Bad things are going to happen because of Tokyo Drift

[McLaren]

But have you guys looked at the Tokio Drift movie? well it's sure all of you saw the trailer, a little bit unrealistic isn't it? like the way the two car drift to another floor of a parking lot, 2mm between the car and the walls, ow I hate that unrealistic bull****, why not make a realistic tuning movie for a change...

Um no. The director actually confirmed that scene was done with a real car, and a real driver.

EDIT: Ghost beat me to it. I didn't know ol' Millen did it though. Guess that rallying pays off.

 

[a6m5]

Enlistment going up after movies like "Top Gun" are no brainer. Military actually sponsors movies like that to help them with their recruiting. Some people have even gone as far as calling those movies, recruiting commercials.

 

[YSSMAN]

...Didn't the millitary sponsor "Behind Enemy Lines"? I don't think that made me want to be a part of the US Naval Air-Force, but hey, thats just me...

 

[a6m5]

...Didn't the millitary sponsor "Behind Enemy Lines"? I don't think that made me want to be a part of the US Naval Air-Force, but hey, thats just me...

That's because not everybody is easily influenced, just like with real CMs. I love that movie, by the way. I've seen it at least 3 times. Great action!

P.S. We should have a poll on Top Gun. If you were a kid to teen when that movie was released, did it make you think about becoming a jet pilot? I know I thought about it.

 

[YSSMAN]

Let me put it this way: I wasn't even born (yet, six-months and a few days later) when Top Gun came out.

Ummm, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers" made me consider the Army at one point, but I've always been an Air-Force kinda guy. Maybe "Independence Day" was the movie to push that forward just a bit, lol.

 

[a6m5]

Let me put it this way: I wasn't even born (yet, six-months and a few days later) when Top Gun came out.

Then you didn't experience it, but that movie was HUGE. It probably "sold" recruitment like Hondas after the oil shock.

 

[YSSMAN]

Thats what I understand. Yes, I missed a big part of the '80s, but I do remember the tail end of it.

...My friends and I used to make a big deal out of Top-Gun a few years ago. Long-story short, my SN "YSSMAN" came from a combination of how we used to watch Top Gun, my haircut at the time, and how the first three letters of my last-name (the YSS) is pronounced like "Ice."

...Yes, that means that I am technically related to the SOB that kills Goose in a "Seven Sides of Kevin Bacon" sort of way.

 

[a6m5]

Few years ago? What were you, like eight?

I would have never guessed about your name. I wish I could start calling you Iceman, but our new moderator probably wouldn't like that.

 

[YSSMAN]

Lets see, the nickname happened in 8th grade (all the way back in the year 2000), so I would have been about 14 at the time. The nickname iceman or yssman was used a lot in High School, but usually only the kids who really knew me, or were Dutch figured it out...

 

[KSaiyu]

I didn't know ol' Millen did it though. Guess that rallying pays off.

Ahhhh a rally driver, I see now

 

[IMADreamer]

That's because not everybody is easily influenced, just like with real CMs. I love that movie, by the way. I've seen it at least 3 times. Great action!

P.S. We should have a poll on Top Gun. If you were a kid to teen when that movie was released, did it make you think about becoming a jet pilot? I know I thought about it.

I have to be honest after seeing Top Gun when I was in 3rd or 4th grade I definately wanted to be a Jet Pilot. Damn that Tom Cruise always being so cool.

I also want to point out that if my nickname in high school was iceman that would have made me really cocky probably. lol

 

[YSSMAN]

Don't worry, I wasn't that cocky. Now if your nickname was "Oz" or "Ozzy" in high school, that caused problems...

 

[sn00pie]

Do violent films cause violence? Do surfing films increase surfing?

Or can adults make decisions for themselves?

Tosspots on the roads will always be tosspots on the roads, whether they're apeing a film or not.

You should've stated it as: do surfing films cause surfing? That would have been funny as hell.

Sorry.

Carry on.

 

[GM]

Stupid 'Chavs' near my house try to drift their pedal bikes, and try to build a '7 second scooter'

 

[Jay]

Stupid 'Chavs' near my house try to drift their pedal bikes, and try to build a '7 second scooter'

7 seconds to start or 7 seconds to break a bone?

 

[GM]

7 Seconds to start I guess .......

 

[sicbeing]

I think there is a flaw in the differences between this and violent movies. Sure, you dont go around killing people when you watch violent films , but then again you dont always have a gun on you nor are you shooting it constantly at things.

The difference is people dont consider shooting people cool. But, people drive every day. 99% of peopel have a car in their possession, and they drive them almost every day. Not the same when it comes to guns and shooting things.

People though do consider it cool to drift, to drive fast, to take turns fast, etc. Sure, people think shooting things is cool, but for one there are a lot less people shooting guns all day as compared to people driving all day. And theres a big difference between killing someone and people thinking they know how to drive.

My point is its a lot more common for someone to say "you know what, im gonna speed today" then for someone to say "you know what, my wife is a bitch, im gonna kill her today". And with this movie, it makes it looks easy. Sure, us GT4 players or whatever know it isnt easy, but most think they have 100% controll over their car when they speed or take fast turns.

Now I dont exactly agree either that people are going to try drifting every corner on the streets, but I dont think that Fast and the Furious helps the majorities mentalities about driving.

 

[Tak 121]

i agree with sicbeing

 

[Tak 121]

Stupid 'Chavs' near my house try to drift their pedal bikes, and try to build a '7 second scooter'

\How many times have they fallen over?

 

[Scaff]

but I dont think that Fast and the Furious helps the majorities mentalities about driving.

If the majority of people who watched movies of this type (or lets face it most action films or cop shows) started street racing or drifting then the streets would be awash with wrecked cars.

And lets be honest about it they are not, the vast majority of people have more than enough between the ears to know that its plain stupid to try and do it on the road.

Its a small minority of people who will watch it and then go out and try to do it for themselves, and the chances are it was only a matter of time before they did it anyway.

If its not Tokyo Drift then it would be something else with a lot of sideways action. You could easily level such a charge to a lot of films, a few of the online BMW films featured a huge amount of sideways stuff (Star springs to mind here).

To put it simply, the movie/TV show/Game is not the problem, its the person themselves. Once a moron always a moron, so don't blame a film for their actions, thats an easy way for them to try and abdicate reponsability when they do something stupid.

Ta

Scaff

BTW @Tak 121 - Can you please not double post, use the edit button to add text to your last post rather than posting again. Thanks.

 

[El Jarretto]

Stupid 'Chavs' near my house try to drift their pedal bikes, and try to build a '7 second scooter'

4 Fast 4 Furious: Baghdad Burnout

 

[Tak 121]

If the majority of people who watched movies of this type (or lets face it most action films or cop shows) started street racing or drifting then the streets would be awash with wrecked cars.

And lets be honest about it they are not, the vast majority of people have more than enough between the ears to know that its plain stupid to try and do it on the road.

Its a small minority of people who will watch it and then go out and try to do it for themselves, and the chances are it was only a matter of time before they did it anyway.

If its not Tokyo Drift then it would be something else with a lot of sideways action. You could easily level such a charge to a lot of films, a few of the online BMW films featured a huge amount of sideways stuff (Star springs to mind here). THEY WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT DRIFTING IS IF THEY DIDN'T SEE TOKYO DRIFT.

 

[sicbeing]

If the majority of people who watched movies of this type (or lets face it most action films or cop shows) started street racing or drifting then the streets would be awash with wrecked cars.

And lets be honest about it they are not, the vast majority of people have more than enough between the ears to know that its plain stupid to try and do it on the road.

Its a small minority of people who will watch it and then go out and try to do it for themselves, and the chances are it was only a matter of time before they did it anyway.

If its not Tokyo Drift then it would be something else with a lot of sideways action. You could easily level such a charge to a lot of films, a few of the online BMW films featured a huge amount of sideways stuff (Star springs to mind here).

To put it simply, the movie/TV show/Game is not the problem, its the person themselves. Once a moron always a moron, so don't blame a film for their actions, thats an easy way for them to try and abdicate reponsability when they do something stupid.

I agree a moron is a moron, but FatF is so mainstream and so popular, everyone knows about it. In my area, a lot of people are fans of the show, why do I see so many "riced out" vehicles in my area? Certainly not because they watched nascar. I work for a body shop, I see a lot of people come in to get their cars fixed from being in accidents (we work with insurance companies) and the majority of people are kids. But that goes without saying.

My point was that fatf -might- give kids the impression that its cool and easy to drift, drive crazy, be stupid, be fast, etc etc, and when they get the urge to impress a girl, get somewhere faster, or try something new, they'll have more of a motivation or reason to. Im not saying -everyone- who sees the movies will crash tomorrow trying to immitate the movie, and im also not sayign that peopel drive stupid based on the fact that they saw a movie.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

I saw the effect of the movie as soon as we got out of the theatre. (It was opening night)

As I was walking to the car park where I had my car, I was terrified to hear revving, burnouts, and "drift" noises (engines, tires) coming from the upper levels of the garage.

On top of that, it's caused a huge surge in police attention. I've been being harassed by police when driving my (stock except for coilover shocks, which I keep at a very moderate drop, about 1") WRX.

 

[GM]

Tak121 - They fall off quite often to be honest, normally when they try to wheelie down the high street.

 

[1X83Z]

I saw the effect of the movie as soon as we got out of the theatre. (It was opening night)

As I was walking to the car park where I had my car, I was terrified to hear revving, burnouts, and "drift" noises (engines, tires) coming from the upper levels of the garage.

When I was leaving the theatre after I saw it, there were two Evo MRs. I'd only seen two in total before that!

 

[GM]

The thing that really made me laugh about these stupid chavs though is that they collect pokemon cards they wanted to buy my Dark Dragonite of me for 2 quid, 2 quid!, it cost me 10 times that much on ebay.

 

[Gen.]

The thing that really made me laugh about these stupid chavs though is that they collect pokemon cards they wanted to buy my Dark Dragonite of me for 2 quid, 2 quid!, it cost me 10 times that much on ebay.

Nice story, but were the POKEMON cards drifting around in the car park after the movie as well?

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

If the movie "Exorcist" (sp?) can cause an increase in those attending and joining church, then yes, I can see Tokyo Drift increasing the number of stupid kids trying to drift their parents Civics.

 

[Scaff]

The thing that really made me laugh about these stupid chavs though is that they collect pokemon cards they wanted to buy my Dark Dragonite of me for 2 quid, 2 quid!, it cost me 10 times that much on ebay.

George

If you tried a bit harder you could have made this post more off topic.

Why is it here?

I agree a moron is a moron, but FatF is so mainstream and so popular, everyone knows about it. In my area, a lot of people are fans of the show, why do I see so many "riced out" vehicles in my area? Certainly not because they watched nascar. I work for a body shop, I see a lot of people come in to get their cars fixed from being in accidents (we work with insurance companies) and the majority of people are kids. But that goes without saying.

My point was that fatf -might- give kids the impression that its cool and easy to drift, drive crazy, be stupid, be fast, etc etc, and when they get the urge to impress a girl, get somewhere faster, or try something new, they'll have more of a motivation or reason to. Im not saying -everyone- who sees the movies will crash tomorrow trying to immitate the movie, and im also not sayign that peopel drive stupid based on the fact that they saw a movie.

The point you made was that the majority of people would start driving like fools as a result of seeing a FNF film, which quite simply is not try. The majority of people are not that stupid.

If you are also suggesting that the reason you see modified cars is a result of FnF films, then again you are discounting a hell of a lot of other media sources around. Car modification (both for apperance and performance) has been huge in the States (and most of the world) since the '50s (do we now go and blame 'Rebel without a Cause' for starting people street racing?).

You say that most of the cars you see in for body repairs are young drivers, not a big surprise as the most common group of people to be involved in an accident are young drivers (particularly males) a fact that has been true since well before any FnF film.

The people in question here would almost certainly be 'influenced' in the same way by Cops or news footage of a police chase, my point is that these people want you to blame FnF, etc. As it allows them an excuse for their actions, "honest officer I wouldn't have tried to drift if it wasn't for that nasty FnF film". Don't give fools like this an excuse to try and hide behind, they are responsiable for their own actions, not a film.

Regards

Scaff