07-11-2023, 04:40 PM
(07-11-2023, 04:18 PM)Polident wrote: Fast X
Not gonna pretend I had expectations after the last couple. But they did this thing where it opens with scenes from Fast Five. Why invite that comparison. In the new one they’re old and bloated and tired and dry and shot against green screens. Yet you’re reminded of a better time when they built a safe on a car to give action scenes weight.
Couple of reasons;
1) is the ongoing FAMILY theme, where basically everyone they go up against is doing shit for family reasons, and - inevitably - does a heel-face turn to become part of the extended Toretto family, and all the previous shit they started is forgievn because it was all because of FAMILY
2) is the fucking hilarious fact they have a tighter interconnected continuity than the MCU have, so they need to establish the big bad as having beef with them because of the shit they pulled in a prior film