OT: Stallone's new movie

They should call this thing "Drivel"... Hot babes (hmmm... good) and huge pileups (of cars that is... that's supposed to be racing?). Furthermore, the car engine sounds from the preview don't sound right, perhaps a leftover from the F1 project? -- Philippe "Philster" Sergerie

How 'bout this, Hot babes, huge pile ups, bad acting, little plot and fake cars (excluding actual race footage). I kinda think its the recipe for a porno. hehe, left overs from the F1 project... Philster wrote:

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> > They should call this thing "Drivel"... Hot babes (hmmm... good) and > huge pileups (of cars that is... that's supposed to be racing?). > Furthermore, the car engine sounds from the preview don't sound right, > perhaps a leftover from the F1 project? > > -- > Philippe "Philster" Sergerie

I heard they copied the sounds form GP3, or is that GP2.5. Vintook "Philster" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> They should call this thing "Drivel"... Hot babes (hmmm... good) and > huge pileups (of cars that is... that's supposed to be racing?). > Furthermore, the car engine sounds from the preview don't sound right, > perhaps a leftover from the F1 project? > > -- > Philippe "Philster" Sergerie

>"Philster" <[email hidden]> wrote in messagenews:[email hidden]... > They should call this thing "Drivel"... Hot babes (hmmm... good) and > huge pileups (of cars that is... that's supposed to be racing?). The script ain't that bad. It's corny, but it's a solid "entertainment"-type movie. It won't bomb at the box-office, I expect around 100million. Don't tell me you all won't take a peek at it to point out the tracks used, or the drivers having cameos ;) Renny Harlin knows how to direct a good action movie. > Furthermore, the car engine sounds from the preview don't sound right, > perhaps a leftover from the F1 project? Actually, the first preview (teaser trailer) used the exact, and I mean 100% exact, ferrari94.mp3 that circulates around the net. Yes, the one that starts with crickets. It's absolutely the same. The full movie sounds are made mostly from the Champ 101 car that are used in the movies. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

I heard they're using a combination of CART and F1 sounds... the CART 101 cars are just NA V8's aren't they? Why would they be using a (relatively) low-revving, rumbling NA sound as opposed to a 15,000 rpm turbo V8? Warlock! ymenard wrote:

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> >"Philster" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > They should call this thing "Drivel"... Hot babes (hmmm... good) and > > huge pileups (of cars that is... that's supposed to be racing?). > > The script ain't that bad. It's corny, but it's a solid > "entertainment"-type movie. It won't bomb at the box-office, I expect > around 100million. Don't tell me you all won't take a peek at it to point > out the tracks used, or the drivers having cameos ;) Renny Harlin knows > how to direct a good action movie. > > > Furthermore, the car engine sounds from the preview don't sound right, > > perhaps a leftover from the F1 project? > > Actually, the first preview (teaser trailer) used the exact, and I mean 100% > exact, ferrari94.mp3 that circulates around the net. Yes, the one that > starts with crickets. It's absolutely the same. > > The full movie sounds are made mostly from the Champ 101 car that are used > in the movies. > > -- > -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you... > -- http://www.ymenard.com/ > -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez > Corporation - helping America into the New World...

I'm sure it's safe to say that the CART tracks will be featured. Parts of the movie where actually shot at the tracks (like Detroit last June). I believe it was also shot at Mosport I've seen the previews and there's something about a Indycar chase scene on the city streets to say it's not for this racing enthusiast. They won't get my $7, or whatever it is now, to see it. As for finding about the cameis in the movie, just hang out here. Someone will tell us, lol.

>"Matt Lanzer" <[email hidden]> wrote > I heard they're using a combination of CART and F1 sounds... the CART 101cars > are just NA V8's aren't they? Why would they be using a (relatively) > low-revving, rumbling NA sound as opposed to a 15,000 rpm turbo V8? Well, from what I've heard they pitched the sounds up some tones. There is tons of post-production work done after of course, but the main background sound is the original cars. I just hope they don't put any kind of F1 sound in it. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

Movies like this were what VCR's were invented for: 3 bucks, and if it sucks you just eject the tape. p.s. Movies are $10 or more in my part of Canada :( "Robert S" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > I'm sure it's safe to say that the CART tracks will be featured. Parts ofthe movie where actually shot > at the tracks (like Detroit last June). I believe it was also shot atMosport > > I've seen the previews and there's something about a Indycar chase sceneon the city streets to say it's > not for this racing enthusiast. They won't get my $7, or whatever it isnow, to see it. > > As for finding about the cameis in the movie, just hang out here. Someonewill tell us, lol. >

>"Robert S" <[email hidden]> wrote > I'm sure it's safe to say that the CART tracks will be featured. Parts ofthe movie where actually shot > at the tracks (like Detroit last June). I believe it was also shot atMosport Toronto, Homestead, Mosport, Detroit, Houston, Montreal, Long Beach, Fontana, Rio de Janiero, Motegi. Chicago, Surfers Paradise. For Montreal they both shot at the Gilles Villeneuve F1 circuit (I'm there in the movie!) and the 10-mile super oval near Blainville that is used to test GM cars but will take place in Germany in the movie, with a great staged rain event that will give us a nice crash "a la Monza race from the movie Grand Prix". If there is any other tracks used in the movie, I was not told of them. As for the drivers, Montoya, Papis, Franchitti and Brack have spoken roles, IIRC (from the last script) Jean Alesi, Jacques Villeneuve, Max Papis, Adrian Fernandez, Roberto Moreno, Memo Gidley, Chip Ganassi, Tony Kanaan and John Della Penna also appear in the movie. > I've seen the previews and there's something about a Indycar chase sceneon the city streets to say it's > not for this racing enthusiast. They won't get my $7, or whatever it isnow, to see it. It's a bloody movie. It's there to escape reality. Those reasons are just elitist and quite stupid. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

"Matt Lanzer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I heard they're using a combination of CART and F1 sounds... the CART 101cars > are just NA V8's aren't they? Why would they be using a (relatively) > low-revving, rumbling NA sound as opposed to a 15,000 rpm turbo V8? > > Warlock! Because 99.9% of the people at the movie won't know the difference. They'll just hear something that sounds incredibly loud and powerful, more so than the crap piece of tin Toyota Corolla they schmoozed to the multiplex in.

Ya'll forgot about the most important part of the movie!! Where Will "ADRIAN" be?? YOoooo ADrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaAN.................<BFG>. de Tee..

ALESI?!?!?!?! WTF was he in there? ymenard wrote: Jean Alesi, Jacques Villeneuve, Max Papis, Adrian Fernandez, Roberto Moreno,Memo Gidley, Chip Ganassi, Tony Kanaan and John Della Penna also appear inthe movie.

>"Matt Lanzer" <[email hidden]> wrote > ALESI?!?!?!?! > WTF was he in there? Both Alesi and Villeneuve have filmed roles, you'll see why :) Basically, they are long friends with Stallone from all his trips to the F1 races. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.ymenard.com/ -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimato Dominguez Corporation - helping America into the New World...

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> >> I've seen the previews and there's something about a Indycar chase >scene >on the city streets to say it's >> not for this racing enthusiast. They won't get my $7, or whatever it is >now, to see it. > >It's a bloody movie. It's there to escape reality. Those reasons are just >elitist and quite stupid. > >

You sure about that statement? Couldn't the same thing be said about many other forms of entertainment? Including our own beloved racing sims when someone chooses to slag one off. If someone chooses not to want to partake of something because it doesn't fit in with his/her own ideals for what he/she would find appealing then what's the problem? Fortunately films are still diverse enough to not be just 'bloody movies' used to 'escape reality' for the time that you are watching them. Some of them can actually have a more prolonged affect long after you've actually seen them. And hooray for that. Come the day when the only reason I could think of to watch a film is for a couple of hours of escapism then it'll be time to shoot me as I will have been finally assimilated into the global consciousness. -- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) Remove ALL_STRESS before replying No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.

......read the May issue of Popular Mechanics ..... there's a article on the making of this movie.

Hey Peter - Your sig is incorrect. Experience doesn't make an incorrect opinion correct. "Based on my experience, in my opinion, it's a fuel injector problem." (The problem isn't fuel injection.) There. Proved it. Peter Ives wrote: > <snip> > No person's opinions can be said to be > more correct than another's, because each is > the sole judge of his or her own experience.

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>Hey Peter - > >Your sig is incorrect. Experience doesn't make an incorrect opinion correct. > >"Based on my experience, in my opinion, it's a fuel injector problem." (The >problem isn't fuel injection.) > >There. Proved it. >

Good for you. ;-) -- Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington) Remove ALL_STRESS before replying No person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience.

> > >It's a bloody movie. It's there to escape reality. Those reasons are just > >elitist and quite stupid. For some reason I can't follow whose posting what with this particular newsreader. However, though there are escape's from reality, there are excellent escapes as it were and there are awful ones. This one is much worse than awful. Its unfathomably terrible. Escape from reality, take a break from life, come see us open garbage bags on screen and fling it toward you sort of film it is.

I saw the movie last Wednesday. All I can say is it was worth $6.50 to me and I was properly entertained. Yes I was disgusted that they called it the world championship, and raced a road course in Germany in the rain. But I knew it was BS and didn't take it seriously. You could see where this movie really wanted to be a the F1 movie that it started out as. Interestingly, Speedvision was running Grand Prix on Saturday night. The cool part, were interviews with James Garner and the producers of GP. They asked if they thought GP could be remade today. They said "NO" because is insurance issues and other technicalities. -- [email hidden] "Bob Ross" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > > > >It's a bloody movie. It's there to escape reality. Those reasons are just > > >elitist and quite stupid. > > For some reason I can't follow whose posting what with this particular > newsreader. However, though there are escape's from reality, there are > excellent escapes as it were and there are awful ones. This one is much worse > than awful. Its unfathomably terrible. Escape from reality, take a break from > life, come see us open garbage bags on screen and fling it toward you sort of > film it is. >

In article <dOMQ6.19189$[email hidden]>, "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> writes: > >I saw the movie last Wednesday. All I can say is it was worth $6.50 >to me and I was properly entertained. >For $6.50 I might go see it, but around here, it's more like $8.50, plus $5.00 at the snack stand, $1.00 to park, and that's all asuming you're going alone. For $12 a month, I can get many different channels, and watch ten movies a week. If someone produces a piece of trash like Driven, I don't feel as personally fucked as I would if I had spent $20 to see one movie. Don McCorkle

I have just paid around $5 for a pirated DVD copy of it and restricted watching to the racing sequences. Even these were awful. I would like a $4.50 refund but don't think they will give me one! Woodie 83 <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> In article <dOMQ6.19189$[email hidden]>, > "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > > >I saw the movie last Wednesday. All I can say is it was worth $6.50 > >to me and I was properly entertained. > > > For $6.50 I might go see it, but around here, it's more like $8.50, plus

$5.00 > at the snack stand, $1.00 to park, and that's all asuming you're goingalone.

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> For $12 a month, I can get many different channels, and watch ten movies a > week. If someone produces a piece of trash like Driven, I don't feel as > personally fucked as I would if I had spent $20 to see one movie. > > Don McCorkle > >

Well at least you're safe in the knowledge you didn't give any money to the thick Hollywood idiots that made the festering pile of crap ;-) Alex "Hugh" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9gnn7k$e0s$[email hidden]...

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> I have just paid around $5 for a pirated DVD copy of it and restricted > watching to the racing sequences. Even these were awful. I would like a > $4.50 refund but don't think they will give me one! > Woodie 83 <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > In article <dOMQ6.19189$[email hidden]>, > > "Greg Cisko" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > > > > > >I saw the movie last Wednesday. All I can say is it was worth $6.50 > > >to me and I was properly entertained. > > > > > For $6.50 I might go see it, but around here, it's more like $8.50, plus > $5.00 > > at the snack stand, $1.00 to park, and that's all asuming you're going > alone. > > For $12 a month, I can get many different channels, and watch ten movies

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> > week. If someone produces a piece of trash like Driven, I don't feel as > > personally fucked as I would if I had spent $20 to see one movie. > > > > Don McCorkle > > > > > >