Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Fast & Furious 6 (w/ Ryan Stanger)

Episode Date: August 31, 2021

Ryan Stanger (The Dumbbells, The ActionBoyz) joins Nicole and Gabrus to discuss the sixth film in the Fast & Furious Franchise—Fast & Furious 6 (2013).Follow Ryan on Insta...gram and Twitter and check out The Dumbbells on Headgum.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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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is a HeadGum Original. So how's the life of a retired international criminal? I need your help, Dom. Last week, a team of highly coordinated drivers took down a military convoy. This most recent job graduated them to a whole new level. You're gonna help me catch the team responsible. Why is that, Hobbs? This was taken a week ago.
Starting point is 00:00:40 He's messing with your head. Lady's dead, Dom. I need to know for sure. Then I'm going with you. This equipment's way better than that trash in Rio. Way better. So now we work for the Hulk? Things changed.
Starting point is 00:00:57 Breathe with me! Our target's Owen Shaw, former major in the SAS, spec ops soldier. You help us get Letty, we'll get you, Shaw. But we need full pardons all the way around. And cars. Make sure they're fast. We talk vehicular warfare. I've never seen this before.
Starting point is 00:01:27 You believe in ghosts? You don't turn your back on family, even when they do. You really think you've won? This code you live by is about family. It's the very reason you weren't even in the game I gotta take all my airs! Buddy! Breathe with me! Thank you. Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow. Okay, it's a new episode of Newcomers.
Starting point is 00:02:58 It's me. It's John Gabrus. Hi. Hi, hi, hi. Lapkus is taking care of some business at home. TCB, baby. Not baby, but just TCB. Just TCB, hi. Lapkus is taking care of some business at home. TCB, baby. Not baby, but just TCB. Just TCB, baby, baby.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Okay. We watched Fast and Furious 6. Gotta say, the names of these movies, they're getting harder and harder. Because I bought all of them. So they're like out of order in my iTunes. It's just, it's difficult. Anyway, okay. This is the sixth episode of our fourth season.
Starting point is 00:03:36 We're watching all the Fast and Furious movies, 10 episodes. We're going to cover all nine movies plus Hobbs and Shaw. I was very confused during this one because I am introduced to shaw that i don't know so fast and furious 6 is available for a fee on amazon apple tv google play and voodoo guess what there's fucking spoilers this came out in 2013 we're in 2021 we're in the fucking future okay uh before i give him a thoughts let's just introduce our guest hell yeah gabrus do you want to do it sure i know this guy rather well. We talk about movies together for over four hours a week for the last five years. From the Dumbbells podcast, he co-hosts with Eugene Cordero right here on HeadGum.
Starting point is 00:04:15 And the Action Boys podcast, which he co-hosts with me and our mutual friend and work acquaintance, Ben Rogers. And work acquaintance. It's Ryan Rhinostanger. Boop, boop, boop. What up? What up? work acquaintance ben rogers it's ryan rhino stanger what up what up treat to be here guys treat thank you so much for doing this stanger can i ask you a question yeah what is your relationship to the fast and furious movies um well i mean i'm trying to think of i've been listening to some of your guys episode and what what would mine be that's unique to previous guests? I would say my kind of hot-ish take is that I really like the first three the most. Okay, that is a hot, steaming take.
Starting point is 00:05:00 It is, and I'm with you guys in the sense that something special happened with five and i think that that's the sum total of the four previous ones in that um it's kind of like they figured out what was great about all of them and then just put it into five and then we got that and it was really i i re-watched that one in preparation for what we're going to cover six um and so i was like oh man this is extra i did extra i did a lot of homework on this one I rewatched that one in preparation for what we're going to cover six. Um, and so I was like, Oh man, this is extra.
Starting point is 00:05:28 I did extra. I did a lot of homework on this one. I watched five hours worth of movies, homework, homework, homework. It was a nightmare. Um,
Starting point is 00:05:37 but I was thinking about it. What? So five, I feel like really soared because it's kind of like they're Ocean's Eleven. They're like, oh, let's lean into this heist concept. And they're still kind of underdogs in it. And to me, as they progress and as the stars and egos get bigger, as the cast gets older, I need to be an ageist. I just start to like them less like when you go when you go back
Starting point is 00:06:07 and you watch the first one they're all beautiful and young and kind of scrappy and um and it's it's kind of a youth movie you know and it's like oh i i want to hang with these people and do some street racing i'm interested in that and then you just get further and further and further and further away from that and then it's like they'll just dangle you know the original fast heads like myself a little bit like oh they'll just kind of do a playful race that's unrelated to anything just so there's your fucking race now back to hand-to-hand combat or whatever it is well you just this is what i like about six it's exactly what you said there. They did five was their oceans.
Starting point is 00:06:46 11 six is there like a justice league meets the anti-justice league. I think six is their expendables. And yes, I will say though, uh, six brings back more car driving, not racing, but because the elite mobile unit, anything that they're facing off Sean, his crew. But I also think this one features the best hand-to-hand of all the movies. And it has an abundance of hand-to-hand. A lot of hand-to-hand.
Starting point is 00:07:15 Also, this movie starts off by saying, if you haven't seen the first five, no worries. We got you covered. The intro to this is like a TV show. We will show you clips out of order from every movie before this. I couldn't believe it. But that's also what reminded me. I was like, oh, look at them.
Starting point is 00:07:35 They're so cute. Like all of them were like cute and young. And I just feel like the stakes were higher back then, oddly, even though there was a lot less going on. Like it's much more grounded. And that first one is a fucking I like that that it's kind of a point break ripoff, you know? It is, with cars, and it's kind of an indie. I love the first one. Me too. The first one was great on a rewatch.
Starting point is 00:07:57 You also just see why Vin and Paul can carry a $200 million movie. Because in 5 and 6, it's so fun that they're just both back in the same movie. It just makes it so strong to me. They are. You do kind of feel sad for everybody too, because this is their weird gilded cage in that they all got shots to kind of go on and do something. These were like huge movies.
Starting point is 00:08:20 They all deservedly so. They're stars in their own right, but they all just kind of keep having coming back to mama like they got they got like i'm gonna do my own shitty movies and they're like i better get back for another fast six and i know my bread is buttered because diesel kind of had he's a fascinating character in the sense that he had this crazy auspicious rise with a multifacial. Have you guys seen that? Oh yeah, baby. Yes.
Starting point is 00:08:48 Ooh, I love it. So I was riveted by him as a, you know, watching these movies and growing up as a kid, like multifacial, Saving Private Ryan, Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black. And then he did it. He left them. He started his own franchise with Triple X.
Starting point is 00:09:03 It was a hit. Triple X is like fast and the furious except without no i guess there's a team in that too yeah there's fake deaths remove cars and add kayaks or whatever oh there was one where a motorcycle turned into a jet ski and i said wow vin diesel what won't you do it's kind of How do you never know what we're talking about in Fast and the Furious, but you're doing these deep pulls from Triple X. It's crazy to me. It's ultimately what Fast became, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:34 But so then he does his comedy. They become Bond movies more or less. Yeah. He does his family comedy with the pacifier. Another huge hit. And then he does Find Me Gu with sydney lamette and that was like he was like well reviewed so i'm like dude you got it now it's like whatever you want to do you want to be like a tom cruise or something and like he just couldn't like he's just i don't
Starting point is 00:09:56 know if he knows what's good about him but i guess he does because he's so fucking he does and the answer is dominic fucking teretto i mean that's good for him he's so good as dom i gotta say my favorite part of this movie was letty thanking the woman who was fucking him while she was fake dead and then dom being like you know you could stay here and she's like i have my own family and it's the police and i was, Dom, were you inviting this woman to like join your couple as a throuple? And she was just like, no thanks. It was wild. Here's what's crazy about it too.
Starting point is 00:10:33 All that worked for me. I was like, yeah, that's like, that's well handled across the board. I was like, I respected the lady from Brazil letting him go and like, hey, I would do the same. Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!
Starting point is 00:10:46 I respected Letty. I thought Don kind of handled it well. It's like, look, all my fucking cards are on the table. I'm fucking everybody. I could fuck both you guys. You want to take off and masturbate to your dead husband? He really did. I get it.
Starting point is 00:11:01 You want Brian to fuck you? Look, whatever, you know, we're all, you know, yeah. I gotta say, Brian's baby seemed like dumb. Like it didn't know where it was the whole time. It kept looking around. I was like, you're on a movie set, baby. Like, why don't you get it? You're 100% right.
Starting point is 00:11:17 Get that hat off the kid. Yeah, right? We don't need the hat in every frame. It's like they had the baby for 20 minutes. He's going to wear a hat the whole time or we don't play ball. I heard that there was beef between the hat in every frame. It's like they had the baby for 20 minutes. He's going to wear a hat the whole time or we don't play ball. I heard that there was beef between the baby and Vin Diesel. And Vin Diesel's like, I don't want this baby's bald head.
Starting point is 00:11:31 I'm the only bald guy. Yeah, I'm the bald one in these movies. He was making a huge stance. You know, maybe that's his real issue with The Rock. He was like, I really don't like another baldy. Also, The Rock was less sweaty in this one than the other one. So I feel like makeup got little fans for him or something. Because he's not dripping wet in every scene.
Starting point is 00:11:49 I think they had to. They were like, the oil is kind of crazy. I guarantee you. I like Tyrese calling it out. Yeah. Oh, and then what about him saying Tyrese has a big forehead? And clearly that's an improvised line because Ludacris narfs fucking soda in that scene. It's so awesome.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Wait, now, is it true that right before Bangarang gets on stage, you gather everyone around and say, let's do what we do best? Improvise. You've guessed it at shows. You know, both of you guys. Let's do what we do best. Improvise. The answer is drive, you fucking idiot. That is what we do best. Improvise. The answer is drive, you fucking
Starting point is 00:12:26 idiot. That is what you do best. You suck at improv. If the improvisation required no cars, you guys would all be jammed up. That's why you're involved in this whole movie is because you can fucking drive. That's the premise for Six is that you guys are driving.
Starting point is 00:12:44 Oh, so go ahead. Oh, no. I was going to do the Toretto Gazette. Oh, let's do it. Okay. Vin Diesel, this made me wet, teases a Dom Toretto spinoff. Of course.
Starting point is 00:12:57 In an interview with Vulture, Vin Diesel teased the possibility of a spinoff centered around Dom or the rest of the Toretto family, which makes me so excited. I will say that there's nothing that's off the table, he told Vulture in a Q&A, the possibility of a spinoff centered around Dom or the rest of the Toretto family, which makes me so excited. I will say that there's nothing that's off the table, he told Vulture in a Q&A. I think the Toretto storyline is what we've wanted to do and can always exist in the future. It's not something that's completely off the table.
Starting point is 00:13:16 When asked if the spinoff would be a prequel since audience have met young Dom, we've met young Dom. Oh, yeah, you said a nine. Diesel clearly responded, responded oh say there's nothing that is off the table my favorite thing is the only quote in this is there's nothing off the table we've learned nothing and also like oh the lead actor and executive producer is like look i'm down to do whatever movies society wants me to do is news on this show where it's like, Vin Diesel willing to work. Also, the main star and character in all of the movies
Starting point is 00:13:49 except three and two and three, I guess is like, hey, the next one's going to be a spinoff all about Toretto. It's like, it's been kind of about Toretto. What was six, seven, eight, nine? It was like... I dig it, though. I hope it's some kind of fake biopic
Starting point is 00:14:05 like where they just invent like a whole story and just have him all the way through his life I hope it's about him and Letty's son and he's an old man makeup the whole like the Irishman and he's walking around talking to old Dom and he's like we used to drive cars that weren't
Starting point is 00:14:20 electric that weren't electric we used to not have to plug them in. I would watch that in a heartbeat. And what's next for the series? Time travel? I mean, that's the only thing. It's not off...
Starting point is 00:14:34 Nothing's off the table. No. I mean, that is the only heightening from space, right? It's like... Wait, they go to space? Spoilers! In the ninth one, they go to space? in the ninth one they go to space oh we'll get that Hobbs and Shaw they they fight a cyborg yeah there's a mutant there's like a legit mutant kind of
Starting point is 00:14:53 and I fully I remember watching Hobbs and Shaw being like huh that seems wild I'll go with it I accept this this is fine you just kind of have to I i love the rock um you know his goatee was kind of stupid in five so it's tighter in this one like he's like all right i'm getting rid of the length in this one and i'm with you guys in the sense that um i don't think that he fits in these movies i love what he did for five but i feel like vin diesel is bringing it more. I feel like Vin Diesel's a better actor. I gotta say, for the level and energy of these movies, the vibe of these movies, The Rock doesn't fit at all. No. His screen time in six is the amount he should be in a movie like this.
Starting point is 00:15:37 Yes. Five, he's great. He kicks it up a notch. And then I love how little he's used in six, but we just don't need him at all. His shit bored me in six. I was like i don't care but like he's like two he's too fucking built like his outfit is stupid i'm like change your fucking outfit one time yeah it's like everybody else over your shit and yeah you gotta fast fast and furious him like give him the fucking boots and an inexplicable jacket. Everybody's always wearing jackets.
Starting point is 00:16:05 He's got to show the Under Armour sign because I think he had an Under Armour deal. For sure. Of course. You think there was a Corona deal or an Under Armour deal or any kind of car deals in these movies? And give us a little foreplay on his arms. They just are out with his arms from the beginning. They are just out. Tease us a little bit.
Starting point is 00:16:22 You've got to build to that. Then he's got to fucking pull the shirt off and then we can like showcase the arms but it's like man his arms are i'm like bored with his arms by the end and i shouldn't be it's a lot of work goes into those arms i gotta say mia i didn't like i'm so sorry i just want a correction i'm thinking his the amount of time he's in seven which i also watch because we're recording that later today the amount of time he's in seven is the right amount he's in six way too much he's in this including like leaping out of planes into jeeps at 335 pounds of muscle where you would just blow your acls clean off your body i loved how much there was
Starting point is 00:16:59 jumping from vehicle to vehicle and vin diesel they make make him seem, no, I mean, they want you to think he's like very light and can fly through the air. But I'm like, this man is a potato. Like he is thick. He is heavy. I do not buy it. But you know who's not a potato? Mia.
Starting point is 00:17:17 She's a little, she's kind of thin in this one. She's scary thin in this. It's too much. I don't want to shame, but she's like, like she's supposed to be nine months pregnant and like yeah we're got we got like sharp jawline showing or something yeah I was I was like wow for a woman who just had a baby
Starting point is 00:17:32 she really pushed it out and that baby sucked her soul out I couldn't believe it when Vin soars through the air to catch uh Letty and land on the car I I showed Tiffany that clip and tiffany goes you know it's crazy but watching it i think it works like the fit and i was like you know what you're right
Starting point is 00:17:52 in this movie these physics make total sense she's like yeah he like aimed he lined it up right it's like and that's the rules they live by in this movie in these movies and that's what i like it so much where it's like yeah he can soar across the span of a bridge, catch and neither of them get hurt. Nobody got hurt and Letty was like how did you know a car would be there to break our fall and he was like
Starting point is 00:18:16 I didn't and she was like okay. Let's unpack that too. How did you know a car would be there to break our fall? Yeah it's like a car doesn't break your fall. It hurts just as much as concrete have a fucking mattress truck crash why not what the hell a bunch of mattresses just like spilling out the driver's like oh no i would like that real quick we have to take a break and we back okay so this was written by chris morgan i feel like he's written more more yeah he's written a bunch of these i think he wrote the first one yeah he kind of came on
Starting point is 00:18:59 when they started when with lynn maybe or something because justin lynn also directed this this was released may 24th 2013 um yeah i had a lot of fun watching this but i gotta say it was really confusing to who shaw was the whole time because you've seen hobbs and shaw but not any of these other movies yeah and i was like hobbs and shaw is where or shaw is jason statham but then in this movie he's a younger handsome man who i thought was in uh a star is born but that's not the same english man there's a different english man uh but yeah i was like this is luke evans is this shaw and he i think about him a lot because he's really good in this movie i i enjoy him in this movie but then his brother who's never seen until the end is the guy who gets the spin-off and like all the other franchises
Starting point is 00:19:51 like statham gets to come back a bunch but shaw is just well spoilers but shaw is like you know he's gone after this and it's upsetting it's upsetting oh he's gone after this but he was the main fucking bad guy oh he comes back but no one who's ever bad is truly bad to the bone no one who's truly good is always good not in the fast furious franchise well i liked when riley that like mean looking lady who fights uh letty when they fall down the stairs or whatever at the end when he's like come on she's like i'd be glad to and i was like hey wow wow we get it you're bad you're really telegraphing this lady yeah yeah she's a i love females fighting especially two tough broads like michelle
Starting point is 00:20:33 rodriguez and gina carano but that the entire while we're talking about this the entire subway fight scene the fight between the two of them and the fight where the one uh bad guy takes on han and roman and smokes them the entire time and then roman's like we can't talk about this and i was like that's funny he's really funny in this one he he's and this is the beginning of his uh sort of runner that he's the meta guy and he like he gets to do the meta move he's like big guy handsome dude like this they're us look they got their own toretto they got their own they got their own letty and it was like that's such a funny move to have that sequence in the movie where it's like we know they're doing
Starting point is 00:21:16 it and then they just add that to the fucking movie it made me laugh oh this gina carino lady she's an ma what an mma fighter she's got bad mma fighter bad current turf yeah oh she got canceled right because she likes trump or something kind of i mean that all canceled go go ahead sorry you go staying well no no i just was like jerking off to her last night so i'm very familiar so she people like her a lot and she's been in some big franchise stuff and was in the Mandalorian. And, um, and there was a lot of people that, um, like doing cosplay as her character. And then she was unwilling to, uh, to put her pronouns out.
Starting point is 00:21:57 And then she kind of like dug in on that. And other people were saying, just say what your pronouns are or don't say anything. And then she kept going harder and harder. And then I think when all that happened, then she kind of leaned in and was embraced by the right. And then eventually, you know, had some weird mask and vaccine stuff. And then Disney ultimately fucking fired her. And now she's doing a movie with Ben Shapiro or something. Here's what Wikipedia says. So when she put her preferred gender pronouns on her Twitter profile, she put beep bop boop and people got mad at her, which is understandably so. Wow.
Starting point is 00:22:35 What a wild woman. Here's the thing that drives me the most crazy. Everyone's like, it's bullshit that politics got her fired. And it's like, if she said said nothing she could still be in the mandalorian yes but she had to say absolutely trans women aren't true women or whatever the fucking stupid turf jk rowling angle is that she was after and it's like all you have to do is say nothing say you're a millionaire and you get your she was destined to get a spin-off on the disney oh yeah yeah they loved her it's it's sad. I mean, I can say this as like
Starting point is 00:23:05 a cis white male who wasn't offended, but she's not attacking me. I do feel bad because I feel like the wrong side embraced her, and I don't know. The dark side. Yeah, she's got a weird...
Starting point is 00:23:21 That works because of the Star Wars. Thank you. You watch those movies in season one. You're an expert now, I hear. That works because of Star Wars. Thank you. You watch those movies in season one. You're an expert now, I hear. I understand the dark side, yes. There's something sexy and vulnerable about her. And obviously she can't really act
Starting point is 00:23:38 because they don't have her say anything in this movie. But her hand-to-hand stuff looks great. It does look good. Oh, she she claimed voter fraud oh she's doing it all yeah yeah it's that classic cycle of like oh i have this one light belief that's kind of right wing and it's bad and then all of a sudden it's like fuck it i'm going full hog you know let's you know let's be absolute monster stop she also wikipedia has it all she also posted uh on instagram she compared hating someone for their political views
Starting point is 00:24:07 To the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust Oh god I guess she really was just like I'm gonna go hard in a direction That maybe is not good How did I get fired? Maybe no one should talk about the Holocaust If you're not Jewish
Starting point is 00:24:22 Just shut the fuck up Don't compare anything to it. Gabriel, I think you're on to something. Just don't bring it up. That might be good. I think she gets a shitty death in this movie, though. I wanted Michelle Rodriguez to beat her in the fight. Same.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Yeah, she just gets hit with a thing and then flies off the rock throws her a grab like there's a few moments in this movie where the rock does like a small setup to saving someone's life rather than just saving their life like he could have shot gina carano with the thing and saved letty for sure but instead he's like hey heads up and throws it to letty who then shoots it. He takes his time rescuing Dom, who's getting his fucking ass handed to him by Klaus. He's kind of like moseys up, and he's like, I'm here, brother.
Starting point is 00:25:10 And it's like, you could have just hit this guy from behind or shot him, and we would win. He's trying to get his rock stuff in this movie, but they're also paying off the other cast, so it all feels kind of jammed in there. It's like, hell yeah, seven bucks is involved.
Starting point is 00:25:27 My man, we got to have a rock moment. I get why Vin Diesel was just like, no dude, just fucking just speed up. I do think though that there is issues with Vin showing up on time and stuff. And I think he always shows up right on time. He's like Santa Claus. He's going to be there like clockwork.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Oh, you mean in production? I mean, behind the scenes. Oh, I think he's like santa claus he's gonna be there like clockwork oh you mean in production i mean behind the scenes oh i think he's making people wait and then i think rock is like i'm prepared i'm in perfect shape this should be my goddamn franchise and they're like dude it's just for whatever reason there's a magic that diesel brings to it and so let him fucking dance in his trailer and then show up whenever he shows up. I have some clips for you guys. I want to show you. How much do you think the fight off camera between the two of them was Corona versus
Starting point is 00:26:12 Terra Mana placement in the fast. Gotta be Corona. It's gotta be Terra Mana cheat meal day. I, I think that like, um, I heard this this guy Brian Koppelman who has an annoying podcast he created the show Billions and he's kind of annoying I like his podcast
Starting point is 00:26:30 yeah yeah he's cool he's done some good he did like the he has great interviews yeah he did the Rounders movie which was good and he did Knock Around Guys and that was like
Starting point is 00:26:39 he had all the success from Rounders and then he got to do this movie called Knock Around Guys which is all these sons of mobsters and it's got like scott khan i think and vin diesel giovanni rabisi right and so vin diesel on set they're this is their first directing movie and they're like this guy's fucking our movie up like i don't get what he's doing it doesn't work he's screwing us up we're fucked and so there it's this big acrimonious fight they're battling and then they ultimately start cutting the movie and he was like holy shit this is the
Starting point is 00:27:10 best fucking part of this movie i don't know whatever he was doing and i want him to expound on that more because i want to know what it was or what he saw but he's like look this guy just fucking has something like i don't know what i thought on the day it wasn't gonna work and i'm sure sting i'm sure the rock is thinking that too like i'm in perfect shape my man i was up at 3 a.m i'm here early the crew loves me tacos for everybody it's wednesday and like you know diesel wednesday diesel's doing whatever he's doing vin diesel gives you levels that maybe you don't think you need. Yeah. But he's very good at grounding shit.
Starting point is 00:27:48 Yeah. He's super melodramatic. I think I've said this before on the podcast, but he is extreme like football player taking the musical production super seriously. Like that's his energy on these movies and i i think and you'll in fast nine there's like legit abstract tone poem sequence featuring vin diesel which i think we'll get to i would love to unpack that but he brings like theater kid energy to these movies that are super macho but then it's like love is all that matters salute me familia and it's like he brings this kind of compassion that you don't expect from dom torretto and he leans into it so hard that it's corny,
Starting point is 00:28:26 but then it goes full circle in my book, corny to genuine. And it hits me in a way. Like I feel so strongly towards Brian O'Connor in these movies. Yeah. Because Vin Diesel makes me feel that way. Yeah, Dom loves Brian.
Starting point is 00:28:39 I love Paul Walker. When we talk about Seven, I'm going to be fucking crying and it's all Vin's fault. Vin's got me so attached to this motherfucker. I'm watching his other movies. I watch Takers. I'm watching random Paul Walker shit because Vin Diesel's got me so passionate about him.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Into the blue. I want to show you guys. I know we're going way long. Can I show you guys something? Yes. Of course. You did more prep work than anyone. Please, show us something.
Starting point is 00:29:08 So this is like in the world of loving Vin Diesel, I'm fascinated by his online presence and what he does for his fans and how his fans kind of support him. So this isn't great. I'll just play this one for a second. This isn't great for the, um,
Starting point is 00:29:27 for the audio medium, but this is Vin dancing to Beyonce in his house. I want you guys to see this and I want to hear your take on it. Wearing a wife eater tank top. Of course, he doesn't own anything else. Oh, these are the longest shorts I've ever seen. This wasn't a stolen video.
Starting point is 00:30:01 He posted this. He posted this? He's barely dancing. Ooh, he's really feeling himself. He started out as a dancer, right? He was a break dancer,
Starting point is 00:30:18 I think, early on in his career. I mean, can't you tell? Those shorts are comically long. They're so long. This is wild because he's not. Oh, no. This is like a surveillance video. Yes. Yeah. I'd like to draw your attention This is like a surveillance video. Yes, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:45 I'd like to draw your attention to the microphone and amp in the background. Well, because he loves karaoke. It's funny you mentioned karaoke because I have something else I want to show you. You got Rihanna. Stay! Do you want to hear Stay With Me by Sam Smith
Starting point is 00:31:00 or Stay by Rihanna? Stay by Rihanna. It's a classic. Okay. This is for somebody's birthday, I think. He's got some birthday shout-outs at the beginning. This is for, unbeknownst to me, my birthday.
Starting point is 00:31:15 Happy birthday. Happy birthday. All along there was a fever. All along it was a fever. A cold sweat hot and heavy breeze. He's perfect. He's perfect. It's funny that he can't get the karaoke version.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Yeah, he's got to sing along to read. I think you can afford it. This is where his baritone comes in. Round and around and around and around we go. I do not hate it. I'm so embarrassed. He's kind of good. Yeah, I know. I hate it. I'm so embarrassed. He's kind of good. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:32:06 I like it. You know, you just want to sing with him. It's just funny because it's like he's in a corner of his house, and someone is shooting this for real. Like, there's two cameras. And those eyes are closed. Oh, he's feeling himself. I want you to stay.
Starting point is 00:32:32 Yes, man. Listen to the high pitch here. It's not about you. I'd like to see The Rock try this shit. Yeah. All right, we're good. Dan! He's perfect.
Starting point is 00:32:55 I love him so much. He can do no wrong. He had the great outfit he had on, the classic, like, dress shirt, no tie, suit jacket, and, like like shredded diesel jeans christian albinger or whatever the fuck his name is he's oh the man behind uh von dutch no what am i thinking of ed hardy oh ed hardy yeah that's that's the better one i fucking love ed hardy i was wearing an ed hardy shirt and i had my my mullet wig on i was walking my dog and this man got so excited he gave me a thumbs up and i was like i don't know that's good or bad
Starting point is 00:33:29 okay let's get into this plot summary so at the beginning of this movie everybody's living peacefully around the world um uh roman has a fucking jet with women in it going to macau which is so crazy it's so funny and one of these ladies the voucher joke was funny they gave one of the ladies a line and she like fucked it up i can't remember what she said but i was like this you did bad you did we're going to gamble for your sad card you got to do it come on it was so bad and then brian and mia have their baby jack uh giselle and hon are together and they're thinking about putting roots down at tokyo still teasing that tokyo it is so fucking funny that they just throw these casually in the movies where they're like yeah we're gonna go to tokyo and then later he's like i have to go to tokyo just a reminder tokyo has not happened yet if you're remember
Starting point is 00:34:29 the third movie it was mentioned three times in this movie it made me laugh so hard uh because the least amount of people have seen tokyo drift so it's like you're overcompensating for who nobody watched it it's the least successful of all of them yeah doesn't this movie also feature ties to braga yeah and uh we see braga and we see braga and then we see shay wiggum again yeah he breaks his nose against the wall again and he said again yeah i die the movie does it they're like just in case this isn't enough of an easter egg this was an easter egg thumbs up to the camera um so okay hobbs comes with uh that pretty lady and they gotta investigate the destruction of a russian military convoy led by owen shaw and let me tell you i didn't really understand this this setup they were just like we gotta get Shaw
Starting point is 00:35:25 and I was like why do you gotta get Shaw why is there military stuff it was very confusing okay I'd like to take to place I like to place these movies in their series this is the last one they rob a corrupt Brazil this is the first one where they're working with the
Starting point is 00:35:42 government for the good like with the government okay this is the first of three to seven question mark movies that feature an insane piece of technology that will change like literally by the ninth movie it's like if they get both halves they'll be able to burn the world down it's like everything is like uh the god's eye is in seven like they keep creating these bigger and bigger like apps that will take the world rabbits foots mcguffins i this is where they lose me too because i don't like them as good guys like i don't like them either i like them bad i liked hobbs chasing them yeah and the bad guy i liked have like two bad guys chasing them uh but hobbs is like, you're going to beg me to take this mission.
Starting point is 00:36:26 Cause he shows him that picture of Letty. Who's like magically still alive. Turns out she wasn't shot. He shot the car. She flew from the explosion and tumbled down a Hill, ended up in the hospital. And then the man who tried to kill her, visit her at the hospital.
Starting point is 00:36:39 I was like, you don't remember nothing. Perfect. I was like, wait, what? Very flimsy. And it's also what inextricably
Starting point is 00:36:46 ties him to teredo and gives it's his weakness and he's the precision guy like why on earth would he have somebody that has fucking amnesia on his team he's obsessed with precision i know he has like nine elite uh british soldiers on his squad and then a divvy bitch who can't remember nothing. And then one street racer who's got amnesia. The power of Michelle Rodriguez. She can't smell or taste. You're in charge of eliminating our biggest threat, Dominique Toretto. I don't know about the behind the scenes on this, but I feel like she wanted out of the franchise,
Starting point is 00:37:21 gets killed off, and then the franchise starts popping off again. For sure. They tag that thing at five where Eva Mendez from two the franchise gets killed off and then the franchise starts popping off again for sure they tag that thing at five where eva mendez from two is now working with the rock gas gives the picture michelle rodriguez alive do you picture a writer's room full of like millionaire uh people all sitting in a circle going okay here's the original shot of us killing Letty. How can we change? And then you remember that the Letty killing was visualized by Tom Toretto. Yes, by Vin Diesel. So it's not real.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Right. So it could be wrong. And it's like, oh, my God, they unlocked it. It's like winning a fight with your spouse, but in the dumbest way possible. You're like, actually, you did say I could drive the car. And it's like oh fine i think that's a stroke of genius on the part of justin lynn i think he might have foresaw like some this kind of playing out in this way because it's like they may have had footage of
Starting point is 00:38:16 her you know meeting her end but the fact that it's nebulous and then they kind of pay that off is cool you don't know why laz alonso, like, does he have a weak moment when they show the flashback? He's going to blow her head off, but then he just is like, I can't fucking shoot her directly, but I can shoot her indirect. Is that his plan?
Starting point is 00:38:32 He's not trying to keep her alive. No, no. I think that's like, maybe I shouldn't shoot a woman who's like crawling with her head in. He was a real baddie though, you know? He's so bad in the movie. He's very bad.
Starting point is 00:38:44 It doesn't make any sense why he doesn't shoot her point blank. Yeah. It doesn't make sense in this movie why a lot of the good guys don't just shoot bad guys. Like, even The Rock is eventually like, you are, like, legally allowed to shoot some of these criminals. Just shoot them. Stop. Stop. Like, I got to get inside that plane and start fist fighting them.
Starting point is 00:39:03 It's like, just fucking shoot at them. I hate to be the American screaming, use guns. But he's the head of like Homeland Security. You hate to be. No, you love being the American. You're wearing a literal bandana on your head. It's a blue bandana. For America.
Starting point is 00:39:21 You probably wear something red on the bottom. I'm with fire. They find Shaw's hideout, but it's a decoy. yeah for america you're probably wearing something red on the bottom i'm with shaw's hideout but it's a decoy and then he's like performing some other heist and then he's got cars that flip other cars i was like wait what how is this a thing what is this used for other than like racing in the street and flipping cars right well that's that's the beauty of this uh series is that they're just like well can we just create another crew of people who are good with cars it's like well we got to give them weird cars all right yeah we got it we'll figure it out and it's also like formula one
Starting point is 00:39:53 racers meet spatulas that they could just like flip cars over there it was a car spatula i'm a huge fan of ramps and things that are portable so putting those those together, I was like, portable rams? You got Stanger. Oh, boy. I wanted to say just quick sidebar too. I asked my wife, I'm doing this Fast and the Furious podcast. What do you think? What comes to mind with Fast and the Furious? And all she said was Megan Fox,
Starting point is 00:40:20 which I thought was really funny. And I was like, nope, not in any of them not transformers not yet not yet to be yes she might she might end up becoming 10 10 and 10 and a half if she comes if she ends up being like an international superstar in any capacity vin will roll her into the franchise in a heartbeat he is not above it we see everyone everyone. And then I asked my 10-year-old son, Fast and the Furious, what comes to mind? And he's like, no interest. Like, zero interest.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Could not. For him, it's like he likes, he wants to see Free Guy really bad and scary movies. So like Conjuring, like that kind of shit. But Fast and the Furious. But one of my clients that I train, she has this really attractive family friend who's maybe like 20 years old from long island super hot crazy crazy accent one time i asked her what she's doing for spring break and she's like i'm going to bahamas and i was like bahamas what is bahamas she was saying bahamas bahamas yeah she was making fun of her brother-in-law her sister's
Starting point is 00:41:24 husband because he watches a lot of Disney Plus. And I was like, she's like, put it this way. He watches a lot of Disney Plus. And I said, well, what about you? What are you into? And she's like, the Fast Saga. And so I was like, she's pretty cool and sexy. And she's all about the Fast Saga.
Starting point is 00:41:39 So, I mean, there obviously is a huge demo because they're immensely successful. There are some dumpy older men who are very into the franchise as well. People love it. I love it. I'm I'm here for it. It's fun. So, OK, we learn that Letty has fucking amnesia. Dom challenges Letty to a street race to help her remember.
Starting point is 00:42:00 This was sexy. I love it was sexy. Pulling up and just not challenging her just like hey let's uh let's race you know and just kind of like it's he's got a good look he gives her a great look and a even better look when he wins yeah and then he like goes backwards or whatever and let he's like this guy's crazy i was like oh my. It was just a perfect line read. I couldn't believe it. And then she fucking, wait, is this when she shoots him?
Starting point is 00:42:29 No. That happens earlier. Oh, that's later. Oh, that's earlier? Yeah. That's her. She catches him in the shoulder. And then he knows it's like her face to face.
Starting point is 00:42:40 And then later he challenges. They have to get the cars first before he can race. Oh, yeah. And getting the cars was wild because they got it from that man who like racially profiled them and then they made him take off all his clothes. I like shit like this.
Starting point is 00:42:54 If you're making a diverse movie, put a white racist in it and fucking shame the fuck out of them. And you know Ludacris is a billionaire because they just did a huge heist one movie ago. So you're like, this is so funny. And also, Ludacris, yes, not white. Dude looks wealthy AF.
Starting point is 00:43:14 He does look rich. He's got good skin. He dresses well. Yeah, he looks like money. Yeah, he does not look like he works anywhere. He doesn't look like he works. He's Tej, baby. This guy's take on the wealthy white racist was great, too.
Starting point is 00:43:31 Like, he's just really. But my shirt wouldn't fit. And they're like, we don't care. Tee hee hee. And the pants. Rock's got a great moment with the wink, too. Now the pants and winks. Great.
Starting point is 00:43:50 Okay. So then there's like a Spanish NATO base. That's Shaw's next target. And I'm like, fucking why? Why military bases? And then everyone at the Spanish NATO base speaks English. And I said, okay, that's fine. Doesn't the rock say like
Starting point is 00:44:05 we are headed to espana or is it like one of them says you're like guys it's just shoot the fucking movie we're headed to espana okay um so then shaw's crew steals a computer chip from a military convoy to complete his device shaw and let he commandeer a tank and destroy cars in its path. And then... Let's talk to the tank set piece, because that's a big set piece in the movie. It's a lot of fun. So it's on a dual bridge, and the guys are driving,
Starting point is 00:44:36 the fast crew are driving old cars, because they need cars without computers, because they have those hockey pucks. What is that, a hockey puck? They have hockey pucks that shut down your computer. Yeah, that fry your car. So they got to go old school. It's like Italian job.
Starting point is 00:44:51 They're all driving like weird old minis and shit like that. And it looks cool. And then the bad guys are driving a fucking tank that's working. A whole ass tank. It's being transported loaded with ammunition somehow. That's not how you transport a tank. And then it shoots out the fucking. To be fair to them, Gabrus, you're going to save time and space if you just load it.
Starting point is 00:45:12 You're going to transport the bullets separate. Just put them in the tank. Load the tank. Also, this is a great shot of like Letty is now a comms expert on tanks. She's like checking, like fucking with the dials. They stop explaining how people know how to do stuff in this movie like the last movie they were like i had a life before this but now they're just like whatever who gives a shit she knows how to do all this shit um so they're like
Starting point is 00:45:37 shooting or no so the tank runs over roman's car roman climbs out of his car. He jumps onto Brian's car and he's like, woohoo. Yeah, I did it. I'm not dead. And then they were like, let me get on top of the tank and figure out how to cut this car loose. And let he's like,
Starting point is 00:45:55 yup, that's in my wheelhouse. So then for whatever reason, like the car flips the tank, let he shoots out into the sky. Dom sees it. Dom brian brian drives he makes it an anchor yes yes yes yes that's like another layer to this fucking thing where it's like we gotta bump this over the side brian make it an anchor great good call yeah truly so wild
Starting point is 00:46:24 it's insane that in the moment they're like we know exactly what we need to do to stop a full Great. Good call. Yeah. Truly so wild. It's insane that in the moment they're like, we know exactly what we need to do to stop a full fledged tank. And they do it. It looks great. It looks cool. It's very fun cars. They do a good job in this sequence to have like, not a bunch of innocent people are dying.
Starting point is 00:46:39 Don't worry. Keep showing them running away from their cars. Honestly, they did not tell the extras what to do, or they did not speak the same language as the extras because there was times where someone was looking around being like, well, where is it coming from? Is it behind us or in front of us?
Starting point is 00:46:55 And then they just kind of start walk running. As if you couldn't hear a tank crunching through cars, firing at you. You're so right. I think this movie suffers a little bit too from, I mean, and this is just what has to happen in making the logical progression is that they can't set them all in like the,
Starting point is 00:47:13 you know, in Rijo de Janeiro, Rijo de Janeiro or the Dominican Republic. And so London is not as visually interesting to me. It really isn't. It's too dark. So when they get to Madrid, it's better because it's more brightly colored. And also they're delivering on more action and spectacle but it makes the stuff go on for too long so you just get a little numb whereas i feel like five they threaded the needle
Starting point is 00:47:34 really well and this one every chase and fight is always about 20 too long and this one clocks in over two hours and it's just like oh man it's just it's long by the time we get to that plane thing at night it's just like you're like all right you know i guess you're like it's been a long 48 hours in this movie like that's a lot of action that these guys and vin diesel's healed from his bullet like everyone is healed absolutely he takes the bullet out himself he never goes to the hospital he He doesn't need it. Well, because it's so important to figure out where the gun came from. When the guy just says, I don't know where she is. They're like, we got the bullet. We find the guy.
Starting point is 00:48:12 The guy's like, I don't know. And that's the end of that. So fucking Hobbes takes Shaw, but then bring Shaw to the crew to reveal that Mia has been kidnapped by Shaw's henchmen. And in this sequence sequence we see her give the baby away to Elena to Elena but then they're both fine so it's like why did you give the baby what what is happening I don't know just run away what does she see that makes her run back to the house it's nuts so then Hobbs is forced to release Shaw and I was like this couldn't been a phone call why did you bring Shaw all the way to them
Starting point is 00:48:45 to be like, you got something to tell you? To have that fucking huge neck breaking turn where it goes, honey, you coming with? I thought you would never ask. Thanks for popping in, Gina.
Starting point is 00:49:02 Her one line in the whole movie is just kind of like, oh, she talks and she's bad? She fucked it up. So then Letty stays with Dom. Okay, so now Shaw's group's boarding this fucking airplane. Yeah, the spruce goose. This is wild.
Starting point is 00:49:19 So Dom, Letty, and Brian chase after them, board the plane. That's not a plane. That's a planet. One of like Tyrese's three per movie. And I was like, oh, boy, that's that was bad. I was like, this one was bad. This one could have been edited out. That was written to all the stuff he improvises his goal.
Starting point is 00:49:39 Just let him go. Just let him. Yeah, let him go. Fucking shitty joke in there. Chris Morgan. So this whole sequence was a little confusing to me. I was like, okay, so they think shooting these things into the wings of the plane is going to anchor this plane down?
Starting point is 00:49:53 This is a very big plane and these are little cars. So this is the thing that drives me crazy about this sequence. You're right. Why do they think that? More importantly, why does each car have that technology in it when they didn't know a plane was coming because they're surprised by it so they all just were like look we stole these grappling hooks from those guys so we might as well each have one with a nostank hooked up to it they were like yeah we should put one in each car while we drive out there like they're packing the car to
Starting point is 00:50:20 go on this chase or whatever and more importantly how is this nighttime airplane battle gonna top the tank thing in madrid right and it's so similar you had your they are very very similar and the one was the tank one was better it's well lit fucking dom saves letty fucking dramatically in this you have wonder woman sacrificing herself to save Han. That's true. You have the plane crashing as Dom drives a car out of the exploding plane. You're right. And then lands behind the plane and then walks through the flames unscathed.
Starting point is 00:51:00 Not even limping. Credit where credit is due, Nicole. You're right. The plane jizzes Vin out like as a huge cum blast shooting out the first sperm of Vin Diesel in his muscle car.
Starting point is 00:51:13 I got that plane to bust the nut. Watching this movie knowing Han dies in three and then you watch his girlfriend die and you're like oh this poor tragic guy this is too much i texted you i was like this is too much for han i cannot believe this they give her a good death i gotta give her that i like i like uh but i was like is she dead i said that to you because i was like i haven't finished it yet but i was like she dies in a way
Starting point is 00:51:43 where she goes into this like abyss. She could be rolling around in a field somewhere, you know, spinning around into Wonder Woman. Does those movies comes back and she's Giselle again. Hey, I tell you what, man, she does a couple of more of those imagine videos and, you know, has one or two that don't do that. Well, she's coming back as Giselle. I'm not going to lie. I would not put it past the fucking franchise. Just to pay her and bring her back. Yeah, truly.
Starting point is 00:52:07 Like, truly, because that would be like such fan service. I mean, she's in flashbacks and later movies too, so she gets like an extra paycheck. But I do believe we never saw her dead and that's something that comes up in like whatever studio writers. And I would like to see her and Han together because
Starting point is 00:52:24 I grew to really like this relationship same i'm the same i love i love han i know you guys like him too and he's maybe one of my favorites of the whole series great yeah han is incredible it's so wild that like his small part in tokyo drift blossomed into this like he's great like i i would not want to watch these movies without him which is funny because i did i watched one in seven he's not in seven yeah i'm the guy they don't ever give him enough to do in my opinion but the actor is so enigmatic and uh he brings that's the sat word what's that enigmatic enigmatic he brings an enigma yeah he brings something special that you you know he's got like a full life and he's always kind of like
Starting point is 00:53:05 watching and thinking and you're always like what's what's on his mind he excels in the if he's in a scene with just him or with one other person not everyone else in this movie can handle like holding the camera by themselves but sung kang can totally like here's something he's fully enriched in this character and i think justin lynn and him are old buddies yeah they did justin lynn's yeah that his first kind of big hit they were that he put him in that and they were they were great together that's a cool movie too yeah it's a great better off tomorrow it was like the first mtv film i remember when it came out maybe done a short or something before that and that kind of got him in the conversation and then he started doing big movies um and really found himself with fast and furious because he did tokyo drift and then he did
Starting point is 00:53:51 like annapolis and some other kind of like um chintzy big budget action all you know neil maritz produces all these movies and all his stuff has a cheap pastiche to me you know which i guess kind of works for these but like he's he did stealth and movies like that where you're like oh yeah i guess i can kind of see that this is you know it's marketing minded you know i just think it's so wild that he did tokyo drift and they were like all right you can do more because tokyo drift was not good yeah it didn't it didn't make money but i guess he just sold them on his vision because you know too fast too furious was a hit like it made good money wait was that a justin lynn one no that was
Starting point is 00:54:31 singleton oh yeah i like too fast too fierce but it did it was very music video for me and i very love it just deviated from the first one i love it i think it's why five was so good because there's obviously roman and they're in luda and there's elements of that one that they brought into five which makes five the best in the series in my opinion they also i wanted to talk to you guys as we're running out of time that um they they don't ever soar to the the levels of horniness that one and two did they're one and two are real male gazey hor horny, sexy and they try to do that in all the
Starting point is 00:55:07 other ones, but they all feel like a Fanta commercial. The sexuality in this movie is always 25 seconds of butt cheeks and dancer b-roll before a street race.
Starting point is 00:55:23 It's like the Ricky Martin She Bangs video or something. Like the way they're lit, or they're like a Sony, like a Sony, I don't know, whatever a phone is that's not an iPhone, like one of their commercials, like where they show like a rooftop party or something, and you're like,
Starting point is 00:55:39 this is the sexiest thing you can show. And it's just so funny how frequently there are huge parties filled with underdressed women dancing and men sitting around drinking. It's like, how many of these exist in every country? Because these guys find them all. And how are they not sexy somehow? I don't know. It's too sterile or something. I don't know what it is.
Starting point is 00:56:01 It is very sterile. Also, the way Letty sits in Dom's lap is sterile. He doesn't what to do with his hands and i'm like this is the woman you've been with she doesn't remember you she said it feels like home uh but like you you can touch her like i think she's allowing you to touch her in a way that you used to go back to one when you guys fucked in the garage together that was so hot oh i love that scene they're all greasy and dirty and it's darkly yeah as these movies get bigger and that they're looking to just make money overseas they're like remove sexuality add fucking bigger explosions add stuff that you don't need to speak english to enjoy just like like just big spectacles and it'll just
Starting point is 00:56:42 sell globally and crush it and it's it's a bummer because those little hardcore, like not hardcore sex, but like the little relationships that are in there, like the Dom and Brian, the Dom and Letty, the Giselle and Han. Like those are what make the Roman and Brian. Like these are what make these movies strong is these like little romantic. And I think when it's actual romance, like intimacy romance, they got to show more. They got to show Letty passionately kissing. Yeah. I want it. I want it.
Starting point is 00:57:15 Me too. She's still dealing with amnesia in seven. Spoiler alert. She's still struggling with her amnesia in the next movie. Wait, she is? Yes, but it gets resolved in the best way. And I look forward to talking about that with you in a couple hours. Okay, so Hobbes agrees to pardon them.
Starting point is 00:57:33 Dom, he's like, what do you want? And he's like, 1327. And that's the old house in LA. And they're back there. They're having a barbecue. And Paul Walker, Brian is just like to his baby. He's like, the air quality is bad. The traffic's bad.
Starting point is 00:57:48 But you have your own garage. And I was like, what? Okay, cool. Legal weed. And the kid's dressed like a monk again or something. He's got like some weird gown on and the fucking beans. I know. It's very weird.
Starting point is 00:58:03 I think they could not get a human child on set like legally or something and they had to like dress up a bag of ferrets as a baby or something because it's like it doesn't make a lot of sense why the kid is in so many shots and looks so unusual bag of ferrets just keep honey on your finger they'll go after the honey good good good um i missed this but there's a mid-credits scene Where Han is involved in a car chase And is suddenly hit by an oncoming car So I assume this is Tokyo Drift
Starting point is 00:58:30 I could talk us through this because it's pretty crazy The mid-credits sequence in this movie Is a full-on sequence From Tokyo Drift Where they drift through the crowd of people Remember that from 3? And remember Han dies in his car flips In this mid-credit sequence it's the car flips and jason statham is the guy who drove and crashed into him he gets out he's shaw's brother calls dominic toretto and says
Starting point is 00:58:57 toretto it's me shaw's brother and i just killed someone and then he throws his cross onto Han, onto the thing. Oh my God. Then we see Vin Diesel show up, which we saw at the end of Tokyo Drift. Yes. And he goes, and he knows Han. Then we see them over on the side talking. And he's like, Han had this. And it's the necklace.
Starting point is 00:59:18 And it's like, this is so shoehorned in. But it really pushes the whole movie forward and inspires why you want, why Statham's the bad guy in Seven. It's tough to buy Statham drifting in Tokyo against a bunch of kids, though. Yeah, that's the thing you have to remember. Han is hanging out with high school kids. He's young.
Starting point is 00:59:38 And he's a full-grown adult. Well, yeah, he's lived five lives, according to the franchise. He's like 41. He should be like 40-something, hanging out with 16-year-olds in Tokyo. I'm here in Tokyo drifting nine-year-olds. Do you know what I mean? Toretto,
Starting point is 00:59:54 do you know what I mean? Real quick, we have to take another break. Okay, we're back. Real quick, this film won awards. Best Action or Adventure Film at the Saturn Awards. Best On-Screen Duo at the MTV Movie Awards, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture at the Screen Act Awards, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. Outstanding performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Starting point is 01:00:28 Yeah, I get that because the stunts are fucking wild. They are. There should be Oscars for stunts. I think we've screamed it on this podcast before. I truly think there should. They're incredible. And all that shit is practical. That's cool.
Starting point is 01:00:40 It is. I have two quick thoughts I want to leave you guys before we have to wrap this up because it's i'd be remiss if i didn't tell i got a fast and the furious insider story um and it it it works when did when do we lose uh paul walker seven for seven seven okay so it dovetails in nicely to your next episode he um so he unfortunately wasn't able to finish the movie and it was a big story that universal cast his twin brother and maybe his other brother to kind of fill out the role for him. It's nice.
Starting point is 01:01:10 It's what they should have done. I had a friend of mine that worked with or that knows the actor double that they hired because the reality of it is it'd be great if it was his brother with whatever he's doing in his life to come out there and finish. But it's a lot of heavy lifting because he has to be on screen with the actors and act the part and they need to emote and have moments together. So they cast an actual actor that fit Paul Walker's dimensions. And so this guy has also done other shows. I won't say his name because I don't think Universal did, but this guy has done other shows and movies. He's got an okay career, but he came on this movie. He did a really great job. He finished this thing and he said it was so fucking surreal
Starting point is 01:01:50 because they had stopped down on the movie and then started back up. And he said, I was ostensibly the A-team. I was there with the leads of the movie. I got treated the exact same way they did. I had moments. They would, you know, to use my body as like a composite or whatever, I would have close-ups. I acted with everybody. I had my trailer. I did first-class travel international. I'm babied and protected. I'm there with Vin Diesel, all of them.
Starting point is 01:02:19 And he said, then the movie ends. I completely walk away from it. I'm not in it. It's not me up there at all i get no credit and it's the last time i'll ever have that experience so he said it was very fucking surreal to be like that must be insane you are the fucking star of this but then really like but then you're not yeah how wild shit dude that's like uh dan lippard in son of zorn yeah yeah real deep cut but yes and then my second thing i wanted to ask you guys what for a while during the tram ride at
Starting point is 01:02:53 universal they had this weird thing with fast and the furious cars where they would just kind of bounce around on hydraulics like you saw jaws you saw this you saw kong and then you saw these fast and the furious cars and it was when the franchise was in not in the best shape that it's in now. And I thought, is Universal leaving something on the table by not doing a Radiator Springs for Fast and the Furious? You know the cars ride at Disneyland? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:18 Why not do that for Fast and the Furious at Universal Studios? It's crazy that there's not even like the shitty Transformers, all Spark, like just like one of those video based rides. Like you could do a Fast and the Furious one so quickly. I thought of it when it was the tunnel part in Fast and Furious where they're zipping through the tunnel and it's really like,
Starting point is 01:03:38 whoa, it'd be so cool if they did something on a track, obviously to be the coolest. But I'm with you, Gabrus. Like, how are they not? This is a billion dollars. It's pretty much all they got, you know, as far as... Right, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:48 It's their biggest thing. The dark universe ain't panning out for them. It's just the fast saga that's working out right now. Yeah. I feel like that would drive revenue to the parks big time. Real quick.
Starting point is 01:03:58 This movie, the budget was $160 million, and it made $789 million. $160 160 mil is a huge investment and then they just fucking blow the doors i mean how wild yeah god damn that's so crazy that's so much fucking trivia so duane johnson the rock improvised the you better hide that big ass forehead uh so the reaction of ludicrous spitting out his drink is real. The tank chase originally planned was to be created via CGI. But then Justin Lin was like, it has to be done practically with some post-production enhancements.
Starting point is 01:04:34 The tank ran over approximately 250 cars during filming. Oh, awesome. I mean, there's like 150 on camera. I'm assuming some of them got cut. But there's a shit ton of cars being crushed. In the scene in London when Dom is racing Letty, there's a small boy who's watching the race from a classic London double-decker red street bus.
Starting point is 01:04:58 The same kid is shown watching Dom and Brian as they pull in the safe in the previous movie, Fast Five. The young boy is Justin Lin's son. And I'll tell you something, didn't clock this kid at all. Me either. I have no idea what this trivia is about. I love he got the kid. That's cute, though.
Starting point is 01:05:18 In the two-hour and 40-minute movie featuring over one million explosions, you missed the cutaway shot of a child on a bus i miss that little kid understandably baby uh singer do you have anything that you want to plug uh just uh you know i got a head gum podcast dumbbells with uh the wonderful eugene cordero people should check that out and then action boys with gabrus it's a lot more of this type of shit just us screaming screaming about movie shit and then you know having inane theories and all that kind of shit i love it i i highly recommend action boys dumbbells is great but i highly recommend the one that gets me paid as well well we'll be back literally in a, I mean, truly this will come out next week, but we're recording this in a couple hours.
Starting point is 01:06:07 Furious 7, baby. And if you want us to read your review, you can write us a review and we'll read it in the, write in. Oh boy. Not my name. LOL is what this person wrote for their name. Fast and totally furious. name lol is what this person wrote for their name fast and totally furious so the one thing i completely tell my friends uh they talk about this movie series is it's a total male soap opera from dead people coming back to life to cars drug lords to more cars now we're going to space a total male
Starting point is 01:06:34 soap opera keep up the laughs thank you very much night vroom vroom uh lan uh oh ian ian 776 said good pod good pod thank you pod. Thank you, Ian. Thank you, Ian. You know, as long as it's five stars, you can write whatever dumb shit you want in there. Super appreciated, Bob. Raise a regular Mark Twain with that. Humorous.
Starting point is 01:06:56 Brevity is the soul of wit. All right, that's it. I gotta go watch Furious 7. Let's do what we do best. And improvise. Thank you. so That was a Hidgum Original.

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