Current Events > Tokyo Drift is my all time Favorite F&F movie.

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Better than the rest. Just feels like a NFS game. Lol

It was a major step up from all the movies that came before and after it TBH

Def in the top 3.

I need to buy the whole series and rewatch them one day. America's greatest shonen.

2F2F for me, but I can get behind Tokyo Drift.

I love my cars, if I was born 10 years previous then I'd have been able to buy an R34 GT-R.

The R35 was lovely, but never really hit the peak of "this is something you need to own".

eugh

Original was the best imo. Dedicated aesthetic with the filtering/temperature settings, BT soundtrack....coming from playing Gran Turismo 1 and 2, it was crazy as a kid seeing a share of those cars in that light.

I thought it aged well and had one of the best arcs with a proper closure that could've left it as a standalone movie. The cringe parts just became objectively funny more so than something to seriously hate on, because they made the movie more memorable.

The rest of the series became more mindless. Tokyo Drift seems to resonate with a lot of people, because I guess the timing was perfect for that specific generation, while drifting was starting to pick up internationally. But I think it also indulged in the (exaggerated) imagination of what Japan was like seeing some cars we didn't get in the US and what lifestyles were led. It arguably became the reason for a good share of people to visit Japan.

Knowing what those cars were, I was just more critical with how they were depicted like some older than myself at the time. That S15 was ugly. Seeing an Evo in that light was cringe, but I get to new eyes it had a made more positive impression. RB26 in a Mustang was just...even to this day I wouldn't call it cool, but I get why they did that. Just knowing the JGTC existed, and generally other higher end tuners, I felt like there was a lot missed in painting a picture about the automotive landscape in Japan.

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Original was the best imo. Dedicated aesthetic with the filtering/temperature settings, BT soundtrack....coming from playing Gran Turismo 1 and 2, it was crazy as a kid seeing a share of those cars in that light.

I thought it aged well and had one of the best arcs with a proper closure that could've left it as a standalone movie. The cringe parts just became objectively funny more so than something to seriously hate on, because they made the movie more memorable.

The rest of the series became more mindless. Tokyo Drift seems to resonate with a lot of people, because I guess the timing was perfect for that specific generation, while drifting was starting to pick up internationally. But I think it also indulged in the (exaggerated) imagination of what Japan was like seeing some cars we didn't get in the US and what lifestyles were led. It arguably became the reason for a good share of people to visit Japan.

Knowing what those cars were, I was just more critical with how they were depicted like some older than myself at the time. That S15 was ugly. Seeing an Evo in that light was cringe, but I get to new eyes it had a made more positive impression. RB26 in a Mustang was just...even to this day I wouldn't call it cool, but I get why they did that. Just knowing the JGTC existed, and generally other higher end tuners, I felt like there was a lot missed in painting a picture about the automotive landscape in Japan.

I like this view - it's the opposite we got in the UK. We get the Silvia and Skylines etc - but we don't get the US stuff. To some extent the films made sense because they brought together car cultures from across the world - you americans got your mustangs, we got our European stuff, and long story short we can all laugh at Hondas.

I say that as a Civic Type-R owner.

Actually on that note I've just had a thought, 4 of my 5 cars aren't actually sold in the US. You guys are missing out. My FN2 Type-R, my C63 estate (wagon), my Twizy, and my classic Mini.

1>3>4 everything else is trash.

2 = 3 > 1 > 5 > 4 > 6 = 7 = 8 = 9 = 10

All of the Justin Lin directed ones are head and shoulders above the rest.

I really like Tokyo Drift, but I think my top pick would be F7.

It's strangely the only F&F movie I've actually watched.

and the reason I checked it out in the first place was because of Keiko Kitagawa, who plays Han's techie girl Reiko. She played Rei/Sailor Mars in the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.

3 > 1 > 2 > 5 > 4

The rest I always get mixed up with each other.

My favorite is 2 Fast 2 Furious.

I initially hated Tokyo Drift. Like yeah, the cars and the drifting were cool, but I didn't like the new cast of characters outside of Han (and then they went and killed him off). Sean's character was infinitely worse than Brian to me. Now I think the movie is decent, but still my least favorite out of the original movies before the franchise went off the rails.

Obviously the best one is when they launch a car into space. Just like the best Friday the 13th is Jason In Spaaaaccceeee.

Tokyo Drift was a more mainstream way for people to find out what Initial D was about.

And when I think about it, my arcade-going days probably ended after the Initial D era. I don't know what came after that.

Tokyo Drift is the Far Cry: Blood Dragon of the F&F franchise

The first 3 are pretty equal for me

The first one and tokyo drift are the only good ones. Everything else just fucking sucked. Even more so when The Rock was in it.

I worked with a guy at the time that Tokyo Drift came out, and this dude was about 30, and was super into all the attractive high school girls in that movie. This was before I knew the term weeb, so I just felt he was just really creepy about it. Always gave me an icky vibe when I think about it.

Additionally, the acting in that movie is pretty bad, even for the FF franchise, and that's saying something. There are parts of it that are likable, but it's one of the weaker ones in the series for me.

Neela is perfection

Yeah, I had a huge crush on Neela

I saw it in Dubai while on deployment, so it was funny for me at the time how Joe Navy the protagonist's father was.