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This week, on Supercilious Pieces of Frivolous Fluff:
Can we have fun? David Leitch says YESSSS. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham spend two hours trading kindergarten-level insults about each other’s height and baldness while saving the world from a techno-virus and Super Smart Idris Elba. Being a Fast & Furious movie, we obviously have FAMILY with Venessa Kirby and Helen Mirren… So we’re now up to 5 perfect people to cast in a movie. Sprinkle in Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Hart, Rob Delaney, Cliff Curtis, Eiza González. I mean, you had us at David Leitch. But the cast of this thing is everyone we want to hang out with for two hours. So… That means it’s time for a new Great Bad Movies episode.
Greg and Joe discuss how their perception of this movie has changed in the last 5 years, explain “Hobbs & Shaw Travel Logic,” and where Death Race would fit in the Fast & Furious Power Rankings. As always, they create drinking games for the film and answer the most important questions.
Joe’s Back of the Box
When a virus is stolen by a rogue MI6 agent the only two people who can save the world are Hobbes and Shaw… Together they fight the secret corporation behind the virus which is trying to make a breed of super soldiers. This unlikely duo trade punches, barbs, and jokes through this high octane thrill ride as the action spills out onto the streets from London to Samoa…
The REAL Back(s) of the Box
What if Mission Impossible 2 and Tango and Cash had a baby? If you, like us, have ever wondered that, then I have good news. Hobbes and Shaw sticks the landing and makes all your dreams come true. Throw in David Leitch directing and perfectly timed cameo’s from Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart and this might be a perfect movie or at least a great movie or at least a movie…
Idris Elba plays Brixton. A soldier and visionary leader trying to help the human race evolve to a higher plain of existence. Unfortunately an unlikely partnership forms between Hobbs and Shaw and they work to stop the evolution of the species due to their misguided principles.