Did you ever wonder why, across all the fights that happened in the Fast and Furious movies, there's never a clear winner?

For all the pipes and wrenches and busted walls, it always comes down to some sort of a stalemate, or the two get interrupted, or a parking garage collapses on them.

Well, there's a very good reason for this, and let me tell you, it ain't the narrative.

According to the Wall Street Journal, many of the main characters have it written into their contracts that they cannot lose a fight.

Jason Statham negotiated the extent to which he can be beaten up on screen.

Vin Diesel polices the number of punches he takes, and the Rock works alongside the fight coordinators to make sure that he, quote, gives as good as he gets.

Turns out the only thing furious about these movies are the contract negotiations.

Hello internet, welcome to film theory, the show that doesn't have friends. It has family.

One of the things that I've really appreciated about hosting film theory specifically is that it's given me the excuse to watch a lot of stuff that I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

50 Shades of Grey, Skinnamarink, the KFC telenovela. But of all the things that I've watched for the sake of research, nothing has surprised me half as much as the Fast and Furious franchise.

If you were to have made a diagram of things that I'm naturally attracted to in my media diet, these movies would be clear on the other side of the map.

But because I actively tried to study everything without bias just to understand why so many people enjoy stuff,

I finally sat down two years ago to binge through these things. I gotta say, I was blown away.

Unironically, I liked them. Sure, there were some that were better than others, but I grew

to love the cringe of three, the spectacle of five, the emotional send-offs of seven. I couldn't

believe it. I became an unabashed fan of the fast franchise.

So much so that I was hyped when promos for Fast 10 came out, and then promptly disappointed when the movie was just kind of mad.

But these movies, more than anything else that I've covered on this channel, reminded me to keep an open mind,

and to constantly be exposing myself to new things that might not initially be to my taste because hey who knows you might just end up liking it and that's why I'm doing a theory about it today because trust me it ain't for the fuse my friends this one is not gonna perform this in the who's-line is it anyway episode they're examples of selfish content at their finest so how do you celebrate a dumb action franchise where people Tarzan swing with cars?

Well, a dumb franchise deserves itself a dumb theory. And you see, that's the other reason this episode exists.

I've been so busy doing such serious stuff in my final days on these channels.

Exposing AI propaganda, giving up sugar and caffeine, reconnecting with family recipes and analyzing Hello Neighbor frame by frame,

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