Michelle Rodriguez is named: she never looked better, has the Rousey fight, brings Dom back to life, and punches a man at Race Wars; the reply absolutely agrees it is the favorite movie for the best parts of Letty. — Bill Simmons
Every scene she is in gets better; she makes Brian tougher, Dom more vulnerable and Tej ("Ted" as transcribed) cooler, and is called the best actor in the franchise. — Shea Serrano
The hosts wish she had gotten a dramatic, Oscar-caliber role, citing Widows, and blame bigger forces rather than her. — Bill Simmons
Yes for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, and yes for Abu Dhabi as the location for one of the highest grossing movies of all time. — Bill Simmons
Apex for action movies with bald stars: Vin Diesel, Statham, the Rock, Tyrese and "Demon Hansu" (as transcribed) in one movie, joked as an unbeatable starting five. — Bill Simmons
Nominees are "Tony Jha" (as transcribed), Ronda Rousey in her one scene, or the guy from The Raid; Tyrese is ruled ineligible as too pivotal despite big stats. — Bill Simmons
The answer is Rousey: she went for it despite one or two poor lines ("These parties bore me to death"), and the fight was great. — Shea Serrano
Rumors of a Road House remake with Rousey are recalled, and the speaker says he is still in five years later. — Bill Simmons
Letty's amnesia plot; the Rock's daughter; underdeveloped villain Mose Jakande; the L.A. action finale; no police response; the ending's first-time surprise; the Deckard Shaw plot
Seven items are promised, starting small: Letty's roughly two-year amnesia is questioned, with the reply that she survived a crash that almost killed her. — Bill Simmons
The Rock's daughter and the added family backstory seem unnecessary. — Bill Simmons
The villain "Moz Chikandi" (as transcribed), played by an actor called an Oscar winner on air ("Demon Hensu" as transcribed), is read from Wikipedia as a Nigerian-born mercenary; he gets no backstory or menacing scene, and a key scene may have been cut. — Bill Simmons
The actor is praised, citing In America, with a joke that he took the role and then found he was the second villain with ten minutes of screen time; this is called the least successful villain execution in the franchise. — Shea Serrano
The L.A. action ending is dark and hard to follow compared with the Fast 5 vault or the Fast 6 runway, capped by Dom jumping a car into a helicopter; it is the speaker's least favorite action ending of the first seven. — Bill Simmons
The reply's theory is that the L.A. set piece was never the real ending, only filler before the beach goodbye, which is why the movie feels different leaving the theater; the Rock with the giant gun is a highlight. — Shea Serrano
No police or fire department responds while towers and parking garages blow up downtown. — Bill Simmons
The first-time surprise of the theatrical ending has aged worst only because it cannot be repeated; how hard it was to land, and how badly it could have gone, has been forgotten. — Bill Simmons
The nominee for the winner of aged worst is the entire Deckard Shaw plot: he kills at least 20 police officers and Han, nearly kills Hobbs and Elena, and blows up Brian's house, yet the later movies accept him, as at the end of Fast 8. — Bill Simmons
Han should have been kept alongside Tyrese and Ludacris; a late-2019 full rewatch and a new trailer showing Han back prompt jokes about him dying five times. — Shea Serrano
Before Hobbs and Shaw, a small spin-off with "Galgado's" (as transcribed) character and Han in Europe is proposed, joked as a better move for her than Wonder Woman, along with wishes for mini-movies; Han and "Steve Yun" (as transcribed) of The Walking Dead are cited as Asian icons who were killed off. — Bill Simmons
Four scenes are picked, with the other participant invited to add more afterward; the first is Statham versus the Rock in a dark, empty FBI office after Elena leaves. — Bill Simmons
Elena is joked to be 15 or 16 months pregnant by the film's chronology without showing it. — Bill Simmons
Statham at the Rock's computer, the "standing right in front of you" exchange, the Rock Bottom move, a grenade, and Hobbs and Elena falling five or six stories onto a car make a great four-minute scene. — Bill Simmons
The reply agrees it is incredible but reads the Rock catching Elena and landing on a car as copying Dom catching Letty in Fast 6, a possible poke at Vin Diesel, likened to a 2015 Durant-Westbrook split. — Shea Serrano
Statham is praised as one of the few believable opponents for the Rock and a genuinely good actor; the Rock is said to dial it up in this film, with a joke that producer Craig would ask for it turned down. — Shea Serrano
Inventive camera angles make the fight look even despite the Rock's size advantage. — Bill Simmons
In an aside on Dom's hospital visit to Hobbs, the hosts sense no warmth given the real-life tension, keep the scene for the information handoff, and wish writer Chris Morgan had leaned into alpha-dog tension. — Bill Simmons
The second pick is the car drop, called one of the most absurd and phenomenal scenes in the franchise; the hosts riff on a name for the crew's hijack unit. — Bill Simmons
The hosts report the drop as practical: a Lockheed C-130 Hercules dropped cars from 12,000 feet, cameras were mounted on the cars, skydivers filmed, 70% landed perfectly, and the landing shots used a pulley system and cranes removed with CGI. — Bill Simmons
The reply had assumed all the stunts in the movie were real. — Shea Serrano
After the drop come Tyrese struggling to land, Dom and Shaw driving off a cliff twice, and Brian jumping between cars at 80 miles an hour, even shoving Ramsey onto a car. — Bill Simmons
Brian's bus fight, the bus dangling over the cliff, his run up the bus with Letty catching him, and Dom driving off the second cliff are called all-time in a theater, with three ridiculous moments listed. — Bill Simmons
A correction: Brian's bus opponent is "Tony Jha" (as transcribed) from "Aung Bak" (as transcribed) and The Protector, not the guy from The Raid; the matchup is likened to Kobe and LeBron guarding each other in an All Star Game, and letting him survive reads as respect. — Shea Serrano
A favorite franchise moment is Brian running up the falling bus and Letty's fishtailing catch followed by a deadpan "you good"; the speaker rewatches it once or twice a month with his youngest son, who screams at the TV. — Shea Serrano
The Shaw-Rock fight is ranked the fourth-best fight in the franchise; each of the top four has Letty or the Rock in it. — Shea Serrano
The bus run is said to have been done for real by a stuntman rather than Paul Walker, in an early sequence already filmed; the set piece runs 10 or 11 minutes. — Bill Simmons
The God's Eye rationale is summarized in 12 seconds, followed by jokes that Shaw keeps showing up anyway and that Dom's crew does not kill people, as the speaker's son noticed. — Shea Serrano
Dom holding up a car with a strained face is compared to Stallone in Cliffhanger, and Shaw keeps showing up while they seek God's Eye to find him. — Bill Simmons
The car jumping from one glass tower to another, Brian's expert roll out of the car, and Dom nearly going out the window are called harrowing and well shot; the picker calls it his runner-up favorite scene. — Bill Simmons
The addition is the Letty-Rousey fight: after Letty's Fast 6 fights with Gina Carano, including a subway fight called the franchise's best fight, or else the Rock versus Vin Diesel in Fast 5, it delivered, capped by the 20-foot fall onto a piano and Rodriguez's winded face; this is also called a runner-up scene. — Shea Serrano
Two dressed-up women fighting at an Oscars-like party is called a rare wrinkle that plays as a full-speed fight rather than a spectacle for men, like "Tony Jha" (as transcribed) versus Walker. — Bill Simmons
The building jump is framed as the point after which nothing is too absurd for the franchise, leading to Fast 8 on the ice and the Rock redirecting a submarine missile. — Shea Serrano
The first film is named a favorite; Fast 5 perfected the recipe of family and action, and Seven turned the volume up as high as possible without losing the emotional weight that Eight and Hobbs and Shaw lack. — Shea Serrano
The last pick is the ending; after Letty revives Dom, the theater wonders how the Walker exit will be handled, and Ramsey's presence on the beach is questioned, with the reply that she was never noticed there. — Shea Serrano
The shots of each character watching the beach, Vin Diesel's "it's never goodbye" and the song kicking in are described, and a Vin Diesel impression is praised as the best of about 200. — Shea Serrano
The montage back to Fast 1, the two cars side by side, Walker's car turning toward the water, and the "For Paul" card are called masterful and perfect. — Bill Simmons
The reply expected Brian to sacrifice himself; the chosen direction is called smart and beautiful and compared with the opening of Up for never losing its effect. — Shea Serrano
Other movie tearjerkers such as The Champ, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias and My Girl are dramas, never action movies, which makes this ending an undeniable level of genius. — Shea Serrano
One participant says Jim Cunningham and others later made a goodbye-to-Grantland video using the song, showing it makes anything emotional. — Bill Simmons
Dom's closing "quarter mile at a time" monologue is read aloud in the Dom voice and praised, with a note on how Dom clips the word brother. — Bill Simmons
The ending is named the pick for most rewatchable scene of this movie, of any Fast movie, and one of the most rewatchable action scenes of all time. — Bill Simmons
The reply agrees these are the four main scenes but finds the ending too draining to pick, choosing the drop onto the mountain with Brian running up the bus and Letty saving him. — Shea Serrano
That choice includes the preceding Tyrese leadership bit and Ramsey profiling the crew, ending with Tyrese's "double alpha man candy" reply; Tyrese is credited with more laughs than anyone in the franchise and the scene is said to represent all of Fast and Furious at once. — Shea Serrano
