Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - F9 (w/ Lauren Lapkus)
Episode Date: September 28, 2021Lauren 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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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.
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.
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?
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?
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,
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?
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,
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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
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
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,
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
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.
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?
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
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
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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?
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
well
that's it for newcomers
Fast and the Furious
thanks for listening
okay bye bye
bye
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