Grantland essay on TFATF
You stick around long enough, you get semi-respectable. Good, thorough essay over at Grantland about our babies:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9303517/the-brainless-semibrilliant-fast-6
He's unfair to poor lovely Lucas Black, but I'm here for this:
What's important in retrospect about Tokyo Drift is that it marked the franchise debut of director Justin Lin. There are only so many ways to cut back and forth between a Skittles-colored Nissan coupe barrel-rolling sideways toward the camera and an actor making OH SHIIIIIT faces behind the wheel, and Lin - previously best known for the great Better Luck Tomorrow, a microbudget Asian Mean Streets - turned out to be really good at all of them.
And I'd missed the great Lin interview he links to over at HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/justin-lin-fast--furious_n_3312846.html?
Also, did anyone else see Lin's very gracious smackdown of James Franco's dickery? Guess you're Team Pussy, Franco.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9303517/the-brainless-semibrilliant-fast-6
He's unfair to poor lovely Lucas Black, but I'm here for this:
What's important in retrospect about Tokyo Drift is that it marked the franchise debut of director Justin Lin. There are only so many ways to cut back and forth between a Skittles-colored Nissan coupe barrel-rolling sideways toward the camera and an actor making OH SHIIIIIT faces behind the wheel, and Lin - previously best known for the great Better Luck Tomorrow, a microbudget Asian Mean Streets - turned out to be really good at all of them.
And I'd missed the great Lin interview he links to over at HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/justin-lin-fast--furious_n_3312846.html?
Also, did anyone else see Lin's very gracious smackdown of James Franco's dickery? Guess you're Team Pussy, Franco.