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

Never watched that shite and ain't reading all that but we were street racing in the 80's my man. And we weren't the first.

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I always loved how even Dom’s dumbass friend knew Brian was a cop.

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There was a time when I didn’t know you.

Yeah, Dom. That was the third grade.

Trash.

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Supra, GTR, 300zx

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That silver Skyline in Tokyo drift that they circle with the two chicks in it or even the Skyline Brian drives in 2F2F is my shite.

When I grow up and have enough money for a weekend driving second car, it will be an R34. Until then, I’ll just eat my tuna on white, with no crust.

Who would have thought a bunch of young street racers would grow into an elite counter terrorism almost super heros team

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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.

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well frick....guess we should ban nascar, F1 racing, indy car racing etc then

did point break make people go rob banks since it glamorized that?

i mean maybe we shouldnt have movies that make being the hero cool

i mean since


"Capitalism and all, but I don't think it's completely harmless"

you know since apparently movies are the cause for all the ills of the world



now OP do you not pay attention to who is doing most of the street racing and driving the dodge chargers etc....do you really think that culture is like.....oh frick Paul walker did this so Im about to go out and do it too?

Trash

Thought the first 2 or 3 were charming but there is only so much material you can write about street racing. Keep in mind it was a movie aimed at young people who want to see women cars and action, not an opera.

You can see by the third one they decided to reimagine with some different characters but the box office total was about half the previous. So they just went back to the old story and beat it to death.

Good trash TV (wouldn't watch past 7, or even 4 for that matter), doubt it caused nationwide vehicular chaos. If anything, beating the story to death may have made street racing LESS cool.

I was on a date when the first movie debuted. When this scene happened, the theater went wild.