Tuesday, April 18, 2006

they don't call it gym-nice-tics

I like bad (insert rock and roll air quotes here) movies. I like movies that people are ashamed to admit they go and see. I will go see Antonio Banderas profit shamelessly off the magic that was Mad Hot Ballroom in Take the Lead. I will go see...a bunch of people I've never heard of in Stick It. I draw the line at The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - not because I think I'm better than that, but because in some cases I have to be loyal to the original, and this movie is diverging from the original vision behind the Fast and Furious franchise - to be Point Break with cars. I don't see an upstart cop trying to prove himself anywhere in the IMDB plot summary for Tokyo Drift. I watched the original Fast and the Furious in the theatre. I watch Point Break every time I see it airing on Spike or TBS. And you, Tokyo Drift are neither Fast nor Furious.