
They drive cars through skyscrapers, make 100-foot leaps into ravines, and drive bank vaults through Rio, stripping themselves of all self-seriousness and adherence to the laws of physics. The Fast & Furious franchise became what it is today - a billion-dollar box-office juggernaut, with seven sequels and at least two more to come - in part because the movies embraced their absurdity.
CORONA BEER BUCKET MOVIE
The Definitive ‘Fast & Furious’ Movie Rankings Unfazed, Nobody reaches behind a trunk and produces a Corona-branded bucket of Coronas and slaps it down on a table in all its frosty, ice-cold glory. Would you like one?" And then Dom says it: "I’m more of a Corona man myself." Nobody says, taking a sip out of a freshly poured pint glass. Shaw escapes, and Dom is forced to follow Nobody back to his super-secret lair in El Segundo, California, where, amid barrels of explosives and camo-colored trunks, there sits a kegerator. That’s when he says it: "You can have any brew you want … as long as it’s a Corona."įourteen years later, and 30 minutes into Furious 7, Dom is fighting Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) to the death when they’re interrupted by a man who refers to himself as Mr. Determined to reward Brian further, Dom picks up two stray beer bottles and approaches him. At the moment, the only person on Dom’s good side is Brian.

After finally making it back to his house - a refuge for outcasts and car-and-leather-obsessed tweakers - Dom is chagrined to find his crew having a party. has just turned into a police raid Dom managed an on-foot escape, but he and his new friend Brian Spilner, a mysterious rookie in the racing scene, were quickly intercepted by Dom’s rival Johnny Tran and had to stand idly by as a hail of gunfire and NOS turned Brian’s Mitsubishi Eclipse into a green-orange ball of fire. A routine night of underground racing in East L.A. Please join us in living life one quarter-mile at a time.ĭominic Toretto, the hulking, hairless patriarch of 2001’s The Fast and the Furious, is upset. To mark the release of The Fate of the Furious, the series’ eighth installment, we’re declaring it Fast 8 Week.

For more than a decade and a half, the Fast & Furious franchise has ripped, roared, and pressed every last NOS button on its way to action-franchise preeminence.
