POLL: 2 Fast 2 Furious, who's gonna see it?

[CubicZirconia]

It's funny how people say they're going to see it just so they can watch the people who actually like it or so they can talk about it. Riiiight.

 

[Eli]

I won't see it in the theatre, but I will rent it.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
It looks really REALLY bad.

I might download it, but that's about it. The closest i'll get to seeing it is going down to the theater to watch the ricers do burnouts and then get ticketed.

oh man, that sounds good

 

[bonk102]

i'll go see it, $3.50 every first showing is worth seeing just about any movie

 

[PowerMacG5]

It depends. I enjoy cars, but I think ricer cars are just ghey. If my cousin goes to see it, I'm prolly going with him.

 

[FuZoR]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
It's funny how people say they're going to see it just so they can watch the people who actually like it or so they can talk about it. Riiiight.

hows that funny... I really hate it when people talk about stuff while im totally clueless about it lol

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: joe678
after all the x2 and reloaded hype die down (still havent see it yet), the rest of the summer seems pretty dead. no other movies w/good special effects. oops forgot about t3... discuss...

I'll wait for it to hit cable.

 

[tkim]

i think eva mendez is hot...gotta watch it for her...

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: DanFungus

Originally posted by: N8Magic
It looks really REALLY bad.

I might download it, but that's about it. The closest i'll get to seeing it is going down to the theater to watch the ricers do burnouts and then get ticketed.

oh man, that sounds good

lets see, your trying to insult a film you havn't seen and diss its viewers when your going to steal it yourself? not only that, you brag about stealing. your pathetic.

 

[0roo0roo]

GREAT NEWS: 2 Fast 2 Furious is the movie that The Fast & The Furious dreamt of being. It could be critically deconstructed and I?m sure it will be? but if you don?t like this kind of movie, trust me, you won?t like this one either. But if you are looking for a fast, funny, well shot, visually kitschy summer thrill ride, you?ll want to catch 2 Fast 2 Furious.

John Singleton does his best non-hood work as a director here. This movie is a series of major set pieces that doesn?t feel like a bunch of strung-together major set pieces. It feels like an old-fashioned Smokey & The Bandit romp with all the high-tech thrills of a CG world. One thing I can rarely say about chase movies ? and it is usually the reason why people think of certain chase films as great ? is that you can follow the chases. You have a sense of the space, where all of the cars are and what danger may lurk.

Tyrese is the big story here, along with Singleton?s stylizations. This guy is a star. It?s that simple. Paul Walker is still a very handsome, very likeable cardboard cutout. Tyrese wins the day in shots even when he is in the background. And unlike Vin Diesel, he is not a walking caricature. He is the key to the movie because they have written him so that he can play against expectations, but in a realistic way. As a result, he is the character you look to in the film for the truth.

The movie was enough fun that even the obviously political/marketing decisions were fun? the Asian grrrrl racer, the black guy who knows everything like Huggy Bear would, the stupid angry cop who is played by the guy who would have been the charismatic villain of the piece a decade ago, the big dumb bodyguards who always lose the fight? they are all there. But somehow, they are all fine. Thom Barry?s Agent Bilkis, one of the few holdovers from the first film, is the classic older senior cop from 70s TV, but he is so likeable, you are happy every time he shows up.

What the movie really comes down to is the racing and Singleton has really delivered. He might use a little too much CG and not enough overhead shots to establish space in the opening race, but after that, it is win-win-win-win-win. You could pick out flaws, like why the extreme driving is necessary when only added complications make the extreme driving necessary. But who cares?!?!?! It is not a Michael Mann movie. It is a romp. And it is a whole lot of fun.

The original opened at $40 million and went on to gross $145 million domestically. There was a certain phenomenology to the event. And I don?t know if that?s still in play. What I do know is that this is a much better movie and if traditional sequel rules apply, it will beat the original in the end.

http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/2003_thb/030523_fri.html

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: joe678
after all the x2 and reloaded hype die down (still havent see it yet), the rest of the summer seems pretty dead. no other movies w/good special effects. oops forgot about t3... discuss...

is it out ?

 

[TheFirm]

great now we're gonna have stupid people tryin to do these stunts like the first movie =\