I think the third or fourth … not too sure they all blend, but the first one with the Rock in wasn’t actually going to be a Fast and furious … it was the hashed together from a sequel to mark wahlbergs version of the Italian job … it was originally called the Brazilian Job… that was one of the better ones
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LOL. I wonder why they changed the name 
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I don’t know why those FF films are so popular. I get the cartoonish action can be appealing, but even DC does it better than the FF films, and they’re not as good as Marvel’s. The characters and plots fall flat. All I see are actors I know reciting lines on big budget stunt and location extravaganzas, like Bond films but without the cleverness.
Funny how DC beat Marvel for literal decades with the Superman and Batman films. Then Marvel did Blade and things started to change as they leaned into X Men, Spiderman, and then the MCU. They were tied when the Nolan Batman films ended just as Iron Man replaced the letdowns of Spiderman 3 and X Men 3 with RDJ’s brilliant work.
The man made a narcissistic alcoholic insufferable know-it-all rich ■■■■■■■ not only likeable but even admirable. He got zero award nods for that role, but IMO making Tony Stark into a box office juggernaut is far more impressive than even Heath Ledger’s great work on just a single film playing an insane criminal as an insane criminal.
William Shatner is Captain Kirk, even though others have played him and may continue to into the futre, he defined him and almost single-handedly (with admitted assitance from the rest of the cast and crew) made Star Trek something that has lasted 60 years and opened the door for SF to be respected and not just silly kids’ or B films. Kirk never really had bad qualities, but he could’ve been just another rote hero and Shatner elevated him.
RDJ is the Shatner of comic book films. Hugh Jackman didn’t quite manage it with Wolverine (thanks to just as many forgettable appearances as memorable ones), Christopher Reeve didn’t quite with Superman (thanks to only 2 really good films), none of the multiple actors who played Batman did it. I think that while recognition of his work in Oppenheimer is well deserved, Tony Stark is the real masterpiece.
Yeah, he made a ton of money doing it and so did the films and Marvel/Disney, but that doesn’t lessen the accomplishment, it enhances it. To be able to do such a brilliant job AND make tons of money, without “selling out” or pandering or compromising… and whose onscreen death hit people WAY harder than the death of Spock in ST2 or Kirk in Generations or most other fictional mass entertainment characters because they honestly loved the character…
I think it’s not even as common as a once-in-a-generation accomplishment.
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The fact that I saw both Pearl Harbor and Fast and the Furious in theaters in the same summer is mind-blowing.
The latter made for a lot more fun weekend; I was in the nuke school pipeline at the time, and pretty much the entire base went to go see the movie at the same time.
Then all the base went drag-racing on the long stretch of perfectly straight, flat road that cut through the swamp of the weapons station.
A lot of the sea returnee instructors had truly amazing examples of the automotive golden age that was the late 90s- early 00s; Camaro SS and Firebird Firehawks, Mk. III and IV Supras, Cobras (including a Saleen), even an old GT350H that a guy has been restoring in the student parking lot.
And then there was me with my 11 year old Honda Accord LX.
Good times.
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You are correct here. RDJ might not be a great guy, but after Tropic Thunder and the MCU. The man can act.
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Watching “weird: the al yankovic story” and am literally crying laughing.
Absolutely brilliant
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I have watched it twice. Second time was after convincing the bride to see it even though “But I don’t like Weird Al Yankovic”… We have been together long enough that if I suggest a movie she will at least start watching it.
Laughed just as hard the 2nd time, so did she 
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Was Evan Rachel Wood convincing as Madonna? I’ve been a big fan of hers since Westworld.
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Just as much as Daniel as Al.
But then again, if you think this is a biopic you are wrong.
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Just about all the actors were recognisable as who they were portraying, but as @JediMaster points out… It isn’t a biopic.
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I don’t even know what to call it, but it was a seriously funny film in places
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A fictional comedy?
Meaning that the comedy was non existent?
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OMG Guys, I had a blast of a time with “Dungeon & Dragons - Honor among Thieves”
It was hilarious, touching, brilliantly written, and for someone with proper Pen & Paper Table Top RPG SO TRUE to life!
Very very worth a watch with a number of absolutely hysterical scenes.
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I wanted to watch it with my D&D party. But we couldn’t find a date to go to the cinema, and then it wasn’t on anymore. So we decided to watchbit together at home.
…still haven’t seen it. But I have heard many good things about it.
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Honor Among Thieves was a lot better than I had anticipated.
I watched this again last night.
Brando at his best IMHO.
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I’ll have to give this another shot some day. We were forced to watch it in one of my high school English classes and I found it utterly boring at the time.
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Side note, I’m watching the “2 broke girls” TV series and I’m ■■■■■■■ myself with laughter. It’s as adorable as it’s deliciously cringe. Love it
Plus the show stars two very attractive women.
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It’s still so wild to me that Kat Dennings is married to Andrew W. K.
