Father's Day

So there I was in a suburban multiplex sitting next to Dear Old Dad. Bellies full of Mexican food, the flick was his idea. The very prospect of sitting in the dark with him in silence for two hours was not my idea of a good time, but his choice of title was a surprise, "The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift"!
http://www.thefastandthefurious3.com/
I warned him there might be riced-out teens living a high-speed fantasy, but as it was the Saturday night before Father's Day, there were a few father-son teams munching on pop corn to the beat of hip-hop, the squeel of Toyo and Yokohama tyres and the banal dialogue of what passes for exposition.
The surprise ending includes a redux by Vin Diesel, who got his start as an orderly in the Robin Williams maudlin "Awakenings" and in a NYC gay cruiser flick titled, "Strays"...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149171/
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
After the movie I explained to dad that "drifting" was indeed sprung from the "mountain people" of Japan, bored in the snows of winter driving downhill, kicking out the back ends of their Skyline GTR's... a one-page article on the nascent drift subculture appeared in an issue of Car & Driver like 4+ years ago...
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/1921/car-surfing.html
They called it "car surfing"...!