Fast And The Furious 3...what Do You Think?

[Wufei]

How sick was it when they drifted through that crowd of people.? that was ####in sweet.

Yeah, and the parking garage ramp...man that was insane (esp. since it's REAL!! WTF )

 

[GinNBoost]

Honestly I enjoyed this one. I thought the drifting would really be stupid, but it actually made the movie all the more entertaining. Sure it was unrealistic as hell, but I go to a movie to be entertained for 2 hours and quite frankly this movie accomplished just that. Props to the director and everyone else.


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And I actually liked the end with Vin Diesel appearing. Obviously it was gonna be either him or Paul Walker, though I wish they would've showed the race between them two.

 

[zachakagoat]

Let's see other than the annoying hick accent...bow wow trying to be funny...riced out cars...especially the mustang hybrid crap, it was an ok movie.

So it's not rice to put an LT1 engine into a RX7 but it is rice to put a built Nissan motor with AMAZING top end and quick spoiling turbo into the ####in SEXY body of an old Mustang fastback? That was one of the best cars in the movie.

I liked the movie, I think that the age range that they placed all of the actors in was alittle ridiculous. I didn't like that they were all in highschool or most of them anyway. The drifting look GREAT mainly because it is all REAL drifting by REAL drivers that race in Formula D racing. Millen is ####ing AMAZING in this movie nuff said and if you don't know who he is then don't even talkin about this movie because you have no knowledge of what the drifting sport is about.

I give it a 7 outta 10, the fact that vin diesel was in it at the end is stupid, I hated him in the first one, roided out idiot .

 

[Mitsu RacerX]

Just got back and I give it a 8 out of 10. All the rednecks were spinning tires and trying to drift their cowboy trucks. SO FUNNY...And I also found out that I am one of three Turbo charged DSM in my area(Sulphur/Lake Charles). Some guys driving some Hatchback Civics flagged me down and asked it I ran with anybody. They go one to tell me where they race at and I should meet them their. To be honest the guys actually gave me props for driving a DSM. They said our cars are made to fix up and race.

 

[MrBoxx]

So it's not rice to put an LT1 engine into a RX7 but it is rice to put a built Nissan motor with AMAZING top end and quick spoiling turbo into the ####in SEXY body of an old Mustang fastback? That was one of the best cars in the movie.

The engine was an RB26DETT, not a SR20. On the IMDB forum and a few other car forums, I notice two things happening: The hardcore musclecar guys say "How could they put a piece of ricey four-banger sh!t in something as great as a classic Mustang?" and the Import guys say "Why would they put an award-winning turbo engine in something with the handling capabilities of a drunk tortoise?"

A small minority think that there is no way to put the RB into the Mustang, and that the movie producers wouldn't have paid for it when they could have used, and this is verbatim from the guy I had a fight with about it, "movie magic" to make it look like the swap would have been done. Oh well. The car was real. They had a huge budget for cars, and they used it all very well.

 

[olmytsi]

Just saw it and i thought it was ok. The movie lacked a real plot...
Best part about it was the hot japanese girls and the japanese rap song with the girls singing in it!

 

[VPrime]

the movie was great. really fun to watch.

after the movie, in the parking lot was also fun to watch (from a distance).
Went out with a local car club and we just sat there watching a bunch of douchebags.
Was funny one car (FWD btw) tried to "drift" and almsot hit another car... than stops suddenly.. than another car (riced out prelude) tries the same thign and almost crashes into BOTH.
than there was this idioit fwd (cavalier it hink) truying to drift int he far side of the lot....
i feard for my car as that area JUST started to get empty.... so some one was bound to "drift" into it

 

[Wufei]

Some guys driving some Hatchback Civics flagged me down and asked it I ran with anybody. They go one to tell me where they race at and I should meet them their. To be honest the guys actually gave me props for driving a DSM. They said our cars are made to fix up and race.

They flagged your down Well, DSM power!

A small minority think that there is no way to put the RB into the Mustang, and that the movie producers wouldn't have paid for it when they could have used, and this is verbatim from the guy I had a fight with about it, "movie magic" to make it look like the swap would have been done. Oh well. The car was real. They had a huge budget for cars, and they used it all very well.

They did put it in, but it took a loooong time (way over a day ).

 

[zilo900]

i just saw it, and I agree that it wasn't bad... I mean, how often does a car enthusiast movie come out, so no matter what its entertaining. the whole ride home i was wondering if they really did put that engine into the mustang definatly see it for the ending though, hilarious I recommend it because it is cool to see what some drivers can pull off, especially the chase scenes through the streets while weave/drifting between cars. ok sorry for the ramble but its 2 am and im bored

 

[olmytsi]

The rb26 mustang is real, it's been at a few shows. It's a dream car in my opinion: classic muscle car look with modern boostfed powa

'It's not the ride, it's the rider' I laughed at that one, not sure if anyone else caught it.

Honestly, the movie was entertaining and boring at the same time. Had i been alone, i would have probably left cause there was really nothing that i felt i needed to see the end to find out...

They also did a good job on certain things cause for example the FD sounded like an FD down to the idle and all (aka they used the real sound). But they forgot to turbo time the cars (j/k)

 

[RedTalonTsi]

I'm not going to see it. I saw the first one once, not at the theater, and I never saw the second one, and probably never will. I wish those movies had never been made because they give anyone who modifies a car a bad name.

If I remember correctly one of the "heros" of the first movie was a guy who beat someone to death (or close to it) with a wrench, illegally street raced in crowded urban area's, and robbed innocent truckers by shooting harpoons at them through their windshields. And the other "hero", who was a police officer, was so impressed with these character traits that he lets the guy go free at the end of the movie, so he can continue to run rampage over society.

Because of those movies these are the characteristics your average person, and average lawmaker, associates with "tuners". Makes you wonder why the voting pubic demands laws be passed to crack down not just on illegal street racing, but anything involving modified cars, including legitmate race-tracks. The movies do nothing except draw iresponsible "ricers" out in great numbers, which draws bad press, which in turn causes lawmakers and law enfocement to crack down on everyone and everything associated with racing or modifiying cars. Winners=cheap exhaust manufacturers. Losers=everyone else, especially responsible drivers dedicated to safe racing as a true sport.

The world would be a better place if no one had ever heard of "living life ten seconds at a time", and I for one won't support something I see as so detrimental to true car enthusaism.

Then again, it's a free country, (for now) who am I to tell movie producers what to do.

End Rant

 

[GinNBoost]

I'm not going to see it. I saw the first one once, not at the theater, and I never saw the second one, and probably never will. I wish those movies had never been made because they give anyone who modifies a car a bad name.

If I remember correctly one of the "heros" of the first movie was a guy who beat someone to death (or close to it) with a wrench, illegally street raced in crowded urban area's, and robbed innocent truckers by shooting harpoons at them through their windshields. And the other "hero", who was a police officer, was so impressed with these character traits that he lets the guy go free at the end of the movie, so he can continue to run rampage over society.

Because of those movies these are the characteristics your average person, and average lawmaker, associates with "tuners". Makes you wonder why the voting pubic demands laws be passed to crack down not just on illegal street racing, but anything involving modified cars, including legitmate race-tracks. The movies do nothing except draw iresponsible "ricers" out in great numbers, which draws bad press, which in turn causes lawmakers and law enfocement to crack down on everyone and everything associated with racing or modifiying cars. Winners=cheap exhaust manufacturers. Losers=everyone else, especially responsible drivers dedicated to safe racing as a true sport.

The world would be a better place if no one had ever heard of "living life ten seconds at a time", and I for one won't support something I see as so detrimental to true car enthusaism.

Then again, it's a free country, (for now) who am I to tell movie producers what to do.

End Rant

Looks like someone took these movies a little too close to heart...

 

[tretiak]

I saw the movie last night as well and I thought it was way better then the first 2 movies. More action and driving. The only downfall was the mustang with the RB26 motor in it. The drifting was great and now you know all the ricers will wanna trade in there civics for rwd cars so the can "TRY" to drift on highways and other stupid things that will ruin it for everyone else like they already have done. I give the movie an 8 out of 10

 

[DSM4me44]

Loved it. The ending as well made the movie that much better.

 

[JOEY A]

They used real drifters, I think Tazan,drift king etc were in the stunts and doing the drifting in the movie.

 

[Eclipsei95cl]

I'm not going to see it. I saw the first one once, not at the theater, and I never saw the second one, and probably never will. I wish those movies had never been made because they give anyone who modifies a car a bad name.

If I remember correctly one of the "heros" of the first movie was a guy who beat someone to death (or close to it) with a wrench, illegally street raced in crowded urban area's, and robbed innocent truckers by shooting harpoons at them through their windshields. And the other "hero", who was a police officer, was so impressed with these character traits that he lets the guy go free at the end of the movie, so he can continue to run rampage over society.

Because of those movies these are the characteristics your average person, and average lawmaker, associates with "tuners". Makes you wonder why the voting pubic demands laws be passed to crack down not just on illegal street racing, but anything involving modified cars, including legitmate race-tracks. The movies do nothing except draw iresponsible "ricers" out in great numbers, which draws bad press, which in turn causes lawmakers and law enfocement to crack down on everyone and everything associated with racing or modifiying cars. Winners=cheap exhaust manufacturers. Losers=everyone else, especially responsible drivers dedicated to safe racing as a true sport.

The world would be a better place if no one had ever heard of "living life ten seconds at a time", and I for one won't support something I see as so detrimental to true car enthusaism.

Then again, it's a free country, (for now) who am I to tell movie producers what to do.

End Rant

Its just a movie man... do you think an audience is really going to wanna watch a movie where the characters work on cars for 1/2 the movie and then go grab a bite to eat, then make a trip to autozone to buy oil, and maybe go to the mall and hang out with the rest of the gang and talk about cars?? Thats what a lot of us do for the most part. Sure some car enthusiast would get a kick out of it but majority of the people watching these films are your average people that really dont know much about cars. But I think this movie was put together so well to accomodate tuners and your average not knowing much about cars audience. I do believe in your views on people trying to do stupid stuff with there cars after seeing these kinds of movies but other shoot em up movies, gangsta movies, and drug movies promote the sameway. Bottom line is movies influence in one form or another.

D.K. ----- DSM King! wow im ghey.

 

[GinNBoost]

I find it kind've ironic how all the F&F movies were mainly about imports but at the end of all three movies, it took the use of American muscle to finally "get the job done."

 

[andymoraitis]

MUCH better than the first two. While the acting and plot weren't anything special, the cars were much more realistic and beautiful. Action sequences were well filmed and there was a greater sense that there was much less CG in this version than the 500 drag racing shifts, flying floor pans and blowoffs releasing at idle that we saw in the first two films.

My advice is to catch a matinée. My wife and I shared the theatre with about 6 other people as opposed to the crowd that went last night.

 

[pyschoslipknot]

I saw it and at the risk of sounding corny, the scene where they drifted on the touge with the other seven cars was beautiful. That captured for me what drifting is all about. However they almost ruined it when they had those two talking and drifting like it was no big deal.
Drifting thorugh the crowd was incredibly amazing. I almost shit myself when I saw that.
The acting and the story line sucked, as usual.
The hole theater went nuts when Vin Diesal showed up.
Since alot of you guys aren't big into drifting like I am, I don't know if any of you guys noticed that Keiichi Tsuchiya ("drift king" (guy who invented drifting)) was in the movie. He was the guy in the blue fishing while the main guy was learning how to drift. I was so glad that they made for sure that real drifters were in the movie. Also on the plane ride to Japan, Rhys Millen was sitting in the row in front of the main guy (I don't know what his name is) on the plane.
Acting and story line =
Drifting and cars=
It was worth the money to see.

 

[JaxTalonTSi]

MUCH better than the first two. While the acting and plot weren't anything special, the cars were much more realistic and beautiful. Action sequences were well filmed and there was a greater sense that there was much less CG in this version than the 500 drag racing shifts, flying floor pans and blowoffs releasing at idle that we saw in the first two films.

My advice is to catch a matinée. My wife and I shared the theatre with about 6 other people as opposed to the crowd that went last night.

Exactly. Actually, my girlfriend refused to see the movie with me as she hated the first two. I spared myself the pain of having to try to enjoy the movie amongst a crowd of rowdy teenagers by seeing it's first 11:15AM showing. Only a handfull of people were in the theater, which makes seeing ANY movie an enjoyable experiance.

Overall, I was pleased with the movie. It was better than the first two put together. The first film though it lacked a real plot, and had so many technical #### ups (ie, SR20 in a Honda), it had a kinda "vibe" to it, which made it successful. The action also seemed more consistant through the movie. The sequal tried to have more substance to it, but in my opinion, it made the movie drag on, and not keep me half as entertained for that hour and a half. The action was sparse throughout the movie, and most of it had to do with Paul Walker's back story.

It seemed like with this third installment, they actually TRIED. The little things imporessed me as well. There is a scene in the Mustang buildup sequnce at the end where the Shaun Boswell character pulls a spark plug covered in soot from the RB26, and says somthing along the nature of "this is why it's been spittin' ". Right then I knew that sombody actually knew SOMTHING about cars.

I give it an 8 out of 10. Great film.

 

[spades_gsx]

Since alot of you guys aren't big into drifting like I am, I don't know if any of you guys noticed that Keiichi Tsuchiya ("drift king" (guy who invented drifting))

Tsuchiya perfected it, but didn't invent drifting. and I'm not big into drifting.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_%28motorsport%29#History


Kunimitsu Takahashi was the foremost creator of drifting techniques in the 1970's. He was famous for hitting the apex (the point where the car is closest to the inside of a turn) at high speed and then drifting through the corner, preserving a high exit speed. This earned him several championships and a legion of fans who enjoyed the spectacle of burning tires.

The relatively low grip of even the best racing tires of the 1960s and 1970s lent themselves to driving styles with a high slip angle. As professional racers in Japan drove this way, so did the street racers.

 

[VPrime]

Since alot of you guys aren't big into drifting like I am, I don't know if any of you guys noticed that Keiichi Tsuchiya ("drift king" (guy who invented drifting)) was in the movie. He was the guy in the blue fishing while the main guy was learning how to drift. I was so glad that they made for sure that real drifters were in the movie. Also on the plane ride to Japan, Rhys Millen was sitting in the row in front of the main guy (I don't know what his name is) on the plane.
Acting and story line =
Drifting and cars=
It was worth the money to see.

mwhahah right when i saw Keiichi Tsuchiya im like !? how did theyg et him in! my brotehr didnt believe it was home untilw e got hime and i looked up on imdb...

 

[Thomas91169]

i really liked this one, almost as much as i do #1 still.

i knew about the RB26 swap into the fastback, but after seeing the reasoning behind it, it didnt bother me as much. though it was kinda like sensory overload confusion seeing this fastback tear through the mountains with alot of "gone in 60 seconds" esque camera techniques, but it sounded like a honduh. my brain was going nuts.

it was alot better than #2 due to the fact almost 95% of the sequences were real drivers in real cars, i think only 2 scenes did i actually realize that its CGi and even then it wasnt too bad(one of the scenes where they are driving through the mountains, and the camera pans off through the trees, then catches them again on another turn, where the CGi turns into real-time drifts), and didnt look like a cartoon 2f2f sequences.

this one had a good plot as well, country boy stuck in urban america, gets in trouble, goes to live with father who was once like him and moved to tokyo to get away from it all, kid finds group just like him, and gets in trouble all over.

vin diesels part was just cool cause he was there for a reason(to be with the people who knew that dude that died in the crash, i forget his name). its possible theyre setting up for a #4, in which youll learn how that guy helped turetto get out of trouble just like he did to the cowboy.

i think people that dont like the movies just get too worked up over the cars and are looking for every mistake in lingo they can, and fail to realize its just a action movie with cars. once you get over the fact then theyre all fun movies to watch. i mean seriously, how realistic is ANY action movie?

 

[RedTalonTsi]

GinNBoost-

I didn't take the movies too close to heart or to heart at all, as I said I've only seen the first one once, I'm basically indifferent to them. I replied because last night there were three threads going on about the movie, so I read them and posted my opinion on this one, which is that they probably do more harm than good.

Eclipsei95cl-

I see your point about gun movies, your probably right, my point is that I don't want laws over-regulating cars similar to the gun control laws we have now, i.e. background checks before a certain person can buy a certain car. I don't want them to make a movie about guys working on cars, I just don't want them to make a movie.

 

[Wufei]

II don't know if any of you guys noticed that Keiichi Tsuchiya ("drift king" (guy who invented drifting)) was in the movie. He was the guy in the blue fishing while the main guy was learning how to drift.

I was wondering about those two guys fishing, I knew they were hiding something! That's awesome

Remember that:

All of the drifting in the movie was performed by professional drivers, not created by CGI. As reported in a recent Sport Compact Car, Rhys Millen, his father, and a handful of other famous rally and drift racers consistently performed amazing drift sequences for the movie.