F&F: Tokyo Drift

citizenkhan

It Wandered In From the Wastes
Probably the most fun I've had at the movies since shrooming my way through Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. If you're willing to laugh at the "serious" bits and suspend disbelief for a little while, it's absolutely great. Provided you like cars and hot chicks.
 
I had a similar reaction to "Torque". I saw it with a good mate and two girls. The girls had really wanted to see the movie, but my mate and I just laughed all the way through it. Good times.
 
Roger Ebert gives it thumbs up....but then again, he also gave Garfield: the movie thumbs up.
 
Roger Ebert's gone senile.


Not that he was very coherent to begin with.




Blade Runner, we shall never forget you. Roger Ebert is a wanker.
 
can deal watching it at home. But wasting money on something like that at theaters? Ugh. No thanks.

Honestly, even when I tried to watch it on tv, I got bored and changed the channel. Anything F&F is just crap. I enjoyed watching Hotwheels World Race and CARS with my son more.

Seriously, go see CARS. It is hilarious. Not to mention damn good animation.

Edit: Besides, being a mechanic, makes watching cheesy race movies even more funny because you know there is no way in hell that half the crap that happens to those cars would actually happen. Example: When the undercover cop first races Diesel at thre beginning of the first F&F, the cop ends up, in my opinion based on experience, over boosts the engine and probably stretched the cylinder head bolts. Then drives the damn car away from the race. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN-NO MATTER WHO BUILDS YOUR ENGINE..... :roll:
 
The whole point is to laugh at it! Jesus! Not everything has to be taken seriously.


And no, I didn't see "Thank You for Smoking." Is that supposed to be some sort of crack at me?
 
I'm not saying the movie is not funny. It's just that they tried to work in a plot along with the cheesy racing scenes. It's the sad attempt at a plot that got me bored.
 
citizenkhan said:
And no, I didn't see "Thank You for Smoking." Is that supposed to be some sort of crack at me?
A guess.

Perhaps a damning statement on what seems to be the average member of the movie-going public, perhaps not.
 
I hate Porsche cars, they have a gross design. Also, the colours they chose for the cars are horrible. Gay and 80's.
 
There are two basic types of movie-goers: those who go to see a film for the emotional experience, and those who go to see/prove how smart they are. After a couple film theory classes you lose the emotional side and start hating the experience of watching movies. Then you get it back, and the times that you choose to disable your intellectual involvement with a film are sometimes the most rewarding and fun.
 
Nearly everyone would go to be entertained. The pseudo-intellectual, snobbish, retarded critics alluded to by ctizenkhan would also aim to be entertained by even the 'worst' movie, but by a perceived gain in status, while they may not appreciate the positive points. Silly emotional reasons. A purely non-intellectual approach is just as foolish.

Not getting too hung up on flaws is a good thing, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't think. I haven't seem F&F, but I would guess much of the acting is terrible, the stunts impossible and the plot painfully bad. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun watching it, while acknowledging the flaws. Free critical analysis and greater knowledge should make film even more enjoyable if one is reasonable. If the focus point is great racing, then I can understand annoyance with wasting time on a mess of a plot. For this style of film they should just get to the action!

Coincidentally, I just saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with my family and enjoyed it as a darker kids' film. I was annoyed by the plot inconsistencies but I haven't read the book to compare. The cast was good, but poorly directed and I expected a strongly narrative driven film to make more sense. Gambon's use of three different accents was also very unprofessional (Secret twist: Dumbledore has a split personality!) They haven't heard of continuity it seems.
 
I'm glad someone understands me, quietfanatic. What made Tokyo Drift fun (and interesting) was an airy, aloof scepticism.

The darkness in the Goblet of Fire was what drew me into the plot... there were a couple moments (like the ravens flying through the spires of Hogwarts) that were truly great.
 
citizenkhan said:
There are two basic types of movie-goers: those who go to see a film for the emotional experience, and those who go to see/prove how smart they are. After a couple film theory classes you lose the emotional side and start hating the experience of watching movies. Then you get it back, and the times that you choose to disable your intellectual involvement with a film are sometimes the most rewarding and fun.

Someone give this guy an Oscar.
 
It was painfully awful, you could tell the plot was just thrown in because some exec said "You can't have an hour and a half of fake-ass racing with half naked girls dancing around for no reason!"
 
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