Archive for July 27th, 2009

Fast and Furious

Monday, July 27th, 2009

The SmarK DVD Rant for Fast & Furious

Man, Van Diesel. After the first The Fast & The Furious movie, everyone thought he was poised to be a megastar, and then he kind of pissed it away with bizarre casting choices and turning down the sequel. Not that it made Paul Walker into any kind of international movie idol either, but he's not hurting for work at least.

Now admittedly I'm not a gearhead or a huge fan of the franchise in general, but I did enjoy the first two movies. And, well, I saw the third movie, and we'll leave it at that. Maybe you had to really like drift racing to get all the layers, I dunno. Really though, the title sounds like a generic 80s buddy movie -- "Paul Walker is Detective Arnold Fast, and Vin Diesel is Agent Sal Furious! Together they're FAST AND FURIOUS!" Actually I'd totally watch that movie.

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