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a custom Fast & Furious logo I made...
i'm still not sure if I like that - because I would feel cheated... I really really don't envy the position James Wan is in right now... but I trust him, Chris Morgan and Vin will come to the best possible decision on what to do...
it may sound morbid - but i think the only logical way to remove his character from the franchise would be to kill him off..... not in a meaningless way mind you - but if there is a way they could have him go out in a heroic way.. - because we've already established in the previous films that no matter what, Brian and Dom are like brothers - and Brian regardless of having a son or not would not turn his back on Dom and let him go off to do anything on his own... so to have his character just all of sudden hang it up and drive off into the sunset doesn't make much sense... his death would be a very poetic exit - considering his comments in Fast 5 about growing up not knowing who his father was, or if his father even cared... we know Brian does care about the guys, Mia and his son, so if he were to sacrifice himself for his family - then i could live with that.
but.... part of me would like to see his character have a happy ending as well...
its tough.
from what i can gather from reputable sources, Paul did have the majority of scenes completed - but he had yet to film a couple "key" scenes just involving his character, as well as some driving stuff.... obviously, if these scenes weren't important then they'd easily scrap them and move on - but it's obvious his scenes had some significance to the advancement of the plot... and this is where it gets tricky, because films are traditionally filmed out of order - so how much can they rewrite without cutting into what he already filmed?... like i said, i don't envy James Wan right now...
i've always wanted Carter Verone (from 2Fast) to come back as a baddie for them to have to take down again... i always thought a revenge angle with him would be interesting - but i can't see them doing that with the 8th film - a revenge plot followed by a revenge plot would get tired.
he had glimpses of what the character could be, and the type of performance he could deliver, Cole Hauser isn't that bad of an actor - like in the rat torture scene and when he finds out Monica was a Customs Agent.... so if he directed by someone like either Justin Lin or James Wan, and not John Singleton, i think he would fare much better..... because as it is, John Singleton cared more about making the cars the stars of that film than the actors - and the script itself was very weak as well.
http://bit.ly/198v2vd
July 2014.
Wow, almost a whole year back.
EDIT: It appears that they are not going the route of writing Paul Walker's character out of the film, and that he will remain as a starring role in the seventh movie.
I actually applaud that move... it might have been easier to scrap everything and start from scratch, but keeping him in the film - and thus allowing his character to 'ride off into the sunset'.... it gives us, as fans of his, closure... we may not have ever known him personally - but in a way, it's like we as fans grew up with him....
I think this changed with "Furious 5" and "Furious 6". Perhaps it had to do with the inclusion of better, more "international flair". In a way, they were starting to look like well-written team efforts, in which the team had to cancel out a Bond-esque villain. I like to think that it became more a mix of the suave "Mission: Impossible"-franchise and the bad-ass looking "Expendables"-franchise. Also, it was interesting to see how many times we saw deliberate Bond references in "Furious 5" and "6".
The stunts? Off course, they are completely over the top. But for the "Furious"-franchise I think that's fitting. They take one Bond stunt sequence (car flying off a building in "TND", or falling off an airplane in "DAD"), combine it with another "Mission: Impossible"-stunt (Ethan Hunt hanging on the Burj Khalifa or an airplane), and expand on it, making it look absolutely bad-ass :-P.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like to see such stunts in the current Bond-franchise. It's a whole different thing. But such stunts in the hands of the Furious-team kind of works way better. And because of that, I think the "Furious"-franchise deserves its own topic (I have been searching on here, and I couldn't find an original topic).
How will "Furious 7" score? I think it's an underestimated 1 Billion Dollar-film in the making. Especially since Paul Walker tragically died. Also Sony/MGM/Eon knows that, as they really wanted to release the "SPECTRE"-trailer, so it could be attached to screenings of "Furious 7". Tonight I'm going to see the film, and I'll give you my thoughts.
--> 2001, 53%: "The Fast And The Furious"
--> 2003, 36%: "2 Fast 2 Furious"
--> 2006, 37%: "The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift" (3rd film)
--> 2009, 28%: "Fast & Furious" (4th film)
--> 2011, 78%: "Fast Five" (5th film)
--> 2013, 68%: "Fast & Furious 6"
--> 2015, 83%: "Furious 7"
;)
Agreed. They've seen to been improving over time. I think the film makers could have been influenced by the actions movie transformation from straitforward popcorn flicks to more gritty, suspenseful, dramatic stories in the past decade (starting with Bourne, the Bond reboot, etc.)
The last post from that topic is from April 2014!! How do you search on this! I searched in the "search field" for "furious" and I couldn't find the actual topic. Instead I got other topics in which the movies from the franchise were discussed. So I couldn't find it. It's really a problem I have with this forum :-/ .
Anyway, I suggest continuing in here, as this is a separate topic about the film. We also create separate topics about each individual Mission: Impossible-film no?
I want to add that I think this franchise can gain a thing or two with Rated R rating