I am excited. Tried to avoid alot of things, but the mood that I've gotten from the trailers has been promising.

What I look forward to:

1. Amir Mokri - Cinematographer who has worked on alot of glitzy stuff prior, including Transformers movies and other things for Bay. With the proper intentions this could be a gorgeous looking movie, which the trailers seem to indicate.

2. Shot on film, with anamorphic lenses. Not to diss digital cameras but the more I get into the minutia of photography and the look of film, this movie is probably going to be pure eyeporn.

3. Zimmer is scoring. I know whta he is capable of so I always have hopes that he will make something more than the repetetive stuff of recent years.

Saw it, really liked it. My one complaint was that this installment in the series took itself a bit seriously from a character POV. They should be big and dumb and fun, but here the pace is sometimes dropped for prolonged periods of time for serious character interactions and deep emotional connections. I think they should be there, but when 2 characters have been talking for 10 minutes (what feels like...), I started wishing they had either cut it down or atleast picked up the pace a bit in the scene.

I haven't seen many other of the movies in the series so maybe I lack that extra involvement in the characters. But this is why I absolutely love the 5th movie. You don't need to have seen any of the other movies. It's The Italian Job on crack.

"We need to get the... thing."
"OK".
"That guy doesn't want us to get the thing."
"Well... he's mean, so fuck him." *VROOOOM* *CRASH* *Rattattattatta*

...And scene.

As far as action pieces, this one is on par with the 5th one (though I don't think anything will beat the distilled purity of 2 muscle cars dragging a huge vault through a city and using it as a wrecking ball... ever).
I just wish the rest of the package would have been a bit more trim and taken itself a bit less seriously. This series is the one exception where I feel like they should just design it like 5 15 -minute action setpieces, with 5 minutes of plotting inbetween. Because when the action and carnage is as well staged and well shot as it is here, I really cannot get enough of cars smashing into things. There is something primal there that I can't really get enough of.

Also Gina Carano is in it. Didn't know that. Didn't mind it at all.

Well, when it comes to products, if you suddenly feel a craving for a "blahblah bar" at the supermarket, you obviously know that you didn't come up with the idea or concept, since it exists and is already sold as a product. So the conclusion is that you heard of it somewhere else, ie it's not an original idea of yours. You may not remember exactly where you first heard of it, but you can infer that you indeed had to have heard of it before.