MB-BOB

I imagine this'll get moved... but I DO think it's germain to the general "tuner" tenor on the C-Class forum that doesn't exist on other forums...

I rented "The Fast and the Furious" this weekend... A few observations:

1) How many times can they remake "The Wild Bunch?"
2) You want neat car chase scenes, rent Steve McQueen's "Bullitt" instead
3) Excepting the one tricked-out VW, I didn't see any European iron getting subjected to the rocket racer mods, no BMWs, MBs, others.
4) How can I get back 107 minutes of my life?

It was interesting as a car movie, but I was looking for any redeeming qualities, and found it generally lacking for all concerned. Let's see, Vin Diesel's cool character actually masks a felony truck hijacking ring, even the ADD character is involved... (no heroes here). I was pleased to see the "other" gang was NOT the stereotypical trunk hijacking ring, but wait, they DO collect on bad pink-slip debts with drive-bys using fully-automatic weapons... (so no joy there). Even the "good guy" corrupts himself in the end, in the name of cool-car-ness worship? (Duh?)

Yea, this movie was not meant for my demographic, but I claim kudos for keeping an open mind to take a look. This was a beter flick than Stallone's "Driven" last year... barely. But, they're all sooooo shallow....

Flashman

Thanks to that movie I now know that if you drop a Civic 3", it will fit under an 18-wheeler...

NOT!

zimmer26

You're right Bob, a true waste of time, and your case money. At least I can say that I didn't pay to see it, but it doesn't change the fact that I still felt robbed of quality time. If the plot and storyline weren't dumb enough, they bolstered that with poor acting to boot.

benzomonterey

The only cool car to go under an 18 wheeler was Christmas Vacation when Chevy Chase took the Taurus under the log truck.

zimmer26

I definitely concur- great scene, great movie!

nboyd

I thought not having German cars was the only realistic part of the movie.

Mod people want to get the highest performance to money ratio and it is a lot cheaper to mod a Honda, Toyota Mitsubishi etc. than BMW, MB, VW etc.

It was a total rehash of several movies. I though it was most like Point Break. They just changed surfboads for Mod cars.

Nathan

Boo2

Actually, I think that the movie represented the street racing that even I was a part of in the late 90's. I would say that during that time, at least 90 percent of the street cars were Japanese imports. It would be a less accurate depiction of the racing "scene" to add modified euro's.

MB-BOB

The "Point Break" analogy is perfect, nboyd. You're right on with that one... almost a complete take-off on "Point Break." Amazing.

Well, glad to see I'm not totally in left field, as several of you agree. For a while I thought I would get severely slammed with this thread!

Back in the sixty's, I recall a family in the neighborhood with two youngsters into the street racer scene. They built a lime-green VW Beetle with a small block chevy V8 where the rear seat used to be. Not your typical Beetle (but it WAS a euro-rod).

tommy

I bought it, since I own a modded crx, and think, if you don't get carried away with tackiness, that buying a Honda and then spending double the price of the car on mods is a great way to build a bodacious piece of machinery.

There are some funny parts of the movie, such as needing two bottles of nitrous, reading the laptop while driving a 5-mile quarter mile, and having a blown engine but being able to drive it away anyways. Which is weird, since RJ de Vera from Super Street was the tech advisor. I'll have to read the "making of..." portion of the dvd to look for excuses.

My summary: too much cheese, too little Michell Rodriguez. :p Maybe you older types just can't relate!

tommy

Yeah, I've got the dvd. I haven't looked through all of the features of F&F yet. I missed the part after the credits that's a prelude to what will be F&F2, so I'll have to go back and see that part.

Did Autoadditions give you a guess on when the Manayunk store was going to open?

MB-BOB

Um, I was more interested in Jordana Brewster! :o :o

And yes, those "Under 10-second" 1/4 mile races seemed to last forever. And yes, that "blown" engine worked pretty well after the race. I was waiting for him to drive it again after the Tran gang riddled it with machine-gun fire...

And yes, you caught my dyslexic keyboard entry. I'm entitled to some typos now and then, right?

(BTW, the DVD I rented had only one disc in it. Was there supposed to be two discs? I read somewhere that there was 7-hrs of DVD material, but I didn't see how that could be with only one disc.)

MB-BOB

Young, your chair fetish is showing. (Just having fun with your most recent avatar!)

BTW, Rick has some fun for you on the Audio and Electronics Forum, in case you haven't seen it.

Cheers!

young

heheh! Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool 1954...

ha, Rick has a long wait before i hit 1000! btw, as jame55 has already proven, breaking a 1000 mark doesn't get any other honorific. and you're right, i don't usually hang out in the audio forum.

this post will self-destruct in 10...9...8...

C230K

Well it changed my son to update his 1998 Civic Ex, now he has no money, in the Airforce (would you believe from Florida in Califonia) and has one fast good looking car. I will stick to my new C230 Coupe and at my age can still play and enjoy one fine auto.
Tom

timorgan

F&F would never win any reputable awards, but it was a great movie if you went into it thinking that it'd be fast and furious.

I didn't expect anything from the movie except modded cars, races, and chases. It was great in all those aspects, so I enjoyed the movie.

I look forward to F&F2 for the same reasons. Hopefully they won't throw in any MBs... wouldn't want to start an MB modding craze.

Tim

90integraGS

I've found that it's a perfect movie to have on in the background while you're doing something else. It's fun listening to the engine sounds and the energetic music.

Sure it's silly--it's entertainment!!

You know what would be cool as a "reality" TV show? A modern day "Cannonball Run." For real!

Lbenz1375

THe best part of the movie were the Motorcycles... Dang, i miss my R6!!!