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Fast Five

year 2011decade 10sdirector Justin Lingenre Drama
host Bill Simmonshost Shea Serrano
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Most Rewatchable Scene · 18:27

The favela rooftop chase

Picking a most rewatchable scene from this movie is hard; the opener, where the gang frees Dom from the prison bus, is nominated first as a great scene.

Because nitpicks and unanswerable questions are inherent in these scenes, the hosts jump the gun: prisoner transports in action movies always run down an empty highway with no police protection and no explanation, the bus driver alone with forty felons and one guard must be asking the same questions, and a prisoner seeing that empty highway would start to feel he might get out.

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 1:13:55

"I'll see you soon, Toretto"

'I'll see you soon, Toretto' is offered as the obvious best quote and the other agrees there is probably no better one; also loved is Brian's smirk and 'you know we got that' after Dom's speech about needing two precision drivers who don't crack under pressure, which the hosts perform.

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Fast Five (2011)

Directed by Justin Lin · Drama

130 minutes

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17:38

Roger Ebert's review
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  • Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, which gets a 'good for him'; Richard Corliss of Time called it maybe the first great film of the post-human era, a phrase the host likes without knowing what it means.
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18:27

Most Rewatchable Scene

The favela rooftop chase

The favela rooftop chase

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  • Picking a most rewatchable scene from this movie is hard; the opener, where the gang frees Dom from the prison bus, is nominated first as a great scene.
  • Because nitpicks and unanswerable questions are inherent in these scenes, the hosts jump the gun: prisoner transports in action movies always run down an empty highway with no police protection and no explanation, the bus driver alone with forty felons and one guard must be asking the same questions, and a prisoner seeing that empty highway would start to feel he might get out.
  • The 'all accounted for except for one' beat is loved every time, compared to Michael Myers getting out in Halloween; the TV reporter announcing no fatalities after the bus flipped some 85 times drew laughter in the theater, since handcuffed prisoners without seatbelts would have gone through a window, so throw in two fatalities.
  • The physics of the car angling into the bus to tip it is a crazy plan that shows how 'precisive' (as transcribed) the drivers are; a controversial take follows, being upset they broke Dom out of prison and wanting a year or two of a Dom in prison movie, and the other agrees the film could have opened with Dom in a prison fight and being moved for his own safety.
  • For the train heist the hosts first note Vince from Fast One, underrated and given a raw deal as the semi bad guy who was right about Paul Walker being undercover FBI; he is living in the favelas in Brazil when Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster arrive on the run with a job getting cars off a train, one of the craziest four-minute scenes of all time.
  • Justin Lin wanted as little CGI as possible, so the cars jumping off the train were real stunt drivers; the fight on the train gets agents shot, Brian jumps onto Dom's car and they drive off a mountain, a drop called 350 feet easy; picking nits, they should have exploded on hitting the water, which at that height is like concrete, and the car already in the water is a factor.
  • The first two picks being the first two scenes shows how incredible the movie is; the slow-motion shot of the car falling away from Brian took one host's breath away, and popping out of the water unwinded is the film telling the audience the series will get more and more ridiculous, so come along; a correction that the agents were DEA, not FBI.
  • The favela rooftop chase was complicated to film in Puerto Rico rather than Brazil because real people live there; Rock and Vin Diesel finally lock eyes, Dom runs into Elena and she falls for him, as everyone who tries to arrest Dom does, Brian and eventually even the Rock included; Paul Walker and Brewster jump and fall through a house and nobody with a gun shoots, so impressed by the jump.
  • The balcony barbecue scene after Brian's girlfriend's pregnancy is one host's personal favorite because the writers clearly needed a Vin Diesel monologue at the 45-minute mark and Paul Walker's 'what do you remember about your father' comes out of nowhere; the other is mad at the laughing, defends the question as coming from a man whose own dad wasn't around, and calls it his favorite scene, the same fight they had on the Fast and the Furious episode.
  • Vin Diesel is called a phenomenal actor in these serious moments, probably talking about his real dad; the other's reason the screenwriters wanted the scene is how Diesel pronounces the word father, as if drunk, which earns a rebuke for making jokes again; they love the scene for slightly different reasons but just the same, and the series always works in a serious Vin Diesel scene whether it makes sense or not.
  • At the warehouse the team invited to rob the drug dealer gets along, the opposite of the 2019 Celtics, with Vin watching like a proud dad before saying 'toast' as a sentence and giving the money-will-come-and-go speech ending 'salute me familiar' (as transcribed); this cements the family theme, of which the first film had only traces in the quarter-mile speech and the Jesse moment.
  • Dom fights Hobbs is held for later; the Ambush is underrated and exciting even though Hobbs loses every man he has, a tough work trip for The Rock; the bank vault heist through the streets of Brazil and the ending where they open the safe as the song plays complete the nominees.
  • Asked for a pick, one host votes for the get-the-team-together montage, the kind of under-two-minute scene to pull up on YouTube, and for a longer one the favela chase, the first time the crew is caught between Agent Hobbs and Hernan Reyes, where Hobbs's team mows everyone down in a flat-out bunch of murder the series had never shown, making the stakes feel real; 'that's my vote'.
  • Thinking of most rewatchable as flicking channels two minutes before the scene arrives, the other might be with him on the favela chase, a great four minutes, even over the Rock fight; the other choice is the bank vault scene, an all-time 'how are they doing that' with no visible CGI; a son skipped Fortnite to lie back down for the Rock fight; in the end there is no right answer, two guys fighting or Brazilian property destroyed depending on mood, and everybody wins.
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41:13

What’s Aged the Best?

The Rock as a free-agent acquisition

The Rock as a free-agent acquisition

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  • The Rock as a free agent acquisition for Fast Five is like Durant to the Warriors ('the rant to the Warriors' as transcribed) but the happy, fun version: a superstar added with no fallout, apart from him and Vin Diesel getting a little snippy on social media.
  • Vince's dramatic return, his feelings hurt over the chip in the car and his slamming of Dom's concept of family with 'how's your family now, Dom? Where's Liddy?' (as transcribed), cuts deep; insulting Vin's concept of family is the worst thing you can do to him, other than maybe insulting his car.
  • Gal Gadot, now one of the most famous actors around, looks unbelievable, and the slow-motion bikini walk at the beach club with Han puts a new group of 13-year-olds through puberty every year; whoever thought of the bank vault dragging through the streets behind two cars should brag about it to strangers forever, imagined as interrupting every introduction of a Fast Five producer.
  • Dom's explanation of the team he needs is recited, a chameleon, a fast talker, surveillance, guys to punch through walls, weapons and two precision drivers who never lose; on the GM scale with Bob Myers and Daryl Morey it is a performance graded A plus, since he knew days ahead he would need someone to open a wall, 'the Daryl Morey of Vice' (as transcribed).
  • Asked whether a winner was picked, one host names The Rock as free agent acquisition, the best version of Durant to the Warriors, likening it to Cheers extending its run by replacing Shelley Long with Kirstie Alley and enlarging Frasier; without new A list blood after Paul Walker's death the franchise could not have continued; the other calls that fair, since The Rock becoming the most famous person in Hollywood made it okay for Helen Mirren to fight a submarine with cars by part eight.
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46:26

What’s Aged the Worst?

Dom and Brian surviving the 350-foot fall; the faded buildup to Diesel versus The Rock; Dom's unexplained Rio street-...

Dom and Brian surviving the 350-foot fall; the faded buildup to Diesel versus The Rock; Dom's unexplained Rio street-racing connections; Hobbs as the worst agent of all time; the four-minute lag in the Ocean's 11 stretch

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  • Loving the movie makes this hard, but Dom and Brian surviving the 350-foot waterfall is probably not that realistic.
  • The dramatic buildup to Diesel versus The Rock has lost its luster after a decade with the movie; in 2010 the news that The Rock would be in Fast Five had a real electricity that has faded.
  • How Dom is so wired into the Rio street racing scene after three decades in LA is one host's worst-aged element; the other disagrees, since Dom has been in the wind since the first film, went to Mexico and then South America, and becomes that figure wherever he goes; this is again why he should have been in a prison movie, running a maximum security prison.
  • Hobbs might be the worst FBI or DEA agent of all time: he loses Diesel and the whole crew in the favelas despite sneak-attacking them with AR 15s, cannot find the warehouse, lets them go at the street race, loses his entire team in the ambush, joins the heist for revenge, gives Dom 24 hours without realizing the safe was switched, and laughs at the end; he should just go to the warehouse where they took the vault, and his imagined report to his boss runs 30 dead, $38 million in damage, the money lost, the criminals gone, 'you've been promoted'.
  • The movie lags about four minutes during the Ocean's 11 planning part and could be tightened.
  • Asked where they stand on Elena, one host is pro-Elena: the young cop with a haunted past who wants to do the right thing and becomes part of the crew, a smaller Brian O'Connor; she looks about 5'1", and the hosts guess they had to cast somebody short because Vin Diesel is secretly short, around 5'3".
  • The other picks nothing for the first time in the show's history because every part has a purpose; even the cliff fall is the moment the crew becomes almost superheroes, from fist fights in the first film to a parking complex falling on Dominic Toretto by the seventh; the one concession is that Hobbs's performance at his job is abominable.
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55:05

Casting What-Ifs

Hobbs was originally developed for Tommy Lee Jones before Vin Diesel and Justin Lin redesigned the role for The Rock

Hobbs was originally developed for Tommy Lee Jones before Vin Diesel and Justin Lin redesigned the role for The Rock

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  • According to Vin Diesel, the role of Hobbs was originally developed for Tommy Lee Jones; on his Facebook page Diesel saw a fan who wanted him and The Rock in a film together, and he and Justin Lin redesigned the role for The Rock.
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55:24

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

The police-department official Roman Pierce (as transcribed) confronts; Vince; Eva Mendez (as transcribed) also nomin...

The police-department official Roman Pierce (as transcribed) confronts; Vince; Eva Mendez (as transcribed) also nominated

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  • One host's pick is the guy in the police department Roman Pierce (as transcribed) confronts to get the box into the vault, who starts screaming out of nowhere as if he had just learned to act and was going for an Oscar; the other was going to give that guy the Saul Rubinick (as transcribed) overacting award and calls the pick fair.
  • Eva Mendez (as transcribed) in the closing credits comes out of nowhere; showing Letty drew an audible gasp in the theater, and in about a minute she flirts with the rock, leans over the desk and drops a bomb, a box score of two minutes, three threes and five rebounds, so one host would give it to her.
  • Vince is also a Deion Waiters candidate: only about four scenes, the great monologue reminding everyone that Brian was a cop and 'look at our family now'; 'if we can include Vince then it's gotta be Vince', and he was really swinging.
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58:02

Half-Assed Internet Research

The first trailer premiered on Vin Diesel's Facebook page in December 2010; Puerto Rico's tax incentives moved the sh...

The first trailer premiered on Vin Diesel's Facebook page in December 2010; Puerto Rico's tax incentives moved the shoot from Rio; a 420-foot cable camera rig shot the rooftop chase; the vault was real with a truck hidden inside and destroyed over 200 vehicles; Tyrese commuted to Transformers; the train stunts were real and nearly derailed the train; Giselle's name is never spoken; Michelle Rodriguez learned of her twist return in the theater

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  • The first trailer was released on Diesel's Facebook page in December 2010, believed to be the first use of that marketing approach; he had 20 million subscribers, the rest of the cast followed on their own pages, and the groundswell laid the groundwork for how movies would be marketed this decade.
  • The production intended to film in Rio de Janeiro, but Puerto Rico offered nearly $11 million in tax incentives so most of it was shot there; asked what a tax incentive means, the explanation that it saves money in the budget begins with 'I think basically', which signals not knowing; the production contributed $27 million to Puerto Rico.
  • The rooftop chase across the favelas was filmed in Puerto Rico with a 420-foot cable camera rig for a bird's-eye view plus cameras on cranes on roofs and alleyways, a scene worth a documentary; the bank vault chase used camera cars including crane-mounted cameras on a Porsche Cayenne and a Subaru Impreza with a steel cage, and the Subaru's driver occasionally collided with the vault, which is why there are sparks.
  • A revelation: the bank vault had a truck inside it, a real vault plus a mock-up fitted around a truck that was driven inside to give the illusion the cars were pulling it; six versions of the eight-foot vault were built and over 200 vehicles were destroyed by it.
  • Tyrese was committed to Transformers Dark of the Moon, so he flew between Puerto Rico and Atlanta to do both films at once, the Deion Sanders of our lifetime; the brawl between The Rock and Dom took several weeks of rehearsal and more than a week of filming, with minor injuries to the actors and stunt doubles.
  • Tyrese gets a bad rap in these movies but is loved and called perfect; the people who knock him can go fuck right off.
  • Justin Lin had the cars really jump out of the train at full speed, a 1972 Di Tommaso Pantera (as transcribed), a 2007 Chevrolet Corvette GS Roadster and a Ford GT40 replica rather than a genuine one costing millions; the flatbed truck slamming into the moving train was real, not CGI, and the collision nearly derailed the train.
  • The reaction is to find Justin Lin's birthday and pray toward whatever city he lives in; he is back for Fast 9, and learning that what seemed like CGI was done for real, Mad Max style, is called unreal.
  • Gal Gadot's character's name Giselle is never said in the film, though maybe it was in Fast 4; in an interview while filming Fast 6, Michelle Rodriguez revealed she did not know about the twist ending with her in it until she saw herself in the theater; as Letty she is responsible for two of the six best fights and the three best driving stunts in the franchise, and bringing her back may prove more powerful long-term than adding The Rock.
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1:03:57

Apex Mountain

Vin Diesel; Paul Walker

Vin Diesel; Paul Walker

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  • Vin Diesel is a yes: his best start-to-finish performance in a Fast movie, one of the biggest stars in the world at this point, with a foil ('foyer' as transcribed) in The Rock to go toe-to-toe with, as the series became a kajillion-dollar franchise; the other votes yes for all the same reasons.
  • Paul Walker is less certain because of his 2000-range breakout with Fast 1, but Fast 5 is the pick for him too, a buddy cop movie crossed with a heist in which he knew he would be as long as he lived, the best version of the best franchise he was ever in.
  • The Rock is not a yes here: his apex was right before Skyscraper and Rampage came out, around 2016 with Central Intelligence, Moana and Fast 8 coming, talk of running for president and the biggest social media presence of any celebrity.
  • A joke asks if this is Apex Mountain for cocoa butter, with ten pounds of it on his arms; nobody else is at apex, and whoever decided to make The Rock sweaty in every scene, even at night, had the second-best idea behind the bank vault.
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1:07:11

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

Joaquin De La Meda (as transcribed), the billionaire drug dealer

Joaquin De La Meda (as transcribed), the billionaire drug dealer

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  • The Joey Pants Award goes to the actor playing the billionaire drug dealer, Joaquin De La Meda (as transcribed), one of those guys who has been in a lot of stuff; he was the bad guy in Desperado ('Buccio' as transcribed) and a villain in 24 when it was really good, with a great bad guy face.
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1:07:40

Is This Movie Better With…?

Danny Trejo or Michael K. Williams

Danny Trejo or Michael K. Williams

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  • One host finds it clearly Trejo and is upset he was not in the movie; the other disagrees, since Trejo is too gruff and the film needs somebody slick like Michael K. Williams as the bad guy's henchman, replacing the unloved main muscle left standing after the shootout, so that it is basically Omar in that role, which is granted to be pretty good.
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1:08:37

Picking Nits

The pregnant Jordana Brewster gains no weight; the team shows up in Brazil without asking questions; action-movie Mad...

The pregnant Jordana Brewster gains no weight; the team shows up in Brazil without asking questions; action-movie Mad Libs lines; the ludicrous train heist; Wi-Fi in the warehouse; the warehouse staying secret; a brutal fight with no bruises; Hobbs joining the heist; the ten-second safe swap; the prison bus with one guard and no fatalities

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  • Jordana Brewster is pregnant yet has gained zero pounds, in perfect shape at three months, while the older woman knows just from watching her eat.
  • Getting the team together: anyone told to be in Brazil in 48 hours without being told why would ask what it is about, what to bring and how much cash, yet everyone just appears; the hosts admit they have had the exact 'we need you in LA' conversation themselves.
  • Vin Diesel's 'I see you've all met' is a line only an action movie can say, and the film also uses the rest of the action-movie Mad Libs: don't worry about it, you're gonna want to see this, we're going to need a team, I heard about you.
  • The train heist is ludicrous, though loved; the train should have derailed and they should have died in the water jump, but otherwise it was realistic.
  • How did they get a wifi signal in the Brazilian warehouse, and how does Dom's giant warehouse stay secret with cars zooming in and out and a fake bank vault wheeled in by truck; the movies simply refuse to explain, as in 'I had a life before I met you'; Rock and Dom have one of the most brutal two-minute fights in movies with no bruises or cuts afterwards.
  • Hobbs deciding to join the final heist is absolutely ludicrous: revenge for his killed team is the motive, and he would have to tell his boss the team was wiped out but he will be back in two days after helping with a bank heist.
  • Asked whether the wrench blow crushed The Rock's skull, the answer is no, it was never in doubt because The Rock is not signing up to a movie to die; the moment recreates Dom beating a man with a wrench and then pivoting at the last minute, good moviemaking that becomes undeniable after watching all the films; and the ten-second safe swap, with the second safe coming out of the truck, needed a wide shot of how they did it.
  • Earlier, during the prison bus scene: forty felons and murderers guarded by one man with one gun on a deserted highway cannot work out, and the reporter's 'no fatalities' after the bus flipped 85 times is absurd when handcuffed prisoners without seatbelts cannot brace themselves.
  • Earlier, the cars should have exploded on hitting the water from 350 feet, since water is like concrete from that height, and the car they land near in the water is a factor.
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1:13:55

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

"I'll see you soon, Toretto"

"I'll see you soon, Toretto"

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  • 'I'll see you soon, Toretto' is offered as the obvious best quote and the other agrees there is probably no better one; also loved is Brian's smirk and 'you know we got that' after Dom's speech about needing two precision drivers who don't crack under pressure, which the hosts perform.
  • Paul Walker is so handsome and likable in this movie with a perfect haircut; a line somebody says, 'running ain't freedom', is thrown out without context.
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1:15:01

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

No

No

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  • Asked whether it could be remade as a ten-episode Netflix show, the answer is no, do not mess with this franchise in any way, 'we will kill you', no chance.
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1:15:16

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 ...

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.
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1:21:58

Who Won the Movie?

The Rock

The Rock

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  • The Rock won the movie because he took this role and spun it into the career he has now; that is the character he is now, with all of these great iconic lines. — Shea Serrano
  • The Rock has the 'some bitch' thing and probably the four or five best lines of each recent movie; he planted a flag and became that guy, while Dom was already established, and he pulled off credibility despite being the worst FBI agent of all time; the Hobbs and Shaw trailer line about saving the world four times is mocked, since Dominic rescued him after kicking his ass, and in Seven he has a broken arm and is barely there; the other agrees he won, invigorating the franchise and pushing his career to another level.
  • A six-year-old son names The Rock his favorite person, more than his own father; 'you're worthy number two' (as transcribed).
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The guest joins by phone, which neither host minds since they know the movie and each other so well; both call it the greatest movie of all time, a tour de force from beginning to end with The Rock's addition perfect, and one jumps into different scenes whenever it is on.
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Franchise history recited: the first film is the skeleton, Too Fast Too Furious introduced Brian teaming up with someone, Tokyo Drift made it international and the fourth brought Dom back and turned up the volume; Fast Five crystallized all of that into a heist movie that blew up the parameters, by design once Vin Diesel returned for a planned four-five-six trilogy, and the hosts note they already did a rewatch of Fast One.
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The biggest rewatch surprise is that this turned a franchise that felt near the end after part four into a legitimate good movie, a global heist with The Rock, that still keeps its DNA of unintentional comedy, out-of-nowhere Vin Diesel monologues and slow-motion turns.
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The Rock has never been physically bigger, as if he trained eight hours a day for the Vin Diesel fight; this movie unleashed the Rock decade after a run of Gridiron Gang, The Game Plan, Get Smart, Race to Witch Mountain, Tooth Fairy, The Other Guys and Faster, when he should have been doing scripts like Shooter; his joke cop in The Other Guys became the serious version here, and 'give me the vegetables' sounds like the coolest line ever.
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The hosts and Adam Carolla are a Mount Rushmore of fans of this kind of movie; the perfect action movie needs five or six great scenes, a believable premise, unintentional comedy and testosterone heroes in the lineage of Predator, First Blood and Running Man, all cresting in the Rock-Dom fight; no more car races are needed, though a twelve-hour cut would be watched.
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Justin Lin, who directed Tokyo Drift, gives the film a reckless style established early by the train scene; this was the movie where the hosts realized the franchise, the James Bond of their generation, would be in their lives for twenty or thirty years, maybe with a succession plan for Dom's son.
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The fight matters because the 80s big-muscle era gave way to smaller, darker action heroes before the big guys came back; better technology made the twenty-minute safe scene possible in a way 1986 could not; on an over-under of fourteen Fast movies in a lifetime the answer is over, given more than $4 billion grossed, the Hobbs and Shaw spinoff and a planned all-female version, a car version of the Marvel universe.
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Production facts: Universal intended the series to evolve from street racing to heist films like The Italian Job and The French Connection with Fast Five as the transition, and chairman Adam Fogelson wanted a true action franchise in the spirit of those heist films; released April 2011 on a $125 million budget, it made $625 million as the seventh highest grosser of 2011 with 77% on Rotten Tomatoes; the 'two precision drivers' line reading is promised for later.
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Brian O'Conner's switch: in four he was still trying to catch Dom, but in five he has gone from jailing criminals to freeing forty convicts from a prison bus, a switch that happens between films because he loves Dom's sister.
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'Salud mi familia' is Spanish, not Italian, which raises whether Dominic Toretto is Mexican or Italian; nobody knows his background, so every ethnicity can claim him.
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Sirens outside the office interrupt the recording, joked as Fast and Furious action; if the host is arrested, Fennessey ('Fantasy' as transcribed) and Jason Concepcion will flip the prison bus on a deserted highway to free him.
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The lowest-ranked Fast movie is Tokyo Drift, a fun movie that lacks Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Connor and the family; Fast 2 is not the bottom.
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The guest thanked by name, the movie called one of the greatest that has ever existed, a Sling plug, and a parting 'salud me familiar' (as transcribed) that the host saw coming.
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