Furious 7 ($1,511,516,643)

The Fast and Furious franchise is bigger than ever seven films into its series, with Furious 7 now standing at #4 on the all-time box office chart with a global gross of $1.5 billion. Universal Pictures was always going to make Fast and Furious 8, and indeed the film is already slated for release on April 14, 2017 and Vin Diesel has been teasing a location shift to New York City for this eighth installment. But what’s up in the air at this point is which characters will be involved. Dwayne Johnson is returning and the central “family” will likely remain intact—though sadly without Paul Walker—but what of the villains?

Jason Statham made his first appearance at the end of Fast & Furious 6 to tease his larger role in Furious 7 as the brother of Luke Evans’ FF6 villain. He and Vin Diesel/Dwayne Johnson went toe-to-toe over the course of this year’s film, but of course in the end, Good triumphed over Evil. But that doesn’t mean Statham is out of the franchise.

Speaking with Access Hollywood recently, Statham revealed that his character of Deckard Shaw will indeed be returning for Furious 8:

“We’re already talking about doing another one, Part 8. I’m a newcomer, I just got invited to the party in this last one, so it’s nice to know I’m going to be doing another.”

---

We know that the original third act of Furious 7 was intended to set up Kurt Russell’s enigmatic covert ops leader for Furious 8, but after the passing of Walker the film was retooled as tribute to the late actor. We can still reasonably expect Russell’s character to have a significant role in Furious 8, and now it appears that Statham will be along for the ride as well.

Rusty Cunt wrote:So I'm watching this now, for the first time, after recently receiving my Steelbook from the UK.

I must say, that 1 hour and 38 minutes in, and it is the biggest pile of steaming horseshit I have ever seen.

I enjoyed the first 6 films. I'm a car guy. I own cars. I like car movies. They worked for me. They weren't the best films, but each built on the last, and they kept me entertained - and I got to see cool cars. They each were slightly better written than the previous, and also better directed, with slightly better budgets.

7 threw all that out the window. After The Conjuring, when the news hit that James Wan had the helm, I was stoked. I was wrong. He fucking failed. As nonsensical as the dialogue is, the shot and scene choices, timing, and compositions are fucking terrible.

Every shot feels like it was made in the off-chance it made it into the trailer. That's retarded.

This movie is retarded.

WyldeMan wrote:

Hahahaha I gave a review of this in another thread and it was almost fucking identical to your experience! LOL.

By the 90 minute mark I was climbing the fucking walls trying to think of reasons to keep watching but I gave up.

Wan is a colossal disappointment which HORRIFIES me now that he has been hired to direct AQUAMAN!!!

Rusty Cunt wrote:Problem with Aquaman is, like F7, I get the feeling it'll be directed by committee. Granted, Paul Walker's death meant they had to retool the film, but I still feel any director's hands wouldn't have been as free as they'd like. They have a formula that works (financially), and they wouldn't want that messed with too much.

Rusty Cunt wrote:The implausible stunts I can handle. I have no problem suspending disbelief when watching a film. It was the dialogue, and some story decisions that were simply bad.

Rusty Cunt wrote:Then, same scene. Brian jumps on-board. Kicks arse, rescues the girl, and gets her out onto Dom's car. Cool. However, as he's standing there, himself waiting to jump, the bad guy see him - and even though Brian is completely unaware, and is caught off-guard, rather than grab a gun and shoot him, or even just kick/push him off the bus traveling at high-speed, resulting in serious injury and possibly getting run over - he decides to grab Brian, pull him back in the confined spaces of the bus for another fight, and then try and use a gun.

Rusty Cunt wrote:This movie went full retard.

Vin Diesel yesterday said on Facebook that he has promised the studio a trilogy to finish off the series. So it'll end with F10.

As callous as it may sound, for me, this series died with Paul Walker.

Rusty Cunt wrote:I'm with you. I actually like this franchise, but 7 shit the bed. Sloppily. Everywhere.

If you like FF, watch Need for Speed. Story-line's not a whole lot better, but the action is all live. Fucking sensationally shot. Makes FF look like a Kanye West video game.