FAST THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT

he's in it too.

Anyway, I saw this on Saturday and the plot was pretty much boilerplate "kid fucks up, gets sent to live with a relative, starts to screw up but ultimately redeems himself" crap. I giggled through the couple of moral speeches and "kid" interaction (the actors are all oooold) and counted down the minutes until AWESOME DRIFTING ACTION. It gets three Ebert-approved stars on drift action alone despite a major WTF moment right before the final race and a ridiculous cameo ending.

VIN?????

Whoa.

(xp) c'mon gear I think we can get behind this one!

I don't remember that, that's slightly scary.

I saw this for free at a screening and I was really glad I did. I mean, the ain character goes up to the Yakuza boss and says "I know how we can settle this peacefully -- A RACE!" It doesn't get much better.

whoa, i didn't realise they based a character on me!

GET ONE GOOGLE/WIKIPEDIA/YOUTUBE

yeah basically the best film ever made

yeah i made my gf watch it w/ me a while back. The main guy is one of the worst actors i have ever seen.

But it is sweet.

o man, never did end up seeing it.

your loss

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it's hard to rock a thread on time

great film - excellent franchise

eh well #2 isnt that good but 1 and 3 are the shit

I hate paul walker or whomever though
Tokyo Drift may in fact contain the best chase sequence I've ever seen. really amazing visuals and cutting.

Ned, gbx and Gear don't know the difference between a review and a synopsis?

I really wanted this movie to be good because drifting is so intense & awesome, but every review besides this one said "the drift sequences are great, the movie is otherwise completely awful" and I've misplaced my taste for shitty movies

every review OTM

i cant believe this is the only fast/furious thread on ilx... shameful

4 fast 4 furious will be the movie of the year (either that or crank 2) imo

there's a beautiful scene where they drift thru one of those thousand-deep crowd of grey japanese extras and everything goes slowmotion and the world spins around them and faces slide past the windows while the kid and the australian girl hold their breath and look out in wonder or something

this part was best

I could have sworn I posted about Tokyo Drift before, and Felicity made an appearance there as well. This isn't the only thread of its kind, I'm sure of it.

This is a movie that when watching with DVD commentary, sort of breaks your heart how much skill and passion and effort and risktaking and general good will goes into making pure shit.

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fuck

4 fast 4 furious will be the movie of the year (either that or crank 2) imo

― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

otm, seeing this opening day 4 sure

F&F was universal's highest grossing film of y2k9. jeeesus.

The fifth one is called Fast Five????

oh no

ps am watching FAST * FURIOUS currently and actually kinda enjoying it

don't really hate any of these movies tbh. I think it goes The Fast > Tokyo Drift > Fast > 2 Fast.

still think about watching tokyo drift all the time.

caught F&F on an airplane, wasn't bad either! only oen I haven't watched is 2 fast I guess

i cant believe this is the only fast/furious thread on ilx... shameful

4 fast 4 furious will be the movie of the year (either that or crank 2) imo

― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

v otm on both points imo... shame on yall

the trailer for Fast Five, or FA5T FIVE as i will know it, is out and it stars The Rock

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/fastfive/

http://i.imgur.com/vwcZB.jpg

looks like a pip imo

over under on how many cars will be in this movie...is set at five

yeah pretty psyched on this tbh

oh my god i hope the rock is vin's long lost father or something

http://www.theonion.com/video/today-now-interviews-the-5yearold-screenwriter-of,20188/

Wow. Still furious after all these years. I can't pass this up if The Rock is in it. I have a weird compulsion to see everything he's in, even if he hasn't really been in a great movie yet or even a good one. Though I strangely enjoyed "Faster" quite a bit even if it was completely mindless and stupid.

I thought "Be Cool" was decent.

I'm sorry, I just do not get tired of Vin Diesel. Paul Walker? Feh, send his rat face back where it came from -- Jordana Brewster can have him.

Will be seeing the new one, obv.

Tokyo Drift is soooo much better than the others.

What's ILX's opinion on the ridiculous theme song??

"I wonder if you know/how they live in Tokyo/If you seen it then you mean it/Then you know you have to go"

Like, on a scale of 1-10, how irritating do you find it? I heard it in a club once at would rate it a solid 9.

I bought the soundtrack solely because of that song

It is oddly catchy but those vocals, man!!!

I actually have both the Teriyaki Boyz albums, they've done way better than that

The title song is amazing! I've been curious about their other work.

they have a few tracks with Cornelius that are really good

im sorry there is a group called Teriyaki Boyz?

actually, yes

Beef Jerky Crew

MC Ronco Food Dehydrator

iirc their first album was mostly about takeout food, so you got the idea

it's actually a supergroup of famous Japanese rappers

Manohla Dargis on Diesel v Rock fight scene:

They are the fast and, yes, the furious. Yet as these giants grasp each other's bulging muscles, their bald heads rearing in the frame with tumescent vigor, it's easy to imagine that they'd like some alone time. They don't get it, largely because the earth might spin off its axis if they did, though also because the director Justin Lin, having come of cinematic age in the maximalist era of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, cleaves to the principle of more.

Is there anyone surprised by that, though? At least, anyone who's seen at least one previous Rock or Vin Diesel movie?

well, I've only seen Southland Tales and The Iron Giant.

okay yeah, "The Iron Giant" is gonna register pretty low on the sublimated homoeroticism scale

Great NPR segment yesterday where a reviewer was enthused about how these movies treat race. Then they played a clip of that Onion interview.

I think I'm the only person who saw Justin Lin's breakout movie (Better Luck Tomorrow) and was kind of intrigued by him working on this franchise.

But yeah, Tokyo Drift for sure.

"tumescent vigor" ty manohla, ty

I think I'm the only person who saw Justin Lin's breakout movie (Better Luck Tomorrow) and was kind of intrigued by him working on this franchise.

srsly doubt you're the only one, was pretty disappointed in tokyo drift tbh

will prob see this

Very much not the only one, I think there's even a thread on it. I still have a copy around somewhere.

It was decent.

OK, I'm listening to that Tokyo Drift theme song and completely understanding why Dan bought the soundtrack

discovering/realizing "She Likes To Move" (aka "the only N.E.R.D song I ever want to hear) was on it as well was just a bonus, really

for some reason I'm kind of excited for this

r u tumescent for it, tho

i dont even know what the word means

welcome to the target demographic, then.

damn

lolll

hey, I got my fingers crossed for you in that excelsior thread now

^^^ this man knows me too well

btw Morbs aren't you going to see this??

no, my raccoon has hepatitis.

http://www.bfptees.ca/store/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/hovercraft.png

Anyone actually see it?

I saw it in a packed theater who took the movie seriously for about 3 minutes (up until that ridiculous bus flip scene after which the reporter says "surprisingly nobody was hurt"), and then it sorta morphed into a comedy after the ridiculous train scene. Got a lot of laughs when they pulled up the Rock's FBI profile and he's doing the People's Eyebrow. In fact, the Rock's very first scene was incredible ("stay the FUCK out of my way!!" - to a total stranger).

Don't think this is much of a spoiler but this could have potentially been one of the greatest of all time in camp action movies if the Rock had jumped out of the bank vault in the end, if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about

FF6 my god

I KNOW. I was like, what happened to 4 and 5?? I missed them, I guess.

5 was quality

I gotta catch up before Memorial Day weekend. Maybe I'll see VI for my birthday.

5 was a masterpiece, and this looks even better

http://www.abload.de/img/rock94jp7.gif

rewatching the entire series (haven't seen the first couple in over a decade) in anticipation of 6. where the hell has my life gone. why am i doing this.

I actually envy you, I've only seen the first two, haven't found time for the rest

Someday

So is drift a synonym for hydroplane? I don't understand.
― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 16:38 (6 years ago)

I've only seen 5 but it was magnificent

should I watch any others or just be stoked ftm on 6

5 is far and away the best one, but all of em have their entertaining qualities. (except for maybe the 4th, which is sort of tedious.)

3 >>> 1, the others kind of suck

although i'm not sure if i've ever seen 2

i loved five but i have no desire to see the earlier ones. all the backstory I needed came from Vin Diesel either frowning or smiling when other characters appeared on screen.

look at you poseurs. i only want to talk to people who like & respect the entire fast and furious saga. 5, 3, 1 (after this a sizeable dropoff) 2, 4 is how i rank them... 4's the weakest but it has a few good moments

is tokyo drift 3? if so then i mostly agree with that ranking.

i might see 3 cuz justin lin obv impressed the right people with it and i've been on team lucas black since american gothic

lol apparently black will return in fast and the furious 7

In an interview in 'Scoop with Raya', Vin Diesel mentioned that 'Fast 8' may be filmed in Egypt, with a 9th Fast and Furious in Guam.

why not space dude? why not space?

Well yeah -- they're going to be the new Star Trek crew, obv.

i slept through fast furious and chronicles of riddick but i will be wide awake during any furious/riddick crossover esp if judi dench reappears as a floating elemental that they need to power their cars.

look at you poseurs. i only want to talk to people who like & respect the entire fast and furious saga. 5, 3, 1 (after this a sizeable dropoff) 2, 4 is how i rank them... 4's the weakest but it has a few good moments

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

idg what's so good about 5 besides pulling the safe around

when the rock's team gets wiped out in slow motion and u see all the pain and anguish in dwayne's eyes.... all those years spent together, and now to never spend time with ur bros ever again... i was feeiln that tho

5 was just a zippy, carefree popcorn heist movie with some suitably ridiculous performances and action sequences. Def benefits from the novelty of a franchise's fifth entry being the most successful and (from what I gather) watchable.

which one was the one with eccleston as the villain?

as a former high schooler obsessed with cars, i really like 1... 5 was kinda where it jumped the shark by making the transition to general shootout/heist and stopped being about the cool cars... although maybe 4 was like that too. i dont remember much about 4 besides driving thru tunnels

i mix up the first one with gone in 60 seconds

gone in 60 seconds is totally different because it only fetishizes american muscle

not a rice rocket in sight! smh

slower & more deliberate too

http://hotnewton.blogspot.com/2009/01/gone-in-60-seconds-complete-car-list.html

only JDM on that list is the supra

whatever happened to giovani ribisi

http://i.imgur.com/87hgp06.jpg

damn

whatever happened to giovani ribisi

didn't he die on Pandora

RIP giovanni ribisi

oh wait I guess he didn't die, at least not according to the Wikipedia plot summary

but yeah, Avatar is what happened to Giovani Ribisi

he played a snivelly drug middle manager in Contraband and co-stars with Seth Green, Martin Mull and Peter Reigert in Dads, Seth MacFarlane's first live-action sitcom production!

apparently he was also in Ted

This was fun and far less insulting or annoying than the new Star Trek flick. The Rock is the best.

wth @ after credits retcon

that was awesome

yeah... it was pretty brazen... greedo shoots first. idk what to expect from this new director tho

somebody in my theater screamed for a good 5 seconds in the interval leading up to vin midair bodyslamming michelle into a windshield

james wan's made two movies i really liked, so im at least curious to see what he does with F&F. lin's done some great work with the franchise but it kinda feels like he's said everything he could with these movies

i feel like he really hit his stride w/ this one, the flow, timing, interweaving of diff plot elements was perfected, didn't feel as clunky as 5... could be seen as a peak too, walk away before it gets stale

i thought 5 was a little smoother actually, this one dragged for me at points, wasnt really as involved in what was happening. still a good flickaroo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skpu5HaVkOc

Within a whisper's breath of being the third highest-grossing film ever worldwide.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Yeah, but that gap hasn't been closing by very much over the last few weeks. Firmly entrenched as third in the 'Overseas' though.

I was talking to a friend about a week before it came out, wondering about the financial fate of other seventh films to compare it to: The Dark Knight, Diamonds are Forever, the next Superman vs Batman. Looks like it's outperformed the first two anyway.

thought for a second there that tokyo drift had somehow become the third-biggest-grossing movie of all time while i wasn't looking

my favourite thing about 7 was lucas black's cameo, which cut seamlessly from his fresh-faced performance in a scene from the original to the current-day lucas black who has apparently aged 25 years since 2006

If only he'd died, they could have done more!

tbf he looked very much like a corpse

So they're shooting second unit for the next one in downtown Cleveland, and just announced a ton of street closings right in the middle of the busiest parts of town for the next three weeks. This is just a month prior to the RNC happening downtown. RIP Cleveland.

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/fast_8_in_cleveland_watch_car.html

sometimes songs from this movie's OST pop up on my itunes in shuffle and it's a good feeling

thats where i'd seen Grace from unreal s1 before

this movie is great obv

I have this on on another screen while I play the stunt races in gta

https://jalopnik.com/tokyo-drift-had-to-hire-a-fall-guy-to-get-arrested-on-s-1844445611

The director explained: “When we went to shoot in Tokyo it’s a very different culture. They don’t give out film permits. We would be setting up a scene and people would just walk right through the set. I had this one guy, I thought he said he was me. I didn’t know what that meant.

“I wanted to shoot in Shibuya, which is the most crowded place in Tokyo. The cops, they’re all so polite, so it takes ten minutes for them to come over and kick you out. They shut us down, I’d gotten all my shots, but I didn’t know they were going to arrest me. Another guy stepped up and said, ‘I’m the director.’ I found out that it was his job to take the fall for me. He went to jail for the night and I’m forever grateful.”

An American street racer in Japan learns an exciting but dangerous new style and goes head to head with a local champion who has ties to the Yakuza.