Subject: A petrol Heads quick review: Fast & Furious 6
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posted on June 12th, 2013 at 07:08 PM
A petrol Heads quick review: Fast & Furious 6
Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian's (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered
across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has
been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless
second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at
street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their
families whole again.
Before you walk down to fire up your Harlequin coloured Nissan Skyline, chuck a hectic burnout, and pay to see the new Fast & Furious with your
petrol powered posse, perhaps a little warning may be in order?
This instalment of the new F&F is possibly the best, and worst thing I have seen in quite a while.
From the above description, you've probably already worked out that the days of stealing DVD players from the back of trucks are long gone.
Toretto's 'gang' are dispersed world wide, enjoying the simpler things in like (such as private Jets... and sushi), but when they're brought
together to help out an old friend, the shenanigans come roaring back with them, and so too, the ridiculously large stunts. (Speaking of ridiculously
large, how they found a lens to fit The Rock's Biceps in is beyond my peabrain!)
I won't bother talking about things like the acting, or script, or musical score, or anything that good movies are really known for.
All that stuff in F&F is much like a Daewoo Lanos. It does the job. (Though The Rock isn't half bad... not great... but not half bad. Same goes
for Tyrese Gibson.)
But of course, you didn't go to see a Fast and Furious for any of that, you went to see it for the cars, the girls, the street racing...
Oh wait, there isn't actually much of that either.
There's one race... but it's not a quarter mile. Clearly Dom doesn't live his life a quarter mile at a time anymore.
In fact, cars don't actually make up much of this movie at all. Instead of being co stars, they've been downgraded to transport, which is really
sad, I think. Thats what made this whole franchise in the beginning.
It's like telling James Bond he's now 005; it just doesn't feel right.
And when they do try to throw the cars into the mix, they just get it wrong. For instance, in the opening scene we see Brian racing Dom in an R35 GTR
and Dodge Challenger through a twisty mountain road, neck and neck.
Yup, Neck and neck.
I know it's meant to be tense and what not, but all I could think the whole time was, "That r35 must have a slipping clutch or something because
there's no way old mate in the Dodge could keep up." It's distracting. If you're going to make a film about petrol heads, for a group of petrol
heads, maybe consult with some petrol heads.
/Rant.
What it lacks in street racing though, it makes up for in Brilliant fights, stunt work, car chases and explosions.
The fight scenes are well choreographed, particularly the fight between the Letty and Riley, as well as the end sequence with The Rock and Dom inside
a fleeing cargo plane.
The car chases are inviting, and for the briefest of moments you forget where you are and feel like you're behind the wheel.
And the Stunts really are sublime. It feels expensive, which is great; it'll wow and stun you all the way through.
The most important thing to remember when going to see this though...
is to turn your brain to the off switch. Just do it.
If you think about it too much, it'll just annoy you. Accept that the laws a physics don't much apply to the Fast & Furious Universe, and that
time is not directly linked with space (the last scenes involving a plane trying to take off goes for about twenty minutes; the runway must be at
least 60km long).
If you can do this, i guarantee you'll have a blast, and come out wanting to watch all six, all over again.
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posted on June 12th, 2013 at 07:38 PM
Great review Ollie.
Totally agree with the ' switch off the brain ' comment.. Whenever i tried to think about what was happening it hurt that much that my better half
had to remind me to shut up and just watch the movie repeatedly.
I mean that end scene the plane is in the air, which is what? 350kmh minimum for take off? maybe 500kmh for a cargo plane? And there's 3 cars
including a bloody Alfa hatchback which are all dropping back a gear, in their 48speed transmissions, to overtake the airborne plane..
IF you do switch off and just think tough man thoughts the movie is cool.
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posted on June 12th, 2013 at 07:44 PM
Ha ha...my daughter went to see it with some school friends and when she got home the first question she asked was....dad....how long are runways?
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posted on June 12th, 2013 at 08:29 PM
The mountain race scene at the start bugged me a bit too until I thought about it with two things in mind.
1. Dom is supposed to be every bit as good a driver as Brian, if not better, even in a lesser matched car. Movie magic for character continuity.
2. Brian was on his way to the hospital for his first child to be born, thinking he missed or was missing the birth. That has got to be a bit
distracting no matter how much power your car has.
And yes, runway style action scenes are a definite brain switch off moment. Just enjoy the fire and bullets.
I loved the movie and thought it was an excellent chapter in the series
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posted on June 15th, 2013 at 01:59 AM
What do we know about the ram car
I think bryan said turbo diesel
earlier scene the guy changed spark plug on it
need more one liner too
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posted on June 18th, 2013 at 08:25 PM
I havent seen the movie but just for conversation I did see the trailer.
It included a white Ford Escort with blue stripes and flared guards. Some readers may not know that the Ford Escort had many varieties as did the Ford
Cortina. The Escort had a few GT models and 25 RS2000 cars reached our shores with the OHC 2 litre engine. Then there is the Escort twin cam of
which 793 were made here. The Twin cam and the RS2000 could be instantly recognised by two front bumperettes rather than the single chrome bumper just
like the one in the movie. And flared guards. I ran the Escort Twin cam car club and we had 32 members.
They were built for racing. I had two. They needed to sell 500 them days to qualify in the race mix as were GT Falcons, chargers and the like. The
Escorts had trailing link suspension, full dashboard larger wheels etc etc and a highly potent and unreliable Lotus twin cam engine.
The 1558cc engine was based on a Ford Anglia block with an alloy twin cam head and twin 40DCOE webers and leaked oil ike a seive.. It would make
113mph about 185kph. Big numbers them days. It sang at 160kph and would do it all day long - a big thing in 1971. The same engine found its way into
the very low and beautiful Lotus Europa twin cam and Lotus 7 clubman. The cars main rival was the Morris mini and both cars raced on the track and
rallies in their class. I always wanted a Europa but its fibreglass body caused problems.
If I maintained interest in these cars I'd never have owned my home nor dated women such were the expenses. Were they worth their while for an owner?
No, not really. A 4.2 litre Torana would beat it at the lights and unlike the owner of a twin cam the Holden owner spent his spare time with the
girls and not underneath the troublesome Lotus engine.
Altering the valve clearances was a back braking nightmare with shims ala Jaguar etc. Head gaskets were $120 in 1981 now about say $500. They had a
copper top. I learned after a while that an Anglia head gasket cost $12 and all you did was scribe around the holes to remove a sheet of metal for the
same effect. The timing chain if you werent careful could easilt slide down to the sump if seperated requiring dismantling and once I forgot to
replace the oil drain tube compressed between the head and the sump. It was a tube in place of the older Anglia dizzy hole and used to drain head oil
to the sump. Forget that and off with its head again an expensive mistake when you had to buy another head gasket. Then on the third occasion I got
the head on I got the cam chain cogs one tooth out of synch and bent 4 inlet valves. Off with its head again. Man should know his limitations as Clint
said.
No wonder Tweety the trike ended up with a simplistic EA81 Subaru donk. lol
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posted on June 18th, 2013 at 09:12 PM
^ No more drugs for that man.
That said though, cheers for the read
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posted on June 19th, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Yeh, that has to be the longest runway in existance, i estimated it to be at least 8-10k's long !!!
Good no brainer movie tho..
There will be more to come!
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posted on June 19th, 2013 at 02:20 PM
At sea level a runway of 10,000 ft (3,048 m) is adequate for the largest passenger aircraft, B747s and A380s, although there are many longer than
that.
The longest runway in the world is at Edwards Air Force Base in California, used by the military and for landing the space shuttle. It is 12,070 m
long, but it is not paved. White Sands military base also has a long runway, 10,668 m long.
As for sealed commercial airport runways, the longest is at Qamdo Bamda Airport in Tibet - it is 5,500 m long. Being 4,300 m above sea level, it needs
to be that long to accomommodate the thinner air, making less wing lift and less engine power available.
Russia has two runways over 5,000 m, while Brazil has one at 4,960 m. The longest in the USA is at Denver, another high altitude airport, at 4,877 m
long. Sydney's main north-south runway is 3,962 m, the longest in Australia, while Tullamarine's is 3,657 m.
