hybridmomentspass said:Are there any 'tuner' cars in the new movie, like in the first movies, or is it just exotics and Dom driving some insane muscle cars?
How about an "exotic" non-muscle car?
(That thrust line is going to create a lot of pitch down.... shut up brain!)
Appleseed said:Try being a airplane guy and watch an aviation themed movie.
Turn.
Off.
Your.
Brain.
I'm not going to apologize for thinking it's funny that they have prop-plane noises in Airplane!, every. single. time it's on-screen.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Oh, me neither. People who don't know a thing about jets will never understand the joke. Like they wrote that joke just for us.
But even as a 7 year old, I knew half of Top Gun was total bullE36 M3. Didn't stop me from enjoying Tomcat pron.
In reply to Appleseed :
and that the "migs" were f-5's....
I made it ten minutes into the first F&F movie. Finished.
For everyone wanting "real," I suggest you give 2 Lane Blacktop a try. Filmed in a way to show what a week of life is like. Regular life. Even the boring parts. Especially the boring parts. The characters just happen to be street racers.
Yeah, give that a try, and then tell me how much real you actually want.
Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:I heard there was a rocket powered Fiero in it. I haven't seen any kind of Fiero in years.
That would almost be worth the price of a ticket.
But did they have a spare one for parts? If not, then it's pure fantasy
You mean that movies not real??
Huh, I did not make the connection!
In reply to rustybugkiller :
There's suspending disbelief, and then there's hanging it by the neck until dead.
Remember that Days of Thunder bombed because anybody who turned on their TV on any given weekend knew what NASCAR really looked like.
rustybugkiller said:You mean that movies not real??
Huh, I did not make the connection!
Not just real. The F&F movies are Documentaries. That is right. With a CAPITAL D.
I've been involved in the tuning scene since before the first one came out. I can verify that they are a true reflection of the lifestyle.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go finish turning the Vanagon into a Mars habitat before Interpol catches me and I have to escape in my hovercraft.
noddaz said:rustybugkiller said:You mean that movies not real??
Huh, I did not make the connection!
Not just real. The F&F movies are Documentaries. That is right. With a CAPITAL D.
The Initial D.
I clicked the video link to refresh my memory, as it was like 20 years ago that I took the DVD out and threw it out the window.
The background music took me back to First Stage.... which oddly enough is a lot more realistic...
F&F movies require my brain to be in neutral, idling at most. Sometimes it is hard to get back to paying attention when something silly diverts my thoughts.
I was on a date and went to see "Cliffhanger" with Stalone in it. I was into mountaineering and the opening sequence shows a buckle on a harness tear and a woman falls to her death. Knowing that buckle could hold up a Buick kind of wrecked the movie from there. As I'm forgetting about that they show two people rappelling down the same rope at the same time, never mind the weight of the bottom person would keep the upper person from moving.
My wife and I are at the drive in to watch it. We have seen the last 5 on opening weekend and enjoy every one. But we also like Chicago deep dish AND NY style pizzas so we are a little crazy.
The Disco'Stang has been a hit. People keep coming up to talk about it. So if Fast and Furious fans also like Mustang 2s, maybe we really dont have taste.
The second movie is Rocky Horror.
docwyte said:In reply to gunner (Forum Supporter) :
I love Ryan, his content is awesome!
This!
My wife and I watched Superfast last week. That was a decent laugh.
I have a psychic capability to find F&F movies to torture Mrs 84FSP with. I know they are awful but I still enjoy them.
logdog (Forum Supporter) said:My wife and I are at the drive in to watch it. We have seen the last 5 on opening weekend and enjoy every one. But we also like Chicago deep dish AND NY style pizzas so we are a little crazy.
The Disco'Stang has been a hit. People keep coming up to talk about it. So if Fast and Furious fans also like Mustang 2s, maybe we really dont have taste.
The second movie is Rocky Horror.
That was. The greatest movie. Ever made!
We enjoyed every moment. I want to see a Space Fiero spinoff.
I'm fine suspending my disbelief to complete absurdity and lack of physics. F&F is a superhero series with magic cars. I can accept a pair of Chargers towing a safe the same way I can accept Captain America holding a helicopter in place, or Spiderman stopping a train. Whatever.
But it's possible to go too far, especially if you violate the laws of superhero magic you've already established. Then you'll break my suspension of disbelief. That can happen at weird times.
I started laughing at one when a pack of bloated Vauxhall Astra Diesel cop cars were having trouble staying *behind* the magical super-hero cars. forget which one it was, but after acquiring fancy magic cars, Dom is street racing in some European city. The lazy cop cars turn them into mundane show cars lazily drifting around a closed set.
It would be the same as watching Harry Potter and seeing the digital outline of the CGI and suddenly instead of Professor Snape waving a magic wand, you've got Alan Rickman twiddling a stick.
Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:I made it ten minutes into the first F&F movie. Finished.
Only ten minutes? You missed all the deep character development...
"my father was racing pro-stock....he died in the final turn".
That line in FF1 and I was done. I haven't watched one since.
Beer Baron said:I'm fine suspending my disbelief to complete absurdity and lack of physics. F&F is a superhero series with magic cars. I can accept a pair of Chargers towing a safe the same way I can accept Captain America holding a helicopter in place, or Spiderman stopping a train. Whatever.
Superhero movies bother the hell out of me, too, for that reason. They usually annihiliate the laws of physics even for things for which we can't apply handwavium, like, say, the airplane crash scene from X-Men First Class. (It crashed into a beach, then rolled about a dozen times for no apparent reason caused by external forces, shearing the wings off but the center fuselage was almost completely intact)
That is why Deadpool was such a breath of fresh air. Aside from one or two moments during the opening car chase, properly-conserved momentum is observable. Also, there are a minimum of characters, so we can get some decent exposition, so we can care about whose ass it is and why it is farting.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
A fantastic premise is fine, but you need to be narratively consistent with the rules as you've established them. If you've established things following real physics... you need to stick with those.
Thor Ragnarok is a good example of being possibly THE most fantastic of the Marvel movies (only Dr. Strange comes close), but it follows its established logic and rules.
The Discworld novels are perhaps the pinnacle of doing this sort of thing right.
Glad too see you folks taking this post the right way... unlike previous posts...
I hate these movies. I think they've done immeasurable damage to car culture.
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