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28 Jun 2004, 10:30 (Ref:1018542)
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Motor racing flicks
What's the best and worst racing film around? For my money, it's got to be Grand Prix for those stunning in car camera shots...
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28 Jun 2004, 10:48 (Ref:1018567)
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Probably worth directing to the Armchair Enthusiast forum.
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28 Jun 2004, 11:17 (Ref:1018606)
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I agree, Grand Prix was the best IMO.
As for the worst, that one is easy. That Sly Stallone film, 'Driven'. Drivel more like. Terrible, terrible! |
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28 Jun 2004, 11:27 (Ref:1018624)
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Grand Prix and Le Mans are excellent.
Most other films involving races tend to be based around sabotage or dodgy-dealings. |
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28 Jun 2004, 11:38 (Ref:1018644)
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28 Jun 2004, 11:40 (Ref:1018646)
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The likes of Redline 7000, Fireball 500 and Last American Hero were probably not bad efforts for the time that they were made. Plenty of classic Nascar footage in those.
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28 Jun 2004, 11:48 (Ref:1018657)
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Le Mans a ture classic.
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28 Jun 2004, 12:41 (Ref:1018737)
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Le Mans is the motor racing film. Grand Prix is good too - for the period footage - not for the plot or the acting.......
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28 Jun 2004, 13:11 (Ref:1018787)
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Only seen Grand Prix and Driven (bah, driven shmiven) so you can guess which I think is best.
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28 Jun 2004, 13:29 (Ref:1018819)
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Grand Prix . haven't seen LeMans yet .
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28 Jun 2004, 13:34 (Ref:1018827)
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Grand Prix is superb. The racing footage is second-to-none. Le Mans is great simply for the on-track action - McQueen says perhaps 100 words throughout the whole movie.
Driven was a good try by Stallone - his heart was in the right place (you can tell he's an enthusiast) - but it just came out all wrong. |
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28 Jun 2004, 14:51 (Ref:1018906)
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He's the only half decent actor in it too...
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28 Jun 2004, 15:08 (Ref:1018938)
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yeah .. but Estelle Warren is HOT
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28 Jun 2004, 17:39 (Ref:1019122)
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Anyone seen Death Race 2000 mit Sly Stallone? Tis funny.
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28 Jun 2004, 17:59 (Ref:1019154)
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28 Jun 2004, 18:12 (Ref:1019174)
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nope ... but i'll do the driving
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28 Jun 2004, 20:48 (Ref:1019332)
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Le Mans is head and shoulders above anything else.
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1 Jul 2004, 06:01 (Ref:1022098)
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1 Jul 2004, 11:58 (Ref:1022403)
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2 Jul 2004, 03:47 (Ref:1023250)
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Sly needed to walk the plank after Driven. That was absolute garbage.
Grand Prix is probably the best overall. Le Mans was good too. A lot of people slagged off Days of Thunder, but I really didn't think it was that bad and probably helped accelerate NASCAR into it's position as more of a national sport than a regional one. |
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8 Jul 2004, 10:18 (Ref:1030008)
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Well it dumbed it down to build it up I guess. Haven't seen Grand Prix, on the to do list. Le Mans is peerless for the atmosphere of racing. Miminal storyline but that wasn't the point.
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8 Jul 2004, 12:07 (Ref:1030141)
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Anyone who wants some blessed relief from the current F1 tedium would do well to watch Grand Prix to see the days when there was (ssshhhhh....) overtaking in GP racing........
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8 Jul 2004, 12:21 (Ref:1030164)
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Why hasn't anyone mentioned The Cannonball Run (and by association The Cannonball Run II).
 They're hilarious Er, seriously though, 'sgot to be Grand Prix. The only thing wrong with it (apart from the plot, dialogue, acting etc) is that the German Grand Prix hardly gets a look in. The racing footage makes today's drivers look like spoilt wee boys. Unbelievably unavailable on dvd though (?). |
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Extraordinary that really. It was one of the first films I was ever taken to see at the "pictures"...... It was also the first thing I ever taped off the TV when I got a VCR, so my copy of Grand Prix actually dates back to about 1985...... still plays OK as well....
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