For Your Anticipation: We Got Spikes!

I am a huge advocate for the end of a franchise, especially one that long since lost its steam. I don't remember when the first Fast and the Furious film came out, and I honestly do not care. I only became familiar with it after the fourth film came out, made $70 million in one weekend, and I was forced to watch a pirated copy by my high school chemistry teacher. I honestly cannot tell you the logic behind his decision. Suffice it to say that he wasn't hired back. In all seriousness, most of my anger at Fast Five derives from angst towards the series and the cliche nature of it. It looks like a decent action film that will get a lot of people to see it, and the second film this month to showcase Rio De Janeiro.

Theatrical Trailer: Fast Five

This year has been, and continues to be, a massive pile of failure. To punctuate my point, two films this past week have received moderately good reviews, yet didn't quite satisfy me. I've lightened up on Rango enough for a solid B. It's fantastic entertainment at times, even if it's a predictable slog through most of it. This weekend I'm set to see Battle: Los Angeles and Red Riding Hood, neither of which are at all promising, and neither of which will deliver. That brings me full circle to Fast Five, a trailer that lays everything simply. I can't honestly say why this series has gone on this long, but I'm quite honestly sick of it. There's no longer any logic in this franchise. There's one line by Vin Diesel in this trailer that sums everything wrong with this series. "Chances are, sooner or later, we're gonna end up behind bars or buried in a ditch somewhere. But not today." Until then, the pain goes on.