Not again...(Fast and Furious content)

^ BEcause "we" all get lumped together in the minds of the masses. Sadly, the true sport side of the automotive world gets lumped into the movie/kid/streetracerwannabe side.

Bride of the Fast and the Furious
Revenge of the Fast and the Furious
The Fast and the Furious Go Bananas
Fast and Furious with a Vengeance
The Fast and the Furious take Manhattan
Fast and Furious: Back in Training

As long as you turn off your brain, its a fun time.

Remember the kiddies using the "word" Nossss after the first one? He he.

But I don't like how in every one, the muscle car gets trashed. Charger, Camaros, Challengers, Mustangs, and Monte Carlos have all bit the dust in these movies. C'mon guys. They don't make these this anymore.

And yes, the GN gets haggard in the new one.

Bobzilla wrote: Wait, I'm missing a hideous bodykit, monstrous wang and I have no desire to street race other 16-second 4bangers.

You probably shouldn't advertise your shortcomings.

Salanis wrote: F&F is Car Porn.

Except it's the gross type of porn with the really coked out skanky girls with giant fakies and the greasy squids who really don't deserve the, uhhh, vehicles they are driving.

I'll pass, thanks.

Oh, and just for fun, here's my script treatment for an F&F3 movie I wrote a few years ago:

Treatment: Fast And Furious 3: The Lame and the Ludicrous

Background music: Guns'N'Roses, Welcome to the Jungle

Opening: Long-distance helicopter shot as we cross the Bonneville Salt Flats. In the distance is some kind of huge ring.

Cut to: Dolly shot along a doorhandle-to-doorhandle line of visually-overmodified, shiny Japanese "tuner"cars. Shot is framed tight so no background is visible.

Back to: Helicopter as large ring resolves itself into a circle of all the cars used in both previous movies, plus dozens more like them.

Cut to: Fast-paced sequence of interior shots, CU, as numerous hands turn ignition keys. At least one turns key, then pushes pointless "giant red button" starter mounted on dashboard, causing notable delay in timing of sequence.

Cut to: Low dolly shot of rear of cars, highlighting polished stainless fart cans creating small clouds of dust; sound of small-bore engines revving.

Back to: Helicopter as it arrives and curves over circle of cars, tightening circle to focus on previously-unseen figure at center of circle. Long zoom in until figure becomes full-screen image of Vin Diesel in tight jeans and sleevless black T-shirt, typical Vin expression on face.

Cut to: Low, rear angle dolly shot as cars all launch, many spitting dust from front wheels. Loud sound of small-displacement engines with open exhaust furiously revving.

Back to: Helicopter as it continues to orbit over rapidly-tightening circle of cars: brilliantly shiny, luridly-colored rainbow followed/surrounded by low blanket of dust.

Jump to: CU of Vin as habitual sneer/grin suddenly disappears and he spins around; quick first-person shot of approaching cars looking like Spanish bulls charging toward him on all sides.

Back to: Helicopter as ring tightens to collision point, suddenly noticing a gap in ring of cars which is quickly closed; quick sequence as cars reach point of collision; at that exact moment:

Jump cut to: Static, medium distance shot from second helicopter, as all 100+ cars collide with terrific impact, crushing Vin and each other into scrap instantly. Normal speed sequence of cataclysmic impact, interspersed with cuts to slow-motion closeups of individual cars imploding/flying/exploding. This sequence should last upwards of 1 minute, and finish on slow-mo of ugliest-color, most-riced car sliding across desert as a twisted hulk, with various parts from other cars tumbling past in foreground and background. Final sequence to be timed to sync with ending solo/fadeout of "Welcome to the Jungle" as car comes to rest.

Back to: First helicopter as it pans around circle of wreckage; shot widens to include 2 cars parked side by side at edge of original ring; recenter and zoom in to show black Charger and red Mustang Cobra.

Cut to: Static eyelevel shot from front of two cars, showing drivers laughing. Music is over and fade into sound of laughing. Cars calmly roll forward and acclerate towards camera, passing on either side as they go out of frame. Sound of accelerating V8s; fade to black and roll credits.

Buick GNX

The whole reason this disgusting piece of dog-squeeze is coming out is because I had to open my big berkeleying mouth and say I wanted a GNX. Now I'll never be able to afford one. To those of you excited about seeing the movie, you're welcome.

Hunt down the latest issue of Hot Rod ("Barn Finds" on the cover), it's got a US-centric view of the cars in the next movie.

"Hollywood has been wrecking '68 to '70 Chargers for more than 40 years, so there is no such thing as an inexpensive '68 to '70 Charger." The cars that got hurt were not creampuffs - the front clips were made of fibreglass to look original. And there were a total of 6 GNs involved, one of which had the body mounted backwards and the turbo removed and a couple of others which ran crate SBCs.

Plus, this issue of Hot Rod has a '32 Ford built for track use with a Ford Cosworth drivetrain and a turbo Volvo 5-cylinder and pushrod front suspension :)

Does F&F hurt the car hobby? Nah, no more than the innumerable hot rod movies did in the 60's. Did anyone else ever watch Lost Drive-in on Speedvision? The plots haven't changed, and guys can still win the race (and the girl) by bolting on random parts.

Electric Boogaloo FTW!

F&F is to racing as Armageddon is to science.

Don't think, just enjoy the whizzy things and explosions.

Maybe after this one we can get Paul Walker to star in a sequel to Eight Below called 'The Fast and the Furriest.'

Don't care. I see these films with a Bill and Ted attitude. They are entertianing. Plus unlike Bill and Ted, I have Jordahan Brewster and Michelle Rodrigez to break up the monotany.

Salanis wrote:

P71 wrote: Buick GNX, Dodge Charger (the supercharged 68 from the 1st movie but flat black), the F-Bomb Camaro, the Big Red Camaro, the Hammer (a silver GTX/Road Runner show car), 70 Chevelle SS, the FD RX-7, and the new GT-R are all in it. Should be a blast!

That's not all... Not that this would actually be a competition in real life.

interesting. and I agree, no competition there. unless that AE86 engine was tuned to make as much power as the one in the RS200 and they found a way to put it all to the ground, the RS200 would leave it at the line in a cloud of both cars' tire smoke

Whats scary is that the people who were very young and impressionable when the first one came out are now adults. I still enjoy the movies though.

And i was just starting to think that the "tuner/sport comp/ricer" sceen was dieing out

Slyp_Dawg wrote: interesting. and I agree, no competition there. unless that AE86 engine was tuned to make as much power as the one in the RS200 and they found a way to put it all to the ground, the RS200 would leave it at the line in a cloud of both cars' tire smoke

I don't know exactly how that would work. I'm pretty sure an RS200 would hit 100 in the dirt faster than a well prepped AE86 will hit 60 on tarmac.

IIRC, the Audi ur-Quattro could hit 60 in something like 2 seconds on gravel.

Duke wrote: Oh, and just for fun, here's my script treatment for an F&F3 movie I wrote a few years ago: ********************************************** Treatment: Fast And Furious 3: The Lame and the Ludicrous

Sounds like the desert scene from Smokey and the Bandit 2..

Ya know what? I really dig those truck-semi back-halfed things that pull the gas tankers in the movie clip.

They are prety rad

I sorta liked Tokyo Drift...if only because Walker was absent. It was pure fluff, but I liked letting my brain rot for 2 hours.

the best part of tokyo drift was that the cars they actually raced in the movie did not have "tricked out" and riced up interiors... unless u consider all the rx-7s they walk by with the nitrious tanks in the back with lots of pretty lights...

me: "Ohh look wifey, there will be another f&f movie"

wifey: " Ohh dear god why"

I love her.

Anyone else notice that the one guy from this movie and from Tokyo Drift was the little kid from Sling Blade..........

Random wanna be ricer guy could ask him "why won't my ricer wagon GT 1000 start?" I think it would be funny if he repiled, "don't have gas in it, Ummhmmm"

Or he could be asked "who taught you about engines?" He could reply "a retarded guy named Karl, that killed my moms boyfriend with a lawnmower blade".

Chris Rummel

Tim Baxter wrote: Bride of the Fast and the Furious Revenge of the Fast and the Furious The Fast and the Furious Go Bananas Fast and Furious with a Vengeance The Fast and the Furious take Manhattan Fast and Furious: Back in Training

How could you not toss in Live Fast or Die Furious?

The first Fast and the Furious almost made me hate cars.

Now that I think about it, remember "The Love Bug?"

They kill a 66 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+ 2. Yes.

Cars have been killed in movies since car were invented.

The only good thing about the first movie was the Charger and the one girl. There was nothing good about the other two.