Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift

my local rice community seem to be mostly talking along the lines of "this movie will give exposure to the motorsport of drifting..."

http://www.nissansilvia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=168703

 

saw the movie, I tryed to get a refund after, but they refused on the grounds you should have known the movie would suck within the first five minutes for a refund........oh well

 

My friend saw the movie last night. The biggest waste of $16 he said. He also said he would headbutt me if i went to see it too. He said it was a terrible movie and the drifting was crap. I think i will wait till it hits DVD. Should only be around 2 weeks before it does.

 

$16?!? Hopefully it was for 2 people! I saw Nacho Libre for $4 the other day, pretty funny movie imo. My friend sent me a song from the FNF3 soundtrack as a joke. You've got to hear this crap, so freakin' hilarious. How do find people to pay for this stuff???

 

My pop and hotdog came to $9...wtf? But it's cool, I was rolling the 22 ouncer, Nismo edition Cherry Coke. I threw down the ketchup AND the relish and NOS AND the Veilside wrapper on my hotdog. When I was walking to my seat with my fly dog, I made sure to walk SIDEWAYS so that all the guys that piled out of their friend's mom's Honda Odyssey minivan (with the backseat removed so it qualifies as a Type R) thought I was a professional drifter.

 

wtf???

 

Got the weekend started early huh?

 

exacly right PAP the movie was crap,drifing was bull**** and it didn't even have a legitament story line,but the only good thing was the chick,she's hot,wouldn't say no to her and before i forget,its the first time i've seen a muscle car with a GTR motor in it

 

It should have gone straight to video. It's not a big screen sort of film (think about the mentality of a 16 year old on a date going to see a film onscreen, nuances are lost).

It translated very well to cable, though.

I'll just go out on a limb and say that the driving rocked, it had a plot if you paid attention (the main character even had, gasp, character development!), and the action/acting worked...

...when you saw it on cable.

So I dug it. Besides, it was essentially free to watch and not much else was on at 1 AM.

Oh, there was a Ferrari in it. Red, in fact.

 

I have since watched that movie a few times on DVD at home. The g/f loves it..........of course. Was probably the best of the 3 movies. I enjoyed it.

 

Yeah, my g/f enjoyed it too.. It's okay to watch. The idea of a nistang was laughable.. meh - overall an average movie

 

Well, now that the thread's resurrected, thought I'd chime in.

Initially, I heard the stunt was faked (it just looked way too smooth to be real), but now I'm hearing the stunt was pulled off by real precision drivers. That's pretty awesome.

In general, movies like these do a disservice to the JDM tuner scene. Everyone gets the impression that Jap performance motoring is all about stickers, wings and decals, when there's actually a lot of respectable tuners out there with serious machinery.

 

Hahaha!! Thats the part I really didnt like, and it was an average movie alright. I didnt mind it still. The only reason I have seen it 4 times is because of the g/f.

 

That was the key flaw to the movie. If they had Yakuza Hal telling Cowboy Sean that the Jap drifters were fakin' it by pulling emergency brakes on front wheel drive ricers, so that Sean could win his epic drift race with a rear-driven V8 Mustang by actually...ummm...drifting, then the movie would have scored on target.

 

Crazy Japanese drifting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn4w7wzYSac

 

I must be getting old and decrepit

I don't get it - obnoxious and only a fad-spectacle....but I ain't stupid enough to debate it....like I said I just don't get the "sport" side.

 

It is a sport because drifting is a challenge... ever tried it? Not too easy to smoothly keep your car at an exact angle full speed through a turn while racing. Kinda like trying to balance your chair on the edge of tipping.

Think of it like making a basket in basketball. Some guys are just better than others, and that is where the rivalry comes in. Making a basket is pretty boring, actually, but the competition heats it up! And the fact that the players can do some moves that you can't master yet...

When someone knocks drifting - they haven't tried it yet, or are so bad at it that they have to act macho to compensate... or can't afford the tires to have the fun with it!

Catch my drift?

 

dumbest analogy ever.

drifting is figure-skating with rubber, tell people that and they'll "get it" much easier.

 

By that logic, calculus is a sport too. And reading Olde English. And mowing grass on a hill. And Guitar Hero.

 

FUNNY!!!

My only problem with drifting is that it is all show...drifting around a corner is obviously not the fastest way around...BUT to each their own...

 

I'd have said more like finger painting with expensive gloves.

Now if they were actually laying down drawings on the road in rubber, *that* would be art.

There's a concept for a TV commercial: painting a tire company's logo on a parking lot using the company's tires.

 

The only reason to watch that movie is Nele (sp?), it is not too bad, but I do not understand the "drift thing" at all.

 

ROFL! It's really more sports entertainment...like WWE.

Every time someone says something about drifting to me...I think of the sales guy that says: "we are changing the way companies do business!"

 

I was thinking it's more of a challenge when the car isn't set up specifically to drift. People have been doing this since the beginning of car time.