Can't believe this wasn't posted already, TFATF is out on DVD today, go buy a copy.

Blake, do u think Driven was a good movie?

Bought mine on lunch I'm a happy ricer

How much was it?

33 dollars at sunrise records

$23.99 at FutureShop
And yes I loved Driven, own it, watched it like 20 times...

I could think of 100000 better things to buy for the $33.00....like toilet paper :rolleyes:

Or yellow pistons

23.88 at walmart

I watched the DVD a few days ago (tfatf). Cool extra stuff... the making of the movie scenes were nice.

Got it for $5 bucks (actually I get all my DVD's for $5 bucks). But I only have 112 DVD's.

Watching the trailer for TFTF was enough for me
Driven was an "OK" at best. Too much sighing over the blond chick and too much stereotypical bullshit. I could barely hear the engines over the dialog! Well, that's Holywood movies for you. They really want to appeal to wide audience and make money, instead of appealing to a small group of ppl.

TFATF is a horrible, horrible film. The ONLY reason I saw it a few times is the only reason I hope anyone sees it: the cars\races! The girls are butt ugly, the "acting" is a joke, the plot is dull and man oh man could the dialogue be ANY worse.

Thankfully the Supra, Charger, Eclipse and RX-7 in action make the DVD worthwhile-- after all, you can skip to any scene The bonuses\behind the scenes stuff are the other reason to own the DVD of course.

And Driven?! That's in the ranks of crap like Gladiator, Pearl Harbour, etc. :rolleyes:

Oh man, I feel sorry for you Bobby. Taking some of the past years greatest films and calling them crap? That's just sad.

TFATF rules. Not in your "Gone With the Wind" classic kind of way Bobby, but because it's an adrenaline rush just watching it time and time again, and it's always great to see something you're interested in on the big screen.

Gladiator was amazing, one of my all time favourites. No wonder it won Best Picture. Pearl Harbor had a predictable, cookie-cutter "boy meets girl" story mixed in with a historical event, but that doesn't make the cinematography bad. Eg. Top Gun had a horrible story, but that doesn't make it any less of a classic.

Driven is good to watch for the race scenes, but that whole hour of footage where they aren't in the F1 cars just makes you want to puke.

What do you think I said? Cars\races! That = adrenaline. The precise reason I pointed out as to why one would enjoy such a film. I'm not being abstract with my point man.



HAHA. Gladiator?! Dude, that was a 100% pseudo-dramatic POS. Ever heard of Braveheart, Dan? THAT = classic film. A 10/10. If you've seen Braveheart, you'd realize that there are, oh, say.. 5,356 plot similarities and they even used the same damn ACTORS for identical parts! The film is GREAT for ACTION, but it's nothing close to the drama or cinematic great that won it best picture. Besides, if you take what the Oscars are doing with film as the deciding factor, I wouldn't be surprised if you also believe the best musicians out there are the ones winning Grammy's and MTV awards.

And Pearl Harbour?! A CLASSIC for its cinematography? That's ridiculous criteria. I guess the makeup and costume work in Planet of the Apes 2K1 makes it a certified classic too! You can't just go around labelling crap "classic" because you find it GOOD. Classic = Godfather, Shawshank, Clockword Orange, Pulp Fiction, etc.-- you know, films with people who can actually act and writing that is talked about for years. Either you're sniffing glue or you haven't seen enough great movies.

Not insulting your or anything like that, Dan, but it's like the old gig goes; he who's never seen gold holds silver as prize; but once gold is shone he can't settle for less.

That's some expensive toilet paper you are getting there. But does it come with extra features like deleted scenes?

Hey if you speed up the race scene to 8 speed, it actually looks like a 1/4 mile race

Do they have any interviews with the owners of the cars featured in the movie? Thats something i was looking forward to after watching it on DivX who knows how many times. Who cares about the actors, the cars / race scenes are what everyone came to see. Im gonna go out and buy it as soon as i get my baby back. I have 22 DVD's and ive watched each one about 5 times each. If any of you dont own T2 on DVD you should be ashamed!

Wow, you get a bunch for your $24 bones on this disc!! Besides the flick itself (in DTS or Dolby) there's a ton of behind-the-scenes footage, special effects shoots (very interesting) and the usual stuff I expect like director's commentary and deleted scenes!

And uh, for those of you who didn't like the movie that's fine... but please don't tell me you think it's full of "ugly girls" because Jordana Brewster is one sweet girl in my books!!

http://www.terababes.com/jordanabrewster/jordanabrewster32.jpg

I got my girl friend to get mine at 9 am this morning and I had it watched by 1:00 all the extras were rilly cool well werth my 0 dollars got to love her catch yas later..

Hey, don't take it personally Bobby. Everyone's allowed to have their own opinions. All I'm saying is not to say that movies like Gladiator and Pearl Harbor were "crap".

There's basically 4 categories movies can fit into. Great, good, decent or just plain bad.

Great - Resevoir Dogs, Shawshank
Good - TFATF, Gladiator
Decent - Bullit, Driven
Crap - Dude wheres my car, Mission to Mars

And I know Gladiator is WAY better than either of those two movies in the last category.

It gets harder and harder to make 'good' movies these days, because everyone is 'wowed' by the FX, sound and action. The bar is always lifted. It's hard to say a movie is bad these days, objectively...

And you watch different movies for different things. Who hasn't sat back with friends and a stack of 'B' Ninja or Horror flicks just to have a good laugh?

We got TFATF, and it's an awesome DVD. And Bobby, if the girls are ugly, you have to send me a picture of your gf... (: The ones in the movie weren't Swimsuit models, but were 'realistic', and the background girls were actually 'street racers' or their friends...

The words TFATF and storyline shoudn't be in the same sentance, I enjoy it everytime none the less, also DVD Burners are great.

OMG i got ripped off, look what came inside my copy...

That's not true. You dont need a 20 mil and 50 FX engineers to make a good movie. Just take for example low-budget euro movies on Showcase channel.

hehe .. my dvds are :
terminator 1,2
matrix
scarface, godfather 1,2
shawshawk redemtion
dead man walking
american pie unrated
dumb & dumber, ace ventura 1,2
metallica dvd, acdc dvd

if i had $$ I would add F & F to my collection ...

PS. gladiator dvd has a lot of cool stuff on those cds... same goes for the new planet of the apes..

and last.. if you have a dvd player and dont have matrix and terminator 2.... shame on you !!

What I meant, Victor, was that with all the high-budget FX, it's easy to let them overwhelm the story. And a large part of the audiences now *want* that kind of bang in any movie they watch.

"Twister" on a TV = Lousy
"Twister" in a THX Theatre = Devastating (:

Heh. Nice 'rice' reference, Dave. It *has* to be a SoCal thing, but the cars become 'tasteful' for some reason. Probably like Keith's, because they're *so* well done. Anything short of that mark would just get laughed at.

And most cars that looked like that here in Canada, of course. (: Could you imagine the police attention something like that Supra, Eclipse, or RX-7 would get? (:

Would someone please tell me what fell outta the Eclipse at the first race???
It looked like a floor pan that bolts into the floor that you can get at Wal-mart. But why would it fall out??

I have a problem with my TFATF copy.

Ok it wont play in my dvd player properly. It will play all nice then after 5 seconds it will play like scrambly like when ur not subscribed to pay tv and then right back to clear for another 5 seconds then scrambly again. I put in another dvd movie i have and it worked fine. Play fine on my computer thought but not on my tv. But the other dvd do play on my tv no problem. Whats going on here???

Thomas,

I've had my Toshiba player since 1997, so it came with the earliest versions of software in it.

After I had mine for about a year, I had a disc not play properly, so I took it to Toshiba, thinking it was worn out after going through about 500 plays.
Thankfully it was still under warranty.

Next day I got a call saying that it was ready, and all they did was update the software.
The guy told me that if I have a problem again, bring it back with the disc that isn't working, and a note of what the problem is.

Another year and a half later same thing.
This time not under warranty, but they still updated it for free.

It has to go again now because my Holy Grail disc keeps turning the subtitles on.

Of course, It could always be something else.

Hmmm well its a brand new Sony DVD player so i dunno how old the program can be really.

Just an FYI, they are CART cars, not F1! Though I might clear that up....

I've only one dvd so far, Apocalypse Now Redux - great flick.

But I'll propably pick up tfatf just cause of the car scenes. The rest of the movie was pretty bad.

Despite everything, the movie kicks on a surround sound system running Dolby 5.1. My rooms 10x10 but i still managed to stuff 2 towers, 2 small speakers and a sub into my cramped room.
I allways turn it up at the 2nd Scene (Enter the Eclipse)

I was kidna disapointed they didnt like the song from RaceWars in the music parts.

It was the floorpan, Brian, although the Wal-Mart one just sits on top of the floor. The one in the movie was a welded replacement. It was all just hype, trying to show that the air flowing underneath the car was violent enough to suck the thing out underneath. Pure movie hype. (:

I just rented it the other day. My .02: Not bad, though certainly not destined to be a classic. Just a typical Hollywood interpretation of the street racing scene. The acting was so-so, but the story line was at least better than Gone in 60 Seconds... Too bad we didn't get a real actor like Nicholas Cage in TFATF.

It was still a really fun movie to watch.

Finally saw it. I was quite disappointed.... in fact I thought it sucked ass. Not the worst movie ever but I'm glad I didn't go out and buy it.

p.s. There's something wrong with a movie for guys that has cuter guys in it then girls.

I always knew you had an eye for the guys but I neer thought you would go public with it! Does the wife know?

Just something my wife mentioned. She said isn't this movie suppose to be for the guys... then why are the chicks so bad .

Come on, Jordana Brewster "bad" ?? (See my post above for details).

Oh well, this is old news. Time to close this thread

She soes nothing for me... but chacon son gout .

Not too impressed with your link though since I'm at work .

[ January 14, 2002: Message edited by: Mike Jackson ]