My Babylon A.D. rant spurred my friend to invite me over for a Fast & Furious Trilogy night. Three films about cars that may have been better if they'd been done like Pixar's Cars.
Let's bust these out in order:
The Fast and the Furious - First off, if you go into this expecting high drama, you're an idiot. In Vin Diesel's "Book of Badassery," it says that Vin Diesel don't do drama. Vin Diesel may steal the plot to Point Break, but Vin Diesel don't do drama. Got it?
Second, this movie is about cars. Real cars. After watching, you may find Greenpeace members spontaneously twitching in the street.
2 Fast 2 Furious - Holy crap this is awful. You know how you can put sugar in a gas tank to make a car sputter and die? With this, they added additives of Lame.
Paul Walker, or God's gift to hair product, is back. But Vin Diesel got replaced by Tyrese Gibson, proving that Vin was the smarter of the two. Oh and the series moved to Miami for absolutely no good reason.
So if you look over the checklist, that's crappy acting, crappy plotline, crappy driving, and crappy location.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - For the third movie, the director ditched every concept from the first two movies. All new actors, all new location (guess where), all new cars, and all new driving (drifting). And you know what? It's the best of the three.
OK, yeah, calling it the best is like saying Unagi is better than Uni to someone who hates sushi, but for sushi lovers (and lovers of candy-coated cinema), this flick's not bad. Of course, it could be that my subconscience was telling me that the torture was nearing its end, but I like to think that I got a little enjoyment of watching cars skid around corners.
So the final Grades:
The Fast and the Furious: C
2 Fast 2 Furious: D-
Tokyo Drift: B-
Let's bust these out in order:
The Fast and the Furious - First off, if you go into this expecting high drama, you're an idiot. In Vin Diesel's "Book of Badassery," it says that Vin Diesel don't do drama. Vin Diesel may steal the plot to Point Break, but Vin Diesel don't do drama. Got it?
Second, this movie is about cars. Real cars. After watching, you may find Greenpeace members spontaneously twitching in the street.
2 Fast 2 Furious - Holy crap this is awful. You know how you can put sugar in a gas tank to make a car sputter and die? With this, they added additives of Lame.
Paul Walker, or God's gift to hair product, is back. But Vin Diesel got replaced by Tyrese Gibson, proving that Vin was the smarter of the two. Oh and the series moved to Miami for absolutely no good reason.
So if you look over the checklist, that's crappy acting, crappy plotline, crappy driving, and crappy location.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - For the third movie, the director ditched every concept from the first two movies. All new actors, all new location (guess where), all new cars, and all new driving (drifting). And you know what? It's the best of the three.
OK, yeah, calling it the best is like saying Unagi is better than Uni to someone who hates sushi, but for sushi lovers (and lovers of candy-coated cinema), this flick's not bad. Of course, it could be that my subconscience was telling me that the torture was nearing its end, but I like to think that I got a little enjoyment of watching cars skid around corners.
So the final Grades:
The Fast and the Furious: C
2 Fast 2 Furious: D-
Tokyo Drift: B-
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