Do we really need a another Fast and Furious Movie?

Punisher Bass said:
Sadly, yes. When you're stuck at someone's house you can't jump up and shout "I'm going to go find a spoon to shove up my ass because it will be less painful than watching the rest of this movie"
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You never know it till you try. You may find that someone may want in on the action, thats an entirely different discussion though.
 
While on the subject of shitty car movies, has anyone seen The Last Ride? It was a made for tv job done by one of the asswipes behind the FF franchise. Basically the whole movie was a promotional film for the (then) new GTO. As I recall the movie ended with Denis Hopper driving a GTO Judge off a clif for no good reason.
 
Punisher Bass said:
While on the subject of shitty car movies, has anyone seen The Last Ride? It was a made for tv job done by one of the asswipes behind the FF franchise. Basically the whole movie was a promotional film for the (then) new GTO. As I recall the movie ended with Denis Hopper driving a GTO Judge off a clif for no good reason.
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I saw that one at the video store, but my spider sense tingled therefore I avoided it at all costs.
 
FnF is one of the worst things to happen to cars in the past few years. Dumbest movies I've ever seen.
 
Punisher Bass said:
While on the subject of shitty car movies, has anyone seen The Last Ride? It was a made for tv job done by one of the asswipes behind the FF franchise. Basically the whole movie was a promotional film for the (then) new GTO. As I recall the movie ended with Denis Hopper driving a GTO Judge off a clif for no good reason.
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actually one of the guys involved with that movie was a member here i remeber seeing a ton of story boards that he posted before the movie came out.
 
Blind_Io said:
Jumping back to the original Gone in 60 Seconds film, you can't rip on that for being dated - it was made in 1974. To criticize it for having a car from '71 but laud the FF films for having common tuner cars because they are "current" is ridiculous! 60 Seconds captured the zeitgeist of the time, it was also an independent film wholly financed by the director, writer, and lead. He destroyed his own cars to make that film - and he only used one Elenore. The original Elenore still runs and drives, even after sliding into a telephone pole and putting Halicki in the hospital. Oh, and they kept the footage in the movie. You want hardcore? They don't GET more hardcore than that, my friend!
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I wasn't calling the original a bad car movie. the chase is awesome. all the emergency staff in the film being real, and the stunts being real makes it awesome. but for a plot, it's still a shit "movie" movie. the scenes were no better than a porn production before the sex scenes start.

Blind_Io said:
Alright, enough with Gone in 60 Seconds. Let's turn back to FF3 again. You mentioned the race at the beginning of the film - a POS Oldsmobile against a Viper. Sorry, that was just plain stupid. You said that technology has progressed. Well, there's no way that heavy Oldsmobile with a live rear axle and primitive suspension could ever beat a new Viper; and it sure as hell couldn't do it on dirt while driving through houses while the Viper is on pavement. And how about their ability to magically drop a brand new tuner drive train into the body of a 1965 Mustang? I'm pretty sure they don't make off-the-shelf brackets for something like that. How did a heavy '65 Mustang with a live rear end toast a brand new 350Z with all the toys? This is the other part of being a car movie - it has to be plausible. Car guys have a feel for what cars can do and what they can't, and this film was an insult to our intelligence.
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You totally missed another point I went over. The point was that in FF3, lucas black's character was a 'smart' car guy. he built his own machine from junkyard parts, and knew how to handle it. a kid in his daddy's viper might beat that in a stoplight drag but the elements in this scene are what makes it unique, spectacular, and at least vacantly plausible. the viper has massive rolling rubber because it has more torque than god, and on a dirty road like in that housing development would make it nigh impossible to take advantage of the viper's abilities. For all we know that olds has a posi rear-end and since it was in fact stripped out, may not way any more than the viper. the whole dirt drive thing is more movie magic i will concur, but we do have a car with more ground clearance and a cocky jock looking behind him and seeing dirt clouds thinking he's won.. . .easy excuse to let off, while the olds is going full-bore on a shorter route.

I'm getting pissed at the whole nismo stang thing every body's crying about. his dad obviously had some good equipment for fab work if he's restoring a car from the ground up. hot rodder mentality, not ricer. and, the RB26DETT that was claimed to be in that dead silvia behind the garage is an R34 Nissan Skyline engine, which is one of the most bullet-proof and powerful drivetrains to come out of japan. the engine is EASILY capable of 600hp on stock internals. far more than enough to motivate a stripped out 60s mustang to the same speeds as the 350z. and seriously, you need to think twice about knocking solid rear axles. they're great, albeit old technology that can be very well-tuned, especially for drifting on smooth pavement.

Blind_Io said:
Sorry, but Fast and the Furious is no more a car movie than I am your grandmother.
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Grandma? but you're supposed to be dead!
 
oh, and if you guys want a SHITTY car Movie, go find Redline and download it, because it's not worth the cost of a dvd, and you certainly won't be filing it in your collection.
 
Punisher Bass said:
Sadly, yes. When you're stuck at someone's house you can't jump up and shout "I'm going to go find a spoon to shove up my ass because it will be less painful than watching the rest of this movie"
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I feel ya! I've seen quite a few terrible movies that way. When you're all sitting around and someone suggests watching a DVD and the consensus very quickly settles on the sequel to some vampire movie with Wesley Snipes it's very hard to shift every ones opinions to something like Glengarry GlenRoss. :lol: "It's adapted from a Tony winning David Mamet play, people!"

And I got the Lewis Black reference by the way. ;)
 
My friends and I actually use "The Spoon Scale" to express how bad a film is. It can be anything from the number of spoons to the size.

Austere, I feel your pain. I live in the Bay Area and I couldn't get anyone to come over and watch The Maltese Falcon! What the hell is up with that?
 
Blind_Io said:
Austere, I feel your pain. I live in the Bay Area and I couldn't get anyone to come over and watch The Maltese Falcon! What the hell is up with that?
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:wall: That just doesn't make sense! There's no logical reasoning behind that! I quote Bender: "You're the kind of guy who visits Jerusalem and doesn't want to visit the Sexeteria!"

Punisher Bass said:
But I do like the Blade franchise with 2 being the best of the bunch.
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I have no problem with people liking those movies It's just that that sort of thing really isn't my bag. Plus, I hadn't even seen the first one!

I'd prefer a long scene of well written dialogue to any kind of action sequence or smutty sex scene.

:hmm: Unless it's very smutty...
 
This is why we need more F&F movies
[youtube=dSvpBdEpTcw]Flux Capacitor[/youtube]

Serj said:
I'm getting pissed at the whole nismo stang thing every body's crying about. his dad obviously had some good equipment for fab work if he's restoring a car from the ground up. hot rodder mentality, not ricer. and, the RB26DETT that was claimed to be in that dead silvia behind the garage is an R34 Nissan Skyline engine, which is one of the most bullet-proof and powerful drivetrains to come out of japan. the engine is EASILY capable of 600hp on stock internals. far more than enough to motivate a stripped out 60s mustang to the same speeds as the 350z. and seriously, you need to think twice about knocking solid rear axles. they're great, albeit old technology that can be very well-tuned, especially for drifting on smooth pavement.
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The turbos explode near 450, and the pistons like to get holes through them below 500. The RB engine is not what it's cracked up to be, not stock anyway.

When I saw the movie it made sense as to why he used the motor, he did the old hot rodder idea, take what you got and use it. He had a tuned, ready to run, powerful engine at his disposal and a chassis that needed some finishing up. I've heard people argue "but it came with a v8" how do we know it wasn't an old I6 (for some god awful reason), or that the engine is torn apart awaiting a rebuild?

Below is a Deleted scene from the beginning of 2f2f, like FnF it's entertaining in it's absurdity:
[youtube=4sk_O4aaBC8]How Brian got the R34 in 2f2F[/youtube]
 
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That first one with the Back to the Future clips was great! Now I'm going to go watch again.
 
thedguy said:
Below is a Deleted scene from the beginning of 2f2f, like FnF it's entertaining in it's absurdity:
[youtube=4sk_O4aaBC8]How Brian got the R34 in 2f2F[/youtube]
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right so all i have to do is streetrace till i get money enough to buy the rare japanese supercar* thats just sitting in the back of my local used car lot.




*sure it's overhyped but i still think it qualifies as a supercar
 
KaJuN said:
Here's your new favorite video in cut down, slightly modified .gif form. 8)
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Thats hugely different. The one I showed replaced the exterior and interior (except guages and steering) with the Delorean.
 
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Yeah I like the full video better, but I just stole the .gif and it can be used an avatar or something if someone is so inclined. :cool:

edit: According to my postcount I'm the captain of the Enterprise!! :woot:
 
The_Finn said:
right so all i have to do is streetrace till i get money enough to buy the rare japanese supercar* thats just sitting in the back of my local used car lot.

*sure it's overhyped but i still think it qualifies as a supercar
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Even worse, the dealer could've gotten tons more cash for it. :lol:
 
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