What’s Aged the Best?
Paul Walker; Lucas Black's return; the facial-recognition technology; Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody
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- Paul Walker is the first entry because the speaker genuinely misses him.
- Lucas Black's return is welcomed; used sparingly, his roughly two-minute scene with a single look works, and it is good to see him with Dom.
- The facial-recognition technology of the time is called primitive but still holding up, though it would be easier in 2020.
- Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody really delivers; a casting what-if is teased that might require paramedics.
- Jokes note Ramsey being swapped from car to car twice and two head-on Vin Diesel-Statham collisions both men walk away from, cracking their necks.
- A championship belt of sad songs runs from The Way We Were through Wind Beneath My Wings, Tears in Heaven, Candle in the Wind, I'll Be Missing You, Hallelujah and I Will Remember You, until See You Again took the belt.
- The reply adds Master P's "I Miss My Homies," recalling a fraternity brother in Omega Delta Phi who died in a car crash after graduation, and says See You Again would make any farewell sad, even Boggs in Shawshank; the Jeff Buckley Hallelujah has a similar effect.
- Asked for any other pick, the reply names Paul Walker and the other participant agrees, citing the bright, peaceful final shot of him.
- Walker's earlier films are recalled: the Varsity Blues patio entrance as an introduction for many viewers, She's All That, Joy Ride and Into the Blue; he pulled off the handsome blond guy who is not a jerk, unlike a Johnny Lawrence.