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When did the Fast and Furious franchise jump the shark?

When did the F&F franchise officially jump the shark?

  • Fast 5 - Demolishing part of Rio to troll a drug lord

    Votes: 21 28.0%
  • Furious 6 - Dom ghost-riding the wip into the guardrail to catch Leti and I can't make this up

    Votes: 19 25.3%
  • Fast 7 - Jumping the mythical Lykan Hypersport between 3 towers in Dubai

    Votes: 3 4.0%
  • F8 Of The Fuck you already - Sinking a sub with its own cruise missile

    Votes: 3 4.0%
  • F9 - Motherfucking Pontiac Fiero in motherfucking space!

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • F10 or F11 - Because the multiverse lust won't miss the F&F franchise

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other - I don't got sharks, I got family

    Votes: 25 33.3%

  • Total voters
    75

MastaKiiLA

Member
It's a simple fucking question. When did this franchise jump the shark? Each entry post Diesel-return has had an argument for shark jumpage. Did you think any subsequent shark jumps were bigger? I personally think so. So I didn't include F4 as an option, as I think there as a clear escalation where the crew went from street-racing vigilantes to international super spies. This happened after F4.

So, please at least cast a vote. Leave a comment in the comments, if that tickles your fancy. I don't want to influence the thread anymore than I've already done with the poll.
 
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Alx

Member
I voted 6.
5 was the one when it took a 90° turn towards craziness, but it worked as a joke that took the viewer by surprise (spent the whole movie planning a well-timed heist plan, and finally say "fuck it !" and drive through walls with the cars). 6 had to go one step further and lost all pretense of credibility from the beginning. Still loved watching all those movies, but they were all forgettable after 5.
 

Tschumi

Member
I think TFATF failed with me when i didn't like glorifying speeding on open roads. When the star died in a car crash i didn't seem to see enough people saying "maybe we shouldn't be encouraging speeding quite like this"... Sorry for being a bore :/
 
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The fact that most of those cars would be totaled and the movies would end pretty quick. At least the first tried to stay in the realm of reality. But if you just look at them as pure make believe then you’ll get a lot of NOS fueled mileage out of them.
 

The Cockatrice

I'm retarded?
Dunno, I always shut my brain off when watching the series. Been there day one, prolly will be until the end.

Anyway, say what you want about F9 but that magnet on the highway chase was fucking amazing.

Couldnt find better quality but dont tell me u didnt like this shit

 

MastaKiiLA

Member
Dunno, I always shut my brain off when watching the series. Been there day one, prolly will be until the end.

Anyway, say what you want about F9 but that magnet on the highway chase was fucking amazing.

Couldnt find better quality but dont tell me u didnt like this shit
I wear my shit-eating grins with pride, my friend. I love all the F&F nonsense. it's gravy to me. However, if I had to pinpoint a specific moment where the illusion was officially broken, it was probably Furious 6, where he grabs Leti in midair, and survives the ensuing 50+ mph impact into a car windshield the somehow didn't completely collapse from the impact. It was the moment where i literally muttered, "seriously?" to myself in the theater. From that point on, I just ignored physics.
 

lukilladog

Member
I think TFATF failed with me when i didn't like glorifying speeding on open roads. When the star died in a car crash i didn't seem to see enough people saying "maybe we shouldn't be encouraging speeding quite like this"... Sorry for being a bore :/
Actually, speeding in open roads was criminalized by the movie. You cannot watch the movie and end with the idea that this is right and safe.
 
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poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
The car stuff is whatever, it pretty much jumped the shark in that regard in the first movie.
But the characters have become increasingly ludicrous (no....ok maybe a slight pun intended) but especially Dom who is now some superhero genius. The latest movie was hilarious when his badass brother showed up and he was all pissed because he was sick of living in Dom's shadow - except up until very recently Dom was just an ex con running a crappy garage and stealing VCR's.
 

dr_octagon

Banned
Next... "the Fellowship of the Furious" where in order to save earth, or at least the middle of it, the gang will have to drive Vin Diesel's "precious" car into a volcano.

And yet he will still somehow survive and so will his car probably.

Elonrond will help the fight against evil with his electric car.

The prequel with Baggins of BMW-end featuring the VW desolation of carbon Smoog.
 

MayauMiao

Member
The space scene is triple down the jumping the shark. At some point they will be a multiverse where the new villains will be the evil version of the "family".
 

Scotty W

Banned
I saw the first film in theaters and did not like it. That was back in the days when going to the theaters was something that people just ‘did’, so I allowed myself to be dragged to the second, which I loathed. When Tokyo drift came out and bombed, I was happy to be rid of this odious franchise.

It came back and I just ignored it, until I was on a ferry which was showing 7 or 8. Suddenly I understood. It has gone far past absurdity, and was now funny. Not until it became a parody of itself did it become good. Jumping the shark is the best thing the series ever did.
 

TheInfamousKira

Reseterror Resettler
Whenever Ludacris wrote the theme song.

TOO FAST

TOO FURIOUS

ACT A FOOL

That's when the series lost any sense of credibility to me. All of all the hip hop and rap artists they could have chosen, they choose this man who, even as a white male, feels like the personification of creepy, like every time he speaks I feel like he's going to jump through my speakers and li-li-lick me from my head to my toes. Non consensualy. Come to think of it, I think I stopped watching Law and Order: SVU right around the time he became a recurring incidental character who was like Finn's son's step uncle or some shit. Nelly was much the same, now I think about it. Also, hearing every white ass FFA member who spent more time with cows than hoes spitting Country Grammar at me like Eminem in 8 Mile was cringe before I even knew there was a term for cringe. They'd be all

Yea I got me a 8 point last night up near the crick, how bout y'ins?

Straight into

WE GOIN DOWN DOWN BABY OTHER STUPID LYRICS, BOOM BOOM BABY, READY TO LET IT GO

Like fuck Future Farmers of America. FFA? More like FFS. All the chemicals and machinery, if the world was put into a survival situation, like surviving after a massive meteor collision or some shit, most farmers wouldn't even know how to operate. Everything has become so automated that traditional techniques are becoming a lost, obsolete art. It's like an ancient civilization that shared it's history exclusively through spoken word, and over time, people are forgetting little details. We'd all be fucked, and then we'd have to listen to these woke ass environmentalists gloat while proposing we start roach and maggot farms because they're resilient, easy, sustainable protein.

This would, inevitably, lead to people who don't want that shit to start hoarding the last of the real food, or the non perishable leftovers from the old world civilization, and on a large enough scale over time, this will lead to PMC's arming themselves and guarding food stores for hire.

Of course, the US government in its death throes will cling to the power it can still muster and send our demoralized, famished soldiers to quell the uprising so as not to tarnish their illusion that the status quo is still a plausible outcome. What follows is civil war. So yes. 2 Fast 2 Furious is awful, and Nelly is the reason America is going to descend into a flaming trash fire of a second Civil War.
 

daveonezero

Banned
Who cares best super hero movies going right now.

And really wasn’t the first movie where they went under a semi ridiculous enough?

Or how about the bridge jump in 2?
 
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Fast5
Jumping out of a car jumping off a bridge and magically splashing into the water

Reality
They would be lumps of flesh crumpled under the water from all their bones shattering
 

Sybrix

Member
The very first movie. Dumb as a box of rocks.

I sort of agree, the first few films were stupid and a cringe fest because there was a certain type of audience that took them seriously.

Since Fast 5, these films have been funny daft action films and they fit that genre perfectly, they are a good watch at a cinema, huge car chases, guns, explosions, crazy stunts etc... thats all these films are and the next few should go bigger and crazier.

There a bit of light entertainment, nothing more than that.
 
Fast 5 for me, because it's when the racing aspect stopped being a focal point. Fast & Furious still had a fair share of racing in it.

Despite that, I think the fifth movie is a great film. It's just different. I've managed to have fun with all of them. I think Tokyo Drift is the best overall, because it's actually full racing focused.
 

Lunarorbit

Member
When did Paul walker die? I thought that was touching that his brother played him in a far away shot with his family.

At least thats what I read. I never actually watched that one. Maybe 6?

But seriously after Tokyo drift it really just starts to tread the same water. Isn't Idris Elba a super villian in the last one?
 

NahaNago

Member
It's when the rock joined. He just seemed far more over the top than anything that had been in the series at the time.
 
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