Gran Turismo

[Shaun @ Tru6]

My video game playing pretty much began with Pong and ended with Adventure on an Atari in the 80s, but I can understand the allure, especially today's games. Had very low expectations for the movie, didn't know what to expect and was surprised at how good it was from the racing scenes, a lot of them, with brilliant editing to a somewhat decent, "based on a true story," story. Lot of Black Sabbath was also good. The racing scenes cinematography was excellent and they/it carried the movie.

[Heel n Toe]

No, seriously... I may give it a chance, but I've had a bad feelin' about this one since I saw the first ad on TV... a "Driven" with Stallone type of bad feelin' if that makes sense.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

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No, seriously... I may give it a chance, but I've had a bad feelin' about this one since I saw the first ad on TV... a "Driven" with Stallone type of bad feelin' if that makes sense.

Same here, I honestly had little desire to see it but since I was bored and tired last night and it was essentially free on IMAX, I did. Not going to win any awards, the first 20 minutes were slow and not well done but once they got to cars on the track, I was glued to the screen.

[porsche930dude]

I dont know about the movie ill probably never see it but the games the first 3 were pretty revolutionary there wasnt anything else out at the time that was so extensive and serious driving game. I played them to 100% . It took another 15 years for me to get a ps3 and the new games seemed like more of the same. One winter i was out of work on disability i cut the tendon in my hand. I played gt3 for 3 months without a working thumb. Great game. I think gt2 was the best because the soundtrack. Rob Zombie, Garbage, Cardigans, Beck, STP, Crystal Method ect..

[Otter74]

There was an article in the NYT the other day about Mardenborough. It did make me interested in the movie (for which he did the stunt driving for his character). A pull quote:

“ Mardenborough, who is played by Archie Madekwe in “Gran Turismo,” went line by line with Sony over early drafts of the script, which he noted is mostly true to his life. The characters played by David Harbour and Orlando Bloom are both fictionalized but loosely based on real people. And a crash involving Mardenborough in Germany that left a spectator dead really happened, although detractors have complained about how the tragic event was translated to the screen.

In the film, the crash occurs right before Mardenborough returns to the track for a podium finish at Le Mans, the famous endurance race in France — back-to-back events that form an emotional arc of setback and triumph. In reality, Mardenborough’s crash in Germany came two years after that podium finish, leading to criticism that the film’s timeline was edited to serve a narratively pat movie ending.

“The order is the order, but those events happened in my life,” Mardenborough, who avoided serious injuries, said in response. “This isn’t a documentary.” He did race in Le Mans one year after the crash, and Mardenborough said the emotional battle the film constructed was consistent with his feelings.”