Re: cars 2 vs. fast five ... which one do critics like more?

This is the article I was thinking of:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/fast-five-will-transition-franchise-from-street-racing-to-heist-action/

It's already known that Universal has started Chris Morgan -- the
> screenwriter of *Fast Five* as well as *The Fast And The Furious 3: Tokyo
> Drift*,  and *Fast & Furious 4* -- on the script for the sixth installment
> as part of his new production deal at the studio. But Morgan is also a great
> scripter of the crime-thriller genre, like *Wanted*. So what *Fast Five*sets up nicely is a
> *Fast Six* whose plot revolves around a major robbery. And Universal's
> intent is to transform the street-racing franchise into a series of heist
> films. It was Universal's previous administration of chairman Marc Shmuger
> and co-chairman David Linde who put the original cast back together on *Fast
> & Furious* and then enjoyed a huge opening for what was then seen as a
> refreshed franchise.
>
> But Fogelson and Langley saw a roadblock ahead when they took over the
> studio: How long would or could this franchise last as is? "The question
> putting *Fast Five* and *Fast Six* together for us was: Can we take it out
> of being a pure car culture movie and into being a true action franchise in
> the spirit of those great heist films made 10 or 15 years ago?"
>

As for *Fast Five* domestically, "Based on screenings, this is
> the highest-testing movie in the franchise so far," Fogelson noted. "But
> we've absolutely left perfect room for where we want to go with this
> franchise. I don't want to give away too much, but there are a lot of
> surprises at the end of *Fast Five* involving one of the biggest
> characters of the previous movies which will set up the franchise now as a
> series of heist action films."
>

Johne Cook
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >I must not be remembering the first four films all that well (well, I
> never saw the third film, but anyhoo). The fifth film was promoted quite
> heavily as a "heist" film a la Ocean's >11, so presumably something seemed
> different about it to *somebody*. Maybe the fact that they brought in a team
> that consisted of just about every supporting >character from the first four
> films? Maybe the fact that they stole a *vault* this time?
>
>
> Well, the "good" guy was trying to stop the heists in the first two
> films...the third and fourth, i am not sure, as I've only seen the first
> one.  But Deisel's crew in the first film were street racers who were
> hijacking big rigs for their cargo...
>
>
> Thom
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