There are a few movie franchises that have delivered, repeatedly. Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, some of the Batman stuff, (new) Bond (though still nervous about this whole Sam Mendes thing), and a few others. I can unashamedly say that no franchise has made me more happy than The Fast and the Furious.
There is an emotion that is evoked in music, film and whatever else wherein the viewer/listener is carried along by an interplay of crescendo and decrescendo. Sigur Ros fires you up, brings you back down, then hits you with the mother load. There comes a point though, when some movies and some other forms of entertainment just hit you with too many high points. It is like, how many times can Predator and Alien top themselves? How many times can Jack Bauer save the world? How many times can Bruce Willis look awesome? Often times, the greats, like Motzart and Sylvester Stallone, know exactly how many times the topped can be topped. This is what makes them great.
So, when I first heard rumblings about Fast Five, I was immediately like, 'OK, how many times can you top the top?' After all, Jack Sparrow is all but ruined at this point. But then... I saw Fast Five. I only needed about 4 minutes of DPL action to know that the top has been topped and immediately started to worry about the making of Super-Fast Six. They topped the topped and I loved every minute of it. I'm nervous about Vin driving cars that fly but I think I am ready for it.
I haven't seen a single one of these but you just convinced me to marathon the first four and close it out with a trip to the theater. THX.
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