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Yeah, 2 and 3 are kind of iffy, with 3 probably being the "worst" since it has none of the core characters up to that point. The timeline is a little off though, with it running 1-2-4-5-6-3.
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The only thing bad about Fast 5 was it gave Paul Walker the opportunity to be on the big screen again. Why won't he just go away!
Yeah, 2 and 3 are kind of iffy, with 3 probably being the "worst" since it has none of the core characters up to that point. The timeline is a little off though, with it running 1-2-4-5-6-3.
I enjoyed 3, but it's only barely related to the others. Frankly, it could just be its movie, and it didn't really make sense to make it 3. Ah well. Fast cars and sometimes explosion--what's not to like?
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Wizard of Oz... Am I understanding right that the lead is a male now? Is that the "fresh" way to present the story?
It's "Oz the Great and Powerful", e.g. a prequel covering how the man who would become the Wizard first arrived in Oz and his adventures there.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
If only the guy that wrote the original Wizard of Oz wrote a bunch of other stories set in Oz with Dorothy and the Scarecrow and everyone else. That'd be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have this horrible glut of corpsefucking a movie from 1939.
Wizard of Oz... Am I understanding right that the lead is a male now? Is that the "fresh" way to present the story?
It's "Oz the Great and Powerful", e.g. a prequel covering how the man who would become the Wizard first arrived in Oz and his adventures there.
Oh, I missed the actual title when I saw the trailer. Thanks.
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I'm guessing at this point that they're just retconning 3 to say that one guy wasn't in it. I figured they were changing the timeline up after 4 and maybe 5 but now that 6 has him in it as well too much time has passed and they're using newer cars in each movie so I don't see them saying "well 3 technically took place in like 2018 even though it's Japan and everything looks 10 years older"
If only the guy that wrote the original Wizard of Oz wrote a bunch of other stories set in Oz with Dorothy and the Scarecrow and everyone else. That'd be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have this horrible glut of corpsefucking a movie from 1939.
You really think any studio would have the balls to re-cast Judy Motherfucking Garland?
I'm guessing at this point that they're just retconning 3 to say that one guy wasn't in it. I figured they were changing the timeline up after 4 and maybe 5 but now that 6 has him in it as well too much time has passed and they're using newer cars in each movie so I don't see them saying "well 3 technically took place in like 2018 even though it's Japan and everything looks 10 years older"
F&F 7 will feature them trying to steal an experimental super engine based on alien technology from Area 51 and then slapping it in a muscle car with an extra bottle of nitrous and 3 times the neon lights that are required for a car of that size. The resulting awesome will actually shatter local space-time sending the crew to random places in the series continuity where they can die or not die as the past and future plot lines require.
I saw one and part of 5. I'm actually tempted by that trailer to catch up on them (except 3. 3 looked so goddamn retarded that it killed what little desire I had to see any of them for years).
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
If only the guy that wrote the original Wizard of Oz wrote a bunch of other stories set in Oz with Dorothy and the Scarecrow and everyone else. That'd be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have this horrible glut of corpsefucking a movie from 1939.
You really think any studio would have the balls to re-cast Judy Motherfucking Garland?
Well, besides Miramax.
Dude, no one gives a shit about the legacy of Judy Garland except Liza Minnelli and elderly gay men.
What I'm hinting at is that L. Frank Baum wrote about eighteen brazillion Oz books that were trippy as shit; they were full of weird shit like the Tin Woodsman murdering flower-people and gender-confused monarchs and a hundred other weird-ass things that Tim Burton couldn't come up with in two dozen Johnny Depp movies.
But everything that's revisited that property since 1939 has basically used the film as the only source text, and it's just old and tiresome.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
I saw one and part of 5. I'm actually tempted by that trailer to catch up on them (except 3. 3 looked so goddamn retarded that it killed what little desire I had to see any of them for years).
I saw part of 3 once.
I was in a local fried chicken restaurant, and the manager was a fucking weirdo who would pirate new-release movies and then show them on a big-screen in the restaurant. Often they'd be R-rated and totally inappropriate to show at a family-friendly fast-food franchise.
My take of the film was it was a really shitty mighty-whitey film aimed at 16 year olds who could actually afford the shitty Japanese compacts that populated the films vs. the hulking muscle beasts of the Walker/Diesel films.
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3 was actually really good, mostly because it set a wide distance from the train wreck that was 2 (which caused the studios to move a different direction to keep the franchise going)
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If only the guy that wrote the original Wizard of Oz wrote a bunch of other stories set in Oz with Dorothy and the Scarecrow and everyone else. That'd be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have this horrible glut of corpsefucking a movie from 1939.
You really think any studio would have the balls to re-cast Judy Motherfucking Garland?
Well, besides Miramax.
Dude, no one gives a shit about the legacy of Judy Garland except Liza Minnelli and elderly gay men.
What I'm hinting at is that L. Frank Baum wrote about eighteen brazillion Oz books that were trippy as shit; they were full of weird shit like the Tin Woodsman murdering flower-people and gender-confused monarchs and a hundred other weird-ass things that Tim Burton couldn't come up with in two dozen Johnny Depp movies.
But everything that's revisited that property since 1939 has basically used the film as the only source text, and it's just old and tiresome.
I mean, it's not that hard to understand. The movie is one of the most well-known films ever produced, while you'd be hard-pressed to find a handful of people in that audience that know there was a book, who wrote it, or that he wrote other books in the series.
I'm guessing at this point that they're just retconning 3 to say that one guy wasn't in it. I figured they were changing the timeline up after 4 and maybe 5 but now that 6 has him in it as well too much time has passed and they're using newer cars in each movie so I don't see them saying "well 3 technically took place in like 2018 even though it's Japan and everything looks 10 years older"
Tokyo Drift is in continuity.
In the epilogue they foreshadowing him going to Tokyo eventually.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
Didn't the later Oz books go to really weird places, like even more so than a girl making up a story about her incestuous sexual abuse...
The Oz books are full of weird shit, though mostly limited to weird characters. Some of the books don't even really tell stories in the traditional sense, they're just a series of vignettes or unrelated sequences, much like The Hobbit.
Hell, one book is just Dorothy and the Wizard lost as hell outside of Oz in some nightmare hellscape, where they're attacked by onion-people who the Wizard murders with extreme prejudice.
Didn't the later Oz books go to really weird places, like even more so than a girl making up a story about her incestuous sexual abuse...
The Oz books are full of weird shit, though mostly limited to weird characters. Some of the books don't even really tell stories in the traditional sense, they're just a series of vignettes or unrelated sequences, much like The Hobbit.
Hell, one book is just Dorothy and the Wizard lost as hell outside of Oz in some nightmare hellscape, where they're attacked by onion-people who the Wizard murders with extreme prejudice.
They should make the entire book series as movies, but market them at stoners instead of kids.
Didn't the later Oz books go to really weird places, like even more so than a girl making up a story about her incestuous sexual abuse...
The Oz books are full of weird shit, though mostly limited to weird characters. Some of the books don't even really tell stories in the traditional sense, they're just a series of vignettes or unrelated sequences, much like The Hobbit.
Hell, one book is just Dorothy and the Wizard lost as hell outside of Oz in some nightmare hellscape, where they're attacked by onion-people who the Wizard murders with extreme prejudice.
They should make the entire book series as movies, but market them at stoners instead of kids.
I'm picturing this like Reading Rainbow, with a stoned guy reciting the plot as best he remembers it over illustrations of the books drawn on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers. I bet it would get a lot of youtube hits. If only I knew any stoners...
Didn't the later Oz books go to really weird places, like even more so than a girl making up a story about her incestuous sexual abuse...
The Oz books are full of weird shit, though mostly limited to weird characters. Some of the books don't even really tell stories in the traditional sense, they're just a series of vignettes or unrelated sequences, much like The Hobbit.
Hell, one book is just Dorothy and the Wizard lost as hell outside of Oz in some nightmare hellscape, where they're attacked by onion-people who the Wizard murders with extreme prejudice.
They should make the entire book series as movies, but market them at stoners instead of kids.
Agreed, Fast 6 looks utterly ridiculous but it will probably still be fun.
Edit: I actually kind of liked Fast 3 from a "oh god this is so bad it is funny" standpoint. The best part is when some characters are going to be killed so they try and escape by drifting down a straight road only going about 30 mph when it would obviously be faster to just drive in a straight line.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
Something that doesn't even scratch the surface of how weird the Oz stuff got.
The Return to Oz movie is an amalgam of the 2nd and 3rd books with some other stuff put in there to tie it in audiences' minds to the 1939 film. Pretty much everything that happens in the last half of that movie is verbatim. Sadly, fewer people know about the characters in that film than the original group of the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Sawhorse are much more fun characters.
Oh, and god. The Woggle-bug. I totally forgot about him until just now. He's totally the Dr. Zoidberg of the Oz books.
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I absolutely love F&F. It is just silly fun crafted with care. The franchise doesn't try too hard, recognizing that when you have Vin Diesel and the rest your best bet is to keep everything light and simple and let them infuse the film with their particular charm.
Fast 5 was way better than it had any god damn right to be. Up til then I considered the franchise to be uniformly mediocre-to-awful car porn. Now if I'm surfing channels and Fast 5 is on, I will just keep watching it, any time of day or night. There are not many movies I can say that about. Ghostbusters and The Living Daylights are among them.
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You can't put The Rock and The Diesel in the same movie and not expect instant and all-consuming magic to happen. That everyone else in those movies is a tragic waste of space hardly matters when those two are around.
I loved Fast 5, the rest were meh at best. In fact, the only reason I've seen any of the other movies is because when I saw that Fast 5 would have those two dudes on the screen together I had to at least brush up on what was going on. I will be at the theatre for Fast 6 even if all my friends shun me.
I don't understand the hate for FF3 (I assume people just really hate bow wow). Yes, its no FF1 or Fast 5, but its leagues better than 2 and especially the horrid CGI fest that 4 was.
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But yeah I'm so going to see this new one
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I enjoyed 3, but it's only barely related to the others. Frankly, it could just be its movie, and it didn't really make sense to make it 3. Ah well. Fast cars and sometimes explosion--what's not to like?
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"Oh no! Here comes the plane! It's crashing into all the cars! Explosions everywhere! Save them, Ninja Turtles!"
My god... that's exactly how I played with my toys... Though I did have a soundtrack with my dads dire straits tapes.
"Now its the climatic fight time to play Ride Across the River!"
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It's "Oz the Great and Powerful", e.g. a prequel covering how the man who would become the Wizard first arrived in Oz and his adventures there.
Then we wouldn't have this horrible glut of corpsefucking a movie from 1939.
Oh, I missed the actual title when I saw the trailer. Thanks.
You really think any studio would have the balls to re-cast Judy Motherfucking Garland?
Well, besides Miramax.
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A cannon would definitely improve those films.
Dude, no one gives a shit about the legacy of Judy Garland except Liza Minnelli and elderly gay men.
What I'm hinting at is that L. Frank Baum wrote about eighteen brazillion Oz books that were trippy as shit; they were full of weird shit like the Tin Woodsman murdering flower-people and gender-confused monarchs and a hundred other weird-ass things that Tim Burton couldn't come up with in two dozen Johnny Depp movies.
But everything that's revisited that property since 1939 has basically used the film as the only source text, and it's just old and tiresome.
I saw part of 3 once.
I was in a local fried chicken restaurant, and the manager was a fucking weirdo who would pirate new-release movies and then show them on a big-screen in the restaurant. Often they'd be R-rated and totally inappropriate to show at a family-friendly fast-food franchise.
My take of the film was it was a really shitty mighty-whitey film aimed at 16 year olds who could actually afford the shitty Japanese compacts that populated the films vs. the hulking muscle beasts of the Walker/Diesel films.
should watch the trailer again
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I mean, it's not that hard to understand. The movie is one of the most well-known films ever produced, while you'd be hard-pressed to find a handful of people in that audience that know there was a book, who wrote it, or that he wrote other books in the series.
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Tokyo Drift is in continuity.
The Oz books are full of weird shit, though mostly limited to weird characters. Some of the books don't even really tell stories in the traditional sense, they're just a series of vignettes or unrelated sequences, much like The Hobbit.
Hell, one book is just Dorothy and the Wizard lost as hell outside of Oz in some nightmare hellscape, where they're attacked by onion-people who the Wizard murders with extreme prejudice.
They should make the entire book series as movies, but market them at stoners instead of kids.
I'm picturing this like Reading Rainbow, with a stoned guy reciting the plot as best he remembers it over illustrations of the books drawn on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers. I bet it would get a lot of youtube hits. If only I knew any stoners...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=QBfmR4rEeHU&feature=endscreen
It's already the stuff of nightmares. No real wonder why this movie never quite caught on.
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Edit: I actually kind of liked Fast 3 from a "oh god this is so bad it is funny" standpoint. The best part is when some characters are going to be killed so they try and escape by drifting down a straight road only going about 30 mph when it would obviously be faster to just drive in a straight line.
Something that doesn't even scratch the surface of how weird the Oz stuff got.
The Return to Oz movie is an amalgam of the 2nd and 3rd books with some other stuff put in there to tie it in audiences' minds to the 1939 film. Pretty much everything that happens in the last half of that movie is verbatim. Sadly, fewer people know about the characters in that film than the original group of the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Sawhorse are much more fun characters.
Oh, and god. The Woggle-bug. I totally forgot about him until just now. He's totally the Dr. Zoidberg of the Oz books.
I absolutely love F&F. It is just silly fun crafted with care. The franchise doesn't try too hard, recognizing that when you have Vin Diesel and the rest your best bet is to keep everything light and simple and let them infuse the film with their particular charm.
I loved Fast 5, the rest were meh at best. In fact, the only reason I've seen any of the other movies is because when I saw that Fast 5 would have those two dudes on the screen together I had to at least brush up on what was going on. I will be at the theatre for Fast 6 even if all my friends shun me.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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