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Originally Posted by switchlanez

Yap, chanomatik (not I) totally mentioned dat breakout Asian Linsane bballer.

Crap, I always seem to mix up their names. Good catch.

Originally Posted by eikond

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!

Perhaps that's part of it. The cars from the first movie are always going to be recognized as such, which isn't necessarily the case for the later movie cars. For example, if my girlfriend saw the orange Supra, she'd think of the movie car. But if she saw the Evo IX (with the Evo VIII front bumper) from Tokyo drift or the Chevelle from the fourth movie, she wouldn't say, "Hey, there's the car from Fast and Furious [insert installment number]."

But it's hard to expect the cars to be that recognizable now, since a lot of what made the original cars so recognizable was their crazy appearances, from the body kits (which have gone a bit out of style) and the colorful paintjobs with unique graphics on the side (which have also gone out of style and aren't even seen that often at import shows), things we don't really see now. Though again, the cars aren't really even "co-stars" anymore, since the cars now seem to be used only in a scene or two, then switched with something else, without much focus on the car's features or why that specific car is being used, aside from Dom's affinity for his dad's Charger (and the newer Chargers having been jacked from the police station in the fifth film).

Originally Posted by Marcoscrdo

I heard from movie nerds that theres actually going to be a lot more F&F movies coming out. With the other random characters that we do not really see a lot.

They are working on the sixth one as we speak, though before it was filmed, there was talk of a sixth and seventh one being worked on back-to-back. But unless the sixth one bombs, it definitely won't be the end of the story.

Originally Posted by DantKR

Tokyo Drift was fucking awful.

It was, if you expected movie stars headlining it, as a big criticism was that the main characters from the previous movies didn't really have anything to do with it... which is why people like the fourth and fifth movies even though they don't really involve the tuner scene anymore. I guarantee that if the movie were exactly the same but with Paul Walker still being the lead (with the storyline adjusted to fit his character since he's not a teenager) or something else like that, there would have been fewer criticisms of it. But like I said, not everyone was into the movie focusing around drifting (still not exactly a huge draw within motorsports) and being set in Asia without a strong American actor as an anchor. Plus the country boy didn't make it any better, nor did the storyline centered around high school kids and all of their BS.