Dominic Toretto is gravity. And on this planet, gravity always wins. I have never seen more hair-raising displays of gravity since my son dropped mr khaleesian's i-phone
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I saw it. I feel cheated and I want more Brian and Dom. The ending felt incomplete. I miss paul. I don't want Vin to do anymore. We didn't get any Brian and Dom scenes. I loved the movie but felt things were missing.
Undoubtedly we all want more Brian and Dom. They did the best they could, considering that they were only about halfway through their shooting schedule when we lost Paul. I would have loved to see the movie that they had planned to do....and I'm with you, I don't want anymore. No Brian, no team!
Please tell you still you'll still write FICs for them. It also didn't feel right because Dom wasn't right. It just felt off. Still loved it. It's just painful
I don't know if you've noticed, but Dom's felt a little 'off' to me since Vin became executive producer on the films. I have my own theories about why this is and basically it boils down to Vin's fannish enthusiasms being different from ours. He likes things to look 'cool' and sound 'cool' and he doesn't understand our love of narrative, subtlety and vulnerability in the characters. He's kind of a 12-year-old boy like that.
I will still write fic, but it is very painful for me.
It's really a very peculiar feeling because it's actually a lot of fun and then it hits you LIKE A TON OF BRICKS. I was watching it and thinking 'this is so fun and ridiculous and I'm enjoying myself, but I will never feel this way again' and then my face went all Niagara Falls.
So yes. First time around, quiet cinema, there were tears when they blew up the house, then it went silly and mad and perfect and so them that it was fun for a while. Then it did start to dawn on me that it was coming to an end. By the beach scene, I was already in floods. Easier second time around for a while, but it snuck up on me earlier and again I didn't make it through the beach scene onwards without tears.
+1 on the crying front. It's been years and years since I cried so hard at the cinema, and then I was really emotional and randomly bursting into tears the whole next day which is more than unusual for me.
For a while I wasn't sure if I would ever sit down to have a rewatch, but I've got a friend coming to visit in May who only ever watched up until Tokyo Drift so of course I'll sit her down and sob into my Corona while we watch because I still love it even though it's going to be painful.
Having her there might provide a little bit of a buffer zone. Number four is still my hands-down favorite...I should re-watch and pretend it's 2009 again.
Letty is definitely the winner in this movie. I just wish it didn't feel like such a loss seeing everyone on screen. But then I've already mentioned in my post about the crying that was going on, cause every little scene is like a reminder of missing Paul. It's all i can see right now. I hope it fades cause I want to be able to look at this series again with happy nostalgia in my eyes rather than the mf branch lodged in there right now.
Yeah, I know. I don't know if we'll ever truly be whole. I know that sounds overwrought but it just sucks because it was so much joy and we were all having so much fun and now...sigh.
I'm late to the party, because I couldn't get myself into the theater until today exactly because of what you said. This is my favorite franchise. Our superheroes get it to done in t-shirts, Vans, workboots, and fast cars.
I knew that once the last one was seen that would be it. I always did have the joy and the fun when I left the theater both from what was actually on the screen and the anticipation of the fanfic possibilities for me to both write and read. Blu-rays to be bought. I have none of that this afternoon.
The 'off' thing you mentioned, I felt it in 6, because as much as I enjoy shit blowing up, and I do, and the Rock in short sleeves, there wasn't as much of Brian and Dom playing off each other/working together. And understandably in 7 there's that much less. Without the core it's hollow.
I love your Brian/Dom so I am excited that you'll still be writing fic, but it's also bittersweet because I might have just retired from reading Brian/Dom, sigh indeed.
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I will still write fic, but it is very painful for me.
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Easier second time around for a while, but it snuck up on me earlier and again I didn't make it through the beach scene onwards without tears.
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Letty is definitely the winner in this movie. I just wish it didn't feel like such a loss seeing everyone on screen. But then I've already mentioned in my post about the crying that was going on, cause every little scene is like a reminder of missing Paul. It's all i can see right now. I hope it fades cause I want to be able to look at this series again with happy nostalgia in my eyes rather than the mf branch lodged in there right now.
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I knew that once the last one was seen that would be it. I always did have the joy and the fun when I left the theater both from what was actually on the screen and the anticipation of the fanfic possibilities for me to both write and read. Blu-rays to be bought. I have none of that this afternoon.
The 'off' thing you mentioned, I felt it in 6, because as much as I enjoy shit blowing up, and I do, and the Rock in short sleeves, there wasn't as much of Brian and Dom playing off each other/working together. And understandably in 7 there's that much less. Without the core it's hollow.
I love your Brian/Dom so I am excited that you'll still be writing fic, but it's also bittersweet because I might have just retired from reading Brian/Dom, sigh indeed.
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