3 Fast, 4 Furious, 7 Movies

Who knew these movies would last until number seven?

Vin Diesel, that’s who.

3 Fast, More Furious: Tokyo Time

The mystery. The elusive, and illusive, and also (possibly?) effusive.

Canonically the sixth movie, we've finally arrived at the third entry in the Fast and Furious. Tokyo Drift. If they'd waited, I could have titled this entry "Tokyo Fifth."

Furi-Sixth

Hey, remember the Fast and Furious movies? Well the opening credits sequence of Fast and Furious 6 sure does.

A little police brutality to start things off, featuring Dwayne Johnson tossing another large man around like he's made of straw. The Rock makes everyone else in this movie look like chumps and weaklings.

Fast Five

Fast Five (yes, for the moment it seems I've run out of clever new ways to spoof the naming conventions of this esteemed franchise) jumps right into the action, recapping the final moments of F&F, and treating us to our first bit of car sorcery. Did you know you can flip a bus, with nothing more than some fancy driving and a magical spell that bends the laws of the universe?

Perd Hapley is one of the people who reports on Dom's prison break. It's not this clip exactly, but you get the idea:

Los Blandoleros

Before we get to Fast Plus Furious, the canonically 3rd F&F movie, we are treated to reading a whole bunch of subtitles in the Vin Diesel written and directed short film, Los Bandoleros.

Faster, Furious! Kill! Kill!

Did we enjoy 2 Fast 2 B So Furious, you ask? Well, at the end of the "turbo-charged" prelude that attempts to explain why Brian is not in jail, my wife asserted that instead producer Chris Palladino should be in jail. And the prelude only lasted six minutes.

All the racing teams in the beginning scene have matching color schemes, like the villains in Mystery Men. It only gets worse from here.

And so it begins...

Before viewing this film, I decided to read some trivia on the Internet's movie database. Evidently the director's original vision included casting Mark Paul Gosselaar in Paul Walker's role, and Mario Lopez instead of Vin Diesel.

Let that wash over you for just a moment. Rob Cohen looked at this script and said, "I like this, but I'd like it more if it was a Saved by the Bell fan fiction."