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escritoireazul) wrote2023-05-15 07:40 pm
escritoireazul) wrote2023-05-15 07:40 pm
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Fandom: Fast X
I am still not here, and also life has been very very very hard.
However, there is a new Fast and the Furious movie and of course I have to react to the trailers.
Way back in 2020, which was clearly thirty years ago, I recapped my reaction to the first Fast and Furious 9 trailer, because it made me cackle and gave me all the feelings.
I watched the three main US trailers in reverse order today (though I'd seen the first one before, because I remember desperately wanting more genetically modified supersoldier storyline a la Hobbs & Shaw), so my individual responses aren't clear, but I can tell you that one of my favorite moments in any Fast and Furious trailer ever comes from the third trailer: If it violates the laws of god and gravity, they did it twice.
I. AM. CACKLING.
I love when a franchise embraces its own ridiculousness.
A few other thoughts scattered across the trailers and the trailers themselves behind the cut.
High-speed smuggling? My dude, that is clearly medium-speed safe robbing. Who the fuck is the older white-haired lady that is not Mama Shaw? Do I buy surprise brother Jakob? No. Am I glad to see him again? Yes.
I'm Dante. Enchanté. DYING.
(Will I likely have some thoughts about queer-coding villains later? Yes. At the moment? CACKLING.)
Dante looks like a Harlequin romance novel model with that flouncy open shirt.
TINY. TEJ.
Ramsey is looking gooooooooood.
Letty and Cipher fighting in the science lab thing. SUPERSOLDIERS PLEASE GIVE ME ALL THE SCI-FI.
OMG THE DAM.
Despite saying that, I think they might have gone into space a tiny bit too soon. Hard to top that in X.
...I am having a little bit of a hard time keeping the blonde/white haired women visually straight.
HAN. And Shaw teaming up. Not sure I'm satisfied with that whole storyline yet, but I'll roll with it.
We raced for respect? Dom, that last time you raced for respect is old enough to drink now. (How has it been 22 years?!)
This movie is absolutely filled with people I find hot. I remain here for it.
And finally: My dude, it has never been one man behind the wheel of a car. That's the whole point. It has always been about family. I know you're new to the franchise, but c'mon.
However, there is a new Fast and the Furious movie and of course I have to react to the trailers.
Way back in 2020, which was clearly thirty years ago, I recapped my reaction to the first Fast and Furious 9 trailer, because it made me cackle and gave me all the feelings.
I watched the three main US trailers in reverse order today (though I'd seen the first one before, because I remember desperately wanting more genetically modified supersoldier storyline a la Hobbs & Shaw), so my individual responses aren't clear, but I can tell you that one of my favorite moments in any Fast and Furious trailer ever comes from the third trailer: If it violates the laws of god and gravity, they did it twice.
I. AM. CACKLING.
I love when a franchise embraces its own ridiculousness.
A few other thoughts scattered across the trailers and the trailers themselves behind the cut.
High-speed smuggling? My dude, that is clearly medium-speed safe robbing. Who the fuck is the older white-haired lady that is not Mama Shaw? Do I buy surprise brother Jakob? No. Am I glad to see him again? Yes.
I'm Dante. Enchanté. DYING.
(Will I likely have some thoughts about queer-coding villains later? Yes. At the moment? CACKLING.)
Dante looks like a Harlequin romance novel model with that flouncy open shirt.
TINY. TEJ.
Ramsey is looking gooooooooood.
Letty and Cipher fighting in the science lab thing. SUPERSOLDIERS PLEASE GIVE ME ALL THE SCI-FI.
OMG THE DAM.
Despite saying that, I think they might have gone into space a tiny bit too soon. Hard to top that in X.
...I am having a little bit of a hard time keeping the blonde/white haired women visually straight.
HAN. And Shaw teaming up. Not sure I'm satisfied with that whole storyline yet, but I'll roll with it.
We raced for respect? Dom, that last time you raced for respect is old enough to drink now. (How has it been 22 years?!)
This movie is absolutely filled with people I find hot. I remain here for it.
And finally: My dude, it has never been one man behind the wheel of a car. That's the whole point. It has always been about family. I know you're new to the franchise, but c'mon.
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Totally ridiculous! But wonderful just the same.
And Momoa as the bad guy? Pure magic!
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> Who the fuck is the older white-haired lady that is not Mama Shaw?
Yeah, I was def like, "This isn't Dame
Judi DenchHelen Mirren." Though I was pleased that I correctly recognized she was Rita Moreno.> Letty and Cipher fighting in the science lab thing.
Wait, was that Charlize Theron? I kept being like, "new blonde girl," and I haven't gone back and rewatched them after reading your reactions, but I definitely read her as younger. (Googling confirms that you're right, though -- not that I particularly doubted you.)