Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Fast Five (w/ Jen D'Angelo)

Episode Date: August 24, 2021

Jen D'Angelo (Workaholics, Solar Opposites) joins Nicole and Gabrus to discuss the fifth film in the Fast & Furious Franchise—Fast Five (2011).Follow Jen on Instagram and Twitter.Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what franchise they should check out next.Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee 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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Same. So we're fucking watching The Fast and the Furious. This is the fifth episode of the fourth season, and it's going to be 10 episodes. We're going to cover all nine movies, along with Hobbs and Shaw. Today, we are talking Fast Five, which is available for free on Peacock. You can watch it for a fee on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu. We're going to fucking spoil it. These are old-ass movies so like get the fuck with it

um okay before i give thoughts i just want to introduce our guests oh it's jen d'angelo a writer an actor a producer has worked on solar opposites workaholics and young rock you worked on young rock wow hell yeah baby a live reaction to my credits is amazing like didn't realize you worked on young rock so you've met the rock no okay yeah he doesn't come around and meet the entire writer's room that's how you listen up you son of a bitch here's a glass of terramina have a sip of Terramina tequila. We love you, Jen D'Angelo. I did get a bottle of Terramina. Excuse you. Oh, excuse me. Wait, what the fuck is Terramina?

His tequila. And it's really good. I also have had a ZOA, his energy drink. His energy drink? Which is also pretty good. It's $3.45 a year. And call it a rock. Oh, yeah.

Order a little rock. We were talking, call it a T and Z. Oh rock we were talking call it a t and z oh i like it okay okay um you guys i fucking loved this movie this is my favorite movie so fucking much it's my favorite of the uh series as well i mean it's my favorite movie okay all right different argument here i got fought at the end when han and wonder woman are like making out as he's driving and then she's like where do you want to go to next and he's like oh i don't know she's like i thought or he says like germany or something and she's like i thought you wanted to go to tokyo and he goes not yet yeah i told you fuck the marvel unit fuck the marvel universe my god the fast universe has uh continuity figured out it is so funny it would be like i was thinking i was like what would this be like it would be

like if like fucking princess leia got a spininoff movie and then was a not even the second lead like he's he's a minor character in tokyo drift he's just so good that they forced him they just loved him yeah they were like we will bend space and time to keep him around i mean they will do it again yeah they'll do it over and over they do it twice with this i and i know people hate when i talk about stuff that comes in upcoming movies i don't give a shit yeah it's context it's context yeah me too that's why because it's something to look for and then i enjoy it doubly because i was like oh it came when he says not yet you're like he's like he might as well say wait a couple more movies

yeah she's like i'm gonna stick around at least until eight i mean oh wait you said at least until eight does he die in eight oh i wait so three in the series it goes one two four five six seven three eight okay okay so yeah that's the order that's the order One, two, four, five, six, seven, three, eight. Yes. Okay. So yeah. That's the order. That's the order. Oh, no. Oh, boy. That's how you count.

That's so nuts. But I got to say, this movie was really fucking fun. I loved it. I loved in the first five minutes, we get to see Vince. And Vince calls fucking Brian a brian a buster again oh i texted you gamers i was like the best one of my like favorite lines of the movie is when right after that opening when they like flip that prison bus and then they just like a throwaway line from a newscaster is like miraculously no

fatalities it was like come on everyone's dead and in this series they do so much work to make sure we still think they're good guys like at the end of this movie it's like all the cops are crooked so it's okay to smash their fucking cars to smithereens they also yeah they said the newscaster was like 21 inmates were fine only one got loose and i was like wait what if the thing fucking flipped you crawl out you run what do you mean only one got away yeah dominic toretto and i love that they're like the FBI's most wanted. And then The Rock. Why was he so sweaty in every single scene? Dripping wet. So shiny.

So shiny. Just oiled down. It's because he's in Brazil. And it's hot in Brazil. You're not in America anymore. Oh, wait, no. Your mistake was thinking you're in America. You're in Brazil.

Brazil. With his arms stretched out. Oh, my God. Because the bus just stayed and got me home safe from the cops. Here's the line in one. And I got to say, another favorite part is when Vin Diesel reveals this, that he doesn't know how to smile or look happy because he's watching everyone drink and he's drinking in a one shot and trying to smile.

This is after his like family speech. And he's like, he looks deranged. And then Brian comes over and he's like, hey man, he's like family speech and he's like he looks deranged and then brian comes over and he's like hey man he's like family i was laughing so hard i feel like i have to tell you guys uh that my wedding was fast five themed wait i'm sorry i was did not want to i wanted you to reveal this info because i had heard i did not know Fast Five specifically. I thought it was Tokyo Drift themed. Oh, my God, no.

That would be so weird. That would be tacky. And vaguely racist. What are you doing? The whitest couple in the world has a Tokyo Drift theme. Tell me about this theme. Okay, so we did have elements of the franchise. Like, I walked down the aisle

to a Piano and Strings cover of See You Again. Jen, if I heard a Piano and Strings cover of See You Again right now, I can make myself cry because I can think about the end of Seven. It hurts and hits so good. That's awesome. I'll be weeping at your wedding

like, do you even really know her? It's like, well, we work together once or twice. This song means a lot to us. We share this. We love this song. It was amazing though because we had a normal song for

like bridesmaids or whatever and then like the it like stops and then you just hear like do do do do and then i appear and people laugh and my family was just like why are people laughing that is very fucking funny so we had that and then our at the reception our signature cocktails were the agent hobbs and the dominic toretto when we had to give like our speech at the end like uh to like thank everyone for coming or whatever we just quoted his speech from the end of this movie, which is like money will come and go. We all know that. But the only thing that matters are the people in this room.

That's very funny. That makes me so happy. That makes me, I'm so jealous. I want to marry you. That is so fucking funny. I'm picturing your husband on the altar wearing a white A-frame shirt. A white tank top is what we call them now.

A white capri pants. A-frame shirt? Or an A-shirt, I believe, is what they're called. Because a T-shirt has sleeves. And then the formal... On Action Boys, we call it a wife eater. So it's like for the people. It's for people who eat pussy.

They can wear those tank tops. I love it. I immediately went to like just like murder. Like eating your wife as if that's better. Yeah. It's better to eat your wife. Now it's a wife eater where you fucking cannibalize your wife. Much better.

Okay. Yeah. Because she's gone and doesn't have to deal with the pain that's so funny okay okay so the teretto gazzetto fast and the furious 10 is set for april 2023 release that's far away it's fast 10 your seatbelts i hope that's the name um they're gonna do something weird because i hope that it has 10 your seatbelts so universal announced the 10th and pen pen ultimate so there's gonna be one more after it and i think it's gonna be 2022 and 2023 like 10 is going to be a two-parter that is one like they're going to shoot it all at once I think we're only going to have to wait like a year

in between I think and I'm not that someone should fact check this and edit it out if I'm wrong Faris leave it in so people can tweet at you that you're wrong it gives someone an activity to do giving people oh I love this podcast but here is at you that you're wrong. It gives someone an activity to do.

Giving people, oh, I love this podcast, but here is my notes about it. Oh, thanks. Okay. We'll take them into account. Yes, I will not listen. Vin Diesel, he's going to announce the title at some point on social media. The cast has not been revealed, but it's

expected that Vin will return with Sung can am i saying that sung sung can yeah sung kang sung kang uh tyrese gibson dronana brewster and michelle rodriguez john cena's return as jacob toretto is still he's his brother that's insane get excited fully fucking insane oh get really excited because it's very weird in nine. It's very strange. It's a fantastic movie, but it's a weird vibe that how much young Toretto shit is in it. I don't see Chris Ludacris Bridges listed in the potential cast.

Me either. And he's got to be there. When asked about the film, Diesel told uh entertainment weekly just wait for 10 let's just say the fact that you guys know that the studio is saying we can't cover all this ground that needs to be covered in just one movie you can only imagine what's to come that's my vin diesel i don't know what he's talking about. Yes, he is a lunatic. He is a crazy man. He's lost his goddamn mind.

I love him so much. I love him too. Real quick, I watched Los Bandoleros, the short film that he wrote and directed that connects all the movies together. It connects three, 4, and 5. What? Yeah, it's included on one of the

other DVDs, but you can find it on Vimeo. It's like a 15-minute short film that takes place in the Dominican Republic that sets up how Han meets Santos and how they all meet up. It's so... It's crazy. Why does he do that? Is it's so it's crazy why does it do that is it good

it's fine but it does feature it does feature dom and letty making out on a kayak okay so that's what i'm going to do after we finish this. I'm going to watch that 15 minute. Can I give you another little assignment of what to watch? Yes. Wait, what's it called again? I'm going to write it down. Los. Los Bandoleros.

And then once you're done with that, you have to watch on the special features of the Fast Five Blu-ray, which I own and have watched. Which we all own, Jen. There's like a special feature where it's like Tyrese like joking around on set. And it's just like Tyrese like doing pranks. And you can just tell that everyone is just like kind of sick of him. Like they're just like Tyrese thinks he's really funny and he's just wasting a lot of time.

He thinks he's very funny. I mean, he is the comic relief of the Fast franchise, which is crazy that you just in any other world where you'd be like, all right, we need to cast the comic relief. It's like, you want to get a comedian? It's like, how about like a beautiful model? All right. Yeah. Let's do that.

Yeah. Good call. What are we thinking? We have a beautiful model. Be the funniest guy. I mean, it is pretty wild i saw a video of tyrese was like looking for vin but then finds paul walker in a bald cap and he's like what are you doing man and he's like i'm vin diesel and he's like he's gonna get real mad if he sees you like this it It was a very strange video. What?

You saw this on Pornhub, you said? I saw it on Pornhub. It was none of the actual people from the movie. And then they started fucking power fucking. And I was like, this is nuts. Doesn't it feel like the fight between Vin and The Rock veers close to power fucking? Oh, yes. It fully was the most sexual thing in the movie yes

in between like a full kaiju battle like a fucking godzilla versus king kong slash uh you know some suggested videos on you might like these two bears absolutely killing each other. Just throwing each other through walls over and over. I thought it was like very hot. I was very into it. Real quick, we have to take a break. Now we're back. So Fast Five written by Chris Morgan. Thank thank you chris directed by justin lynn justin i forgive you for tokyo drift it was released on april 29th 2011 gotta say it feels

very current yeah also nicole did you just take that break just then because you were too horny i was so fucking horny i almost slid out of my seat just thinking about it i just had to switch my seat towel out real quick yeah at every commercial it was sopping wet and i didn't want to get cold before we start breaking down uh the movie uh going through the plot i just want to talk about one scene in this movie that the power of five is in the scene when it's like if you're serious about this then we're gonna need a team and they rattle off the team just describe and no one fits the description they're saying it's like we need a smooth talker someone who can bust through walls just like and they're just arbitrarily jamming but it's everyone you've ever met in

the previous four movies and then when they all meet the moment when paul walker's like this is roman we you know we did that thing in miami together he's like we did fast two together it's like that that scene when you realize vin diesel wouldn't know roman at all and paul walker wouldn't know uh han at all like it all gets you're like oh my god this is so fucking crazy that this movie features this it is weird because it's like they went off and made separate phone calls and they're like okay so you're gonna like meet my friend i think you're gonna like him he's like pretty fucking cool we drove cars in miami just wait you'll see him and tyrese like looks at Vin Diesel in a way where I was like,

oh yeah, you replaced Vin Diesel and then Vin Diesel got to come back and then you didn't get to come back until now. Now everybody's back. Everyone's back. Also when he goes, this is Tej, best circuit man in the country. And it's like, circuit man?

He was a mechanic one movie ago. My favorite part about that was they were like wait i didn't know you knew this and he's like i had a life before this and i was like that's how you explain it well that's what they do in this movie he's like i we everyone says they've had a life before this and we're gonna learn some of them have multiple lives it's just like who cares yeah nobody gives a mean, it's, and then I was like, Wonder Woman was like, we saw enough of her to bring her back.

That's what I love about Vin Diesel. Honestly, I know. This is the first one where he's an EP. This thrills me to no end that he, I guarantee he was like, we should have Gal Gadot from 4 be in our crew. Because he has the eyeball for fucking star power that is just objectively true he just knows to like every time a new popular person is

just like or a scene pops up he like rolls somebody into them like when game of thrones was popular he just added that woman who plays ramsey whose name escapes me right now it's just like all right you're in the crew now for five more movies because game of thrones is a huge show like he's so fucking smart and i guarantee he saw this gal gadot chick has something let's fucking bring her back yeah he's a good producer like i remember i like uh read an interview with him where he was talking about triple x which i feel like might as well be like fast you know 4.5 or whatever like they're they're in the franchise they might as well be uh he skis down a mountain it's like yeah dom would do that uh he was talking about that and uh how he like specifically was like i want to get the most popular person from like every country uh or not

every country yeah in in the in the sequel to X, it's like a very famous soccer player, Ruby Rose, a very famous DJ, like Asian, a couple of people who don't speak great English, but are beautiful and talented actors. And you're like, oh, they're clearly huge actors from other countries. Yeah. He makes his shit global like shooting this in rio with a like like a very diverse cast you're like oh yeah you are making this appeal to like truly the masses he knows what he's doing and i i know i say that again i'm always the white guy screaming about it but like he is the master of like figure out like he's like showing the world all these places that aren't in movies like we have like we have like 11 scenes in the favelas and it's not just about how poor and

scary it is in the favelas. Like, yeah, it was, he made it look beautiful. Like it was a beautiful movie. I was like, yeah,

I want to go to Rio de Janeiro. I love that. We're talking about it as if like he shot it. He did. Vin Diesel was the DP. He was the director. He was the cinematographer. He did everything. If they let him, he would. That's the problem. He was the director. He was the cinematographer. He did everything.

If they let him, he would. That's the problem and the power of him. Yeah. I'm the family now holding the cinematographer. I love him so much. Okay. Oh, also, I didn't realize they were stealing gas to give to people. No, I know.

Again, that's what this movie does well is retcon everyone to be heroes. Like Jen said, miraculously, no one was hurt, of course. Everyone in there is evil. There's a part in like Fast 7 when they're like, the base is completely empty of soldiers.

Everyone inside is a terrorist. It's like, oh, so we can just shoot missiles into the base safely? It's like, oh yeah. Everyone inside is a terrorist. They literally say that at one point. It's like oh yeah everyone inside is a terror they literally say that at one point it's like they just it's like forget due process at least the guys that are just getting mercilessly killed are corrupt cops who are probably corrupt corrupt due to the fucking circumstances of living in rio it's not necessarily they're all evil cops they probably

a lot of them didn't have a choice it doesn doesn't matter. They have to die. They get creamed by a safe. I do feel like this movie, I might be remembering this wrong and the timing might not line up. I should have looked this up. Whatever. Here I am. Thank you for coming. You already did more work than us. I do feel like this movie like it was like a talking point after like how much death and destruction they caused with that vault chase and then i feel like man of steel it was like it came out like kind of around when man of steel came out and that like was like 109 11s and it became a thing of like these people are causing so much chaos and death.

109.11. And then I feel like movies kind of like pivoted where like Batman versus Superman became about Batman being like, why did you fucking do 109.11? Then the Fast and Furious movies started like having more of that thing of like, don't worry, they can die.

We're in the desert. We're in a warehouse with Mr. Nobody's goons. It's like, yeah, a lot of people died in this movie. A whole train full of people passed away. A bunch of cops were decapitated. People got shot so many times that I was like, is this a war movie now? Like eight guys in Hobbes' crew were murdered.

That's brutal. That's like Sicario. It's so brutal. I can't remember the actor's name, but the black dude in Hobbes' crew. Oh boy, he's hot as fuck. He's so handsome. He's in the show Numbers too,

a show that I watched every episode of. That's my problem. But they drop three grenades on him. He's laying there and two grenades land and then another grenade and you're like let the guy die, please. And The Rock is like making eye contact with him as the third

grenade lands. It's like, this is heavy fucking dude. And then saves the day as Vin Diesel with a pump action shotgun, of course. He's gonna have like the special Vin Diesel of guns. There are a lot of shots where vin was like make me look good and they were like we'll do we'll put you in slow-mo we'll get that camera

angle going you're our hero he's the producer now i'm the producer now even the brazil line he knows to stand in like the delt trap bicep flex where we can see all of his muscles and he's standing like christ the redeemer he's just like i am brasil he does dominic teretto is christ in his mind he was ready to die for paul wong ready to die for brian o'connor sins at the end of this movie. He really was. So this movie starts with Mia and Brian meeting up with Vince, calls him a buster. I tee hee heed. And Vince is like, I got a job.

Let's let's also Mia knows Spanish. I was like, I didn't know this. But anyway, he's like, we're going to steal these cars from a train. He's like, we're going to steal these cars from a train. And they love opening these movies with these like Western homages to like robbing train cars, robbing trucks, whatever. So they. So, wait, I don't understand who the accomplices are. Like, who are those people who are like, we're going to get that car? That's ZZ, who's Reyes from Brazil, the main bad guys that's his right hand man okay yes and they need that call that special car because

that's the one that has that has the chip in it yes exactly but that's weird that when because then they eyeball when mia's like i'll take this one yes and then you see he's like the plan has changed i'm vin diesel i'm aware of everything that's happening at all times. I was like, Vin, how are you here? What? How do you know all, see all? He's instantly informed about everything that's going on. I love the reveal when him and Brian run into each other. Like when they open the train, it's like standing there.

And it looks, again, very homoerotic. The two of them in a lot of their scenes are very gay. In a way, I'm here for. I'm enjoying it. I mean, I like everything that's homoerotic. These movies are very gay. And I like them. Bromance.

I think it's good for culture. I think so, too. For men who identify as straight to be like i could be family with another man who's not related to me and love him i love this man more than anything in the world it's great quick aside do you guys watch the show dave on fx the little dicky show no but i saw a commercial for it and i was like this seems very funny i highly recommend that it's really funny but i also think it for it and i was like this seems very funny i highly recommend that it's really funny but i also think it's one of the coolest portrayals of like adult heterosexual

male friendship like they like look out for like it's they fight but there's also moments of like i'm worried about your mental health friend it's like it's just a really cool vibe and it feels it feels new it feels like you haven't seen it. It feels realistic and nice. In a similar vein, do you guys watch Summer House? No. No. It's a reality show on Bravo, and there's kind of an interesting male friendship in that, too. I recommend it if you have time. I love this.

I love it. We're telling the people where they can look for male friendships to emulate Carl and Kyle it's an interesting thing they start a business together they have to get real it's great anyway we're also we're just we're sitting here soft pitching other uh newcomer season ideas yeah because I haven't seen any of these things so okay they escape to their safe house and i was like how do they already have is this vince's safe house what where who who uh where are we what is it where are we getting safe houses are a character in this movie you get a lot of like thank god uh oh hobs we almost died fighting hobs it's like all right cool well let's go to a different safe house he doesn't know about it's like they have like five giant and one safe house features a fucking indoor driving

course like they have which was nuts well no he was like build a course and i was like what how is this big enough how did you get the dimensions how do you know so brian dom and mia they like are taking apart the car they find this fucking chip um so vince arrives and he's like being all shady and shit and then brian amelia is like no you were in on it and then uh fucking dom's just like no he says he's not. He's not. What are you up to? That turn made me laugh so hard. I was like, why did you tell Brian to leave him alone and then be like, hey, what's going on? But Brian, I'm the one who finds out what everything that happens in these movies. OK, relax.

I'm a producer. Oh, maybe they fucking kill Vince because he was being bad. He was going to sell the chip to Rice on his own. I mean, not to get deeper into the franchise since the fans don't like it or whatever, but. That's okay. I don't care. I don't give a fuck about the fans. I'm only in here for one season.

Yeah, if you want to get pissed at me, you can actually get pissed at lapkus's baby yeah i mean technically that baby is the reason why the podcast changed so there you go um but as you'll see and continue to see in later installments in the franchise they don't give a shit if somebody does something bad like they are very happy to just like retcon something be like it's actually fine like we still love them so the fact why not with vince yeah i don't know they're just like vince fuck you you're out of here maybe he comes back and saves that he comes back and saves them later uh he gets his like heroic uh return. Vince isn't dead dead?

No, he is dead dead. He dies in this movie, but I'm saying they throw him out now and he comes back and saves Mia at the market later on in this movie. Then he gets shot in the big where the dude gets three grenades. Yes. Vince gets one shot, but also dies. yes vince gets one shot but also does but did you like uh did you like seeing early in the movie when vince is driving and you see the scars on his arm from fast one i did catch that and i was like that is such a good good good like honestly if you blink you'll miss it detail but like a very good detail i also bet vin really fought for that like he was like trust me put the scars on they're like

no one's gonna see it people will talk about it later on a podcast in 10 years familiar with newcomers what's a podcast he's just like an internal this american life he's experiencing all of time at once i believe it so they discovered that uh this chip for whatever reason this criminal put on his chip the locations of all his money yeah and it's 10 million dollars in or no sorry a hundred million dollars in cash which is a lot. But then agent Lou Cobbs and his team arrive in Rio to arrest Dom and Brian with the help of a local rookie, Elena Neves. Absolute.

I love when the rock is getting off the ship with his crew here. Cause he's in full blown Dwayne Johnson mode. He's like, these guys, you do not let them get in a car. They are runners. I need you over here we need a healer and then they're like

oh we can get you a translator he's like already picked one and he has like a really like serious reason for why he picked her but it's like already picked one yeah she's an absolute smoke show of course I'd be like alright Hobbs pump the brakes you have no women in your crew the one

you want to add is this absolute smoke. Nice try. And he says, she's got a nice smile. And I was like, huh, okay. And then later I was like, oh, I guess he picked the rookie because she's not corrupt. Yeah. Yeah. But then I was like, so funny that the least corrupt person's the hottest in the department.

Exactly. funny but like the least corrupt person's the hottest in the department exactly conveniently enough for uh for fast franchise some of the most beautiful people in the world are evil and some are truly good but i'm just like why are dom and brian that wanted that there's a special agent who like searches hunts and kills people that is now on their case and it's because i'm doing work for the movie here but it's because those dea agents were killed on the train yes and they got framed for it uh i want to talk about this fucking favela parkour scene this is so fucking fun it's amazing i was in the theater seeing this for the first time with ben rogers and gavin spieler before cage match and this movie reinvigorated my love of going to the

theater of big blockbuster action movies it like got me and then like between fast and mission impossible i just like was able to like enjoy these non-comic book franchises that were so thrilling but this movie this chase scene where vin is just like running through walls the rock is running through like they don't even let dominic and brian run the same way they're like he's like no vin would be straightforward and through the walls and brian would do parkour and it's like did you not cackle when she goes, I'm pregnant? I'm like, babe, I don't think you are anymore. Like, I would hold off.

I would go get checked out because you just jumped through, like, fucking six ceilings. And you're confident you're still pregnant. They crash through a fucking ceiling. I cannot. Every time I laugh because she goes, I'm pregnant. And it's like solves everything. And then you're like, why would you let that? Why would you?

Then you shouldn't have ran. You should have just gotten arrested. Yeah. Just like kind of give up and be like, I got to keep the baby safe. But she's like, no, I don't give a shit. Well, you know, they tell some women that you can like run and exercise up until like eight months i think yeah i remember hearing that on sex in the city charlotte's doctor told her that since she already jogs that's what i'm quoting i i'm not quoting any sort of medical advice uh just you know charlotte on sex in the city when she's nervous about the baby and she gives up running and she starts again because they tell her it's safe up until eight months.

Yeah. If you jog your baby away, we're sorry. Another newcomer's soft pitch. A 200 episode series about Sex and the City. I fucking love Sex and the City. I love Sex and the City too. It's so fucking good. We used to watch it just all the fucking good like you just we used to watch it

just all the fucking time in our house it would just be background all the time it's still it holds up i will say the last season not my favorite i thought the first movie was a beautiful like package to the franchise like it wasn't a good movie but i was like i wanted more i got more the second movie is an abomination that i will watch okay that's how much i love the franchise i will suffer through it but i do think it gets muslims right i do think that's the one thing sex in the city 2 does get right is they can figure out they they have they touch on the the cultural just lightly i think they haven't completely figured out sex in the city 2 why would you take such a swing and be like let's do like weird like it was really strange it was a

very strange miss we're going to abu dhabi why the the show is called sex in the city new york city it made zero sense anyway back to fast and the furious um when dom realizes that the rock is chasing him that hobbs is chasing or shot wait no shot hobbs hobbs when hobbs is chasing him and he's like jumping and his like arms are kind of stretched out but he like looks behind him for whatever reason that was very funny to me it's because it's physically impossible yeah physically like he's soaring through the air at like 240 pounds with boot cut jeans okay that maybe that's what it was i was like there's no way that this huge man is as agile as they're trying to make him see and he's literally like doing a fucking like you do that shit in the olympics snowboarding like the complete spin

around he's able to like look catch him in the sky like oh okay then i should land here it's like you can't physically do that it's crazy you would just be rolling through fucking plywood and hoping you land safely eventually it also like not to you know just be like a rock stan here but the rock is like he's a giant guy, but he's also pretty athletic. And you buy that he's agile. You're like, he can move. Vin Diesel is just like, if you took a bunch of muscles and crammed them into him, he's so dense that him doing any kind of anything besides just stiffly walking and punching.

Well, he doesn't demonstrate agility in any other scenes like i the the fist fight where the rock does like the back handspring up and then it's like but vin diesel's move is like smashing his head against the wall he's like he doesn't have the same kind of he never demonstrates agility although we should say vin diesel soars through the air and in caps catches people a lot in this movie. Yes. That's something he does multiple times is fly through the air and save

someone or grab someone that he has. He's very good at aiming himself like a giant doughy Corona filled torpedo. Which I truly don't buy. Okay. So the crew assembles and Vince rejoins the crew. And then in an effort to consolidate the money, which is a really great plan,

they burn a bunch of cash in front of rises staff. They're counting money and they burn it. Some of his favorite employees were present for the money burning in the safe house. They were filling out their W-2s. HR is pissed. It turns out there was lighter fluid near the safe house. I love this part where they all take their masks off.

It's like only Dom has to, you know what I mean? And arguably none of them should because the plan makes no sense regardless. The plan does make burn the money tell him who did it actually no you don't have to tell him who did it no yeah you really don't he just knows his money got burned so he moves his money into the police station yeah i love that moment when uh they're watching everyone's watching the money from different places. And they're like, we all work in enter. We all have shot movies and TV shows.

Imagine that's like 14 days of shooting. Just to get all those single shots of people going, whoa, whoa. As cars drive by. Like that is a half a month of worth of shooting just to have that. And that's why I like these movies. It's like, I need all that info but they must take forever to fucking shoot i believe this one was like two

months over schedule or something like that i mean i imagine there's so many fucking shots i remember talking to uh they're the production designer for uh the tomorrow war also worked on some of the fast movies uh i worked on the tomorrow war um and nicole's got to have a live reaction to your credit oh yeah about the tomorrow war well i think it's because i knew this uh i was talking to mitch and mitch was like jen's here and i was like oh that's so fun that's nice so I knew it but I can act like I didn't know it thank you that's exactly what I was looking for thank you so much um but yeah I remember I was talking to him and I was like I love the Fast and the Furious movies and he was telling me about how they shot I think it was for six actually they like shot on a stretch of actual

road in like colorado or something but then for pickups they had to like rebuild the road in atlanta oh my god it's just like the the scale of these movies is so unlike anything i've ever seen before and it's amazing like you can tell it looks so good though but yeah to rebuild a road is crazy crazy opening the opening sequence of the movie that is a practical truck crashing into the side of a real train that's moving that's fucking awesome yeah it is so cool i do appreciate that they use so much practical like i think the whole movie's practical like i don't think they do. I think.

Well, I guess like the fire and shit, some of that is like. But reading in the, I think it was in the trivia, they mentioned that Justin Lin got some shit for all the sort of like special effects that were in, digital effects that were in Tokyo Drift. So I think he like swung the other way on purpose with this movie. And then also found a little bit of lightning in a bottle with that like bringing the whole cast together and making it like big blockbuster style foot chases and stunts and and three different romance stories going on at the

same time it's like it's so and that doesn't even include Brian and and dom and dom and hobbes but like uh there's like 11 very tense romantic relationships all happening at once this movie has so much and it's like this is what we need to go going forward also each movie feels like a reboot like i felt like the fourth one was a reboot of the franchise this one was a reboot of the franchise like it's it's really interesting how they can do just really do it over and over and over again from here on out they really do start to feel like sequels of like it feels like jen correct me am i wrong like five is the second half of like where the movies change they become like the big giant 14 cast member uh ensemble blockbusters but

it's funny that like, you're right. They like recon and then they finally just like muscle it and five works. And they're like, got it. Yeah. Add a new majorly famous, majorly talented, majorly attractive person. Every movie for the next five movies. But it's wild that they got five movies to figure out the movie yeah it's crazy including entire cast changes in the first three yeah it's so insane like in retrospect it really

is just like they really were like trying so hard to make it happen in like against like all odds and it's like you never like it's a weird mix where it's like, I feel like studios never like do that. Like take the risk of like, no, no, no. Okay.

Like, I think we figured it out this time and then be like, okay, not really. But like, what about this? Like it was amazing. How about one more $200 million movie?

And then we'll see, like, imagine a studio executive saying that now it's like, let's do one more seven figure film. And then I think we should, we'll have it in the place. We'll figure it out. Um, a studio executive saying that now it's like let's do one more seven figure film and then i think we should have it in the place we'll figure it out um so just real quick back to the plot so oh sorry sorry nicole that's what i was i forgot what i was trying to say all the all the cop cars go into the police station bringing the money in there and everyone was watching from like

14 different locations because they're trying to be undercover. People are looking for them. But the last shot is the, is them 12 people across in like black leather, standing on the roof directly across from the police station going, wow, it's a police station. It's like you're on facial recognition software just in the last scene.

And now you guys are standing 12 abreast, walking in slow motion for the cool coolness of the shot but completely showing your ass to everybody very funny how frequently they are just in public in broad daylight as wanted people but the fight we talked about happens and i mean at one point hobbs says he was like you're disgusting you beat a man with a fucking uh what is it like not a screwdriver uh monkey wrench a monkey wrench or a wrench and then right before the fight like ends he like holds this wrench up and then slams it down but then you think you it's revealed he slams it next to hobbs's head and then he

he lets hobbs arrest the crew and then they get attacked baby and this is this is really fun because they don't really do like straight up shootout scenes in uh fast and furious movies like this like and this is kind of shit i'm always looking for in movies too just like blowing people and this movie i like this sequence is so dope and the rock gets his chance to kill like so many people and he just comes out hold on dink dink dink he just keeps and every time he just fires like four rounds people leap out of the it's like what the fuck he's that he's a champion it's wild and then Vince is fatally shot and then we find out that he named his son Nick after Dominic Toretto oh no his name's Nico after Dominic Toretto and then he's like oh I'll watch over him don't you worry and I was like but why does he have to die I'm like really hung up on the fact that he had to die.

Well, I feel like, and I don't, this doesn't feel exactly like Fast and the Furious mentality, but it does feel like they're like, Vince isn't really popping. No one loves Vince. Let's just kill him in this movie. Because like, they were like, Han is dead already, but let's, people love him. So let's jam him into as many more movies as possible. Vince ain't getting that much traction. Ice him.

We'll just have him die off camera. I think that has to be it. Why else would he not have come back? It's either that or it literally is like he ate the last tiramisu at catering one day and Vin Diesel's like, fuck you, man. And then he gets the pages and he's like wait I die I read the script how did this what and Vin Diesel's just like behind him looking

so mad your problem Vince is you thought you were in Fast and the Furious but you were really in tiramisu and then so Hobbs and Elena they're they're like okay great we're part of the team now and i was like wait what but then i was like okay i get it the bad guy killed all of hobbs's team so he's like great i will join the criminals to get back at the man who murdered my team

and i was like i feel like that's against his whole principle that he like established. He's like, I capture the bad guy. But so it's like, no, you get a new team to capture the two bad guys that you're now after. There's a little bit of light work done by Elena throughout the movie, too, where she's like, but they gave the gasoline away. Why would they do it? There's no way they would kill the DEA agents. And then she gets that interaction with Dom at her house where Dom takes his own $10 necklace back from her. Oh my God, that Letty gave her.

So then I'm like, okay, they end up together at the end of the movie after she takes his necklace that Letty, his former lover gave him. And I was like, this is messy. It's a full on soap opera. Like it just is like the WWE of action movies. Like it's just full on soap opera like it just is like the WWE of action movies

like it's just full drama like just constant like no the necklace it's so crazy it's worth nothing he's like worth a lot of me if I was after you

I didn't even ask she's like huh see you later man Okay. I didn't, if I was after you, I didn't even ask. She was like, huh? I was like, okay, see you later, man. And it's like, she's, everyone is so heroic. And like Vin loves that like underdog story. So it's like, your husband was killed by a corrupt cop and now you're going after him. I appreciate that.

I love you. I appreciate that. I love you. I appreciate that. I love you. So, okay. They break into the police station to figure out the safe thing. And, oh, wait. Also, before that,

they send Wonder Woman to go get his fingerprints. This is my favorite. I love this so much. The way she gets it, she just talks to this guard and she's like, hello, I need to talk to that man. And they're like so much. The way she gets it, she just talks to this guard and she's like, hello, I need to talk

to that man. And they're like, great. The biggest criminal in all of Rio de Janeiro. Come on in, Wonder Woman. And she's like, hi, excuse me. I'd like you to put your arm around me. He's like, I can do that. And then that's how they get his fucking fingerprints.

The way that they get. So, yeah, they get his fingerprints because he like taps her butt. And so it's like on her bathing suit bottoms the way that he taps her butt is not the way that i would ever expect like it's just such an egregious like he like circle like full hand on her butt circles around pads it like it's he's brazilian it's cultural i don't know i apologize to all our brazilian listeners i don't know what i'm talking about it's okay they forgive you so the way they break into the police station is they put a bomb in the poop fucking pipe and then it explodes poop on this man

who's just trying to use the restroom and then how many movies have you seen in your life that feature a toilet exploding with shit spraying out of it i feel like 80s movies 80s comedies had shit like that i'm like watching this movie and this happens i'm like have i seen this in a hundred movies in my life like i why am i so well versed in shit i don't know it very comforting. And I felt like I was at home watching it. I was like, this is not as wild as they want it to be. Cause I, I, I, I feel like I've seen this. Um, and then what's his, what the two, the little duo, what is their names? Uh, Leo and Santos, I think. Uh, yeah. Santos. Yeah. Leo and Santos. They go in, they pose as, uh, janitors that nobody in this police station

has ever seen before but they're fine with it and then start to drill holes in the wall and i was like not one cop was like there's construct what what shouldn't they just be cleaning the shit what do you mean there's what they're not the contract they're not that was wild to me that nobody said anything I feel like if my toilet exploded shit and somebody started drilling into the wall, I'd be like, yeah, whatever. I don't know. Do whatever you gotta do. I would have questions. I would be like, I need to know what exactly is happening.

Also, I was like, wait, was the vault on the other side of the bathroom? Yes. Wait, Jen, you just just i feel the same way like if someone's fixing my car or doing something in my house like they could literally take a hammer put it in the middle of my tv and i'd look at them and they'd be like this is actually how you do this and i'd be like right okay yeah i don't have the confidence to say that that's wrong like so i'm just drilling directly into my toilet and i'd be like uh-huh yeah this needs to happen i'm not i don't i don't want to sound like i don't know what's going on here here's why i ask

questions and i don't give a fuck if they're stupid i had a leak in my bathroom my friend took a shower uh in my bathroom and then there was a ton of water on the ceiling and i was like oh my god if water's showing on the ceiling that means the leak is very bad so i had a plumber come and he's like i have to put a hole in your ceiling and i said okay put a hole in the ceiling and he goes i gotta put another hole in your ceiling i said okay he put two holes in my ceiling and he goes you ain't got no pipes up there and i said excuse me he goes let me run a test and the test was to just turn the hot water on with the door closed. And he goes, it's condensation. So then I had to get the two holes he put in my fucking ceiling fixed. So I always ask fucking questions now.

You don't have any pipes in here, lady. No pipes. What? Excuse me? What? What do you mean? I put 40 holes in the wall. I didn't find one pipe.

Sorry. Got to go. Not one pipe? Yeah, basically. And then he was like three thousand dollars because it was like i don't know maybe three hundred dollars it was probably three hundred three thousand because it was like after hours so i paid him the 300 and then canceled my card so then it bounced uh and and then they called me for a very long time until i said drain kings

you're not kings in my eyes you'll never get this money well now we've cleared that up wow drag them so then there's like oh okay so there's a wait what happens there's a police chase wait wait not to jump around too much, but just to jump back to when Roman tries to get the remote control car in there so they could do some spying originally. Oh, that was very funny. It's very funny. She goes, your card says Caucasian.

What the fuck? Like you're using Brian's FBI ID for real? Yeah, he's using Brian's FBI ID. And I was like like there's probably a face on it too that shows a white person it's really funny that roman's character is introducing this movie is like we need someone who could talk his way into anywhere and honestly also they also say we need a chameleon and it's in reference to an asian dude coming to brazil it's like he's not going to blend.

That is very funny. I didn't even clock that. That is so funny. And they're like, we need a fast talker. And Roman just comes in. He goes, yo, hey, take this. And the guy's like, no, he's like, okay, see you later. I gotta go. It is so crazy. Like Roman throughout the entire franchise is like a bumbling buffoon, but he's supposed to be like a smooth man, but he's always just like getting in trouble.

He's like, I think he's playing pranks. I think it stems from the second one where it's like, he is like, you know, smooth or whatever, but also it was like kind of funny. And then maybe Vin Diesel was like,

he can't be too masculine. Cause like, I'm pretty masculine. That's exactly what happened. Like you noticed that he can't be too masculine because like i'm pretty masculine that's exactly what happened like you notice that he can't have like his hero heroism stepped on in any way no he can't because brian is like kind of like the little brother character like he literally wears vans in every scene oh brian's wardrobe is insane he dresses exactly like i did in sixth grade but he's a 35 year old man in 2001 like in in too fast it's at its best too he has like an orange county choppers t-shirt on and like great and like

wide leg jeans you know like what is going on but yeah it's fucking perfect so they buy another safe so i practice opening it yeah to practice opening it and then um they build a track and then everyone but like what is the track the track is the exact way to get into the police station with the cameras rigged the exact way they are. Oh, I see, I see, I see. It's so obviously a way for the movie to be like, fuck, you know what? We don't have a lot of cars racing around here. It's like, okay, let's build a racetrack in the base and have every character do one cool thing in a car. It's like, perfect.

And it works for me. It worked for me too. And I was like, oh no, they're never going to get fast enough. But then we had this great idea. Invisible cars. They go steal some cop cars. And then they race the cop cars

and they keep shifting. And I was like, so the cop cars in Brazil are sticks? I was like, how is everyone in this world driving a stick? Also, it's like lay low. It's like, great, let's go steal cop cars and then one block away,

talk over the loudspeaker about how we're racing for a million dollars. You are absolutely right. Tyrese literally on a loudspeaker is like, we're going to steal money. We stole these cop cars. All right, ready, set, go. I'm a Han fucking fanatic. I'm a Hanimalimal if you will and his line when he's like we're probably gonna die

doing this anyway why not make it a million it's just so he's so fucking charming when he says that i miss that i wish he threw a chip in his mouth there because that's usually how he ends every one of his lines of dialogue in the movie but in that moment i was like looking at him i'm like i'm so glad you didn't go to tokyo yet tokyo is bad man you can't go to tokyo it is so wild that this man who has been on so many fucking adventures gets killed in a kerfuffle with the lamest lead of a movie well maybe you'll find out something that uh just you just wait don't you worry if you think he was killed tell me what happens the listeners will get mad that i'll eventually find out let's just say that the circumstances surrounding han's death change for several they've already changed a couple of times.

They changed several more. I can't fucking wait. So this vault chase. So it's wild. It's creative as fuck. It's amazing. Visualizing that is so fucking thrilling. That's like to be like, oh, we broke it.

I know how we can make this chase different than other chases. And they were right. They were right. And Dom somehow knows how to drive to yo-yo this vault into cars to then slam cars into other cars and then flip into the water. I was like, this is wild. But it was thrilling to watch. It's truly amazing. but it was like thrilling to watch.

It's truly amazing. Like I always am like, you know how like being a, like a writer, like performer, like people are always just like, how do you come up with this stuff? And that's like a hacky thing that we all make fun of or whatever. Sorry if that's news to you.

Um, watching this. Actually, you're welcome. Cause maybe D'Angelo nipped that in the bud and you won't ask comics that anymore. You're fucking losers. But watching this movie,

I truly was like, how did they come up with this stuff? It's just so amazing. It's incredible. It really was. And then you're like, I gotta have that safe at my wedding. I wish you had a recreation of that fucking safe.

Oh my God. And that's what you came out of before you walked down the aisle. Oh, you drove away in a little limo and it said just married, but you were dragging a giant safe instead of a bunch of cans. And it takes out like the entire reception. Yeah, you do donuts just destroying the... Yeah, I should have been driven down the aisle by like a car, but then yeah, I'm in the safe. That's the surprise. I wonder.

Open it up. Died of suffocation. I wonder how much money it would cost to have Vin Diesel give you away. We like, I really tried to get the rock involved in our wedding in some way. And like, my dream was like, what if he like performed the

ceremony but i was like that we absolutely like can't make happen but i was like could i get like a video from him and i couldn't get that either uh i wonder how much it would cost everybody has a price everybody do you guys know i'm pretty sure nick mundy oh did the rock to the rock officiated his wedding as a surprise to his fiance yes that happens kind of around the same time and i remember he met the rocket like a junket and was like they hit it off or something like that he was like they like pranked his fiance but like she walked down like she walked into it and the rock was there to marry them i don't know the specifics uh the social media team here at head gum will post it or not at all and you guys will ask about it and no one will ever answer

and no one will ever answer i don't give a fuck wait we we gotta get through the end of this chase into the seven little coda endings that this movie features i love that this movie would not end they were like you want more and more and more show me what every single person in the movie is now doing post the movie i'm here for it i want to see every character we were ever introduced to what they are i want to see the guy cleaning shit off of himself and complaining to his wife in Portuguese about it or whatever. Wait, but here's what I didn't understand. So

Vin Diesel, Dom is just like, alright, Brian, you gotta go. And then he, like, finishes the chase. I was like, where was Brian supposed to go? And then how did you know you were going to be able to kill everyone?

And like, it was very confusing to me. Honestly, it's, he has a ton of confidence in Nos. And that's something this franchise really hammers home over the course of 10 plus films. I forgot that Noss is not prominently featured in this one but we just have a little nod to Noss at the end where he's like okay turn it on baby I mean and then

it makes no sense but he wants his Christ thing of like you go Brian family you know raise my nephew or niece correctly and then he fucking just turns and his plan is to drive right at everyone but the other thing is that's their plan too like none of them stop and go well move or drive backwards or turn yes truly and after the first time this safe hits a car i'd be like oh i gotta go home yeah this this doesn't seem like it's gonna be good for me like if you're a crooked

cop you give up in like 30 seconds it's not like you know it's I'm not gonna die for this either no and then at the end I will say I was got I was like they're just gonna leave the vault there and then when the rock opens it with the greatest of ease because it wasn't even locked he truly pulls it open. And I was like, how come the door didn't open while I was swinging into cars? But anyway, there's no money involved. And then we get to see The Rock figure out how

they did it. And he's able to imagine the garbage truck underneath the overpass somehow. That one shot of Gal Gadot driving was really funny. The garbage truck was really funny for some reason right she's driving a truck with the big wheel and she's trying to look sexy as she's jiggling around gabers when i like when i tell you i like guffawed i was laughing so fucking hard my dog looked at me

and was like bitch i don't know if it was that funny and i was like but it was clyde i'll rewind it and i did he didn't look at it but like very funny to me luda getting that other chest uh the other safe for practice or whatever like you don't remember that like they let you forget that and then when it's revealed it oh, fuck, they do have a copy of the safe. And it's so fucking cool. It was great. It was smart. Again, how do you come up with it? It was good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was very fun.

It's so good. Real quick, we get to see like where everyone is heading off to in their lives we see han and uh giselle uh talk talking about heading off to tokyo not just yet. Not just yet. And the way they're making out as they drive, there's no way they didn't crash into something. Oh my God. In the Los Bandoleros,

Vin and Letty go ham in the car while driving too. And it's like, this is the most Fast and the Furious thing ever. In a 15 minute short film, they make out on a kayak and in a car dude yes and she doesn't show up until the last three minutes of it it's it's wild it's so fucking but again i talk about this every week the pg-13 sexiness of this uh genre of this like series hits really hard in this moment when they're made it's like this is the distillation of what they think it it's kissing in a car two beautiful people han and giselle and

it's like this is as sexy as it gets in the fast and furious universe because a car is involved as well like that literally the sexiest like most sexual most graphic sexual moment in the movie is her taking a sarong off to reveal a bikini like a modest bikini yeah yeah but it is like it's played like in eighth grade when the handsome dude walks but honestly the modest bikini was truly for the plan because they needed enough fabric to get the finger right or else or else Ludacris would be having to hold Gal Gadot's ass up to the safe and like press her cheeks into, it's like, drop your drawers. Move, bitch.

Get out of the way. I truly wish that that's what they had to do. Just holding this thin woman's butt up to this fucking thing. Oh my God. Also, do fingerprints stay on fabric like that i can't imagine that's definitely not bathing suits yes uh but i like she also randomly had the blue light flashlight that shows the handprint on it she's like see we got it right here when you get that she was like let's go to the store before we get back to the fucking warehouse she's like hon turn around i have to drop and take

my bikini off and walk around and just see through sarong with no bottoms until i get back to the safe house where i kept my size zero jeans oh boy and then the biggest one of them all elena and the rock are now a full-blown team or something like that wait are they no no sorry I mixed it up Elena's with uh Vin Diesel now yeah Elena's with Dom and I really hated that I was just like you know you were ride or die for Letty you didn't want to fuck Wonder Woman because she wasn't enough of a percentage of angel whatever but like we're gonna fuck uh elena no this is sacrilegious to me this is sick i was like really upset i was in no amount of white jeans and white white uh tank top and you know silver cross can make this okay but i was then the fucking kicker if you think you're upset then, then you find out Letty is still alive.

He finally moved on, but it's not a good time to do that. No, you're going to regret moving on, brother. And Elena, you're going to be in a complex situation going forward. Yeah, because they're given details that there was a hijacking of a military convoy in Berlin. And in the file, he discovers a hijacking of a military convoy in Berlin and in the file he discovers a recent photo of Letty. But I'm like, does Hobbes know who Letty is? Yeah, because he knows everything

about his prey. I feel like he does. I feel like, because he would know about their previous crimes and she was probably implicated. But it's crazy. She's now the second person that has died on camera in this movie and in these movie series she's now the second person resurrected well technically not the last

technically she's the first person resurrected right because han hasn't happened yet right to be fair yes oh right han was resurrected by moving the placement of the movie in the timeline so does that mean five comes after the so letty's she's definitely not dead so we thought she was dead but she's not dead or does five take place later no uh three hasn't happened yet but four has okay so yeah we thought she was dead okay but she's not she like literally looks at the camera she's like i'm dead and like we thought she was dead because she was clearly killed on camera right and because our main character in the movie mourned for her for a huge chunk of the fourth movie he wouldn't fuck nobody for a whole movie wait when hobbs lets them go another time he's like 24 hours and i'll i'll be seeing you dom he's like no you won't but i was like why does he let them go because they saved his life yeah because they like helped him avenge his and then also he

kills rice and i was like bring him in he's like a big underlord like isn't that a good get dude it is it's fun that he flippantly kills him though i do like that he just walks out he just walks up with his fucking like stocky i'm holding two suitcases position like arms and then just pop pop shoots the guy twice he's like that's for my team all right toredo 24 hours get moving it's like slow down uh hobs but honestly so like vin has talked about the rock's performance and i kind of get it what no the rocks i'm a big i'm not saying The Rock is bad. I'm just saying Vin does take moments and is soft in some moments. I mean, his line reads are basically the same, but like, some are loud, some are a little softer. He takes a moment, maybe slows it down.

The Rock kind of was at even pace the whole movie. Just like, da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da whole movie like just like there wasn't as many levels not that i'm saying vin diesel i am levels i'm with you i don't want to go head to head with uh d'angelo the main rock stand young writer on young rock we can't afford to have that uh but i think the rock is not in the same movie as the rest of these guys i don't think that means i think the rock might be in honestly a better movie but he stands out it's like his vibe is off but it's fun in this one and this was like oh man the rock and vin diesel he sort of doesn't i don't like the way he fits in the rest of the movies because he doesn't fit the energy and he is a little cooler than like or like bigger scary he's like a lot of

the things vin diesel's uh that dom is he's a little bit more heightened so it's like with him eliminated you like dom even more yeah so wow this is so fascinating i really disagree so i think the rock is in like a full-blown action movie where i think min diesel is in a soap opera action movie correct yeah i think that the rock like is treating it like wrestling in a way that i really like where i'm sort of like i like the rock's vision of what this franchise is which is like kind of like you sort of know that it's really crazy and over the top and like stuff doesn't really make sense and it's sort of like there's a little bit of a wink to it but he's also taking it very seriously whereas vin diesel is just like this is art this is the best film ever made yes vin diesel is method and crashing cars on the weekends to be like that's

what dom does yeah and that's what I'm here for. So is Paul Walker. Not cool. I'm like upset with myself for saying that. I love that man so much. He's so great. It's honestly sad to see him in movies. He's just so he seems like such a nice man.

He has, I will say this, Paul Walker has charisma you cannot buy. Yes. No. He's got this child, I don't know, or youthful glow and grin. He's like boyishly gorgeous. Yes, there we go. Yes. He's so good looking, but he looks so young and fragile at the same time.

But then he is kind of a good physical actor. He gets some good hand-to-hand stuff in 6 and 7. But he's a good physical actor. I've been watching all of Paul Walker's other movies out of curiosity because I watched Takers for the first time because I haven't seen a lot of his stuff. And I'm like, oh fucking are we're missing out like this dude would have had a fucking i think he would have only gotten because he was definitely not getting unattractive for the next like 35 years yeah i mean he was aging well yeah exactly he also was like he was

like a crew person i think before like i feel feel like he was a truck driver or something. He was like, yeah. Oh, that's so cool. Wow. I just remember hearing a story. I can't remember who I heard it from. Maybe it's apocryphal. Maybe it's a lie.

Here I go again. But he was on the set of some movie, and a truck was blocking his car or something, and he had been wrapped. And he was like trying to find someone to move it and there wasn't anyone around so he the keys were in there so he like jumped in and just like moved it himself and somebody came up was just like hey you can't fucking do that unless you're like in the union or whatever and he pulled out his union card

because he like he used to do it or something and then they like hugged jen i hope this is something you have made up from like you know just like a hot sexy dream you had about it that's my hot sexy dream is just like two men being nice to each other well then you're gonna love dave on fx um so wait this movie what it was nominated for awards best action movie the people's choice awards. Best Action Movie at the People's Choice Awards. It won Choice Movie Action at the Teen Choice Awards. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Jordana Brewster were all nominated for their respective roles.

It is 77% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. A critic for IFC.com said, this movie is so drenched with testosterone, it belongs on major league baseball's banned substances list okay that's a little much audience reviews are positive the budget was 125 million and it grows 626 million worldwide i bet whatever executive was like we'll figure this out is living real nice. He died of high fives in the office on Monday, whoever it was. By the way, Jen, just looking up Paul Walker's IMDb,

clicking on the additional crew tab brings up Expedition Great White, a TV documentary series where he was credited as deckhand slash researcher. So homie was doing some like pa like behind the scenes stuff just the most attractive fucking p i mean that's los angeles for you where paul walker is a pa on a movie set because everyone is that fucking can you imagine if you were working on a show and paul walker was a pa and you're just like buddy you're an aging you're an aging actor in the league feeling like you're a little paunchy and this guy is you're like like, buddy, you're an aging, you're an aging actor in the lead, feeling like you're a little paunchy. And this guy is you're like, man.

And then also it's like, hey, sir, I'm the PA. I'll be walking you to your car. Come with me. It's like, who the fuck is this dude? Why is he wearing Jankos? Here's some trivia. So the stunt involving the flatbed truck slamming into the moving train was filmed practically without the use of miniatures or cgi the collision nearly derailed the train

uh this movie added 27 million to the puerto rican economy the production employed uh 236 technicians 13 145 extras that took up 16,824 room nights in local hotels. Oh, yeah, that's great. But why don't they shoot in Rio de Janeiro? Anywho, the role of Hobbes was originally envisioned for Tommy Lee Jones. Which is really funny because that would be he's playing his role from The Fugitive in U.S. Marshals. He like literally the guy who's chasing a scapegoat.

But that sounds like a vin diesel idea truly where he's like well you know who's the best in movies like this let's just get him for the role but tommy he was old then no the energy would not be so old now yeah that would have been completely different the hobs we got is exactly what the franchise needed. We got the Hobbs we needed. We got the Hobbs we deserve. We did. And you were right. Justin Lin focused on practical effects because people were complaining about

too much CGI. And this is the one thing where complaining served us well. Paul Walker, he did most of his own stunts training with parkour specialist, Paul Darnell for authenticity uh they they set to shoot this for two months it ran over schedule it took five months whoa damn that's a long ass fucking time meanwhile that like universal exec is just like guys trust me i promise me it's me. It's going to be fine. Please.

We got Roman back. It's the exact thing we need. Leo and Santos and Roman. We got everybody. It's very funny. Jen, we're at the end. Do you have anything you would like to plug? Yeah.

Check out Young Rock. we're at the end do you have anything you would like to plug um yeah check out young rock okay we'll do he's better than you wrote for the wrong it work on the young rock okay so this is right in okay uh fast and oprah voice fabulous have i watched a fast and the furious movie since the first no well i watch them now also no but i will listen to this podcast and delight in nicole and gabriel's explaining the deep ridiculousness and fun of this franchise complete with the vroom vroom noises I will forever support Nicole's admitting love to Vin Diesel I love Vin Diesel I want to put my pussy on

his head Gaber's and Byer are an amazing duo this is Aiden Mud the first one was just numbers 21883 Aiden Mud said amazeballs Gaber's and Nicole are an amazing duo they go together like Doritos and Mountain Dew, like wet naps, wet naps and chicken wings. Oh, wet naps.

Yeah. A wet nap is when you take 20 minutes a dream and then come in your pants. I actually was like, do they mean like when you take a nap after you get out of the pool and you weren't like actually dry? Oh my God. Instantly not dry at all. You instantly fall and you weren't like actually dry. Oh my God. Instantly not dry at all. You instantly fall asleep. You're like not dry.

I think I have the munchies. Okay. So if you write a review, we'll pick some. We'll fucking read them. Next week we're back with Fast and the Furious 6. They just gave up

naming these movies. And I love it okay bye bye bye Thank you. That was a Hidgum Original.