Anyone else not sold on the Fast furious franchise?

mudslide73

My boy (12) says it's a good film, no 8.

octatonic

Movies for thickos.

PolarityMan

The one where he gets stranded on a desert planet was pretty good.

Sporky

Wasn't the first one a straight remake of No Man's Land?

darthed1981

zSporky said:

Wasn't the first one a straight remake of No Man's Land?

Straight remake of Point Break with surfing replaced with street racing I've always thought.

Bygone_Tones

Genuinely shocked it has taken more than Force awakens.

Didn't even like the first one. Just full of all the usual cliches seen in movie car chases. eg when driving down a public road, all the other cars on the road are travelling at the same speed and perfectly offset making a slalom course.
 
Also I dont understand why they keep needing to change gears when they are supposedly already driving at top speed and in a straight line. I've seen that happen in so many films. Especially when it's the guy at the front supposedly driving as fast as he can to save his life and get away from the evil baddie - then he changes gear and presses his foot a bit more on the accelarator! what? why weren't you flooring it in the first place???

Steffo

Where has 8 come from? I struggled through the first one on the TV and knew about the Tokyo one but 8!!! 
Who gives a toss about souped up Toyotas? Can't believe people pay to watch that stuff.

axisus

They all look like shite. Mind you, I haven't seen one second of any of them. Olivier could have auditioned for all I know.

Fretwired

Not a major fan but the franchise is better than Star Wars ..

Emp_Fab

My mate's lad went to the pictures with his friend and his dad.  When my mate picked his boy up, he asked what they had seen and was told Fast & Furious 7.  The other lad's dad chipped in with "I've seen all of them, but it's starting to get a bit repetitive now."

  

sweepy

Anything with Michelle Rodriguez in it gets my vote

mike_l

ThePrettyDamned said:

Not my cuppa. 

And yet, I did quite like death race... Which is truly shite. 

The original Death Race 2000 is an utterly shite film. Watch it, it's funny as fuck.

Jalapeno

sweepy said:

Anything with Michelle Rodriguez in it gets my vote

Not seen any of them, but this is profound wisdom.

fields5069

For me, F&F films are the cinema equivalent of TOWIE and all that shite.

I usually only like films which were, or could have been, books. I'm no film snob, it encompasses the majority of cinema releases as far as I'm concerned.

ThePrettyDamned

mike_l said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Not my cuppa. 

And yet, I did quite like death race... Which is truly shite. 

The original Death Race 2000 is an utterly shite film. Watch it, it's funny as fuck.

I've seen that! Points for pedestrians! 

VimFuego

just added it up and realised I've now spent more time reading abou F&F than I have watching the films. Dunno if this is a comment on anything.

TheBlueWolf

sweepy said:

Anything with Michelle Rodriguez in it gets my vote

Which is, essentially, why I watch

Sporky

ThePrettyDamned said:

mike_l said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Not my cuppa. 

And yet, I did quite like death race... Which is truly shite. 

The original Death Race 2000 is an utterly shite film. Watch it, it's funny as fuck.

I've seen that! Points for pedestrians! 

I like all three. The original was meant to be social commentary but was just a bit of a crap fillum. Death Race 2 was actually worse though...

kossofffan

Their shite, however I'm 51 with a full head of hair!

Philly_Q

I'm glad someone asked this question.  The Fast and Furious franchise is, apparently, extremely popular but (although I'm sure I'm not part of the target audience demographic) I don't know anyone who's a fan, or anyone who has seen more than a couple of them.

 Personally, I watch a lot of films.  Some arty and highbrow but an awful lot of mainstream tat as well - superhero movies, dopey action movies, trashy old exploitation movies, bring 'em on.  And I watch hundreds of horror movies, which can be as idiotic as films can possibly get. 

But Fast and Furious?  I just don't get them at all.  I've tried to watch one or two of them but there's just nothing there.  I feel like I'm watching a film in a language I don't understand with no subtitle option, whilst slowly coming round from a general anaesthetic in unfamiliar surroundings.  Incomprehensible.