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79:15 – 84:56… trying to get her memory back. And the scenes were cut. Yeah. So that's why she's building this movie. So that's all we got. All right. Speaking of Letty, Apex Mountain. I'm going Michelle Rodriguez, Apex Mountain here. She's never looked better. She has a really great fight scene with Rousey. She's just throwing 100 miles an hour this whole movie. She brings Dom back to life at the end. I think this is my favorite Letty movie of all the Letty movies. She punches the dude in the face at Race Wars. She's, it's the right amount of her. It's not too much. And every time she's in a scene, she's bringing heat. …
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She has scenes in this movie where Giselle takes Letty to the hospital after the flashback scenes where she's actually taking Letty to the hospital and Letty's trying to get her memory back. And the scenes were cut. Yeah. So that's why she's building this movie. So that's all we got. All right. Speaking of Letty, Apex Mountain. I'm going Michelle Rodriguez, Apex Mountain here. She's never looked better. She has a really great fight scene with Rousey. She's just throwing 100 miles an hour this whole movie. She brings Dom back to life at the end. I think this is my favorite Letty movie of all the Letty movies. She punches the dude in the face at Race Wars. She's, it's the right amount of her. It's not too much. And every time she's in a scene, she's bringing heat. You agree or disagree? I absolutely agree. This is my favorite movie to watch if I want to get all of the best parts of Letty. A really fun thing about her when you're watching this movie especially is every scene she's in, she just makes it a little bit better than if she wasn't in there. Yeah. She knows exactly how to play off of each person. She knows how to make Brian seem a little bit tougher. She knows how to make Dom seem a little bit more vulnerable. She knows how to make Tej seem cooler. She could just do whatever you need her to do, you drop her in. She's great. She's unbelievable in this movie. I love Michelle Rodriguez. I'm very on the record about that. Yeah. I think she's the best actor of all the actors in this franchise. Oh, yeah, yeah. And, you know, look, she's had a great career and I'm sure she's made plenty of money and she's in one of the great movie franchises of the past 40 years. I wish she had made one film in the last, like, 10 to 12 years, you know, like a dramatic film where that kind of pushed her. Like, what's her Oscar resume movie? I feel like she could have done it. I think there's some part out there that she could have played. I think she was a good enough actress. I know it's weird to talk about somebody in the Fast franchise like that, but I do feel like there's some missing part that she never got that she should have had. She has an Oscar in her. You could tell, especially if you had any doubts about it at all, you could tell in Widows, which is also kind of an action movie, but she gets to play it very, very straight. She has a very touching scene when she, like, has the breakdown. Yeah. And just like, yeah, she could do it. I would assume that the reason she hasn't gotten it would not be because she didn't want to do it. Right. You know, I think this is bigger forces at play. That script never came across her table, but she could 100% do it. Agree. Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, I'm going to say yes for both. I'm going to say yes for Abu Dhabi. I think this is Apex Bound for Abu Dhabi. Okay. Okay. It's a movie location for one of the nine highest grossing movies of all time. I think big win for everyone in Abu Dhabi. And then this is my favorite. You're going to love this. I think this is the Apex Mountain for action movies with bald stars. Okay. We have Vin Diesel, Statham, The Rock, Tyrese, and Demon Hounsou all in one movie. Plus, I would say you're the premier action movie writer in the world. You're bald too. Everyone wins. It's a bald tsunami of action baldness all the way around. Great job by everybody. That's an unbelievable starting five right there. Those five guys. Yeah. Yeah. You can't beat that. I mean, get Michael Jordan and Xavier McDaniel. Sneak them in there too. They could have just gone for the whole thing there. Okay. Time to pick a couple nits. Oh, God. I mentioned Elena's 15-month pregnancy. Mm-hmm. Can we just talk this out for like 90 seconds? Please do because I don't even, I wouldn't pay any attention to it, but go for it. So, fast five, she ends up with Dom. Mm-hmm. Fast six, Letty comes back. At that point, have we seen Paul Walker's, I'm sorry, Brian's baby yet? Is Brian's baby born yet in fast six? I can't remember. I haven't seen fast six in a little while. Yeah. Okay. So, he has the kid. Then we see the kid on the way to preschool at the beginning of fast seven. Seems like it's at least a year since we saw, you figure at least a year has passed between fast six and fast seven. Is that fair? Say 12 months? Yes. I always have a hard time doing the time aspect of this. I had no idea until like two years ago that Breaking Bad happened within like a one-year stretch. I thought it was like eight years. I don't know. So, I'm going to let you have it. You can go for it here. Okay. So, we'll say a year. And then we see Elena at the beginning. She looks great. Definitely not pregnant. And then in fast eight, which now is happening a few months after fast seven, all of a sudden, she's got a little Dom baby. And the math just does not add up. Now, granted, this is the same franchise that has cars being dropped from planes and cars going through buildings in Abu Dhabi. So, you know, I'm not going to dwell on it too much, but I just wanted to present the possibility that Dom might have had a one-nighter with Elena at some point. I think, okay. During the fast seven, fast eight range. I think there's no way that Dom sleeps with Elena again after Letty comes back.
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