The Fast and the Furious

Robbo

Went to see this tonight, the title's a bit lame but, by Jiminy, did this film rock.

Thumping soundtrack, decent machines, fantastic eye candy and some of the best car chase scenes known to man. Everything "Gone in 60 Seconds" wasn't.

And afterwards you see all the boy racers with the "mean machine" Nissan Micra 1.4s outside revving their engines like idiots. Somehoe 80 hp doesn't compare to Supra's with bigass turbos and nitrous kits. Superb.

R. Daneel Olivaw

A 1.4 Micra would be scary. I thought they were only 1.0.

Gone in 60 seconds had all that stuff as well though. And comparing a Supra to a Shelby Mustang doesn't even deserve to be written on the same page

Looks like a decent action flick though; prob gonna see it.

chernobyl

i contemplated going to it, but im sure i heard LB on the soundtrack, so i decided not.

SweetBirdOfTruth

I think I went to this yesterday but can remember absolutely nothing about it.

jaarius

i have go and see this... i might tonite actually. i have sooo much respect for vin diesel after seeing pitch black(must send a separate post)

this looks pretty cool. i liked gone in 60 seconds. i just love car chases... never get tired of them.


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Robbo

If you like car chases, I recommend you see a film from ~1973 called "Vanishing Point". The hero bets his dealer that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco non stop. It's one big amphetamine-fuelled car chase.

jaarius

went to see this movie and... yes it rocked. granted i valet parked my brain before going in but still. it was cool... course the two farmers next to my mate got up at the end and said "what the fcuk was that all about" but never mind them. i must say that i like the dude taylor(?) for some reason. he is like a younger keanu. vin deisel was cool but he played kind of the same part as he did in pitch black. i hope he doesnt become a type cast actor.


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azezil

Just seen it.... i think i can sum it up in 3 words: boreing, predictable and unoriginal.

It sux, ok the cars r cool, the women sweet... but as a film it stinks, 10mins in n i knew exactly what it was goin to be about cop undercover, falls in love, befriends the villian yada yada same old bullshít.

SweetBirdOfTruth

wait til you see sly stallone in driven ...

Kali

well first of all they talk a hella lot of **** in it.

second of all the vast majority of the cars featured are ****.

thirdly the plot is absolutely ****.

fourthly much is made of the women, err not by me.

finally the ending was so so bad.

so thats five ****s onto what I liked about it..

sound effects, brilliant, absolutely stunning, apparently they used 9 microphones in each of the main cars featured and recorded them going up and down tracks and doing powerslides, braking hard etc... you knew you were listening to the real thing (unlike most other car films).

music, ok so its all ****, but it goes well with this sort of film, i.e. play it loud during the whole thing so people can't focus on the lack of a plot.

the cars, can't help but love the supra and the rx7 and that s2000 oooooooh, screw the eclipse thats yet more ****.

you won't believe the amount of scum that appeared to liffey valley in their corsas civics and micras to see this, so you get the pleasure of coming out and seeing everyong pointing and laughing at them. (and then proceeding to put them off the road at the next roundabout, but we won't mention that)

conclusion: bad but decent enough if you like your cars.

Superman

its a good film but there is 2 things wrong with it

1. Too Technical
2. Lack of character builing

Kali

Originally posted by Robbo
If you like car chases, I recommend you see a film from ~1973 called "Vanishing Point". The hero bets his dealer that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco non stop. It's one big amphetamine-fuelled car chase.

agreed. one of the best car related films ever.

TwoShedsJackson

It was dreadful.

adnans

not the best car chase movie, but a good one for its generation(although it waas an inspiration for the videogame Interstate '76). if you want great exploding-innocent people getting run over car chases i will suggest you watch Ronin. the car chases are amazing imo + robert deniro. what else is there to say. (women need not apply)

adnans

Swifty

Cars cool, Film shit

Pencapchew

Death trip 2000...........what a classic

phobos

I thought it was OK, twas better than some of the other tripe I have seen lately. But I do agree that it's too predictable, with a little overacting

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The cars were kewl, as were the women. It was a total leave your brain at the door flick and get ready for something that's all shiny and kewl, but it uses that to cover up the plot. TBH I do know ppl that have seen it twice, so generally it must appeal to some people in a big way.

;-phobos-)

Kali

that'd be Death Race 2000 not Death Trip 2000.

stu_69

Two words "Point Break" although I enjoyed fast and furious only because i did'nt expect much.

But it is Point break with cars.. The scene where vin diesel bring yer man paul walker to his house and all his homies are pissed is similar to a scene in point break and als the ending is the same.

The fu(kin supra is class