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

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

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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.