1.
Parts 2, 3, and 5 are the only titles in the franchise that people get right without having
to do a google search to get the name right.
Part 6, 7 and 8 is super confusing because people never remember if the words “Furious”
or “Fast” are included in the titles.
2.
I rarely give an ounce of a damn how co-stars feel about each other behind the scenes, but
with this franchise, the movies that didn’t involve The Rock and Vin Diesel beef are better
than the movie where put all their business out on social media and let the world know
they hated each other.
3.
All these films did crazy blockbuster numbers at the box office because they followed the
Fast Five formula and invited a member from all the previous installments to join the
team.
Part 2 was buried, but after Fast 5 included racers from part 1, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Tokyo
Drift and part 4, they set the blueprint and bought the franchise back to life.
4.
The new additions to the cast in Fast Five helped revitalize the franchise and those
cast decisions outrank the new faces added in the other movies.
5.
The fast and the furious movies got a lot of pervs into theaters by showing booties
and titties all over the trailer.
They do it in every movie, but at least in Fast Five they find a legitimate excuse to
work into the story because the gangster forces his workers to strip while they’re handling
the drugs like Nino Brown did on New Jack City.
6.
In heist movies, you’re supposed to cheer for the bad guy because the good guys like
cops and law enforcement are the bad guys and the bad guys are good guys even though
they’re usually stealing something.
Dom and his friends are criminals in Fast Five.
In the other movies, they’re working with the popo.
It’s hard to cheer for snitches.
7.
Brian is a former member of law enforcement, but the only reason he gets a pass is because
he broke the law numerous times to help Dom plus he quit his job.
Hobbs is still employed by the US government which is why Dom and his team don’t give
him any intel in part 5 because that would make him a double agent.
This guy serves two masters throughout the rest of the series and everyone, but Shaw
trusts him like a family member.
8.
The gangsters in these movies are the main threat.
They establish in Fast Five from the gate, the gangsters run this universe and aren’t
scared of the police.
The feds look like clowns when they break out Toretto.
They look even dumber when the Rio thugs execute them in the streets, Dom’s crew sticks a
middle finger up to them when the rob the Rio cops and even the drag racers scare the
US feds off their soil.
In parts 6, 7 and 8, the local law enforcement and the feds eventually get the better end
of the stick vs the gangsters so it makes the gangsters in those movies seem a little
weaker.
9.
Which is surprising because the villains in the later movies get more and more cartoonish
each installment.
The gangster in Fast Five was a man and was a more realistic threat.
The menaces in 6, 7, and 8 seem like characters out of the marvel cinematic universe and make
the films faker than a Kardashian titty.
10.
The same things go for the heroes.
In Fast Five, the movie’s clearly fake, I get that, but at least, they didn’t jump
the shark that much because the car did most of the stunts, not the humans.
Dom and his team would jump out the vehicle to avoid broken bones and whatnot.
In 6, 7, and 8, whoever jumped that shark had mad hops because they’re surviving car
crashes, explosions, gravity and the list goes on.
11.
The stunts on the movies are physically impossible, but a viewer is more forgiving to the bent
reality in Fast Five because they practice over and over again before the mission so
that explains how their driving is extra crispy.
They wing it in the other movies and still pull off those stunts.
12.
The heart of the franchise exists in Fast Five and none existent in the other movies.
They work on their own vehicles in this movie.
In the later installments, they are assigned vehicles from the government.
13.
Also, they actually race each other in Fast Five.
They all race against each other in real street traffic which is what they used to do in the
original film.
Only Dom and Letty are the only two teammates that race over here and after that, the closest
they came to racing was with Dom and Brian in the other movies and those don’t count
because they’re both cruising.
They show scenes at an official track, but the movie’s called Fast and Furious and
nobody’s gonna get Furious racing on an official race track.
They gotta take it to the streets like Lil’ Kim said on You Got Served.
14.
If you’re a Rock fan, good luck because he takes more Ls than the letters in Do You
Smell… what The Rock is cooking catchphrase.
His fight with Shaw ends in a tie in 8 which is just as bad as losing.
He gets whooped by Shaw and has to cheat and use his gun in 7.
He’s getting whooped in 6 and has to cheat and tag in Dom to help him over here.
Fast Five against Dom is the only fair fight The Rock has in the franchise against a main
character and he gets embarrassed.
15.
A secret hideout is always attacked in this movies to mess up Dom’s team’s plans.
The team was smart enough to run away seconds before attack so nobody got hurt.
They were infiltrated in part 6 and the evil double agent knew their whole plan the whole
time and they never realized it until the end of the movie.
They walked right into an ambush and Shaw spent a whole speech monologuing a spoiler
that they were about to get shot at and no one was smart enough to run away.
In part 8, they get an alert and keep zooming in like the color will change instead of running
away which is why the whole team gets hit by the blast.
16.
All of these films have a baby reveal in them, but the best one goes to Fast Five when we
find out Brian and Mia were expecting a baby.
(Mia pregnant and has a baby in 5 and 6, Hobbs daughter at hospital in 6 and Dom has a son)
17.
All of these films have a character that gets taken as a prisoner, but escapes.
Fast Five has the most impressive escape because the team helped Dom escape from custody.
Brian, Hobbs and Shaw were taken into custody and eventually get set free only because they
United States government pulled some strings to get them out.
(Shaw at end of part 7 gets released in beginning of 8)
18.
Dom is a cold blooded killer in Fast Five and this is the scariest he’s ever been.
His rule is to never hurt his family, but everyone else, they’re dead to him.
He kills everyone except his family in Fast Five (smash with safe).
He’s more merciful in these movies and that’s why the bad guys live for future sequels.
19.
The degree of difficulty in the last chase in all these films are lowered because the
cops never join the high speed chases.
The team attracts a lot of attention to themselves and no one calls 911.
That’s unbelievable.
In Fast Five, they have to outrun the gangster, the feds and the cops.
20.
Dom always performs a life or death stunt with his vehicle for the climax of the last
chase.
In part 6, 7, and 8, after his car lands, there’s always a moment where the film tries
to make you think he’s dead which is pointless and unbelievable considering all the other
unrealistic life or death scenarios he walks away from in the franchise.
In Fast Five, he walks away from the stunt clean without wasting anytime on needless
suspense.
21.
There’s a character in the family that dies in every movie.
The easiest one to get over is the death in Fast Five.
22.
Fast Five is the last film with a before the timeline got all jacked up like the X-Men
franchise in part 6.
The creators went back to fix arguably the weakest film in the franchise at the time,
Tokyo Drift and it ended up resetting the timelines for future films so they took place
before part 3 which is stupid because Bow Wow’s dress code in that movie confirms
it looks place when baggy clothes were in style.
23.
Speaking of jacked up timelines, after the initial installments, it became a tradition
to release a Fast and the Furious film the same time as an X-Men film.
X2 and 2 Fast 2 Furious, Last Stand and Tokyo Drift, and Wolverine Origins and Part 4 were
released in the same year.
This cycle continued with Fast Five and part 6, but the chain was broken after Furious
7 was delayed because of Paul Walker’s death.
24.
There’s usually a tease of what’s to come at the end of these movies.
Fast Five teases Letty’s return.
Part 6 teases Shaw’s arrival, Part 7 teases Shaw’s return and I think the studio intended
on ending it with 8 until they saw how much money it did because there’s no teases at
the end of that one.
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