New Fast & Furious Movie

bakes5150

Do you care? Were there that many questions left answered?

What is the charm to this series? Help me understand.

MalaysianShrew

See, I thought it was a rerelease. But apparently the original was called The Fast & the Furious and this is simply Fast & Furious.

OtakuD00D

It's too Fast & Furious to bother with a longer title. Duh!

Dunno, it just looks like more shenanigans with Paul Walker and Vin Diesel from the looks of it.

VoodooV

I think all you have to understand is that Vin and Walker still have some popularity left.

Though i'd rather they make another Riddick movie to spend that remaining popularity on

Grislo

I think the 'charm' of the series is tits and cars? Are there tits? Maybe it's just cars. Or Vin Diesel, if you've got some kind of bizzare fetish.

It looks sort of entertaining, in a dumb and loud kind of way.

The ads that are all 'we've got all the original cast members back, fuck yeah!' are really amusing. Cause Jordana Brewster was really busy when you were doing 2 and 3? Er.

Loathing

Well maybe its...

Hrm...

What about...

No...

But what if...

Yea I've got nothing. Saw the original when I was back in highschool, was "Yea ok, cool." Then they made a bunch more. Jesus christ.

ViolentChemistry

Grislo wrote: »

I think the 'charm' of the series is tits and cars? Are there tits? Maybe it's just cars. Or Vin Diesel, if you've got some kind of bizzare fetish.

It looks sort of entertaining, in a dumb and loud kind of way.

The ads that are all 'we've got all the original cast members back, fuck yeah!' are really amusing. Cause Jordana Brewster was really busy when you were doing 2 and 3? Er.

Cars are not the charm. So far none of these movies have had anything to do with cars, let alone been about cars.

wasted pixels

Tell me, bakes5150, what is it about the whole The Fast and the Furious series that has you so riled up? Why have you given it any deeper thought than you did, say, "Madea Goes to Jail"? Why does it bother you? Nobody has accused it of being a good series, or an important series, or anything other than a campy mid-tier action flick series, so what's so troubling about it that you had to start an account just to get us talking about it?

If you're seriously asking what the big deal is (and you aren't some kind of reverse-psychology shill trying to bait us into saying "it ain't all that bad!"), it was popular because it was the first mainstream film to examine ricer culture, and one of the only "car movies" of our time. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are both likable enough guys, the first movie was entertaining enough, and each sequel has had at least a few "hey, cool" action scenes.

I'd get where you were coming from if The Fast and the Furious was insanely popular or something, but... it's not. I just don't know what you're expecting from a series with an average Metascore of 47 that merely does "okay" at the box office. It's a mediocre action movie, and nobody (especially nobody on these boards) is saying anything to the contrary.

Elki

Tycho wrote:

There is a considerable amount of Halo wisdom to be imparted, and it may take the rest of this week and lo even unto the next week. I've had time now to check out the multiplayer a bit, though not as much as I'd like - I think I understand the system now at least, which took some doing.

There wouldn't have been any confusion if I'd just digested the documents they made expressly to ease the process for new players. I'd even played earlier versions of it, and I still wasn't prepared. While you can get yourself plugged into an online match pretty quickly if you were already familiar with Live terminology and aren't terribly picky, matchmaking in Halo 2 is philosophically unlike the ways other games accomplish the same task.

The first time Gabe and I made a "party," I didn't understand the context they meant it in. I was thinking of it just as a group, or something to that effect - a little clique that we would use as the basis for matching. Also, I was thinking of the Fellowship of the Ring. That's one interpretation of it, I guess - the two of us are in there, and at any time we can put ourselves into rotation on the service and get dropped on the same team in a random match. Or thwart Sauron.

Here's the other way to think of it, and it makes what they said about "bringing a social feel to online matches" really make sense: When they say party, they mean LAN party.

While it's true enough that any "party" can make itself available to all comers online in automatched rounds, you can treat it just like the guys in your party brought their machines over for some debauched weekend. Play whatever insane gametype is the jewel of your LAN parties without having to set up a special day for it or extricate pulverized cheeto from the rug. And, when a few of the people you're playing with need to drop for the night but you've still got a crew that's four or so deep, just put yourselves out on the net and keep playing, no doubt against other groups doing the same thing.

It's odd when you first start, especially if you're used to PC-style server browsers or classic Live optimatches, both of which make up for their deficiencies somewhat by being highly explicit. Once you get the hang of this new way, it's startlingly humane and organic in comparison.

In other news only somewhat related to Halo, that special edition headset they released is a work of Goddamn art. It came with this review copy of Halo, and I'm glad it did because I'd written it off as a piece of ridiculous extravagance. It's not. It's a precision instrument that is much more substantial than the job requires. I'll buy one next week, and give it away in some crafty and elaborate contest that I make up right there on the spot.

(CW)TB out.

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