Why ‘Fast and Furious 6’? A Freaking Tank Chase

Fast and Furious 6 opens today and it has all the makings of the perfect summer blockbuster. It has a chick fight, it has cars exploding through stuff, and -- perhaps most importantly -- it has a goddamn tank chase.

If you had any misgivings about seeing what might be a somewhat by-the-numbers action-heist-thriller movie thing, remember: there have only been two other  tank chases in movie history.  The first one involved Indiana Jones and Nazis. Remember that one? From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? There were horses involved and Sean Connery was there? Yeah. Killer time.

The second one, Jame Bond's GoldenEye, had 007 driving a Russian tank through St. Petersburg and trashing all sorts of shit in the process. Best part was, with N64's wonderfully time sucking video game version, you could relive this scene over and over again.

Let's put it another way for all you number geeks: this weekend's movie slate will account for 33% of all cinematic tank chases ever. Pretty impressive.