Fast and Furious Movies- Guilty Pleasure or Trash That Led to Popularity of Street Racing

I watched like all of them up to 7 and 8 in bits, but more like a movie parody. After 7th one following Walker's death, it turned into a complete joke trying to combine mission impossible and avengers. Dialogue is pure cringe, acting is what you expect in this kind of a flick, and yet they do kinda get me in the mood to go wrench on my trucks sometimes, at least the 1st-3rd movies do, those were at least somewhat about cars.

But I do think they had a terrible side effect of hyping up street racing and reckless driving while underselling actual consequences. It isn't a coincidence Paul Walker burned alive trapped in wreck of Carrera GT with his buddy going 90-100 in 45 zone. Paul Walker used to joke on interviews about how many tickets he had for speeding. I'm willing to be a lot of dumb impressionable kids saw these films and probably wrecked their parents' rides or killed themselves, hurt others and some got locked up. Would they do it had they not see the movie? Maybe, but I definitely feel like this movie catered to it and glamorized the illegal racing and speeding.

I'm probably also viewing it more negatively because it wasn't just 1-3 films, but they tried to milk it for over a decade going on 15 years now because teens and some adults still go see that shite. Capitalism and all, but I don't think it's completely harmless.


Also, the original FF1, was a straight up rip off of Point Break(1991(, but instead of close nit circle of extreme surfers who rob banks that a young cop infiltrates while falling in love with one of the chicks in that group, a young cop infiltrates a group of extreme street racers who rob trucks and falls in love with a sister of a ring leader.It even rips off the ending where both let their men go(albeit Johnny Utah lets Bodhi go to catch his last wave). It was a straight up ripoff, though.