Who could forget that awesome Christmas Vacation-esque moment when the Honda Civic zips underneath the semi truck? Or that final race between muscle car, tuner car, and train? Need for Speed impresses with practicality, but The Fast and the Furious has "cooler" stunts and that's all that really matters. While Need for Speed does pack more stunts into its 2-hour+ run time, it could easily be argued that The Fast and the Furious' stunt work is more memorable. Unfortunately, practical stunts that consist mostly of car flips, jumps, and explosions only work for so long before they start to lose their appeal. And what Need for Speed does deliver is impressive in terms of believability. Director Scott Waugh boasts an impressive career as a stunt man, so it felt only right that his first big budget film aspire to truly recreating the action seen on screen. Video game branding and Aaron Paul aside, Need for Speed's major selling point is its use of practical stunt work throughout. It says a lot when, five movies later, audiences turn out in droves to see the original cast reunite. Leading man Paul Walker admittedly wasn't as well known as Aaron Paul at the time, but the folks behind F&F surrounded him with a cast that didn't feel like a bunch of one-note clichés. The Fast and the Furious didn't boast much in the way of top name talent when it first debuted, but at the very least it tried to fill out its cast with a wide variety of personalities. Keaton, Paul, and Imogen Poots are honestly the only noteworthy members of the cast both as actors and as characters. What's worse, a lot of the supporting cast is relegated to the role of comedic relief in some form or another. Unfortunately, the rest of the Need for Speed cast is populated by lesser known faces and one big name star in Michael Keaton. If we're talking most celebrated cast, then Need for Speed edges out F&F by a wide margin due in large (whole) part to Golden Globe and Emmy winner Aaron Paul. In terms of each film's car "cast," the competition isn't even close. More importantly, though, they are fast all by themselves (see: our Complete Need for Speed Car Guide).
These are cars that are worth more than some of the Need for Speed actor's salaries, and we're not joking. Need for Speed, on the other hand, goes for broke with some of the most exotic cars on the planet, from Bugatti to McLaren to Koenigsegg. That being said, very few of the cars on display in The Fast and the Furious left us drooling.
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Sure, each car had its own personality (flashy colors, light kits, body modifications), but they were more like extensions of their racer's personality. Get notified by email as soon as tickets become available in your area. F&F, for example, was focused on the import tuner scene, where Japanese models like Mitsubishi's Eclipse and Honda's Civic are transformed into high performance machines. Admittedly, The Fast and the Furious and Need for Speed deploy two strikingly different approaches when it comes to their car selections.
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