner, a former criminal-turned-policeman, in Fast and Furious 7"

    Small thing, i suppose, but it annoys me.

    He isn't a former criminal-turned-policeman.

    He was a policeman who turned criminal.


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