Thread: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 08:05 PM
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Default Re: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Originally Posted by former NXMX5
ten minutes into the movie some guys on bikes pulled over some other guy in a car at gunpoint. that was it; movie went off. that's all the civic crowd needs is more ideas...

[rant over]
that's the problem with the first and second one... it really had the traditional bad guys that are total badas*es and show no feelings... very much unlike what real people are...

this one the new director made sure that the bad guys where very human like, no one goes on a shooting spree thinking they are invulnerable... in fact the few times you see a gun it is a very intense moment for the bad guys and the good guys alike... what you do see is a much needed reality check to the movie series by director Justin Lin, some top notch driving that was directed by a great man in the scene, Toshi Hayama, who has been judging competitions all over the US and cameo appearances by Keiichi Tsuchiya, the real life drift king.

the worst part about this movie is that the reputation of the previous two has forever tarnished the name of the series making people not give this one a chance. the previous two movies where all hollywood and no real technical directors worth a second look. from the scene where splinter "topped out" in his eclipse where he upshifted 7 times before doing so (7 speed manual ? i want one), to the times where the techie dude was looking in the rear of the engine compartment commenting on the size of the turbo (4g63 has the turbo mounted on the front of the engine), to the comment by ja rule "he has enough NOS in there to blow himself up" or the nitrous exploding scene (nitrous oxide is a non flammable gas, the only way it would blow up is if the bottle was super compressed or super heated, such as by a semi smashing into the bottle and pinning it against a wall or by letting it burn in fuel for a very long time till the internal PSI was higher than the bottles holding ability)... they where riddled with technical mistakes, hollywood flash, and countless of other things done wrong... but it was a entertaining movie...

now we have tokyo drift come out and everyone expects the same and is brutally prejudice against it before seeing it... or worse yet, see it with their eyes shut and keep judging... which really doesn't sit well with me because this director did a great job hiring the right technical director and getting new actors that did not think they where too big to live the lifestyle for many months and learn it (many of the actors where sent to their "drift school" to learn to drift actually even though they did not actually do any of the driving just to give it a authentic feel... they watched drift videos with the technical director when they hung out after working hours... and overall immersed themselves in the world) along with the biggest names in the drift racing world to drive the cars ... yet, his work will not be given the chance...

man, and i don't even like drift racing... but i DO appreciate a smart director who sees a movie series that should be better and makes it better...
 
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