Fast and the Furiously bad film

Fast and the Furiously bad film

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gtir

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24,741 posts

273 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Why oh why did I think that this film was worth watching?

Its like Max Power mag in real life format, 'orrible.
Terrible acting, cars that sound like lawn mowers ( I mean, a Maxed VW Jetta!), crappy camera angles and just a stupid plot line ergghhhh. What a waste of £3.75.

Still should of known better, Its my fault.

anonymous-user

61 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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i think the bit with the dodge charger in stereo sound makes up for the rset of the film, you can keep nitrous injections etc but as carroll shelby said " they're aint no substitute for cubic inches!"

gtir

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24,741 posts

273 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Yes the Charger looked wicked, although I was laughing at the way it went round corners it was like a jelly on wheels.

olly2000

291 posts

282 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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...After watching the film (which I thought was piss poor for cars, ok for mindless action, overall piss poor) my friend decided he wanted to do the full works on his BMW Z3. Says it all really...

currymonster

3,934 posts

276 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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totally agree chaps. I watched it on DVD last weekend. To make a bad film even worse, the sound was shagged, so i had to use subtitles. What a pile of typical American toilet. The bit where they drag race the ferrari was quite cool, only spoiled by the ferrari owner having to be a stuck up rich bloke. I'm only surprised he wasnt a typical Hollywood style evil English guy...

CarZee

13,382 posts

274 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Yeah - I wasn't impressed with Fast&Furious at all.. despite Vin Paraffin . . . John Gielgud would have been weeping into his absynthe.. not! LMAO

wasn't as bad as Swordfish though which was the biggest piece of turd I've seen in a long long time.. :-/

currymonster

3,934 posts

276 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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oh no. Is Swordfish THAT bad? I was going to watch it this week. I heard it was lame but had plenty of tuscan thrashing....

CarZee

13,382 posts

274 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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oh no. Is Swordfish THAT bad? I was going to watch it this week. I heard it was lame but had plenty of tuscan thrashing....
It's dreadful - I just fell of the sofa when Travolta asks the other guy to drive and I took the piss, "Gee I can't drive a stick" a second before the lame american said exactly that.. LMFAO

Halle Berry = nice
Tuscan = very nice

But still these are not enough to make up for a dreadful film with a piss poor storyline, dreadful acting and if you're a techy, there's the usual faux hacking exploits that will make you throw your beer at the telly..

And even with a big sub and Dolby 5.1, they still don't get the TVR to sound anything approaching real...

Total waste of time & money..

Bonce

4,339 posts

286 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Anyone else notice how the big school-run stylee 4x4 jobbies filled up with machinegun-toting bad guys were able to easily keep up with the Tuscan?

I used to think TVRs were quite quick but now I'm not so sure... the 4x4 was easily as good at cornering!

currymonster

3,934 posts

276 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Well, it cant be as bad as 'Monsters inc' that I was dragged to by a bird. Fortunately, I'd had a bellyful of curry and beer and was able to sleep through the final hour. Even caught the doris i was with having a nap!

Maf

282 posts

291 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Hold on, Swordfish did have one of the best ever movie explosions, IMHO, at the start. It was quite a way downhill from there though.

I would suggest that anyone into IT fast-forwards to the Tuscan after that because the computer side of stuff is just plain garbage. Flying bus at the end really takes the biscuit.

CarZee

13,382 posts

274 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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The flying bus is perhaps the redeeming cherry on the pie of stupidity...

The best film explosion for my money has to be the one at the end of Fight Club..

Rigormortis

28 posts

290 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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If you think it's bad watching the fast and the spurious on your telly, imagine what it's like being stuck in the cinema after coughing up a fiver. Grr.

I think I made more toilet stops during that film than any other I've seen.

That self-deploying hi-fi complete with dry ice effect and neon lights really summed the whole film up though. Bet it went down a storm in essex...

Marshy

2,749 posts

291 months

Monday 4th March 2002
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Swordfish. I went with a bunch of friends who work for UUNET (as did I, before it went takeover crazy). We all loved the car. We varied in our ability not to sit there muttering "OFFS".

"...go in over the phone lines, pop the firewall..."

Christ-onna-bike. I could make a fortune helping Hollywood make films a *bit* less f**kwitted without ruining the film.

geoff middleton

3 posts

273 months

Tuesday 5th March 2002
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Fast and furios, turned it off, big bore.Did watch gone in sixty seconds on consecuitive nights and thought it was brill!1

Steve Harrison

461 posts

274 months

Tuesday 5th March 2002
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Oh f*****g great. Got F&F for my birthday and haven't watched it yet. I was looking forward to it as well

pbrettle

3,280 posts

290 months

Tuesday 5th March 2002
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"...go in over the phone lines, pop the firewall..."



And they manage to break something that is RSA encrypted in less than 5 minutes....And there would be no way that they could do that to one of my firewalls....

Aint hollywood accurate..?!?!?

Cheers,

Paul

.mark

11,104 posts

283 months

Tuesday 5th March 2002
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Oh f*****g great. Got F&F for my birthday and haven't watched it yet. I was looking forward to it as well


Don't worry too much Steve, I watched it at the weekend and if you get enough inside you it will be fine.
The 'extras' on the DVD are worth a watch too, nearly everyone in it are actual street racers. I spent most of the film thinking 'Nitros in a Cerbie - that'd show 'em'
It was a billion times better the Swordfish and as good IMO as Gone in 60 Seconds.
You have to know though that any 'car' movie with a star whose name is Vin Diesel is going to be a bit ropey

hertsbiker

6,379 posts

278 months

Tuesday 5th March 2002
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glad you saved me the money.
Tesco are flogging it for 15 quid at the mo'.
Tell me, did the jiggling birds make it any better?

Actually this is something that really annoys me about films - if a film is good, it doesn't need some stupid bint with kit off. If I want to watch a car film, I want it to be about the cars. If I watch a porn film, I don't wanna see cars, or story line! The genres should be kept separate !!!

steve harrison

461 posts

274 months

Wednesday 10th April 2002
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Oh f*****g great. Got F&F for my birthday and haven't watched it yet. I was looking forward to it as well


Don't worry too much Steve, I watched it at the weekend and if you get enough inside you it will be fine.
The 'extras' on the DVD are worth a watch too, nearly everyone in it are actual street racers. I spent most of the film thinking 'Nitros in a Cerbie - that'd show 'em'
It was a billion times better the Swordfish and as good IMO as Gone in 60 Seconds.
You have to know though that any 'car' movie with a star whose name is Vin Diesel is going to be a bit ropey



Well, what do you know, she who must be obeyed went out with the girls the other night so once the kiddies were safely tucked up I finally took Mark's advice, loaded up F&F and settled down with a fridge full of cold ones.

What a silly film Disengage brain and any other critical faculties, just wee yourself laughing from end to end (no I didn't sneak in one off the wrist, interferes with the drinking). Not such a bad birthday pressie after all.

Cheers Mark