Jul 5, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 12 segments
Drew and Travis party in the city where the heat is on! That's right, it's a Miami-set sequel double feature: *Bad Boys II* vs. *2 Fast 2 Furious*! This is our first entry in a theme month we're…
So this was just one of those wonderful cosmic coincidences that genre vision seems to... constantly uh fall under but uh we're gonna start with too fast too furious now uh granted neither travis or i re-watched the original fast and furious uh for this and i know just personally that this has been i think both travis and i's probably favorite entry in in the fast and furious franchise
I think I actually ranked Tokyo Drift higher in my ranking when I watched these.
I didn't watch any of the Fast and the Furious movies until basically the lockdown hit with COVID.
And I was like, oh, I finally have enough time to watch the Fast and Furious movies.
And I watched them all in the chronological order, not in which they were released, but the chronological canon order.
So I actually waited until after it was like after six or seven to watch the third one.
But two was kind of an easy standout just because I registered it as very different.
Number one, it's the only one of these main Fast and Furious movies that does not have Vin Diesel in it.
Well, in a general sense, one of the reasons doing number two's month appealed to me is that I think direct sequels are so fascinating.
because they offer you a look into like, OK, here was this some kind of a success, whatever metric that may be, but a success that they wanted to capitalize on and make a sequel to.
And in a franchise, if you get to a point where you've made enough sequels, you can see patterns and experiments that work or don't and yada yada.
it's not technically your first bite at the apple you already had that but it kind of is
right it's what codifies something as a franchise and so it really gives you the best look at like what the people behind the curtain think is the reason for the franchise's success or at least for the first film success because you know the second one is always going to be a response to the first one being like okay like here's what we know did well with the first one so we're going to do that but more and bigger Um, like that's, that's usually the whole ethos behind us.
And I really like that the fast and furious franchise wasn't bold into that trilogy format at all.
I really like that this is different enough from the first movie by, you know, just the sheer lack of Vin Diesel and, you know, placing it in a new location and, you know, having sort of a different plot structure and stuff like that.
So this was just one of those wonderful cosmic coincidences that genre vision seems to... constantly uh fall under but uh we're gonna start with too fast too furious now uh granted neither travis or i re-watched the original fast and furious uh for this and i know just personally that this has been i think both travis and i's probably favorite entry in in the fast and furious franchise
I think I actually ranked Tokyo Drift higher in my ranking when I watched these.
I didn't watch any of the Fast and the Furious movies until basically the lockdown hit with COVID.
And I was like, oh, I finally have enough time to watch the Fast and Furious movies.
And I watched them all in the chronological order, not in which they were released, but the chronological canon order.
So I actually waited until after it was like after six or seven to watch the third one.
But two was kind of an easy standout just because I registered it as very different.
Number one, it's the only one of these main Fast and Furious movies that does not have Vin Diesel in it.
Well, in a general sense, one of the reasons doing number two's month appealed to me is that I think direct sequels are so fascinating.
because they offer you a look into like, OK, here was this some kind of a success, whatever metric that may be, but a success that they wanted to capitalize on and make a sequel to.
And in a franchise, if you get to a point where you've made enough sequels, you can see patterns and experiments that work or don't and yada yada.
it's not technically your first bite at the apple you already had that but it kind of is
right it's what codifies something as a franchise and so it really gives you the best look at like what the people behind the curtain think is the reason for the franchise's success or at least for the first film success because you know the second one is always going to be a response to the first one being like okay like here's what we know did well with the first one so we're going to do that but more and bigger Um, like that's, that's usually the whole ethos behind us.
And I really like that the fast and furious franchise wasn't bold into that trilogy format at all.
I really like that this is different enough from the first movie by, you know, just the sheer lack of Vin Diesel and, you know, placing it in a new location and, you know, having sort of a different plot structure and stuff like that.
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