Gran Turismo
 

So they took Fred Savage's "The Wizard" and basically skinned it with Gran Turismo. :lol:

I don't know. I give them credit for trying. :teek: It doesn't look awful.... except for when Orlando Bloom delivers the melodramatic line about racing in real life in the beginning - that was pretty awful...

David Harbor is cool though. But "racing is not their world..." :roll:. So..... who knows.

Headed for 12-15 million dollar opening bomb.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/gran-tu...-12-15m-debut/

I had no idea this was a Neil Blomkamp movie. After Chappie and Elyisum bombed he's going to director's prison for sure. He should have made Robocop Returns when he had the chance.

Saw it last night in XD cinema. Impressive visuals and sound. Decent overall story, although even without knowing the details of the real-life story of Jann Mardenborough, I could tell the racing scenes were WAY embellished.

I mean... the climax centers around the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2013, I think although it's never stated in film), and it suggests he has to make up a six second gap in the final lap to obtain an "all or nothing" podium finish and uses his unique video game insight to find a secret fast line around the track. In reality, Mardenborough's team finished several laps ahead of the next team in their class.

A bit hokey throughout, but worth watching as far as video game/sports movies go.

For the first time I can remember, the movie theatre used a giant standee with a Variety movie review for the Gran Turismo promotion. The critic talked almost exclusively about Neil Blomkamp's direction, talking about how this movie worked better than many of his other films (District 9 for instance). Wish I had a picture of it, just because it was so unexpected to have a critical review as a promotional ad instead of a big giant car cut-out or something.

Also, somehow I had no idea Orlando Bloom was in the movie until I went to see it.

Never played a ton of Gran Turismo games, but I think the ex-Papyrus developers who created iRacing probably deserve the credit for being the most accurate "simulation game" creators. There have been many game players who grew up iRacing who transitioned into successful professional racers in various series.

Alien 5 AND Robocop Returns

Ridley TKOed him on Alien 5. Robocop Returns was entirely his own fault, if we're to take him at his word.