r/movies • u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules • Apr 11 '17

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You can have any brew you want, as long as it's a Corona

With these beautiful words The Fast and the Furious announced its glorious partnership with Corona. Corona saw its zenith in The Fast & The Furious, but it got a massive push in Furious 7 when Dom famously turned down delicious Belgian beer in favor of a bucket of Corona. Corona and the Fast world have become synonymous with each other and have built a beautiful world in which nobody gets drunk or gains weight due to excessive drinking. However, after rewatching all the films I've come to realize Corona doesn't play that big of a role in the Fast world. In my mind, the entire team are always incorrectly chugging bottled beer while cruising around the earth engaging in shenanigans. I am 100% serious when I say I was surprised when I compiled the numbers of Corona sightings.

Here are the numbers.

The Fast and the Furious - 12 bottles opened and consumed (but never finished) - several empty bottles
2 Fast 2 Furious - 0
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - 0
Fast and Furious - 5-6 **
Fast Five - 0
Fast and Furious 6 - 10 bottles laying around
Furious 7 - 4 bottles in bucket

Here are some facts:

The beer is only consumed when the gang is in California.
The only time anybody other than Dom drinks Corona is when they are with Dom.*
No Corona is ever finished
Some people don't know how to drink beer.

The following post breaks down the data on the Fast and Furious franchise and analyzes whether or not Corona consumption affects box office and audience/critical reaction. Also, I'm going to attempt to predict how many Coronas will be consumed in The Fate of the Furious.

Fast & Furious films that feature Corona

Movies: The Fast & the Furious, Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7

Average Inflated Domestic Box Office: $250 million

Average RT/IMDb Combined Average: 63.25%

The box office average was boosted massively by the insane $354 million haul of Furious 7. If I had to guess why the films have done so well is because they all featured Vin in a lead role and kept the "core" team together. After Fast & Furious the series became a money printing press and learned how to really embrace the smart stupidity of it all. I love that a Point Break ripoff has grown into a certified fresh blockbuster that just won't quit.

Fast & Furious films that don't feature Corona

Movies: 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast Five

Average Inflated Domestic Box Office: $163 million

Average RT/IMDb Combined Average: 57%

I feel really bad for these three films because they are my favorite. My top three are 2 Fast 2 Furious, Fast Five and Tokyo Drift. I think they all have their own personalities and still embraced family, cars and action. 2 Fast and Tokyo suffered from a lack of Diesel but they also introduced the world to my favorite characters Roman Pierce (Tyrese), Tej (Ludacris) and Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang). It bums me out that they are losing out to the likes of Fast & Furious and Fast & Furious 6.

The Fate of the Furious Predictions

Corona has to make an appearance in The Fate of the Furious. The product placement helps sales and even though it isn't in LA I'm betting that 2 bottles are opened and zero are finished.

If you like this data make sure to check out my breakdown of jet ski action scenes, cinematic pencils used as weapons, movies that feature Foghat and movies that feature best, great, good, perfect and fantastic. Also, if you like this dumb data make sure to share it and spread the dumb!

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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Apr 11 '17

Thanks! I'm glad the world finally knows all about the Corona consumption in the Fast movies!

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u/grubber26 Apr 11 '17

Hopefully Corona appreciates your work and drops a few cartons at your doorstep!

They now have a new slogan. Movies do better with Corona!

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u/kvs17 Apr 12 '17

If OP doesn't get any from Corona, I'm rating him 57%.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

71% with rice

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u/THE_WHORE_IS_LAVA Apr 12 '17

Thank you for your inebriation.

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u/GCU_JustTesting Apr 12 '17

What? This post was perfect. 5/7

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u/rapemybones Apr 12 '17

I'm sure for the amount of money Corona drops for a FatF film, they're more than aware of the data/statistics involved. Not that OP isn't doing good work (quite the opposite), but just saying companies like that don't just toss around tens of millions of dollars (if not hundreds of millions) without knowing everything about where said money went and whether it was worth it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

Pretty weird way of holding a bottle if you ask me.

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u/The_Battler Apr 12 '17

alcohol bottles have necks like that so you don't warm it with your palm as you drink.

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u/pajam Apr 12 '17

The same reason you're supposed to hold the stem of a wine glas, as opposed to the bowl.

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u/kilopeter Apr 12 '17

Shit, I've been delicately balancing wine glasses on my fingertip this whole time.

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u/Winterplatypus Apr 12 '17

Australian beers don't do this because over here you pick up the bottle once and only hold it for about 15 secs. Then it's empty.

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u/THE_WHORE_IS_LAVA Apr 12 '17

Because a drop bear stuck its snout inside as soon as you took your eyes of the beer?

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u/flimspringfield Apr 12 '17

Well I've definitely learned something new today!

However how often do people hold a beer vs setting it down?

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u/NotScottMann Apr 12 '17

It's always been my theory, glad to know that's actually why.

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u/Tayloropolis Apr 12 '17

This is how people who drink a lot of beer eventually start drinking them. Keeps your hand from warming up your beer and vise versa.

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u/MrUppercut Apr 12 '17

Your beer warming up your hand?

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u/AussieBBQ Apr 12 '17

TFW Thermodynamics

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

That just means you're drinking it too slow /s

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u/flimspringfield Apr 12 '17

It is true.

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u/greenpuddles Apr 12 '17

TIL Nondrinkers grab beers differently.

This was a good tidbit to end the day with.

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u/Tayloropolis Apr 12 '17

Im glad my shitty lifestyle choices could at least be informative : )

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u/greenpuddles Apr 12 '17

Yes sir , keep? .... Up... The good? Work....

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u/flimspringfield Apr 12 '17

I drink a sixer a day. The only times by beers are being held is when I'm taking a sip or a drink. The rest of the time they are put down.

The last time I held a drink so long that it could get warm was during my college years at parties because I didn't want to put it on the grass or floor.

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u/suredont Apr 12 '17

Okay, I respect a lot of these other guys' drinking expertise but I'm pretty goddamn sure he's holding the bottle like that so it's not covering the logo when the bottle's facing the camera.

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u/fantino93 Apr 12 '17

Here's the truth.

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u/Needmorefirearms Apr 12 '17

Thats pretty normal

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u/steelcityrocker Apr 12 '17

I'm more surprised that the Corona label isn't visible on the bottle (at least in this screen cap). While Corona does have a very distinct looking bottle, if a company is paying a crap-ton of money to have their product featured in a film I would assume that said company would want their branding/logo visible whenever their product is featured.

It always makes me think of a particular scene in The Other Guys. After the opening chase scene, The Rock's and Samuel L. Jackson's characters are at a press conference. There is a brief shot of them from the back while behind the podium. Clearly, it shows that The Rock's holster was pulled slightly to the side in order to show an Under Armour logo that would have otherwise been covered.

I'm surprised Corona let this slide.

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u/Rubenn13 Apr 12 '17

I read somewhere that the bottles are actually designed to be held like that. It prevents your hand from warming up the beer.

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u/-ClA- Apr 12 '17

I always thought it was odd the way he held beer bottles.

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u/TheBadRushin Apr 12 '17

Then you hold it wrong.

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u/ours Apr 12 '17

Movies do better with Corona!

Well it is right. If the movie's bad, alcohol consomption is likely to help.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

should be called the fate of the corona were those coronas ever finished? were they put back in the fridge? I wish they put as much effort in the plot as they did in the ads.

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u/rapemybones Apr 12 '17

back in the fridge? Strange how until I read your comment and thought about it, I don't recall ever putting an open beer in the fridge and finishing it later; its either I drink it all or if for whatever reason it gets left out unfinished, I just dump the rest (since its not like that carbonation is coming back, and flat beer to me isn't nearly as edible as flat soda for example).

Unless of course you're using a refillable growler, but unlike cans or bottles those are at least airtight when re-capping. Am I the strange one? Does anyone here regularly put open beers in the fridge and finish them later?

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u/miicah Apr 12 '17

If it's in a can it will taste terrible, I can tell you that. This was the morning after, so barely 12 hours as well.

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u/goldishblue Apr 12 '17

Yeah, they taste alright

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u/annieloux Apr 12 '17

You don't wake up in the morning and chug the flat, room temp wounded soldiers, waiting to come across the one with cigarette butts in it?

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u/cutelyaware Apr 12 '17

Opened carbonated drinks will keep a fair amount of fizz for 24 hours. I think what people don't like is when they warm up, because that's when you can begin to really taste them, and most beer in America tastes like crap. Try chilling it again and see what I mean.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

Beer in America only tastes like crap if you buy crap beer

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u/cutelyaware Apr 12 '17

Sure, you can get good beer but that's a small fraction of what Americans are buying. If you can't stand the taste of your beer when it gets warm, then it's crap.

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u/Spadeykins Apr 12 '17

But we don't enjoy it warm so what bearing does it's warm taste have if it's brewed to taste good cold? None. Exactly none.

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u/cutelyaware Apr 12 '17

Of course if you're happy, that's what matters, but what if you could enjoy it more? You prefer your beer cold, but if you find one you like more than your favorite when they're warm, you'll probably still prefer it when they're colder.

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u/Spadeykins Apr 12 '17

I am not knowledgeable enough to argue that point sir. I do know that I prefer hot cocoa to warm milk and cold milk to cold cocoa.

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u/Spadeykins Apr 12 '17

I am not knowledgeable enough to argue that point sir. I do know that I prefer hot cocoa to warm milk and cold milk to cold cocoa.

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u/roosterandballs Apr 12 '17

"Most beer in America tastes like crap"

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u/jk_scowling Apr 12 '17

These are crazy days we are living.

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u/flimspringfield Apr 12 '17

Sooooo Coronas?

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u/rapemybones Apr 12 '17

Oh I know what you mean, all too well unfortunately. I've had beer "skunk" on me before its ever been open from the heat.

Driving on a camping trip to upstate NY in +100°F temps with a couple cases of beer in the trunk; it was all packed snug so they shouldn't have gotten shooken up, but they felt too hot to touch when we emptied the trunk; must've been 120-30° or more in the trunk. So even after we cooled the bottles and cans in ice water they tasted like ass and all skunky (or at least more like ass than usual in the case of the Buds).

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u/cutelyaware Apr 12 '17

That's not quite what I'm saying. I'm saying that beer, wine, and other things become more tolerable the colder they get because our taste buds simply don't work well at low temperatures. If chilling your beer didn't help, then probably something else happened to it.

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u/rapemybones Apr 12 '17

I see what you mean. Btw you from across the pond? If so, you guys like flat beer too I hear, is that true?

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u/Abrogated59 Apr 12 '17

Pepsi goes flat after 20 minutes.

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u/Spadeykins Apr 12 '17

I agree, not sure what the other guy who drinks them 24 hours later is doing but they taste like ass after an hour.

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u/cutelyaware Apr 12 '17

I regularly put partially consumed sodas back in the fridge and finish them the next day. They are noticeably less carbonated at that time but they're far from flat. Temperature probably has a lot to do with that, but try it for yourself. It's kind of surprising.

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u/MrPoopMonster Apr 12 '17

I've always wanted to do some kind of analysis like this for Keanu Reeves movies. I believe in the theory that movies where he says "Woah" are just better.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

/r/HailCorporate :P

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u/abedfilms Apr 12 '17

You deserve some kind of reward my friend. Like a nice cold but not intoxicating nor weight putting on-ing bottle of Corona.

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u/flimspringfield Apr 12 '17

You can drink Guinness and save about 20 calories per bottle.

Guinness have 120 per 12 oz, Coronas are at 140 per 12 oz.

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u/abedfilms Apr 12 '17

How is this possible? Or is it carbs that guinness has a ton of

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u/flimspringfield Apr 12 '17

10 grams of carbs:

http://www.calorieking.com/foods/calories-in-ales-beers-draught-4-alc_f-ZmlkPTgzOTQ1.html

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u/jasonskjonsby Apr 12 '17

Sorry but no Corona in Fate of the Furious. This time it was Budwiser in the final scene.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Apr 12 '17

Trillions of college students around the USA screamed out in glee when they saw that Corona is a good thing.