Welcome back to In Reverse: Start Line! This episode is our Point Break episode, of course, in which we'll analyze both the original Point Break (1991) and the reboot (2015). The similarities between Point Break (1991) and The Fast and the Furious (2001) are often cited, so in our exploration of the origins of the franchise, it only felt right to include these two. We'll compare and contrast them with each other, of course, and with The Fast and the Furious (2001). But before we even get to that-- there's exciting franchise news! We didn't want to keep you waiting, of course, so we open up this episode discussing all the exciting new details about the future of the franchise and its 25th anniversary celebration. It's a fairly packed episode to welcome you back from the mid-season break-- enjoy!

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• News
  • Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift – a High-Speed Roller Coaster Coming to Universal Studios Florida in 2027 -- Universal Corporate Communications
  • PUMA Basketball Teams Up with ‘Fast & Furious’ -- License Global
  • Next ‘Fast and Furious’ Movie ‘Fast Forever’ Sets Spring 2028 Release Date -- Variety
• The Points Break
  • Point Break (1991) -- IMDb
  • Point Break (2015) -- IMDb

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Merry xXx'mas, all! Can you believe this is the third one of these we've done? For better or for worse, this is our third xXx'mas, and it's still just as hard to find information about these films without surfacing pornography as it was when we first started. This episode, we're talking about the film that started the Xander Zone, 2002's xXx. Watching this movie was an eye-opening experience in far more ways than we anticipated, and so this episode we've prepared for you is a fun and exciting holiday special-- filled with twists, turns, trivia, and revelations! We've got cocktails, we've got mix-em-ups, we've got bits and skits galore! So everyone, strap on your snowboards, grab your Xander Cage-branded energy drinks-- and then cozy up to that xXx'mas fire, and prepare to be whisked away to the Xander Zone... one last time.

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• xXx (2002)
  • xXx (2002 film) -- Wikipedia
  • xXx (2002) -- IMDb

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Content Warning: The section of this episode from 00:51:15 - 01:00:59 contains some discussion of the allegations of sexual violence, abuse, and misconduct made against certain individuals involved with the production of this film. It also includes discussion about the death of a stunt performer on the set of this film. We included these discussions because we believe they are important. If you for any reason would like to skip over this discussion, you can use the chapter marker (if your player supports it) or just scrub to the latter timestamp.

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This episode, we're going all the way back to the original pitch that Paul Walker made to Rob Cohen for what would become The Fast and the Furious: "Days of Thunder meets Donnie Brasco." So, we've gone and watched both of those films, and they're a little different from the ones we usually watch on this show... For one thing, they're not in any way connected to the Fast franchise outside of that initial idea, and for another, we actually recommend you watch these movies for a change! So in light of that, we've dispensed with most of our usual recounting of the plot of the films, and instead focused for most of the episode on spoiler-free analysis of how these movies inform the The Fast and the Furious (2001). We hope you'll join us in watching both of these, and we hope you'll appreciate what turned out to be a fascinating lense through which to view the very beginning of the Fast franchise.

Note: Spoiler block in this episode is from 00:47:38 - 01:05:39. If you want to avoid spoiler discussion you can use the chapter marker (if your player supports it) or just scrub to the latter timestamp.

Episode Links

• Days of Thunder (1990)
  • Days of Thunder -- Wikipedia
  • Days of Thunder (1990) -- IMDb
• Donnie Brasco (1997)
  • Donnie Brasco (film) -- Wikipedia
  • Donnie Brasco(1997) -- IMDb

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