Variety Estimating Fate Of The Furious to break Star Wars BO Record With $534 Million

[O.T.I.S.]

The last FAST movie made over a billion without even factoring in China

Not sure what you mean... Since Asia is pretty fukking big

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Fast Five took it into another realm I wasn't the biggest fan but i liked two a lot then I saw they brought everybody back with the Rock I was in man.

Before Fast Five it as an enjoyable cable watch. Since then I've seen 6, 7, and eventually I'll see 8 on the big screen just cause.

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

Waiting for @R=G thread in TSC

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Waiting for @R=G thread in TSC

That dude claimed the franchise was dead before rock

I don't think anybody can deny rock fit into this franchise perfectly but

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Not sure what you mean... Since Asia is pretty fukking big

It made about $497M in all of Asia which means it made about a billion without factoring in that entire continent.

 

[Phillyrider807]

And people say every year they should stop making these lol

I'll be there midnight for Fast 13 14 and 15

 

[Wiles]

It wasnt a bad movie

 

[Wiles]

It will go down as the highest grossing film directed by a black man in Hollywood history

 

[R=G]

GKNL..might be working 16 hours on Monday but will see it by Tuesday no matter what

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

GKNL..might be working 16 hours on Monday but will see it by Tuesday no matter what

You'll like it.


Rock has a much better bigger role than he did in 6.

 

[Roman Brady]

And people say every year they should stop making these lol

I'll be there midnight for Fast 13 14 and 15

You didn't hear? 10 will be the last

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

You didn't hear? 10 will be the last

We all know once 10 rolls around they will be like "well we were going to end it but we found a really great idea for another trilogy,and you know,artistically speaking,we wouldn't do that without a really great idea"

Vin will be racing wheelchairs with NOS in 10 years.

 

[Roman Brady]

I've thought about this before because even as someone who's loved them since the first film,the franchise success really is insane.


But I think it comes down to a lot of things.


One,the first film was a cult classic especially with young people. The film single handedly created and pushed a bigger car culture back then..everybody wanted a suped up car.

Not only the movie was just quotable. Everybody could recite it line for line.


The 2nd one cashed in the first success and brought in new Characters but it didn't hit with people the same way.


The third was basically a reboot and the franchise well on its way to being straight to dvd status.

But then Vin and Paul had a string of misses and came back. People came back to the series for the fourth for the nostalgia even if it was a weak film.

And then a weird thing happened.

The 5th came put, they added rock,and the flat out made one of the best action films in the last couple decades.

Not only was the action great,but they respected their audience. The audience that grew up with the franchise and stuck with it through the lows. Instead of being ashamed of past movies,they made them more integral. They brought back characters left and right. They wrote in sub plots to connect the film's even deeper. Yes it's all silly but it respected the universe it built.

One of the best things about the franchise is them constantly mixing characters events of past films.

So you had great action,mixed with likeable characters and writing that respected the audiences Fandom and rewarded it.

On top of that,these films fly against the nature of the overly cgi green screen action films now. These don't have tacked on 3d, and they do real stunts with real cars.

The cherry on top is the diversity and the celebration of the world by having so many different races and religions represented. What other franchise can appeal to so many bases? They filmed this one in Cuba in parts. They film all over the world. Show different cultures instead of the same white male tropes. The cast is diverse as it gets.

It delivers everything it tells you its going to while celebrating diversity.

You must have missed fast 7, when the street always won

 

[Roman Brady]

We all know once 10 rolls around they will be like "well we were going to end it but we found a really great idea for another trilogy,and you know,artistically speaking,we wouldn't do that without a really great idea"

Vin will be racing wheelchairs with NOS in 10 years.

There is a greater chance they just do spinoffs. To carry on with another trilogy after swearing up and down that this was the last would make vin diesel look like a charlatan and universal look desperate (like they got to hang on to this franchise for dear life because they ain't got much)

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

There is a greater chance they just do spinoffs. To carry on with another trilogy after swearing up and down that this was the last would make vin diesel look like a charlatan and universal look desperate (like they got to hang on to this franchise for dear life because they ain't got much)

Nobody would give 1 fukk.

This isn't the godfather. It's a silly over the top action series meant to entertain.

You think vin diesel and universal would be like man. We made another billion. But damn I look like charlatan and we look desperate

Nobody cares.