{"id":6197,"date":"2017-04-23T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2017-04-23T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:32:55","slug":"sometimes-its-okay-to-please-the-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6197","title":{"rendered":"sometimes it’s okay to please the fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have not seen The Fate of the Furious<\/em> (which is kind of a stupid name) — though I do want to — but I have caught a couple of spoilers online, and it pleases me immensely that the events of this movie apparently explain a scene in the previous movie which never made any sense to me.<\/p>\n

Not in a “Hey, let’s fix that glitch” sort of way, but obviously in a “This is what we were planning to do all along” sort of way.<\/p>\n

That pleases me, as it did in the final Resident Evil chapter<\/a>. Pretty much no reviewers comment on these things, of course, but fans notice and care. <\/p>\n

You get those little pleasures less often in big time superhero movies, where more chefs are usually stirring the pots (see Bryan Singer’s continuing efforts to rewrite history to remove X-Men: The Last Stand<\/em>, which he didn’t write or direct). <\/p>\n

But every Resident Evil film has been written by Paul W. S. Anderson, and the last five Fast & Furious movies (the ones where the franchise figured itself out) have all been written by Chris Morgan, so movie-to-movie continuity becomes a lot easier to control.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t make the movies better, but it does make them more fun to watch the second and third time.<\/p>\n

 
Coming soon: Part six of “The Bus Station Mystery<\/a>.” Really.<\/p>\n

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