{"id":9383,"date":"2024-09-30T19:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9383"},"modified":"2024-09-30T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:47:07","slug":"2-fast-2-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9383","title":{"rendered":"2 Fast 2 Furious"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As you may but plausibly may not be aware, I laid out an intention to watch the Fast and\/or Furious series. Said intention was laid out seven years ago<\/a>, so I cannot really say I’m nailing it here. I started to watch the second one between 3 and 5 years ago, but something interrupted me like a third of the way through, I guess? Anyway, last night I came back for a second attempt, which was victorious!<\/p>\n

In a way, this is exactly the same movie: blond guy, cars, crime. Paul Walker has been burned by the events of the prior movie and moved to Miami, where he is still a street racer. But due to his actions in the first movie, he finds himself beholden by Eva Mendez to do runs for a local cartel drug lord guy who likes to heats metals buckets so the rat inside will chew through the person the bucket is shoved up against. Because[1], you know, he’s good at driving now. Thanks, Vin Diesel!<\/p>\n

The main things I get out of watching this movie are a simultaneous confusion that it will eventually turn into a juggernaut franchise and complete understanding of why the next movie has only new characters, on the other side of the world. It’s not that 2 Fast 2 Furious<\/a>[2] is bad, exactly. It’s aggressively mid in most ways, excepting fun stunt driving to watch. There was a line by the secondary main character[3], and I heard it, and immediately knew that not only had it been used in the previews (which I later confirmed) but that it almost certainly was written to be<\/em> a line in a preview. It’s just… how do I watch the two I’ve seen so far, and then a third one with no existing characters, and then somehow those three movies convince people to launch this successful franchise that I know for a fact now exists? It’s weird<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I wish they had made more movies about Suki and Tej, though. Them, I could have watched all day.<\/p>\n

[1] Er, that is, he’s doing runs because he’s a good driver, not the drug lord guy is doing the bucket rat thing for that reason. That would be insane!
\n[2] I mean, except the title. Wow.
\n[3] “Guns, murderers, and crooked cops? I was made<\/em> for this, bruh.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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