The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, it is difficult to express my remorse over the release of this movie. I have listened to a number of commercials for it on the radio and I have seen a couple of the trailers on TV. These advertisements make me sad. Sad to see a niche auto sport like drifting being trammpled upon by the Fast and the Furious franchise.
So what is so bad about The Fast and the Furious you ask? Well, let’s start with the cars (which is all I really care about anyways). The cars in these movies are literal caricatures of themselves. The directors of these movies take otherwise nice cars and ruin them with goddy paint jobs and ridiculous graphics. Next, let’s talk about some of the events in the movies. In 2 Fast 2 Furious, the cars do some ridiculous jump that would destroy any one of the cars in the movie. In an interview with one of the actors for Tokyo Drift, he said that drifting was accomplished by using the handbrake to slide around a corner! Come on! Oh yeah, and the trailer talks about using “slick” tires to accomplish a drift. Damnit people.
Drifting, also known as Touge (which roughly means “mountain pass” in Japanese), is an amazing thing to see. You take an extremely skilled driver, a ridiculously light and powerful car, a number of sweeping turns and you end up with an exhilarating mix of burnt tire rubber and screeching sounds while a car goes flying by you into a corner at an impossible speed.
