So another sequel to "The Fast and the Furious" is apparently coming out soon, and it's called "Fast and Furious." No subtitle, no number -- all the did was take out the "the"s. Amazing.
This is unprecedented in the field of "sequel names that sound too much like the original." The previous champion in this category was "Aliens," the sequel to "Alien." That one was plenty annoying, because you always had to add extra explanation whenever you referred to it, as in "I liked 'Alien,' but didn't care for 'AlienSSSS,' you know, the second one."
"Fast and Furious" easily beats that. Not only will no one understand which movie you're talking about (there will be a lot of "oh, you mean the ones that's in theaters now, gotcha"), but also no one will be able to say "you know, the fourth one" because no one will actually care enough about this crappy franchise to recall whether this is the fourth one or the third or the twentieth. I only know it's the fourth one because I just looked it up on IMDB. The second one was "2 Fast 2 Furious" (dumb name, but accomplishes the basic task of connecting it to the original while communicating that it is a sequel) and the third one was "The Fast and the Furious: Cars Go Vroom!" (No, not really, and in fact, I just gave away the whole plot. Sorry.) The third one was "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," which I think was about driving sideways or something?
Of course, I've never seen any of these movies, and I'm sure I never will. I'm pretty sure the basic idea is this:
Vin Diesel: My penis is very large.
Some Other Guy: My penis is larger.
Hot Chick: I will have sex with whoever's penis is larger.
Vin Diesel: I will demonstrate my superior penis size by driving very fast.
Some Other Guy: I will also.
(Cars go vroom.)
So I'm using brain space on this whole thing only because of my singular passion for movie sequel names. I wish that were my job, just making up movie sequel names all day, every day. Here are some other suggestions for the fourth "The Fast and the Furious" film:
"The Fast and the Furious: Faster and Furiouser"
"The Fast 4 the Furious 4: Fastin' 4 Furiosity"
"The Fast and the Furious: Zoom! Bang! Boobies! More Zoom!"
"Fasty McFurious: Dublin Drift"
"Grandmaster Fast and the Furious Four" (That one's for the old-school rap fans in the house)
"Fast. Furious. The. And. The."
"Excessively Fast and Gratutitously Furious"
"'I'm Furious at How Fast Those Cars Are!' That's What Lame Dudes Say"
Any of those would have been superior to just "Fast and Furious." It ain't that hard, folks.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
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