The Reel Rejects - FURIOUS 7 (2015) IS SURPRISINGLY EMOTIONAL!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

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Visit your local Sierra store today. Juan Juan Juan Juan, I think I said the things. Tara, are you ready? You did it. I'm ready for him through. For Paul, man. Paul Walker. Nice and peace, Paul Walker. You know, RIP, man.

We miss you. Great job in this, like, series. Yeah. Wow, that got me at the end. Yeah. Ooh. All right. Yeah.

Dang, dude. That's just, it's also just wild when you think about it because he, you know, I mean, he died on Mahal and, like, driving fast, doing fast. and furious stuff and he i think he wrapped his car around a tree right i don't know like lost control or something like that like when you go on mahawn there's a lot of speed racers that like to drive that street because it's like curvy and it's it's fun but um i just like it's sort of poetic because of this movie his branding and that's the way that he went out obviously it was not what he wanted but i still find it very poetic like he went out doing some fast and furious stuff

and that sucks and it's sad but yeah that's how i look at it yeah it is it is crazy and it's sad and like um as we're as we're watching it yeah i couldn't um kind of help but notice like the irony a little bit of like there's going to be one more funeral and it's going to be not going to be our guy and then you know yeah it's about it is them avenging someone who died and like the end movie is attributing the actual guy who died in real life totally yeah wild man I mean but this movie was great like a lot of fun so much freaking fun like that end really got me and they this movies always have heart but that was a blast yeah and they did a really good job for what they could with paul walker's footage you like you know you only

really tell a couple of times only a few times they gave his character a full arc of like you felt like the send off and to be honest it felt like they were even though he'd passed away in real life and I'm sure this is not how they would have ideally wanted to have ended it kind of felt like they were transitioning that character into a life of being at home at home anyway with like you know marrying her and then finding out she's pregnant, then having a kid, and finding out she has a, he's a second kid.

And, like, all the stuff with him, like the minivan and, like, oh, I missed the bullets. Like, you know, again, that's probably not how they wanted to, but it felt like they were leading into that anyway.

Right. It is, yeah. Yeah, it is sad. But, you know, for what they were able to do, it's very, very impressive. I agree.

And they made a really bomb movie on top of that. Arguably, jumping the shark, but in a great way. You know, each movie tops themselves from the last one. And I didn't, you know, they keep finding new ways to do it. I don't know how you end up topping, jumping through three cars,

jumping a car through three buildings. Parachuting cars out of a plane. And that happened in the same movie. In the same movie. Also, jumping, what's it called? Also, someone switching from one car to another, like, mid-transition. Like, they both do the switcher. Oh, that was wild.

And then jumping a car, like mounting a car that's going at you, full force. A lot of stuff, a lot of wild stuff in this movie. But I can say that I genuinely had a lot of fun. This movie franchise has continued to be a lot of fun. And especially is ramped up in fun since we got to five and we just got to seven right now. And yeah, I'm still really enjoying this franchise and loving the cast. You know, they're finding new ways to bring them all together to be this team of heisters and racers and finding new fun and inventive ways to do stuff with cars and like I feel like each movie would get away from the car

stuff a little bit more get away in the racing a little bit more but it's still like part of the DNA of this franchise and I just have a lot of love and a lot of respect for what they were able to accomplish under the circumstances of what they kind of went through all together as a cast as a production and yeah as a franchise yeah I agree because it's like I think I said this in the last one it was kind of giving me was that what I said oceans 11 vibes. I think he said that at five. Or it's five or six.

Right. So they're still carrying on with that vibe even here where it's like sometimes I forget and I was like giving him crap because I'm like, they're not a spy. Like he's not a spy. Why are we sending him after this guy in the God's eye? But then I understood like sure we're prepping them from the beginning. They have always been good at thievery, driving fast cars, taking stuff, getting a job done. And I really like that we brought it.

back to that and it's obviously really nostalgic when we get to see the tribe back together again doing this type of Oceans 11 stuff because in the writing how we've set it up with all of these characters since five is that we've got the tech guy we've got the jokester and then we've got the best friends and the other people kind of on the outskirts which I thought this movie did a really good job of just highlighting that so really we just got to follow those same and give them a different fun plot, but then also add insane stunts in this. I mean, it's absolutely Wackadoo wild to me that we send cars out of a plane, they parachute. They go through the forest.

At some point, they jump into a supersized bus. It almost goes off the cliff. Paul Walker runs off of it. get jumps into another weird stunt car Michelle saves him right and then also we get to where they're they're in this three million dollar car they're jump through three towers uh what else happens with the helicopter the drones after them like this seems like everything that i'm saying also them saving her with the god's eye where she flips into the other vehicle this is and then the what the earthquake thing happens and it all comes tumbling down

This seems like it could be from three separate movies. It's not. It's just from this one movie. And also how he jumps the car in the middle of the earthquake thing happening. Into a helicopter and somehow is able to hang a bag of grenades on it without him seeing it. And then the rock with his bald-headed, spidey, Noses, nose. I got to pull out my gun and I got to blow that puppy up.

Wild! Give me this movie. Every day, I'd be fine. It's fun. I don't even care if it does that it doesn't. There's some stuff. There's some holes. But not big enough for me to not to even talk about it during.

This is just a blast of freaking Rooney. Blast of Rooney. Like, are you kidding me? All that stuff happened? And I miss stuff, you guys. Like, that is, it's wild. And the other part of it is that I thought James One did a great job of, I have not seen those, maybe in, no, I don't think so.

And any of the conjurings, I didn't see like any of the 360 shots. He also did a good job of directing where you flip the camera, you're following the motion, and then pick it back up. I thought the choreography and the camera with that. But also, James One doesn't need to do any directing with these actors. I think that's what makes these movies also really good. there is not one bad actor in this that doesn't know the part they're playing they all know the part they're playing and they're all really great at it which is why i think these movies went on for

they could have went on and on and on is because it's just like if it it's it would be a director's dream role where it's like even if you hadn't which james one hadn't directed these kind of fast of furious movies before you're like well the actors got it we have great stunt choreography it's good writing there's a bunch of callbacks as long as you you know how to like shoot stuff and make it cool and you know how to like definitely get a golden hour shot in there we good we golden we golden baby we golden goose we golden lighting that's was yeah this was awesome this was like the epitome of fun epitome of blockbusters the epitome of going to the movies because they just know how to make entertaining scenes yep and entertaining action

james juan being part of this franchise was just like even though the stuff was already great before The guy who did Tokyo Drift onward just continued to get better as the franchise went along. And then James Juan picked up that baton and just continued to increase the kinetic energy. Yeah, this was great. And I'm excited to see where the rest of the franchise goes. I like seeing and bald dudes fight in all different matchups from Rock to Jason Statham to Jason Statham to Vin Diesel. And then we've got the other two fighting in the last one. And what I was looking up while you were talking is that the one thing I did know about this franchise,

which I have not seen, because obviously we're watching all these for the first time, is that I don't think it's after this one, because there's, I think, Fast and Fury is eight. Okay. But between eight and nine, there's actually a spinoff movie of the Fast and Furious franchise. You want to know what's called? Hobbs and Shaw. Oh! Oh!

Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, I was literally thinking that in my brain at the end of this when they said Hobbs. And then I thought, isn't that a movie? Yeah. Like it, okay. It's a spinoff one. And I think of, I don't know what point.

Now I'm okay. We know. Because I knew, because I was like, wait, Sean, that name sounds familiar. Then we saw Jason Statham in this one. It's like, it's my brother. I'm like, oh, okay, that's how this all makes sense. It's all wrapped up. Okay.

Yeah, I don't know how we're going to get to that point. because I think we got one more movie before we get that. Hopefully we get to react to that one as well. Yeah. But yeah, but... Keep these views up. Y'all so we can watch them all.

Exactly. But yeah, what was I saying? Oh, there's the fact that that that movie happened because I guess Vin Diesel and the Rock have some tension like on behind the scenes. I kind of heard that too.

Like sort of floating in the air. I've never really read about it, but like people have talked about it that they didn't really like each other. Yeah, I don't know that was like the entire time but happened after a certain film but like yeah

they were like all right I'm gonna do a spinoff and then I'm gonna do my own thing and then I think yeah I think in real life they patch things up I don't know I don't know how that relates to what the stories are

and whatnot but yeah we'll cross that bridge when we get to it I just thought that was an interesting bit of trivia because right now we would look up the trivia to see but we don't want that to ruin us for the rest because there's always some some spoilers in there and we don't want that

yeah we'll watch do trivia after 10 exactly like leave your comments Leave a bunch of lives. Obviously, rate us on an app on Spotify. Like, give us five stars, all that juice. But, like, avoid the spoils. Avoid the spoils.

We don't want none of it. Yeah. Yeah. Tara, do you have any thoughts? Yeah, I just, no, I thought. And the ending, obviously, took these movies, never forget to throw heart and family into it. No.

And they did a really great job of that at the end. And, you know, I thought when they did the pickup of Michelle and she was like tears in her eyes, I was like, they filmed this after he died. I think, I think the beach scene. I don't, I'm not going to look it up, but that's what I think. And I honestly think if they didn't and this script was written exactly as is, um, with that song choice already chosen prior to Paul Walker passing, that's absolutely wild. I don't think that, but I think they did.

wonderful job in in keeping his memory within this movie i think he would be extremely proud to know that was the movie that was like his his end note yeah bravo yeah i think that this movie did a good job of giving his character um service in the sense that you know he had a he had two badass scenes where brian was like going one mono umano with like one of the the dudes that are part of the the organization and yeah arguably two of the most badass scenes i would say yep and yeah they just did a good job of honoring who he is as part of this franchise and then a nice believable send off to you know the rest of of ryan's life yeah and i'm i'm happy for that character that he just gets to go off in the sunset and joy raising his kids with his wife yeah because yeah i think

in an ideal situation you know we would all want that just like to live a nice smooth life they're all millionaires. They all have like stupid amount of money so they can just continue to live and just enjoy the spoils of of their riches. Yeah, I agree. It's nice. It's very nice for all of them. I loved it. I loved it too. Okay, guys, thank you guys so much for watching. We love you and we will see you guys in the next one. Stay fast. Mischet. Is it Mesh or Mish? I'm Mesh. We It's a great question because I feel like it might be short for Michelle. We don't actually get it wrong.

It's Misha Collins. Well, we actually see Misha or Misha. Misha. We can see their email and sometimes an email has the name that makes it easy. I'm not going to say what your email is, but seeing your email is not helping at all because it's not your name. Some people's email really clears it up. Yeah. Oh, you're right.

No, it is. We found a different way. Yes, we found a different way to tell. It is Michelle. why don't you want to type the rest of the letters yeah it's not like it limits you what gives do you feel uncomfortable putting your name out there sometimes me yeah yes it to be uh i can on those websites you sign up for all of them

i sign up for every website and eventually among those websites you're gonna get a few clunkers a few shady you know um but yes i mean it's it's weird it goes on a sliding scale for how it's about web design right it's like How professional does this thing look if I'm about to make a purchase, let's say. And if it doesn't look professional, that I'm like, I don't know about this. Well, why is, I don't know. I mean, I've got my whole life never meeting a Michelle with a shorter version for the name Michelle.

And I'm thinking, I don't know why not, because Michelle kind of sounds like a long name in today's standards, doesn't it? I don't got time for that. I don't have time to say that. You're right. I love a nickname that's longer than your actual name. Because the thing of that, if it is Michet, like, that is just as long as Michelle. Which is not breaking into more syllables, but it is like, I feel like it's a way to take what, you know, you've met a few Michelle's, right? It's probably a way to make an interesting, it's like being tofer when you're Chris, but better.

Because, you know, finding, because, I mean, you, John, Greg, we don't get the luxury of nickname. John gets Jack or Johnny and Greg gets Greg. Oh, you, Jay? Jay? That's a good one. Well, my phone name is Gregory. So you gotta go by gory. When people call me, Greg, that's my nickname.

Think about it. Oh, my God, I'm so dumb. It's because I'm not a Jonathan. And I just, I remember. Dude, you're so Gregory. See, this was a moment. Don't talk about that. Well, my full name is Gregory, Angela Alba and the fantabulous emancipation of one Harley Quinn.

Yes, yes, yes, of course. That egg sandwich. Anyway, say, I hope you're doing well. Shea, we love you. And tell us how you want us to say your name.