10 Stupidist Lines In Fast & The Furious!

[R1-rider]

Originally posted by street_racer_00
Almost as bad and as stupid as saying that it takes 20 second for an RX-7 to complete a quarter mile. Grow up.

Well maybe it is you who needs to grow up, the point in the article was that the street race in the movie didn't last 10 seconds, but instead about 20.

Don't be afraid of intelligence!

[dbartoschek]

I don't know why everyone always puts down The Fast and the Furious.........they didn't have to make a movie about street racing at all did they? If you don't like it, then don't watch it......there's still nice cars in it. Instead of wasting your time trying to find everything stupid about a movie, invest it into something useful.

[street_racer_00]

Originally posted by R1-rider


Well maybe it is you who needs to grow up, the point in the article was that the street race in the movie didn't last 10 seconds, but instead about 20.

Don't be afraid of intelligence!

Hmmm obviously you've never seen the movie . The race lasts about 2 minutes because of the slow-motion crap and whatnot. Chalk it up to dramatic license.

[R1-rider]

Well maybe so but I'm sure that we can both agree that Keith Imoto's car is quite fast.

[Cbass]

I hate to break this to you, but the fast and the furious wasn't about street racing, it was about making money off of ricers.

Now I know this is going to get a bad response, but street racers do not race honda civics and RX7 FDS, because civics are slow, and FDs are expensive and rare. Street racers drive Mustangs, Camaros, 350 Malibus, Cutlass's, and occasionally a Supra or FC turbo 2! The reason, because street racers don't "have a 100k under the hood man!", they have maybe a couple of thousand invested in the car in total!

I do not hate imports, there are plenty of imports I love, more so than domestics. This is the painful part for ricers though, street racers mostly race domestics. The only legitimate Japanese sports cars(aside from Nissan Silvias) are too expensive to race!

Originally posted by street_racer_00
Well, they could have had a movie about musclecars instead, but no one would want to watch a movie with a bunch of rusted out old cars being towed or being hauled on a flatbed across the finish line.

That's just ridiculous and insulting. You expect people to respect imports, but you make comments like that! Talk about hypocrisy.

My two cents, let the "hatin on" commence.

[street_racer_00]

Lets face it, what movies out there HAVEN'T been about making money? If they made a movie to appeal to the ricer street crowd and made bajillions of dollars off them, then they reached their goal, nothing wrong with that.

[MadZ]

Originally posted by street_racer_00
Lets face it, what movies out there HAVEN'T been about making money? If they made a movie to appeal to the ricer street crowd and made bajillions of dollars off them, then they reached their goal, nothing wrong with that.

you realize the producers of that movie are laughing all the way to the bank because a bunch of gullible and naive honda drivers go out and buy the movie and want to mimic hollywood's version of a street racing scene, not to mention the movie inspiring them to actually think that a bottle of "nawwws" is going to put them in the 10's. I think it's hillarious, but at the same time sad, because of the direction our country is headed in. Someday these riceboys may be in the senate or even president! now thats a scary thought. But my point is that hollywood doesn't give two shits about any real street racing scene, they only care about making the $$$, and I can't say I blame them either, because obviously dumbasses out-number intelligent, down-to-earth people in this f'ed up world we live in.

just my two pennies, four dimes, three quarters, and a nickel

[street_racer_00]

They were just at the right place and right time when it comes to movie making. I could really give less of a $hit if the riceboys are breaking their wallet because they saw some hour and a half movie, that's their problem. Movies were made to make money, just like there all these hundreds of reality shows coming out on TV because of survivor and how successful it was. It was just the lucrative thing to do at the time, and that's what america salutes to, not the red white and blue, but to the green.

[1320B4U]

Now I know this is going to get a bad response, but street racers do not race honda civics and RX7 FDS, because civics are slow, and FDs are expensive and rare. Street racers drive Mustangs, Camaros, 350 Malibus, Cutlass's, and occasionally a Supra or FC turbo 2! The reason, because street racers don't "have a 100k under the hood man!", they have maybe a couple of thousand invested in the car in total!

I do not hate imports, there are plenty of imports I love, more so than domestics. This is the painful part for ricers though, street racers mostly race domestics. The only legitimate Japanese sports cars(aside from Nissan Silvias) are too expensive to race!


I don't know about BC, but in Portland and down the valley in Oregon, theres barely any Domestics street racers. Why? Cause a decent f-body or mustang will cost 15k+ and insurance would be incredibly ridiculous for any male under the age of 25. Civics, most are slow, but I have a few aquaintences who have B16's and B18C's dropped into slightly stripped civcis running low-mid 14's, not bad. One is doing a full buildup on a 95 HB, garret T3/T4 turbo, sleeved block, pistons, rods, headwork, etc, etc. He's aiming for 11's. SO you have to have a legitimate jap sports car to street race. I don't think so.

[dbartoschek]

See...the movie was about the street racing scene, which is always going to involve "ricers"
Half the time when i hit a red light, and see a riced out import pull beside me, i know they will race me, so i throw them some revs, and they almost always race........the street racing scene will have the imports and domestics and muscle cars. So the movie was about the street racing scene, and will obviously inspire people to express themselves by modifying their cars, internally and externally. Did it not show them at the track? Did it not show a couple of street races?

[CAptynCrunch]

"Then say nitrous you jackass"

[Layla's Keeper]

To all of the domestic hot rodders who can recall (or have read about) the 1950's, I'd like to draw attention to the film "Hot Rods from Hell". I believe the release date was 1952, the early days of hit rodding where just about everything was a Deuce or a T. Now, this movie was about two rival gangs of teenage boys who routinely broke the law in their quest for speed and girls.

Fast forward to 2001........ deja vu

The Deuces have been substituted by Civics, the acting hasn't improved, and the writers still don't know anything about cars. It's the new millenium and B movies are still with us. And that's exactly what "The Fast and The Furious" is. A B movie. There are nice cars within it (the Veilside RX-7) just like it's cool to watch "Hot Rods from Hell" and see the A on 32' rails with the Ardun flattie. So, in other words, why should either side of the debate take the movie seriously?

The only negative thing that came out of it was now the whole import crowd is stuck with that image.

PS: We classic sports car guys have a B movie, too. "The Racers" from 1955. Beautiful Austin-Healey 100-6 in that one, and it starred Clark Gable, I think.

[MadZ]

It makes no sense, wookies don't live on endor. Whats a 10 foot wookie doing on endor. It makes no sense! look at the little monkey! Look at the monkey!

[Layla's Keeper]

I'm not sure I get your drift, Mad Z. Yes, I recognize the Chewbacca defense, but it seems totally irrelevant to me. Particularly if it's a response to my statement.

[MadZ]

excuse my temporary lapse of insanity. I was simply reffering to how kids today modify honda civics and such.