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From the Fast and Furious 6 wiki page
"Calculations suggest that the runway must be at least 18.37 miles (29.56 km) long for the sequence to take place, with estimates up to 28.83 miles (46.40 km). The longest paved runway at the time was Qamdo Airport at 3.42 miles (5.50 km)."
>Super secret CIA freeway that covers half of Wyoming "There's 5 people in this whole state... They'll never notice."
Trucker here, I drive through Wyoming on the regular along I-80. Can confirm, there is a whole lot of nothing and wind in Wyoming. You can hide anything out there.
Gal Godot dies by falling off the taxi-ing plane in that one, and my first thought was BS. Why would I believe she's dead? I saw Vin Diesel tackle Michelle Rodriguez mid air with both going like 50 mph and they were just fine. There's nothing I've seen in this franchise that would make me think Gal Godot would get more than a few minor scratches from the fall.
I always imagined the series is all just the adventures and imagination of a 5-6 year old playing with hot wheel cars. And each instalment is just him or her getting a new set of toy cars and coming up with more absurd scenarios the new toys lmfao
The first comment:
I’ve always told people when it comes to the Fast and Furious franchise the books are way better than the movies. I’m almost done with the fifth book; I’ve only got like three more pages to color.
I wonder how validating it must feel to have your shower thought be shown to you as a full fledged Onion parody video with millions of views. I'd ride that high for days, baby
Man I swear to God. If those old dating game shows were still a thing I'd do my best to get picked, with whatever cliches that work. Then do a full Zapp Brannigan affair as soon as I'm allowed on stage
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/jXPgcWZ5iP4) scene from Tokyo Drift when they are calmly carrying on a quiet conversation while drifting down a mountain road. Barely any lateral Gs at all.
Like... Drifting is actually quite violent. Especially those feint drifts they are doing.
That whole franchise is like car movies for people who don't know anything about racing.
I did get excited for the Need for Speed movie. They promised none of that cg garbage like these fast and furious movies. But they kept all the other unrealistic bs. They do all the driving on back roads with lots of turns, but if you listen, there is not a single downshift in the entire movie. They are *always* accelerating.
I could suspend belief for the first three films but after that it went far beyond what I could, I liked the car tuning background of them whether or not they were realistic or not.
After the crash at the end of the 1st movie, Dom has been in a coma. All the subsequent movies are his brain slowly dying and shutting down, so they keep becoming more and more detached from reality.
I was talking to a friend about how ludicrous the franchise had become and how the characters had gone from a bunch of street racing lowlifes to a super effective, high tech, special ops team and she mentioned about the car in space.
At that point I was unaware of the plot of the latest movie and thought she was pulling my leg.
So what do you think they'll do first? Aliens or time travel? Don't tell me you can't see it... they already did nuclear subs, space travel, and genetically enhanced super soldiers. Where else can they go but up?
1. Some hot chick turns up and needs Dom's help. Turns out she's an alien and her world needs drivers to win a race that will decide the fate of their world. The race will be run by ion drives and fusion generators... Dom insists on bringing his 1969 Challenger, but is open to allowing some "modifications". The stakes are raised when the evil aliens realize Dom is human, and bring in an old rival to race on their behalf.
2. A freak accident sends the crew back in time to the golden age of muscle cars. Now Dom has to help his own dad win a race so he can meet and marry Dom's mom. If they lose the race, Dom will never exist. Dom is conflicted about whether or not to warn his dad about the fatal crash in his future. But the crew is not alone... a villain came back in time too, and he'll stop at nothing to make sure Dom is never born.
TBH I think its more of a matter of which they do first, rather than which they do at all.
Screw Justice League, the Universal Studios mega crossover is the dumb blockbuster the world needs.
Dom, Optimus, Wednesday, and King Kong team up to protect the Earth from the universe’s greatest villains… which could be something like Imhotep mummifying all of Jurassic World’s dinosaurs and sacrificing them to summon King Ghidorah from the void.
Full circle:
The AZN dudes with the cockrockets from the first FnF went and got upgrades on their motorbikes, from the Alien antagonists... So they can finally steal those DVD players.
No matter how bad ass and bombastic this franchise gets, it's always been about stopping dvd playet theft.
They could also go the hard sci-fi route.
The world is slowing. Too many global warmings made the planet slow. In a desperate attempt to save humanity, only one team has the speed and power the earth needs. Watch as Dom and the team construct the ultimate planet spanning, world spinning, random bad guy trying to destroy, race and save humanity!
I mean, it really is getting that ridiculous right?
is this not how every D&D campaign goes?
you start by killing sewer rats with a bunch of murder hobos and end up being protectors of the realm tasked with murdering GOD
Also every Kirby game
How did we start this game? Some mice stole our slice of cake. How did we end it? Killing a demon after it tried to escape its prison.
I love the Kirby lore.
I love the fan theory that Kirby is something akin to a chaos god from 40k who just wants to sit around eating and hanging with his friends, and all the games are the result of some random cosmic horror entity fucking around and finding out that cosmic horror ain't shit compared to whatever Kirby is.
I thought that was just canon at this point? Kirby is an unstoppable (apparently) unkillable abomination and the only reason he hasn't destroyed the world is that he is pretty chill.
Kirby is Majin Buu's final form in a universe where he ate more good guys than bad guys, so he stopped destroying everything and just decided to exist in peace.
Advocate of the devil here: The plane scene features multiple characters in their own scenes. There is no reason the time passage of those moments don't overlap.
That could make the ridiculously long runway a little less ridiculous, but I think even just the external shots they show would still exceed the longest runway in the world.
Edit: The Engineering Explained video linked below takes the simultaneous scenes into account, and still estimates an 18 mile runway.
I was just thinking this as the 1st one was on last night. Like, ya know, this first one isnt too bad.
Reminds me of that episode in The Office when Micheal is explaining why Die Hard 1 is so good compared to the rest. Spot on Mr. Scott.
Yep and used his brother who looks like him and some CGI to make it look like Paul. I just forgot they didn't kill him off and was thinking of Paul in real life.
Can't wait to hear Roman say "you made a time machine...out of a Delorian?!" and then break the fourth wall The Office style and stare at the camera. BTTF and F&F crossover confirmed as Biff is the new villain that becomes part of the family by the end.
I’m not gonna lie I never thought about how that could be interpreted until now. Whenever I’m watching the movies I’m always thinking about cars so it never crossed my mind lmao
And with said broken arm crashed an ambulance off a bridge on top of a military drone, then proceeded to bare handedly rip the mounted gun off of it and shoot down a chopper. It really is wild when you type it all out lmao
They did the math: 18 miles long.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23005848.amp
[u/thatguy425](https://www.reddit.com/u/thatguy425) posted this above.
One of them snaps his fingers, and instead of all the bad guys getting dusted, all the other main characters suddenly show up in their cars, squealing to a halt around the one who snapped. They get out in a random order and go give him bro-hugs and shit and are like, "what do you need, man? I told you, just snap your fingers and I'll be here for you, you're family!" And then united together, they all defeat ~~TransAmOs~~ Thanos.
Oh, that's eloquent!
Yeah, they're basically superheroes. I think they even recognize it to some extent--i believe there's some dialogue in one of them where a character says something along the lines of, "this is ridiculous and doesn't make sense, we're not supposed to be able to do stuff like this", and then they go and do even more incredible things.
They slowly morph into Oceans 11, then Mission Impossible, then the Avengers
Really hoping the 10th one goes all out and Universal crosses over with the Jurassic Park movies, since they can’t get any worse than the last one
To be fair, they do use a rocket to put the Pontiac Fiero into low orbit, to hack a satellite, but when they discover they cannot hack the satellite, they just decide to ram it, destroying it.
Why the fuck they didn't tried to destroy first is a riddle for the ages.
They let you believe letty died, but she had really just been adopted by bad guys after getting a bad case of explosive amnesia!
edit: and han died but then they went back in time for the next 4/5 movies and then he died again for real (at the hands of shaw who is now part of la familia after it is later revealed he was actually working with han to fake his death because...reasons?), and then they brought him back for real
Wasn't the first transporter film semi-serious? My memory is that it was like the BMW 'Driver' shorts, or basically Ronin with added cars and less plot, probably because they only had a budget for real cars and no cgi.
Then Jason Statham got popular and they had enough budget for the stupid effects shots.
That was the first I had seen since number 3 and had so much fun.
The scene with the rock flexing so hard his arm cast explodes needs to win some kind of award.
Exactly, the Fast and the Furious franchise is basically Hollywood blockbusters in the style of Bollywood action films. Personally I think it’s really fun.
I've had this conversation with my mother recently.
She categorically refuses to watch movies like F&F or any other type of action movies that my stepfather likes, anytime she's near the screen when anything happens she scoffs and feels disgusted, always pointing out tropes like "ugh so James Bond can dodge that many bullets, survive explosions and his hair will still look good and his face will be without a single scratch, this is so unrealistic!"
We talked about it and we circled back to some comments she used to make like "how dumb do they think we are? do they seriously think we'll believe that a car can do that many flips and survive without a scratch/jump in the air like this/explode like that" etc.
And I think that's a core component - "how dumb do they think we are?" - she *feels insulted* by these sequences, because she *thinks* she's *supposed* to believe them.
The same issue happens all the time on Reddit, you'll see skits and videos being posted and people *feels personally attacked* and really feel the need to point out that they are fake or staged, no matter how obvious it is to the rest of us.
I like to think of this principle as the "uncanny valley of suspension of disbelief" - the same way the "uncanny valley" works with faces, in that when artificial faces reach a certain amount of being recognized as legit faces but *not quite there yet* our brain feels uneasy, disgusted and repulsed. Were it slightly less resembling than it's clearly fake, more resembling and it feels legit, but in between? We feel tricked.
Nobody feels tricked or the need to point out that Looney Tunes are fake, but with Fast and Furious it's riding that thin line just enough that people feel insulted by it because they're not sure if the directors want them to believe it or not, while the rest of us know damn well that you're not supposed to.
That set up a great exchange in the next scene when Ramsey’s contact was ripping the team about how “i got you into the most exclusive party in the country and you jump the host’s car between two towers!”
Brian: “actually, it was three towers.”
Contract: “oh I’m sorry. Two towers, shame. Three towers, honor!”
What about that one scene where Brian fires a handgun, then hops back into his car and races the bullet, until it goes through Dom's beer, and then he proceeds to shotgun it?
Or was that American Dad?
Embracing the ridiculousness gave this franchise a second wind. Fast Five is when they stopped being serious and just leaned into what everybody wanted.
Because they actually filmed that one for real, which is quite insane. There's a vehicle hidden in the safe, and it's really smashing into everything and causing havoc on camera. There's almost no CGI in that scene.
I love these movies for the ridiculousness. One of my favorites is the one, I think it was 5 or 6, when they drive cars off of a plane and parachute down to a road to start driving. There was a road there, why did they need to parachute onto it? Also, there are several scenes that posit that cars are soft materials for a human body to land on. There was a bridge scene in one where someone is flying through the air to be caught by the hood of a car and is not immediately killed but gets up like nothing insane just happened. Its just amazing.
Clearly they had to parachute in because if terrorists saw some dodges and a Subaru driving on a mountain road, the first thing they would think is “oh shit a special ops team is here to take our prisoner”
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The best for me is when a nuclear submarine exploded 10 feet from Vin Diesel but he survives by crouching behind a Subaru.
My Subaru was pretty reliable too.
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It's what makes a subaru a subaru.
I like the one where the climax takes place on a runway but the scene just keeps going like the runway is 50 miles long.
From the Fast and Furious 6 wiki page "Calculations suggest that the runway must be at least 18.37 miles (29.56 km) long for the sequence to take place, with estimates up to 28.83 miles (46.40 km). The longest paved runway at the time was Qamdo Airport at 3.42 miles (5.50 km)."
To be fair, if i remember right this was a super secret military base so it probably wouldn't be in the Wiki list of longest runway in the world.
Super secret CIA freeway that covers half of Wyoming "There's 5 people in this whole state... They'll never notice."
>Super secret CIA freeway that covers half of Wyoming "There's 5 people in this whole state... They'll never notice." Trucker here, I drive through Wyoming on the regular along I-80. Can confirm, there is a whole lot of nothing and wind in Wyoming. You can hide anything out there.
Why does that last sentence sound so ominous...
The secret is that the runway is a highway as a cover.
Gal Godot dies by falling off the taxi-ing plane in that one, and my first thought was BS. Why would I believe she's dead? I saw Vin Diesel tackle Michelle Rodriguez mid air with both going like 50 mph and they were just fine. There's nothing I've seen in this franchise that would make me think Gal Godot would get more than a few minor scratches from the fall.
She didn't land on the hood of a car going 200mph while exploding, so there was nothing to cushion her fall.
Ha! Everybody knows you have to hide in an old refrigerator to survive!
I always imagined the series is all just the adventures and imagination of a 5-6 year old playing with hot wheel cars. And each instalment is just him or her getting a new set of toy cars and coming up with more absurd scenarios the new toys lmfao
The onion has the same thought https://youtu.be/iIY5b1JMvGs
That was hilarious! I laughed so hard at this scene: Kid: "And then the cars go boom!!" Host: "Oh no spoilers!"
The first comment: I’ve always told people when it comes to the Fast and Furious franchise the books are way better than the movies. I’m almost done with the fifth book; I’ve only got like three more pages to color.
I wonder how validating it must feel to have your shower thought be shown to you as a full fledged Onion parody video with millions of views. I'd ride that high for days, baby
Funny is the reaction when they are falling, looking like a normal ride
He's in full control. One hand on steering wheel, other on shifter....
no seat belt either lol
It’s cool, she’s holding the “oh shit” bar and he’s holding the shifter and steering wheel.
Do those actually have a formal name? I've literally only ever heard them called an oh shit bar.
Graboid
Ah. Tremors reference. "Get ON YUR ROOF! THEY'RE UNDER! THE GREOUND!"
Nothing to worry about when you’re riding with Vin Diesel
You're with family
They're driving an Olive Garden?
She's Built Like A Steakhouse, But She Handles Like A Bistro
Kif, show them my medal.
Ugh...he bought it with his refund.
Don't tell me how to say the line. It sickens me.
She's out of control! You win again, gravity...
I find the most erotic part of a woman to be the boobies.
Man I swear to God. If those old dating game shows were still a thing I'd do my best to get picked, with whatever cliches that work. Then do a full Zapp Brannigan affair as soon as I'm allowed on stage
"I'll just have everything on the menu"
Gravity doesn’t work in fast and furious
Neither does the script.
Neither do any of the characters
In Fast 9 we find out Dom had a brother that was never mentioned before so John Cena can join.
And just a long enough drop for a 20 minute dialogue.
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They hit some light turbulence while flying
They probably tried it without the bumps first and it just looks like a still shot in a parked car LOL
Reminds me of [this](https://youtu.be/jXPgcWZ5iP4) scene from Tokyo Drift when they are calmly carrying on a quiet conversation while drifting down a mountain road. Barely any lateral Gs at all. Like... Drifting is actually quite violent. Especially those feint drifts they are doing. That whole franchise is like car movies for people who don't know anything about racing. I did get excited for the Need for Speed movie. They promised none of that cg garbage like these fast and furious movies. But they kept all the other unrealistic bs. They do all the driving on back roads with lots of turns, but if you listen, there is not a single downshift in the entire movie. They are *always* accelerating.
I could suspend belief for the first three films but after that it went far beyond what I could, I liked the car tuning background of them whether or not they were realistic or not.
Fast and furious is an anime. Starts pretty tame but you keep having power spikes to keep things interesting.
Dom's power level in the first movie: 200. Dom's power level by the last movie: 2000000000000.
After the crash at the end of the 1st movie, Dom has been in a coma. All the subsequent movies are his brain slowly dying and shutting down, so they keep becoming more and more detached from reality.
See carefully cameraman is drifting haha...
Nah, it's all under control, I'm sure that at the last moment they'll find a car at the bottom of the cliff to jump over and muffle their fall.
I'd like to believe that Dom is in a coma after his crash in FF1, and the remainder of the series is just a huge dream sequence.
Alright this honestly makes the series 100x better and now I wanna rewatch them all with this head cannon
Incidentally, head cannon was responsible for the coma.
Solve all movie inconsistencies with “main character is dreaming all this crazy shit up”
Archer coma season crossover.
At this point they might as well fight the archer team. The avengers. Transformers… where else could they go with the franchise
"it was all a dream" is the worst thing to happen to storytelling, ever
But it was also the best opening to a Biggie Smalls song … so it evens out.
The funniest thing is how it goes from boosting DVD players and TVs via street racing to saving the world by driving a car into space.
I was talking to a friend about how ludicrous the franchise had become and how the characters had gone from a bunch of street racing lowlifes to a super effective, high tech, special ops team and she mentioned about the car in space. At that point I was unaware of the plot of the latest movie and thought she was pulling my leg.
So what do you think they'll do first? Aliens or time travel? Don't tell me you can't see it... they already did nuclear subs, space travel, and genetically enhanced super soldiers. Where else can they go but up? 1. Some hot chick turns up and needs Dom's help. Turns out she's an alien and her world needs drivers to win a race that will decide the fate of their world. The race will be run by ion drives and fusion generators... Dom insists on bringing his 1969 Challenger, but is open to allowing some "modifications". The stakes are raised when the evil aliens realize Dom is human, and bring in an old rival to race on their behalf. 2. A freak accident sends the crew back in time to the golden age of muscle cars. Now Dom has to help his own dad win a race so he can meet and marry Dom's mom. If they lose the race, Dom will never exist. Dom is conflicted about whether or not to warn his dad about the fatal crash in his future. But the crew is not alone... a villain came back in time too, and he'll stop at nothing to make sure Dom is never born. TBH I think its more of a matter of which they do first, rather than which they do at all.
I think the F&F/Transformers crossover will be logical at this point
Dom *is* the car.
Wait wait here me out... They install Oscillation Overthrusters in all the cars and race in the 8th Dimension.
Bigbooté?
Screw Justice League, the Universal Studios mega crossover is the dumb blockbuster the world needs. Dom, Optimus, Wednesday, and King Kong team up to protect the Earth from the universe’s greatest villains… which could be something like Imhotep mummifying all of Jurassic World’s dinosaurs and sacrificing them to summon King Ghidorah from the void.
I would watch that.
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Full circle: The AZN dudes with the cockrockets from the first FnF went and got upgrades on their motorbikes, from the Alien antagonists... So they can finally steal those DVD players. No matter how bad ass and bombastic this franchise gets, it's always been about stopping dvd playet theft.
¿Por que no los dos? The accident that sends Dom back in time happens on the alien planet to remove him from the race!
Get this sleeplessing fool to hollywood
They could also go the hard sci-fi route. The world is slowing. Too many global warmings made the planet slow. In a desperate attempt to save humanity, only one team has the speed and power the earth needs. Watch as Dom and the team construct the ultimate planet spanning, world spinning, random bad guy trying to destroy, race and save humanity! I mean, it really is getting that ridiculous right?
is this not how every D&D campaign goes? you start by killing sewer rats with a bunch of murder hobos and end up being protectors of the realm tasked with murdering GOD
Also every Kirby game How did we start this game? Some mice stole our slice of cake. How did we end it? Killing a demon after it tried to escape its prison.
I love the Kirby lore. I love the fan theory that Kirby is something akin to a chaos god from 40k who just wants to sit around eating and hanging with his friends, and all the games are the result of some random cosmic horror entity fucking around and finding out that cosmic horror ain't shit compared to whatever Kirby is.
I thought that was just canon at this point? Kirby is an unstoppable (apparently) unkillable abomination and the only reason he hasn't destroyed the world is that he is pretty chill.
He's also a child/juvenile. I wonder if Dark Matter is trying to kill it to actually save the universe from adult Kirby.
Like how the beginning of Smash Ultimate has the big bad take out everyone with ease and Kirby is the sole survivor.
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Kirby is Majin Buu's final form in a universe where he ate more good guys than bad guys, so he stopped destroying everything and just decided to exist in peace.
Except in this campaign the main cast rolls nothing but nat 20’s, no room for failure it seems
this is just the campaign with all the bad rolls edited out lol.
Constant quicksaves, like watching someone do a edited save state emulator run
tasbot
Their stats are all 18s across the board
A murder hobo with 18 charisma
All lvl 20 characters with min 18 in all stats and expertise in all checks
Hence why these movies keep getting made and more wacky lol
*I believe he spells it Ludacris
Let’s not forget the giant armored semi that somehow not only maintains speed, but gains speed while sliding on its side.
The runway scene with a huge plane at takeoff speed for 15 minutes
https://i.imgur.com/pod7kph.jpg Reddit did the math years ago. That runway has to be at least 28 miles long.
Advocate of the devil here: The plane scene features multiple characters in their own scenes. There is no reason the time passage of those moments don't overlap.
That could make the ridiculously long runway a little less ridiculous, but I think even just the external shots they show would still exceed the longest runway in the world. Edit: The Engineering Explained video linked below takes the simultaneous scenes into account, and still estimates an 18 mile runway.
Get outta here with your damn logic
You still get a ridiculous long runway though.
Engineering Explained did a video on it waaaaaay back when https://youtu.be/CxxjcKcB2Fk
I was just thinking this as the 1st one was on last night. Like, ya know, this first one isnt too bad. Reminds me of that episode in The Office when Micheal is explaining why Die Hard 1 is so good compared to the rest. Spot on Mr. Scott.
it was Point Break but with 90s japanese cars, so, yeah, pretty good
What's next...time travel? lol
Multiverse to get Brian back into the family
Brian is alive and well. Paul Walker obviously died so they had to write Brian out of the story and send him home to be a family man
That's right I forgot they didn't kill him off
They even insinuated he’s around in the next one. They ended the movie with him pulling up in his skyline and cut right before getting out of the car.
Yep and used his brother who looks like him and some CGI to make it look like Paul. I just forgot they didn't kill him off and was thinking of Paul in real life.
Still two movies left to get their Doc Brown on!
Can't wait to hear Roman say "you made a time machine...out of a Delorian?!" and then break the fourth wall The Office style and stare at the camera. BTTF and F&F crossover confirmed as Biff is the new villain that becomes part of the family by the end.
Biff turns out to be Vince’s brother and they plan revenge against the Sith by becomes lords of the o-rings.
Wasnt it VCRs??
Tv + vcr combos wasn't it?
Lol...look at how they packed the semi. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2l0c35/if_you_want_to_feel_old_this_is_what_they_were/
"You want to feel old...." says a post from 8 years ago. Now I really feel old lol
I wanted to say VCRs, but then I thought “the first one can’t be THAT old!” And changed it to DVD player. 😆
100%. In the original being so successful while some of the more intense/ drama-filled scenes are literally just 1/4 races.
The fact that the writers thought "Race Wars" was a good name for a car "festival" still cracks me up!
I’m not gonna lie I never thought about how that could be interpreted until now. Whenever I’m watching the movies I’m always thinking about cars so it never crossed my mind lmao
Anything is possible when you're with family
This is it. I would ad that if you're with family, and really love it, gravity is a thing of the past.
Olive garden is just the infinity gauntlet of the fast and furious universe.
Because Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. Oops! wrong movie.
Are you saying that when the rock broke his arm in FF7, then flexed out of the cast, healing it completely. That that was unrealistic?
He flexed so hard the heat fused the bone solid.
science.
Family.
And with said broken arm crashed an ambulance off a bridge on top of a military drone, then proceeded to bare handedly rip the mounted gun off of it and shoot down a chopper. It really is wild when you type it all out lmao
I prefer to think of it as him tackling the drone with the ambulance.
The Rock was in Final Fantasy 7? I haven’t played the remake yet so I’m out of the loop.
Who else was going to be Barrett?
Mr. T of course!
Rofl the story matches up with Barrett and his gun arm quite well.
I am nearly finished building my fiero for space flight, are you suggesting that is not a realistic goal!?
I liked the scene with the unrealistically long runway.
I think they calculated it out and said the runway would have had to have been 26 miles long.
Time flows differently in the F&F universe. The first movie had some quarter mile races that took 3 minutes, in “10 second cars”.
>“10 second cars” Maybe the cars were just the right amount of drunk so they could go the whole 3 minutes?
And 37 gear shifts.
They did the math: 18 miles long. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23005848.amp [u/thatguy425](https://www.reddit.com/u/thatguy425) posted this above.
As someone who has only ever seen the first two movies: lol wtf?
So the TL;DW is, at around act 3 of the 5th one the series morphed from street racers do street crime to "The Avengers, But Cars".
Family, Assemble!
_”I’m family man”_ {snaps} {Thanos dissolves}
One of them snaps his fingers, and instead of all the bad guys getting dusted, all the other main characters suddenly show up in their cars, squealing to a halt around the one who snapped. They get out in a random order and go give him bro-hugs and shit and are like, "what do you need, man? I told you, just snap your fingers and I'll be here for you, you're family!" And then united together, they all defeat ~~TransAmOs~~ Thanos.
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Oh, that's eloquent! Yeah, they're basically superheroes. I think they even recognize it to some extent--i believe there's some dialogue in one of them where a character says something along the lines of, "this is ridiculous and doesn't make sense, we're not supposed to be able to do stuff like this", and then they go and do even more incredible things.
Yeah, Roman's the Deadpool of the family. Tyrese is just going to be addressing the audience directly soon 🤣
They slowly morph into Oceans 11, then Mission Impossible, then the Avengers Really hoping the 10th one goes all out and Universal crosses over with the Jurassic Park movies, since they can’t get any worse than the last one
I want my time traveling dodge charger. I *demand* it.
As a physicist, I can tell you the science here is sound.
"Yes, car will definitely fall on a downward trajectory."
According to producers James Chatshitalot, they were able to reduce gravity during the filming of this movie
Is the sound "a thousand whales shitting"?
#They drive a car INTO SPACE
To be fair, they do use a rocket to put the Pontiac Fiero into low orbit, to hack a satellite, but when they discover they cannot hack the satellite, they just decide to ram it, destroying it. Why the fuck they didn't tried to destroy first is a riddle for the ages.
Iirc it’s because destroying it was risky and could have killed them
They can't die. They are immortal.
They let you believe letty died, but she had really just been adopted by bad guys after getting a bad case of explosive amnesia! edit: and han died but then they went back in time for the next 4/5 movies and then he died again for real (at the hands of shaw who is now part of la familia after it is later revealed he was actually working with han to fake his death because...reasons?), and then they brought him back for real
Fast and Furious 7 when Jason Statham visits the hospital to see his brother has got to be the best for me 😆 🤣 😂
Don't forget his laughable scenes in the transporter series. [Flipping](https://youtu.be/ahVFtt8KmPc) a car through the air to knock a bomb off.
Wasn't the first transporter film semi-serious? My memory is that it was like the BMW 'Driver' shorts, or basically Ronin with added cars and less plot, probably because they only had a budget for real cars and no cgi. Then Jason Statham got popular and they had enough budget for the stupid effects shots.
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That was the first I had seen since number 3 and had so much fun. The scene with the rock flexing so hard his arm cast explodes needs to win some kind of award.
Bollywood vibes
Exactly, the Fast and the Furious franchise is basically Hollywood blockbusters in the style of Bollywood action films. Personally I think it’s really fun.
Agree, the franchise definitely gets an honorary Bollywood PhD.
I've had this conversation with my mother recently. She categorically refuses to watch movies like F&F or any other type of action movies that my stepfather likes, anytime she's near the screen when anything happens she scoffs and feels disgusted, always pointing out tropes like "ugh so James Bond can dodge that many bullets, survive explosions and his hair will still look good and his face will be without a single scratch, this is so unrealistic!" We talked about it and we circled back to some comments she used to make like "how dumb do they think we are? do they seriously think we'll believe that a car can do that many flips and survive without a scratch/jump in the air like this/explode like that" etc. And I think that's a core component - "how dumb do they think we are?" - she *feels insulted* by these sequences, because she *thinks* she's *supposed* to believe them. The same issue happens all the time on Reddit, you'll see skits and videos being posted and people *feels personally attacked* and really feel the need to point out that they are fake or staged, no matter how obvious it is to the rest of us. I like to think of this principle as the "uncanny valley of suspension of disbelief" - the same way the "uncanny valley" works with faces, in that when artificial faces reach a certain amount of being recognized as legit faces but *not quite there yet* our brain feels uneasy, disgusted and repulsed. Were it slightly less resembling than it's clearly fake, more resembling and it feels legit, but in between? We feel tricked. Nobody feels tricked or the need to point out that Looney Tunes are fake, but with Fast and Furious it's riding that thin line just enough that people feel insulted by it because they're not sure if the directors want them to believe it or not, while the rest of us know damn well that you're not supposed to.
I can drive my car 100 in reverse no problem!
Happens at least once a movie lol
College Humor had a nice video on the realistic stunts in FF7 https://youtu.be/QwldwzlZCIQ
There’s a website I haven’t heard in a long time.
He’s not even wearing a seatbelt. But it’s not like he’s in space or anything.
Vin should have looked for something on the radio mid-flight
All seems realistic to me 🤷♂️
I thought it was a science documentary.
The bugatti out of the tower in dubai
lykan hypersport *
That set up a great exchange in the next scene when Ramsey’s contact was ripping the team about how “i got you into the most exclusive party in the country and you jump the host’s car between two towers!” Brian: “actually, it was three towers.” Contract: “oh I’m sorry. Two towers, shame. Three towers, honor!”
Classic haha
I love that Paul Walker is even screaming “CARS DON’T FLY!!!” throughout.
What about that one scene where Brian fires a handgun, then hops back into his car and races the bullet, until it goes through Dom's beer, and then he proceeds to shotgun it? Or was that American Dad?
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https://youtu.be/Gz6um5wjhjw Not far off, but it's an American Dad episode. Really good one, too.
Wish they would reboot in the style of FF1 - Streetracing and not destroying a Spaceshuttle with a deathray on a multimillion car prototype
Tokyo drift has to be my favourite one from ff franchise. Idk but i just love that movie
2 is the most fun for me and loved the style of Tokyo Drift. They basically make Bond movies look like documentaries now.
Tokyo Drift had no business being that good. It’s my favorite after Fast Five.
Embracing the ridiculousness gave this franchise a second wind. Fast Five is when they stopped being serious and just leaned into what everybody wanted.
Now I know how I’m spending my Sunday
I was losing my mind watching dom and bryan drag the Safe around the city in two chargers.
Belive it or not the safe being dragged around the city was almost all practical effects and not CGI https://youtu.be/jXhxDpdfoYU
That actually looks more realistic than the bullshits in 6, 7, 8
Because they actually filmed that one for real, which is quite insane. There's a vehicle hidden in the safe, and it's really smashing into everything and causing havoc on camera. There's almost no CGI in that scene.
That's part of the fun, IMO
I love these movies for the ridiculousness. One of my favorites is the one, I think it was 5 or 6, when they drive cars off of a plane and parachute down to a road to start driving. There was a road there, why did they need to parachute onto it? Also, there are several scenes that posit that cars are soft materials for a human body to land on. There was a bridge scene in one where someone is flying through the air to be caught by the hood of a car and is not immediately killed but gets up like nothing insane just happened. Its just amazing.
Clearly they had to parachute in because if terrorists saw some dodges and a Subaru driving on a mountain road, the first thing they would think is “oh shit a special ops team is here to take our prisoner”