I saw the douchebags from this film barking about their “new” film coming out in April during the Superbowl pre-hype, I mean pregame show. Then I said to myself, “Hey, isn’t that an old movie?” The actors even referenced the fact that the first film they did was done 10 years ago.
So I’m thumping my head figuring out how it’s possible to release a film WITH THE SAME FUCKING NAME as the prequel. Then I realize that the original was called The Fast and The Furious.
If you want to see this movie, you’re a jerk for encouraging this kind of behavior.
Why did “The Fast and the Furious” get two sequels, while the much more entertaining “xXx” not get one?
Vin Diesel is a lot better actor than he gets credit for being. Check his work in Boiler Room or Find Me Guilty. Even in something as joyfully stupid as xXx, he brings things to the roll like the plaintive way he tries to get the woman to dance with his “Hey, I’m a really good dancer!”
I had completely forgot about that one. Easy enough, as neither the director or lead was in it. But there is a news bit that both are planning to return for a sequel.
Honestly, I am all kinds of pumped for this. Loved the first one, didn’t watch the others because they didn’t have Vin Diesel and Paul Walker (not that I don’t realize that Paul Walker has all the acting talent of a grocery bag, I just like the characters*).
Definitely going to be dragging the roommates to this one.
*I might as well finish off the disclaimer: yeah, it’s not high art. But it is fun!
I think they (the producers, directors, et al) are just trying to cash in on Franchise Reboot Mania. Batman is the series that has most notably achieved critical acclaim and financial success after rebooting (with Batman Begins). James Bond achieved a similar effect with Casino Royale. The same thing is trying to be done with the Incredible Hulk, too.
I shouldn’t be surprised here, but there’s a Wikipedia article about rebooting in fiction.
That’s not completely accurate. Based on the IMDB listing, they’ve changed the “and” to “&”, in addition to dropping the “The”. So it’s a completely different title.
I wish they’d used the original’s title as part of a franchise branding effort, numbered it, then used the new title as a post-colon subtitle. Like this:
I’ll wait for the DVD, since I figure I’ve already seen part of the best scene in the movie. The one in the commercial, where what appears to be an '87 Buick Grand National gets driven under the oncoming rolling, flipping, bouncing, burning tanker truck. I figure there’s gotta be 30 seconds of good film there.
This a reboot? They can’t just show more “shiny cars that go VROOOM! and SQEEEEEEAAAL and VrroooooWWWWMM” and then include explosions and gratuitous nudity (see above)?
When Paul Walker said, “Things have changed” or whatever in the trailer, I thought I had stumbled upon the broadcast of The Flattest Delivery Of A Line In The History of Movies contest.
This is more like a Vin Diesel career reboot, if you ask me. With both the original F&F and xXx, when it came to sequel time he didn’t want to be a part of it. Asking too much $$$ - too good for this lightweight stuff, I guess. No instead he headed straight for that sure fire Oscar contender The Pacifier.
