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Originally Posted by noclue (Post 8619494)

I thought the movie sucked compared to the previous ones. It started off really well with race wars but then it focused too much on fights, guns and explosions instead of cars, became another typical action genre movie. I thought the military helicopter and the predator drone in the middle of LA was really ridiculous and not in the cool way.

PS the MMA girl can't act lol

Tokyo drift was the last real "car based" fast and furious, the fast franchise now is more of a action movie designed to appeal to the masses with a little bit of car stuff to keep the original fans interested

Lol @ Rousey not being able to act...

She's in Entourage as well, although I guess the acting in that is minimal given that she plays herself.

I hear that white Supra was actually one of Walker's cars?

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Originally Posted by IINur (Post 8619587)

I hear that white Supra was actually one of Walker's cars?

yes it was posted earlier in this thread.

^ your name in this thread reminded me of last week's SNL

Furious 7 had its moments. The ninjas were definitely working overtime tonight with the chopping of onions. -felt the emotion from seeing the last few scenes at the end of the movie.

Spoiler!

A surprise was the casting of one of the characters. She's so hot! :jizz:

Spoiler!

The big theme of this movie:

Spoiler!

That security chick in dubai

Spoiler!

:QQ::QQ:

left the theater in :QQ:

OH DAMN...THE FEELS in the last scene!

I thought the movie was pretty fucking good, granted there was some "outrageous" stunts but overall it was a great movie but bittersweet since this will be the last movie and last FnF with Paul Walker.

I definitely felt all the feels during the tribute to Paul Walker in the last scene. All those memories, starting with FnF and all the way til F7. It was just an amazing journey and an equally amazing ride with Paul Walker.

Rock Bottom on Statham :lol :lol

Rock Bottom on Statham was awesome. I was the only one that went "ROCK BOTTOM!!!" :lol

I almost teared up at the end. Hearing Vin Diesel with his eulogy at the end definitely hit me hard. I think it also has to do with the fact that all of us basically grew up with this movie and the cast, so it's like seeing an extension of us leave and never come back.

Tried not to cry during the end. Was in tears when Vin and Paul split up :QQ: :tears:

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Originally Posted by mb_ (Post 8619875)

Tried not to cry during the end. Was in tears when Vin and Paul split up :QQ: :tears:

I was like aw fuck I'm gonna crack during the car split scene.

I was already crying at the beach scene, when they all started saying their farewells to Paul :tears:

Interesting read about the behind the scenes of the cars of F7 and the guy that built them:
The Inside Track To Furious 7

Official music video to See You Again here, for some reason cant find it on youtube
Wiz Khalifa - "See You Again" [Music Video Premiere]

Made almost $150million in North America

The highest April weekend

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At the domestic box office, Furious 7's $147.2 million debut is 55 percent higher than Captain America: The Winter Soldier's $95 million, which was the previous April record holder.

This is also the biggest debut in the franchise thus far, up a whopping 51 percent over Fast & Furious 6. Furious 7 earned $13.3 million on IMAX screens alone, which ranks second all-time for a 2D-only movie behind The Dark Knight Rises.

and almost $400million total worldwide

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The movie also opened to an incredible $245 million overseas; that's without any help from China, Japan and Russia, where it will open in the next few weeks. So far, Furious 7 has earned $392 million worldwide, and is very likely on track to earn over $1 billion by the end of its run.

Weekend Report: 'Furious 7' Opens to $392 Million Worldwide - Box Office Mojo

pretty impressive

Whole movie with one huge feels trip

Wow, the air drop sequence was all real - no CGI used whatsoever!

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Originally Posted by Gumby (Post 8620507)

Wow, the air drop sequence was all real - no CGI used whatsoever!

Where did you get that information from? Cause I'm pretty sure that whole thing was not real. Maybe that end sequence just before hitting the road.

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Originally Posted by fsy82 (Post 8620508)

Where did you get that information from? Cause I'm pretty sure that whole thing was not real. Maybe that end sequence just before hitting the road.

Got it from wikipedia. :)

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The "air drop" scene was conceived by stunt coordinator, Spiro Razatos, who supervised on Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. Razatos told Business Insider that he wanted to rely more on real stunts rather than CGI because he wanted the whole sequence to "feel real" and satisfy audience's expectations. The stunt took months of prep-solving problems. Cameras needed to be mounted onto cars in a way that they would not be destroyed when the cars landed, and the crew had to figure out a safe way to get the cars out of the plane. They performed a dry run with a single car falling out of a plane and did this six times. Cars were dropped from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules high above the Arizona desert, but close up shots that show the cars landing on a mountain road were filmed in Colorado. There were two airplanes, flying at a height of 12,000 feet, each dropping two cars apiece. BRS parachutes enabled with GPS were secured to each of the cars before dropping off the C-130 plane. At about 5,000 feet, the parachutes deployed. Over 10 cameras were used for the sequence. In addition to cameras on the ground, there were cameras remotely operated inside the plane and another three mounted outside each car. Additional cameras were on a helicopter, where Razatos was stationed watching monitors. Three skydivers used in the shoot wore helmet cameras to help shoot the sequence from multiple angles. Sky divers would either jump out before cars or after them. While all the cars landed on their drop zones, 70% landed perfectly and 30% didn't. The last part of the scene, which shows the cars hitting the road, was shot separately. To get that right, the team set up a pully sytem that had cars six to eight feet above the ground. When it was time, the drivers raced their engines and slid to the ground at full speed. Razatos admits that the air drop sequence was "all real" and that it would be "hard to top.

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Originally Posted by fsy82 (Post 8620508)

Where did you get that information from? Cause I'm pretty sure that whole thing was not real. Maybe that end sequence just before hitting the road.

the air drop was real, but the movie footage of the landing on the road was done on a giant zipline.

there are youtube videos posted on this thread showing them pushing out the cars one at time out of a hercules c-130 since the USAF would never allow them to use one of their globemasters for this. (on a side note: i don't know if this is for real or not, but people said to look carefully at the markings on the globemaster, and then compare it to the one that was used in the last superman movie... same plane?)

and if you follow mightycarmods they did an episode on it as well. they showed footage of the remains of the green challenger letty drove after it landed intact, but the wind caught the chute dragged it across the desert like a tumbleweed and destroyed it:o

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult...-7-stunt-cars/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...Furious-7.html

and then there was the lykan....

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult...actually-work/