Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - F9 (w/ Lauren Lapkus)

Episode Date: September 28, 2021

Lauren Lapkus is back to help Nicole and Gabrus finish out the season with the last film in the Fast & Furious Franchise—F9 (2021). Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5-Stars on Apple Podca...sts and let us know what franchise they should check out next. 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is a HeadGum Original. The world has a way of changing. And we change too. There are moments that separate us. But we always come back together. We heard y'all needed a little love out here. Y'all ever thought about the wild missions we've been on? We've taken out planes, trains, tanks.
Starting point is 00:00:39 I'm not going to even think about the submarine. And now we got cars flying in the air. Who is he Jacob is Dom's brother there's a long time Dom little brother you always say never turn your back on family but you turned your back on me. Now your little family is in my world. Whatever's on you is on us. He's got his own private army.
Starting point is 00:01:24 We need help. No way. So how do y'all want to play this? Fast. Okay, this is a bad time to mention this, but I don't drive. Brother against brother. This should be interesting. But could you kill him?
Starting point is 00:01:54 I spent my entire life in your shadow. And now... You spend the rest of yours... Living in mine. We on the loose. Not today. We on the loose. Really, Gugtape?
Starting point is 00:02:25 You acting like we on our way to Home Depot. Hunter! No, Tate! I don't wanna die! Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. It's the last and final episode of our fourth season. Thank fucking God. We worked our way through the Fast and the Furious franchise. So we covered all nine movies along with Hobbs and Shaw,
Starting point is 00:03:20 which, you know, people on Twitter were like, You said you liked it during how did this get made and then you didn't like it. People can change opinions. I also said it felt different in the theater. Anywho. Also, I would like to speak to this whole thing, too. Who cares if someone changes their mind?
Starting point is 00:03:40 Why does that matter? It's not like she flipped and she's now like pro-abortion. She's just saying like my opinion of this. She flipped and she's now pro-abortion? I mean, I am kind of pro-abortion. Kill them, kill them all. I'm sure I'll get a tweet about that. So we're discussing the 10th film in the franchise,
Starting point is 00:04:00 which is funny that it's a 10th film because it's called F9. F9 is available for a fee on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu. There's going to be spoilers, baby. Now I'm guest hosting this season of Newcomers, and this is my last one here. It is. Our mutual friend, Lauren Lapkus, had some sort of side gig or whatever she's referring to. We don't really know what's going on.
Starting point is 00:04:25 We didn't ask this little project. I just have to bang out this little project. I don't know what she means by that, but it was lovely to have you, but I'm so excited for my guests today or our guests. You're still here. She's your guest. I'm not,
Starting point is 00:04:39 I am not pretending to host this shit anymore. Ooh, baby. We got Lauren. Hi. Oh, I'm not even pretending to host this shit anymore. Ooh, baby, we got Lauren Lopkin. Hi. Oh, you might recognize Lauren from Orange is the New Black or Wrong Missy, Jurassic World. Or this podcast.
Starting point is 00:04:55 And I was really going to interrupt you, Gabrus, and just like host it, because it just doesn't feel right for me to sit here while I know what Nicole is looking at on that Google Doc. I know how to do this, but I'm thrilled to be here. And I, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:09 I'm also real. I have to say right off the bat, super thrilled that you guys took this one for me. I didn't have to do this whole fucking franchise. Watching this one. You weren't like, fuck, I wish I watched the nine.
Starting point is 00:05:20 There is no part of me that wishes that, but we were mentioning before that like it's like basically newcomers has flipped because you and nicole both know these movies and love them and i have never seen any of them and i don't think i like what's going on lauren i discovered on the second episode i have not seen all of the movies wow i thought i had so was the second one you hadn't seen it a second in I said I've never laid eyes on this movie before in my whole life. But see I don't know how you'd be able to tell because I feel
Starting point is 00:05:50 like they must all kind of blend together. Yes. In 20 years if you've watched like two Fast and the Furious movies you might think you've seen all 10. It's been 20 years of this. Yeah you can't see it in their faces. Everyone look pretty old in this one. This years of this? Yeah, you can't see it in their faces? Everyone looked
Starting point is 00:06:06 pretty old in this one. This plot line, and I have so many questions because plot line is such a, I shouldn't even say that. Wait, Lauren, have you seen any Fast and Furious movies? No. No, not one. All I know is that there's cars and
Starting point is 00:06:21 that's it. And I thought Vin Diesel was Pitbull for like 40 minutes you thought he was playing pitbull or the actor what was your issue with the plot because i gotta say after f8 and Hobbs and Shaw, I loved this movie. I thought it was incredible. It is sort of like it's benefiting from having just watched 8 and Hobbs and Shaw, which I think are two of the late weak links
Starting point is 00:06:56 in the franchise. And this one, and again, I'm coming in with my own kind of emotional baggage. This was the first movie I saw post pandemic, like with a large crowd too. And I was looking forward to it and it was postponed. So it was like one of these things where you just like, and it gave me everything I wanted.
Starting point is 00:07:14 And I don't think what I want is necessarily considered good cinematic taste. Totally. And that's fine. I totally, I'm down with that. But wait, did you rent out a theater or did you go with like strangers?
Starting point is 00:07:26 I went with like a group of vaccinated people and sat in a section but it was at IMAX and like as a matter of fact this was a really funny instance the movie stopped like 8 minutes in and they were like we're so sorry we just have to like read and blah blah and we were like someone just screams
Starting point is 00:07:43 start it over and they were like people were like and just screams start it over and they were like when people were like and it was only eight minutes and then people they were like oh well we could just pick up oh do you want me to start this is amc employee and everyone starts chanting start it over and then everyone starts chanting more dom more dom more dom and we're all so worked up it feels like so many people are at the movies for the first time. Yeah. Then the movie starts over, and we've all just watched the first eight minutes.
Starting point is 00:08:10 So for eight minutes, it's fully the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Where people are like, pass me the five and one-eighths wrench, six-inch extender. Everyone's cheering at all the dumb shit we just watched. It was such an energy shift. I'm so jealous. That sounds really fun. That's how I wanted to watch it. I watched it on my couch being like,
Starting point is 00:08:28 I should be in a theater right now. Yeah, I was like in bed watching my iPad being like, what? My project that I've been doing is really exhausting. It's a project I've never done before and may never do, so I can only imagine So I can only imagine. I can only imagine.
Starting point is 00:08:46 It's very hard. So I watched this in like 15 to 20 minute chunks. And then I watched like an hour of it straight. 15 to 20 minute chunks each day would take you still a month to watch. Truly. It is two hours and 22 minutes. When I saw that, I got mad because I was like,
Starting point is 00:09:04 no, I have not been doing newcomers. This is my break. Every movie we've ever watched is five hours long. I thought for sure this would be like 80 minutes because what could really happen? No. They just get longer and longer. Well, they give
Starting point is 00:09:19 and this is what I like about this movie, which is also arguably its downfall. It's now like as big as the Avengers, like their group of people is like 25 people and they really let everyone have moments, which you don't necessarily need to do in a movie like this. They let people have moments twice. We saw a flashback, then we see Dom looking at the flashback
Starting point is 00:09:42 while it reflashes back. This is the first one. We didn't need that. I was saying, right? This is the first one that features abstract filmmaking. Like there is like tone poems starring Vin Diesel where he's like in his own memories and hallucinating. And you're like, this movie is insane. But I will tell you, as someone who's just coming in and just watching the end of this series well there maybe there'll be more i don't know but nothing is off the table
Starting point is 00:10:10 i just was like what are their jobs what are they doing who's after them are they after someone else I've seen them all and these are all questions I still have. But by the third 20 minute increment, weren't you like, who cares what their job is? I certainly knew
Starting point is 00:10:32 it didn't matter very quickly what their job was. They just had to shoot people or drive the car or fly to outer space. That was nuts. I was like,
Starting point is 00:10:41 this script says, meanwhile, in outer space. Even the way the subtitles were, like the captions came up was like unique. I thought it was interesting. It kind of like floated around the screen. I was like, what is this choice? I'm so curious.
Starting point is 00:10:56 There were a lot of choices Chibi had. And honestly, I think they were all perfect. This was a perfect movie for me. A lot of big swings. Like a lot of big swings like a lot of big choices like yeah we have we a kid we open on like a child and i'm like it's like this is comical so wait is it established that that like he had that child with a person who died yes and then so letty dies. Who's that played by?
Starting point is 00:11:25 Letty is Michelle Rodriguez. Who's alive in this movie, yes. Wait, what? So she dies. So she's the mom? But then she doesn't really die. No, she's not the mom. She's taking care of a woman who's dead's baby
Starting point is 00:11:37 who had an affair with Dom, but it wasn't technically an affair because she was technically dead. Because they both thought Letty was dead. But then Letty comes back to life. And then in order to make Dom's character not a guy who has two girlfriends, they just ice the baby mama in episode eight to kill her. And that's his motivation to hate Cypher, who's Charlize Theron.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Oh, and by the way, that haircut, what a choice. She's in a different movie. Lauren, she had dreads in the last one. No. Yes. Yes. Honestly, they were like, we can't give her dreads again. It's like, we need something dumber.
Starting point is 00:12:12 What's dumber than a white person with dreads? It's like, I don't know, the most beautiful woman in the world with a fucking bowl cut. When I saw it, though, I was like, what the fuck? Then I looked up, is this in the future? But then it's not. I was like, what the fuck? Then I looked up, is this in the future? But then it's not.
Starting point is 00:12:30 It is in a technological world that doesn't exist. She's like standing in a box and he's like, okay, woman in a box or whatever. Like, I don't even know what is going on. Well, have you ever seen You? You on Netflix? Yeah. Joe keeps ladies in boxes and I thought maybe it was an ode to that. Yeah, I think it was an ode to you. You're going to ode to a random Netflix show?
Starting point is 00:12:48 Also, I loved when Charlize Theron said, the Toretto bloodline is messy. And I was like, okay, I love that that's how we're going to justify a racially ambiguous man and a white man being brothers. No, it hit. And the follow-up line is arguably racist. Wait, what did she say? She's like, I knew it was multi-ethnic, but I didn't realize he had any Norse bloodline. It's like, now what?
Starting point is 00:13:16 You're guessing that he's like Sweden? So Vin Diesel, whose dad we see in this movie for the first time, and his dad doesn't seem like his dad is like it's so it's good it's good casting it keeps you guessing but it's really funny that she she's like you have the nordic bloodline it's like how the fuck do you know that about his because he has a butt chin it was very very strange but then as i watched it i was like wait maybe he could be related to them he and joanna what's her name bruce they have the same mouth mia yeah they have like mia and uh jacob also it's jacob with a k and i
Starting point is 00:13:53 was like that's also a choice it's just a lot of choices in this movie that were made so you think john cena and what's her name look alike i think they have the same mouth. Jordana Brewster. Yeah. It is funny to imagine like when she's in the movie at the end, in the movie later on. And she's like, Dom. And it's like,
Starting point is 00:14:12 oh, right. That's also their sibling. It's so weird. I did not catch all of that. Yeah. So Dom, Mia and John Cena,
Starting point is 00:14:22 Jacob, they're, they're brother and sister they're siblings picture Charlize Theron she has to fly away from her kids for a day or whatever and she's like I gotta go shoot F9 I'm playing Cypher
Starting point is 00:14:35 again she's in hair and makeup and she gets her little bowl cut put on her head and she's like okay and she gets paid like 5 billion dollars and she gets her little bowl cut put on her head and she's like, okay. And I was just thinking she gets paid like $5 billion when she flies home. It's just like the easiest, weirdest job I've ever heard of.
Starting point is 00:14:51 She probably is on set for three weeks, works for two hours twice. She's not on set for three weeks. She's on set for one day. I feel like they had one day. There was two locations. There was a box and then there was like a room and that room was next to the box.
Starting point is 00:15:08 She was not shot like outside in the tundra at all. In Fast 8 she has, you talk about like her saying to her kids, I gotta go play Cypher. In Fast 8 she like makes out with Dom, with Vin Diesel. I got all her look in that one.
Starting point is 00:15:24 Yeah, you gotta check out the dreads. She also, she stays on a plane in that one, too. I think they, yeah, they shoot her out. They're like, we're lucky to have her. Oh, these dreads. Are wild, right? Wow. They're truly a treat.
Starting point is 00:15:35 I love them. Oh, my God. Charlize doesn't want to find herself in a 14-person scene, like, waiting for all of those egos to get out of the trailer and shit yeah no thank you i gotta say young jacob and young dom oh baby they are really hot young dom is particularly attractive yes i love the raspy voice yeah oh, yeah. That guy was good looking. So hot.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Wait, Lapkus. Also, I don't know if you know this, but this is the first movie where this is the ninth, the 10th movie in the series. It's the first time that Jacob, a brother, is mentioned. Yeah. That's insane. He's never mentioned that one time. It also really bothers me that it's called F9, but it's the 10th.
Starting point is 00:16:22 It's just annoying. really bothers me that it's called F9 but it's the 10th. It's just annoying. I think it's because Hobbs and Shaw and the Fast Saga had such a hard break because Vin doesn't want that to muddy the waters of his master. Hobbs and Shaw is not considered canon with
Starting point is 00:16:37 F-F-whatever. It is canon in the world. It's a Fast and Furious story. It's like a solo or Rogue One... Thank you. I need to put in Star Wars terms so I can understand it. You fucking Star Wars dorks. Okay, let's get into fucking the Toretto Gazetto. So Justin Lin revealed Han, but it was so...
Starting point is 00:17:03 I haven't heard all your fun little things. Oh, yeah. It's fun. The Toretto Gazetto. Justin Lin reveals Han would have stayed dead if it wasn't for Deckard Shaw appearing at Dom's barbecue. In an F9 featurette, Lin revealed that Han would still be dead
Starting point is 00:17:19 if it hadn't been for a fan outrage over Deckard Shaw appearing at Dom's family barbecue in The Fate of the Furious. To everyone's knowledge, at that point, Shaw had killed Han. Lin, who had no involvement in the film, said after discovering this whole Justice for Han movement, I even sat and talked to the studio and said, what happened? Nobody could give me an answer. I felt like it was something that needed to be addressed. If they could actually, if they didn't actually handle it correctly, then Han would probably have stayed dead. It's kind of poetic now that i'm back i get to bring han back and we get to have more adventures lynn added kang first played han in lynn's 2002
Starting point is 00:17:52 directorial debut better luck tomorrow before lynn went to direct tokyo drip fast and furious past five and fast and furious six and f9 oh yeah he really did direct the best ones yeah seven is good i like seven a lot too but he did direct direct the best ones. Yeah, Seven is good. I like Seven a lot too, but he did direct all the fun ones. Yeah. Oh boy. I fucking, I mean, I'm very glad that he brought Han back because Han is so fun,
Starting point is 00:18:13 but I will say Han was not that fun in F9. It was just nice to see him. He's not utilized. Shout out to my friend, Jason Concepcion, who tweeted, they bring Han back and just have him eating snacks. It's like, it's so true. But that's the power of this movie that it's like fuck it this guy and i know i use the word retcon a lot but this is like the third time that han han died in fast and the furious three
Starting point is 00:18:38 so the asian guy always shows up in this movie with a sniper rifle died in three then they retroactively make the movies five six and seven take place before three so that he could die star wars yes exactly and his name is han and then he dies again like he finally like now he's actually dead timeline wise and then it's like but actually mr nobody pulled him out of the wreckage which is so crazy i can't believe they bring people back so much that's so ridiculous there's a point in this that i was going to ask you about maybe i should just wait till the plot point but like where that huge like army tank or something like falls on tyrese i think it is yeah and then like i was like well he died because it felt like dunk like i mean i thought for sure it was a joke, I was like, well, he died because it felt like dunk. I mean, I thought for sure it was a joke.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Like, I was like, this is funny. Like, there's something funny happening here. Because the way the car felt was so, like, comical. And then he gets out and, like, just walks out. And I'm like, how are you alive? And I was like, so did he almost die, like, ten times? Did he die before? Like, is there, like, a history with him dying?
Starting point is 00:19:42 No, he's the one character who hasn't. So there's no point to that the point to that is i think that he just had the craziest run in that his car wasn't fast enough for the landmines they were hitting him he fell down that thing he died and so it's supposed to be funny it's supposed to be it's supposed to be funny it didn't hit for me this time around but in the theaters his like meta calling out of everything of like no for real how the fuck are we alive that was so thrilling but i found it on this rewatch to be like yeah we know the movie's fucking i like shut up yeah i i guess it was
Starting point is 00:20:16 because it was my first watch i was like how are they still alive i like i think it i think it's the funniest tyrese has been in in any of the movies like i think he's got the strongest comedy in this movie which i know is a shot on all the other movies but i i liked him in this and it was and it was a lot of fun to call out that they're practically superheroes which i thought was like but it was weird that it was like you think that's setting up tyrese actually getting hurt at some point like it would make this movie would hit so much harder if he got a gut shot at some point I thought for sure something had happened before with him where this was like a nod to that so that's really like sort of disappointing that that's not true and then like I mean I want to talk about the whole thing because
Starting point is 00:20:59 there's just so many things I'll just let you I'll let you go okay so we should take a quick yeah wait gabrus you do it you you do it i'm exhausted before we go any further do you think we could take a quick break maybe here's some promo codes oh maybe probably the promo code newcomers and we're back so f9 was written by daniel casey and justin lynn directed by justin lynn released june 25th 2021 baby uh so let's get into this fucking plot it is a lot a lot of shit happens in this movie yeah there's multiple timelines. There's a dozen locations. The characters all split up at one point. And also there's flashbacks. So there's like 11 scenes that you're following more or less,
Starting point is 00:21:56 which is just like, who cares? It's way too much for me. It's a lot. It's way too much for me. And I'm a diehard fan. Yeah. So we start in the year 1989 dom and mia's father jack prepares and fucking jacob prepares uh or participates in a race his sons are working
Starting point is 00:22:14 in the pit crew dom argues with his rival kenny linder about his tactics during the race linder's car flips jack's bumper which causes his car to hit a wall and explode in midair that explosion is wild screamed i was like wow it was nuts they were saying this motherfucker is not alive anymore gone goodbye went to heaven until fast 10 when uh his dad's like you know someone steps out playing his dad and holding a Nobody pulled me from the roof. Dom, you gotta save your dad. And he's like, no, my family. So he dies in an accident.
Starting point is 00:22:52 And then after the race, Dom is arrested for beating Linder to death with a wrench, which has been hinted at since the first movie. That's what makes him a criminal in the first movie. He's out of jail after attempted manslaughter with a monkey wrench so but this is the 80s still yes but that yeah yeah we know that this event happened but we don't know it was because because i killed his dad like this is
Starting point is 00:23:16 a lot of things have happened in the last few movies that just make dominic teretto less shitty like you know he's like oh the baby mom is dead, so now I'm just like, I'm not fucking around twice. A few things have happened that just were like, he's better. He's a better dude now than ever before. Including the guy he killed killed his dad, so he's not an asshole. I'm like so
Starting point is 00:23:37 unfamiliar with Vin Diesel, which feels impossible, but I just am, which truly I didn't realize who he was for so long while I was watching this. And then I was like, oh, he's like Bruceuce willis like he's like oh hardcore action guy like and he's gotten more hardcore action as the movies have gone along he did barely any fighting in the first one yeah and in some of his other movies vin is in some interesting roles doing some interesting things like real acting but once i think he settled into dom toretto he was like once fast five like once he comes back for four and five you're like
Starting point is 00:24:09 fuck this is this dude's like this is where my bread is buttered i'm now an ep on these movies like i'm a god on set like you know he's printing fucking money crazy also i'll say this i did ask cena about working with vin diesel and he was like vin diesel is amazing he was like he is a like he's a professional he's like funny he's great he was like i had a blast and i was like i want to i want to come i want to play yeah oh my god i want to be in fast 12 please put me me in. Well, okay. While serving his time, Dom recalls that Jacob had worked on their father's car the day that he died.
Starting point is 00:24:49 Also, while he was in jail, he meets those two guys. They set up Leo and Santos. How he met the two guys. But like, and then don't use them again. I was like,
Starting point is 00:24:58 oh, okay. Oh, I guess it's just like a connecting thing for like, for me to know. Oh, I think the guys don't want to be in the movies anymore because they're like musicians i think they don't care are they yeah i think
Starting point is 00:25:10 because i think that's how they're in the first movie that they're in for they're like got a song on the soundtrack or one of them does i'm so i could be so wrong i can't wait to read the tweets but they'll tweet at you oh they're gonna do it anyway i don't give a fuck i'm out of here but because later on at the barbecue later on at the end of the movie at the barbecue one of them leo only one is there so the other dude is clearly like i don't need to be in he's like fuck this i would give anything i would give my left tit to be in a fast and the furious movie hell yeah after dom gets out of jail he confronts jacob insinuating that he killed their
Starting point is 00:25:45 father dom then challenges jacob to a race and then jacob is forced to leave town after losing and i loved how he lost he was like no have you guys like talked about how they shoot all these like explosion exploding cars and stuff like how does that happen i was watching just like how much of this is practical effects? It's so crazy. A lot of it is practical. A lot of it is more practical now, for sure. Because what was it? It was the second one people were mad that there was CGI.
Starting point is 00:26:12 So then, well, Tokyo Drift, whatever. But like, four is like practical shit. And four is really fucking good. I liked four. And also five is great. Four, five, six, seven, and nine. I think you liked them all. Well, one is my absolute favorite.
Starting point is 00:26:28 It's a cute little indie. Okay. I like to say, we just got to say to anyone who's never watched all the movies that you watch this movie that features them in space and dying and coming back to life. The first movie, they're stealing DVD players, baby. That's it? That's the premise of the first movie. Oh, stealing DVD players, baby. That's it? That's the premise of the first movie. Oh, I like that more, for sure.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Yes. Oh, I mean, Lauren, I think you might actually like the first movie. Okay, maybe I'll watch it. Have you ever seen Point Break? No. Oh, that's also a good movie. By the way, we're describing every conversation I have with both of you guys. Oh, I think I like that movie.
Starting point is 00:27:04 It's by this director, the director who did this famous movie. Never saw it. That's why newcomers can go on for years and years. For years and years. We've never seen anything that is normal. Until finally it's like, well, we're going to do newcomers Dr. Pimple Popper. And Lattice is like, I've actually watched 10,000 hours of that show. I haven't seen it all.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Sorry to say. I know. No, I had to stop watching that show. It makes me sick. It makes me sick too. I watch it sometimes,. Sorry to say. I know. No, I had to stop watching that show. It makes me sick. It makes me sick too. I watch it sometimes. Sometimes it's so crazy. But it's gross.
Starting point is 00:27:29 It's so gross and it's not even pimples. I can complain about that forever. But anyways. Okay, so they're in the present two years after the confrontation against cyber terrorist Cypher. Dom and Letty live a low-key life
Starting point is 00:27:44 with their son Brianrian on a farm and then roman and tj come with ramsey ramsey's useless in this movie they arrive and truly she gets a driving scene i'll give her that she does she does get a driving scene but i love that dom and letty were like you expecting someone and he's like no brian get down and then they like fucking cock their guns at their friends and i was like kid they can't they go brian do what we told you and it crawls into a hatch yeah so they arrive with the news that mr nobody's plane was attacked by rogue agents and crashed in central america i'm like why are they getting these messages? Dom agrees to help them after realizing Jacob's involved. He was like reluctant at first. But I want to talk about this moment
Starting point is 00:28:31 because he they've watched the footage, including Tej and Ramsey, who are like computer geek freaks. But then Vin is watching it by himself and like pauses it and catches the necklace. And it's like, okay, Jacob, why are you wearing that necklace on the mission? Why is it not in your shirt? Vin, how are you able to stop and enhance this video? Like on your fucking cabin? Like fuck this, dude. It's so rare. And it's like, what an insane clue to be like, oh, that necklace.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Maybe it's my brother that I've never, the guy who says family 10 times every movie. Maybe it's, I've never brought up that I'm a bad brother. It is so wild that he's so into family, but doesn't tell us that Jacob is a person in his life. It's crazy. Okay, so. And they all knew, and we see in the flashback we'll get to it but we see in the flashback that they're all friends back then we see young vince we see young mia we see everybody
Starting point is 00:29:30 and that means they all knew jacob too and he doesn't they don't talk about him at all and nobody ever fucking talks about me is never like hey don maybe you forgive our brother one of these days i think he's a super spy that they would be aware of that and put that in the script to make that make sense while also being like you only ate tootsie rolls in space like you can't have you can't have it both ways so they find a part of a device called aries while they're searching for a plane they're always looking for some insane thing starting in five starting in five it's just like a piece of digital equipment that will destroy the world.
Starting point is 00:30:07 No reason to like explain. This one is like truly like a video game. It's like if they connect the two pieces, we all die. What is this? And it looks like a soccer ball,
Starting point is 00:30:19 like half of a soccer ball. It looks like a dog toy. Like I have one that like you put like a treat in and it rolls around. Oh yeah, it does look like that. they realize they can hack into any computer controlled system the team is then ambushed by a private army led by jacob jacob then steals the device mia arrives to help and dom is reluctant to allow her to join because she left this all behind with brian
Starting point is 00:30:41 and it's so wild that mia's like my brother's involved and he's like okay but i'm like but brian why brian allegedly is still living so warren okay brian is paul walker he is dead in real life but it's still alive in the movie oh my god wait that makes no sense because they kill people off so much in these movies yes i know and i think that i kind of dig that and then what what did you we'll just jump to it now how'd you like at the end when they're like well where is brian and they hear like the the impresa come up or whatever he drives the little the blue little cars yeah i didn't get that because i didn't know that his name was brian yes yeah and his name is brian because dom also names his son his child brian and every time he
Starting point is 00:31:24 says brian he says it in a way where he's like being reverent to Paul Walker. He's like, what did I say? Little Brian. He never says it normally. No, it really was weird, but I didn't get why. Art imitates
Starting point is 00:31:40 life. He named his kid Paula after Paul Walker. In real life, he did? in real life he did in real life daughter is named for paul that's really nice um but i don't but i don't get why they would have him be alive and he names him after it's just that's just like supposed to be the plot is that he just named after because he likes him his friend so much it's like my best friend might as well name my kid after him uh-huh uh so then the team learns Han is connected to Ares in the most roundabout way. So Letty and Mia go to Tokyo to investigate.
Starting point is 00:32:11 Wait, I want to talk about two quick things. First off, that set piece with the driving through Central America. We get a Jeep driving vertical up a bridge. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, yeah. I can't believe I forgot about that. And then also vin and mia vin and letty first of all letty going 70 miles an hour in a dirt bike with no helmet when it's
Starting point is 00:32:32 like if i'm dom i'm like babe get in the car get in the car get a helmet let's die together at least well she's got to show off her mom bob yeah i like, why did her hair? What is this? I like when they're like, where's the bridge? And he's like, I know exactly what to do. I'll drive at the wire. It'll catch the wheel and I'll swing around like a huge pendulum. And I gotta say to Michelle Rodriguez's credit, she actually looked terrified. She braced herself. Her foot is on the dash. I was like, is she safe? Did we, did we test this? What's happening? Her foot is on the dash. I was like, is she safe? Did we test this? What's happening? Her character is so intense.
Starting point is 00:33:09 Yeah. And she loves Dom. You pointed it out. One of the things I like is when these cars are flying through the air or in space and are not really being driven, the people still have the wheel like they're struggling in a skid. Always. While Dom's soaring through the air, he's like, as if turning the wheel matters
Starting point is 00:33:31 as you're whipping. That is so funny. You're absolutely right. Yeah, you're flying through the air. The wheel's not going to help you do anything. But yeah, they like swing the car. The point was they needed to get out of the country because they could stop chasing them at the border or something yeah who knows it really doesn't matter and they do a class
Starting point is 00:33:51 they do a classic fast and the furious setup here where it's like that entire area is taken over by an isolationist army so by saying that they don't have to attach it to an actual country so we don't we're not killing you know honduran people or anything we're just killing in a crazy terrorist army that lives in this country in central america it's like just it's smart it's like how cobra in gi joe's all robots so that gi joe could just blow them away and it's not like i think they just killed a bunch of people in this cartoon also jacob flies off so they're looking for the bridge jacob is like don't need a bridge and then has like a rocket on his car flies to the sky and lands on a
Starting point is 00:34:29 plane and i laughed so hard i couldn't believe it it's insane and the look that him and dom give each other like they're just like looking in the cars isn't it funny to you nicole that you know john cena like isn't that does that make it funnier to watch it is insane i was like i was just with this person like it's what an insane movie for him to be in yeah i'm like you're in a huge blockbuster jumping from car to car and i just saw you standing going look at that person fall down you know yeah i guess wipe out and F9 are on kind of opposite ends of the spectrum of programming. I would say, you know, just a tad different. Where were we? Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:35:14 So meanwhile, Jacob meets his associate and financier, Otto. Cypher tells Jacob that the other half of Ares is in Edinburgh. Edinburgh? Edinburgh? Don meets his father's former mechanic buddy who took Jacob in after his after his exile and learns that jacob is in london that's so much half that was a short sentence i said or a couple sentences but so much happened in that little paragraph so much dumb business where it's like okay we're working together they're working together i'm going here you're going there there. And I'm like, who is Otto? And what is Otto funding? Like,
Starting point is 00:35:45 what is, what is Jacob doing? How would you define the problem of this movie? Like what is happening? So Otto is working with a disgraced secret agent who is John Cena, who's Jacob to get the Aries and use it to threaten something and get money. It seems like they're limitlessly rich, but want more money. This is how the series will end up eating its own tail is like trying to heighten.
Starting point is 00:36:20 Like we're running. It's like almost going to have to be like a nuke dropped. We need you to go in there and there's not much more heightened we can get. We went to space. Yeah, we went to space in this one. I had a dream last night that I was driving
Starting point is 00:36:36 a car at the bottom of the ocean, like a airtight car, like a scuba car. And I was like, this is going to be in Fast 10. It's going to be in Fast 10 for sure.'s gonna have a water level like mario 2 probably they're gonna be like have oxygen tanks on the outside of their car racing around the ocean and then they'll have some nas on the side yeah i call it here was there nas in space yes they use nas in space and oh yeah yeah, yeah. We also get Jacob using Nas too early in their drag race.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Oh, yes, you're absolutely right. Which is like Vin's big thing. Thank you. Too early. Too early. I'll beat him. I also don't understand why his idea is to get out of jail and be like, I have to get my brother out of this town.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Yeah, I don't know. Well, because his brother killed his daddy, and that's his family. His brother fucked up the family, so he's got to get the other family out to start a new family get rid of the real family start the uh selected family that eventually roll the real family back yes i'm just like how why does otto have cypher now again that feels so weird that feels like just to keep cypher in the running of the yeah of the movies it she's the only one that knows how to get to them or she like you know she's a hacker but it makes no sense because they're always like we have limitless potential but we need cypher in order to do this and it's like what does she do yeah it's very confusing um and also i loved when dom went to
Starting point is 00:38:06 go see buddy and was like where's jacob and he's like i don't know where like he gives him a corona he doesn't have one sip he doesn't cheers him he doesn't say thank you he just puts it down and walks out now i was mad at dom in this scene because i'm like why are you mad at buddy yeah like you took jacob in it's like i think jacob was like 14 like let someone watch him for a year it's okay you were in jail vin like you can't get mad that yeah someone took care of this kid while you were gone in your dad's whose dad is dead and his brother is in jail i think his life is more fucked up than everyone's have a little sympathy for your own brother dude okay so in tokyo letty and mia find han alive it's wild there's a fight there's a little girl i want to say the line that makes them realize that han is alive you know han always said the
Starting point is 00:38:59 cowboys went to mexico whenever they need to escape the law and remember that. And then she's like that. Han said Tokyo was his Mexico cut to a Mexican point to a Mexican flag outside the restaurant. And then they go in the restaurant. It's like, what the fuck? Like, it's so such a tenuous connection. It's like it's it's a forced connection. It's those third beats in a Herald.
Starting point is 00:39:22 We were like, no, we don't know. We don't need to connect this. I feel like there were like 10 lines in this whole movie like when i was watching it i was like i feel like it's just cars going really fast and exploding and then every once in a while there's like a conversation that i can't follow and then that you don't have to follow i think this is like you this makes sense why this movie it does international gangbusters just because it's like you don't have to you don't have to put on the subtitles of your language to watch. I could watch this movie on mute with hip-hop music playing. And you'll be like, oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:39:52 I guess you make up your own little storyline. That would be kind of cool, actually. We do meet Ellie, who's Han's family. Han's current family. His new family. His new family. But she's kind of badass. I thought she did a good job in the movie.
Starting point is 00:40:07 I mean, when she takes that fucking machine gun later, I was like, holy shit, she's cool. This is a fun sequence too, getting to see that they do a good job. Of folding in Tokyo Drift for people who haven't seen Tokyo Drift to go, who are these people? And then for a fan to go, it's in Tokyo Drift
Starting point is 00:40:25 to drive money to Tokyo Drift. Yeah, right. They just keep making money on top of making money. They know what they're fucking doing, man. So Roman and Tiege recruit Sean Boswell, Twinkie, and Earl Hu, who are from Tokyo Drift, who are building a rocket.
Starting point is 00:40:44 And you're like, what, how, why is that their trajectory? Yeah. It's so, and then like, they kind of like slap it around later where they're like,
Starting point is 00:40:54 I was an astrophysicist. I got you guys this job here. So the guys who met in Tokyo doing drag races in high school are now rocket scientists in Cologne germany i love it you love to see it and by the way when they were in high school like based on the timelines of the movies they should only be like 24 right now you are absolutely right because three happens right before eight yeah yeah, after seven. That's so funny. Do they label them with years?
Starting point is 00:41:27 No. Well, that's the other thing. If they showed Dom's ID, what the fuck would they put as his birth year? They've been making movies about him for 20 years. Homie's got to be 60, right? 59? But they're not going to say Dom is 59. They're going to say he's 48 or something
Starting point is 00:41:45 like that. I don't even know if they would say that. I feel like they'd be like 32. Yeah. And he's 54 for real. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's older than I thought. So, okay, Dom meets with Queenie Shaw in London for a hot second and she gives him Jacob's location,
Starting point is 00:42:01 drives him over there. He then confronts them. Otto has Dom arrested. Dom's old friend, Cardi B, rescues him. And I gotta say, Cardi B was pretty good. Yeah, I thought so too. I thought she held her own in the scene. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:17 I mean, she was toe-to-toe with one of the greats and hung on. I want to talk about the Queenie thing for a second because of that Instagram post that you and I on. I want to talk about the Queenie thing for a second because of that Instagram post that you and I overanalyzed. Oh my god, I could feel the sex. Dude, that's exactly Wait, which one? I felt sexual
Starting point is 00:42:37 tension in their scene. Oh, Helen Mirren? Yes. And fucking Vin Diesel. He gets close to her in a way that I was like, they fucked. Oh yeah, baby. We think they fucked in real life. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:42:50 They fucked. Something went down. It's honestly, Vin is horny or Dom is hornier with Queenie than he is with his own wife. Yeah. These movies have like such a lack of sexuality. And then Helen Mirren brings like the most sex energy to the movie.
Starting point is 00:43:07 She's a very confident woman. Yeah. She's 76 years old. Isn't it crazy that Dom doesn't drive the car for her? It is very funny that she drives. All you do is drive, bro. This is your thing. And he's like, nah, I'll fucking dick her down.
Starting point is 00:43:22 She can take me. I don't get in movies how everyone is so confident in these movies. They're like, well, I'll drive you there. I know the cops are chasing us. And I know you're on like a desperate mission to save the world. And if you got arrested by these cops randomly in England, they would fuck you over. But we're not going to get in any trouble.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Do, do, do, do, do. We'll be fine. Yeah, it's like, what the fuck? So Tiege, Roman, and Ramsay head to Edinburgh. Is it Edinburgh? Am I saying that fine. Yeah. It's like, what the fuck? Um, so T's Roman and Ramsey head to Edinburgh. Is it Edinburgh? Am I saying that right? Yeah. And they find the Edinburgh,
Starting point is 00:43:52 Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh to the place of the E and find out that Jacob is using an electromagnet to steal the second device. T's and Roman located truck containing the electromagnet as they fight Ari's device. Teej and Roman locate a truck containing the electromagnet as they fight Otto's men. One of my favorite jokes is in this moment,
Starting point is 00:44:10 so I just wanted to... Oh. When Teej's necklace gets pulled off by the magnet, it's like, you know, silver's not magnetic, bro.
Starting point is 00:44:17 It's very funny. It's like, these guys are billionaires in these movies because they've been relentlessly successful and to have a fake chain and be able to bust each other's balls about it that's fucking great i love how much you love it it's so low stakes in the middle of this insane mission to be like bro your chain
Starting point is 00:44:37 is fake like it makes everything to me like when i'm watching this i'm like everything is like offset by something random like that which i guess is that's the comedy of it but but but are they are the other movies comedies are they i mean it's actually comedic elements this one i think is funnier than most yes i think if you guys yes if you guys ever do newcomers marvel you'll notice this is kind of like a weird modern four quadrant type of movie where it's like insane action zero sex and then like quips from everybody and it's just like it's the it's the worst of all three worlds except with the cool action is the only part i like i miss sex and comedians delivering i miss sex too. Because these movies could be sexy. The fact that there's not one hot scene is crazy.
Starting point is 00:45:30 Yeah. We do get a hot scene. What is it when Dom and Letty are wearing all white before he leaves her? Is that Fast 8? They're like on a cliff? Yes. I think that is Fast 8.
Starting point is 00:45:43 That was like pretty horny. Oh, and the first one they get pretty horny. They like make out in the auto shop and they're like covered in grease there's a little greasy grinding going on yeah that works i like that yeah um so ramsey she's driving they chase after auto dom intercepts intercepts jacob and they fight throughout the city in the wildest way possible. Can we talk about how fucking funny it is when Dom's like, he's not in the streets and you look up and John Cena's on the longest zip line with one arm holding on. And if you know John Cena, which we do at this point in the movie, he's enormous. And he's just like one arm shooting around the top of the city.
Starting point is 00:46:28 It looks so funny. And then it cuts to Dom chasing him. And Dom is in bootcut jeans and Tim's sprinting across rooftops. So I'm like, he's got eyes. It's great. It's great. I like screamed. I was like, this is it. I love this so
Starting point is 00:46:44 much. He tackles him through a window. It'd be fun to write it because you could just write anything. It's kind of like Tyler Perry. Just stream of consciousness. Then he's running over there. Then that guy's flying up there. And then the car goes in space.
Starting point is 00:46:57 And then the other car is falling off the thing. And then the guy walks out like he didn't die. Anyway, it's just like a little kid wrote it. I feel like the writer's room lives by Vin's mantra of nothing is off the table. Nothing's off the table. Yeah, we'll go to space. One guy will zipline. Dom tackles Jacob into the building.
Starting point is 00:47:17 It's wild. They're punching through concrete. Through walls. Yeah. They're throwing each other fully through walls. And everyone's shaking the dust off getting back up again i was like i don't this is it's wild um so then ramsey runs auto's car off the road and captures jacob in and so they get to use magnets to
Starting point is 00:47:41 make cars fly into things that they want i was like now they're magneto and fucking x-men just like magnets work however they really need them to work story-wise sometimes it pulls cars in front of them sometimes it pulls full cars into you like it doesn't matter but it it's it feels like shit we can't just have them driving it's like well big fucking magnets we'll have cars flying all over big fucking magnets. Everyone's like, got it. Print it. Shoot it.
Starting point is 00:48:07 Let's roll. And then Han, he's driving a brand new Toyota Supra, which is new to 2021. Very nice car in orange. He like tacks onto that truck and then they get the girl and then he like can't fight or whatever. And I'm like, why does Han get the shit kicked out of him? Yeah. Yeah. Well, Han and Roman get the shit kicked out of him yeah well
Starting point is 00:48:25 hana and roman get their ass kicked in fast six too like han has never really established as totally badass but he's more like slick i i have connections i'm charming guy but i it's fun to watch i like when a character in this movie is like huge ensemble everyone's doing insane shit and a dude just gets his ass kicked in the car like i was just like we bring han back just to kick his ass let's let's have him eating and fighting i don't know so i felt bad that they had mia climbing on the fucking truck i'm like this woman should be home with her family she should be home with her dead husband raising their two children uh later at the safe house. Mothers can work too. You're right.
Starting point is 00:49:12 Later at the safe house, Han reveals Mr. Nobody assigned him to protect Ellie. Is that her name? Elle or Ellie? I think it's Ellie, yeah. And Aris. Aris, when Jacob, one of Mr. Nobody's agents,
Starting point is 00:49:21 went rogue, they used Deckard Shaw to fake Han's death to protect Ellie, which is the wildest fucking pulling of strings to make something make sense as to why Han's still alive. They think they got final draft open, and they're like, and then Mr. Nobody uses Shaw, and they're like, oh my God.
Starting point is 00:49:45 Literally, we solved it. It's perfectly neat. And everyone's like, wait, I have one follow-up question. It's like, nope. No, no, no, no, no. Just shoot it. We see Han get killed in front of Ellie. He gets shot multiple times.
Starting point is 00:49:59 And it's like, oh. And I'm like, so he's dead. But then isn't dead. And they don't explain that undeadness no han is han is immortal it turns out han is like an ancient water protector or something and then otto fucking comes in and jacob's like thank you for telling me everything i needed see you later guys bye uh i love that it's like i intended for the magnet to suck my car into your truck and for you to be able to get and it's like see this is all part of my plan that happens five times that ellie
Starting point is 00:50:31 is the key and i was like how does dom know because she is the key okay uh jacob also tells dom that their father attempted to throw the race because they were in debt and asked Jacob to tamper his car. So his dad asked his son to murder him. Essentially. They, they try to do, they try to set this up where they're like, so Jacob can come back.
Starting point is 00:50:57 Right. So Jacob can be a good guy, but there's also like, they're like, he's rubbing it. Your father's car died for some reason, even though we knew it was supposed was they wanted it to die. So in the end, they've set up that everyone is kind of like a dirty half criminal.
Starting point is 00:51:11 And then by the end of this movie, it's like everyone was actually completely right in what they did. And no one did anything wrong. I mean, it's fully nuts. So Jacob and Otto take Ellie and the second Ari's device. Oh, wait, I jumped with the, with Jacob getting the girl that's later. So much fucking happens in this movie. So we could jump.
Starting point is 00:51:32 We can talk about the third act right now. End on the beginning of the movie. And no one would even know we talked out of order. It's fucking wild. So then Otto launches a satellite while Jacob has Ellie activate Ares. They upload Ares to the satellite. So then Dom, Letty, Mia, Ramsey, and Han try to stop the upload. And then Otto betrays Jacob by throwing him from the truck.
Starting point is 00:51:55 Dom and Mia save him. In a way where I was like, Mia is too small to hold on to John Cena's body. I know. I've seen the body in person. You can see her hand. You can see her hand looks, her arm looks a little small. But she's got mom strength. She'll fucking yoke that person up, yoke Jacob up, no problem.
Starting point is 00:52:12 Okay, we have to take a break. Can we just jump can we jump back to vin's uh near death experience dom's near death experience another character comes back from the dead and this time he pulls like the world down on top of him it's safe people great he was, tell him I love him or whatever. I'm right. Tell him I'm right here. And he turns, double flexes and leaps onto the people and starts fighting. I laughed so hard.
Starting point is 00:52:57 The double flex and then the jump. Oh boy. I loved it. He's a little kid diving off a diving board. Mommy! Yeah! That fight was wild because I was like, oh, so he's going to take on a hundred people and then he uses chains to break a concrete bridge
Starting point is 00:53:14 and then falls into the water like he's in Titanic. And dreams his life. He has like his life flashes before his eyes. We get like an abstract representation of Dominic Toretto's hero's journey. Ending with Michelle Rodriguez swimming down towards him to rescue him i also liked in the flashback or in his like fucking uh twilight before death his dad was on the phone and was like i better close the door for privacy this is the moment you're remembering is your dad jacking off in his office okay so now we see the bad guy launch a space shuttle in this movie they're like
Starting point is 00:53:52 okay well we better leave town now it's like what the fuck they just launch a fucking space shuttle and then uh let's see oh soeej and Roman use a fucking rocket cart to go to space. This is where I was like, what the actual fuck is happening here? They're like, what are they wearing? They're wearing like deep sea diving suits. Yeah, they're in like scuba outfits. It's like so insane. Like they're in like a regular car.
Starting point is 00:54:20 And then there's like candy floating around them. And he's like, I eat candy when I'm nervous. The thing that stuck with me, the thing that I had the hardest time with in this. Okay. So these three guys are now working for rocket science. We've met them. They were just car guys. But when the fucking Lucas Black, who is a high school dropout, like fuck up kid, is
Starting point is 00:54:42 flying the stealth bomber. When did you learn to fly a plane dude this makes no sense that you would be in that moment in there well he does say at one point he's like we got it right yeah right we got it this fucking he's like we need a southern white guy in this movie great we'll bring him back i don't want them to bring him back i was not pleased to see him i don't care about him he him back i was not pleased to see him i don't care about him he got like he got as much screen time as he should have had if not less but now now we're our two characters are in outer space chris ludacris bridges and tyrese
Starting point is 00:55:17 and they said if the what what is it two guys from the ghetto are now in outer space. Or no, from the hood are now in outer space. And I was like, I mean, I guess. They're like, nobody's going to believe us. I was like, what, are you going to go back to where you grew up in the hood and be like, we went to space. Also, by the way, nobody is going to believe us
Starting point is 00:55:40 is like, weirdly a meta commentary on the movie. It's like, no one one's gonna believe that this makes sense and it's like you are right boy well they destroy the satellite the satellite they stop the upload cypher bombs the truck and kills auto dom uses the truck to destroy cypher's drone dom and mia then reconcile with jacob the reveal that it's a drone is whack because you think that he killed Cypher and you're, first of all, he killed Cypher by jumping into a train
Starting point is 00:56:10 that's rolling down the hill, getting proper control of it and then whipping the ass around to fucking blast a stealth bomber out of the sky. And then that's revealed to be a drone. And you're like, so are we going to have Charlize Theron with a third dumb haircut in the next movie?
Starting point is 00:56:25 Honestly, I hope so. I hope it's like some sort of mullet or mohawk or maybe she's bald like Dom and she's like, I'm just like you, Dom. And he's like, no.
Starting point is 00:56:37 Family. So Teej and Rowan return to Earth after visiting an international space station wait do you think the yellow did the yellow suits exactly do you think the yellow suits were all just to have the minions joke i feel like it because they also have a harry potter joke which i believe is universal yeah the minion joke was insane and they're right they say like oh we're
Starting point is 00:57:00 wearing these weird suits he's like they they might blow up on us too they like a setup that they're gonna get to minions at some point. It's nuts. I didn't even think about the universal of it all, too. Oh, universal. Because they also, I think there was a Harry Potter reference. But then there was a Chewbacca Star Wars reference. I was like, well, that's Disney.
Starting point is 00:57:18 A long Star Wars. Not a Star Wars reference. It's like a fucking three-minute Star Wars improv scene. You're Yoda because you're a puppet with a hand up your butt. Nah! Flip me over, my hair's a bowl. If he was like, you're Yoda, he's like, a smart little green guy. No, you're a puppet, bitch.
Starting point is 00:57:36 A pedophile lives on the planet Dagobah. Dagobah? I don't know that reference. That's the name of Yoda's planet. Oh, Dagobah? Dagobah, yeah. Oh, maybe I did know that's the name of yoda's planet oh digaba dagobah yeah that's oh maybe i didn't know that no i didn't later everyone is at a barbecue at dom's house that they're rebuilding i was like so you're gonna have a barbecue while your house is down to the studs where if anyone has to shit where are they gonna go all right look we don't have a house but what we do have
Starting point is 00:58:01 is over a thousand bottles of corona so I think we should like the table is covered in so many Corona it's like that's not even convenient you're gonna sit there to eat eventually you don't need ice buckets on the table and then Brian comes just as they begin to say grace and they let little Brian say grace and he goes I don't know what to say
Starting point is 00:58:20 and he's like say what's ever on your heart that was crazy and then I thought he was gonna like say something great and like you don't see him say anything like that was just weird yeah yeah it was very weird so saying grace is like a runner in the last yeah and and grace isn't what's on your heart it's like a specific prayer it is if you're Toretto family of multi-ethnic no real what religion are you? Doesn't matter. We like a cross. But I don't know what to
Starting point is 00:58:50 say. I think that kid is cute. Who are all these fucking people? They sat at the table and they're like, Brian wants to say grace. And he was like, and I was like, what is going on with this kid was like, Lauren,
Starting point is 00:59:07 did you watch the mid credit scene? No, I bounced before that. Fair, fair. But I gotta say this one was shocking. I gasped. I,
Starting point is 00:59:18 I like Deckard. I like Deckard Shaw. I really like him. And then when Han arrived at the door, I went, what? And then I was like, and then when Han arrived at the door I went what and then I was like are they gonna do a Han fucking Deckard Shaw movie I would watch it Hans and Shaw I would do it Lauren's like who cares I literally will not
Starting point is 00:59:42 but I'm happy for you guys. Thank you. I'm happy that you got to do a season of something you were excited about. I mean, we loved Tyler Perry, so that was a good season, too. That was a good season. I mean, the next one, I'm not looking forward to it. I'm scared of it. I'm scared.
Starting point is 00:59:56 So this film was not nominated for any awards yet. Yeah, I know. It's going to get the lifetime achievement as soon as it ends as soon as someone's done watching the first fucking cut so a critic from the new yorker wrote the acting is of a soaring ineptitude the deeper diesel emotes the more he resembles a man who dabbed too much wasabi on his tuna roll that's not nice i think ben is great i think and here's what i'll say like i always make fun of the way uh dom acts in these movies but i like the kind of stoic some people would argue bland choices he's making but i think it allows a world that's so crazy to just
Starting point is 01:00:41 have like a guy who's singularly just going like family and not like not making you feel like complex emotions at any point like i think he's right for the movie and then no shots to your boy cena but then i think that's why cena hits too is because he's he's charming as fuck but he's not like coming in with this like insane character of course dom's brother who's also a weirdo freak is kind of a stoic tough guy who says like and it's just this they didn't give cena much to do in the movie no he thrived with how little he they gave him i wanted to see him fight that big martin ford bodybuilder on the roof of the car for way longer me too when his head hit the fucking sign like a street sign and he was fine and you're okay
Starting point is 01:01:26 wow i love this um so this movie made a shit ton of money so it was a 200 million dollar budget it made 716.6 million dollars the year's not done uh it will make a billion dollars and we will get our 210 or i say probably f10 broken up into two bits because nothing's on the table on f10.2 or some shit and i want my hobs and uh han no my sean my my han and shaw uh so okay trivia the fast and the furious was released June 22, 2001. F9 was released almost exactly 20 years later on June 25, 2021. Oh shit, that close to 20 years. That's crazy.
Starting point is 01:02:11 Vin, Michelle, and Jordana are the only remaining cast members from the first film. Both Sung Can and Justin Lin have stated the name Han Solio? They show his last name at one point in the movie. It might be in this one, but it's definitely an F8.
Starting point is 01:02:29 And it says Solo, but spelled like Seoul, the capital of Korea, O. So it's like a little inside joke that that's his alias. That's his alias. His real name is Han Lu. Yeah. And I got to say, okay, Lauren, what is your takeaway from F9? You know, it felt like I was watching a commercial for a video game. Okay.
Starting point is 01:02:57 That's how I felt most of the time. It was like crazy explosions. I think it's not my genre. Like I'm not really someone who wants to sit down and watch like cars explode, but I could see why people think it's not my genre. I'm not really someone who wants to sit down and watch cars explode, but I could see why people think it's really fun. I thought the acting was enjoyable to watch. It's definitely
Starting point is 01:03:13 a big summer fun movie. I think seeing that in theaters, I would have had a good time. Watching it alone as an assignment, probably not my best situation. I think if you know, watching it alone as an assignment, probably not my best situation. But I think for, if you have a hard time focusing on like long movies, which I'm not saying you do,
Starting point is 01:03:33 Latkes, but I think this movie knows that it's got an ADD audience a little bit because it's like, let's just go to the beach now. And now we're at a different guy. Let's go to space. Like they set up enough shit that they can cut around enough that you're never like, what is this? It's like, we're just already on something new.
Starting point is 01:03:50 I agree. I think I would have been really happy to be stoned watching it. Oh, I can attest. I can attest that that definitely was enjoyable. Yeah. Um, I liked it sober. I really liked it. I'll probably watch it again.
Starting point is 01:04:04 I'm happy that you liked it I've got like 24 hours left on my rental I'm definitely going to throw it on after this I bought it for $20 that's wipe out money versus high and mighty money that's wipe out money versus Mack Weldon money
Starting point is 01:04:18 I rented Candyman for $20 there's this whole system now some of the rentals are $20 I rented Barb andman for $20. There's this whole system now. It's like some of the rentals are $20. I rented Barb and Star for $20. I watched Barb and Star for $20. I think I did too. The ones that come out day and date,
Starting point is 01:04:33 I think they're doing for like almost the cost of a movie ticket. Yeah, I mean, I understand it. I'm like, it feels like it's like going to the movies. It's cheaper than that anyway. So it feels okay. But it's a lot for a rental.
Starting point is 01:04:48 Yeah, it's a lot for rental. Then it's like whack when you're paying for it on disney plus which you're also paying but you already fucking pay for yeah disney blues they gotta get it together figure it out warren do you have anything that you want to plug yeah what's this new project that you can working on? I can't, under wraps. Yeah, we haven't mentioned it. Unwrap it! That's bad, I think. You gotta unwrap it! I don't think you're supposed to wrap that project! For anyone who doesn't know, I had a baby. So you can go to my Instagram and you can see my baby.
Starting point is 01:05:17 At Lauren Lapke. At Lauren Lapke. Instagram. And then, what else do I have going on? You know, nothing really. I would just say yeah listen to Threedom we're about to come back with more it's my fun podcast with Scott Aukerman and Paul F. Tompkins and listen to the old episodes of Newcomers while you're at it if you haven't
Starting point is 01:05:36 heard the other seasons go through the radical yeah and Gabrus I just want to thank you for doing this going on this journey with me thank you you so much for having me, Bayer. This was a pleasure. And then on the last, to do a flip, newcomers. I mean, I've guessed it on almost every other season, too. So this was thrilling for me to do 10 in a row, screaming about some of my favorite movies with you. People are loving it. I saw so many tweets that I was somehow tagged in where it seemed like they were happier about this show
Starting point is 01:06:06 than the one I was on. And I was like, this is great. I was happy for you guys. I saw a lot of positivity. Some people thought Gabrus gaslit me into opinions. Oh my god. Stop gaslighting Nicole. And I was like, Nicole's like one of the strongest personalities in the world. I don't think I'm steering that ship at all.
Starting point is 01:06:23 Yeah, I don't think so. But hey, whatever. People can have opinions and guess what? It's fine. world yeah i don't think i'm steering that ship at all yeah i don't think so but hey whatever people people can have opinions and guess what it's fine now we're before i go because this is my last one i just like to say if you want to hear me talk about movies more you can check out actionboys.biz it's a action movie podcast i do with it's a completely different vibe than this arguably way worse it's three plus hours every episode and it's oh my god three 40 year old white men discussing movies for longer than the length of their movies so it's not for everybody when i did the episode i was like i have to go like two hours in and then you were
Starting point is 01:06:54 like i didn't realize and we were like it's fine like i was like i gotta pee really bad we're like we understand lapkus last guest of the pod because we were like, we shouldn't do this to anyone else. Oh my God. After two years, we just had you, Anders, and the Doughboys of the only people, and maybe Sean Clements
Starting point is 01:07:12 are the only people that ever guested on. That's hilarious. That's very funny. We can't keep these people here. They're being a lot. No, it's too mean. It's too mean.
Starting point is 01:07:19 You gotta pay them too much once you're at three hours. That's like a sad favorite. Okay, now we're at a segment called rate and review no i said this like big dumb goodbye it's like all right we gotta do one more i gotta hear this went no oh my god i gotta hear these reviews kettle pot and said wait why did i think i'd seen all these films much like the, I thought I had seen every Fast and the Furious film and declared myself a huge fan of the franchise.
Starting point is 01:07:49 Turns out I've seen two films approximately 12 years apart. Who knew? I've been loving, I wrote this review. Who knew I've been loving this deep dive of all these films, many of which I'm experiencing for the very first time. Maybe I'll watch them all now. Griff Dan said, Familia, my make-a-wish is to get a 30 rack,
Starting point is 01:08:06 a quarter of good weed, and watch all these movies with Nicole and Gabrus. I mean... Oh, man. My dream is to watch all these movies with Nicole, too, but sorry, stranger who left the review. You're not in my fantasy situation. Maybe we should do a rewatch one of these days.
Starting point is 01:08:26 Wait, is it still in theaters? let's go see it in theaters i want to i i would come to your house and watch fast nine one night if you were down i would i would be a hundred percent down i love this very much i bought it we can watch it anytime we want baby and uh maybe in three years there'll be another episode of newcomers where i just pop back into fast 10 my God. Because it will be out in three years. I'm going to need the money. You're going to have to find me on the fucking beach town that I'm like living and hiding out in. So write more reviews to let us know what franchise
Starting point is 01:08:55 we should check out next. I think it's been decided though, but whatever. I'm not excited about it. Maybe they'll have a good suggestion and we'll be able to pivot. We can use it for the one after the fuck out of that okay
Starting point is 01:09:07 well that's it for newcomers Fast and the Furious thanks for listening okay bye bye bye bye Thank you. That was a Hidgum Original.

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