If you zoom way in on that shot, you’ll see them in the casserole dish by her side. However, she is also my gripe with this scene, as Dominic tells his son that she made her “famous maduros” and I cannot see them. Fast XĪs you can see in the image at the top of this post, there is a respectable spread here, with Rita Moreno as “Abuelita” at the head of the table where she belongs.
The extended family doesn’t fully gather around them until the next film, but it’s because of a scene like this that it all comes together so well. This scene is brief, but it’s sweet - one of the few times Mia and Dom read as actual siblings, and Brian as the guy who earned his place in their family. Instead, Dom, his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), and Brian (Paul Walker) order takeout together, hunkering down after getting out of a bad scrape and scolding each other over who says grace. In Fast & Furious, the gang is barely a gang, and they are also the most wanted by the authorities that they’ve ever been, so kicking it with a big ol’ function is not really an option. Folks, I want to eat everything here, even if Bow Wow shows up immediately after to be ignorant about it. I’ve been upset a few times, folks.Īnother one without a cookout, Tokyo Drift gets a pass thanks to a scene where Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) has lunch in his new Tokyo high school cafeteria.
OMAR THE WIRE MOVIE
The best cookouts aren’t necessarily in the best movies, but the quality of a given Fast family cookout goes a long way toward grounding the ridiculous over-the-top action that’s meant as the main draw.Īlso I just really love grilling with some homies, and if a Fast movie does not do this, I get very upset. In fact, I believe a Fast and Furious movie lives and dies by its cookouts. For a while, they were sincere - and maybe the best proof that this scattered crew does actually have some family feeling. Repetition over the course of 10 movies has turned these scenes into wry comedy, and yet right up through 2023’s Fast X, the movies play them with utter sincerity. The celebratory family cookout is one of the more endearing tropes in the Fast and Furious franchise, a beat closely related to the series’ long-standing “family” meme - it’s usually where Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) mumbles something about the importance of family to his friends, right before they all drive off to suplex a tank.
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