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Originally Posted by tahdizzle
Those movies, while entertaining to some people, changed the enthusiast world and not for the better.
While the first one was okay (the plot was just rediculous) at least it was about the cars. The cars were the stars of the movie. Now the cars are more like movie props to propel the story line.
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How exactly was it ok? "Danger to manifold" warning on laptop, then passenger floor panel falls out? (Uh, where exactly is his engine located?) The warning itself was comical (data loggers don't do that...) but the resulting damage was side (and car floor) splitting. "Granny shifting, not double clutching like you're supposed to" - wow, didn't realize they were driving big rigs. So, everyone else double clutched the 3 shifts it would have taken to do a 1/4 mile run?
Oh that's right, it's 15 shifts - and doesn't matter if you have an auto or manual. Seems you short shift the next gear so you can downshift again when someone starts to pass you. Didn't realize they were so concerned about mpg during their drag race.
And nitrous does NOT make everything go blurry UNLESS it was being sprayed inside the car's interior instead of the engine. (Actually that WOULD have been a funny scene: everyone in their cars, shifting 20,000 times, the world around them all blurry, sounds of engines hitting redline - then pan out: cars are all still sitting at the starting line, not moving - people inside baked on nitrous, shifting like crazy and yelling "Monica!". Hahaha)
Note the 1/4 mile race between Dom and Brian lasted far more time than the 10 seconds it should have too.
The comment about the pair of engines fetching a premium the week before Race Wars has been quoted in reference to any car part in joking. And of course the "too soon junior" meme.
It's just endless garbage. Luckily in the second movie, they tried to fix some of that by the "pizza drink" comment and how Brian's cover would be blown if someone didn't know a pizza from an engine - so either EVERYONE in the first movie was undercover FBI, or the general scene people wouldn't know a pizza from a piston either. :p