Fast 9 - Trailer 2

There is another one of these coming out after this, at least.  What else can they do?  SpaceX is next is my prediction.

Also, if Cena lives through this one, the Rock needs to be back for 10. 

2017 Summer Movie Awards

Movies seen - Fast 8, Guardians of the Galaxy, Wonder Woman, Cars 3, Spider-Man:Homecoming, Baby Driver, Logan Lucky

Best Flick : Wonder Woman

Best Dude : Tom Holland - Peter Parker/Spiderman -- This kid is SPIDERMAN.  He delivered on how Spidey and Peter should be growing as a kid and trying to be what he wants to be, a superhero like Iron Man.  Michael Keaton is a close 2nd here with his rendition of the Vulture is perfect too!

Best Dudette : Gal Gadot - Wonder Woman -- Well Hollywood, here is your female action super hero and she kicked some major ass.  

Best Scene : Peter going to pick up Liz for the homecoming dance and the big reveal (SPOILER!!) that Liz's dad is Adrian Toomes.  Peter knows exactly who he is and Adrian uses all his interactions with Spidey to figure out that that he is Spiderman.  Toomes then does the "dad talk" but also threatens Spiderman.  

Best Fight :  Wonder Woman, shedding the cloak in the trenches and taking the shield and entering "No Man's Land" and taking on the Germans, leading the American's and Steve Trevor and crew to break through.  - Wonder Woman

Biggest Dud : Fast 8 – The series for the most part has been going on an upward trend, and this is the first flick, since Tokyo Drift, that Paul Walker’s Brian wasn’t involved, and I think that this flick misses him a lot.  The reliance on Dom and the Rock is prevalent and they need to expand a little more on the sub characters and bring them up.   Baby Driver was more Fast and Furious than this one was.

Anticipated Sequel : Spider-Man 2 / Avengers Infinity War

Movie not seen that I want to see the Most : War for the Planet of the Apes 

Fast 8

8 Films about cars, hijacks, robberies and family….What more could they do with this series?  How about a heel turn? (As seen in the trailers).  But as with all heel turns, if you are a WWE fan, there is motive.  And there is a motive with Dom (Vin Diesel) that after knowing why he did it, he did it.  There is a scene though in a trailer where his old team has him surrounded, and he basically flips and destroys their cars, but what if he would have severely injured them?  Where would that turn then have taken this team?

This series seems to amp up a little bit more each movie with the action and the stunts.  From the bank vault in Fast 5, Tank and Plane  in Fast 6 to the Submarine and wrecking ball here.  It makes you wonder what they have left they can do for the next 2 films that are planned.  With making $500 million plus on opening weekend, that basically assures there are going to be more. 

This movie though was flat on the characters, and maybe that was a few of them trying to fill Paul Walker’s spot more.  Tyrese got a little more physical in this with more than just his mouth.  Vin’s character didn’t have that normal “bro” to play off of and with all the stuff going on with him and the Rock on set, you can see that void there.  The interaction that was the best in the flick I thought was between Statham and the Rock.  It would be fun to dive into those characters more, and maybe that’s where the sequels go.

I don’t know what more we can do with Dom’s character, and making him the focal point.  Maybe it’s time he takes a backseat to Tyrese, Ludacris and the others to get a little more freshness into the series.

Fast 1, 5 and 6 are still my favorites in the series, this comes up midway of the 8.  Still some good points that may make it to the Summer Movie Awards.

The Fate of theFurious 5/10 Stars

2015 Summer Movie Awards

Movies: Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out, AntMan, Minions, Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation

Best Movie: Furious 7 – The end kind of shocked me in a way that I wish they did something different as it opens up questions in maybe Fast 8, but it’s probably the best movie in the series since the first, and its constant action the whole time.  There isn’t a down time in the movie.  

   

Best Dude: Paul Rudd : Scott Lang/AntMan : AntMan

   

Best Dudette: Elizabeth Olson : Scarlet Witch : Avengers: Age of Ultron 

   

Best Scene: The final scene in Furious 7 paying homage to the late Paul Walker 

   

Best Fight: AntMan vs Falcon : AntMan : It wasn't really rock'em sock'em like Statham-Rock-Diesel in Furious 7, but it was more so fun to watch them.  And its to heroes going at it.  

Biggest Dud: Avengers: Age of Ultron - Now don't get me wrong, I thought this was a decent flick, but it got to crammed with new too many new characters and cut off story lines that I would have liked to see elaborated on.  With an hour cut from the final cut, maybe that's what happened.  But like Dark Knight Rises, I had expectations for this, and I enjoyed it, but didn't live up to they hype in my head.

Anticipated Sequel: Captain America : Civil War

Summer Movies not seen yet:  Jurassic World

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