Probably Unanswerable Questions
What happened to the two Brazilian teammates in Monaco? Why not rob the first stash house and stop? What if the safe went over the bridge? Was failing to spin off Han and Giselle the biggest mistake in movie history? How do you score the Dom-Hobbs fight? How did they film Dom and The Rock as the same height? Why is a prison bus always alone on an empty highway?
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- What happened to the two Brazilian guys on the team who went to Monaco: it looks as if one won on roulette and gave the other his half back, but they were not invited back for Fast Six and only pop in briefly later, which is called bullshit and raises whether Dom treated them correctly.
- Why not rob the first stash house and be done, since with ten or eleven houses holding around $10 million each they burned $10 million to reach the big money; Dom, Brian and one other person could have split $3 million apiece as a safer bet.
- What would have happened if the safe went over the bridge and pulled the car down with it, though nothing was in that safe anyway; it could have been a twist with scuba divers sent for empty money; and was not spinning off Han and Giselle the biggest mistake in movie history, though Han may be a complementary Klay Thompson type who cannot carry a full season, so they could have been the Netflix show instead.
- Scoring Dom versus Hobbs as a boxing round, it is at least 10-9 for Dom and maybe 10-8, since Hobbs is basically knocked out at the end, no longer trying to get up or pretending he wants to fight.
- A 'copy box' (as transcribed) count of the fight is read: Dom 11 punches to five, four elbows to three, Hobbs five kicks to Dom's one since Vin is not athletic enough to kick, Dom seven takedowns to five, Dom two headbutts to one, Hobbs an arm bar and a sleeper hold that almost got Dom; that makes it closer than it looked, a 10-9, while the other cannot give nine points to a man who had a rear naked choke and an arm bar, failed to finish and nearly died; Craig the producer is enjoying it.
- Statham versus The Rock is a 10-9 fight and Dom versus The Rock a 10-8; supposedly there was a lot of negotiation because The Rock did not want to get his ass kicked, part of why the shoot lasted a week, with the violence on each side spelled out evenly, yet he loses and then has to be saved by Dom, so he must have been angling for a different ending, since being unbeatable is his whole thing.
- How did they film the Dom and Rock scenes to make them look nearly the same height when The Rock is far taller: you never see their full bodies facing each other, the camera looks up or something is in the way, with the moment in front of the car one of the few giveaways; the same thing happened with Josh Brolin, imagined as 6'6" until wide shots in Sicario 2 showed a 5'8" man with a gigantic head, listed at 5'10".
- Earlier, during the prison bus scene: why prisoner transports are always on an empty highway with no police protection, how far away the prison is, and why Dom is on a bus in the middle of nowhere, to which there is never an explanation.