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Thisis the point where the franchise probably should have starting cranking out direct-to-DVD entries. This is where everyone expected the F&F movies to begin jumping sharks. Save for future Cinematallica headmaster and fellow podcast Cult Spark Podcast jockey, Tim Kelly, I don't know of anyone who thinks 2 Fast 2 Furious is one of the better films in the franchise. Tokyo Drift should have been the beginning of the end.

I can understand why people shunned it. That's what happens when you have a setting that's the precise opposite of the sun-baked locales of the first two, leads who no one has any sort of attachment to and a style of racing in drifting that the majority of Americans aren't all that familiar with. Heck, even I initially turned my nose up. I mean, who really expects a street racing movie with Lucas Black as the lead to really be any good?

So what makes this the best? Well, for one, it's got the best pure car action in the entire F&F run. Yes, even better than Fast Five. Five never really focused on racing at all. By that point the series had evolved into something entirely different, so quarter-mile or drifting runs weren't really going to be a focus. So purely in terms of watching guys pull of feats of pure racing finesse, Tokyo Drift reigns as champion.

Drifting is such a dynamic and exciting style and could basically be considered a "cinematic" form of racing. Director Justin Lin seems to understand this and does a tremendous job of shooting these races and chases for maximum effect. There's a scene at the end of the second act that stands as hands-down one of the best car chases in the last decade. Not bad for a director attempting his first real action movie, especially when you realize just how well Lin maintains the scene's momentum and sense of geography amid a flurry of flashy cars slipping and sliding across the screen and through heavy traffic. There's a bit too much reliance on CGI cars in the film's climactic mountain race, but otherwise these action scenes feature some stunning behind the wheel athleticism.

Meanwhile, I still maintain Black is a really odd choice to hang an entire movie on, but Lin and Black manage to make Sean into a guy worth rooting for. I love the gravelly, ham-handed gravitas of Diesel's Dom and even sort of enjoy Paul Walker's stilted, wooden anti-charisma, but those guys don't really have much to dig into. Granted, Black's character, Sean, isn't some stunning character study, but he's got the closest thing to an arc that we've seen in the series before or since and Black eventually displays his own brand of hick-ish charm that becomes somewhat endearing.

Bow Wow's Twinkie is mostly relegated to the fast-talking sidekick role, but he manages to get a few decent laughs in. The real treat, though, is in the icy-cool awesomeness found in Sung Kang's Han. Kang gives us a delightful bit of effortless cool as business partner of Takashi, a wannabe Yakuza and Tokyo's resident "Drift King." Sean needs all the help he can get before he can take on Takashi for a real race, and Han seems all too eager to undermine his "partner" by helping educate Sean on the art of drifting. Kang just sort slips onto the screen here and owns every moment he's there. It's a performance that's as laid back and subtle as the racing is flashy, so it might seem he's a bit too stoic at first, but on repeat viewings he's become one of my favorite parts of the movie.

Really, enough can't be said about Justin Lin's work as director. He took what could and perhaps even should have been the start of the series being sent straight to DVD and turned it into one of the most satisfying entries yet. His confidence behind the lens here is really what sort of holds everything together, especially when you consider all the superficial factors that were against him at the outset. He manages to inject a healthy dose of style into the proceedings, yet he does it in a way that makes Coen and Singleton's entries seem even more garish and obnoxious by comparison.

So how did this series keep moving forward? Sheer force of will, it would seem. The Tuner Culture that helped propelled the first two movies to box office success had more or less completely fizzled (at least in America) by the time Tokyo Drift showed up, yet Lin manages to put a level of care and style that is perhaps far beyond what a third entry in a series such as this deserves.

I wrote about Tokyo Drift on its own as its the one entry that really sort of stands alone, with barely any connective tissue. With the franchise's next entry, Fast & Furious, we see a return to some familiar faces, but Lin switches gears in a significant way and ends up steering the series in a direction that I don't think anyone could have really expected. We'll take a look at parts four and five in tandem next time.

A man walks along a snow-covered street Thursday. Some areas of northern and western New York state could get a combined total of 8 feet of snow this week. Mike Groll/AP hide caption

The latest from the National Weather Service is that parts of western New York state could get another 3 feet of lake-effect snow on top of the 5.5 feet already on the ground. At least 10 deaths are attributed to this week's severe weather.

Member station WBFO in Buffalo spoke with a snow plow driver who said it's more snow than he'd ever seen. And The Associated Press describes the winter storm as "the kind of onslaught folks will be telling their grandchildren about."

The AP reports: "The storm came in so fast and furious over Lake Erie early Tuesday it trapped more than 100 vehicles along a 132-mile stretch of the New York State Thruway that remained closed Wednesday."

And The Washington Post says: "The lake effect wall of snow left wildly varying snow totals across the region: one side of Cheektowaga, N.Y., had at least 51 inches of snow Tuesday; the other side of town recorded just 2 inches."

In northern Wisconsin and parts of Michigan, up to 2 feet have fallen, and a bit more snow is expected there today. The western half of Michigan remains under a winter storm advisory, and parts of the state's extreme north have been issued a lake-effect snow warning.

NPR's Northeast Bureau Chief Andrea de Leon says more snow is falling in the Buffalo area. "Snow totals vary widely from place to place, [but] the worst of today's snow is to the south and east of Buffalo," Andrea says.

From 17th on the starting grid actually, and the driver of the No. 18 Sonny's BBQ car for Dale Coyne Racing charged to the front -- overtaking Rahal's mishandling car on Lap 226 of 228 -- to win the Firestone 550 at Texas Motor Speedway.

It was the first IZOD IndyCar Series oval victory for Wilson, who led Rahal across the start-finish line by 3.9202 seconds. Ryan Briscoe finished third and James Hinchcliffe was fourth. All four led multiple laps in the fast and furious race.

Earlier in the weekend, IZOD IndyCar Series drivers lobbied sanctioning body officials to put the race in their steely hands on the 1.5-mile, high-banked oval instead of relying on an aerodynamic package that has produced the pack racing ("fake racing," as Dixon labeled it) everyone was attempting to avoid following the devastating accident in October on a similar configured oval.

Dixon, who led a field-high 133 laps, had similar sentiments as he held a 1.4-second advantage over Power on Lap 165. Six laps later, Power grabbed the point as Dixon's car developed understeer as the tires wore. On Lap 173, the rear end of the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car snapped around and made contact with the Turn 4 SAFER Barrier.

"We had been getting loose at the end of stints," said Dixon, who incurred his first DNF since Toronto in 2010. "For the last 10 laps of that last stint I was just really fighting to hold on. That time there I kind of got into the middle of few people we were trying to lap and I was trying to get back up to Power. I turned in and the rear just started to slide and I kind of dipped down onto the apron and shut around again."

JR Hildebrand jumped from 23 on the starting grid to claim his second top-five finish of the season, and rookie Simon Pagenaud was sixth. Power's teammate and a three-time winner at Texas, Helio Castroneves, also was in contention mid-race and settled for seventh. Pole sitter Alex Tagliani led the first 20 laps and wound up ninth.

A powerful nor'easter swept up the East Coast on Saturday, threatening to bury parts of 10 states under deep, furiously falling snow accompanied by coastal flooding and high winds that could cut power and leave people shivering in the cold weather expected to follow.

Delaware allowed only essential personnel to drive in two of its three counties starting Friday night. Massachusetts where forecasters said some isolated pockets could get as much as 30 inches of snow, banned heavy trucks from interstate highways for most of Saturday.

Shoppers crammed stores Friday to stock up on food and buy generators and snowblowers ahead of the nor'easter, a type of storm so named because its winds typically blow from the northeast as it churns up the East Coast.

Parts of 10 states were under blizzard warnings: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Areas closest to the coast were expected to bear the brunt of the storm, which could bring wind gusts as high as 70 mph (113 kph) in New England.

Coastal New Jersey was forecast to get as much as 18 inches (46 centimeters) of snow and eastern Long Island up to 17 inches (43 centimeters). Philadelphia, New York City, and parts of the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia could get 10 inches (25 centimeters) or more.

Virginia, where a blizzard this month stranded hundreds of motorists for hours on Interstate 95, did not hesitate to get resources at the ready. In Maryland, the governor mobilized the National Guard.

Snow could fall as fast as 5 inches per hour in spots, including Connecticut, where officials worried about having enough snowplow drivers amid shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic and other issues.

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