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Honest Trailers - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

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This entry gets more overrated as years pass by for some reason. It was no coincidence it nearly killed the franchise.
 
clemenx said:
This entry gets more overrated as years pass by for some reason. It was no coincidence it nearly killed the franchise.
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The film not featuring any of the stars from the first two movies and being set in Japan might do that. It made almost twice its budget but was still a failure because 1-2 brought so much mula in
 
Eh. I liked it. Han was a better and more sympathetic supporting character than anyone in Dom's squad. The movie spends a lot of time exploring japanese culture and while it feels like a teenage coming of age story, there are enough cool visuals and races to keep the thrills going.

My favorite scenes were:
- Intro
- Fight with the football player and the race. 'Winner gets me' was a great moment.
- The amazing intro of the japanese racing world. that catchy song, those japanese women, my god!
- the first drift scene on the mountains
- the chase scene and going through the crowded intersection
- final race
- Ending

There is lots of social commentary in the movie. Tackles the absurd u.s school system, u.s justice system in the first ten minutes alone. lots of social commentary about Japanese not accepting immigrants etc. Music was fantastic through out. People dont realize this but Justin Lin must have impressed enough people at the studio to get the job for the next movie. he did a great job directing.
 
sixteen-bit said:
In this club you can watch more F&F movies.
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I choose not to! XD
ryutaro's mama said:
How are all these people claiming to have only seen Tokyo Drift?

It's like seeing the 3rd movie in the HP series or any other series for that matter and then bailing.

It has to be that people said, "Oh it's in Japan...well, I like Japan. I guess I will watch that one."

It's the only reason I can think of as to why someone would only have seen the 3rd film in and then nothing else.
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I got a free ticket.
 
zeemumu said:
We never actually see how he joins Dom's crew. He shows up at the beginning of 4 after they're already doing something and we don't really see him again until 5 and 6 when they call everyone in, then he retires back to Japan in 3. There's a gap in between 1 an 4 where we don't know what the hell Dom was up to, so if they ever want to show us that, then Han could come back.
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There's a short film that shows Dom recruiting Han and the crew for Fast 4. title is Los Bandoleros
 
if it didn't have guns and yakuza near the end of the movie, it'd be one of my favorite racing movie. feels like Initial D.

although I haven't watched it in a loong time, so maybe I remembered it wrong, lol
 
Still the best FF movie, still the only one actually about racing which is still the only actually interesting part in this godforsaken franchise.

In other words, this is the only good one.
 
I wouldn't even be mad if they bring back Han on some long lost twin brother shit. He was in Okinawa driving a Dodge Challenger the entire time F&F was happening.
 
I remember very distinctly seeing the trailer for tokyo drift when I was going to see some other movie with a buddy of mine. We typically would give our 5 second take for yay or nay on seeing the movie and with this one my buddy was like "that looks so dumb" and I looked at him and just went "We are seeing that movie day fucking one. Hillbilly dude in tokyo, cool cars, hot chicks, good music, drifting. Who gives a shit if the plot is stupid? Shit's gonna be awesome." And it turns out I was right on all counts.

I fucking loved Lucas Black in this movie. It was such a great, dumb role.
 
wait... other people like this movie too?? I love it, it's one of those movies I rewatch a few times a year. I hate all the other F&F movies.

I love its fish out of water story, it kinda has some Rocky elements to it as well.
 
Worst film in the franchise, and that's saying something when it comes to the first half of the franchise. Blah blah "It has the most racing" whatever. It's a terrible film with terrible acting even by FatF standards, and containing racing doesn't make up for that. It's a movie, not a drift meet highlight reel.

Ezalc said:
Still the best FF movie, still the only one actually about racing which is still the only actually interesting part in this godforsaken franchise.

In other words, this is the only good one.
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Look at how astoundingly wrong one person can be. Dizzying. The back half of the franchise contains some of the best action flicks of the century so far.
 
MattKeil said:
Worst film in the franchise, and that's saying something when it comes to the first half of the franchise. Blah blah "It has the most racing" whatever. It's a terrible film with terrible acting even by FatF standards, and containing racing doesn't make up for that. It's a movie, not a drift meet highlight reel.



Look at how astoundingly wrong one person can be. Dizzying. The back half of the franchise contains some of the best action flicks of the century so far.
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If you hook this man up to a lie detector test you will discover that not only does he own the Criterion edition of Armageddon, but he keeps it behind a glass case and has written several letters to his Senator requesting to have ID4 inducted into the Library of Congress.

Why don't you actually explain why the movie is flawed rather than just saying other people are wrong and you're right?

And the last half had the best action scenes? Really?!?!??

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Yea, that's what I fuckin' thought.
 
Take the car culture of the previous movies, and make drifting the currency of the realm. Bring together a goofy American cowboy, a badass South Korean dude, a wooden but pleasant/pretty Australian girl, the nephew of a Yakuza, Bow Wow, and a surprisingly well realized Tokyo. Know very well what this is: a movie where there's no reason to go in a straight line from point A to point B when you can drift from point A to point B instead, a movie where you may suddenly find yourself in the most romantic drifting ballet of your life, a movie that takes Rocky and keeps the heart but replaces the Americana with a Han-branded nihilism. Have the ridiculousness that makes the best movies in the franchise so good, but channel a bit less of it into pushing the boundaries of action ridiculousness, and a bit more into the more sentimental side of things.

That's Tokyo Drift, basically. Not the best movie in the franchise (5 - 6 - TD - 7 - 1 - 4 - 2?), but has a certain magic and elevates it.

MattKeil said:
Worst film in the franchise, and that's saying something when it comes to the first half of the franchise. Blah blah "It has the most racing" whatever. It's a terrible film with terrible acting even by FatF standards, and containing racing doesn't make up for that. It's a movie, not a drift meet highlight reel.

Look at how astoundingly wrong one person can be. Dizzying. The back half of the franchise contains some of the best action flicks of the century so far.
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Very dizzying.
 
NoFaceNico said:
If you hook this man up to a lie detector test you will discover that not only does he own the Criterion edition of Armageddon, but he keeps it behind a glass case and has written several letters to his Senator requesting to have ID4 inducted into the Library of Congress.
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You say this like it's a bad thing.

NoFaceNico said:
And the last half had the best action scenes? Really?!?!??

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Yea, that's what I fuckin' thought.
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You're only backing up his argument.
 
MattKeil said:
Worst film in the franchise, and that's saying something when it comes to the first half of the franchise. Blah blah "It has the most racing" whatever. It's a terrible film with terrible acting even by FatF standards, and containing racing doesn't make up for that. It's a movie, not a drift meet highlight reel.
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Yep. The movie only works if you have a fascination with Japan and Japanese culture. Which explains why people on a Videogame forum would utter the insanity of its the best film in the series, where everyone else knows its crap.
 
The film does have it's merits, people are right when they say that the drifting and racing in the movie are great. It's just that nearly everything else about it that isn't racing is really bad. None of the characters except Han are interesting, and the actors playing them are terrible. All the stuff with Lucas Black in the school is boring as fuck, and the weird conflict he has with his dad is dumb. It's a movie that is well suited to DVD, because on a DVD menu you can skip to the interesting scenes(the racing scenes), and that's how this movie is best viewed.

It's not the best Fast and Furious movie, not by a long shot. A large part of the allure that Fast 5-7(and most likely 8) have is that they know they are dumb stupid movies, but they have fun. This movie is dumb and stupid, except it doesn't acknowledge it.
 
Jesus, these jokes. Lucas Black looks old and isn't a good actor? Clever. Everything but Zoolander was a dud. I don't get why people love these Honest trailers.
 
Pop-O-Matic said:
You're only backing up his argument.
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Yeah, I found the usage of that GIF confusing.

soundscream said:
Yep. The movie only works if you have a fascination with Japan and Japanese culture. Which explains why people on a Videogame forum would utter the insanity of its the best film in the series, where everyone else knows its crap.
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No.

This is the worst kind of post. "I'm going to go ahead and give a strong opinion, and instead of explaining it, I'm going to attribute opposing opinions to some asinine thing."

Dislike it all you want, but you don't need to be a Japan obsessive to love Tokyo Drift. Period.
 
MattKeil said:
Worst film in the franchise, and that's saying something when it comes to the first half of the franchise. Blah blah "It has the most racing" whatever. It's a terrible film with terrible acting even by FatF standards, and containing racing doesn't make up for that. It's a movie, not a drift meet highlight reel.
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Oh man. You would hate the Initial D movie(the Chinese one)
 
Nerokis said:
Yeah, I found the usage of that GIF confusing.



No.

This is the worst kind of post. "I'm going to go ahead and give a strong opinion, and instead of explaining it, I'm going to attribute opposing opinions to some asinine thing."

Dislike it all you want, but you don't need to be a Japan obsessive to love Tokyo Drift. Period.
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Horrible bland main and side characters that you cant even enjoy on a so bad its good level.

Uninteresting main plot

Gets taught to drift in a AWD car then smoothly transitions into drifting a RWD car.

The only thing that stands out is the culture shock of the main charcter being in Japan. And unless you have an intreast in Japan there is nothing for you. If the movie took place in Finland most of the people praising it would change their tune.
 
Dishwalla said:
The film does have it's merits, people are right when they say that the drifting and racing in the movie are great. It's just that nearly everything else about it that isn't racing is really bad. None of the characters except Han are interesting, and the actors playing them are terrible. All the stuff with Lucas Black in the school is boring as fuck, and the weird conflict he has with his dad is dumb. It's a movie that is well suited to DVD, because on a DVD menu you can skip to the interesting scenes(the racing scenes), and that's how this movie is best viewed.
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Definitely a smaller movie than the previous two without either lead from the previous movies (the cameo was a last minute addition I beleive), directed by an unproven director (loved Better Luck Tomorrow btw), and no star power. It felt like it could have been left to die in the dvd bargain bin, but against all odds it pressed the nos button at the last second to breathe new life into the franchise that was frankly getting stale (still like 2F2F though).

5>1>6>7=3>2>4
 
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