When the 8th movie in your franchise makes over 500 million dollars globally in one week, does it matter what the critics think?

The Fate of the Furious reminds me of the WWE. Dom turns heel. Deckard turns face. The Rock does a Rock Bottom. People fight. Cars drive. Characters drive tanks and practice extreme body boarding. One of the baddies looks like a Game of Thrones pirate. Charlize Theron is a Total Diva. Scott Eastwood makes my day. Kurt Russell is the man! Ludicrous is ludicrous. Tyrese's Roman might be the heart of the franchise. I know Ramsey's last name. Hell yes!!

My favorite character is Jason Statham's Deckard. The fella is CRANKED to the max. His going all…

"The Fate of the Furious" is the worst "Fast and the Furious" movie, betraying everything that fans love about the series.

The first 10 minutes of “The Fate of the Furious” have everything that you could ever ask for in a “Fast and the Furious” movie, or any other movie for that matter. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) swaggers through the streets of Havana, tasting the local flavor as a bass-heavy Cuban pop song bangs on the soundtrack. The sun is shining, the cars are classics, and the girls are wearing hot pink thongs that make their butts pop off the screen like they’ve been post-converted into 3D. It’s like someone threw a Pitbull video and forgot to invite him.

Then,…

I feel like a whore for liking this movie. Like I'm part of the problem when I should be more against the idea of even seeing it on the big screen and supporting more like it, especially after seeing plenty of other films crash and burn royally at the hands of them.

And yet......damn it, I liked it! Something about F Gary Grey's confidence in the various set pieces at play mixed in with the genuine chemistry the cast and characters to just.....how fucking ridiculous this movie ends up getting was enough to say "fuck it! Whatever! Cinema is dead but I'm going to have fun beating it to death!"

But then it has to throw in some genuinely great…

Watching all these movies has changed how I look at film forever. They are dumb, ridiculous, and completely illogical, but they are so much fun and they have more heart than most Oscar-winning films. This is why The Rock is perfect for these movies, he embodies all of those things. 

The last movie was the pinnacle of the artistic quality of the franchise, but it was fun to return to simple, goofy, insane fun in this one. I cannot believe this franchise has slowly transitioned from a stunt movie about car culture to a full-on action spy thriller whose characters have catchphrases. 

Stray thoughts: 
-Making Toretto go rogue was a great way to shake things up. 
-Charlize Theron is so…