When you think of women in Los Angeles, you don't normally pull up, in your head, pictures of girls you'd expect to find going to school at Auburn University. And, yet, that's exactly what you get in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, rather than the ladies you hear Katy Perry and Snoop sing about so often these days. Here's a bunch of pictures that illustrate my point:
See what I mean? It's not that most of these girls are unattractive; they just aren't the movie-quality ladies you'd expect to find wandering around in the background of your summer action movie starring Vin Diesel. Come on, Rob Cohen, I know you can go better. I mean, Asia Argento was in XXX!
Of course, it could be said that Dr. Cohen was just trying to make his leading ladies look good in comparison. And they do, even though they aren't spectacular either. Here are shots of Michell Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster from the film.
Michelle Rodriquez looks as good as she ever does, and Jordana Brewster just looks funky with her hair like that and with those untrimmed eyebrows. She certainly cleans up better in the fourth film.
Look, I know I just look like an internet nerd talking shit about women I could never get in real life. And that may be true. But as you'll see over the next few days, the visual quality of the ladies increases pretty significantly in the second film, and then it shoots through the fucking roof for the third and fourth films.
I had more to say, but beer just arrived. I'm out.
I think this was before the new thing where everybody in every movie and tv show has to be flawless and look like a model, i.e. Gossip Girl, Transformers, The Real World.
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