Really Speedy with a Little Anger

Well, as many of my readers already know, I took it upon myself to conduct something of a sociological experiment on Friday. In order to answer the question, "who the heck is seeing this crap" myself and some of my comrades and I went to see Fast and the Frickin' Furious: Tokyo Drift. We caught the 8 p.m. show at River East after some quality time drinking beers and what not. Expectations were low and they weren't met. The movie was actually okay for a while. We thought there was too much plot though. This was due mostly to the plot being entirely brutal. We were looking for more silly cars and things of that nature. The plot essentially couldn't have been more illogical for the last half of the film. Additionally, we were treated to quite possibly the worst depiction of a mafia organization on film. My favorite (least favorite really) part of the movie involves the main character offering a fair solution to a problem that doesn't exist by proposing to the local mafia boss that they settle things with a "race". The RedEye gave this film 3 stars. I concur, as long as the scale is 27 stars. The Vin Diesel scene just put this over the top into the "I can't really believe this is happening" realm.


So who goes to see this movie? I caught a picture of the crowd at the beginning before the whole area filled in right before the kickoff. I'd sum up the various groups as falling into a couple of categories.

1. Two guys with no dates looking for a dude movie.
2. Young Asian-American youth on a group date.
3. Young Asian-American men not on a group date.
4. A few other randoms.

Rao summed it up best with his characterization of the movie I think. He said, "Asian date movie of the summer." So that answers that, I guess.