[fandom] Furious 7

[escritoireazul]

Warning: There are a number of spinny camera action scenes, most of which are fine, but there are some toward the end where the spinny camera went on and on and my vertigo started up. Just a little, but enough I wasn't pleased.

OMG YOU GUYS YOU GUYS THIS MOVIE MY HEART YOU GUYS.

With the exception of 2 Fast 2 Furious, I have loved every minute of this franchise. No matter what sort of things it does that piss me off or break my heart, I have loved the ride. This is no exception. It's fun and ridiculous and wonderful, and, in the end, absolutely heart breaking, because this chosen family transcends the screen. There's a whole piece that is a good-bye to Paul Walker, and it broke my fucking heart. I don't even care whether it fits within the movie or not, it is beautiful and touching and I cried in the damn theater.

One nitpicky thing (so far):



Exactly when did Dom and Letty get married? Before the events of Fast & Furious, which means that Dom leaving Letty behind makes even less sense than it did the first time around. He'll never be alone, huh? EXCEPT WHEN HE UP AND ALPHA SHITS ALL OVER EVERYTHING AND MAKES DECISIONS FOR HER AND LEAVES HER BEHIND WTF. That bit of characterization has never, ever made sense to me.


The series has basically become an overblown video game, and it is wonderful and amazing and fantastic. Come talk to me, people. Tell me your thoughts. (Spoilers totally welcome in the comments.

Comments

[azephirin]

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE. :DDDDDDDDDDD

[escritoireazul]

I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO SEE IT!

[tassosss]

I haven't seen it yet, but I am so excite! I will come back and talk though because I love these movies so much.

[escritoireazul]

YAY! I can't wait.

[senmut]

While I am frustrated that they are pushing the envelope harder and harder with how they set up the action scenes versus how they display the family, once I accept that we've moved into the block buster action movie tropes, I'm cool with it.

AND OMG I HEAR YOU ABOUT LETTY AND DOM GETTING MARRIED!!!!

I cried my freaking eyes out for the homage.

[escritoireazul]

I'm interested in hearing more about your thoughts RE how they shoot the action scenes versus the family.

There was a point during this one that I realized it is basically a video game action movie at this point. I look at what happened in the first movie (the big action moment was the car flip after that final race, really, with a handful of action shots through the car's system), and then this movie. I mean, it's been building awhile, but cars jumping from one building to another, hot potato with an actual human, car jump to blow up a helicopter -- it is ridiculous, and in that ridiculousness, kind of wonderful.

[thedeadparrot]

I watched it and loved it and it's amazing, and I have to say that it's definitely better than video games at this point. It does what video games have a hard time doing, which is be nakedly and openly emotional about anything.

I do love how much more absurd the action gets with every installment, though. THEY ARE PARACHUTING CARS OUT OF AIRPLANES.

[escritoireazul]

I am not sure where they can go next for absurd action. Cars to the moon?

...

I would watch the HELL OUT OF THAT.

[senmut]

I'm interested in hearing more about your thoughts RE how they shoot the action scenes versus the family.

The action shots have steadily moved more and more to that hyper-fast, tight focus with a few slow-frames in that shots. It's a rapid-fire, hit you in the face kind of shooting, and it works great to keep the tempo up.

But then, when they fall back to the interpersonal scenes, it's pulled into a real-time kind of shooting, with long looks and slow dialogue, sometimes with heavy silences. It's a sharp contrast for me, and a bit different from the first couple of movies where the interpersonal stuff was ... happening as the plot and action did? If that makes sense. It's like the directors have realized the strength of the franchise is the family, so they linger on it, but they keep the actions ramped up to a high notch to hold the male audience better?

I'm probably not making much sense. I have a hard time with words, but there is a strong contrast between the first three movies and the later four on how they choose to showcase the family.

[escritoireazul]

Interesting points.

But then, when they fall back to the interpersonal scenes, it's pulled into a real-time kind of shooting, with long looks and slow dialogue, sometimes with heavy silences. It's a sharp contrast for me, and a bit different from the first couple of movies where the interpersonal stuff was ... happening as the plot and action did?

This particularly struck me. The family part is much heavier and slower, which sometimes highlights unfortunate (usually ridiculous) dialog choices. And yet, it still gives me all sorts of found family feelings.