Fast 9 is speeding into cinemas this April, so expect full-blown marathons from F&F fanatics to start soon. One dealership in New York is raising the bar on the marathon-viewing experience by offering $900 to someone willing to put their Fast & Furious fandom to the test.
It’s not free money, though. The individual who’s willing to take the dealership up on the offer must watch all eight Fast and Furious movies and the Hobbs & Shaw spinoff. From there, a series of tasks is also required, including sharing the whole experience on social media. Do all of that and you will take home $900 for all you trouble. Is $900 worth all that effort? It will be for someone who has enough time on his hands.
The lowdown
A lot of people who have plans to watch Fast 9 have probably started rolling out a binge-watching schedule to get them up-to-speed — no pun intended — on what’s happened in the Fast & Furious universe.
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If you answered in the affirmative, you might want to reach out to Yonkers Honda, a New York-based Honda dealership that plans to give someone $900 to watch all eight Fast & Furious movies as well as the Fast & Furious spinoff. It sounds like a simple enough dare, especially if you’re going to watch all the movies anyway. But as is the case with offers like this, there are conditions you have to meet if you want to go home with the cheese.
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For someone obsessed with the Fast & Furious franchise, getting paid to watch all nine movies, including Fast & Furious is like being given free money. But for the rest of us who actually have lives to live, the challenge does sound too much of an ask, especially if you’re devoting what amounts to around 20 hours of movie watching in one week.
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There have been a few trailers of Fast 9 that are already out there, and from what we’ve seen, the penultimate movie is going to be as outlandish as you’d expect a Fast & Furious movie to be. There’s going to be a lot of car chases, explosions, death-defying stunts, and a Dodge Charger hooked to a bridge cable, swinging from one mountain to another. You know, typical Fast & Furious stuff. Oh, and Han’s alive, too, and he's driving -- you guessed it -- an orange Toyota Supra. What’s that about?