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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 14, 2024 1:41:39 GMT -5
Didn't Idris Elba even have his own Iron Man suit at one point in one of them? More of a Deathlok sort of deal. Genetically enhanced and cybernetically augmented.
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Post by cosmo on Feb 14, 2024 21:14:08 GMT -5
Didn't Idris Elba even have his own Iron Man suit at one point in one of them? More of a Deathlok sort of deal. Genetically enhanced and cybernetically augmented.
I've only seen the third movie, so hopefully someone can fill me in...
How in the absolute f*** did these movies go from a movie about street racing to people having goddamn superpowers?!
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 14, 2024 22:56:48 GMT -5
I've only seen the third movie, so hopefully someone can fill me in...
How in the absolute f*** did these movies go from a movie about street racing to people having goddamn superpowers?!
It's a gradual process that just gets bigger and wilder with each movie. *deep breath* {Spoiler}Fast & Furious (4): Brian (Paul Walker) and Dom (Vin Diesel) take on a Mexican cartel leader who's had Dom's girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) murdered. They're assisted by Giselle (Gal Gadot), and Dom is sentenced to life in prison at the end of the movie.
Fast Five: Brian and Dom's sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) bust Dom out and they all flee to Brazil with the feds, led by Luke Hobbs (The Rock) and Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) hot on their tails. They recruit Tej (Ludacris) and Roman Pierce (Tyrese Gibson) from the second movie, Han Lue (Sung Kang) from the third movie, and Giselle from the fourth movie to steal $150 million from Rio's local drug lord. The movie ends with Brian and Dom using two cars to drag an entire bank vault through the streets of Rio with the corrupt police department chasing them. Dom and Elena begin a relationship.
Fast & Furious 6: Brian and Mia have a son. Hobbs offers the gang pardons to take down a mercenary group, led by Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) and a miraculously alive (and amnesiac) Letty, who are stealing valuable military tech. After a chase scene which begins with the gang parachuting their cars out of an airplane and ends with Dom superman-ing between two freeway bridges to catch Letty after she's thrown from a tank, they take down the fleeing Owen's plane by harpooning the wings to their cars. Giselle dies, and in the post-credits scene it's revealed Han's death in the third movie was at the hand's of Owen's brother, Deckard (Jason Statham).
Furious 7: After putting Hobbs in the hospital, Deckard Shaw almost kills Dom but is prevented from doing so by Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) and his team of secret agency spooks. Dom and the gang are recruited to stop an African warlord (Djimon Honsou) from stealing a computer program that enables the user to track anybody or anything using any device with a wireless digital connection. They jump a car between two skyscrapers in Dubai, get chased through the streets of L.A. by a drone, and Hobbs takes down a helicopter with a minigun, with Deckard trying to kill them at every turn. Dom dies but is revived by Letty, who regains her memory and it's revealed she and Dom are married. Brian and Mia have a second child.
Hobbs & Shaw: Owen and Deckard's sister Hattie (Vanessa Kirby) attempts to retrieve a programmable supervirus for MI6 from a terrorist group but are attacked by cybernetically and genetically-enhanced ex-MI6 agent Brixton (Idris Elba). Hattie injects herself with the virus and goes on the run. The CIA recruit Hobbs and Deckard to track her down, track Brixton to his base in Chernobyl, get overpowered and escape to Samoa where Hobb's family help him take Brixton down. Roman Reigns plays Hobb's brother and spears a goon, while Ryan Reynolds makes huge anus jokes.
F8 of the Furious: The gang are now running black ops jobs for Hobbs. Cipher (Charlize Theron) kidnaps Elena and the son she had with Dom, blackmailing Dom into turning on Hobbs and the gang to steal an EMP device in Berlin. Hobbs is sent to prison alongside Deckard, but both are broken out by Mr. Nobody. Cipher sends Dom to steal nuclear launch codes, then kills Elena and threatens to kill his son if he doesn't use the EMP to steal a nuclear submarine in Siberia. There's a chase scene between the sub and the gang, and the Shaw brothers rescue Dom's son from Cipher after a mid-air boarding and hijacking on her plane.
F9: After arresting Cipher, Mr. Nobody's plane is attacked by Dom's estranged mercenary brother, Jakob (John Cena), who kidnaps Cipher and steals one half of a satellite device which can hack any weapons system in the world. The gang recruit Sean Boswell (Jacob Black) from the third movie, and discover Han faked his death in the third movie. After acquiring the other half of the device, Jakob's boss double-crosses him, teams up with Cipher and launches the satellite into orbit. Tej and Roman use a custom built rocket car to follow it into orbit and destroy the satellite before being rescued by the International Space Station, while Cipher accidentally kills Jakob's boss. Jakob reconciles with Dom and Mia.
Fast X: Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the son of the drug lord from the fifth movie, embarks on a revenge mission against the gang. After setting them up in a fake mission to Rome which leads to Letty's arrest and imprisonment in a secret blacksite, Mr. Nobody's daughter, Tess (Brie Larson), dispatches Dom to Rio and helps break Letty team up with Cipher – also on Dante's hit list – to facilitate an escape. Jakob rescues Mia and Dom's son from Dante's assassins and hides them in Portugal, where Dante kidnaps Dom's son and Jakob sacrifices his life trying to protect him. The rest of the gang enlist Deckard's help and they all make for Portugal, only for their plane to be shot down. Dom rescues his son but Dante blows up a dam, leaving their fates unknown. Letty and Cipher are rescued by the presumed-dead Giselle in a submarine, while Dante contacts Hobbs to let him know he's next on his list. There's also appearances of at least three or four other siblings or parents of main characters, two or three more members of the gang, lots of heel turns, a few face turns, and roles for not one but two all-round terrible female MMA stars (Gina Carano and Ronda Rousey). It's pretty much a high-octane, big budget soap opera series at this point.
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Post by Rocky Raccoon on Feb 15, 2024 5:27:07 GMT -5
Client: We're making Conversational AI Software for children! When can you help us with the voices? Me: I refuse to help with this. If I have to do this, I'm going to quit.
(Reads concept documents.)
Me: Oh. It's just a simple adventure game, controlled by speech recognition software. It can understand simple commands and respond with a small handful of PRE-RECORDED, stock phrases from voice actors. There is nothing AI-generated here. Please send out a company memo to NOT market this as "AI". It's going to scare and anger people like it scared me.
(A few months pass.)
Company Public Press Release: "Check out our NEW revolutionary Conversational AI Software for children!"
Me: AHHHHHHHHHH!
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Post by bogey316 on Feb 15, 2024 14:02:06 GMT -5
All chicken nuggets are Chicken McNuggets. I used to work at Wendy's and anytime someone ordered "McNugguts" or Mc anything,I would correct them. Don't come to this restaurant and call it the wrong thing.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 17, 2024 13:48:17 GMT -5
I have seen people who believe comic books are strictly superhero stories when there are plenty of different types of comics out there. I could talk about mystery stories, action stories (and don't involve superheroes), sci-fi stories, etc.
I suppose I should also talk about manga, which are comic books, but printed as if they were standard softcover books. I wonder if some people believe they are related to anime.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Feb 17, 2024 14:59:44 GMT -5
All squares are rectangles.
Wait... did I do it right?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 17, 2024 21:49:30 GMT -5
All squares are rectangles. All the shapes go in the square hole.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Feb 19, 2024 18:19:06 GMT -5
All squares are rectangles. All the shapes go in the square hole. All these squares make a circle.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Feb 20, 2024 2:18:24 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I’m guilty of this recently,
I have a hard time knowing which movies are Pixar and which are dream works. I’ve been catching up on movies lately, and interesting finding out what is and what’s not on Disney plus. I just always think of Pixar when it comes to those high quality cgi animated movies. Apparently some of them aren’t even from either company.
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Post by cosmo on Mar 18, 2024 12:21:32 GMT -5
I know people who haven't heard the phrase "Marvel Cinematic Universe," and they use "the Avengers movies" as a blanket term for the MCU. I've been guilty of it myself at times too.
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