Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Bonus: Fast X (with Nicole Byer & Jon Gabrus)
Episode Date: May 31, 2023Salute la famila... We're back. You know we couldn't leave you hanging without our thoughts on the return of the greatest vroom vroom franchise ever made. Gabrus and Nicole broke every speedi...ng limit and ran every red light from the movie theater to the Headgum studios, for this very special bonus episode on the 10th installment of the Fast & Furious series. PLUS: Sound the alarm! Newcomers is coming back for a 6th season, covering all the Batman movies ever made. Watch this space for brand new episodes starting August 15th. See you then, fam. Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Nicole and Lauren to read on the pod! Follow the podcast on Letterboxd. Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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I know that this road has been very hard, and yet here you are building this magnificent family.
What's going on in that head of yours? Something little piece of it.
in that head of yours something little piece of it he said dad they're not afraid of anything
but i am i'm afraid of losing someone i love
dominic teretto you're about to learn all about fear fear. You built such a beautiful life filled with love and family. I never got that chance.
You stole that from me. My future.
My family.
And now...
I'm gonna break yours.
Piece by piece.
When it used to be about winning, we raced for respect.
Today, I race to stop the bloodbath.
That's the problem with having such a big family. How do you choose the ones you save?
You will never be able to break my family. I'm Nicole Byer.
I'm John Gabrus.
Two years ago, we worked our way through the Fast and the Furious franchise
with the help of fellow newcomers and superfans,
and now we're back with the newest installment of the franchise,
Fast X, which is in theaters now.
We're going to fucking spoil it, so if you don't want it spoiled, I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah, hold off.
Just put this bank this episode.
Come back to it once you've seen it like a grown up.
Thought never occurred to me.
I was like, we're just going to spoil it.
Figure it out.
Do not shut this off.
Just keep listening and be ready to get fucking.
Be mad about it.
Who listens to a podcast about a movie and is like, they better not spoil it.
Come on.
I don't know. Fucking idiot. Because there's a lot to spoil about this movie and is like, they better not spoil it. Come on. I don't know, I'm a fucking idiot.
Because there's a lot to spoil about this movie.
There's so much to spoil.
It features some of the classic fast things that we love, including resurrection.
I love a good resurrection.
I saw it with a friend who had never seen any of the movies, and I just leaned over and I was like, she's supposed to be dead.
Tiffany's like, she's in this?
I'm like, she's been in five of them or whatever.
Which is so funny.
Okay, Gabrus, give me,
what are your initial thoughts about this movie?
I, okay.
I loved it.
But I'll say it's not as good as other ones.
But it didn't matter.
Correct.
I thought it was like markedly worse
than some of the recent fast and fast eight
i didn't love fate i didn't love nine i kind of came back on a little nine they sent black people
to space i loved i love the callback to it this guy's ass and but this one felt like a little
i didn't enjoy it as much i didn't care about some of the characters that they introduced. But I will say, Momoa elevates this movie.
Muffrin was wearing gaucho pants.
He had colorful nails.
I loved every-
He had a scene with two dead bodies.
It was painting their toenails.
Gabrus, I squealed.
Every time he was on the screen, I was screaming.
I went to Look Cinemas in Glendale and i was very upset that
nobody clapped every time a character you know and love was on screen i every time they introduced
someone i went fucking him and the way i was by myself the way i would lean over to tiffany and
be like that's han like she's like shut the fuck up but it's real like momoa really elevates the
movie because he's bringing an energy we haven't previously seen from anyone.
And here's what it is.
Even when Cypher was on as a bad guy.
Yes.
Momoa has brought the most feminine energy to the bad guy yet.
And I really loved it and appreciated it.
And he was having so much fun.
He was arguably around Rome.
He was having more fun than anyone in the audience of the showing I was at.
But he I was having a blast watching him.
He was having a blast.
He was ripping off the Joker a little bit.
Oh, see, I don't know that.
Oh, yeah.
Well, someday.
And one day I'll watch a movie.
But he was it was he really leveled the movie up.
Yes.
Like, he was, like, kind of, it's not hard to come across as electric with the rest of that cast, you know?
The power of their woodedness, we've talked about this.
It's wild.
It lets you go, and you know who else was, I thought, one of the strongest parts of the movie?
Your boy.
John Cena.
John Cena was so good at it! He was so fucking funny.
And he's with the kid the whole time.
And I was like, do I need to watch a movie with him and a kid?
Like, just doing a road trip?
They have to make a movie where John Cena is with a kid.
Because he has the perfect energy of like, he's so badass and terrifying, but he's so capable of goofiness.
And I think Momoa showed that as well. But Vin Diesel, zero goofiness. Oh, but he's so capable of goofiness. Yes. And I think Momoa showed that as well.
Yeah.
But Vin Diesel, zero goofiness.
Oh, because he's a serious actor.
But did you see that clip?
Did we talk about this yet?
The clip of him and Tyrese on the red carpet in Rome?
No.
They are like yacked out of their fucking skulls.
They are so fucked.
And it's like, we came to Rome because of Roman.
It's like, if I'm Roman.
And Vin Diesel's not talking
in the Toretto voice. He's talking what must be
his real voice. Which is a little pitched up. It's a little
pitched up. It's a little
giddy. He's like yeah
we're having fun. And they're like
giggling with each other. We'll watch the clip.
We have to. That's the best.
There's a new video
of him singing. I think he's singing to
Demi Lovato or Selena Gomez.
I don't even think it's the karaoke version.
I think he's just singing over the vocals.
He's good.
I love Vin Diesel.
I love Vin Diesel.
Also, I wish Vin had let us be surprised that this is not the last one.
I know.
I wish, because the movie, we'll jump to the end here real quick.
The movie ends on a huge cliffhanger.
In a funny way.
In a way that made 50% of the theater cackled when the movie just ended.
Because it's crazy where they end it.
There's like a lava waterfall coming down a dam.
Fucking huge explosion.
It's like, out.
And then it's just like, out.
And you're like, wait, what?
And then we get a Marvel scene after.
Bro, we get two Marvel scenes.
Wait, two?
Because we get Letty and Cypher leaving with our-
With Gal Gadot.
Gal Gadot, Giselle.
Who dies after being thrown off a plane in eight.
She's the third member of the crew to die and come back.
Han, Letty.
My favorite is Letty dying.
And then for a whole movie, Vin
Diesel fucks the whitest woman
he could find in Rio de Janeiro,
has a brown child with that white woman.
With Elena.
We meet Elena's younger sister.
Everything is so family oriented
that we meet everybody in the nobody family,
everybody in Elena's family,
a dead character from one movie.
We're going to learn Jack Reacher, who's playing the fucking triple agent.
He's the guy.
Wait, who's Jack Reacher?
I don't know the actor's name, but he's the giant Jack Blonde.
Oh, the one who was there in Rio de Janeiro on the other side.
A bad guy, then a good guy, then a bad guy again.
Boy, that was tough to follow.
That was tough to follow.
And it happens in like three seconds.
I will give them credit.
They do a great job with retconning, which means retroactively changing the continuity.
But adding Momoa to the scenes from Five was so fun.
It was so fun because it was like all the shit that you hadn't seen.
And Five is arguably the best movie
for me
it's number 2
which is your favorite
the first one
oh okay yeah
1 rules
5 is my favorite
as well
but 5 is like
where it takes off
and it's
5 is where
it's first step
into the new
genre of movie
it has become
where like
Marvel cars
this is insane
Marvel cars
at one point
my friend was like
what is he doing
and I was like
it's Nas and she was like doing and I was like it's Nas
and she was like
okay and I was like
it makes the car superheroes
it's magic
juice
that you can have
everyone has in a car
and by the way
every plane in this movie
has three cars
inside of it
it's always like
alright we gotta head here
it's like
do you have the plane
with my fucking Chevy in it
it's like yeah
of course Vin
of course we do Vin
we're not gonna leave you without a car and I love that his dad's car has made it through so
many movies this car has been dropped from planes it is driven off uh bridges i think it gets
destroyed in five i think it keeps getting like it's always like back with his oh you know what
else i thought was fun about this movie it started with this the corona brunch the corona barbecue at
home every movie ends with the Corona barbecue.
This one kicked it off.
They couldn't end with it because the movie didn't end.
Yes.
Right.
The next one will end with it.
Yes.
Oh, man.
My God.
Oh, and then The Rock, at that final, final scene, I was the only one in the theater who went,
he said he wasn't going to be here.
It's The Rock.
Dude, that's so funny you say that.
Because in the beginning of the movie, when they go to, I guess, Rome.
When they go to Rome because Roman and Tej are on their own mission.
Yeah.
And Scott Eastwood, Mr. Nobody Junior, is so handsome.
So unnecessary to the film.
It's funny.
It's almost like they need him because he is a white guy.
It's like the first movie,
it's like the first-
Where they need white people.
Yeah, they're like,
shit.
It's too diverse.
And we have,
we have a fucking
Pete Davidson
where we don't know
what he is.
Yeah, exactly.
So we can't,
we can't count him as white.
I think the most amount
of ethnically ambiguous actors
ever have been cast
in the Fast franchise, right?
The ethnically ambiguous Avengers.
And Vin loves it because he can make anyone his family. Yes. It's like he could be ever have been cast in the Fast franchise. The ethnically ambiguous Avengers.
And Vin loves it because he can make anyone his family. It's like it could be a black guy,
an Asian guy, whoever. He's like, it's my brother.
John Cena, Vin Diesel.
As much as I love John Cena, I was like, that's your brother?
And it's Jacob with a K?
The fact that it's Vin Diesel,
John Cena, and fucking
Jordana Brewster are the threes.
And this is the three so far.
So far.
This movie will introduce a fourth Toretto sibling.
I hope so.
I guarantee it.
Yeah.
Scott Eastwood showing up in that truck in the beginning of the movie.
He eventually has to dive out of the truck.
He gets hurt.
We don't see him for the rest of the movie.
That truck pulls up.
That's the rocks.
That's Hobbes' truck.
Yes.
So I go to Tiffany.
He's not even supposed to be in this movie.
That's what I said to my friend.
And then Scott Eastwood gets out. And Tiffany's like, huh? And I'm like, no, I mean, I's not even supposed to be in this movie. That's what I said to my friend. And Scott Eastwood gets out and Tiffany's like
huh? And I'm like no I mean I guess
he is supposed to be in this movie. And then
at the end I'm like this is what I was talking about.
Tiffany's like I am
so bored. And I'm like yeah.
It's been two and a half hours and we're getting it
to be continued. You are right.
No she is wrong.
Agreed. I truly
screamed when The Rock appeared on screen and nobody else in the theater could care.
It's so funny that that means that it was marketing that they were in the news saying that they hated each other.
Yes, but also.
But that makes it fun.
That makes it goofy and silly.
And The Rock knows what he's doing here.
Makes it like professional wrestling.
It does where there's like rivalries and drama.
And I love that there's drama.
It's, man.
I will say, the coolest thing, I was a little blue-balled by it being a sequel.
Like, by it being half of two movies.
But they were able to kind of spread the action around.
We got like one statham scene we
know statham is gonna go rescue fucking his mom helen mirren yes and that's gonna be a dope scene
that we know we're gonna see so fucking fun we know we're gonna have a han and giselle reunion
we know cypher is going to play into this movie in some way she's like kind of becoming a good guy now. Even though she killed Vin's baby mama
in front of Vin.
In front of Vin.
Almost killed this kid.
Yes.
Put a gun to the kid's head.
In a perfect scene where she asks him something
and the answer is family.
And it made me laugh so hard.
She was like, what's most important to you?
Family.
Would you believe it's family?
Family.
I loved, while we're on Cypher, I thought this movie was one of the best uses of Letty yet.
Yes.
Her fight with Cypher was awesome.
Her motorcycle through Italy was cool as hell.
It was really cool.
I loved when she escaped and then it's like Antarctica or whatever and she's just like, fuck.
I was like, oh.
So she does react to things.
Yeah, she does have emotions.
She does do more than just scream, Dom!
Also, she's not young anymore.
This is the hottest she's looked.
She looks great.
She looks fun.
Her and, like, the scene with her and Charlize fighting.
Tiffany looked over at me.
I was like.
It was so good.
I was like, oh, my God, they're so pretty, and they're hitting each other.
I love this.
I was like, I hope they're friends at the end of this.
I hope they scissor.
I hope this fight ends with them just coming.
Let them come.
Please let them come.
Also, the costume designer, for whatever reason, was truly just having the time of their life.
Every woman was in white pants.
I don't know if you noticed that.
So was Vin, as always.
Vin pops in with his white pants.
I love those white pants.
Also, Rita Moreno was in a head-to-toe white ensemble with just like a big belt buckle.
It looked awesome.
She had a corona popping off them.
It's like great grandma is here and you're like, what the fuck?
But they acted like she had been there the whole time.
Yep.
That's what I like about these movies.
That she's the one who spoke the whole time.
Yeah.
And then I was like, so that's the grandmother of John Cena?
Yeah, that's John Cena's grandma is Rita Moreno.
It's perfect. Also, were you
laughing? The hardest we were laughing in the movie
was when Jordana Brewster, who looks like
she maybe weighs 79 pounds. Oh, when she started
fighting? She's fighting all those guys in armor
and like John Cena's upstairs fighting
the same amount of guys and it's like,
this is a little confusing. I was screaming.
It was so funny to me.
Jordana Brewster's parts
in this movie
are funny to me
because-
I feel bad for her in a way.
Why don't they give her any-
Because I guess the plot
is kind of like
she's with Brian.
But also it's insane.
Because Brian,
everyone is dead
and come back to life
but Brian is not dead.
That's the thing.
Brian is not dead
but he is dead in real life.
And then named his son after a living friend.
Lil B.
And then I'm like, why doesn't Jordana Brewster, what's her name in the movies?
Oh, fuck.
Mia.
Mia, yes.
Why doesn't Mia bring her husband?
Why does she leave him at home?
Why doesn't he come?
It's so funny that we're all okay with it because I think Paul Walker's death is the best an actor's death has ever been handled in a franchise.
I honestly think so.
Carrie Fisher got fucked over.
Even Mark Hamill, who's alive, kind of got fucked over in The Mandalorian.
All these actors get fucked over.
Because they CGI their faces onto stuff, right?
And this was like the only CGI face we saw of Paul Walker was his brother.
Was his brother playing, yeah, which is a sweet tribute.
I sobbed.
When they drove off in separate directions at the end of 7, I was weeping.
Same.
That's one of the most powerful parts of any of the movies.
It's so good.
And also showing this flashback to 5, let's Paul Walker be in the fucking movie.
And live in a way that's
authentic because it's like it's footage of real him we're not adding it yeah this has already
happened also that's kind of like a cool thing because that money goes to his family yeah and
his daughter's in the movie oh yeah she's a flight attendant that's fucking awesome
that scene was wild where she just gave him
a little mini bottle, gave Cena
a little mini bottle of vodka and he's like,
I know exactly what to do. We gotta go
into the baggage
bin. Where I have a kayak that
turns into a plane that we see for one
second and never again. It's perfect.
They land it by a cave
and get in the rocket car.
John Cena is like off fucking a mad professor just inventing shit behind his back.
I love it.
It's literally just perfect.
Also, I want pictures of Jason Momoa's outfits.
Me too.
I want to buy them.
I kind of want you to dress like that.
That's sort of what Tiffany was saying too.
I was like, this is Gabrus.
I was like, I is gay-brist.
I was like,
I love this.
That would be like me if I had someone
who bought clothes for me.
You know what I mean?
Like if I got to the level
where they were like,
what do you want to wear
on the red carpet?
I'd be like,
this kind of shit.
Yeah.
It's like lounge singer.
It's kind of androgynous
and loungy
and like recreational
and summery
but also like kooky.
Yes, very kooky, very Miami.
Everyone's clothes in this movie are fucking awesome.
Yes.
The one thing this movie wins every time is locations,
clothes, and music.
Because it's always places you want to go to.
Come on, gasoline.
They fucking, whoops, I broke the mic when that started happening.
I lost my mind.
I love that song so fucking much.
It was so pumped to chant Gasolina.
Such a good song.
Okay.
Should we take a quick break?
I think we should.
Take a quick break!
All right, now we're back with the Toronto Gazetto.
No fucking way, we're still with the Toronto Gazetto. No fucking way.
We're still doing that.
I love that.
Our weekly news segment is back.
Okay.
The Rock returns as Hobbs in Fast X after vowing to never come back.
We said that.
It's in the post-credits scene.
If you didn't see it, you missed a return of The Rock.
And his name is Luke Hobbs. I was excited.
We talked about it.
It's a huge addition to Five.
I'm stoked to have him back, especially in this situation because we got a lot of Rome and Tej and Han in this movie.
So I think we're going to see more of Hobbs and Letty.
They're going to spread it around.
And Hobbs, threatening Hobbes, is very exciting.
And you know Statham's going to grab his brother.
Of course.
Who's in a couple of the movies.
What's his name?
Owenshaw.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Luke and Owenshaw.
Yeah, Luke and Owenshaw.
And so they're going to get him.
There's going to be a variety of crews.
Yes.
And with Reacher being a right-hand man at the end,
it gives the rock and people can go after Reacher being like a right hand man at the end, it gives you like gives like the rock and people can go after Reacher and Toretto can go after Dante.
Like it's going to be like it's as if you've written the movie.
Someone has to.
I wonder if this is already shot.
I wonder if they shot it concurrently.
I feel like this is better.
This better be one of those. It's a one year shot. I wonder if they shot it concurrently. I feel like this better be one of those,
it's one year away.
I really hope so.
I don't want to wait two years for Fast X2.
X1?
X11?
X11?
Oh, is it X1?
I don't know.
XI for sure.
Honestly, I have major rock fatigue.
Okay.
I'm kind of tired of him being in every movie,
and he is kind of,
I loved him.
He's just a little too sexless
and like unthrilling as an actor.
But this is the franchise
where everyone is weirdly sexless
and unthrilling
and he comes in
and he comes across
as a fucking gangbusters
in these movies.
So I'm excited for him
to come back not as a lead.
I agree.
I like, well, I did really love Hobbs and Shaw.
I'm one of the few people who loved that movie.
One of the few people.
And I can't believe it was made for me.
I thought it was so fun.
I bet you if Hobbs and Shaw came out like three months ago and was the first we saw of it,
it would be, everyone would like it.
I feel like we were in
a little bit of a fatigue moment.
Maybe a little fatigue with it,
but I thought it was so fun.
I brought Sashir afterwards.
She was like,
that movie was fun as hell.
Idris Elba is like a cyborg killer
at the end of it.
He's a beautiful cyborg.
I was like,
I love this.
This is for me.
Now The Rock coming back
is huge news for this.
It's such big news.
And also,
right before he crushed the cell phone, I screamed, crush it!
You knew he was going to crush it.
It was so fucking awesome.
He crushes everything.
I loved it.
But I think the Gal Gadot return, the Giselle return, is bigger in-world news, bigger real-life news, is that The Rock is fine with working with.
But that's what makes me think The Rock is going to be off against Jack Reacher.
So they don't actually have to work together.
So they don't have any scene,
they have like one scene together one day.
Also, Han was sad in this movie.
Han was sad.
He wasn't his usual charismatic self.
He only ate a little bit.
He only got one snack scene.
One little snack.
Yeah.
That was a really fun reveal
in the Statham scene
where he was punching
a heavy bag
and then later
the heavy bag unzips
and someone was in there
that he was beating up.
That's fucking crazy.
That made me laugh so hard.
Yeah.
And nobody in the theater
was laughing.
And then when he like
ran up the stairs
and they left that in,
I was like,
that's funny.
That's funny, yeah.
Guys, we're having fun here.
This is Fast and the Furious.
And I thought that Rome,
Roman, who I love to make fun of that the movie
chose a male model to be the comic
relief. It is very funny.
But
Pete Davidson is a buddy.
Rome shines in this movie. And Pete Davidson
is legitimately a funny guy.
And Luda, to a degree,
they hold their own. I like their dumb
banter. I like their dumb banter too.
I like that you want to drive, you get to drive in the little.
With the little head?
I cackled.
That was very funny.
I clapped my thigh three times when they revealed the little Tej head on top of the remote control car.
Yeah, yeah.
That worked.
I think.
Rome having the cash shirt on, that made me laugh.
That was very funny.
I love Pete.
I just didn't. I was like, why?
I know we're doing cameos and that's a fun time, but this one was, it just, it felt like
wasted.
Well, and then he also ended up being like a rat too.
Yeah.
And I was like, that's not fun.
I want Pete to be a hero.
Yeah, I want Pete to be part of the family.
I want Pete, the better joke would have been like, now Ramsey's is dating Pete because
every beautiful woman that meets him.
Yes, because everyone wants Ramsey.
I forgot about Ramsey.
There are so many characters in this franchise.
Dude, when that truck pulls up, I'm like, The Rock, and then Scott Eastwood gets out, I'm like, right.
And then Brie Larson shows up, who's a huge star, and she's like, I'm 15th on the call sheet and I have two lines and my name is Mrs. Nobody.
That's fucking, Brie Larson is like
academy level actor.
She's an academy level actor.
She's Mrs. Marvel or whoever.
Yeah, she's Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel.
Whatever.
Little Lady Marvel.
She's a baby girl Marvel.
Cuckoo caca ain't Marvel.
I'm the Marvel baby.
I need breast milk.
I need magic colostrum.
I need.
From Thanos.
I was going to say something and then I got confused.
I was going to say blue milk, but I think that's Star Wars.
That is, but look at you.
We're blending all three newcomers franchises into one here.
I know things.
All we need is some lembas bread.
I don't know.
That's Lord of the Rings.
Oh, God.
Sorry.
I think you did that, right? We did. And I know you love it, but I just don't know. That's Lord of the Rings. Oh, God. Sorry. I think you did that, right? We did.
And I know you love it,
but I just don't get it.
That is completely... Those fucking
hobbits and their feet.
I just don't get it.
The feet. Dude,
let's talk about one sequence in the movie.
Okay. When
Dom, because this happens
in every movie, and it's one of my favorite parts of the movie
they always have to show Dom
go to some central or south American country
where he's friends with everybody
where he's friends with everybody
maybe is the same ethnicity as everyone
but no one will speak to it
so when he goes to Rio for the street race
and then his boys are there
and then like the girl is there
who hates him who we reveal later
is Elena's little sister
but she's currently
Dante's girlfriend
and Dante shows up.
Wait,
was she Dante's girlfriend?
She like went over to him
when he showed up.
But I thought he was trying
to like hit on her
but she didn't want it.
I truly did not understand
what was going on
at that part.
But him,
when they all pulled guns
on each other,
I was like, I leaned over to Tiffany.
I'm like, how funny it would be if these guys just murdered.
Like if 150 people died in this sequence.
Because they do, the movie does such a great job of like the bad guys have on such intense armor.
And when they throw anyone out of a car or something, they always show them land.
Yes.
Well, they also say, I think they said
in this movie,
they were like,
a bomb went off in Rome.
No casualties.
Right, somehow.
They always make sure
that they're like,
nobody's dead,
but these are
the most wanted terrorists
and they're all family.
But you were absolutely right.
They're like,
we are not killing people here.
That is not
the best and purest way.
No, everyone put your guns away
and let's just race. We just gotta race.
And how come it's a four-person race?
And how come those two people get to be in the race?
The race is like for
Vin to stay alive or for Dante
to go to jail. And it's like two more people
are like, oh, well, we're racing too.
And then Dante's like, who gets
to live? And I'm like, how did he have the time?
How does, he is the most flamboyant person.
How is he putting?
I know, especially because like halfway through the movie, we find him get his crew.
But he's like, yeah, finally, I have an army.
It's like, wait, well, how'd you get all this other shit done in the beginning?
And then that dude.
And this is the power of the fucking franchise.
That dude who we've seen in like three other movies.
Yes.
Who I can't place his name i
don't know his name he dies and it is kind of sad and that because because nobody dies in these
movies wait did he die in a plane wait how did he die he died because his car blew up yes and then
vin was able to save elena's sister by knocking her so that she flipped yes yes yes so she flipped
and it was on the side and it didn't blow up. I was like, wait, what?
And also, it reminded
me of almost
the exact same scene from
is it 3?
Where they flip over to knock the mine off the bottom
of the car. They do this exact move
in a different movie where they go upside down
to knock something that's tracking them or
going to make them blow up. I forget what happens.
It's the same exact thing that happened.
It makes sense that it's crazy that they don't repeat a lot of stuff based on how like,
yo, this actually really worked last time.
Let's just do the dune buggy thing again.
I do love that they used five as a template because I think that the safe is the best thing I've seen.
Well, I'll tell you what, it's so smart to show that again because it is the best,
uh,
action set piece they did was that safe at the end of five.
So rolling it into this movie is so you're going to,
you get to revisit the,
it does point at later on when they're doing the,
the rolling flaming bomb,
how,
uh,
that ball that was on fire,
rolling through Rome,
that they're like bumper carring around. My favorite
was all of the people on vacation
it would get this close to them and they
would magically get away from this bomb
rolling towards them. Or what about when Vin Diesel
when Dom Toretto
knocks the awning down
to protect the people from the flaming
bomb. Just having, what's it called
Cafe Alfresco
dining outside and he shields them
oh man that was this movie is perfect there's a video game called rocket league which is like
soccer with cars and that's literally what they're doing like they like must have been inspired by
the video game which is like a kid's game they are i will say something i don't like in modern
action movies is digital fire.
I think it looks really bad.
And this movie has a lot of the fake on that bomb and at the end on the dam that like visual effects fire doesn't look the same as like something really burning.
I guess I've never quite clocked that.
Yeah.
Take a look.
Next time you're watching one of these modern movies, see what real...
I have an advantage. I watch a lot of
70s, 80s, and 90s movies, and you see
a real... Even in the worst
fucking 90s movie, if a car explodes,
it really explodes.
And you're watching a Netflix movie now
where it's just a digital...
Or it happens off camera because everything's inside
in a Netflix movie. Have you seen
the movie...
What's it called?
It's Sylvester Stallone
and he plays a bomb expert.
Oh, yes. The Specialist.
Yes. You did the How Did This Get Made on it.
I watched it again. It's so fun.
It's really good. It's crazy.
It's crazy. I think all those explosions
are practical. Yes.
And that's what makes the movie so much richer than you could imagine.
I agree.
Yeah, it really works.
Even in like, you know, puppets versus like digital characters.
The puppets hit different because there's like substance to them.
You can tell.
This movie takes place in so many different places.
Brazil, California, Rome, Los Angeles, Antarctica, Naples, Rio, London, yeah, Antarctica, Portugal.
It's absolutely, and so much happens in this movie that like, I forgot.
Like, I was just like, wait, what?
What happened?
On the drive over here to the studio, I was like, oh shit, we got to talk about this movie.
Let's remember some parts.
And it started coming back to me. And I was like, oh shit, we got to talk about this movie. Let's remember some parts. And it started coming back to me.
And I was like, there's whole, you know what just came back to me?
I'm like, how did Cypher get in this movie?
So her flashback to when Dante.
Yes.
And that's great.
That's awesome action sequence.
That was so fun. With the guns turning on and off and all that.
Where it was like, all of your families will die unless you kill her.
And then immediately you're like, you.
And I was like, ah!
It's really fucking cool.
And then he kills the one guy who has no family.
He didn't even have a little kitty cat.
Very funny.
Yeah, Ice is one guy.
So good.
But she-
And then she arrives in a DeLorean.
She jumps out of the window of this building to stay alive.
And then off camera, she gets into a car.
A DeLorean.
And is like, I gotta get to Dom's house.
A DeLorean concept vehicle.
Because it's not a real car.
And drives on over to Dom and is like,
I need help.
Trust me, I don't want to be here either.
She interrupts Letty and Dom having a
sexual, non-sexual encounter.
The most sexual the movie gets
with the exception of their wedding
where they hold the cross together.
That is coming for the Toretto family.
Just passing the rose.
Just passing it.
You have to keep faith.
Faith, family.
Faith, family, and fucking.
The three Fs of the franchise.
Fast, furious, faith, family, fucking.
That's what it should say outside the marquee of the next show you and I do together.
It really, really should.
Another funny part of this movie that I wanted to call out is there's that sequence where he goes to the old police station from Brazil.
And when he goes in there Dante's got
It's just screens of Dom.
It's all these screens of Dom
and pictures of Dom
and even when we see Dom's workspace
in the garage
there's all these pictures
and it's really funny
when movies do this
when the pictures are just shots
from the movie
because there's a picture of Letty
behind the wheel
and through the windshield
and I'm like
who took that of her? There's a picture of Letty behind the wheel and through the windshield I'm like who took that of her
there's a picture of Dom and Letty at
their wedding and they got married
alone in like the Dominican or whatever
who took that? Don's set photographer
yes though it's from the DP
it's a screenshot of a previous movie
also in Dom's workspace there's a picture
of Brian and I'm like but
Brian is still alive yes it
feels weird it's like he never comes
over anymore.
He's hanging out with his kid who's named Little
V. Is it? No, I don't know.
Little D? That's so
funny that you could say that. I'm like, oh, I missed that part.
You might have. Because it could have
happened. Let's talk about Lil B for a
minute. Lil B. Does anyone get
more facial reaction shots in a movie
than Lil B? This is my impression
of Lil B. And my friend was working hard.
A dozen times throughout the movie he gets this shot.
As cars just sail
over him. And me and Tiffany were talking about
the drive home. I'm like, that poor kid had so much
work to do. And Tiffany's like,
what else would you do in that situation?
And I'm like, you're right. You would just go like,
whoa, whoa.
And that's what it is.
His dad is like flying out of cars.
He's flying out of cars.
But this kid has seen violence that most adults haven't seen.
Well, the craziest part about the movie,
the craziest part about Lil B being in the movie,
I know he keeps saying the craziest part,
but the movie easily out-heightens itself the whole time.
He pulls the lever at one point in jacob's fucking uh cannon
car and shoots the cannon that has got a bad guy driving in it and the car blows up little b
murdered little b yeah and it was a bad guy but little b is a murderer and has killed someone yes
and then watched his uncle die i know but the But I think Cena's gonna come back.
The movie's like
lost all stat,
like you're like
everyone's just gonna
come back to life.
Everyone just has to come back.
I,
Cena,
I was like,
I do have a note
for the director.
I was like,
you could have told Cena
that you were spinning him around
because he was just kind of
static in the car
as it's just moving around.
And I was like,
that's a choice.
But I watched.
I was kind of,
in this movie,
which I thought didn't have the same emotional beats as previous ones,
that's what I thought was missing.
That made it a little weaker.
But I thought that...
Okay.
Momoa brings it up in like an energy level.
I thought that the...
Cena and Lil B.
Cena and Lil B.
That moment...
Was so good.
That's the emotional heart of the movie.
I loved it.
Every scene with them.
I feel like...
This is crazy to say, I feel like Toretto didn't get enough non-action stuff to do.
That's not crazy.
You are correct.
That's what I think is, and that's why I'm hoping the sequel has way more of it.
Because that's the fucking magic of the movie that people forget.
Is that all the dumb action is fun, but it's weirdly grounded in the emotion
and the family and the love shit that Vin brings
that I don't think he was bringing as hard in this movie
because they have to pay off like 44 characters.
Yes.
44 huge movie stars.
There are 18 people in this movie
that will lead their own movie within.
We have a fact. I think there's like four Oscar nominees or winners in this movie that will lead their own movie within. We have a fact.
I think there's like four Oscar nominees or winners in this movie, which is really fucking wild.
Yeah.
Four Oscar winners.
Rita Moreno, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, and Brie Larson.
All women.
All women.
Yup.
Well, dudes are cast on their fucking shoulders and women are cast on their actual acting talent.
How pretty are you, sir?
And they're like, very, very pretty.
Fuck, you're right.
Portugal and London.
We forgot.
We left off the list of how many places they act.
It's wild.
Fucking A.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, and the dude's name who dies.
So I'm glad I get to call it out is Diago.
Diago.
Yeah.
Wait, Pete Davidson was in Londonondon yes which is funny because
he's like an american guy like he doesn't have a british accent which is yeah that's this is so
funny because they go there and then they get kicked out of there and then they're like we
have another place we can go and then they go to shaw's and it's like they have like three that's
the side story and they have like a three false starts over there and then when they go to Shaw Shaw's like I'm out of here
here's all my guns
and shit
I'm gonna go save my mummy
that's gonna be so
Helen Mirren
absolute fucking smoke
this movie's so full
of attractive people
it kills me
she's stunning
I love her so much
absolutely
everyone is so hot
in this movie
everyone is so hot
everyone looks really cool
their styles are really
popping off
like people get
like Tiffany called it out.
She's like, everyone's in Versace, Gucci.
And like everyone's in like top shelf shit the whole movie.
And like, this is what I think budgets should go to.
Yes.
When you watch a movie like, forgive me, Netflix originals, but The Gray Man or something like that.
It's like.
The Gray Man.
Exactly.
It's Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans movie.
Costs like $300 million to make.
It doesn't look anything close to what this movie looks like.
It went to their salaries, probably.
It went to the Russo brothers.
And it was just so rich.
Oh, they did Silver War.
Silver War.
Where the North fought the South,
famously in the Silver War.
It was the gold against the silver.
Yes, they made Civil War
and Avengers Endgame 1 and 2.
Oh.
Yeah.
They were talented.
They made some good shit.
I think they got maybe overpaid
or out of their box here.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
But this movie is in locations,
in these spots.
It's also driving in this huge desert thing.
When they show these wide shots, you're like, fuck.
It's nuts.
It's great.
I mean, all the Rome stuff was so fun.
So rad.
And that was like on location, right?
Right.
It has to be.
And they're like the Vatican, like bringing the Vatican into it.
It's going towards the Vatican.
Like the most elevated stakes for a guy who wears a cross everywhere.
We can't kill the Pope.
The Pope's in there.
The Pope is the original family.
Yeah, exactly.
We both said the same thing.
That's the Pope.
He's family.
Dante.
In the next movie, a guy shows up and rescues him randomly.
He's got the big hat and the fucking sports.
And he's just like in a Ferrari.
It's bulletproof.
Isn't it crazy also at one point the back window of Vin Diesel's car gets shut out and you're like, you don't have bulletproof glass.
You're flying out of fucking planes.
Yeah, out of planes.
You were smashing this car everywhere.
Like you don't have shatterproof windows.
Also Dante, I like that the villain is also like family.
Well, that's what makes him a great foil.
Because his daddy got murdered. villain is also like family well that's what makes him a great foil because he's it makes
murdered it almost makes dom toretto understand where he's coming from which is in the second
movie they probably will be like i get it i took your family away join the crew and then he's like
okay you're in fast 12 and 13 with us Like, this movie just rolls bad guys onto the crew.
They really do.
Cypher's going to be the hardest one to get on, though.
But she's gonna.
She's gonna.
Because Statham actually didn't kill Han.
Yes.
Because Han ended up being alive, Statham kind of got a pass.
Yes.
Fucking Cypher did kill Elena.
Elena is dead.
Yeah, you are correct.
So, like, that's going to be a hard one to get.
That's Lil B's birth mom.
Maybe in the movie it's like every couple of lines,
you murdered my son's mom.
And then Letty's like, but I'm here.
And he's like, yeah, you're the original family.
Right, family.
I keep forgetting.
Yeah, I keep forgetting.
Oh, yeah, the golden eye.
God's eye is in this.
Oh, yeah, that's where they.
They roll in a lot of stuff from previous movies and like add this like God's eye having stakes.
Yeah.
And now that gives everyone has a reason to want to be in this movie, which I think is very cool.
Roman is mad that he got duped and risked his friends.
So now he's pissed.
Toretto is pissed for he doesn't have to be fucked with family.
Toretto is pissed for obvious reasons. He doesn't have to be fucked with family.
Yes.
Han is going to, Giselle is going to be back,
and Han is going to have to rescue her,
or vice versa is what I really think.
I think it's going to be vice versa.
Yeah, because Giselle is, Gal Gadot's a better action star.
I just love Han so much,
and I don't understand why he was so sad during the movie.
I know.
And Han, you know what it is?
I think Han's gap in the movies, he aged a little more than other, you know what I is i think han's gap in the movies he aged a little more than
i think you know what i mean so he did a little older he looks a little older than yeah because
the thing about han though is he looks realistic he looks great he looks like an adult man yeah
everyone else is like there's shots of teretto where i'm like this dude is airbrushed in post
like it's like yes He's too smooth.
I think he's got a filter on. Yes!
He's got like bald filter where
they don't let him have any pock marks
or stubble or anything.
It's wild.
It's like Larry David's head on Curb. When you watch Curb,
they put makeup on Larry David's
bald part of his head and it makes it too
smooth that it's funny. That's so funny.
I didn't know that. Next time you watch Curbed,
just look how smooth
Larry's head is.
It's like,
it's preternaturally smooth.
Never seen Curbed one day.
Oh, fuck.
Well, they should cast you
is what they should do.
I've never,
I don't,
I literally watch nothing.
I know.
Watch 90 Day Fiance
so you can talk about it
for money.
Hey, listen,
you gotta turn your hobbies
into something lucrative.
You're talking about
guys got an action movie podcast and a cannabis podcast.
Yeah, I turned everything I love into.
I learned from the best.
All you have to do is make everything you love work and then you love nothing.
Then everything you do is for monetary purposes.
Because you need to stay alive because the world is fucking falling apart.
You need a bunk.
Everyone needs a bunker. It is falling
apart. It is. And it's because
of fucking Dante's got the god's
eye. He's got the bombs on the
He's got everything. He's got the
gaucho pants. He's got all the
nail polish.
I like in the packet under awards
this film has not been nominated for any awards
yet.
We'll see.
I mean, Dom has a very interesting speech at one part.
Is he talking to Helen Mirren?
There's a part where she's in Rome and they're like looking at the Vatican.
Yes.
And she's like, Dom.
And he's like, he has a speech there, right?
Yeah, I think so.
The movie is long and has a hundred speeches.
But yeah, because that's kind of where he, the only person he has left is Helen Mirren
because everyone's been caught at that point or whatever.
And that's the plot of, is that the plot of Five?
Yes.
That's the huge plot of Five where they're like enemy number one.
Yeah.
And they got to drive. This is is like the it's so funny when they're labeled as terrorists shouldn't
someone be like should they show someone in their house go these people are terrorists again
they were terrorists then they were here they were terrorists like four years ago four years
ago and now we're okay and now they're bad again? God, that's so funny.
Alright, I think we covered
all the cameos, right?
We talked about Gal Gadot shows up.
I think that might be the same nuclear sub
from earlier, but I thought they blew it up in a
previous movie. It's either
a callback to a previous nuclear
sub or it's the second
submarine in the Phantom of the Furious
franchise. Which movie is that? Eight? Seven or eight. It's the second submarine in the fans of the furious franchise which which movie is that
eight seven or eight it's the cypher one where they get the submarine i think it's eight i think
cypher comes in eight that's the one where the rock uh leans out the car window grabs a missile
and turns it and throws it into another car what a dream roam snowboards on the car door yeah
there's a lot of fun shit in that one. Yeah, that's definitely eight.
That's eight, yeah.
It's so hard to remember all of them.
Bro, please.
They all blend together.
It's one through five are the only ones I can truly tell the difference from.
And then six through question mark are all blend together. Yeah, they just blend together.
And I was trying to explain to my friend.
I was like, oh, people come back from the dead.
I was like, Han died in three.
And she was like, what? And I was like, and three comes after come back from the dead i was like like han died in three and she was like what and i was like and three comes after i think six yeah or five i
don't remember three happens between five and six or between six and seven or something like that
in timelines yeah so funny it makes no fucking sense i fucking love it who will be the and i
didn't see the guy alan richson i think is his name. The guy who is Jack Reacher who plays like the sidekick agent Ames.
Oh, is that his name?
Yeah.
We haven't.
He wasn't like in trailers and stuff, was he?
He wasn't in trailers.
Neither was Pete.
Those guys were like.
Yeah, they were surprised.
They were the only surprises of the movie.
Right.
But I'm wondering, that means they're setting a precedent that there's going to be some like who's going to.
Who.
Here's a positive question for you, Bayer.
Who would you like to see or who do you think makes the most sense to pop into Fast 11?
Not join the crew and roll in.
No, no, but just like see them.
Yeah.
Pete's a good call because he's kind of like zeitgeisty.
Yeah.
And it makes sense.
But who would like.
Bowen Yang, I think would be such a delight.
Holy shit.
And would be so funny.
Honestly, the movie needs a gay person.
Right?
Yeah.
There are no gay people.
I think we might be hinting that Dante might be.
And I like that.
I don't know if Dante is.
I think he might just be an effeminate man who doesn't care.
I think he's like.
You know these guys are a little dated who are writing and working on these movies.
I think they're like Dante should be a metrosexual.
Using words you haven't heard in forever.
And then the costume designer was like, all right, this?
And they're like, oh, this is metrosexual now?
And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Just shut up.
He's cool.
That's all it is.
He's got taste.
Apparently, the scene where he's painting the toenails of the dead people was improvised.
And to me, I said, why did you set up some corpses and not give him a script?
That feels so crazy.
It's like, or like even that, like, oh, hold on.
Let me get two of the guys made up as dead bodies.
I got a good grip here.
Oh, yeah, maybe he said that.
Who knows?
It must have been like he was going to be on a call or something and then reveal them.
And he's like, I got some other shit I can do here
because that's one of the
most electric scenes in the movie
it's really funny I was like
truly laughing so he did so much
funny stuff I was like we gotta put this man in
comedies he's got it
Momoa's got it he's not a wrestler
is he no he was
from Game of Thrones that was his pop off
he's Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones. That was his pop-off.
He's Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones. You know I don't know that.
I know.
I've never seen a game or a throne.
Well, I mean, you have until season 11 of Newcomers.
You'll probably end up watching Game of Thrones at some point as HeadGum keeps bringing you guys back.
Like, you guys are like the fucking...
Oh, the other thing they keep saying in this movie is, Mr. Nobody's on a trip.
So you know Kurt Russell's coming back in the next one.
I love that he was like, I won't do this one.
Right.
If you give me a little bit in the next one, I'll come back for just that.
Yeah, they clearly set him up to come back.
Also, Brie Larson could have killed Dante.
So after they're on the bridge, she comes up behind Dante with a gun for like minutes and standing there until he turns around and shoots her.
And I was like, what?
Ms. Nobody?
The fuck?
She's a total badass.
Even her plan to help get Letty out just gets Letty to sit with her arch nemesis.
Yeah, she gets just beat up.
Also, I love when he, what's his name,
Agent Ames or whatever, was like, Zoom.
And then she had the crucifix in her hand.
Yeah, right, he's like, Enhance, we have to go.
Make our way to Rio now.
He's just always in the plane shouting.
Ugh, it's, oh, so many things are coming back to me.
I think they're in the van or whatever,
and Vin's like, or Dom is like,
you gotta buckle up who was to come.
I was like, how do he know?
How do he know?
And it's really crazy that that sequence,
that guy doesn't know,
but then it's revealed he's Dante's guy.
So that guy did know.
He should have been like, whoa, how do you know?
I know what's gonna happen
I know exactly what's going on what the fuck
that is so funny
that's what makes it a lot like
they had to shoot him in his bulletproof vest
from the chopper to like help
when it's all revealed at the end
it's like he should have just slit Dom's
they do a good job of Dante going
no he must suffer before
dying would be like a relief.
Most of his lines are, he has to suffer before I take his family.
Right, because it's the only way to justify not just killing Dom in like the 45 times they've encountered each other in the first half hour of the movie.
Yeah, they've been together so many times.
No, if he wanted him dead, he could have just iced him at any moment.
Instead he's like, you will suffer.
You must suffer.
Oh my God.
Him skipping at some point, I think it was in Rome.
Yes.
I laughed so hard.
He was great.
He's like, nerds?
Yes.
And I need some people to move.
Come on, nerds.
Even when he was like, during the bomb, the ball bomb sequence, he's kind of like.
Yeah, dancing around, conducting.
It's a lot of fun. His hair looks fabulous's so fucking pretty good looking dude he was married to lisa bonet i know two of the
hottest people so hot i would pay good money to watch them honestly just cook dinner
i don't even need to see any new i want to do a separate podcast where you and i just list uh
celebrity couples we would want to watch fuck or cook.
I mean.
I got a list ready to go.
Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara.
Yes.
That's like Godzilla and King Kong fucking.
Oh my God.
That's a hot couple.
Yes.
Dave Franco, Alison Brie, if you want the little version of what you have over there.
Okay, I would be curious.
I'm curious. they're little cuties
but little cuties i would like peek through a window but maybe not stay for all of dinner
but momoa and bonet oh god i've watched them for days yeah yeah are they still together
no i think they just broke up but i might be wrong but honestly who else are you gonna find
that's what's crazy too,
is like,
who do you go to after?
But I guess Lisa Bonet
had Lenny Kravitz
and you're like,
well,
who else are you going to find?
And then she found Jason Momoa,
so I'm scared of who
she's going to find next.
Yeah,
God,
it could be me.
If this trajectory continues,
I might have to date
Lisa Bonet next.
And I'll have to break it to Tiff
to be like,
I'm sorry,
you gotta just let him go.
You gotta let him go.
It's Lisa Bonet.
Jesus, that's why Zoe Kravitz is so fucking gorgeous.
She's so pretty.
Her parents are Delaney and Lisa Bonet.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
That's why she's so fucking hot.
Them good genes.
All the good genes.
Yum, yum, yum.
Do you drink Diet Coke?
I do not, no.
Oh, interesting.
I'm not a big soda fan. I had a theory that only fat people drink Diet Coke? I do not, no. Oh, interesting. I'm not a big soda fan.
I had a theory that only fat people drink Diet Coke.
It does feel like, I feel like Diet Coke goes hand in hand with fat people and cigarette smokers.
See a lot of, and I'm all of them.
I am.
She's fat.
She loves, I am trying so hard to quit again.
It ain't easy, fam. I did it She's fast. She loves. I am trying so hard to quit again. It ain't easy, fam.
It's, I did it for a year.
I quit for a full year.
Cause I read this book, The Easy Way to Quit.
I think I gotta read it again.
People say that works well.
This will be the third time I've read it.
The first time I got to the end, I was like, oh, I think I want to quit.
So I stopped reading it.
Oh, that's so good.
Second time I read it and I was like, I think I'm good and done forever.
So I think I'm going to read it a third time and hopefully be done forever.
Yeah, that would be good.
You don't need five checked boxes in the what will kill me category.
You know what I mean?
We have enough.
I have so many.
I was in a situation recently where some friends were, some people.
They're not my friends.
But they were doing a little nose nachos.
Oh, sure.
Someone's like, Gabrus?
And I was like, no, I'm going to leave one thing off the list of shit that kills fat people.
The heart is already pumping a lot.
It's working overtime.
I'm already sweating and we're in air conditioning.
And I'm already talking more than anyone else at this party.
I do not need the fucking yak. Honestly, that is very funny. I don't think I'd ever want already talking more than anyone else at this party. I do not need
the fucking yak.
Honestly, that is very funny.
I don't think I'd ever
want to see you uncooked.
No, no one should.
I think it would just
be really upsetting.
I would just talk
until I died
right in front of you,
which is already
how I'm going to go
at a party in front of you.
Might as well not be now.
And everyone's like,
just leave him be.
Just let him go.
He went out going
the way he wanted,
screaming about Fast X.
God, I love this movie.
It was written by Daniel Mazzo and Justin Lin, directed by Louis Leterrier.
Now, how crazy is that?
Because Justin Lin was supposed to be directing it.
And then I think for a week they had no director.
He got a huge kill fee to walk away because he got, the rumor is he got like a huge contract.
That was like, look, I don't want to do another movie.
Vin is too like, he has too much power.
It's too hard to work with him.
And they're like, no.
And this is what I heard.
So forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn.
I will do every rewrite Vin wants to do on the script okay but once the script is locked
it's locked i am shooting i am the director when we get on set and in like the first week it just
wasn't that dynamic oh and so so they were like no we promise and he goes but if vin breaks this
i'm gonna walk away and i need a huge kill fee and they were so i think he got like his directing
fee for two movies because he's supposed to direct the sequel too yeah i think he got his directing fee for two movies because he's supposed to direct the sequel too.
I think he got his fee for both those movies for one week of actual production.
I mean there's a ton of pre-pro and he co-wrote the movie and all that.
The guy put in effort.
But he is a bit of the magic of what made the movies bounce back.
I think he's a great director because he did five.
He did five, yeah.
And maybe the movie would have been better if Justin Lin just had his way.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Because it's like 5 was so good.
It's the best in the franchise.
They based it off the best in the franchise and he knows it.
Right.
So it's like maybe he did write a great movie.
Yeah, I'm sure he did.
That's the thing.
But I'm sure Vin is the magic sauce.
He knows it.
So he brings it.
But I think Vin needs to be just 5% less powerful
and then it'll be fine.
Because he is the thing that gets these movies made.
He's unstoppable.
He's great.
He's literally,
the meta of the movie,
the fact that the actor Vin Diesel
is kind of unstoppable in whatever he wants to do,
translates so well to the character of Dominic Toretto.
It's truly perfect. Someone was shitting on Vin Diesel and i was like i loved him as groot he was a tree
that just said i am groot yeah and i cried when he said we are groot power holy shit powerful wait
you saw guardians of galaxy 3 not for work for isn't that in no i haven't seen this that's the
one that just came out yeah does he say we are are in that one oh no he says we are in the first one oh in the first one when he turns into a big ball
of sticks well spoiler alert in the third one no he says I love you guys
I have to see it you. You have to, yeah.
And Vin is great in Saving Private Ryan.
He has a small part in that.
He's very good. And he's very good in the movie Boiler Room.
And you know how he got that part in Saving Private Ryan?
I've never told you.
No.
He did a short film.
Oh, called Ambiguous.
It's like Multifacial or something.
Yes, it's like.
Where he's not black enough.
He's not white enough.
He's an actor and he's auditioning. Yeah, Multifacial. It's like a pun on Multiracial or something yes it's like where he's not black enough he's not white enough he's an actor
he's auditioning yeah multi-facial it's like a pun on multi-racial or something like that or
biracial right it's pretty good he's a good actor he is good and he's playing when he's a serious
role he's good i don't think he could ever be humbled and like return to like he's gone the
route of like stallone and schwarzenegger where they can't do anything
that isn't like directly in their wheel actually to a lesser degree he makes some choices but still
there's a i think paul sheer said this on that podcast that i did about the specialist yeah that
schwarzenegger once tricked stallone into doing a bad movie because he said that he was attached
to it that was like i want it and that's how he got Stallone to be in Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
Arnold got the script, thought it was so bad, didn't want to do it.
He's like, but I know it'll get Stallone to want to do it if I say I'm going to do it.
So Stallone thinks he stole that movie from Arnold,
and that ends up being a fucking bomb that sucks.
And if you've ever seen that movie, it's insane.
Stallone is like a crazy cop,
and Estelle Getty plays his mom
who comes to stay with him while he's in the
middle of, like, solving a huge case.
Features a sequence in which she washes his gun
in the sink, and also another sequence
where she rips the blanket off of him, and he's
sleeping in a
child's pose
in tighty-whities, like, presenting his
asshole. It's bananas.
I should just send you that visual, just that one clip.
You really should. That's truly wild.
That's the kind of important
information I could bring to an episode of Newcomers
about Fast X. It is wild that you
have seen so many movies. My brain is broken.
No, I don't know. I think your brain
is a beautiful thing. It works for what
it's gotta work for, I guess.
Okay, we're back.
So, Fast X had a budget of $340 million.
This movie was released
two weeks ago?
Yeah. And has already made back the money.
This movie was released five days ago from our recording, but from this episode air,
I just want to say that's how fucking on top of it you and I are.
We have already seen it.
And before we even, and we asked to do a newcomers, we were like, should we ask to do newcomers?
We're going to go see it anyway.
And everyone's like content is all that matters. Let's go see it. And everyone's like, content is all that matters.
Let's go print it.
But it made $344 million worldwide.
Critically, film not well received.
It has 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Richard Roper gave the film two out of four stars, saying everyone slips comfortably into their roles.
That's a good thing.
And does what they can with goofy dialogue and death-defying logic-defeating stunt sequences.
All right.
Many critics praise Jason Momoa.
I think there's a line in the movie from Agent Ames,
and he's like,
if it involves cars, they've done it twice or whatever.
They've been to outer space, they've been to this, they've been to that,
and if it involves cars, they've done it twice.
I laughed very hard.
I enjoyed this movie.
It's so funny. Okay okay so audience members they like
it has 85 on rotten tomatoes and i think that's more on par with what this movie is okay family
has said 22 times in this movie apparently beating f9's total family count by 15 oh my god that's
awesome um and then yeah paul walker's daughter, Summer Walker had a cameo in the movie.
She's a flight attendant who helps Jacob
and Brian get away from the agency.
Let's see.
Oh, for a week there was no director.
Michelle Rodriguez said that
when she and Charlize Theron filmed their fight scene,
no principal director was on set.
They had a second unit director.
That's wild.
That makes sense though,
because that's the kind of sequence
that is directed by the fight choreographer.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
But that scene is fucking fun.
It's really fun.
It's crazy how bad they beat each other.
And then I really do think it's funny that Letty climbs the whole pipe, gets upstairs.
It's too cold.
Comes all the way down.
And then Charlize is like, you want a jacket?
Here, bitch, here's your boots.
That was my edging sequence i can't wait to get that on home video so i can
fucking crank it to those two beat the shit out of each other i think for the next one i think i'm
gonna watch all of them and then like roll into roll into it being like i'm fresh i know everything
that's going on i might even watch hobs and shaw Look, this is so obnoxious, but I want to come over and do it.
You want to do it?
Yeah, let's get fucking a bunch of drugs and just watch 10 movies in a weekend.
I'll leave like twice.
Perfect.
I'm very down to do this.
Let's do it.
I'm in.
Okay, this is great.
I'm very excited.
I do wish I didn't know that there was another movie coming until the movie. Do you know what I'm saying. Okay. This is great. I'm very excited. I do wish I didn't know that there was another movie coming until the movie.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yes.
And I think that's a problem with a lot of stuff is that you know, like even with TV
series, I hate when I'm watching a show and you know, like there's another-
It's like, oh, this is already renewed or whatever.
I just-
But I wish we were going into this and then it was a surprise that there's going to be
a Fast 11 in like 18 minutes or whatever.
Because I tried really hard to like be surprised.
Like when the movie ended, I was like, oh.
And then I started laughing because I was like, yeah, we all knew.
The crowd cackled when they just like look up at the dam that's on fire.
The dam, we should say that Dom just drove down.
Yes, just drove down and like a ramp
while fire is pouring
over the side, fire mixed with water
because it's being blown up.
No, because two oil tankers crash into each other
causing a wave
of fire, but then
when they get down to the bottom, just somehow
survive, the kid gets out of the cart.
I love that the kid swims up.
Everyone is like an insane athlete.
Everyone ends up in the water.
They swim to the top.
And then they're like on the rocks and they look up.
They look up.
And then we see those mines that were on the cars now are all over the.
There's like five of them.
Oh, and right before that, fucking Ames shot a bazooka at Roman's plane.
And we know Roman, Tej, and Ramsey's didn't die.
Yes, they didn't die, but we're led to believe that family's dead.
His brother just died.
Who was flying that plane?
They are dead.
Because you know these motherfuckers are going to come driving off the mountain because they all had their cars in there with them.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
They probably like, what is it?
Parachuted their cars right before they got hit.
Because right before, Ludacris was like, oh, no.
So they knew it was coming.
Yeah, they knew something was happening.
He says, like, Rome, it's a trap or whatever.
Yeah.
That just reminded me.
I know we're jumping around like crazy.
But the gold Lamborghini was fucking dope.
Ooh, that was nice.
That was fucking sick.
That was aspirational, right?
I saw one in Beverly Hills,
and I rolled down my window
and just kept screaming,
cool car, cool car,
and they didn't roll down their window.
It's a flex and a half
if you have a gold Lamborghini.
A gold Lamborghini.
You're just saying, hate me.
Yeah, hate me.
I have so much fucking money
and I don't fucking care.
It's perfect for Roman's character.
All to reveal that the reason it needed to be gold was for a brief moment to blind the drivers of the
uh oh yeah that's the cause of reflect that was it but honestly i love those little things
me too i love that it's like a whole complex thing that's like you're just gonna blind somebody
and i like that han was mad that he was in like a british car Like there's a lot of fun stuff like that. Itty bitty little car. Oh.
Family.
Family.
Well.
Let's get some reviews from the Torito Gazette.
Review.
Oh, that's what it is.
That's what it is.
Excuse me.
Salud mi familia.
Money will come and go.
We know that.
The most important thing in life will always be the Gabrus and Nicole vibrating at identically horny wavelengths to God's favorite movie
series right here, right now. We weren't
pretty horny for him.
Reese Wallace, you are correct,
sir. Very, very correct.
You are correct, fam. Very correct.
I was so horny for Jason Momoa
the whole time.
I had that weird kind of
heterosexual reaction to him where I'm like,
I want to be him. Wait, I think that means you kind of wantosexual reaction to him where I'm like, I want to be him.
Wait, I think that means you kind of want to blow him.
And that's great.
That's okay.
And like Cena's, Cena.
He looks so good in those shorts.
He looks so, I know.
That's the part I was like, damn, Cena, pull that off. I was like, these legs.
He's got them.
Yes.
Dude's a fucking buff.
He's so, he's nice too.
Yeah, I know.
That makes me
when you told me that
I was so happy
the nicest
yeah
and he smells really good
he smells so good
he mix and matches his colognes
dude's a fucking legend
he'll be like oh I mix
sandalwood with
with elderberry
I don't know
yeah
so awesome
and
everyone looked fucking hot
in this movie
so our horniness
was at peak level
the whole time.
I'm so excited for Fast 11.
This is a movie where everyone is so good looking that like the 81 year old matriarch.
It's so hot.
Dime piece in this.
God, I fucking, I don't know if we said it, but I loved how they acted like she was there the whole time.
You did.
You did.
Like, it just blew my mind.
I was like, we never, my friend, I was like, this is her first time in the series.
Yeah.
She was like, really?
And I was like, we knew from my friend, I was like, this is her first time in the series. And she was like, really? And I was like,
we've never seen her before.
I like when Mia's like,
quiet, quiet,
let Abuelita speak.
And then it's like,
oh right,
they're Latino?
Maybe.
But their name is Toretto.
So they're half Italian,
half Spanish.
And then it's like,
what is John Cena then?
Because Mia does look
ethnically ambiguous enough
that you can believe
almost anything of her.
Yeah.
Sina, Sina's got corn, like his family ate a lot of corn.
Yeah.
I will say this.
I think they put bronzer on him.
Ooh, that's an old wrestling trick.
Oh, is it?
Well, I mean, those guys were always like, how tan were wrestlers for like our life?
You know what?
Yeah, that makes sense.
I always thought it was crazy growing up that Hulk Hogan was like the color of a hot dog.
That is so funny.
And then someone revealed that he's like a white man.
You're like, oh yeah, but it's...
Because I'm a white man too,
but my skin gets pretty dark.
Because I get out in the sun.
Yeah, you're pretty dark around the neck.
I get out in the sun.
Yeah, you get a little sun.
Just a little sun.
The half Italian starts popping when I get in the sun.
The Toretto.
Toretto's Italian, right?
It sounds Italian, but who knows?
I don't want to.
All you need is a white dude on a podcast going, Toretto is Italian.
He's not a fucking Latino guy.
Trust me.
Yeah.
I like that they're ethnically ambiguous.
I think it's fun.
And I do love that Lil B is darker than both of his parents.
Because what's her name? Elena
is like a white Brazilian. Yeah.
And then Dom
is pretty light and Lil B
ooh baby. Lil B's pretty dark.
I know. Well it's confusing because Dom's got the filter
on the whole time in the movie so you don't know what filter
he's using. Lil B looks more like
Letty's child.
Yes. That's why early on in the movie when he hugs her and it says like, thanks, mom.
And she has like a weird reaction.
I was like, oh, right.
That's not his mom.
He looks the most like Letty.
Yeah.
And Michelle Rodriguez is the only one who doesn't have stolen Latino valor in this movie.
She is at least.
She is.
She's Rodriguez.
Yeah, exactly.
She is at least She is
She's Rodriguez
Yeah exactly
I will say
According to this website
That I'm looking at
It is most common in Brazil
As a last name
Oh
Toretto
Oh
Oh maybe that's why
We keep returning to Rio de Janeiro
Cause he's Brazilian
Cause he's Brazilian
Yeah that would make sense
Okay
He's
Corona makes less sense
At that point
Like whatever
He's
It's
Corona's an LA thing.
We can give him an LA thing.
I like that on you.
I was like,
according to this website,
I'm on Pornhub.
This website made it seem like she didn't want to tell us what it was.
The way this website,
Tucker Carlson's homepage.
I was like,
I wouldn't cite it as a source.
It says for bears.io. Like, I don't know what that is. For bears.io. I know exactly a source. It says forebears.io.
Like, I don't know what that is.
Forebears.io.
I know exactly what that is.
Forehub.com.
Yeah, me, Mish, and Gemberling were in that video.
Do you want to read this review?
Sure.
We're not done yet.
You put your hat on.
You trying to leave?
Yeah, I'm trying to get the fuck out of here.
No, I just realized my hat was just next to me this whole time.
I binged.
Oh, this is from Orange Freshie.
More, please.
I binged through the entire podcast during the pandemic and forgot to check back when they started Marvel movies.
Recently caught up, caught back up, and TBH, to be honest, I forgot how much I love this podcast.
It's so good.
The guests are so good.
I love the movies, and I love how much Lauren and Nicole love and or hate the movies.
The first person ever who lets
Lauren and Nicole have their own opinion
in the reviews. I love that. Most people are like
I hate that they hate it or I hate that they
love it. I'm two movies into
this current season and I'm
already sad I'm going to run out in like 20
more hours. Please keep doing
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hunger games divergent etc godzilla james bond pretty solid reco batman ding ding we're gonna
do it wait what we're gonna do batman oh shit you guys gotta have me back on i'm gonna call
which batman movie of course i've only seen one Batman movie.
Oh, that's awesome.
And it's the latest one.
Oh, with Rob Pattinson.
I loved it.
I'm very excited for you to watch the Tim Burton Batmans, the first two.
I think you're gonna fucking love that.
Is that with Jim Carrey?
Is he in that?
No, the first one is with Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
And the second one is with Danny DeVito as the Penguin.
Oh, okay.
And also, have me on for two, because that's Catwoman.
And I can get V Horny talking about Michelle Pfeiffer.
I've seen the costume.
The costume?
And I've seen her with the whip.
It's very hot.
She's very good.
Yeah.
The movie is fucking awesome.
Okay.
And they're both really, because Burton's such a fucking wild director.
And like,
it was before there was like a style to,
you know,
superhero movies.
Yeah.
So it's like,
I'm,
I'm very,
there's a lot of great movies in the Uber for you to watch.
Cause Batman forever has got nipples on the Batman suit.
Like there's Val Kilmer.
You got Val.
Look,
you get so many different Batmans.
You get Keaton,
Kilmer, George Clooney.
George Clooney's a Batman?
Yeah, Christian Bale is a Batman, and fucking Rob Pattinson's a Batman.
You get a lot of Batman.
I know Christian Bale was a Batman. He's in the three Christopher Nolan ones, the gritty ones, which I think you might like, too,
but you're definitely going to love the OG love the OG crazy like 80s Batmans
they're so fun and goofy
I used to watch the TV show as a kid
the old school one
Adam West
that shit is fucking awesome
you guys will probably touch on that
probably I don't know I haven't seen it in years
there is a movie version of that Batman series
it's really fun
famously I saw it when i was a kid
for the first time and the thing that made me laugh the most is batman is hanging off a bat
off the bat copter uh-huh over the ocean a shark jumps up and bites his leg and is holding his
whole leg he punches it twice can't get it off screams up to robin who's flying the bat copter
and says throw me the shark repellent he opens a glove box and there's four cans in there and it's like squid repellent, piranha
repellent.
He's like, ah, grass shark repellent, drops it, Batman sprays the shark and the shark
falls off.
That's very funny.
Get hyped.
That's very, very funny.
Yeah, they knew what they were doing with that series.
They get a little, they get very cheeky.
Throw me the shark repellent.
And there's multiple repellents.
Yeah, exactly. Yes. Exactly. yes that's funny you guys are gonna
have some fucking fun man okay i was i was um dreading it yeah i think batman i think bond
would have been a fun one too because they get pretty horny and a lot of hunky and good looking
people in those but daniel craig is a bond daniel craig's a, but so is Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton.
Oh, I don't know anybody.
Well, it gets older and British as you go back.
So there are even actors that don't have much of other careers outside of Bond.
Oh, I see.
But I'm stoked for you with Batman.
I'm stoked for the listeners to listen to you guys after watching Batman.
That's going to be fun.
Well, first episode drops August 15th.
Oh,
that's so soon.
I got to start watching.
So subscribe to this feed and look out for new newcomers coming your way.
Gabrus,
do you have anything you want to plug?
Of course.
If you like hearing me talk about movies,
I talk about movies every week on my podcast,
the Action Boys.
Now it's a Patreon podcast,
so it's behind a paywall,
but we got some free episodes out there and they are
guaranteed to be longer
than the run time
of the movies
which is not a positive
necessarily
but on a Patreon
it's more minutes
per dollar at least
and again
I know that's not
necessarily for everyone
the show is impenetrable
enjoy
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oh and High and Mighty
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yeah I'm on there
Byer's been on there all the guests
everyone that you love from HeadGum's been on that
and 101 Places to Party Before You Die
now on something called
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please check out Max
y'all are
on Max now
my son Max is now
an app you can watch on TV
it's so weird I was saying earlier My son Max is now an app you can watch on TV.
It's so weird.
It's so fucking weird.
I was saying earlier, I was like, why didn't they just name it Warner Brothers?
It's a huge name.
It makes no sense. There's a literal studio called Warner Brothers.
There's not a Max studio.
When we got HBO Max, everyone's like, Max, just call it HBO.
Just call it HBO.
And people are like, got it.
Get rid of the HBO.
And you're like, what? But I was like, Max, just call it HBO. Just call it HBO. And people are like, God, get rid of the HBO. And you're like, what?
But I was like, why did we get HBO?
Why didn't we get a Warner Brothers streaming service?
It makes so much more, or just a fucking full new name.
And it's like Ted.
And you just watch Ted.
Honestly, again, I'm repeating myself.
I said earlier, here's what we should have done.
We need to get in a time machine and stop Netflix.
So all of the networks should have banded together to form their own streamer where they all license to each other and not to Netflix.
Yes.
And I don't understand why they didn't do that.
Why do we have all of these different fucking streamers?
Why do I have cable again?
And I just can't find anything.
I got to go on.
I got to Google.
Where does this show air?
Yeah.
And then I go, oh, that's the one service I don't have.
Now I got to add Paramount+.
I don't have AMC+.
Yeah, I know.
What?
Why does AMC have a streaming platform?
I was talking to Tiffany about this, and I was thinking, like, it might be cheaper for me to get rid of everything and just buy shows a la carte.
Not even cable.
Just be like, oh, this is the, I want to watch Abbott Elementary.
It's like, buy the season pass.
I mean, that way you own it.
Like, everything else is being like ripped off platforms and shit.
And then I think it would be interesting because I would find out is the residual structure
of purchases better for creators because then that might be the thing that helps.
But then the only place you can really buy seasons through is like Apple.
So they're going to take a slice and then Apple's going to make loot.
Yeah, it's complicated.
It's wild.
Well, hey, it's bleak here, folks.
But you know where it's not bleak?
In the Fast Universe.
We love the Fast and the Furious.
That's where I find my sunshine.
That's it for us.
Bye-bye.
Bye. Thank you. That was a Hidgum Original.