Escape to the Movies: Fast Five

[krychek57]

Finally, someone has the same opinion of this movie franchise as me.
Fast & Furious and all it's spin-offs and copies basically suck.

They are movies for car enthusiasts...

Although I would say, if they like cars that much, why are they watching something as bad and bland as Fast & Furious movies instead of the British Top Gear?

Because we have time in our day to watch both.

Thanks for asking ^_^

 

[AbstractStream]

I haven't seen it yet because I still have to see the 4th one, but I do indeed plan to see it. I actually enjoy the Fast and The Furious movies. (Well maybe the 2nd is an exception.)

 

[Frylock72]

I love your little one-frame reviews that you insert into these. What better endorsement for Torque could there possibly be than "One word: Bike-fu"?

At least I got one must-watch movie out of this!

Torque was good, I found it enjoyable. I'm also a fan of the Fast and Furious series, but then again, I don't watch it because I take it super-seriously. I watch it because it's fun. Bad-ass people driving cars and stealing shit. You don't go to this kind of movie for an intense story, though I'd like to point out that the first movie was pretty damn good.

I'm just disappointed Bob went back to the 'I hate it so I'm going to crush it' mentality like he did with the Michael Bay references a few months ago. Regardless of whether he actually likes it, he doesn't need to go this far in terms of telling people how badly he dislikes it. Hell, he wasn't even this harsh on The King's Speech, and from what I gathered he hated that one, too. It just smacks of losing sight of your reviewing objectivity in order to flame something you don't like.

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agree alot with this. however, i think its important to review whats fresh, however uninteresting it might be for him personally. but instead of leaving us with a review about a film he thinks is not worth our time, he could maybe spare 1 minute to give us a recommendation about a older film which we should not miss. Some kind of curiousity which is not too obscure but might have slipped our mainstream eyes.

Edit: really think that Yahtzee should do the same.

Funny thing is, I've now seen enough of Yatzee's straight-up bash vids to be able to find games I'd still enjoy, even if they did nothing awesome. And even then, yatzee bashes the games, not the audience.

Except when it comes to the Wii.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

It's a movie about cars and guns with Vin Diesel and the Rock in it. If you went in expecting a piece of art, that's more your fault...

Still, I'm impressed you didn't fall back into your Expendables-era review style.

this.

who the fuck goes into these movies expecting the most epic story and character based movie they have ever seen?

this movie is obviously made with over the top car stuff/explosions/action with lots of "bro" moments involved.


for what it is going for, it was pretty good imo

a movie i would buy? more then likely not, not ever.

a movie you can sit back and enjoy some crazy ass car/stunts being done?

sure, why not?

 

[Tennou486]

Hey Bob, I was eleven back in 2002. Stop being so condescending.

 

[Donbett1974]

He thinks speed racer a good movie then it's very clear that he smokes a large amount of weed when watching movies. Thumbs up for bright flashy colors.

 

[Shotgang]

Hey Bob, I'm a brazillian viewer and I have to say that I just loved this review. Yeah it's the same damn thing that every movie of the series has shown us and, to be honest, I'm not THAT surprised that Brazil is seen like this. For some time, the drug dealers and other, well "gangsters", were really putting terror... IN RIO DE JANEIRO. And guess what? This is being fought everyday by the police and the population in general, fighint off those bastards.

Not the police, not most of the time.

If anyone is reading this, why don't you guys give some research to "Invasão do Morro do Alemão" in Google? Or simply put, the invasion of the "morro do alemão", wich was one of the biggest favelas of the country and a massive drug dealers territory, that the police, WITH the population, put down those guys.

I live right next to it. And I'll tell you, they could have done that over twenty years ago with much less fanfare and violence, without the population having to go through through so much crap in between.

Bob, Iv'e always watched your show but never really made a comment. And I wonder if you watched two brazilian movies that are EXCELLENT action films, talks about fighting off drug dealers and among other things, like coprruption. The first and the Second "Tropa de Elite" movies. The first one is more of an "action" movie, and the second is more about the politics and the way the system works.

I do hope that they take on politician criticism more directly in the third one.

That actually makes me think of a question: Bob, why don't you review more foreign movies in general?

The violence was way bigger only in Rio de Janeiro and guess what? It is getting smaller and saffer.

What about Bahia and São Paulo, with its high rates of police brutality and kidnappings respectively, that go mostly unreported?

No, our country still has a long way to go before we can consider any of our states' safer in any way.

Though I do remember the murder rates here in Rio go slightly smaller than last year, it's oh so far from anything mildly acceptable, if one can think of murder rates with any kind of acceptability.

Anyway, this is a subject for a saparete topic, but I couldn't help to answer it. Sorry people, back on topic.

Yeah, I know all of this, and you forgot about the state of Pernambuco, with Recife being the second most violent capital of the country...

I had to focus on Rio in my post mostly because, well, people around here knows JUST Rio de Janeiro. And yeah, I know we are FAR AWAY from being something "calm", but at least finally some more concrete actions are being done in that way.

Yeah, it should had been done about 20/30 years ago. But previous goverments around here just turned a blind eye to public security. Yeah, that happened.

But again, this isn't a topic for this. What is it again? Oh yeah, shitty movie that people think Bob should have liked.

 

[Optimystic]

I love your little one-frame reviews that you insert into these. What better endorsement for Torque could there possibly be than "One word: Bike-fu"?

At least I got one must-watch movie out of this!

Torque was good, I found it enjoyable. I'm also a fan of the Fast and Furious series, but then again, I don't watch it because I take it super-seriously. I watch it because it's fun. Bad-ass people driving cars and stealing shit. You don't go to this kind of movie for an intense story, though I'd like to point out that the first movie was pretty damn good.

I'm just disappointed Bob went back to the 'I hate it so I'm going to crush it' mentality like he did with the Michael Bay references a few months ago. Regardless of whether he actually likes it, he doesn't need to go this far in terms of telling people how badly he dislikes it. Hell, he wasn't even this harsh on The King's Speech, and from what I gathered he hated that one, too. It just smacks of losing sight of your reviewing objectivity in order to flame something you don't like.

I can definitely agree with you on the mindset you need to have to approach this movie. The problem is that it's still an objectively bad movie even with the bar lowered like that.

1) For a movie about "bad-ass cars and stealing shit," it was way too long. For comparison, F5 was longer even than Matrix Revolutions - you don't need me to remind you how much of a drag that movie was.

2) You don't have to take it seriously to think it's bad. He's right about the second act, it's all "family, cars, honor, cars, [macho reference #4], cars, cars." All layered with unexplored homoeroticism. Throw in a subversion, any subversion.

3) He hated the King's Speech for a different reason - it was uninspired color-by-numbers Oscar-bait. It wasn't a bad movie, just bland and completely calculated. Bob (and myself) wanted something that dared to push the envelope in some way, shape or form to be more recognized by the Academy instead, like Social Network.

 

[Shotgang]

Finally, someone has the same opinion of this movie franchise as me.
Fast & Furious and all it's spin-offs and copies basically suck.

They are movies for car enthusiasts...

Although I would say, if they like cars that much, why are they watching something as bad and bland as Fast & Furious movies instead of the British Top Gear?

...wait, there are Fast and Furious spin-offs? D:

 

[2xDouble]

All I have to say is, Bob, I couldn't agree more. That series should have died after the first one.

 

[Oxydium]

At the beginning: warning spoilers...... Spoilers, in a Fast and furious movie. Mouahahahaha. That funny. For that, you need a scenario.

 

[Gindil]

So Fast 5 is The Expendables without Jet Li...

Good to know.

 

[Cabamacadaf]

I kinda liked the first two. I haven't seen the rest though, but I might like this one.

 

[Pariah87]

I don't usually comment on the reviews on this site, and I'm sure many will say if you don't like what is being said, don't watch. I watch Movie Bobs reviews because in the past he's said good stuff about films I never would have seen otherwise, Kick Ass for example.

But fuck me he's not even trying to keep the chip on his shoulder subtle anymore is he? When he insults anyone who may possibly like a movie he doesn't, well that's just not on. I remember almost not watching The Expendables after his "If you like this movie, then you are just the worst kid of person" comment. In the end I did, and I really enjoyed it. It was nostalgic and a good laugh. Worst kind of person? Well I must be then.

He's not the only person to be bullied, or whom girls have overlooked in lieu of toned guys who act like dicks but does he have to carry that bitterness over into this aswell? I was one of those bullied guys, one of the geeks, the kind of guy that even now can't speak to women, yet I still enjoy these types of movies. I wasn't picked on by Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Stallone, Jason Statham or any of the guys in these films. They may have been "like" them, but I keep my hatred for actual people who have wronged me, not actors or the characters they portray in films. If I were to hate all black people, black culture, music and everything else that goes with it because the main people who picked on me were black or mixed race, I'd be called a biggoted ****, particularly if I used my movie reviewing show as a soapbox to rag on people.

Just imagine a review like that. "The film is nothing special but oh my god the main character is black. This film sucks purely for that reason. What a dick that guy is, anyone who enjoys this movie are surely traitors to their race and deserve to die in a fire with all the blacks!". That is exactly how Bob is starting to come across just not as extreme.

Apologies for the rant.

EDIT: I don't think Bob should have liked the movie. It's up to him whether he does or not, it's not for me to say if he should one way or the other. The venom he spews against those who might like the movie, that is what I find wrong. It might be a really bad movie, I have heard it is from my friends who have seen it. They said nothing about it being all alpha male testosterone fueled grunts of "Caaaarrrrs". They said the plot was ridiculous, aspects of the film were stupid, physics being thrown out of the window. If it's bad for those kind of reasons fair enough. If it's bad because "The people who used to beat me up will like it, and they were dicks, erego anybody else who likes it is a dick" then that's...ah bollocks I'm just repeating myself now.

 

[BlackSaint09]

I guess i have bad taste in movies w/e but i find the entire series to awesome.
I dont know...
I just like it all even though im not a weird moronic douchebag( i think)
Meh.

 

[yndsu]

I love your little one-frame reviews that you insert into these. What better endorsement for Torque could there possibly be than "One word: Bike-fu"?

At least I got one must-watch movie out of this!

The funny thing with Tourqe is that the one guy with the beard from the first Fast movie was the badguy in the Tourqe.

But yeah, Tourqe was pretty damn good, lots of fun. And his review just made me watch it again. And the same for the original Italian Job.

Also, i am planing to go to see this movie. I know it wont have a good plot and all.
But it is packed with car-porn and this is what the Fast & Furious movies have always been about.

 

[Aptspire]

No, MovieBob, YOU bring it XD
also, I will do like for the 1st 4 movies and not see it