RE: Behind the scenes at Fast
Discussion
I saw this on Saturday and I have to say it was the biggest disappointment.
It was so cheesy and didn't do the film franchise any favours.
It was as though somebody had badly described the fast and furious films over the phone to the director.
I would have much rather seen an exibit where I could see the cars up close than see a frankly embarrassing show.
It would seem it was aimed at kids which is strange as the films aren't. The audience participation was a joke, having to hold up coloured cards to choose the colour of a car and then using the same cards plus shouting to race the car on by the looks of it an Attari computer between the lights was quite frankly pathetic.
I was expecting this to be an all out stunt show but it just wasn't. The cars moved very slowly with bits of dialogue from the films played over it and doing doughnuts constantly.
The only interesting bit was the screen on the wall and the floor and how the cars interacted with it. The cars had special tyres which did mark the floor but you could see the tyre marks on the floor where the cars had been. In one scene the floor had been transformed in to a desert and as the cars drove over it you see there tyre marks which was very clever.
Apart from that interesting technology i'm not sure what they were thinking doing the show in arenas. It should have been held at the Olympic stadium where the vehicles could have got up too proper speed instead of driving around at 30mph!
It was so cheesy and didn't do the film franchise any favours.
It was as though somebody had badly described the fast and furious films over the phone to the director.
I would have much rather seen an exibit where I could see the cars up close than see a frankly embarrassing show.
It would seem it was aimed at kids which is strange as the films aren't. The audience participation was a joke, having to hold up coloured cards to choose the colour of a car and then using the same cards plus shouting to race the car on by the looks of it an Attari computer between the lights was quite frankly pathetic.
I was expecting this to be an all out stunt show but it just wasn't. The cars moved very slowly with bits of dialogue from the films played over it and doing doughnuts constantly.
The only interesting bit was the screen on the wall and the floor and how the cars interacted with it. The cars had special tyres which did mark the floor but you could see the tyre marks on the floor where the cars had been. In one scene the floor had been transformed in to a desert and as the cars drove over it you see there tyre marks which was very clever.
Apart from that interesting technology i'm not sure what they were thinking doing the show in arenas. It should have been held at the Olympic stadium where the vehicles could have got up too proper speed instead of driving around at 30mph!
We had an extra in our show, which was the flipper car right at the start spun into the blue GTR and creased the door in and side panel. I find it funny how they explain the 'Pauls' Supra was a perfect replica of his car , yet it was a RHD car , which was comical.
Hey ho, its not mentioned in the house now anymore.
Hey ho, its not mentioned in the house now anymore.
I knew over a year ago, it was going to be a flop. 70% seats filled for the first show & bad reviews here, from people with no vested interest.
There will be favourable reviews, such as in Pistonheads, car mags, etc. but it's just marketing. The product is sub standard.
Same as cinema attendances these days. Most people just watch movies online and something like FAST would be very expensive to get done properly right. Not least I bet they're paying a lot in royalties to the Fast & Furious brand. Must be hurting them to come to the realisation of reality - it's not going to do well in the current global financial climate.
These are the same people who did well out of Top Gear Live, but that popularity was all about the brand loyalty. They didn't see there isn't quite the same audience queing up for Fast & Furious, especially when it's anything but.
I guess quite a lot of people will feel meh; that was a waste of money and go on to tell others on social media. Word will soon get around, I expect.
He's a typical pretentious asshole of the entertainment industry. Roland French is probably not looking so smug today. I expect his financiers are breathing down his neck already.
There will be favourable reviews, such as in Pistonheads, car mags, etc. but it's just marketing. The product is sub standard.
Same as cinema attendances these days. Most people just watch movies online and something like FAST would be very expensive to get done properly right. Not least I bet they're paying a lot in royalties to the Fast & Furious brand. Must be hurting them to come to the realisation of reality - it's not going to do well in the current global financial climate.
These are the same people who did well out of Top Gear Live, but that popularity was all about the brand loyalty. They didn't see there isn't quite the same audience queing up for Fast & Furious, especially when it's anything but.
I guess quite a lot of people will feel meh; that was a waste of money and go on to tell others on social media. Word will soon get around, I expect.
He's a typical pretentious asshole of the entertainment industry. Roland French is probably not looking so smug today. I expect his financiers are breathing down his neck already.
"I don’t believe for one moment that anyone from an office in Teddington thought it was anything other than fodder for the provincial and third world punter."
... I think you're right. Any real JDM enthusiast will quickly know there's a lot of inaccuracy with these cars & just poor replicas.
Let's face it, with so few JDM cars on the roads today, than in years past when they were relatively common on UK roads, a lot of the people who used to be in the scene have long since forgotten or lost interest. Not that many people rushed to the box office to get a ticket to see F&F8.
Not least, in anything but a proper circuit even the best prepared cars will never drift properly. If you've seen the sort of typical levels of attendance at UK Drift championships, you'll know there's not much interest in the real thing, yet alone an obviously slow speed environment with just a demo of the real thing. And indoors at that.
Good idea to move people closer to the action and get them intoxicated. Adds to the atmosphere.
Just look at last year's box office flops for big titles for a guide to where this is going.... Hollywood is feeling the pinch.
A lot more people prefer to stay in these days & watch a film on demand, than turn up to spend £20 (with parking, snacks, etc.) to go to the cinema to see the films in spite of spacial sound systems, 3D, etc., yet alone £40-60 roughly - to go see a slow drifting & doughnut show, albeit glorified with lighting, etc. Not a lot of people these days can just drop £50 for night out; quite a bit more if taking the kids (The main target audience, probably), wife, etc.
I could be wrong, but feel quite sure this isn't going to gain the same success the organisers got off TG Live.
No doubt they've put millions of investor capital into FAST: entertainment at this scale is hardly a drop in the ocean but previous investment performance is not necessarily a guide to the performance you can expect with this financial vehicle...
... I think you're right. Any real JDM enthusiast will quickly know there's a lot of inaccuracy with these cars & just poor replicas.
Let's face it, with so few JDM cars on the roads today, than in years past when they were relatively common on UK roads, a lot of the people who used to be in the scene have long since forgotten or lost interest. Not that many people rushed to the box office to get a ticket to see F&F8.
Not least, in anything but a proper circuit even the best prepared cars will never drift properly. If you've seen the sort of typical levels of attendance at UK Drift championships, you'll know there's not much interest in the real thing, yet alone an obviously slow speed environment with just a demo of the real thing. And indoors at that.
Good idea to move people closer to the action and get them intoxicated. Adds to the atmosphere.
Just look at last year's box office flops for big titles for a guide to where this is going.... Hollywood is feeling the pinch.
A lot more people prefer to stay in these days & watch a film on demand, than turn up to spend £20 (with parking, snacks, etc.) to go to the cinema to see the films in spite of spacial sound systems, 3D, etc., yet alone £40-60 roughly - to go see a slow drifting & doughnut show, albeit glorified with lighting, etc. Not a lot of people these days can just drop £50 for night out; quite a bit more if taking the kids (The main target audience, probably), wife, etc.
I could be wrong, but feel quite sure this isn't going to gain the same success the organisers got off TG Live.
No doubt they've put millions of investor capital into FAST: entertainment at this scale is hardly a drop in the ocean but previous investment performance is not necessarily a guide to the performance you can expect with this financial vehicle...
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