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Korean_Street_Pizza

Just remember, in the first film, they stole DVD players.


krussell1205

That actually made sense though. Those TV/DVD combos were the IPhone of the day


UnnecessaryAppeal

Yes exactly, the franchise used to make sense then it turned into borderline superhero movies


BizzyM

"I'm da black Supaman" - Idris Elbow


Emmyisme

Listen. I would absolutely watch Idris Elba as Black Supaman


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Only in a film called "Black Superman"


jableshables

Superbman


hgs25

I wonder if WB would pander to the Chinese audience and bring in the Chinese Knockoff Justice League from the comics.


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OUBoyWonder

*"In this movie with a Black Superman his Kryptonite is an honest days work. Also, he will be referred to as the Man of Steal."*\- Colin Jost *Weekend Update*


richmondody

[Here's the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7drK5-sMns) with all of the Black Superman jokes. I love the audience reacting to all of the racist jokes.


Ainar86

One day Michael is really gonna get Colin into serious trouble XD


lolno

He probably got in some shit at home after the "Sammy Davis Jr. will be played by Scarlett Johansson" one lmao


CO_PC_Parts

"Or as my family calls it, uppity bus passenger day!"


DoomsDan101

Omg colin!


Know_Your_Rites

Pretty sure the only white guy allowed to tell this joke is the one Michael Che wrote it for. Adding the attribution helped tho, lol.


TheFotty

They already made it, but it was called Steel and starred Shaq.


gendabenda

The world needs popcorn movies though - there wouldn't be ten of them if that wasn't the case. It's like Doritos for your brain - they aren't nutritious, they kinda smell a bit and aren't really quite what they used to be but damn if you don't open a bag on the couch and obliterate the whole thing. It's fun!


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wwwdiggdotcom

No, every film must be a cinematic masterpiece and paragon of modern art


thoroakenfelder

Like Hudson hawk?


Errant92

I don't understand what I just read, but I love it.


CPargermer

Harry Potter, I believe, is the guy from Game of Thrones who brings the one ring to Nidavellir to be destroyed and save Fantasia from being swallowed by the Nothing.


Errant92

Now it all makes sense. 😆


jpt86

This is the greatest thing I've read the entire year.


meno123

May you prosper in the force.


KDobias

No one is saying popcorn flicks shouldn't exist, they're saying this series panders to a particular audience in a way that, to many of us, is so obviously fake that it makes the movie unenjoyable. Personally, I wait until the second weekend these are out to go see it because I find them uproariously hilarious, and I don't want to cheapen it for the people who are diehards who believe the "family" theme is done well. They deserve the films more.


Wiki_pedo

>this series panders to a particular audience I do like when movies that I want to enjoy are enjoyable for the reasons I was hoping, though.


ADHDengineer

Who are these people? I’ve never even met one online. Who believes the films are real?


chris8535

As an adhd engineer I’m guessing you don’t run into the minority working class community much.


KDobias

Who are they? Idk man, but in 2 seconds going over to the r/fastandfurious sub and looking at the mega thread for X, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/fastandfurious/comments/10zuldd/fast_x_may_19_megathread/j85tvrk/) is a guy who doesn't understand why the YouTube comments are making family memes.


Zentrii

I don’t mind popcorn movies but I don’t want tog feel like I lost brain cells watching it. I will say I loved Fast Five though.


TheBigPhilbowski

*"But brainritos gots what brains crave?"*


complexevil

> The world needs popcorn movies though No one is saying otherwise. But can we get **good** popcorn?


ducmanx04

For real, not all movies have to be super realistic, thats why they are movies. Movies like these are supposed to be out of this world weird and thrilling. Great point!


mekese2000

Sure we need popcorn movies. But when the popcorn is stale and wet and mostly kernels can it still be considered a popcorn movie.


loco64

Borderline superhero? At least those follow some type of physics. Iron Man flies because of a type of jet propulsion. Dom flies because of family…


meno123

Dom flies because the entire series is one long DnD campaign where everyone rolls non-stop 20s.


GhoulArtist

" Dom flys because of family" that got me dying


Galtiel

It's not that they turned into superheroes, it's that the movies are a series of D&D campaigns. They're like level 17 now


Brothernod

Yeah, they should have stuck to practical effects at least. I think that would have kept it grounded enough to remain compelling.


stenebralux

It's funny cause they became became like shitty superhero movies with bad CGI.. but now superhero movies caught up again and it's just the same thing.


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Dom is stronger than Riddick. I didnt see riddick punch through pillars of concrete. Like they said, they dont get hurt


What_Yr_Is_IT

Some undercover beat cop turned into a international government agent super soldier Jason borne. Care went from racing to being dropped from airplanes. It’s a joke now, but they’re still fun to watch


socokid

> That actually made sense though. Yes, that was the point. They have turned into cartoons since then.


shotlersama

Yeah i didnt know one kid who got one who was upset at all about it.


Moar_Wattz

I still don’t know how we got from stealing dvd players to swinging muscle cars over jungle canyons and launching cars into space…


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Simple! They did it for Family.


Noxious89123

" FAMBLY "


JIN_DIANA_PWNS

[Step. Counts.](https://youtu.be/5BTh7g0hJ0o?t=155)


Fariic

Racing a submarine on ice. Each one gets dumber than the one before it.


Tr1pla

And yet I still watched Tremors 7 and was amused


aBABYrabbit

I thought there was only 4 tremors movies... I have some work to do.


NeuroGriperture

I thought there were 2, and they’ve almost cubed that already?!?


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NeuroGriperture

I thought I was thinking 2x2x2 but I may need coffee


NeuroGriperture

Which only leads to MORE tremors


lukewwilson

Exactly, the are super dumb, that's what makes them so great. Does anyone actually take these movies seriously? In the trailer for the new movie he has two helicopters pulling his car off the road and he gives it gas and slams them into each other!!!!! ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED


stenebralux

>ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED Not really. I think it's trash and I don't find it funny. Is not just the absurd.. is that + the shitty CGI. Everything looks awful. And I just find this stuff very easy to come up with so I don't think is interesting. It's just not for me. However.. I find it funny that people are acting surprised or thinking they've gone too far now. Like they just realized this is all stupid. They made 6 and a half movies like this already. lol If you are in for the absurd fun, drawing that line on space cars is really silly.


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The Fast franchise is the real-world successful result that a series with many sequels can actually be very successful. Far beyond the classic trope of "lame action movie within a movie used as a plot device for a conspiracy of trafficking or money laundering" best examples I can draw the parallel is the movies in Tropic Thunder, and Crocodile Dundee in L.A.


indianajoes

Because most of us don't care about car race movies. We do like dumb action movies that are a massive spectacle on the big screen. They realised around 4th/5th movie that instead of limiting themselves to this very small audience, they could just go fully mainstream and make dumb action movies and they'd make a lot more money. I do think they went too far with the last one and swinging Tarzan cars and space cars. Having said that, I'll still watch the new one and the one after that


Indubitalist

I guess the thing for me is I was in it for the car stuff, not the dumb action stuff, so I checked out pretty early in the franchise. Once it became clear they were just coming up with excuses for these people to participate, I was done.


Terra_Ursidae

Even being in for the car stuff made the early movies difficult to watch. The first movie had supposedly 10 second races that lasted 2 minutes and they would shift 15 times.


transmogrify

At this point, half the reason I keep watching these movies is because I need to find out what stupid shit they use to one-up the stupid shit in the last movie. The cast is clearly having fun (at least, they are now that the production has Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson separated from each other).


djshadesuk

I managed to switch my brain off for all F&Fs prior to 9, but space cars? Oh just f\*\*k off. I will refuse to watch it to my dying day.


idontgetit_99

Because the “car modding/race culture” was only going to last for so long and they needed to pivot to being a full on action movie. I know we all moan how unrealistic the films are but they’ve turned a film about stealing dvd players into one of the most profitable franchises there is. That’s the business.


RandomUser72

They *failed* to steal dvd players because the truck driver had a shotgun.


giggitygoo123

In the beginning they had a successful mission. It was once the truck drivers caught on that it got escalated


NineFiveTillInfinity

Oh sure, now he’s just a little boy stealing little toys. But someday, he will a grown man stealing stadiums and-and quarries.


sabrtoothlion

They also stole the script from Point Break


shephenry

A lot of them were TVs with built in video players, not dvd players. Makes you feel even older


mildiii

You know what would be fucking just so watchable. if in the next movie they the just scale it back all the way to the type of crimes from the first 3 movies. Like yeah we do the big shit like going into space, but also we go to car shows and to larceny too and don't really brag about it.


Xavilend

And tvs with vhs players iirc


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Fuck, I just felt my hip dislocate.


Duubzz

Pretty much the recipe for all the movies from about the 5th or so.


Fuddle

You could do the same thing with all the Bay Transformer movies Babes, military, funny guy and throw a bucket of silverware down some stairs


spacegh0stX

And they are equally as terrible


masalion

I loved the original shia lebouf trilogy. Was in my tweens/teens when it came out, so a lot of the cringe probably flew over my head. Coolest alien robot movie ever imo.


JustFuckUp

Not Bumblebee


BizzyM

Ah yes, Bumblebee. "Alexa, play the top 30 radio hits of 1984"


LurkerOrHydralisk

The number of movies post gotg that were like that is astounding. Gotg was great for being a mix of well known hits and lesser known songs that had faded into obscurity a bit (especially 2, with the whole Brandy thing), and studio execs were like “Just shove top music of the decade into it. That’s the same as a carefully selected, curated, and edited playlist designed specifically to fit the themes of the movie, right?”


ChrisDornerFanCorner

>That’s the same as a carefully selected, curated, and edited playlist designed specifically to fit the themes of the movie, right?” To be fair, those songs carefully written, curated, and designed specifically to fit emotional themes of the listener. And besides, isn't that the type of music compilation indicative of the theme of the original movie? Shit that is old or unknown making it big, and doing it by being their own way?


Lonelan

I mean, Guardians of the Galaxy wouldn't be so good without the 70s/80s rock and blues


Cryst

Bumble bee was not Bay.


ACertainUser123

The first transformer film and Tokyo drift are pretty damn good films Imo. Also bumblebee is good too suprisingly.


Kthulu666

Unpopular opinion: if they were actually terrible they wouldn't be wildly successful. Not personally being the intended audience for a product doesn't make that product terrible.


T_raltixx

https://youtu.be/q_D2XKRbYmM


BackpackBarista

As a kid born in 1981….Michael Bay ruined everything I loved. Transformers…Ninja Turtles….explosions….


YoungSerious

I watched it last night. It genuinely feels like the directing guidance was to make the dialogue delivered in the campiest ways possible. Because some of these people have shown real acting abilities. But here it's almost like they were explicitly told NOT to do that, and to emphasize how bad the dialogue is. If so, hilarious directing choice. I laughed out loud multiple times during the movie. It's also very clearly a different director than the last several Fast movies.


SmashedGenitals

That's kind of the whole point of the movie. People don't see Vin Diesel and sports car and like, yeah this is gonna be a thought provoking deep movie with real life lessons.


Sharp_Aide3216

Yeah you go in it for the bangy bangy bangy bang family


4tehlulzez

Needs more *crash crash*


grafxguy1

and more *bangy, bangy*


jericho189

Roll tide?


ElectronicControl762

This sentence needs commas, but still better than “family bang bangy bangy”


flac_rules

No, but they could at least make the action somewhat compelling though.


sopedound

Started at the 4th one.


TREKKS_300

Sounds about right.


joseph4th

Damn it! Why isn’t there a spoiler tag on this post!


C4shFlo

Totally ruined it for me!


kingkongbiingbong

Critic hit the nail on the head w/ the description 🤷


jmmmke

Thanks a lot, you should’ve posted there are spoilers in this clip


AciaOpus

Nearly crying laughing here.


acer589

Lol you joke, but I’m pretty sure he actually did spoil them bringing someone back, and if you’re at all interested, there’s only one worth bringing back.


Darkmuscles

Michelle Rodriguez, right? I've never seen a faster and furiouserer movie but I think her character is supposed to die and come back with amnesia or some other fucking stupid premise, right?


ItsonlyJono

Kermode & Mayo were a staple podcast in my life for a long time. I sent them a drunk email to critique 'food fight' and felt cringe after doing it. Glad to see Kermode hasn't lost his spark though


kilgore_trout1

Next time you email make sure you compliment the top class production team, that seems to get people on air!


ballsoutofthebathtub

Obligatory Kermode Rant on Sex and the City 2: https://youtu.be/uHeQeHstrsc


MukdenMan

I thought you were going to just post the same video with him saying "Bangy bangy Bangy bangy bang!"


riesenarethebest

Gives a new meaning to the word Family


huey_booey

Yeah, the Habsburg.


Goreticia-Addams

Also, he mentions a [review written by Lindy West](https://www.thestranger.com/film/2010/05/27/4132715/burkas-and-birkins) and it's just as scathing and great.


kilgore_trout1

Thanks for linking, that is quite the article lol


l-s-y

Can't believe I watched that whole video and I've never even seen an episode of sex and the city.


amazondrone

I barely ever go to the cinema but I listen to /r/wittertainment pretty religiously.


trollied

The Pimp/Danny Dyer one is \*incredible\*: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbiKDfgkyBY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbiKDfgkyBY)


JCDU

Mark Kermode does *love* Danny Dyer...


AussieManc

Amazing.


EnglishReason

Hello to Jason Isaacs. Anyone for a nibble of Battenburg and a slice or Brechtian Alienation Device?


TheWrathalos

They should have called it "Fast 10; your seatbelts"


Kernofornication

I saw Michelle Brazier say that and thought it was genius.


GorillaX

I wish I had a dollar for everytime I heard this joke over the past few years


MrNetsrac

Dan Wells, good to see you're using reddit.


ManicFirestorm

Pretty sure I listened to a podcast that said this title..


Queen_Inappropria

I'm going to use that on my husband when he inevitably streams this on TV.


ExpatriadaUE

And Hello to Jason Isaacs!


wenhamton

Up with the BHF, tinky tonk.


Ballymoran

And The Exorcist!


frostyjack06

I haven’t watched X yet, but I’m guessing there is a scene in Latin America where everyone is wearing expensive flowy clothes and no one is sweating except for the hot half naked girls dancing, somebody that’s family is in trouble, somebody we thought was a bad guy becomes family, we learn that it’s not about the car it’s the driver, Tyrese Gibson whines about something and Luda tells him to quit being a bitch, the new girl is stupid hot and wears form fitting clothes or less the entire movie, Vin saves the day and everyone eats barbecue.


YoungSerious

Can confirm all of those things do in fact happen.


meno123

I was concerned they might have forgotten their roots.


hookisacrankycrook

Family barbecues, Coronas and saying grace


YoungSerious

Oh don't you worry. They are very in touch with exactly what these movies are.


Qyro

Love Mark Kermode. His reviews are always great.


IronSorrows

Yeah, I don't always agree with him, but he's always at least interesting to listen to. Plus he champions a lot of challenging smaller films (Enys Men this year being one he adored), and has supported small independent cinemas down in Cornwall a lot, and may well do elsewhere. Got a lot of time for Kermode.


Qyro

I always think it’s a great sign when you enjoy watching reviewers even when you disagree with them, and Kermode doesn’t fail in that regard.


FntnDstrct

The other national treasure apart from David Attenborough.


xBigDamHerox

This needs a Kiffness remix ASAP


Horatio1997

Yeah! Someone tag him :)


leavemyarselona2

Mark Kermode is a true OG of the critic/film review industry. He’s the English Roger Ebert. I like that he avoids major spoilers and just retelling the story in his reviews.


geoffraffe

[His review of Sex and the City 2](https://youtu.be/uHeQeHstrsc) is a work of art


deicist

He does a great impression of Jared Leto as well: https://youtu.be/t6y7BMl4DJ0


Ballymoran

His criticism of Leto in Morbius is sublime. ‘Jared Leto has never been the world's best actor. In Morbius, he's not even the film's best Jared.’


ElephantsGerald_

That punchline is so good. So well delivered too


Penis_Inspector69420

I trust Kermodes review, he's rarely wrong.


seanc1986

Bang bang! Crash crash! Bang bang, Bangy bangy bang! ....Family. Bangy bangy bangy bang! Crash Crash! Bangy bang! Oh! I haven't seen them for a while. ....Family. Bangy bangy bangy bangy bangy bang! Crash crash! Bangy bangy bang! Oh! Who's that? I thought they were--No, it turns out-- Ah! Bangy bangy bangy bangy!


OnoKuma

Spoilers!


Unethical_Castrator

#####FAMILY


techbear72

Mark Kermode shares his thoughts on Pain & Gain https://youtu.be/GcHvRhq36hw?t=264


CANYUXEL

F A M I L Y


ChocCooki3

Still a better love story than netflix Cleopatra.


NoPantsDeLeon

Is that a roman numeral, meaning they actually made 10 movies out of it?! Or just X for _'Special"_?


Viking_Hippie

I believe that it is in fact the tenth movie of the Fast and the Furious franchise, yes. I'm not happy about it either, but that's just the kind of world we live in right now, I guess 🤷


lordpookus

According to Vince it's the last movie in the "mainline franchise" but it will also be in 2 parts.


Viking_Hippie

So what he's actually saying is that it's the penultimate "mainline" one and they're still going to continue making spinoffs? Ffs 🤦


indianajoes

He's been saying for a while that this was supposed to be the penultimate one but apparently Universal recently asked them to do one more mainline one so there might be 2 more after this


Viking_Hippie

https://imgur.com/wuWZHsY.gif


NoPantsDeLeon

I'm baffled!


GloatingSwine

Eleventh movie. They've moved beyond the realm of numbers.


Recurringg

They just keep making the goddam things. They just pick a screenplay out of a pile at random and add more explosions.


c2k1

Kermode's review of Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen is beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q\_D2XKRbYmM


Ticker_Mirza

I love Mark Kermode. He is a GREAT film critic.


Severe-Experience333

The good doctor's rants are spectacularly good. Check out his reviews of Sex and the city 2, Pain and Gain, Entourage and any Micheal Bay movie actually. It's brilliant.


Armeanu91

I liked the part in the traier where he was in the air, caught by two helicopters, and then he pressed the gas pedal and instantly created more gravity so the helicopters colided. Because of family.


Wise_Con_

I was already going to watch it, he didn't have to sell it so hard.


LetMeHaveAUsername

Glad to hear that the movie is exactly what I want to be.


Impossible_Scene_486

Make sense


toph88241

Nailed it


sadonly001

He spoiled 5 movies in this clip


hyperspacial

Best description of those movies I've ever seen lol


the-Neon-FX

Spoiler warning please.😠


muphinforlife

Gotta love the good doctors


ThirstyBeagle

Proud to say never seen any of the movies


Zestyclose-Use9011

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!


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Spoilers!!!


ironfistpunch

Woah at least put spoiler warning!


joeythelips46

Got to love Mark Kermode


Same-University1986

Someone needs to remix this into a banger.


stoaty_Mcstoatface

Errr, Spoilers!


OkFury

https://youtu.be/iIY5b1JMvGs


FredyGarbagis

Fam ily


Fine-Day-7065

100 % accurate.


Hey-man-Shabozi

That was better than all the movies put together.


Booster91

Mark Kermode is rarely wrong


leviathab13186

Dude, spoiler alert! What the F!


sPLIFFtOOTH

Nailed it


Arkade_Kalamity

Bangy bangy bangy. FAMILY.


SirSpigget

This review sums it up perfectly and I loved it!


denjin

Mark Kermode is a national treasure.


watabby

I like how the other guy is listening seriously


viking_linuxbrother

Honestly, I loved the heist in brazil with the cars . I think they have been trying to capture that magic ever since.


vibrantmatter

Accurate summary. Though he forgot to mention the zoom zoom vrooms.


LizardoiL

Thanks for spoiling the entire plot.


9penguin9

He's absolutely right. I can't imagine how embarrassing it would be to be in one of those movies.... Sharknado-esque and piranhaconda bad....