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    After recasting "The Island of Dr. Moreau," I feel like I should cast the rest of the Shaw family too.

     

    I'm thinking Helen Mirren and Malcolm McDowell as Ma and Pa Shaw. They can be the sort of matriarch and patriarch of this crime family, all the while moonlighting as these Cambridge-educated pillars of the community (sort of like Gus Fring in "Breaking Bad). Meanwhile, as far as younger ass-kicking British women, we can only really go with the very ass-kicking leading lady of "Edge of Tomorrow," Emily Blunt as Maggie Shaw, avenging sister of Owen and Deckard. Or, if she's unavailable, we can always poach Rebecca Ferguson from any future "Mission Impossible" films, because God knows she should be in basically everything from now on.

     

    What about Liam Neeson as the patriarch of the Shaws? I'd love for them to do a little hat-tip to the original fast car movie, The Italian Job and cast Michael Caine, but he's getting on in years and so I doubt he'd be up for it unfortunately.

     

    I also think Keanu Reeves needs to be added to the Furious franchise somehow. For a multitude of reasons, but mostly because he can fight, he's an established action movie veteran and box-office draw, he's multi-racial and that fits with the rest of the casting and he's crushing it lately.

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    when this movie came out i have to admit i sniggered abit when vin diesel said it would win the best picture oscar. http://www.forbes.co...-at-the-oscars/

     

    however, that was before i saw it. i dont mean its going to win the best picture oscar, and im probably making an arse out of myself here, but i do think its going to get nominated for the best original song.

     

    i know not everyone likes wiz khalifa's "see you again" but unless theres a musical coming out over the next few months i think it will get a nod. it fit perfectly with what i thought was a perfectly judged exit for paul walkers character.

     

    i went to see this with my dad and at the end we both just kinda just gave each other a nod of approval.... it was the most emotional i have seen him in years

     

    The song combined with the visual image of Toretto and Brians cars taking different forks in the road and Brians car driving into the sunset was what sold it.

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    For the Omissions segment...

     

    In the jumping through 3 buildings in a car scene, inside the 3rd building there is a makeshit museum or gallery of some sort with some statues that they crash and destroy before jumping out.

     

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    Those statues remind me a lot of the statue army from the 3rd "The Mummy" film...

     

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    Another "fun" fact is that the director from the first Fasts Rob Cohen is the director of The Mummy 3 and Universal owns both the Fasts and Mummy franchises... Could this also be an F.U. to Rob Cohen? Or maybe a wink / reference / same universe / obscure fact / statues gathering dust and occupying space in the universal studio lot? He also directed "Stealth" so...

     

    *Ps.: Oh wait a second... After listening to the episode this must mean that Universal movies DO exist in the same universe so years after The mummy movies the events of the "Fasts" movies take place... NAILED IT!

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

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    After that story, question time:

    Did I miss it either in 6 or 7 or have the movies never officially addressed the disappearance of Santos and Leo from the crew/family after 5? I remember hearing they were left out because of contract disputes to be in 6, but they just sort of went away in terms of plot/importance...not that character continuity is a problem for this franchise or anything, but it sort of bugs me, especially with this whole "family" horseshit being the driving motivation for everyone now.

     

    I'm sure they'll return at some point. Maybe they ended up in prison and Fast 9 will be about getting them back.

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    Whilst this was very funny, I hope Scott wasn't serious when he said that he thought people were 'kidding on the square'. I'm worried he took some of the jokes a little too seriously, specifically Tim's resentment about not being invited to be on the Comedy Bang Bang tv show and his problems with how well it is reviewed, which were obviously not legitimate.

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    Hey Paul, Spontaneanation is a roaring good show and has quickly become one of my favourite podcasts! Keep up the good work old sport!

     

    A few questions:

     

    1. What's with the quick cut to and fros? The ones where the scene only changes for a few seconds and then immediately changes back? Are they they a result of accident or design?

     

    2. What is the nature of Dolores and Mitch's relationship?

     

    3. How does a person live a meaningful life?

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    I do think it's the lesser of the two themes by a significant margin, not because it's a rap song, but simply because it's not very good.

     

    The rapper appears to have that particular speech impediment where someone says S's with that Shlusssssh sound like they have an overabundance of saliva, which makes it feels like someone is hogging a loogie in my ear everytime he says Schwarzenegger, the musical accompaniment is pretty generic and the lyrics aren't particularly clever.

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