Your Favorite Action Movies Are Basically Sports Movies If You Really Think About Their Plots: COTD

On paper, your favorite movies are usually what they say on the tin. Top Gun is about elite fighter pilots training for the flights of their careers. The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift is about an American learning Japanese car culture. Or, that’s what they want you to think!

Matt wrote about how The Fast And The Furious is really about the strength of the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen. Username Loading….:

I maintain that Tokyo Drift is secretly and 80s ski movie but with cars. You have some newcomer who immediately gets into friction with the top guy, falls in with a group of outcasts and weirdos, multiple scenes with scantily clad women, eventually challenges the main guy to a race down a mountain, has a big training montage, and the looser has to leave town. Oh and of course the winner of the race gets the girl.

Honestly, you can apply this logic to a lot of famous movies. Have you seen either of the Top Gun movies lately? The flight sequences are mostly training montages where the pilots compete with each other to determine who is really the best. There’s a whole love story element where the guy gets the girl, locker rooms, volleyball games, and a whole lot of emotion. It’s basically a sports movie, only with fighter jets rather than sticks and balls.

Top Gun: Maverick isn’t really any different. The movie doesn’t even try to establish real enemies. The heroes are just fighting against “fifth-generation fighters.”

Andrew wrote about the awesomeness of the color purple. Cheap Bastard:

But again provided a fabulous splash of deep purple to the car parks of its native Japan.

Here’s the reference (click here if you don’t see the embed):

Fly into the rising sun
Faces, smiling everyone
Yeah, she is a whole new tradition
I feel it in my heart

My Honda from Tokyo
She makes me see
My Honda from Tokyo
She’s so good to me

Talk about her like a queen
Dancing in a eastern dream
Yeah, she makes me feel like a river
That carries me away

My Honda from Tokyo
She makes me see
My Honda from Tokyo
She’s so good to me
But I’m at home and I just don’t belong

So far away from the garden we love
She is what moves in the soul of a dove
Soon I shall see just how black was my night
When we’re alone in her city of light

Rising from the neon gloom
Shining like a crazy moon
Yeah, she turns me on like a fire
I get high

My Honda from Tokyo
She makes me see
My Honda from Tokyo
She’s so good to me
My Honda from Tokyo
She makes me see
My Honda from Tokyo
She’s so good to me

My Honda from Tokyo
My Honda from Tokyo
My Honda from Tokyo
My Honda from Tokyo
My Honda from Tokyo

Arch Duke Maxyenko:

You know I’m down with OPP (OEM Production Purples).

Finally, we arrive at Mark’s Shitbox Showdown between two Rolls-Royces. Bronco2CombustionBoogaloo:

That “black undercoating” top looks great… for me to poupon.

Data:

Your comment is a Triumph!

Have a great evening, everyone!

Top graphic image: Universal Studios