The stunts in this movie are totally unrealistic and defies the laws of gravity. At least in the previous 8 installments, the stunts looked and felt very real. Certain stunts performed in this film are completely impossible
shareand it will make a billion dollars because audiences are morons now. sadly.
shareDon't even go there on moviegoers being morons. I enjoy these movies, but I enjoy stuff like Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction as well. Plus I know the difference between what can happen in a movie vs the real world. I don't watch movies for 100% realism either or 100% facts. If I want 100% realism and 100% facts, I'll go watch The Travel Channel, History Channel, and other channels like that. Or go watch documentaries and stuff on YouTube.
sharevery hard viewing a movie when my eyes are rolling every five seconds.
ok ok it's not for me apparently. showing real humans, on Earth, I expect the SLIGHTEST hint of realism. chucking it all, per the OP, just makes it a silly cartoon.
You really find a 4000 pound car swinging on a thin rope entertaining?
People like fantasy in all forms, and everyone understands that events in this series are no more plausible than a comic book movie. There are plenty of good movies based firmly in reality, and fans of this franchise appreciate those type of movies equally. Your air of superiority is misplaced by condemning audiences for liking a movie based on the OPs complaint. A poorly constructed narrative and bad writing are a legit complaint with this entry, but physics haven't been a real concern for these movies since the beginning.
shareWere there any actual stunts in this movie? Just looked like a bunch of digital trickery to me.
shareYou mean...previous installments in which vehicles skydive out of airplanes? Or, jump from skyscraper to skyscraper? This franchise has turned into cartoon-level absurdity. We literally walked out of the theater last night. Staying another hour would have just felt like more time wasted.
shareI just can't stomach this much cartoony crap anymore. Hobbs Shaw was it for me: helicopters falling off a high cliff, exploding and disintegrating at the bottom... and the occupants get up and walk away. Good grief. Done.
(actually the whole film. I would have shut it off, but I wanted to finally see the level of ludicrous absurdity things have come too. Now, how do you top insane, shark jumping over the topness??)
LOL.
Awesome post. Points out the "cartoon-level absurdity" in some of the previous EIGHT films, yet still there in order to walk out of the NINTH installment because staying til the end - rather than not actually going to see it in the first place! - would have been a waste of time π.
I think the first time the franchise toss logic and science out of the window was the fifth one. The one where they use cars to drag around the giant safe.
shareActually...
The giant safe was done using practical effects. Very cool stuff, by the way. To avoid the safe from tearing up the street, they had a small truck built inside the safe where it could be driven to help make turns and avoid any extraneous damage.
While it's completely improbable, the fact that all of that was done using practical effects is still extremely impressive to me.
These are "fun" movies. You really can't go into them expecting realism.
shareBut they try to be SOOOO serious! Big, personal drama issues, and angriness over this and that, and serious discussions, (with some very small humor).... if it's just a FUN movie, shouldn't it be more fun, less "We are a dead serious movie, in the vein of serious James Bond style" -- instead of the cartoony physics and actions?
shareThese movies are suppose to be extremely over-the-top and absolutely unrealistic. That's what they're aiming for, and that's the entertainment factor they're advertising.
Going into outer space in a Pontiac Fiero (of all cars) strapped to a rocket should be enough to tell you that.
But why were the previous films not made with over the top unrealistic stunts? Why were those films almost like watching a documentary compared to this one?
shareI don't recall exactly, but somewhere along the way the unrealism got out of control. Maybe the 5th or 6th movie? I don't recall. I guess someone thought it'd be a entertaining route to take. And actually, what else do these movies have to offer. They're full of half-ass actors with pretty weak storylines.
They should go all out and make it as crazy as possible. Next movie, they should find a way to steal a shuttle and go to the moon.
I thought films 1-8 and Hobbs and Shaw were very realistic and I felt like I was watching a documentary. However with F9, they lost me. It was out of control impossible stunts thruout the movie.
shareDid you not see Fast & Furious lol? So many examples to even begin.
shareI seen them all. Maybe the scene in Furious 7 when Dom jumps from skyscraper to skyscraper in that supercar is a bit exaggerated. Other than that, what stunts in the pervious films were unrealistic?
shareMaybe the scene in Furious 7 when Dom jumps from skyscraper to skyscraper in that supercar is a bit exaggerated.
Other than that, what stunts in the pervious films were unrealistic?