Why all the hate toward "the fast and the furious" movies?
12-03-2008, 09:57 AM
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Nine Ball and TWS pretty much summed it up in posts 46 & 72, well at least in my opinion.
I am curious though to see how they are going to wrap this series up in part 4, or at least I hope they are.
I'm gonna see it.
I am curious though to see how they are going to wrap this series up in part 4, or at least I hope they are.
I'm gonna see it.
12-03-2008, 02:03 PM
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12-03-2008, 05:17 PM
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Haha, seriously I seen it quite a number of times. Its really funny, grown as men playing with toy cars. At least I never was a ricer or thought that **** was cool. All I knew is that I liked Camaros and hated Mustangs back in the day.
Someone finish this quote I forgot "Talk to me Jesse."........................................
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12-03-2008, 07:47 PM
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Haha, seriously I seen it quite a number of times. Its really funny, grown as men playing with toy cars. At least I never was a ricer or thought that **** was cool. All I knew is that I liked Camaros and hated Mustangs back in the day.
Someone finish this quote I forgot "Talk to me Jesse."........................................
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Someone finish this quote I forgot "Talk to me Jesse."........................................
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12-03-2008, 09:19 PM
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The only part I really enjoyed in the first one was the race with the blown dodge charger. That was great. The rest of it was typical hollywood bs. I started watching the 2 nd one, and fell asleep. 3rd one I haven't seen yet and probably won't...
12-03-2008, 09:57 PM
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I will admit I enjoy watching the F&F franchise movies for the comedy entertainment. It doesn't bother me that they are so wrong on technical items, I wasn't expecting a realistic documentary film. You have to take it for what it is, an action movie with some class-B actors, mixed with some cars and nice looking women. I sure wish the car casting director on the 1st movie would have picked some better and less rice-appearing cars though.
However, most of us that street raced in the pre-F&F era tend to blame this movie for ruining the street scene for everyone. Until this movie came out, the media wasn't really into blasting street racing, they didn't even pay attention to it. We used to street race here in Houston on an almost nightly basis. Hell, sometimes we even had HPD officers hanging out and watching. Things never got out of hand, and it was late at night in deserted industrial districts. I remember racing from 9pm thru 3am several times, with rarely a cop to be seen. If you got caught, they just wrote you a ticket and you were on your way home.
But, these idiot kids that watched that movie and just got their licenses. Geez. They were brainwashed into thinking that 4-cyl power was the ultimate, and that V8 cars were slow. They also thought that overdone paintjobs with stupid wings and such were the vehicles of desire. They also thought doing donuts and running into other cars in parking lots was cool. They felt weaving in and out of heavy traffic in crapbox cars that couldn't even handle was cool. These idiot ricers began showing up at the street races, losing control of their 200 hp shitboxes, running into cars, tearing up private property, and giving the street racing group a bad name. The media sensationalized it and called it a terrible crime, and now here we are today.
/rant
However, most of us that street raced in the pre-F&F era tend to blame this movie for ruining the street scene for everyone. Until this movie came out, the media wasn't really into blasting street racing, they didn't even pay attention to it. We used to street race here in Houston on an almost nightly basis. Hell, sometimes we even had HPD officers hanging out and watching. Things never got out of hand, and it was late at night in deserted industrial districts. I remember racing from 9pm thru 3am several times, with rarely a cop to be seen. If you got caught, they just wrote you a ticket and you were on your way home.
But, these idiot kids that watched that movie and just got their licenses. Geez. They were brainwashed into thinking that 4-cyl power was the ultimate, and that V8 cars were slow. They also thought that overdone paintjobs with stupid wings and such were the vehicles of desire. They also thought doing donuts and running into other cars in parking lots was cool. They felt weaving in and out of heavy traffic in crapbox cars that couldn't even handle was cool. These idiot ricers began showing up at the street races, losing control of their 200 hp shitboxes, running into cars, tearing up private property, and giving the street racing group a bad name. The media sensationalized it and called it a terrible crime, and now here we are today.
/rant
*sigh* the good ol' days