Only a few countries like Russia, China, South Korea + a few more have it released on May 19th in theaters and the rest in June. How did you watch it? I heard there was a leak or something but not sure.
shareI'm going to the theater then also buy the dvd like I have all the others.
shareThere's crappy camera bootlegs out there. I'm not watching it like that. Don't know if there's a screener rip or not.
shareI've never understood how anyone can watch cam recordings. Do they not want to actually enjoy the film? Does quality mean nothing to them?
shareI used to mess around with them but life's just too short to watch movies with that quality. I can be patient. I also used to live nowhere near a movie theater. Just gotta wait three months and throw a dollar in the redbox.
shareGlad to hear that someone else in the world other than myself still uses Redbox.
Long live Redbox and physical media.
You know the thing with physical media is that the digital versions still havent managed to even replicate the quality of a blueray, let alone exceed it. All the streaming and even digital download services offer compressed low quality image.
shareUnfortunately many people prefer convenience over quality.
shareGood to know there are some movies still doing the old method so people are only left with cams/screeners/leaks if there are any. I thought they were all going to same day release like HBO Max and a few other companies.
shareprobably just watch bits of it when it comes on tv like i did with the previous ones (the only one watched in its entirety was FF1 on vhs back in 2001 when it was known primarily as Point Break with cars)
shareSurprised you didn't cut the cord yet. I did that a long time ago when many things started going digital.
shareMaybe he/she lives in one of those countries, although this site may be banned in China because of all the dangerous misinformation posted on these boards from Trump supporters
shareReluctantly, and only if paid a large sum? I mean, honestly-- why anyone watches these films is lost on me.
shareWhats more interestingly, is why someone who hates these films and has no intention of ever watching them spend time on their discussion boards.
shareBecause that's the entire point of discussion boards-- to discuss films. Do you limit your discussions of film, or any other art form, to art you like?
shareYeah, but if you want to discuss films, it makes sense to watch them so you would know what you are discussing. Why discuss a film you have no interest in?
shareIt's more that the success of the Fast and Furious films is something of a referendum on the taste and intelligence of the general public, or at least the film-going portion of the public.
If I notice that there are hundreds of fast food restaurants everywhere I go, and fewer and fewer "real" restaurants, or at least restaurants owned by a single person, or family, that prepares food from scratch on-site, I don't feel I need to eat every offering from every fast food joint before voicing my displeasure at the state of dining in the 21st century.
Well, how would you know, you havent watched them.
The fast food-restaurant issue seems like your personal problems to me. Especially since you are wring - what you call "real" restaurants are (or at least were until the pandemic) experiencing a boom.
To expand on what I just wrote:
The stated budget for F9 is $200 million. Meanwhile, the average budget for a small indie film is anywhere from $1 to $10 million. I don’t need to see F9 to know what to expect, and I’m saddened by its success because I know that 30 to 40 films could have been made with the budget allocated to F9.
I realize I live in a world where the crowd dictates what Hollywood will make, and I don’t expect studios to forego making F10, and to instead produce 30 small films, perhaps 5 of which will be excellent, but at least half of which will still be entertaining and worth watching. They’re in it for the money, the money is made by appeasing the masses, and the masses want garbage. I don’t expect that to change, but an interesting discussion may be had about the situation, even if it does not lead to any solution, or even acknowledgment by all that there is a problem.
But would those 30 to 40 million films be better than F9? The vast majority of indie movies are utter trash. I actually watched them. Take for example a movie i just saw - How I Live Now (2013). It has a stated budget of 6 million, but it was even worse than F9.
F10 and F11 area already announced, F9 made profit, so they will certainly be making them forwards. Of course they are in it for the money, they are making a product to sell. If they wanted a movie noone understands they would hire Roman Polanski to direct. Or to pick an example of a movie i actually liked - Shane Carruth.
I ended up buying all 9 films in one pack from Walmart.
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