Why are the cars in Fast Five so pathetic?

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Yes, there are great cars in the movie. But they are great cars we would like to own. They don't do their job of stretching reality and creating cars that go above and beyond what's on the road. That's what FnF is known for! A lot of people have argued for better car realism but come on! These cars are hardly as good as the cars at SEMA or TAS!
 
Not seeing the point of this thread.

The cars are pathetic, yet they're great and *we* would like to own them...
 
Fast Five was missing any form of racing. :( Great, great film though! 👍
 
prisonermonkeys
That's because the ethos of the series is changing. The studio feels there have been enough films about street racing, and they want the series to become heist films.
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Which is awesome, because it's basically Ocean's Eleven with explosions rather than rehashes of the first film with continuously lower production values (or, for the fourth one, higher ones).
 
So a Ford GT40 is pathetic?
And Fast Five was a Meh from me. Never really been a fan of the series, but I liked Tokyo Drift. Seemed fresh and actually had a gripping storyline to it.
 
Biggest facepalm for me was the 2 Koenigseggs that showed up at the end...I feel sorry for one of them as they're not both the same car (you can tell when it shows the rear of both together) so one of them got duped :lol:
 
I think the series could have gotten better writing without downplaying cars as much as they did. Not only did they downplay cars, they focused much less on tuned cars and more on expensive production cars. Tokyo drift had a great range of tuner cars even though the lead was told to stay away from cars constantly. Yes, there are other street racing movies but most of them are direct to video crap. Fast and the furious can bring out big names of racing, big actors, and people line up for miles to have their car in the movie. It's disappointing to see custom cars being replaced by off the shelf exotics.
 
I'm missing something...

• 1963 Ford Galaxy
• 1966 Ford GT40
• 1966 Corvette Grand Sport
• 1967 International Scout
• 1970 Charger
• 1970 Ford Maverick
• 1972 Nissan Skyline
• 1972 Pantera Detomaso
• 1996 Toyota Supra
• 2002 Porsche GT3
• 2006 GMC 2500 Yukon
• 2009 Nissan 370Z
• 2010 Dodge Challenger
• 2010 Subaru STi
• 2010 Lexus LFA
• 2010 Modified Vault Chargers
• 2011 Dodge Charger Police Interceptor
• Gurkha LAPV
• Ducati Street Racer
• Train Heist Truck
• Koenigsegg CCX


...pathetic?
 
The 'mood' of the FATF series.
1 - A warm, well made movie where a lot was taken into consideration in it's production and had family values, and everyone including the audience was having a good time, and was directed by Rob Cohen.
2 - Bright neons big bang bazoom color overload your head explodes. Ditched the director of the first film and pasted in the whole Miami+columbian drug lord thing that's been done 1000 times.
3 - A nice turn of flavor, but was late to the party on the drift scene, still, those who originally discovered found it worthy enough to give the box office their money, and overall was clearly better than the 2nd film.
4 - Very much a drama, and very greyed visually, but was creative enough to get the job done.
5 - A fun heist film featuring a bunch of good action sequences, and made up for what was miserable about the 4th film, and seems to be building up to an even better 6th film which may feature someone or their sister (trying not to spoil for those who haven't seen Five).

I wouldn't say the 5th was pathetic about it's cars but they could've given them more screentime. What I liked about the first film (what Rob Cohen ensured) is for the cars to be characters.
Not sure why the Charger came back in Five (or the end of 4), as I saw it explode in the tunnel in 4, usually you would give up on a car that has suffered a major high speed frontal impact and exploded, it also seemed extremely weak in performance compared to what we saw in the first film, there was a big build up to the return of the Charger, and then it did nothing special.
 
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The 'mood' of the FATF series.
1 - A warm, well made movie where a lot was taken into consideration in it's production and had family values, and everyone including the audience was having a good time, and was directed by Rob Cohen.
2 - Bright neons big bang bazoom color overload your head explodes. Ditched the director of the first film and pasted in the whole Miami+columbian drug lord thing that's been done 1000 times.
3 - A nice turn of flavor, but was late to the party on the drift scene, still, those who originally discovered found it worthy enough to give the box office their money, and overall was clearly better than the 2nd film.
4 - Very much a drama, and very greyed visually, but was creative enough to get the job done.
5 - A fun heist film featuring a bunch of good action sequences, and made up for what was miserable about the 4th film, and seems to be building up to an even better 6th film which may feature someone or their sister (trying not to spoil for those who haven't seen Five).

I wouldn't say the 5th was pathetic about it's cars but they could've given them more screentime. What I liked about the first film (what Rob Cohen ensured) is for the cars to be characters.
Not sure why the Charger came back in Five (or the end of 4), as I saw it explode in the tunnel in 4, usually you would give up on a car that has suffered a major high speed frontal impact and exploded, it also seemed extremely weak in performance compared to what we saw in the first film, there was a big build up to the return of the Charger, and then it did nothing special.
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We didn't get to see it but it beat the Porsche, didn't it?
 
With the first 3 movies, I can clearly remember the cars and remember which were my favorite cars. The 4th and 5th movies don't have that effect. I'm not leaving the movie talking about the most awesome car in the movie.

1st movie: Supra (but in black, the original color the real life owner had)
2nd movie: Pink S2000
3rd movie: Blue RX8 (I want to imagine it was tuned to be a beast)
 
prisonermonkeys
It is if you think spinners are clever and the underground import-racing scene is cool.
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I think your missing the point. The cars themselves were not pathetic, but rather the presentation of the cars were. 👍

I don't live in the US and A, so maybe that explains a lot, but I really don't get the fascination of these fast furious series. The only one I admit to liking was Tokyo Drift. :scared:
 
3spddrft
With the first 3 movies, I can clearly remember the cars and remember which were my favorite cars. The 4th and 5th movies don't have that effect. I'm not leaving the movie talking about the most awesome car in the movie.

1st movie: Supra (but in black, the original color the real life owner had)
2nd movie: Pink S2000
3rd movie: Blue RX8 (I want to imagine it was tuned to be a beast)
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That's because you think that a vomit-inducing candy-coloured kaleidoscope of imports driven by men who think their cars are directly powered by their virility is somehow clever.
 
The GT40 was a kit car! The Fast Five movie was a lot different from the previous films. It was more about the plot than the cars, as said above "Fast Five was more of a traditional heist flick than anything".

Pretty much the just of it. The original series was about tuned up everyday cars and muscle cars and the fifth film is completely different in that respect.

I thought the movie was "ok", the over the top and ridiculously unrealistic stunts was a bit much for my liking, I only watched the movie for the cars and it wasnt really a car movie like the previous.
 
Maybe I'm just being selfish then but I go to see the movie for the cars too. I love movies like Getaway in Stockholm and always thought of fast and the furious as being more of that kind of entertainment.

I wouldn't mind at all if fast and the furious featured cars of The goodwood festival of speed or concours d'elegance. But, alas we get FWD Mitsubishis.
 

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