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Jul. 5th, 2021 11:21 pmA friend of mine is watching all of the Fast & Furious movies so Leonard and I are too. We've now seen the first seven.
I think my basic stance towards them is probably similar to how a lot of people reflexively feel about romance novels. Like, I have my mature conscious attitude that these are entertainment and that they reach a certain level of achievement in their genre, and that hedonic utility says that it is good that people get fun out of these, yet tucked away inside me is that nagging judgmental voice saying "surely everyone here could be doing something more worthwhile?" Which is not who and how I want to be.
The violence and the implied deaths go up as the films go on, which distresses me, and so Leonard has suggested a headcanon to me: this is a universe in which you actually cannot die while within a car, from a collision or otherwise. (This also explains why airbags never go off; in this universe, they were never invented, because car accidents never hurt or kill anyone.)
These films may be infernokrusher.
What is the earliest you could put one of these films? NASCAR has its roots in bootleggers souping up cars to outrun law enforcement during the US's Prohibition, so a Gatsby-era F&F film is totally doable. Even further back! There are probably Westerns with similar premises involving horses, and domesticated horses go back a super long time. Or, if you want to get speculative, have early humans riding woolly mammoths. The Fast And The Furry.
I think my basic stance towards them is probably similar to how a lot of people reflexively feel about romance novels. Like, I have my mature conscious attitude that these are entertainment and that they reach a certain level of achievement in their genre, and that hedonic utility says that it is good that people get fun out of these, yet tucked away inside me is that nagging judgmental voice saying "surely everyone here could be doing something more worthwhile?" Which is not who and how I want to be.
The violence and the implied deaths go up as the films go on, which distresses me, and so Leonard has suggested a headcanon to me: this is a universe in which you actually cannot die while within a car, from a collision or otherwise. (This also explains why airbags never go off; in this universe, they were never invented, because car accidents never hurt or kill anyone.)
These films may be infernokrusher.
What is the earliest you could put one of these films? NASCAR has its roots in bootleggers souping up cars to outrun law enforcement during the US's Prohibition, so a Gatsby-era F&F film is totally doable. Even further back! There are probably Westerns with similar premises involving horses, and domesticated horses go back a super long time. Or, if you want to get speculative, have early humans riding woolly mammoths. The Fast And The Furry.
