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Originally Posted by DeeezNuuuts83
Oddly, despite the success of the later movies (with the fifth one typically considered as the "best" in the series), there's something about the first movie that was never captured again, as cheesy as it was. It just had a certain feel about it that makes me want to watch it over and over again.
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You are exactly right! The certain feel you are touching on is the "scene" or "culture" centered around the passion for owning and modifying cars. People assume it was about street racing, but that's not really it. The street racing just happened to be an activity that the car culture of that time participated in. Clearly nobody endorses that nowadays. But what made the first movie so great was the culture. The idea of owning and modifying and personalizing your car. Inclusion into the group whether you had a $500 or $50,000 car. The cars were co-stars in the first movie. They were relegated to tools in second and third movie (exception of when they built the mustang with the RB26 in Tokyo Drift). The 4th and 5th went to exotics as eye candy and chase scenes.. They lost the magic!
That's not to say I don't still enjoy the movies.. they certainly have more exciting plots, star power, special effects, etc.. But the magic of the original movie is gone.