If you're looking for the moment when F&F discovers the power not only of car racing, but also of absurd things to do with cars besides racing, you might find it there. The second comes when Brian jumps a car onto a yacht while Roman screams that he's crazy. One is Gibson and Bridges, who have become the key players in the action-comedy that's now a signature. "When the sun goes down, another world comes to life," said the trailer, which promised to reveal a world of car-racing and sex.Ĭonsider This from NPR What Hollywood Could Learn From The 20-Year Success Of 'Fast & Furious' It also featured Vin Diesel, who had recently been seen as a supporting player in the rich-jerkface thriller Boiler Room. One of the new releases on a late June weekend was The Fast & The Furious, a summer car-racing movie starring Paul Walker, who was then probably most familiar to audiences as a menacing rich jerkface in the rich-jerkface thriller The Skulls. Chapter One: Critics Don't Hate Action Movies Love it or hate it, The Fast & The Furious might be the smartest, dumbest, best, worst franchise we have. sure.īut to miss the series' resilience, its invention, its adaptability, and the way it has been stripped of its original identity is to miss the story of Hollywood in the 21st century. Its submarine-versus-car battle, its wooden dialogue about family, its abandonment of truths from tech capabilities to gravity. The word "stupid" haunts discussions of The Fast & The Furious, which is altogether reasonable. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in The Fast And The Furious, 2001.
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