# Stats of the Furious - a tour de force in entertainment journalism **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457 "2017-04-14T17:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/1 "2017-04-14T17:39:07Z")
I have no interest in the Fast and the Furious franchise and I usually have little good to say about Bloomberg, but this package of obsessive statistical analysis of the FF franchise is a work of delirious genius. [https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-fast-and-furious/](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-fast-and-furious/) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/2 "2017-04-25T12:49:56Z")
Really? No F&F fans amused by this? ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/3 "2017-04-25T14:34:31Z")
Not a fan but enjoyed the analysis. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/4 "2017-04-25T14:53:13Z")
I only saw the first 2 1/2 movies. What surprised/impressed me the most was how the franchise was able to come back and reach new heights. The main star did not return for the 2nd film. The 3rd film was a completely new setting and cast starring child actors. Vin Diesel took an 8 year break (not counting cameos) before most of the original cast reunited for the 4th film, which got negative reviews but made a lot of money. The Rock (and some other notable stars) was added for 5, and it’s just been a cash machine since. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/5 "2017-04-25T14:53:27Z")
As you watch through these flicks, you slowly realize while they may have started making racing movies, it slowly evolved into full-on superhero movies. In many ways they are more superhero-y than actual, comic book superheroes. Starting at about the 4th or 5th film, every character is literally invincible, even the dead ones (who were never really dead, but even the _actual_, IRL dead ones); they routinely defy all known physics; they drive with a prescience that would make Professor X jealous; and their antagonists display all of these traits plus something akin to intellectual omnipotence in their plotting and resources. (And yet at the end of **Furious 7** , Jason Statham, who to this point has been completely invincible, gets taken out by an 8-foot fall as the garage he and The Rock are fighting on collapses. Seriously?! The Rock escapes unscathed, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/6 "2017-04-25T14:56:10Z")
I only ever watched the first movie and find this wonderful all the same. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/7 "2017-04-25T16:32:26Z")
I’ve watched them all and I thought those stats were very amusing. The only thing they missed was family cook-outs vs restaurant scenes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/8 "2017-04-25T17:33:27Z")
I am totally uninterested in the Fast/Furious films themselves. I am, however, quite interested in the sort of nerdity that goes into an analysis like this. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/9 "2017-04-25T19:00:26Z")
The best parts are the little notes. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/10 "2017-04-25T20:07:17Z")
Lovely article. I thought it was just good, but then I saw the methodology section at the end and I knew it was written by a kindred spirit. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/11 "2017-04-25T20:42:14Z")
There is a new number one of all time entry for a category I had no idea until now that I cared about. Best Methodology explanation. > [@](#): > > Gratuitous female rear-end time > > A metric of all times during which one or more female rear is featured prominently in the foreground, in or near the primary focus of a shot. A rear end may be dressed in any number of coverings, including but not limited to leather pants, bathing suits, thongs, and skirts of various lengths. Includes the rear ends of women portrayed in digital images displayed on screens. Excluded here is the screen time of the many rear ends in the background or clearly outside the primary focus. We also excluded what appear to be incidental occurrences, such as two women fighting and a mother bending over to hug her daughter, as well as a male rear end in a pair of snakeskin pants. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stats-of-the-furious-a-tour-de-force-in-entertainment-journalism/784457/12 "2017-04-25T21:01:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I am totally uninterested in the Fast/Furious films themselves. > > I am, however, quite interested in the sort of nerdity that goes into an analysis like this. Aye; me too. I thought that was awesome to read thru.