How Did This Get Made? - Matinee Monday: Furious 7 LIVE! (w/ Adam Scott)

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

The Fast & Furious family are back together again! Adam Scott (Severance, Party Down) joins Paul, Jason, and June to discuss one of the most important films of our generation, Furious 7. Recorded LIVE from Largo in Los Angeles, they’ll cover everything from Vin Diesel and Jason Statham’s superhero level street fight, the gang parachuting out of an airplane in cars, why everyone having telepathy would make sense, and much more. Plus, we learn about Fast & Furious fan fiction during audience Q&As! (Originally released 09/04/2015)  For more Matinee Monday content, visit Paul's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulScheer Go to www.hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, and more.Follow Paul on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: https://discord.gg/paulscheerCheck out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: listen.earwolf.com/deepdiveSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

Just like the Olive Garden, when you're here, you're family. We saw Furious 7, so you know what that means. Now it's time for our dreamy... How did Schwarzenegger grow baby in his belly? Like a rhinestone vest while whipping just in the kelly? Or maybe see a burlesque show with Nick Crow? And take a boat with speed to hit and cruise control? J-Man, Big Paul and the beautiful Jew.

Gonna take you from the goob all the way to the room. Branded games and Street Fighter, hope to blow off steam. Just a sucker, punch the odd, life of Timothy Green. Sharkniddle, the Bird Demic, how we staying alive? They call it in the badass and he's on the line. Cranking 88 minutes cause they cool his eyes. Cause the bad Jim Bonney looking kinda nice. Paul and June getting literal, Jason is getting laid.

June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They judge a bunch of movies while they making the grade. Here's a real question for you, how did this get made? Hello people of Earth! And hello people of Largo! We are live in Los Angeles with hopefully better sound quality than our previous episodes. Apologize for that recorder malfunction, but we're back.

We're better than ever and we're with one of the most important films of our generation. Furious 7. Oh my gosh, it's been a long time coming, but it's been worth the wait. So, let's get this show started. Without any further ado, please welcome Jason Manzukas! What's up jerks? Welcome to Diane Raphael! And the final member of our Fast and Furious family, please welcome Mr. Adam Scott! Welcome!

Welcome to the Fast and Furious family, what an exciting show. It is happening! Finally! Oh my god, I got so much shit on Twitter about how long this took. We've all been out of town, but before we start tonight, this was sent to us by Alan O'Sullivan. He sent us all Dominic Toretto's necklaces. So, as we do this tonight, we will wear the cross that Dominic Toretto gives Letty. Oh my god.

Thus marrying ourselves. Because apparently this necklace can stand in for a wedding ring. If it's wrapped around your hands, it will work. By the way, that wedding, oh my god, he wore a tank top and white jeans to his wedding. What a fucking class act. That's the first time I've been watching a movie and been like, boom, that's what I'm gonna get married. That's how I'm gonna do it. By the way.

Bald, my voice having basically evaporated. He only, Dom only has about three outfits that he interchanges between the white jeans we're new. And he looks great in every one. Oh, I just, he's just gotta hope he doesn't get his period. I wanted, I wanted to do something really quick and I don't know if this is worth it or not. What Adam, what? I wanted to walk us through the history. I'm sorry, his mencies.

Thank you. Because he's a genius. By the way, that's Mensa. I wanted to walk us through because as I was watching this last night with June, you said, I don't remember any of these movies that came before. I don't remember any of them. I watched this with such fresh eyes. It was like I'd never even seen a movie before.

And you took it all in. You had seen this one before, right? No, I hadn't seen this one before. I've seen, I think, Fast and Furious 6. No, you've seen, you've done the podcast. We all know for sure you saw it. We've discussed with you at least five and six. Okay, so I've seen, all right, all right, I've seen five and six.

I've seen five and six. Like, not only discussed, but took apart in like near pornographic detail. I don't know what to say. I only have so much room in my brain and I forget these movies immediately after seeing them. You have like memento, you're like memento for these movies. I really didn't remember anything. Well, I wanted to, for those of you out there that might have Fast and Furious, or like Letty's character, can't remember what happened,

I just wanted to give you a brief rundown of the six leading up to this. And if you are listening at home and have seen the movie, you can just fast forward for the next 12 minutes. How long is it going to take to describe what happened? These are very quick bullet points, very quick bullet points. Okay, Fast and Furious 1, Brian Connor, a police officer with a shady past who goes undercover to infiltrate the most dangerous street racing gang ever, falls in love with Dom's sister, and then Brian and Dom go away,

and Brian lets Dom away at the end. I forgot that was his sister. Yeah. Yeah, that's, yeah. See, this is all very interesting. Mia, that's Mia. That's Jordana Brewster's character is, just in case, Jordana Brewster is Vin Diesel's sister.

Totally makes no sense. So, like, the original cast is Dom, Brian, Mia, and Letty. Letty, of course, has the memory loss. Okay, Fast and Furious 2, Brian's dismissed from the FBI, he moves to Miami, and then the U.S. Customs Service recruits him to bring down the drug lord. That's where he meets Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pierce. That's his old street racing friend. So that's Ludacris and Tyrese.

They come in in number two. Number three, Tokyo Drift. Boom. For those of you who are following the chron... chronologically, the movie was released third, but this one comes in between six and seven. So maybe... So fucked up.

Maybe I won't even read Tokyo Drift until we get to it. So the third... Although this is, like, masterful what they do with the chronology of these movies. Oh, it's amazing. So the third movie, technically, is Fast and Furious, which is Fast 4. Brian and Mia break down at a jail, and together, they bring down a heroin importer infiltrating his operation. That's everybody that we give them.

All right. Then Fast 5. Sorry, Fast 4. Is that the one without Vin Diesel? No. That's Tokyo Drift. There was one without Vin Diesel? Yes.

Tokyo Drift. We're going to get to Tokyo Drift. That's three where we introduce Honk. Sorry, I thought there was one with Paul Walker, but not Vin Diesel. Number two. Number two. I'm sorry. Why was there ever one without Vin Diesel?

Yeah, number one has Paul Walker, Vin Diesel. Number two just has Paul Walker and Tyrese and Ludacris. Number three has none of them except for Vin Diesel in the closing credit, like Marvel cliffhanger sense. And then number four, they all come back. And then number four, then we know how it all ends. I wonder why they all came back, huh? It's amazing that they all were able to come back

when they stopped appearing in them after the first movie. So, okay, so they break Dom out of jail. And then fast five, Dom, Brian and their whole crew of characters plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful drug lord and a dangerous federal agent. That's Ocean's Eleven and we get Hobbs. Then fast six. That's, wait, that's Brazil, right?

That's Brazil. That's Brazil. Great movie. That's an amazing movie. Great movie. Start to finish the rebirth of the franchise, really. Then fast six, Hobbs, Dom and Brian reform their crew to take down a team of mercenaries

only to discover that they're hunting one of their own. Oh, shit. She's Letty. Right. Letty who they thought died. Right, but she just has amnesia and she's working with the British guy. Wait, that's six?

That's six. I feel like she's been back for a while, but it was just last... Just six. Now that's also... At the end of five, the Hobbs gets a file across his desk and he's like, she's back. Right. And we don't know, we just see her picture.

Okay, but then she actually shows up in six. Exactly. And that's also the one where Dumbledore dies, right? Yes. Which was a very, very sad. Oh, so sad. So then in the timeline of the films, timeline, not the films being released,

then we go to Tokyo Drift, which is about another character named Sean Boswell, a troubled youth who has to move to Japan to avoid jail time, and there he meets up with Han, who dies. But Han could then come back in the other one. So the end of six and the end of three are the joining of the two timelines. Yes.

So wait, Han... Wait, why did they do that? I hate this. I hate this so much. I hate this. I only wish in retrospect that June had tried to explain all of it. I hate all of it. June doesn't even remember watching this movie.

Barely. So at the end of Tokyo Drift, Han dies. Han dies. Okay. And what was weird to everybody else was, in Fast Five, Han's alive. And they're like, wait, and they're like, oh, Five is a prequel.

So... But was it like, they just liked this guy so much, they wanted him in Fast Five, and then they're like, oh, fuck, okay. Well, then this movie from 2003 actually takes place in 2015. Exactly. Yeah, that's pretty much what they did.

It's a bold fucking movie. Yeah. Oh, it's a straight-up fuck you. Yeah. In the best way. In the best way. Because think about it, there's got to be so many people who love these movies

who are like, wait, what? Wait, hey. You've seen this movie. That guy died, right? What the fuck is going on? The only way I can kind of describe it in my head is I remember watching the Indiana Jones movies when I was a kid, and there was no internet,

and it was like, I think Temple of Doom is before Raiders, or there was a timeline that you could figure out now. And I'm still not sure about that one. Yeah. It is. Temple of Doom is a prequel, right? Temple of Doom is after...

It takes place before Raiders. I think you're right. Yeah. But the only... Someone at home is mad right now. Someone in the audience is mad. Are we right or wrong? We're right, okay.

The Temple of Doom is before. Why, though, for that movie, it makes no sense. There's no reason. The correct order in order of how good the movies are would be Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. For sure. Temple of Doom. For sure.

Sean Connery. Melty-Face Nazis. I actually, in all seriousness, do put Temple of Doom number one for me. Really? Yeah. I like Temple of Doom a lot. I remember it really shocked me as a kid

because that heart rip was pretty intense. Oh, yeah. Kind of intense. Now, not so much. Not so much at all. Now it's like, uh, who fucking cares, man? Now I can play a video game where I rip someone's heart out.

And I do. Alright, so we're in Fast and Furious 7 now. Finally. The gang's all here. The budget of this movie, $190 million. Wow. Give them more. Yeah.

Give them more. You know what? Every single cent is up there on the screen. Amen. More power to them. Opening week. So $190 to make opening weekend, $147 million. Boom.

Domestic gross, $351 million. Worldwide gross, $1 billion. All for a $1 billion. The fastest movie to gross $1 billion in only 14 days. Jesus. And, yeah, it is, uh, it is currently, yeah, it's the third in the top movies in the past year

to make the most amount of money beaten by Avengers 2 and Jurassic World. But huge, huge, huge, huge, giant movie. And, um, and as you know, there is an elephant in the room, one of the main characters in this film passed away in the middle of it, which is even crazier to think of

that this movie was released. And actually, we were talking about this backstage. It's kind of flawless. You don't notice that that character is not there. Oh, yeah. I did have very real anxiety, though, throughout the whole movie, because I was just so acutely aware of the fact

that Paul Walker died during the filming of this movie that, and I knew that they had to compensate within the movie for that, I thought they were going to kill him in the movie. So every time something, he would get into any kind of scrape alone, I would be like, oh, here it comes. Here it comes.

In any one of these scenes, it's just going to be his brothers from now on. And that's going to be sad. And so there was like a real palpable sense of worry in my mind about Paul Walker in this movie. Interesting, because they did kill him by fatherhood. Yes. Like, that was his...

Death. That was his death. Death by progeny. Yeah. Which, you know, was upsetting. And I have to say, the whole... I mean, I know we're going to get into all of this. I actually did think they dealt with it beautifully.

And I mean, I cried hysterically the last two minutes. Oh, I cried. You will cry at this movie. Like a baby. Who cried? People cried. It's beautiful. And I thought it was handled really well.

But his... The way that they portray being a dad and the responsibilities of parenthood was fascinating. And it was... I almost felt like Paul Walker's character in the beginning wanted to be imprisoned by being a dad.

He has reversed PTSD. He does. Because he wants the bullets. Well, and also... He misses those bullets. He misses out of everything. It's the bullets? But also, he has a giant minivan for one child.

For one very small child. But they were just... And he's so burdened by it. Yeah. And there's that scene between Vin Diesel and Jordana Brewster where she's like, I can tell he's miserable. And he hates me.

And Vin Diesel's like... Yeah. Literally, Vin Diesel's like... You know you're the best thing that happened. He might as well spend the whole movie going, I am rude. Yeah. Like, there is more emoting

when he says I am rude. But you know what's interesting is that I watched some of the behind-the-scenes extras on this. And when he's interviewed or when he's on set, he's like light on his feet, just like a happy, very smiley. So this is... It's all choices.

Amazing choices. It's incredible. Well done. It is. Amazing. I'll just read you this. A read you this one quote that Vin Diesel said, which kind of made me cringe a little,

but he says Vin Diesel stated that Furious 7 is for Paul. Furious 8 is from Paul. The new one is going to be from him. Because he's writing it in heaven? Weird, a weird thing. What does that mean? I guess he will be

sending down... He's sending pages. He's sending pages down, guys. Um... Oh, shit. I have so many ghost pages to read. Oh, Paul's sending us so many ghost pages. It's a crazy statement to make.

It is a crazy statement to make. What color are Ball Walker's pages? Goldenrod. Goldenrod. Goldenrod. The... Sorry, I was just going to say that scene between Jordana Brewster and Vin Diesel

when she's like... And he says, well, you're the best thing that ever happened to him. And she's like, thanks. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yes. And that was disturbing to me

that the... I guess, ostensibly, the lead female character is completely propped up by the... Like, she has absolutely no way of... No compass of where she is in the world if it weren't for these two guys. Yeah.

One unhappy, but not telling her, so leaves her guessing about it. The other one telling her, no, you're fine, you're fine. You're the best thing that ever happened to him. Go fucking make him happy. She's like, thank you so much. I feel like...

Thank you for permission. For as terrific as this movie is, like, they need, like, a great female... I mean, I guess Michelle Rodriguez is a more strong... Yeah. A much stronger character. Well, June is...

I think she is, but she's also kind of defanged because she's constantly... Right. I mean, not knowing where she's from. They've also... And she has, like, an attitude about it, but then when the shit gets going, she's like, oh, fuck, I'm in.

I'm here. They've also... At this point, either killed or marginalized the other female characters in the franchise, like Giselle, R.I.P. Giselle... By the way, Giselle Gal Gadot is listed in the opening credits, and she only appears in a picture.

Yeah. Like, I was like, that's bold. Like, that's a pretty crazy... See, I saw that in the credits. G.A.A., bro. I saw that in the credits and got excited. Me too. I was like, bring her back.

Yeah. And then Rhonda Rousey gets nothing to do, and then Gina Carano was in the last one as well, right? Yes. I mean, was that too early? Well, I thought she was a great addition as well. Gone. And then the Brazilian woman who is...

Ramsey. Hobbes is, yeah. She gets nothing to do. Oh, not Ramsey. Oh, yeah. The one who looks like June. All of the women are pretty inactive in the movie. I mean, Ramsey too is the best hacker in the world.

Yeah. We never get to see her really do much of anything. Oh, there's a scene where they straight up pack and Ramsey's standing behind Ludacris. Yeah. She's the most powerful hacker in the world. And he's like, well, what about if we do this? And she's like, that's brilliant.

Yeah. Yeah. Totally. She looks like Rihanna. Totally. That's brilliant. He's Ludacris. It's Ludacris.

Literally. It's Ludacris. It's Ludacris. I would say that I love... There's a couple of things that I love about this movie. Ramsey is played by the woman who plays the Daenerys Targaryen's Chief of Staff. Is that who that is?

Miss Andree, right? Is that her name, Nurt? Is that who that is? Yes. All I kept on thinking was they clearly wanted Rihanna. They did not get Rihanna. And they're like, she looks enough like Rihanna that we can get.

And by the way, who ended up with her in the end? Tyrese or Ludacris? Luda. Wait, I don't know. Both of them. Got to stay tuned for Fast and Furious 8. Paul's walking toward... She's going to be in the team now?

She has to be. No. She gets murdered in between. That would be amazing. There's another Tokyo movie. By a dragon. I would like it if all of their other franchises started seeping in.

And like in the next one, there's just a dragon. Yes. Vin Diesel is just wearing those Riddick glasses now? Yep. Just because they fucking can. They could. Why not? They could do that.

And like this had spaceships. The people had superpowers. Okay, they are full-on superheroes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. At one point, they go... Kurt Russell is in this movie. Kurt Russell.

Kurt Russell, amazing. Fucking awesome. They utilized him correctly. Yes. Kurt Russell and Vin Diesel and Paul Walker and a bunch of military guys go to take out... Jason Statham is in this movie. Jason Statham opens the movie with a Hamlet-style monologue.

It's just... The movie opens with a two-minute monologue. It's pretty badass, all just on him. An incredible one or two. Yes, yeah. That's great. And I'm sorry to interrupt, Jason, but the thing that's strange about that

is that he's instructing the medical team to take amazing care of his brother and then proceeds to blow up the hospital. Makes no sense. And all of the equipment and much of the staff. Yeah, they're... Like, the hospital literally falls down as he drives away. That's not the safest bet.

They will not be able to take care of his brother. Definitely not. The presumption is that he did that. Yes. Oh, yeah. The presumption is that he went in, demolished the people and the facility, then visited with his brother and then was like,

now that I have destroyed everything that will keep you alive, I'm out to avenge you. Well, by the way, I want to talk about even the idea of this because it makes no fucking sense that he would even go there to have a monologue with his brother who is in a coma who, why put yourself at that much risk and danger

because your brother is dead, essentially. If his brother was like, oh, thank you. It would be one thing, but he's... Brother has no idea he's there. Brother has no idea. That was a really good impression of Brother Shaw. I don't know his name yet. Not Deckard.

Dracula. Dracula Shaw. This movie also does a thing that's pretty amazing. I think for the first half hour, a new character is introduced every five minutes or sooner. Like, oh, the rock has a daughter. Oh, this guy is from Tokyo. Oh, who's this?

I'm like, I can't keep up. I was like, it's like Game of Thrones. Like, you're thrown into an intense, intense world. That's all I have to say. There's no reason for the rock to have a daughter in the movie other than to just make the rock seem like super nice. But you know what was weird? The daughter has no bearing on the story.

But the daughter actually, there's a line. He says, when I think Vin Diesel asks him how they're treating him in the hospital, he says, well, the sponge bass are really good. That's gross to say in front of your daughter. Well, doesn't she go, ooh, dad? Yeah, and ooh, dad, that's gross. I don't want to hear about girls touching your dong.

By the way, shut the fuck up, sweetie. You want to talk about someone who's not stopped by fatherhood. It's Hobbs. He's like, oh yeah, I'll drive this ambulance into a fucking drone. I don't give a shit. This dude. My daughter's clearly, I'm clearly a single parent.

I'll go out there and fucking fight a robot helicopter. He's in a hospital room alone with his daughter. He looks out the window, sees that explosion, and is like, what's Vin Diesel's lesson? Dad, he's got to go to work. He goes, Toretto. And he goes, dad, he's got to go to work. Hulks out his cast.

Hulks out his cast, arms himself to the teeth. I guess all of his stuff is in the hospital with him. And he's like, I'll see you later, child. I am off to almost certain death. Yeah. And he says, like... This would terrify a child. And he says, like, Meredith will be here in a few minutes.

Like, what? Who's Meredith? Yeah. We'll find out. You're insane. You're insane. Well, my biggest problem with this movie is that there's no common law of pain or hurt.

You get blown out of a building. You land on the back of a car. You maybe have a broken arm. Well, these are basically superheroes. You get thrown down the mountains. You're fine. You get thrown down a parking garage. You're almost dead.

You have a very serious head-on collision on purpose. The same two people play chicken twice and smash into each other. And both times. Totally. Not only fine, but somehow gain strength from it. They crash into each other and are immediately out the door ready to fight.

And pulling weapons off of their broken cars. I have a real question though. Statham is making weapons. When they do that, when Statham and Vin Diesel do that, are they playing chicken? I genuinely didn't understand. What is the end game here? They want to be the car on top of the other car?

They want to be... Well, I think we should play the scene. For those of you at home, just picture Vin Diesel in the rock, just driving fucking cars into each other. They're so mad at each other. And you think one of them is going to be chicken? But no. Statham has...

Terminal velocity. They would be dead. Neither of them is wearing seatbelts. Neither of them. And the Jason Statham just cracks his neck. Like, okay, better. The only time that Vin Diesel puts a seatbelt on is after he's defeated Statham

and he needs to just drive out of the parking garage. That's when he's like, gotta fucking buckle up. Not when he drives head-on into an oncoming car in 80 miles an hour. Well, I would argue the safety in this movie is all over the map. They parachute out of an airplane and none of them are wearing helmets. And only later on do they give Ramsay a helmet like, yeah, you probably need this helmet.

But Vin Diesel doesn't need a helmet. Disney, after this crash, don't they get out and Vin Diesel's like, oh, you doubled up the chassis or whatever to somehow explain why they're both fine? He's basically, I feel like that line is basically calling Jason Statham a pussy. Yeah, he's like, he's a bitch.

Oh, you've got a stronger chassis. I'm the bigger man. Audience at home. I'm the man. He's a douche. This movie wreaks every character going, I could never lose. No character can lose.

Here we go. They get out of the car. They're just breathing heavy right now. They immediately get out. Out of the cars. Yeah. They would be next level debt. Their heads would be in each other's cars.

Yes. Yes. You never should have messed with a match family. I told your brother the same thing. Reinforce your chassis. It's like going into a ring with weighted gloves. Your mistake. You know how to play games.

See, you and me, we're from different worlds. Trust me. I've seen a lot of meanest tricks than the ones you're used to. Stick around. It's going to get a lot more. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're right about that thing.

It's like, I think Vin Diesel always has to have the upper hand. Oh. He, by the way, Vin Diesel is holding a very large pipe wrench. He's basically saying, you, he's basically, by saying that's like entering a ring with weighted gloves, he's basically saying you cheated at driving into each other with our cars. Yeah. I don't understand.

It's like you cheated at this thing we do, which is drive full speed into each other with our cars. Like, why, isn't that smart? Like, if you're going to be in a head on collision, don't you want a little protection? He also, he also says it as if this is something he does on the reg. Right. Like, he was like, oh, fucking cheater.

Oh, shit, man. Like, this, this should be the height of the, I mean, because what they think they're trying to show is they're so adamant about killing each other that they'll even kill themselves to kill the other one. Like, that's, but he treats it as if, man. But he's basically calling state, he's basically saying to state them, you have no honor.

You have no honor on the streets. It makes no, that makes no sense. But still, it was terrific. And if you think it's terrific, they do it a second time. I know. But this time he go, doesn't he go up? So he like, yeah. But it is interesting they do it a second time

because clearly they, they do know at that point we are both going to do it. We're both going to crash into each other. So at that point, the decision is like, well, let's do that. Let's both crash into each other. It's not about like, oh, maybe, you know, he'll get scared right beforehand. It's like, no, let's, let's do that.

Yeah. Well, but I would, I would argue that this is like, because they can't kiss each other, they make, they make their cars kiss. Yeah. It's like, it's like, it's like docking with your, with cars. Well, the second, the second time. This might as well be a David Cronenberg movie.

Vin Diesel's car does take the, the active position gets on top. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Fuck it. That car fuck. And then he starts shooting him. Yeah. His load.

He starts shooting his load into Stagen's car. And Statham, not to be deterred, Statham is shooting his load up through the floor. Statham is a power bottom in this sense. You may be fucking me in the ass, but my ass is fucking you in the dick. Yeah. I can get, I can get fucked,

but guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to shoot, come right behind me, in the face. Yeah. I was, I think, I think of these two characters and pretty much every character in this movie, it's like watching terminators. Everyone's a terminator.

Yeah. No one gets hurt. Oh, I mean, the craziest part, the one, the most egregious was when they're in Abu Dhabi and they need to get under the car. So Vin Diesel just lifts the car. Just lifts it up. He's like, I mean, he's like, it's heavy,

but he lifts a fucking car. Oh yeah. No, Vin Diesel is basically the Hulk in these movies. They are the Avengers. Like he can't, a person can't do that, right? Lift up a car. I agree. I think probably not.

Yeah. I mean Vin Diesel does not, like if there's a walk, I would be like maybe. Yeah. And Vin Diesel does do that with very little effort. Once he, once he has it, he's like, let's hurry up, Paul Walker. Yeah, yeah.

But he does lift it in one fell swoop. He lifts a car. Yeah, he lifts a car. They. He lifts a car. Still terrific movie. The other thing too is in this movie, there's no explanation why every single one of them

is an expert in karate. Yup. Like there are no more street fights. This is fucking MMA, crazy. Yeah. It's like, and they're. Ludacris. Ludacris.

Yeah. I was like, when did he learn to fight? He's the hacker. Right. Everyone is kick ass in this movie. I actually liked Rhonda Rousey's fight. I thought it was really good. I think that, because I said, I was like,

it's, I feel like it's like a real MMA fight. It just feels oddly brutal. It feels like the most brutal of all the fights. I think the last fight that she had, some nerd can correct me, but I believe she won in like 36 seconds. Really? I believe she went out and was like bam, bam, bam, bam,

and the woman was like thump. It would have been cool if she had more to do in the movie though. You're right. If she had like, oh yeah. You want her to join the team. That's what I thought. She should be in the next one.

I mean, but it's going to be hard. Or maybe not. I mean, they brought back characters from the dead. They should have a scene where she kicks the shit out of Vin Diesel or the rock or something. Impossible. It would be great if. Impossible for a girl to beat Vin Diesel.

I know, I know, I know. I have heard from a very high up, this is not, this is a confirmed thing. Now they all have in their contracts that none of them can lose a fight. Are you serious? Are you serious? Yes.

That is, it is now across the board, none of them can lose. So they have to bring in new people to lose. To lose fights. So they could never fight. Really? Yes. It started with the rock and diesel in five or six.

When they have their, or when the rock and him have a fight, it was supposed to be like the hob's going to take down Vin Diesel and they're like, no, Vin doesn't want that. And so they spent three days discussing how it could be. So I think that they both. They simultaneously punch each other. Punch each other and then

Diesel's immediately held back like I could have got him. Like I think everything is like, I was right there. You stopped me from killing him. So it was a tie. It's basically a draw. Everything is a, if the main characters fight, it's a draw. If Tyrese was smart, he'd be,

he'd be, he'd go to producers and be like, I'll lose every fight. Yeah. Because he would instantly like, because he is like the comedic relief in the movie. He's amazing in the movie. And he's terrific. He's the best.

He's great. But if he could then come in and be like, and always be getting his ass kicked, that would be awesome. Yeah. He's so funny. Yeah, he's great. He's great.

They're all, they all like hit the target. They're so great. I did want to talk about one thing that happened early in the movie. Vin Diesel says, he's leaving the hospital after visiting Hobbes and he goes, I'm going to Tokyo. I'm going to bring Han home. I'm like, isn't Tokyo Han's home?

Yeah. Right. So he's going to Tokyo. Does he bring the body back to LA? For an LA burial? That's his home. Take him away from his family. Take his body away from his family.

He's, he's, he's Dom's family. Yeah. No, no. Dom's family. Very clear. I want to see that. Dom's family, Trump's real family. I would love to see that deleted scene.

I'm taking your son. What? He's coming with me. Two Japanese people like, what are you doing? Your son's coming. This body's coming with me. What, why?

What? That's our son. I, I did pull this. That's like a horror film. Which an American behemoth comes and steals the corpse of your son. And it's like, this is mine? It's, it's, it's, it's, it follows, but with Vin Diesel.

That'd be amazing. I would love a Japanese horror movie with that plotline. That's just about two elderly Japanese parents. Diesel flip. Whose son is killed in a car accident, and an American giant comes and takes, tries to take the body. And, and what they have to go through

to keep and bury their son. I want to take some three days though. I want to play this scene just because, if you're listening to it, you, you miss something that I think is pretty great. Which is Vin Diesel is doing a eulogy for a Han. When, now the way it's shot simultaneously, so is the priest doing a eulogy.

Just watch this scene because the priest is also talking. You'll see when they go, why? They say to live in the hearts of those we leave behind. It's not to die. So he's talking. But he puts you in this grave. Now you'll see. From now on, do the same to him.

Now there's a priest off to his side reading from a prayer book, visibly reading. And Vin Diesel is at the casket, in the cemetery, like putting a picture of Giselle on the casket. Yeah. And everybody else is like,

it's not the part where everybody comes and puts flowers out. No, the priest is still doing the service. He's having like a private moment in front of, he is the biggest narcissist in the world. And I feel like he has a real thing about Han's body. Yeah, man. Like he has to.

That was when he put her photo on it, I got confused for a second actually. I thought, wait, is she in the, is this her? Because she died in the last one. Like who, wait, whose funeral is this? It was definitely Han's, right? Definitely Han's. Because he went and stole the body.

Well because he went. They were together. Stole the body. Brought it back. I was like, I'm burying this in America. By the way, I would have, I would have loved that scene more. No, please, no, no.

Why? It was dishonor our family. It was dishonor my family. I am rude. But we are, we are heartbroken. Have a bucket of corona. Easy worries. God, the corona fucking.

Even the bucket said corona. I know. And what does Vase knew that he would want a corona immediately? I thought Kurt Russell was like, I can't believe I'm fucking doing this. Oh yeah. By the way, check this out. Kurt Russell, they offered the part originally

to Denzel Washington. Who said, no. And then they offered it to Taylor Lautner. Who said, What? No. Wait, no. And then.

Wait, wait, wait. That's not right. The Kurt Russell part. Yes. Taylor Lautner. Yes. The kid. Different choice from Twilight.

That's mind blowing. Get ready for the third one. Halle Berry. I mean to that. I kind of like that too. I mean to that too. I'm very into that. Crazy, like that was just like throwing darts at like a GQ magazine

and they just found whoever. I mean, that's also Jim Broadbent and Jim Belushi. I would have liked to have seen Denzel Washington in this. I think he would have been great. Oh, awesome. He would have been great. This movie, this franchise is like the much better younger Expendables.

They just keep adding action stars to it or making action stars out of the people in it. Well, I found this to be better than Avengers 2. Like hands down. I was like, I like this more than Avengers 2. I disagree, but I get where you're coming from. You thought Avengers 2 was better than this? I enjoyed Avengers 2 maybe a little bit more, but I'm.

Interesting. But I loved this movie. Don't get me wrong. It's the best movie I've ever seen. By the way, just real quick. Han's name in case you don't know is Han Solo. No, yes. What?

Seriously? Yes. His name is, it's spelled S-E-O-U-L-O Han Solo. But that's how it's supposed to be pronounced. Well, that's amazing. That's amazing. Wow. His character was nothing like Han Solo.

Like he was just a sweet guy. Yeah, it was just for fun. And fun was had. Like everyone had fun with that. It was a great time. Yeah. All right. So they meet up with Kurt Russell.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So there was, this is one thing in that fight in the trailer when the camera goes up with the rock and Jason Statham in the, in the office. The camera goes up and then down onto the desk. That's great. But there's also another shot that's even cooler. I thought where one of them reaches up and grabs a fluorescent light.

And the camera just kind of subtly goes up with them to grab the light and bring it down onto the other guy. That was so, just, just so kick-ass. I think there's so many great scenes. Even when Statham and the rock run at each other kind of crouching tiger, hitting dragon. They meet in midair. They both get so much height. It's so good.

For two men who are below five, six. Right, right, right. They get, they have a high vertical. There's also a number of shots that just open on asses. Yeah. On female asses. Yeah. Like a crazy number.

Oh, like in the desert. There could have been more. Sure. The desert when Vin Diesel brings Michelle Rodriguez to try and jog her memory. Yes. Out into the, and the girl that's telling them to start. Yeah. So many shots of that girl's ass.

So many asses. By the way, they say in this movie that they invented race wars. Which is out of context. Sounds bad. In the movie, in the movie, it says a race in the desert. But they go, we invented that. But in the first movie, they just go to race wars and they never mentioned that they invented it there. They just go to it.

They're just participants. He's lying to her. Yeah. Making their lives a lot better. Oh, I wanted to talk about, in the beginning, the rock's stamp. The rock has a stamp. First of all, the rock is sweaty in the office. I have a picture.

He's glistening as a stamp. Well, the rock has a stamp. Sweaty rock. This is a sweaty rock. He, this is him. When he's just in the office, he's in under armor and sweating through the under armor. And all he had been doing is stamping captured. So he has like a bunch of files come across his desk.

And like, just like, kachunk captured. And captured is easily seven inches long. It is enormous captured. Why would you need a captured stamp? And aren't we all on digital records of this boy? Isn't that probably in a drop-down menu? Yeah. At large on the run.

Oh, captured. Or just everyone that works there is like, oh yeah, that guy got captured. Like everyone just knows. Well, it's going to go in the filing cabinet at the top secret police department. The thing I was going to say about Race Wars is, he brings her out there. Sorry.

He brings her out there. And I was watching that scene and just thinking, this looks like the worst day, the worst way to spend your day. Like, it's out in the middle of the desert. Dusty. 104 degrees. It's like Burning Man for Cars, but exhaust. This is exhaust and sand.

And everyone's like dancing. You can't see anything. Right. That's horrible. Nobody's having fun. No, not one. Nobody's having fun. But there's poor extras that day.

Oh, God. Well, our eagle-eyed, one of our eagle-eyed interns here, Averill, she pointed out that when Letty races, she races in these. Yes. Sandals. That was weird.

I said the same thing. She races in sandals. That was weird. This is a real Quentin Tarantino shot right here. Yeah. It would be really dangerous to be doing a high-powered car. I don't feel comfortable driving to Gelsons in flip flops. No.

I take those flip flops off and go barefoot. You're safer. Yeah. For sure. You can feel the pedals. That's right. You can feel a lot of different things. Oh, I was going to say to the point earlier

that these are basically superhero movies, when the Rock, I'm sorry, no, when Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Kurt Russell, and the military guys go to attack Jason Statham, they're like all armed to the teeth. It's like they're badass mercenary guys or whatever. And only Vin Diesel's gun sounds like a laser gun. Yeah.

Only Vin Diesel's gun is like... Everybody else's gun is like... Vin Diesel's gun is like... Yeah. It sounds like a Star Wars gun. Totally. And I heard it the first time and I was like, wait, what is that?

Yeah. And then I was like, Vin Diesel made them make his gun have a more badass sound than every other gun. But to me, it didn't sound badass. It just sounded fictional. Yeah. It just sounded like a laser gun.

I feel like my character... My character's space gun. Space gun. No, I am rude. When they parachute out of the airplane, this is something I did not know. That was real. Yeah.

They did it practically. Each car had a parachute, and 70% of the cars landed perfectly in their drop zones. 30% did not. Did you watch that little making of thing? No, I didn't know. Is it great? It's great.

The iTunes thing, you get the... Yeah, the extras. It's great. Guys, iTunes. I mean... I'm all in. I bought it on iTunes. I had no problem.

No, but you should watch it. It's crazy. Like they... Like each car would go out with three people, three skydivers holding onto the car on their heads. So crazy. It was insane.

Were there people in the cars? No, no, I don't think so. I do wonder about Fast 8, because there are truly only so many places cars can go. At this point. Well, this movie... Underwater swimming?

We're going to have underwater cars and space cars in 8, I think. Where else could they go? Space cars would be amazing if they could shoot up. If they stopped an alien invasion, I would like it. Did you also know that this is another

weird fact too? That only 10% of the action sequences in this film use CGI. And it's just to erase wires. Which seems very low. But I guess they just... They did wreck 230 cars during this movie. And they're like...

230. It's like really nice cars. Yeah, they're really... That's crazy. All right. You can't believe that. And... So there's a lot of stuff going on here.

One thing I noticed when they were in Dubai is they all get their own car. They're always all getting their own cars. Like insane cars. Yes. Which I can't imagine how they're like, okay, we got to go to Abu Dhabi or whatever. And then it's like, okay,

what if they give a rider that's like, here's what we need. We need sun chips. We need Gatorade. Someone would be like, hey, we got a 16 pass van. Can we just put you all in there and you get to the... We need nine insanely rare cars. Now, Jason, not to revisit your old auditions,

but you auditioned to be this man. I did. I auditioned to be the fixer guy in Abu Dhabi. Wow. If you can believe it. Boy, did they fuck up. Yeah. And it just was very heartbroken to not get it.

But I thought that guy executed really well. He did a great job. He was good, but I mean... I mean, I would have crushed it. Yeah. I also started wondering like, all their travels and they're always like doing... Like, when do they like sleep and take shits?

Like, they're all like always... You know what's interesting about the whole team is... And believe me, I love the friendship that comes through in the movie. I want to be a part of the family. I really do. And that's what makes it so amazing. But you never really see them just in any downtime.

You never just... Every moment with all of them is so heightened. Well, they also all feel like... And the Jordana Brewster Vin Diesel scene we mentioned earlier is like a very... A perfect example of it. They all feel as though they are strangers to each other. Every conversation people are having is as if they've never spoken before.

You're right. It's all very introductory. Well, I was also confused because Vin Diesel seems to live in the same house that Paul Walker and Mia live in. Right. Because his garage is back there, which is unexpectedly not harmed by the giant bomb that blows up half the block.

Right. But it seems like Paul Walker is like bringing his kid down to school from that house. But then Vin Diesel lives there too. I thought, again, I don't remember any of the other movies, but I thought in that scene that that was Vin Diesel and Jordana Brewster's childhood home that they now live in.

And it's a situation where it's all about family. They all live together. Yeah, they live in this house in downtown Los Angeles. But then when they decide that Jordana Brewster needs to... Be safe. Be exiled, they go to the South Pacific in the mansion. Like, I didn't get that. I think that that guy that they meet up with

is that's, he took his part of the money from the safe operation and then built that mansion or bought that mansion. Because that guy is another guy that I know. That guy who's from a previous movie. He's Brazil. I'm pretty sure, right? Okay, people don't know. We don't know.

Five characters. Every five minutes, a new character. It was interesting, though, that first explosion because it felt like they waited for the Jason Statham, waited for all of them to get out of the house. Oh, yeah. Safely and soundly to set the bomb off. And a comical box.

Like, wrapped in tape like caution. And Japanese words all over it. And Vin Diesel made a joke when he saw the... He just saw the box. He's like... A box from Tokyo is on sending me a turbocharger. What did he say? Right.

He was like, yeah. Some joke about turbocharges. Like Japanese auto part or something like that. We'll use that bullshit. The whole movie is predicated on finding this piece of technology called God's Eye. Wait, what is it called? God's Eye, isn't it?

Oh, I don't know. I didn't say it enough in the movie. And it's like the nonsense piece of the... It's the microchip of the thing. If we use this on Osama Bin Laden, we would have found him in four minutes. And it's basically this piece of Big Brother surveillance that allows you to find people wherever they are

and, you know, co-ops, traffic cameras and cell phone cameras. And so they're all constantly being revealed. Their locations are constantly being revealed. And I was like, just go inside somewhere. Yeah. Go inside almost anywhere. Yeah.

Turn your phones off. Can't find you. Yeah. You're literally so safe. Yeah. And maybe go pull up into a parking space and get out of your car and go into a building. Go inside.

Yeah. Go the fuck inside. Stop getting in cars. Yeah. How about that? Yeah. Well, speaking of the car thing, too, there's one point when they go out to go bust Jason Statham

when he's eating his meal of grenades. How do you have time to make that meal? That is lousy with grenades and small bombs. By the way, I wanted to know how that kind of went down. He's eating a nice steak in a warehouse. So someone had to deliver that or he brought it there and then set up his own table. There was a sad preparation went on before that.

So he's eating his steak, a bloody steak. And before they go, Vin Diesel's like, my team, they're drivers. They're not killers. No, they're fucking killers. They actually are killers. Like Paul Walker shoots like 10 people in their head on that buzzer.

Yeah. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Like without any hesitation at all. They're constantly killing people. And the whole purpose of this trip is vengeance, really. So they are killers. Yes. The purpose they have all set out for is murder.

Yes. But they're not that. They are united in their desire to end the life of another human being. Yeah, it's not to drive at all. That has nothing to do with it. No. They almost felt like they forgot about Han.

I mean, really, that's who they're avenging. And it doesn't seem like they're like, let's do this for Han. They're like, at certain points, like, let's kill fucking Jason Statham. Like there's no. Yeah, they don't give a shit about Han. Yeah. Like at the end of the movie, they're not like,

we did it for Han. No. No mention of Han at the end. It was like, yeah. Nothing for Han. Han's parents. No love for Han. Just crying.

Crying, why did that monster take our boy? Yeah. They took his father. Where is our son? Oh, my gosh. I mean, I feel like we have anything. There's so much. We didn't talk about the car driving through three buildings. Oh, my God.

Which is huge. That scene is amazing. Amazing. I love that. I mean, yeah, that is watching it again in the trailer. You can just see it's like, it's all. I mean, this movie does take everything up a level. I don't know where it goes.

It's great. I mean, like speaking of Temple of Doom, like that moment where the car goes out the one building and into the next, and I was watching it today. I had seen it when it came out, but was kind of going through it again today and watched it with about half an hour of it with my son, who's only eight. So I thought like, this section is probably appropriate.

And one thing that I noticed is that in this movie, in PG-13 movies, this one in particular, they say shit constantly because they can say shit. You can't say fuck, right? Yeah, you own one fuck. You can't say one shit constantly in this movie. Did they say fuck at all? I don't think they pulled the fuck trigger.

Oh, my God. They say shit like every 10 seconds. But it goes in one building into the next one. And I have forgotten there's a third one. And that's such a great moment. It's very Temple of Doom, like going that extra. I feel like every, like, I mean, again, parachuting out of an airplane with real cars is crazy.

So good. Smashing. That's the thing that is always fascinating to me is every plan they need to execute has to incorporate cars. Well, you're right. Yeah, it's so weird. Because no matter what the mission, it begins with cars.

Because I was thinking about that mission in particular, where they have to go retrieve God's eye from that, you know, tour bus. It's the Lady Antebellum tour bus. It looks like a tour bus. It's like, well, you go to Tahoe with a tour bus. But it would have been so much easier to just parachute as themselves.

Yes. And land on the tour bus, around the tour bus. 100%. So much easier than to take your car with you. Can you imagine? Can you imagine if they were like, we've located Osama bin Laden. We know where he's in.

He's in a body bed. And they were like, we're assembling, we're assembling SEAL Team Six. And they were like, we need two Mustangs, three Supta Pondus, and four Chevy Impalas. And we want to drop them all out of a helicopter, an airplane. No, we need to do it. Just you need to jump out of an airplane.

And land on the ground. No, I need, OK, I need to be strapped into something full of gasoline. No, no, no, no. Just out of an airplane. So I have the most chance to succeed in getting Osama bin Laden. Well, you're the expert. OK, let's get it ready.

Let's do this. I also love that they are, in this movie, again, we talk about the chicken. They are always like, fuck you, I'll do it. And I was like, when he drives, Vindy's was cornered by the guy from Amistad. Jaiman Huntsu. And they are there.

And he's like, all right. Amity Hopkins. And they're like, we're going to drive. He just drives down a steep mountain. And then you find out later he outfitted the car for that scenario. Just in case I need to drive down the steep cliff of a mountain.

Through dense forest. And he doesn't wear a helmet. He makes the other girl wear a helmet, Ramsey. He seems to be unharmed. I think he cracks his neck. And the car just falls apart to become like, they make a whole thing like, oh, it's protective. But no, all pieces of the car fall out.

It's just a frame at the end. He, everybody, every single character in this movie experiences something that should kill them. Like dead. We should be watching a movie full of main character depths over and over and over again. But we don't. Nobody dies. But they don't even recognize that it was hard.

That's the thing that's kind of crazy to me. It's not like, we got out of that one. It's like, of course we got out of that one. There is a scene in the movie. Where after Vin Diesel defeats Jason Statham, the Diamond Huntsman helicopter is shooting missiles at the parking garage at him. And he's like, OK, I have a plan.

Now, this plan is impossible for him to have thought of. But he drives down the thing, the shooting missiles. The building begins to collapse. The building collapses in a way that creates a ramp. He jumps his car up the ramp and flies, flies. He flies in a car that, because of its outfitted with all this nonsense, probably weighs a ton. Probably one ton.

He flies in the air, grazes the helicopter, and somehow manages to hang a bag of grenades on the side of the hang. And this is not the first part. Continue. He was able to find a little hook. Yes. To delicately hang a bag of grenades out of the window.

He is, I don't know, 400 feet in the air at this point. And going probably 130 miles per hour. And meanwhile, Crosstown, the rock sees this, pulls out a gun, is in total sync with the plan, and is like, bam. And the grenade's that bad. And the grenades explode. Like, that is more fantastical

than any scene in any superhero movie. Oh, for sure. There are worse problems with the physics of all of that than in every Marvel movie ever. Like, the concept of Ant-Man makes more sense. The concept of lifting a city up in Avengers 2 makes sense. Yes. Oh, my God.

Like, that is great. I mean, this whole end sequence is amazing because I never count, like, they're demolishing Los Angeles. Demolishing it. Oh, yeah. And I saw three cop cars. Three. There's no other cop cars out there.

You would think this would be like a net. Like, even at the end, there's no ambulances. Well, Hobbs crashed the only ambulance in Los Angeles. Yeah, and also the hospital is right there because he saw the explosion and ran over there and took care of business. Just flex that cast right off. I thought the bus thing, not to jump to another part of the movie,

but the bus thing where Paul Walker runs up the bus and catches, that's, I think, my favorite part of the movie. Oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. But again, like, he lands on the ground after jumping off of the bus, grabbing onto Michelle Rodriguez's car and doing, like, a 360, letting go, rolling into the dirt.

And anybody, anybody in that situation would just be losing their fucking mind. I for sure would shit my pants. Oh, my God. Any one of us. And talk, you would not stop. Like, that character for the rest of the movie would just be talking about it.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It'd be like, guys, you don't, no, you don't understand. I had to run up at Ludacris. It's like, yeah, no, we heard. I know. No, that, that, you saw the bus. That bus, that bus was on the edge of the cliff and I ran up there.

I got out the bottom. Yeah. Bro, I got out the bottom. I swung on it uncharted style. I was hanging by the door. Yeah. And then right when I was in the air, I wasn't going to make it Michelle's car.

We got to plan this next mission, man. We got to plan this next mission. No, but you don't understand. I know. She was... We got to plan this next mission. She almost died too. I grabbed onto the back of her car

and she kept going and we're both, we are safe. Are they all? It's just Christ, you guys. God tell you about... Fuck. I feel like the only legit explanation is that they're all telepaths because there's no way to come...

There's no way for her to go, oh, maybe he didn't get out of that van. Maybe I should just go over there and graze the back of my car to catch him at that moment. Because from her POV, it just looks like a bus careening and then slowly sliding off the edge of a...

She has no fucking idea if he was down here. By the way, you could solve a lot of... I mean, if you wanted to even justify it a little bit, just put earpieces in and be like, hey, I need you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they spend the whole movie

with actual walkie-talkies in their hands. So they're driving and they're like, hey guys, you got to get out of here. Why? You didn't get headsets. What the fuck? Yeah. Two hands on the wheel.

Ludacris set everybody up with some fucking headsets, bro. Yeah. Yeah. But the catching of the car, Michelle Rodriguez, I felt like this was so indicative of what these movies are about, which is Michelle Rodriguez doesn't catch Paul Walker.

Her car does. Right. Like, they are all... It's like they are... They are cars. Voltron or something. They are all stronger for being inside of these extensions of themselves.

Yeah. And fast eight, please, producers of fast eight, make it so that their cars can come together and form a mega car. One giant car. That would be great. By the way, it would form the robot from Iron Giant. Yeah.

And Vin Diesel. I want to get to the audience. I know there's a lot of stuff to talk to you, but I feel like the audience is going to bring up some things that we may have not talked about. Yeah. So let's go out here.

If you have a question, let me bring down some prizes. If you have a question about this movie, something we haven't talked about yet, let us know. Here you go. Great. Your name and who's your favorite character

in your question? My name is Brie. I've got to say that Groot guy. The Groot guy. We love Toretto. He's a fun guy. I just wanted some clarification. I thought the whole backing the cars

out of the airplane plan was Tyrese's plan, but then he seemed super surprised that that's what was happening. You're right. Oh, wow. Great. Well, I think Tyrese's plan was to hit them at that place.

He didn't know that would mean dropping them out of an airplane. And he's chicken, which I think is very funny. All right. I got Tyrese sympathizer over here. All right, ma'am, your name, your best impression of Vin Diesel saying

my family and your question. My name is Jesse. My family. Pretty good. That was great. Kurt Russell tells Vin Diesel when they first meet, like, hey, why don't you just wait for Jason Statham to show up?

And he's like, nah, I'm going to go find him. And then Jason Statham keeps showing up everywhere they are. Like, what was the whole point of the movie? Just wait. Yeah, you're right. He follows them all over the world. Because Jason Statham's only goal is to kill them. I mean, he's hunting them.

So just stay put. I guarantee that was Vin Diesel being like, I can't be passive. I need to take the pain to him. All right, sir, your name, your best Vin Diesel saying, it's my family or anything with a family in it and your question.

My name is Justin. Me familiar. And I thought James Wan did a great job for his first time out here. But I have an idea for number eight. With Paul Walker gone, you kind of have to go fresh. And I know Tom Hardy in Mad Max is leaving.

So let's bring Furiosa. Furiosa eight, Fury Road. Ooh. So combine worlds. Not really a question, but just really a pitch. Sounds to me. We're the people that pitch it to.

Yeah. By the way. Sold. By the way. Pitching fast in Furiosa. Yeah. I would pitch, James Wan is now doing the new Star Trek.

Let's merge that. So space battles, but like cars. So they all have their own spaceships. It's been awesome. Okay. Here we go. Another question. Here we go.

Sir. Yes. All right. Your name, your best Vin Diesel impression and your question. My name is Eric. Can I get a Corona? Wait, wait, wait.

Yeah. That's a perfect Vin Diesel. Can I get a Corona? Say my family has Vin Diesel. My family has Vin Diesel. My family. Right. Now it's good.

So I just want to, I'm curious to know at the end of the movie, you see Statham locked up. Do you think he escapes, loses his memory, and becomes Chev Chellios? Crank cross over. Oh man.

That would be fucking awesome. That would be an amazing discovery. But by the way, he is Chev Chellios, right? I mean. But wait. So these, all of these fast and furious movies are prequels too.

Crank one and two. Crank. Oh. Oh, I see how you're pitching it. Oh, okay. I love that idea. And I would also love, I will say, and I thought James Bond did a great job.

We all love James Bond. I love like Neville Dean and Taylor to direct Fast 8. Be awesome. But nobody else does. Everybody else is like, maybe, I don't know. All right, sir. Your name,

your Vin Diesel saying my family and your question. My name's Jay. My family. Great. My question is somebody up there, I think it was Adam asks, when did Ludacris learn how to fight? My question was,

when did Ludacris learn how to hack? Because he was an auto mechanic in the first one. That is a very good point. Was he? Two stickers for you. So before this, he was just like a, like a auto mechanic. Just a car repairman in Miami.

That is so funny. Which is true, because there's another point too, where Paul Walker in the second one, Too Fast, Too Furious, he said, like, he meets Roman, and he's like, oh, this is my old racing buddy. But in this movie, he goes, remember when we were at prom?

And they're like, yeah. Like, oh, they went to high school together? But what are Roman's special skills? Anyone know? Does anyone know Roman's special skills? He's the joker. Charm? He gets in because of charm?

He's like, he's like, he is. He's like Face Man on the A team. But he, I guess so. Yeah, right? Yeah, Face Man, yeah. Face. Face. She did, because when she pinpointed,

when the new girl pinpointed at what everyone's role, she said the joker. And he said, no, I'm Alpha. I'm also Alpha. But never said, like, what he does. Yeah, I guess he just is there for distraction purposes. Like, in the party scenes. And he's doing a great job at that.

By the way, I'd see a whole Roman movie. Yeah, go ahead. That would be a great way to kind of split them off. Do reverse Avengers. So it's like, they start with this, and you go, yeah, individuals. All right, sir, your name, my family has been diesel in your question.

I'll hold the mic. My name is Brad, and this is about my family. Good. Settle. My question is for June. In the last act, I would call it the third act, but there were, I think, 17 acts in this movie. So in the last act, there was a lot of talk about

returning this fight to the streets and about street fighting and about how the fight between Dom and Shaw was a street fight. And for you, did this bring up a lot of questions that you had unanswered from Street Fighter? June famously not knowing what a Street Fighter is. Well, I think I'm getting closer to knowing because it seemed from this movie, like when you need to fight like a Street Fighter,

you pick up a wrench. So I think I'm getting closer. You learned, I do think you might have learned a little bit more about it in this movie because what we learned in this movie is that the street always wins. I wrote that down. I wrote that down, and I was like,

that was something that sounds cool and makes no sense. The street always wins. The street always wins. Both lose. So that must mean everyone, it's like the house always wins. That means the casino is winning. So neither Vin nor Statham wins. Yeah, it doesn't make sense.

And also being in a street fight, with two big pieces of metal fighting another guy, anyone that's done that, it's like a horrible thing that happened in your life. Jesus, no one wants to do that again. And these guys are just like, no street fighting is the way. This is how we straddle it.

By the way, I will again point out, these guys have never been fighters. Now they are just equipped at multiple weapons like out of the video game. Well, Vin Diesel has two giant, comedically large wrenches. They both basically have two swords. And that's what it is. And they are so expertly attacking each other

with two sword action that you're like, when did they ever learn this? Right. Jason Statham is a little man who takes on the rock and they seem like equals. I mean, like the rock has to be like nine feet taller than Jason Statham. I mean, he's a giant man.

Oh, yeah. By the way, cars are very comfortable to land on too. That's not a big problem, right? That one perfectly placed car underneath the hotel. What's your name, your Vin Diesel impression, and your question? My name is Robin, and, um... Right.

Everybody else took the good ones. I actually wanted to answer a question from earlier because you asked, why didn't Vin Diesel be in the second or third one? And that was right after XXX and Pitch Black had come out, and he refused to do sequels at the time because he was too big for them. And now he's just promised three more fast and furious moments.

Wow. That's the newest piece of information. Did he really? Yes. Three more. Awesome. I actually did have a question. So in the next movie, we get another Shaw villain,

and it's either the Shaw mom or Shaw dad. I was thinking Helen Mirren. Maybe it would be a really... Because I know she wants to be in these, but what about for Shaw dad? What do you guys think? Ooh, Shaw dad. Oh, see, I feel like it would be better.

I would rather Shaw sister. I want, like, Shaw little sister, and I want it to be like somebody super badass. I'm trying to think of who. June, can you learn, like, MMA-style fighting? I'm sure. 100%. And she's got...

Wait, they're British, right? So... You can do British accent. Just give her a... Kieran Knightley. Ugh. News. Who's got a good question?

Good question. Tell me if we have not covered. I'm going to go back to this guy in the back here. All right. Sir, here we go. Your name, your Vin Diesel saying my family, and your question. Here we go.

My name is Drew. My family. And so, what they did with Paul Walker and his brothers, they used them as body doubles when he died. Do you think, for fast aid, they've had a contingency plan in place with Vin Diesel's twin brother? It's a very dark question.

I feel like there's no answer to that. No answer, but just a solemn reflection. Although, I will say this, and I'm going to pitch it now, not knowing anything about anything, there's a strong part of me that thinks that they're going to bring Paul Walker's brother into the next movie as his brother,

because his brother now wants to act. Well, just saw how America reacted to that. America doesn't want it. Sir, your name, your Vin Diesel impression, and your question. Here we go. My name is Benton, and I'm a family. Great.

I guess my question is directed at June, just because I think you get really hurt by this, but when... You're trying to hurt her? I mean, I'm sure she probably felt something about this, but when Jordana Brewster essentially lies about the pregnancy, to get Paul Walker to go, you know, fight... What are your thoughts on that?

Wait, when does she lie about the pregnancy? She doesn't tell him. By omission, lying by omission. Well, doesn't she eventually tell him? She does. She does. I didn't realize that. I did think it was odd that she's very pregnant,

and is not at all physically. Just on a physical level, she's not. I didn't realize that. I don't have a problem with it. They are... I don't. It's her choice to tell her, not to tell her. June, would you...

I don't have a problem with it. If you were eight months pregnant, would you send me away to fight somebody? To the death? Well, I think the thing that bummed me out the most was that she had no... I mean, she was also part of this team at one point. They are outlaws.

No, she was never part of the team, right? She was an eraser. She was just a sister. Oh, she was eraser? Okay, yeah. She was eraser. She was just a woman. By the way... By the way, wait a second. You, June, you just said she was eraser, and by your own admission, you've never seen...

No, but I've seen... I've seen the posters, and they... I've seen posters. I've seen posters. And they're not going to put her in profile like that if she's not a part of the team. Ooh. I just want to answer your question from earlier over there.

Um, the next one, the Shah... It's a Shah brother and it's Nicolas Cage. That's what it is. Yes. By the way, expressed interest in being in Fast and Furious. He did say it publicly. Oh, my God.

So that would be amazing. Please, Fast and Furious, people, cast Nicolas Cage and us in your next movie. Yeah, like, let's stop messing around. Like, Sharknado would be great to be him, but let's... I think this would be the one... I think I'm okay being like, fuck you, Sharknado. Oh, me too.

You wanted to say that now publicly. We want to be... We will commit full-on to Furious 8. We want to be in Fast and Furious 8. 8, 9 and 10? Yup. I'm into that. Three-picture deal.

We could be, like, the lone gunman, but, like, four of us, yeah. All right. You have a good question? You... All right, you got it. Here we go. Your name, your Vin Diesel saying family, and your question.

Uh, my name is Nicky. Hmm. All right. At the end, when Vin Diesel leaves the beach, why does it look like he's the one saying goodbye to the... Like, he leaves without his wife. He leaves with, like... Yeah.

Yeah, he is. He's such a narcissist. You're right, like... Yeah, he leaves. It's all about him. Oh, totally. Like, he... Yeah, he leaves. It's like, Paul Walker isn't leaving.

He's leaving without everybody. Did he leave Letty at the end? I would, yeah. So there's gonna be three more, you said? Yeah. So that's 10. Yes. Fast 10.

I believe, I will predict, that at the end of Fast 10, every movie will have been revealed to be the dreams of a Vin Diesel in a mental institution character. And that that's all of it is his imaginings of his life. Wait a second. He's got a bunch of matchbox cars. It's like... It's like... That documentary, Maron Kahn.

And it's like... And the 10th is like a Rain Man-esque documentary where his twin brother comes to bring him home. And he's like, family, we gotta go. Family, come over here. Oh, okay. No, Brian, you go over here. Tess, what are you doing?

Okay. And then they come and they're like, Dom, it's time for your medication. One more question. It was a really good question. You have a really good question. I like it. Your name, your Vin Diesel impression and your question.

Here we go. My name's Alana and my family. Great. That was good. I believed it. I just wanted to know at the end where... By the way, she could be a Shaw sister. Far in her.

Far in her. Shaw sister, Shaw sister. Far in her. She's here to kill us all. She's gonna kill us. She's come for our jobs. And to take our sons and daughters back to her home country. Yeah, at the end with...

Yeah, Vin Diesel is like... They pull Vin Diesel out of the car and Paul Walker starts to do CPR on him. Yeah. And then... Michelle Rodriguez is like, Stop, stop, stop. And then she basically talks him back to life.

Yeah. I thought that was weird too. That is now considered like medical fact. That is how you're supposed to bring somebody back. I mean, isn't that the whole idea... It's sweet talk to them back to life. ...mouth to mouth resuscitation isn't about breathing. It's about talking to them, but just really closely.

Hey, how you doing? He's like, Remember what you wore to our wedding? And he's like, I just want you to know you have a lot to live for. There's a montage happening of all the things that you should live for, because I remember them all from older movies.

Wait, was that also like her saying that she remembers it all? Yes. She came to her in a flash. So now we've had two full fucking movies of her trying to remember, Jesus Christ, enough. So the next one she'll finally remember. She's back, she's back in. I also want Jason Bourne in these movies.

Yeah. I want just like a collapsing of all movie franchises. But by the way, like if Universal just took their best characters, it's like, it's our Marvel world. We just own it. Frankenstein. The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Shrek. Shrek. Don't be getting my car. Vin Diesel and Shrek. The guys from Wedding Crashers. Hey. Lilo and Stitch. Give me the 40 year old virgin, a Camaro.

And the short prince. And Eileen Warnos from Monster. And Aaron Brockovich too. Bring me Chauncey Gardner. And Matthew Broderick from War Games. Let's do this. Do you want to play a game? I am Groot.

This is a mash-up of all the times they say family in the film. This is a brand new made mash-up by Averill here. My family. Our family. Family. Your family. My family. Our family.

Family. Your family. I don't have friends. I got family. Oh, so good. Pretty great. Well, it's come to that time. Time where we obviously have an opinion about this movie.

It's fucking awesome. But there are some people out there that have a second opinion, but really, they're going to share the same opinion as us. So it's now time for second opinions, and we throw it to you, the audience, to sing the theme song. So do your best tradition of the theme song. Go. I know it's gonna go wrong, but it's gonna hurt.

Great. All right. Guys, rehearse next time, please. I mean, like, come on. Get your shit together. These are second opinions called from Amazon, five-star reviews. Here we go.

This is from Jesse Devon. He writes, this is the best movie ever made. I almost cried when I thought Vindies was dead, but was so happy that he wasn't dead, though. Five stars. Woo! I think it's funny when people have to tell others about the times that they almost cried.

Almost cried. This one is from Jonathan DC. He goes, I went and saw it last Friday with my brother. Me and my brother love Fast and Furious movies. We were expecting awesome acting, awesome action, and awesome speed. And that's what we got. Kurt Russell's the new guy who's either CIA or FBI.

I don't know which one he is, but he's one of those. Anyway, it's awesome. I was not disappointed. Five stars. Anyway. I hope he was proofing it and was like, oh, no, I should put anyway. This one's a short one by Michelle Marsen.

As a woman, this is one of my favorite action films. Five stars. This is a little bit of a longer one, but I kind of like it from Mohamden. It looks like Mohammed, but it's not that. OK. It just took me three years of patience, not patience with a C with a T. It just took me

about three years of patience to see this movie. I couldn't wait for it to come out. I followed every social media post they had for this movie to tell you how much they had done and what they had finished. I'd seen every single post and many clips about the movie, and every part was exciting. When the movie came out, it gave me excitement.

It gave me goosebumps. It gave me laughter. I would watch this movie over and over again, and I won't get sick of it. Every part of this movie makes you feel in an alternative way. Fair enough. Some parts make you want to tear up. Well, other parts make you want to laugh out loud,

and then you get shushed by the people around you. All the animations and stunts grab your attention through the whole movie. Some of the stunts that took my attention and made me retell them to others were when Vin Diesel raced his car in the middle of the skyscraper and zoomed out the window while jumping into the next skyscraper and then going right through it

and surprising everyone with his entrance through a window. That was 100-story tall. And then he continued fighting the criminals. Be sure not to go over the speed limit after you see this movie because it made me want to race a few cars in the way home. Five stars. Wow. My favorite line in that one is this one is, oh, wait.

Some of the stunts that took my attention and made me retell them to others were. Yeah. Finally. How about those friends that have to listen to retelling scenes from movies? Nothing better than that. It's OK.

They're stuffed animals. They're also in the hospital with Vin Diesel's character in his cars. The final one from Nick, kind of bringing it down for a moment, saw this movie an opening night, and it was the best movie I've ever seen in my life. And now I can't stop thinking about all the touching and action-packed moments.

The part I like most was towards the end of the movie and how it made me look back at my life and made me appreciate what I have. Five-star. Yeah. Family. All right. So that are the five-star reviews.

Do we miss anything? Do we not? I mean, obviously, there's a lot to talk about. We didn't even touch upon Dimon Honsu's character at all. I felt like that character was just sort of just another. It didn't really mean or do anything. I would say that 90% of his dialogue was, give me God's eye!

Yeah. Like, that was it. I do feel like I don't want to see another movie where we're all waiting for the download to complete, for the upload to complete. And that same font size. Yeah, with the red bar going, with the percentage we have to, you know.

I did like, I was going to say, that Dimon Honsu and his guys took out of the realm of cars and were in a helicopter. They were in a militarized, they were in blue thunder, basically. Ooh, I would like it if blue thunder and or air wolf were in the next one. Both. I think the Enterprise should be in it, too.

Why not just bring them all in? And Magnum in his Ferrari. And Magnum's buddy in the TJ up in the T.C. in the helicopter. And Rick. And Higgins. No, I don't want Higgins. I don't want Higgins.

No Higgins. Is there is, does anyone know of, is there fast and furious fan fiction? Yes! Ooh! Oh! Wait. Tell us.

Wait, can you come up here and tell us about it? Yeah, that's what you know. What do you know about it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's got to be sexist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very sexist.

It was so much, and it revolves basically around the emotion of, now kiss. So, it's homoerotic at certain points. Have you watched the movies? I have, but I didn't know if it all came from. See, I don't get that out of the movies. Yeah. It's homoerotic. Yeah, this is heterosexual, much in the same way that football is.

Who are the characters that get together a lot is it like Hobbs and Toretto or is it Paul Walker and Vendee's a Lot of the time. It's Walker and diesel diesel, but the Hobbs and Toretto Wait, why do I know this? I was gonna say you know what are you jerking off to fast and furious fan fiction? You haven't seen it You spending too much time diddling yourself to fan fiction How can we how can we find the fan fiction? Where did you stumble across? Do you write it? Do you want actual? No? Yeah, why not plug it? Look archive of our own fan fiction net. This is a big tumbler. All right. All right. We are in it guys

Just being it Ask you thank you so much Amazing Wow Wow, all right, is there how did this get made fan fiction? I Bet there's like some I bet there's three pieces of podcast-based fan fiction That is like and then Scott Ockerman Kiss Paul because they were doing a crossover episode

Manouche Samarodi Comes that's a deep pull for you guys Yeah, I Do think though The waiting for the thing to upload and the and the bad guy that's like they created a monster and now he's come back Like all the tropes and everything like it doesn't matter because it's so awesome Like I totally agree. It's like all these movies Like they're now doing them so well that all that shit is kind of like who cares

I think the last time we spoke about this film We agreed that five was good six was not as good as five. So where do we put now seven? That was our seven has for me like really emotional weight because of the honestly because of the death of Paul Walker So like I feel like I love I loved this movie I still like five as a straight action movie. Yeah, because I think the The the heist of the safe and the driving of with the safe is an amazing action sequence But then I would put this movie and then I would put six It's hard because I don't remember

I know I felt a lot for the other one I'm like I don't remember which one it was but the one we saw in the theater. I think we all saw together I loved whichever one that was um This one This one what I really took away from it this time was I felt the I felt the this idea family and friendship much more and Yeah, the Paul Walker stuff was it is it does add a whole other layer and it's

It was I cried so hard at the end of the movie So I guess this is my favorite of the ones I haven't Until tomorrow morning when you wake up and it is gone from your memory And then at that point I I don't know where they'll they'll all land I don't remember any of them. It'll be hard to really figure that list out I think I like this one the most maybe it's the least cohesive movie of the like the last three but the the airplane thing and the Buildings in Dubai like all that stuff is so incredible and

Crustle like I don't know. I think I like this one the most I I would say that the reason why five always holds up highest is because it was like oh It's awesome now like things be switched So you can't never reclaim that because it was already like the switch So I would say this is like five and seven are I think definitely the bet the best two But this one I think yeah the emotional weight. Yeah, and I do wish I had seen this in a movie theater Oh, yeah, that was a big mistake. Yeah, um huge huge huge mistake I would like to pitch something out to you guys because we don't know how long we have to wait until eight

And I feel like people have asked us to kind of review other ones I feel like it would be really fun if we all went to Universal Studios and just watched the move They have a new ride at Universal Studios, which is the fast and furious ride where they're all in it The rock Vindies Michelle Rodriguez. They shot a whole thing and you're a part of a chase scene and a plot great ride. Is it good? It's great. Oh, wow. You see does it connect the movies? Oh wait. No, I'm thinking of the Simpsons transformers Simpsons rides great They opened it. It's fairly new. I feel like at one point maybe we should all ride that and then come back and

Dislike that great or go to Tokyo drift, which I don't know people say Tokyo drift is interesting But I don't know if I can go back in that one. I haven't seen it either people. Yeah, you're sitting there All right, we will see this crew again Definitely by fast and furious eight anything that you'd all like to plug Jason are you on Twitter? I am not on Twitter comma guys Other than that, yeah, well Adam and I are in a movie called sleeping with other people that comes out September 11th, never forget That the movie comes out that day

That I would love if everybody saw Yeah, I am on Grayson Frankie, which is streaming on Netflix So there uh, yeah, same thing Jason's Jason is great in this movie Adam with a pencil thin mustache with the mustache comes out September 11th, never forget That the movie comes out on You can check out crash test which is especially I did on a glass bus with Rob Hubel on Vimeo right now and then Jason, June, and I are all in the upcoming season of the league on FXX The the poor man's version of FX all right big

Thank you to Nate Kylie who does our research Avril Hallyu pulls together all these amazing clips everybody here at Earwolves Cody Up in the booth, Alec up in the booth. Thank you guys so much. You're amazing audience. Good night.